James Vaughn

James Vaughan is committed to curriculum design that is both tailored to students’ interests and cultivates academic skills necessary to perform at the university level. Over the past five years he has created a number of elective courses that reflect his varied academic interests that take an interdisciplinary approach to teaching the social sciences. He is currently teaching courses that explore the fields of evolutionary psychology, the intersection of neuroscience and law, the sociocultural construction of mental illness, trauma awareness, medieval philosophy and literature, and the social and psychological mechanisms behind political uprisings and revolutions.