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LTC Joshua Joseph
Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
LTC Joshua E. Joseph is a native of Sango, Tennessee. He graduated as a Distinguished Military Graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice from Troy University in 2010 and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant into the Military Intelligence (MI) Branch. Upon completion of the MI Basic Officer Leadership Course, he was assigned to 504th MI Company, 172nd Infantry Brigade at Grafenwoehr, Germany. He served as a Signals Intelligence Platoon Leader and Company Executive Officer. Following the assignment, he was assigned to 1st Battalion, 66th MI Brigade at Wiesbaden, Germany where he served as the Battalion S4.
In 2015, LTC Joseph attended the MI Captain’s Career Course at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Following graduation, he completed the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) Officer Green Platoon and was assigned to 1st Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. After serving as an Assistant S2, he was assigned to 2nd Battalion, where he served as Battalion S2. In 2017, LTC Joseph assumed command of the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 101st Special Troops Battalion, 101st Airborne (Air Assault) Division. In 2021, LTC Joseph served as the Battalion S2 for 1st Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. From 2022 to 2025, he served as the Regiment S2 for 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. In his current role, he serves as the Professor of Military Science for Auburn, Tuskegee, Auburn-Montgomery, and Troy University.
LTC Joseph is a graduate of the MI Basic Officer Leadership Course, MI Captain’s Career Course, Command and General Staff Officer Course (Superior Graduate), Airborne School, Air Assault School, Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape (SERE-C: High Risk), Officer Combat Skills, Joint Electronic Warfare Theater Operator Course, and Space Enabler Course.
LTC Joseph’s awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal with a “C’ device and three Oak Leaf Cluster, Army Achievement Medal with three Oak Leaf Cluster, Meritorious Unit Award, National Defense Service Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal with two campaign stars, Global War on Terror Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terror Service Medal, Army Service Ribbon, Overseas Service Ribbon (numeral 2), NATO Medal, Army Basic Space Badge, Parachutist Badge, and Air Assault Badge.
LTC Joseph’s operational deployments include Operation Freedom’s Sentinel, Afghanistan; Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan; and two tours during Operation Inherent Resolve, Iraq. He also deployed to Djibouti.
In addition to his bachelor’s degree, LTC Joseph has a master’s degree in Business Management from the University of Florida and one from the Command and General Staff College in Operational Studies.
LTC Joseph and his wife, Mary Beth, have been married for sixteen years and have two children.
Zack Jourdan
Associate Professor | College of Business
Rebecca Judy
Senior Administrative Associate
Kalu Kalu
Distinguished Research Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Kalu N. Kalu is Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science & Management (Organizational Systems) at Auburn University Montgomery, USA; Docent Professor at Tampere University, Finland; and Fulbright Scholar. He has been a Research Affiliate at The Whitney and Betty Macmillan Center for International and Area Studies (Yale University); Post-Doctoral Fellow (Yale University, and Yale University School of Medicine, 1996-2000); FDD Academic Fellow, on Counterterrorism and Intelligence (Israel); and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos. He is Visiting Professorial Fellow & Research Scholar at the Nigerian Defense Academy (NDA), Kaduna. He is a recipient of two Certificates in Joint Strategic Leadership (2010), and National Security Decision Making (2011) from the United States Air War College (MAFB).
Kalu’s articles and publications have appeared in top peer-reviewed journals such as Public Administration Review, Administrative Theory & Praxis, International Review of Administrative Sciences, American Review of Public Administration, Systemic Practice and Action Research, International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior, Administration & Society, Contemporary Politics, Defence Studies, Air & Space Power Journal, and Journal of Political and Military Sociology. He has authored several books including State Power, Autarchy and Political Conquest in Nigerian Federalism (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008); Citizenship: A Reality far From Ideal (co-edited with Nada Kakabadse and Andrew Kakabadse, Palgrave Macmillan Publishers, 2009); Technology, Culture, and Public Policy: Critical Lessons from Finland (Routledge Publishers 2017); Citizenship: Identity, Institutions, and the Postmodern Challenge (Routledge Publishers 2017); Political Culture, Change, and Security Policy in Nigeria (Routledge, 2018); A Functional Theory of Government, Law, and Institutions (Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019 – Winner of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2020); and Beyond Westphalia: The Modern State and World Order in the 21st Century (forthcoming 2026).
Prit Kaur
Associate Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Dr. Prit Paul Kaur is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Auburn University, Montgomery, Alabama, USA. Her teaching and research competencies are Cybercrime and Cyber Victimization; Cyber Laws, Legislation, and Policies; Cyber Criminology; Juvenile Justice and Future Generations; Policing Cyber Spaces; AI Driven Attacks and Defenses; UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 5 -Gender Equality and UN SDG 16 – Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions. You can find more information about her at: https://www.drpritkaur.com
Joyce Kelley
Professor of English | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Joyce E. Kelley is Professor of English at Auburn University at Montgomery where she teaches courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American literature, children’s literature, and poetry writing. After a childhood spent in Norman, Oklahoma, Dr. Kelley attended Haverford College in Pennsylvania, receiving degrees in English and music, and then pursued graduate studies at the University of Iowa where she received an M.A. and a Ph.D. in English. Before joining the faculty at AUM in 2008, Dr. Kelley taught for one year as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University. Dr. Kelley’s articles have appeared in a number of journals and collections, including The Journal of Narrative Theory, Victorians, Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Children’s Literature, The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts, The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945, Politics, Identity, and Mobility in Travel Writing, Reading Transatlantic Girlhood in the Long Nineteenth Century, Virginia Woolf: Profession and Performance, and several Critical Insights volumes. She has published a monograph on the women modernists and travel, Excursions into Modernism: Women Writers, Travel, and the Body (Ashgate, 2015), and an edited collection, Children’s Play in Literature: Investigating the Strengths and the Subversions of the Playing Child (Routledge, 2019). Dr. Kelley received AUM’s Emerging Distinguished Teaching Professor Award in 2013 and the university’s Distinguished Research Professor Award in 2024. She is also a devoted member of the cello section of the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra.
Neal Kelley
Director
Lindsay Kennington
Campus Relations Manager
Samar Khan
Senior Accountant - Special Projects
Matthew Killmeier
Department Chair; Associate Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Matthew A. Killmeier (Ph.D. University of Iowa) is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Communication and Theatre. His research focuses on theatre of the imagination: radio and audio drama. Recent work has considered conspiracy-investigative horror podcasts (i.e., The Black Tapes), 1930s-40s horror radio dramas, and World War II morale dramas. He teaches Media and Culture, Opinion Writing, Horror Film, and Intercultural Communication. Off the clock he likes to read, watch films, cook, shop at thrift stores, hike, and woodwork.
