People Group Archives: Affiliate Faculty

Barry Griffiths, Ph.D. is an associate instructor in the Department of Mathematics within the UCF College of Sciences. He earned his Ph.D. in Education at the University of Central Florida in 2014. Dr. Griffiths is also an adjunct professor at the Vellore Institute of Technology, and helped in the development of the exchange program established […]

Swadeshmukul Santra, Ph.D. is a Professor at the University of Central Florida holding a joint appointment with the NanoScience Technology Center and the Department of Chemistry. Dr. Santra is the founding director of UCF Materials Innovation for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA) Center. He has been actively working in the field of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology for over […]

Dr. Jahani earned her Ph.D. in organizational behavior with a focus on knowledge management and sharing. Dr. Jahani co-edited three textbooks related to research methodology in hospitality and tourism. Dr. Jahani also serves as an Invited Associate Methodology Editor for the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights which requires her to carefully and timely review […]

Heerak Shah ( Producer / Director / Editor ) is an award-winning multimedia content creator. Some of his most recent and noteworthy accomplishments are his work on a feature-length Bollywood film titled ‘Shiv Shastri Balboa’, a South Asian streaming single-camera sitcom titled ‘Metropark’, a short film titled ‘The Ice Man’, and a music video titled […]

Amrita Ghosh, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of South Asian Literature in the Department of English at UCF. Previously, she was a researcher at the South Asian Center (SASNET), Lund University in Sweden. She also worked on a postdoc at Linnaeus University, Center of Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies in Sweden. During the postdoc she […]

Lisa Mills is a Professor of Film, Documentary, at the University of Central Florida. She is Assistant Director, Film and Mass Media Programs at UCF.  She was born in Jacksonville and received her BA in English from Jacksonville University (1983), her MA in Mass Communication from the University of Central Florida (1999) and her PhD […]

Phil Peters is a professor in the Nicholson School of Communication and Media. He earned his M.A. in Theatre Design and Technology from the Universtiy of Montana and went on to be a film production designer and computer game producer/designer for over twenty years. Including the Emmy award-winning series Northern Exposure, Peters has been a […]

Naveen Eluru, Ph.D. is a professor for the Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering (CECE). Graduating with his Ph.D. from The University of Texas, Austin in 2010, Dr. Eluru has been teaching at UCF since 2014. Dr. Eluru’s research interests include transportation planning, sustainable urban design, transportation safety and advanced econometric modeling. Dr. Eluru […]

Nikola Mirilovic, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs (SPSIA). He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Chicago in 2009. With over ten years of teaching experience, Dr. Mirilovic has also published a multitude of articles on current topics including religious discrimination, diaspora politics, […]

Mathew Jacob, Th.D. is a Visiting Lecturer in UCF’s Department of Philosophy. Born and brought up in India, Dr. Jacob speaks two Indian languages, Malayalam and Hindi. He received his doctorate from the Paris Lodron University in Salzburg, Austria, and his thesis was in Christology. He previously taught at the Sam Higginbottom University of Agricultural […]