Dr. Knapp joined EMU's English Department as an Assistant Professor in 1998, after receiving his PhD. from the University of Rochester. Dr. Knapp's research focuses on aesthetics, phenomenology, and the relationship between words and images in English Renaissance literature. His book, Illustrating the Past in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2003) won EMU's Faculty Scholarship Recognition Award and was shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's Whitfield Prize. His current work focuses on ethics and vision in early modern literature, especially that of Shakespeare and Spenser. Dr. Knapp has taught Honors courses in visual and verbal storytelling as well as Renaissance literature. He was appointed interim director of the Honors Program in 2003. After guiding the Program's transition to the Honors College in 2005, he became the permanent Director in 2006.

Gayle Green holds a Bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University and a Master’s degree from the University of Chicago.  She has completed all but the dissertation for a Ph.D. in Sociology at SUNY-Stony Brook.  Before joining the Honors College, Gayle served as a Visiting Instructor of Sociology for four years at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY, though she is a native of Southeastern Michigan, having grown up in Dearborn Heights.  Gayle’s Ph.D. research is in the area of gender, work and higher education, specifically in studying the effects of gender in academic faculty career trajectories.  Her primary roles in the Honors College include academic advising, recruitment, exit interviews, program planning and overall student support services.

Dr. Tabuse received her Ph.D. in Foreign Language Studies from The Ohio State University. Currently, she is a Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Eastern Michigan University where she teaches courses at all levels of Japanese, business Japanese, teacher-certification courses and senior and graduate seminar courses. She is a frequent presenter and invited speaker at local, state, national, and international conferences and has given numerous workshops for students and teachers of foreign languages. She was President of the National Council of Japanese Language Teachers (NCJLT) in 2003, Director of Japanese National Honor Society (2000-2003), Board member of the Alliance of Associations of Teachers of Japanese among others. Since 2006, she has been working as the College Board consultant for the AP Japanese for the College Board, and has taught summer intensive programs at institutions such as Northwestern University in Illinois and Manhattan College in New York.

Dr. Hannan is a native of California and has a Ph.D. in Botany from the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught biology and botany classes in the Department of Biology at EMU since 1982. His research specialties are evolutionary relationships of plants and plant reproductive biology. He has studied pollination biology of blue cohosh, pollination and genetic diversity in dwarf lake iris, resource allocation in starflower, flowering phenology and sex expression in annual mercury, and taxonomic relationships in of plants in the poppy and waterleaf families.

Sharon Crutchfield has been the Administrative Associate in the Honors College for 4 years, and an employee of EMU for 15. She holds a BA in Anthropology and an MS in Communication, both from Eastern. Her immediate family holds 3 undergraduate and 3 graduate degrees from EMU. She loves working in Honors, especially with the College staff and Honors students. In her spare time she reads, travels, and oil paints.