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• Chad Airhart

  

  Category: Art

  Position: Assistant Professor of Art (Art History & Art Appreciation)

  Campus Phone: 865-471-3333

  Campus Box: 71911

  Email: cairhart@cn.edu

  Personal Website: www.chadwesleyairhart.com

  Dr. Chad Airhart is the latest addition to Carson-Newman's Art Department faculty. He teaches upper and lower level courses in Art History, as well as Art Appreciation. A native Texan, Chad received his Ph.D. in Aesthetic Studies (Art History emphasis) from the University of Texas at Dallas. His scholarly research centers on the connection of historical context, theoretical strategies, and aesthetic intent for American and European artists before and between the World Wars. Chad is also an active artist, emphasizing the expressive qualities of color, surface texture, and lively gesture.  He has participated in numerous exhibitions and is represented by The Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden in Dallas, Texas.

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• Cashier and Student Accounts

  Category: Treasurer's Office

  Position: Cashier and Student Accounts

  Campus Phone: 865-471-3209 or 865-471-3206

  This person accepts payments and inquiries on student accounts

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• John M. Anderson

  Category: Maintenance

  Position: Maintenance - Grounds Helper

  Campus Phone: 865 471-3352

  Campus Box: 71890

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• Laura Andon

  

  Category: Education, Undergraduate

  Position: Admissions and Services Advisor

  Campus Phone: 865-471-3444

  Campus Box: 72013

  Email: landon@cn.edu

  Mrs. Laura Andon advises students throughout the Teacher Education Program and certifies graduate and undergraduate students for teacher licensure. She also prepares reports and maintains policy and program standards. She has more than twenty-five years of combined administrative experience in private K-12 and higher education.
  
  Laura and her husband, Tom, have two children who are graduates of Carson-Newman.
  
  “I enjoy the opportunity to assist students as they progress toward their goal to teach.”

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• Brian Austin

  

  Category: Honors Program

  Position: Professor of Philosophy

  Campus Phone: 865-471-3273

  Email: baustin@cn.edu

  Dr. Brian Austin, Associate Professor and Director of the Philosophy program earned his B.A. in Philosophy, Spanish, and Religion from Samford University (1982), his Master of Divinity (1985) and Ph. D. (1989) degrees from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has published articles and books in the philosophy of religion, specializing in the intersections of science and religion. He teaches courses in critical thinking, logic, history of philosophy, philosophy of religion, Christian ethics, and non-Western religious thought. Dr. Austin is also the director of the Carson-Newman College Honors Program, for which he teaches the course “Humanity and the Cosmos.” He has just completed a paper responding to the “new atheism” in which he argues that the natural sciences are unable to provide a grounding for human values.

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