University Department Chairs

Center of Academic Excellence

Chair Department Email Office Phone 
Madeline Brown Interim Associate Director of CAE mbrown5@ncat.edu (336)-334-7750
Dawn Nail  Director of CAE  dndavis3@ncat.edu  (336)285-4133

College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences

Chair Department Email Office Phone 
Kenrett Jefferson-Moore Department of Agribusiness, Applied Economics, and Agriscience Education jykenret@ncat.edu (336)-285-4829
Radiah Minor Department of Animal Science rcminor@ncat.edu (336) 285-4787
Valarie McMillan Department of Family and Consumer Sciences (Interim) vmcmilla@ncat.edu (336) 285-4859
Gregory Goins Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Design gdgoins@ncat.edu (336)-285-2191
 

College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences

Chair Department Email Office Phone 
Carla Coates Department of Criminal Justice cdcoates@ncat.edu (336)-285-2362
Jason Depolo Department of English jdepolo@ncat.edu (336)-285-3506
Daphne Cooper Department of History and Political Science (Interim) dmcooper2@ncat.edu (336)-285-2048
Robbie Morganfield Department of Journalism and Mass Communications rmorganfield@ncat.edu (336)285-3343
Jeffery Mack Department of Liberal Studies (Interim) jdmack@ncat.edu (336)-285-3529
John Henry Department of Visual and Performing Arts - Theatre Department (Interim) jphenry@ncat.edu (336)-285-2010
 

Willie A. Deese College of Business and Economics

Chair Department Email Office Phone 
Lisa Owens-Jackson Department of Accounting and Finance ddwinche@ncat.edu (336)-285-3361
Pankaj Chaudhary Department of Business Information Systems and Analytics (Interim) pchaudhary@ncat.edu (336)-285-3396
Scott Simkins Department of Economics simkinss@ncat.edu (336) 285-3047
Feruzan Williams Department of Management
Joseph Huscroft Jr. Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management jrhuscroftjr@ncat.edu (336)-285-3386
 

College of Education

Chair Department Email Office Phone 
Caroline Booth Department of Counseling csbooth@ncat.edu (336)285-4394
Gerrelyn Patterson Department of Educator Preparation gcpatterson@ncat.edu (336)285-4411
Sydney Richardson Department of Leadership Studies and Adult Education  sdrichardson1@ncat.edu (336)-285-3047
 

College of Engineering

Chair Department Email Office Phone 
Jianzhong Lou  Department of Chemical, Biological and Bioengineering (Interim) lou@ncat.edu (336) 285-3223
Manoj Jha Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (Interim) mkjha@ncat.edu  (336)-285-3678
Marwan Bikdash Department of Computational Science and Engineering bikdash@ncat.edu (336)-285-3249
Kaushik Roy Department of Computer Science kroy@ncat.edu (336) 285-3691
John Kelly  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Interim) jck@ncat.edu  (336)-285-2458
Om Prakash Yadav Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering  oyadav@ncat.edu (336) 285-3759
Frederick Ferguson Department of Mechanical Engineering fferguso@ncat.edu (336)-285-3743
 

The John R. and Kathy R. Hairston College of Health and Human Sciences

Chair Department Email Office Phone 
Trent Larson Department of Kinesiology tlarson@ncat.edu (336)285-3550
George Robinson Department of Psychology grobinso@ncat.edu (336)-285-2275
Arnold Barnes Department of Social Work and Sociology abarnes@ncat.edu (336)-285-2296
Jason Mose HSM (Coordinator) jnmose@ncat.edu (336)-285-3596
Linda Latham School of Nursing lhlatham@ncat.edu (336)285-3582
Deana McQuitty Speech (Coordinator) dlmcquit@ncat.edu (336) 285-3525
 

College of Science and Technology

Chair Department Email Office Phone 
Aixi Zhou Department of Applied Engineering and Technology azhou@ncat.edu (336)-285-3158
Checo Rorie Department of Biology cjrorie@ncat.edu (336)-285-2160
Alesia Ferguson Department of Built Environment acferguson@ncat.edu ( 336) 285-3101
Zerihun Assefa Department of Chemistry zassefa@ncat.edu (336)-285-2255
Evelyn Sowells-Boone Department of Computer Systems Technology (Interim) es992760@ncat.edu (336)-285-3145
Guoqing Tang Department of Mathematics tang@ncat.edu (336)-285-2089
Ashot Gasparian Department of Physics (Interim) agaspari@ncat.edu (336)-285-2106
 

Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering

Chair Department Email Office Phone 
Emanuel Waddell Department of Nanoengineering eawaddell@ncat.edu (336)-285-2837
 

Library

Chair Department Email Office Phone 
Forrest Foster Library Services ffoster@ncat.edu (336)-334-7617