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Dr. Jordyn Truax joined the Psychology Department at LSUA in 2024. She attended Saginaw Valley State University for her BA in psychology, and then completed her MA and PhD, both in psychology, at Oakland University. She specializes in non-human animal research, focusing on social cognition and animal welfare. Within social cognition, she has researched both cooperation and altruism. Animal welfare is her more recent focus and is usually targeted on visitor influences on captive animals.

University of Louisiana at Monroe is the alma mater of Beth Whittington. She had a 20-year law enforcement career prior to coming to LSUA in 1994 and continues to teach at several police academies. 

Dr. Holly L Wilson is a Professor of Philosophy and Religion.  She has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Pennsylvania State University, a Masters in Pastoral Studies from Loyola University, New Orleans, and a B.A. in Philosophical Anthropology from Vanderbilt University.  She has studied at German universities and has taught English in Japan.  She has dedicated her life-long scholarship to writing on Immanuel Kant, an 18th Century German philosopher.  Her book, Kant’s Pragmatic Anthropology, has been cited 164 times in counting in many different languages.  Her ground-breaking research has spurred further research into this area of Kant.  Dr. Wilson’s article, “The Green Kant,” has been anthologized in several textbooks and is taught in many different universities in Environmental Ethics courses.  Currently, Dr. Wilson is working on a book called: “The Happiness Experiment” which shows the convergence of seven religions on the question of what happiness is and how to get it.  She teaches in the Religious Studies program, and she also teaches philosophy courses like PHIL 4922 “Plato.”  She advises Humanities majors and Religious Studies majors.  Her research can be found at Google Scholar, Academia Edu, Philpapers, and Research Gate.  She is an Associate Editor of Environmental Ethics at the international Journal of Ethics.  She is also on the Editorial Board of the Oak Leaf, the LSUA Journal of Teaching and Research.