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Kalu Kalu
Distinguished Research Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Kalu N. Kalu is Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science & Management (Organizational Systems) at Auburn University Montgomery, USA; Docent Professor at Tampere University, Finland; and Fulbright Scholar. He has been a Research Affiliate at The Whitney and Betty Macmillan Center for International and Area Studies (Yale University); Post-Doctoral Fellow (Yale University, and Yale University School of Medicine, 1996-2000); FDD Academic Fellow, on Counterterrorism and Intelligence (Israel); and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos. He is Visiting Professorial Fellow & Research Scholar at the Nigerian Defense Academy (NDA), Kaduna. He is a recipient of two Certificates in Joint Strategic Leadership (2010), and National Security Decision Making (2011) from the United States Air War College (MAFB).
Kalu’s articles and publications have appeared in top peer-reviewed journals such as Public Administration Review, Administrative Theory & Praxis, International Review of Administrative Sciences, American Review of Public Administration, Systemic Practice and Action Research, International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior, Administration & Society, Contemporary Politics, Defence Studies, Air & Space Power Journal, and Journal of Political and Military Sociology. He has authored several books including State Power, Autarchy and Political Conquest in Nigerian Federalism (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008); Citizenship: A Reality far From Ideal (co-edited with Nada Kakabadse and Andrew Kakabadse, Palgrave Macmillan Publishers, 2009); Technology, Culture, and Public Policy: Critical Lessons from Finland (Routledge Publishers 2017); Citizenship: Identity, Institutions, and the Postmodern Challenge (Routledge Publishers 2017); Political Culture, Change, and Security Policy in Nigeria (Routledge, 2018); A Functional Theory of Government, Law, and Institutions (Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019 – Winner of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2020); and Beyond Westphalia: The Modern State and World Order in the 21st Century (forthcoming 2026).
Prit Kaur
Associate Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Dr. Prit Paul Kaur is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Auburn University, Montgomery, Alabama, USA. Her teaching and research competencies are Cybercrime and Cyber Victimization; Cyber Laws, Legislation, and Policies; Cyber Criminology; Juvenile Justice and Future Generations; Policing Cyber Spaces; AI Driven Attacks and Defenses; UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 5 -Gender Equality and UN SDG 16 – Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions. You can find more information about her at: https://www.drpritkaur.com
Cailin Kelley
Residential Education Coordinator
Joyce Kelley
Professor of English | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Joyce E. Kelley is Professor of English at Auburn University at Montgomery where she teaches courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American literature, children’s literature, and poetry writing. After a childhood spent in Norman, Oklahoma, Dr. Kelley attended Haverford College in Pennsylvania, receiving degrees in English and music, and then pursued graduate studies at the University of Iowa where she received an M.A. and a Ph.D. in English. Before joining the faculty at AUM in 2008, Dr. Kelley taught for one year as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University. Dr. Kelley’s articles have appeared in a number of journals and collections, including The Journal of Narrative Theory, Victorians, Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Children’s Literature, The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts, The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945, Politics, Identity, and Mobility in Travel Writing, Reading Transatlantic Girlhood in the Long Nineteenth Century, Virginia Woolf: Profession and Performance, and several Critical Insights volumes. She has published a monograph on the women modernists and travel, Excursions into Modernism: Women Writers, Travel, and the Body (Ashgate, 2015), and an edited collection, Children’s Play in Literature: Investigating the Strengths and the Subversions of the Playing Child (Routledge, 2019). Dr. Kelley received AUM’s Emerging Distinguished Teaching Professor Award in 2013 and the university’s Distinguished Research Professor Award in 2024. She is also a devoted member of the cello section of the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra.
Lindsay Kennington
Campus Relations Manager
Samar Khan
Senior Accountant - Special Projects
Matthew Killmeier
Department Chair; Associate Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Matthew A. Killmeier (Ph.D. University of Iowa) is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Communication and Theatre. His research focuses on theatre of the imagination: radio and audio drama. Recent work has considered conspiracy-investigative horror podcasts (i.e., The Black Tapes), 1930s-40s horror radio dramas, and World War II morale dramas. He teaches Media and Culture, Opinion Writing, Horror Film, and Intercultural Communication. Off the clock he likes to read, watch films, cook, shop at thrift stores, hike, and woodwork.
William Kilpatrick
Enrollment Manager Coordinator
Duk (Daniel) Kim
Department Chair; Professor | College of Sciences
Ph.D. (2003) Chemistry, Florida International University
MS (1987) Chemistry, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
BS (1985) Chemistry, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
Dr. Daniel Kim is an organic Chemist. His current research interests lie in using ultrasound to accelerate slow chemical reactions, removal of resisting pollutants in polluted water. He applies ultrasound to measure the antioxidant capacity of natural materials. His background experience has a broad spectrum from synthesis of unusual organic compounds, nuclear chemistry using nuclear reactors or particle accelerators, environmental remediation using advanced oxidation technologies, and modification of solid materials using accelerated particle beams. Dr. Kim is the Chemistry Chair and advisor of the Chemistry Club.
