Leadership
Faculty
Crystal Moorman ’09, PhD
Assistant Professor of Physics, Director of the Belk Astronomical Observatory, Chair of the Physics Department
Former Kentucky Poet Laureate, award-winning writer Crystal Wilkinson to read from her work on March 11
Crystal Wilkinson will read from her bestselling culinary memoir, “Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts.”
Meghan McGuire, PhD
Associate Professor of English, Geraldine Lyon Owen Professor, Chair of the Language Department
Nichole Sanders, PhD
Professor of History,
Chair of History, Philosophy, and Religion,
John M. Turner Distinguished Chair in the Humanities
Staff
Amy Enneking
Administrative Coordinator, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Westover Honors
Julie Williams
Administrative Coordinator, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences
Melissa Brooks
Administrative Coordinator, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Music and Sciences
Geraldine Lyon Owen Professorship in English
The professorship was established in 1989 through a bequest from Geraldine Lyon Owen, a member of the Class of 1927, in memory of her family.
- Meghan McGuire
- Robin Bates
John Franklin East Distinguished Professor in the Humanities
It was established in 1977 by an endowment gift from Margaret East Nelson of Norfolk, Virginia, in memory of her father, who served on the Lynchburg College Board of Trustees from 1917 to 1921.
- Stephen Dawson
- Brian Crim
- Nichole Sanders
- Richard C. Burke
John M. Turner Distinguished Chair in the Humanities
In 1992, the John M. Turner Jr. fund was established to honor his contributions to the University of Lynchburg. The fund supports a humanities professorship, funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and matched 3:1 by alumni, employees, and friends of the University.
