About Dr. Stephen C. Ferguson, PhD
Assistant Professor, University Studies

Dr. Stephen C. Ferguson II is an Assistant Professor in University Studies. He holds a Bachelors degree in History and Philosophy with a minor in Black Studies from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a MA and doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Kansas. Dr. Ferguson has previously taught at Auburn University.

Dr. Ferguson's area of expertise include Africana philosophy, Marxist philosophy ad social-political philosophy. His past publications have focused on the Black Marxist philosopher and activist C. L. R. James. He is currently working on a book-length philosophical critique of Afrocentrism, the dominant trend in African American Studies.

Dr. Ferguson can be reached at scfergus@ncat.edu

About Dr. James Crawford, PhD
Assistant Professor, University Studies

James G. Crawford was born in Lycoming Co., Pennsylvania in 1966. While growing up, he enjoyed wrestling, football, soccer, hunting, and snowmobile riding through the heightening Alleghenies. His junior year in high school, he decided that he wanted to teach History at West Point. He got Congressional nomination, but was not appointed to the military academy. Instead, he attended the Pennsylvania State University, from which he graduated summa cum laude with a B. A. in History. He continued his studies at the University of North Carolina, earning a doctorate in 2003. His dissertation was a study of U.S. soldiers sent to conquer the Philippines, 1898-1902. Dr. Crawford joined the NC A&T faculty in 2005. He and his wife, Maureen Ahmad, have one daughter, Elise. The family lives in Chatham Co., North Carolina.

Dr. Crawford can be reached at jgcrawfo@ncat.edu

About Dr. Melissa Hagan Hughes, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, University Studies

Melissa Hagan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of University Studies at NC A&T State University.

Dr. Hagan has an undergraduate degree in Biology and Urban Studies from the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, PA and a Master of Public Health in Behavioral and and Community Health Services and Doctorate in Epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health. She also has post doctoral training in Diabetes Epidemiology and Cardiovascular Epidemiology. Currently she is the Principal Investigator of a grant determining the effectives of a community based diabetes education program. Her scientific research includes examining the determinants of cardiovascular disease in minority populations. She teaches UNST 130 Analytical Reasoning.

Dr. Hagan can be reached at mahagan@ncat.edu

About Dr. John F. Humphrey, PhD
Assistant Professor, University Studies

Dr. John F. Humphrey is an assistant professor in the North Carolina Agricultural and Technological State University, College of University Studies. His research interests are in the history of philosophy. He has published a translation of Joan Stambaugh's Untersuchungen zur Problem der Zeit bei Nietzsche unde the title of The Problem of Time in Nietzsche. He is a member of the American Philosophical Association and the National Forensic League.

Dr. Humphrey can be reached at jfhumphr@ncat.ed