College of Arts and Sciences Advising
100 Fitzgerald House
614 Pioneer Drive
Rochester,
MI
48309-4482
(location map)
(248) 370-4567
casadv@oakland.edu
Daniel Clark, Director
Daniel is a historian whose research involves oral history, interviewing people about their experiences. He also enjoys raising vegetables in a community garden and running on trails.
Kimmie Parker, Associate Director
Kimmie is an artist, professor, graphic designer, and writer. Her practice oscillates between the practical and the theoretical, the intellectual and the emotional, the Apollonian and the Dionysian—with endless curiosity as the common thread.
George Sanders is an associate professor of sociology at Oakland University. His research explores the ways people establish meaningful interpersonal relationships through cultural and creative expressions.
Meaghan Barry is an associate professor of graphic design and the chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Oakland University. She is a partner and creative director at Unsold Studio, an award-winning Detroit-based branding firm. Barry's work focuses on design as an economic driver for communities, with an emphasis on branding for small businesses and nonprofits.
Emily Spunaugle is a humanities librarian at Oakland University. She partners primarily with professors and students in the Department of English, Film Studies and Production, and the Honors College. She also works to make the OU library's collections in these areas more familiar, visible, and accessible.
Jessica Payette is associate professor of Musicology at Oakland University. Her scholarly interests address opera in Austria, fin-de-siècle Vienna and the emergence of Expressionistic music and choreographic music.
Graham Cassano is an associate professor of sociology at Oakland University. He is an accomplished scholar, musician, and photographer, and he is the founder of the Pontiac Oral History Project. He has recently earned an MFA in Photography from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and his co-edited (with Teressa Benz) book, titled Urban Emergency (Mis) Management and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Flint, MI, in Context, was published in 2021.
Mike Doan is a Canadian-born father, activist, and philosopher. He joined the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership in 2016 while working with Detroit Independent Freedom Schools and Detroiters Resisting Emergency Management. He is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oakland University.