Education

Miriam L. Wallace is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Illinois-Springfield, and Professor of English. She is a graduate of Swarthmore College (BA) and the University of California, Santa Cruz (MA/PhD) in Literature. As a proud liberal arts graduate, she advocates for the value and impact of academic study, art making and performance, public presentations, and study abroadâ¿¿noting their impact on self-confidence, intellectual curiosity, and personal and professional growth.

She has written extensively on late eighteenth-century British writers who used fiction to advocate for political reformâ¿¿most notably in Revolutionary Subjects in the English â¿¿Jacobinâ¿¿ Novel (2009) (which was supported by an NEH College Teacher Fellowship). More recent work explores Romantic-era public speaking as depicted in satirical prints, literature, and popular cultureâ¿¿particularly by those formerly excluded from rhetorical training by virtue of class, sex, gender, race, educational level, or disabilities. She was Principle Investigator for an NEH Humanities Connections Planning Grant to build a new â¿¿concentrationâ¿¿ in Health, Culture and Societies from 2021-2022 with colleagues in Epidemiology, Anthropology, History, and Physiology/Medicine. She continues as co-editor of the â¿¿Transits: Literature, Thought, and Culture 1650-1850â¿¿ series with Bucknell University Press with Dr. Mona Narain. Since January 2023 she has been involved in organizing and speaking about academic freedom and the importance of public universities as equity engines, resisting efforts to diminish or limit humanistic exploration and voices. Dr. Wallace is Co-PI with Dr. Emily Todd of an NEH Spotlight on Humanities grant on the humanities in an A.I. world for 2024-2025.

Office Location

1 University Plaza, MS UHB 3000

Research

Literature, particularly in English; Eighteenth-century studies and Romanticism; Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Public Speech, history of; Satire, political and cultural

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Administration

Phone Number

217-206-7444

Publications

Books: Teaching the Eighteenth-Century Now: Pedagogy as Ethical Engagement (2023 essay collection), with Kate Parker; Revolutionary Subjects in the English "Jacobin" Novel (2009); Enlightening Romanticism, Romancing the Enlightenment: British Novels from 1750-1832 (2009 essay collection); Re-viewing Thomas Holcroft, 1745-1809: Essays on His Life and Work (essay collection), with A. A. Markley.

English and Modern Languages

mwall29@uis.edu

Pub Affairs and Administration Admin

Teaching

English, Literature, British literature & culture Enlightenment & Romanticism; Health Humanities, Disability Studies, Feminist and Queer Theory, Women Writers

Editorial Boards

Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850, Bucknell University Press, with Dr. Mona Narain

Dean

Professor

Interim Dean CPAE Admin Stip

Area of Specialization

Humanities & Liberal Arts; Academic Freedom; educational gag orders; Literature and Politics; Women's and Gender issues; Higher education academic administration; Eighteenth Century and 1790s British literature and culture; Satirical Prints; Romantic-era novel; Virginia Woolf; feminist pedagogies.

Jennifer Martin

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Area of Expertise

Dr. Jennifer Martin is an associate professor in the School of Education at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Prior to working in higher education, Dr. Martin worked in public education for 17 years, 15 of those as the department chair of English at an urban alternative high school for students labeled at-risk for school failure in metropolitan Detroit. She has been the editor of the Journal of Urban ��ý Teaching and Research since 2018. She is the editor of Racial Battle Fatigue: Insights from the Front Lines of Social Justice Advocacy (Recipient of the 2016 AERA Division Bâ¿¿s Outstanding Book Recognition Award), She is the 2019 recipient of the Paula Silver Case Award for Volume Year 2018, UCEA Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership (Volume 21): for â¿¿The Bathroom Case: Creating a Supportive School Environment for Transgender and Gender Non-conforming Students.â¿¿ Her most recent co-authored book is: Mentoring the Mentor: Celebrating the Intersection of ��ý Together, A Reciprocal Journey. In 2021, she was awarded the Burks Oakley II Distinguished Online Teaching Award (University of Illinois at Springfield). She was named University Scholar at UIS for the 2022 â¿¿ 2023 academic year.

Office Location

One University Plaza, MS BRK 330

School of Education

Phone Number

217-206-6682

jmart315@uis.edu

Associate Prof.

Carol Saltsgaver

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Area of Expertise

Education

Teaching

Master of Science in Mathematics- University of Oklahoma https://www.ou.edu/

Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics with a minor in Statistics - Cameron University https://www.cameron.edu/

Office Location

BRK 384

Mathematical Sciences and Philosophy

Phone Number

217-206-7451

Publications

Real-World Statistics 4th Edition - Online Version

https://he.kendallhunt.com/product/real-world-statistics-online-version

Real-World Statistics 4th Edition - In-Person Version

https://he.kendallhunt.com/product/real-world-statistics-person-version

csalt2@uis.edu

Clinical Instructor

Ahmad Jumah

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Area of Expertise

Office Location

One University Plaza UHB 4029

Research

Accounting & Finance

Accounting, Economics, and Finance

Phone Number

217-206-8366

Publications

His research interests include data breaches, outsourcing, blockchain, cryptocurrency, data analytics, materiality implications, performance measurements, behavioral accounting, and finance. Examples of his publications are as follows.

ajuma4@uis.edu

Involvement

He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Certified Management Accountant (CMA). He has taught accounting and finance courses in various universities since 1987. Earlier, he worked as a professor of Accounting and Finance at the IAUPR since 1992, where he coordinated the Doctoral Program in Finance in the Graduate School in the Faculty of Business [2011-2017]. Also, he worked as an auditor for small businesses and as a financial consultant.

Lectures

ACC 524 (Advanced Auditing); ACC 536 (Accounting Data Analytics); ACC 583 (Capstone)

Teaching

Advanced auditing; Accounting Data Analytics; Capstone, and special topics in accounting. He previously, taught seminars in finance (investment, corporate finance, financial strategy, and special topics in finance). DBA finance research supervisor at UIAPR.

Editorial Boards

Reviewer in several conferences and Journals such as Journal of Information Systems, Information Technology & People, Accounting British Review, Journal of Enterprise Information Management, International Journal of Information Security, International Journal of Information Management, Information Systems Frontier, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, & Journal of Accounting Information Management.

Professor

Area of Specialization

Area of specialization: Accounting, Auditing, & Financial Performance & Analytics