Dr. Matthew J. Anderson is Dean of the School of Social Sciences, Education, and Arts and Professor of Psychology at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (ABAC)(Tifton, GA).
He is an experienced higher education administrator with a strong faculty background. In his role as Dean he provides leadership to ABAC’s School of Social Sciences, Education, and Arts (SEA) and its programs, faculty, staff, and students. The School of Social Sciences, Education, and Arts prepares students for professional and civic leadership through interdisciplinary teaching, community engagement, experiential learning, and applied scholarship. We foster critical thinking, creativity, and other essential skills to prepare graduates for life in a dynamic society. SEA offers associate and bachelor’s degrees, many containing different degree tracks that allow students to further specialize based upon their interests and goals, and several certificate programs. The School also takes great pride in offering many courses in support of ABAC’s IMPACTS Core Curriculum. Dr. Anderson is a collaborative and transparent leader who strives to foster student engagement and faculty mentored research/scholarship within and across all of the School’s programs, and he is eager to build and strengthen connections between the School and its alumni, as well as with community partners.
Dr. Anderson greatly enjoys working with students both in the classroom and on mentored research projects. He is an experimental psychologist with a specialization in animal behavior/biological psychology. His scholarly interests focus on the behavior of avian species (e.g., flamingos), and on human-animal relations. Dr. Anderson has authored numerous scholarly articles, has edited several scholarly volumes/books, and has written/illustrated a children’s picture book. In his free time he enjoys birding, nature photography, and spending time outdoors with his family.
Information on Dr. Anderson’s books can be found here:
amazon.com/author/matthewjanderson
Information about Dr. Anderson’s scholarly articles can be found here:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NBR2JZsAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra
Dr. Anderson’s portfolio of nature photography can be found on Shutterstock here:
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/MJANaturePics