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Susanna Smith
Associate Professor of Library & Information Science
Collection Management Librarian
Instructional Designer
706-802-5197 (Office)
sussmith@highlands.edu
Floyd Library, office L-123
Biography:
Susanna is an Associate Professor of Library and Information Science at Georgia Highlands College. Her primary responsibilities include collection management, instruction, and reference. Each semester she embeds as the “digital librarian” in multiple online classes, providing library instruction and research help. In addition to this online work, she also teaches database and research instruction in face-to-face classes and in her GHHU2901 Online Research course. She has a Masters degree in Library and Information Studies from Florida State University and a Bachelors in English from the University of the South.
Susanna has been at GHC since 2011, first as a Reference and Instruction Librarian and now as the Collection Management Librarian. She received her second Masters in Instructional Technology and Design from Georgia Southern University in 2018 and started working with CETL, facilitating faculty workshops on a wide variety of topics. She got involved with Affordable Learning Georgia in 2016 and since then has been on grant teams (both ALG and beyond), participated in grant reviews, and currently serves as the Library Champion for GHC.
She and her husband Greg live in Rome with their two cats in a Victorian-era house that always needs work. They enjoy hiking and DIY projects, which generally keeps them out of trouble. They’ve hiked large swathes of the Pinhoti Trail in Alabama and Georgia and ventured to trails as far away as Yosemite National Park and Santorini, Greece. When not working in the garden or helping Greg repair siding, her favorite pastimes are reading (with a cup of tea at her side) or watching Doctor Who while scrapbooking (if she can keep the cats off the table).
Jayme Feagin
Professor of History
jfeagin@highlands.edu
Marietta 232 (Office)
Biography:
Jayme Akers Feagin is a Professor of History at GHC, where she’s been teaching for the past 16 years. She completed her undergraduate degree at Auburn University (War Eagle!) and her graduate degrees at Emory University.
In the classroom, Jayme tries to show students that history isn’t just about memorizing names, dates, and facts—it’s about making sense of an incomplete record. Historians, she explains, are a bit like detectives (but with less fingerprint dust and more footnotes): they sift through fragments, weigh evidence, and argue over what really happened. And that’s what makes history so much fun.
When not in the classroom, Jayme enjoys reading (everything from serious history to unapologetically escapist fiction), practicing Pilates, traveling, and watching soccer. She supports Borussia Dortmund (Echte Liebe!) and has a soft spot for rewatching The West Wing. Her favorite book is To Kill a Mockingbird, a timeless story that continues to influence both her teaching and her view of the world.
Jayme lives with her husband in Atlanta. She has two children who return home in the summers but spend the rest of the year off at college, pursuing their own dreams.
