Caitlin Lippitt

Jonathan Davis-Secord

Christopher Lyons

Interim Associate Dean
for Student Success

Associate Dean for Faculty
& Staff Development

Interim Director of
Liberal Arts & Integrative Studies

Caitlin Lippitt is Interim Associate Dean for Student Success and Undergraduate Program Director for Geography and Environmental Studies.  Dr. Lippitt’s research interests include biogeography, invasive species, remote sensing of vegetation, fire ecology, the role of disturbance in plant communities. 

Jonathan Davis-Secord is an Associate Professor of English studying the literature of early medieval England. He is the author of Joinings: Compound Words in Old English Literature (UTP, 2016) and of articles on a variety of Old English, Latin, and Middle English works, as well as medieval music. Dr. Davis-Secord’s current research focuses on asking new questions of old texts through lenses such as trans studies and critical race theory. He has served as the Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the UNM English Department and has been part of several regional and international scholarly societies.

Christopher Lyons is Interim Director of Liberal Arts and Integrative Studies at the University of New Mexico University College and a Professor with UNM’s Department of Sociology & Criminology. His teaching interests focus on crime, justice, and urban communities. His research strives to understand how social, economic, and political dimensions of structural inequality shape disparities in community violence, and the explicit or subtle ways that axes of difference influence the mobilization of socio-legal control. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and published in outlets such as the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Criminology, Social Problems, and Social Forces. Christopher enjoys hiking and exploring the great Southwest.

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