Staff directory

Kristy Maddux is Professor of Communication and Executive Director of the Honors College. Her research and teaching center on practices of democratic citizenship, especially as they intersect with gender, religion, race, and disability. She is enthusiastic about helping students find ways to participate in local democracy, and her classes typically send students out into College Park and other nearby communities to engage with civic affairs and local governance. Maddux is currently writing a book about a rare genetic disorder called Rett syndrome, and she is the author of Practicing Citizenship: Women’s Rhetoric at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and The Faithful Citizen: Popular Christian Media and Gendered Civic Identities, along with numerous articles in scholarly journals.