NEW, CONTINUING, AND REAPPOINTED FACULTY

Toni Barnes 
Visiting Instructor of Education
B.S., M.S., Middle Tennessee State University
Term Reappointment, Easter 2020
 
Robin Bates
Visiting Professor of English
Term Appointment, Advent 2019
 
Jamie Capuzza
Dean's Fellow
B.A., Mount Union College; M.A., Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Daniel Clay Carter
Visiting Assistant Professor of Education and Environmental Studies
B.S., Middle Tennessee State University; M.P.A., American University; Ph.D., The University of Tennessee
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Michael T. Coffey
Visiting Associate Professor of Physics
B.A., University of the South; D.Phil., University of Oxford
Term Reappointment, Easter 2020
 
Adriana Colom Cruz
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.A., University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez; M.S., University of Essex; Ph.D., Florida Atlantic University
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Karol Czuba
Visiting Instructor/Assistant Professor of Politics
B.A., University of Durham; M.S., University of Oxford; Ph.D., University of Toronto
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Charles Vance Dalton
Visiting Instructor of Spanish
B.A., The University of the South; M.A., University of Kentucky
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Patrick DeGuira
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History
B.F.A., Memphis College of Art; M.F.A., Vermont College of Fine Arts
Term Appointment, Easter 2020
 
Anthony M. Donaldson, Jr. 
Assistant Professor of History
B.A., M.A., North Carolina Central University; Ph.D., University of Florida
Tenure-Track Appointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Margaret L. Day Elsner
Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics
B.A., The University of the South; Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Andreas Fath
Dean's Environmental Fellow
Dipl. Chem., Ph.D., University of Heidelberg
Term Appointment, Advent 2019
 
Terri D. Fisher
Teaching Professor of Psychology
B.A., Wake Forest University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Georgia (Athens)
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Stephen Ford
Visiting Associate Professor of Economics
B.A., Colby College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Kerry Ginger
Assistant Professor of Music
B.A., Whitman College; M.M., D.M.A., Arizona State University
Tenure-Track Appointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Brian Gingrich
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
B.A., Southwestern University; M.A., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Aaron Gold
Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics
B.A., The Citadel; M.A., East Carolina University; Ph.D., The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Brooke Gorman
Visiting Assistant Professor of Education
B.S., Oglethorpe University; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
Term Reappointment, Easter 2020
 
Darin Graber
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
B.A., Wabash College; M.F.A., University of Notre Dame; M.A., Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Cynthia Gaither Gray
Visiting Instructor of Biology and Assistant Director of Health Programs Advising
B.S., The University of the South; M.S., Middle Tennessee State University
Term Reappointment, Academic Years 2019 - 2020 and 2020 - 2021
 
Diana Hatchett
Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics and International and Global Studies
B.A., The University of the South; M.A., University of Chicago; Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
William Hastings Hensel, Jr. 
Tennessee Williams Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of English
B.A., The University of the South; M.F.A., The Johns Hopkins University
Term Reappointment, Advent 2019
 
Jennifer Paige Hill
Visiting Instructor of Education
B.A., The University of Tennessee; M.A., Ed.S., Tennessee Technological University
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Ye 'Abby' Hong
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
B.S., Nanjing University of Science and Technology; M.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ph.D., The University of Tennessee
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
José Iriarte-Diaz
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
M.S., Universidad de Chile; Ph.D., Brown University
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Julie Jones
Visiting Instructor of Art and Art History
Term Appointment, Fall 2019
 
Corinna Kahnke
Co-Curricular Activities Director, Department of German
M.A., University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington
Term Appointment, Academic Years 2019 - 2020 to 2021 - 2022
 
May F. Kamalick
Visiting Instructor of Arabic Language and Culture
B.A., M.A., American University of Beirut
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Eric Keen
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
B.A., The University of the South; M.S., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Barbara King
Visiting Instructor of Education
B.A., Lipscomb University; M.Ed., Middle Tennessee State University; Ed.S., Lincoln Memorial University
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Rev. Leyla King
Visiting Instructor of International and Global Studies
B.A., Dartmouth College; M Div., Harvard Divinity School
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Julian Ledford
Visiting Assistant Professor of French
B.A., Washington and Lee University; M.M., Johns Hopkins University University; Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Matthew B. Lynch
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
B.A., Marlboro College; M.A., University of Chicago; Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Shelley Jean MacLaren
Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities
B.A., University of Alberta; Ph.D., Emory University
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Alessia Martini
Visiting Instructor of Italian
B.A., Università di Pisa; M.A., Universià per Stranieri de Siena; M.A., Florida Atlantic University; Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Term Appointment, Easter 2019 - Easter 2020
 
Janna Brown McClain
Visiting Instructor of Education
B.A., The University of the South; M.Ed., Middle Tennessee State University
Term Appointment, Easter 2020
 
Roger McCoy
Visiting Instructor of Physics
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Jessica Mecellem
Teaching Assistant Professor of Politics
B.A., Whitworth University; M.A., Universityé de Provence; Ph.D., Loyola University (Chicago)
Term Appointment; Academic Years 2016 - 2017 to 2020 - 2021
 
Tiffany Momon
Visiting Assistant Professor and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Public History
B.S., Tennessee State University; B.A., The University of Memphis; M.A., D.Phil., Middle Tennessee State University
August 1, 2019 - June 30, 2021
 
Alejandro Mylonas-Leegstra
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
B.A., University of La Laguna; M.A., Complutense University; M.A., University of Connecticut; Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Sarah Naramore
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
B.A., Lafayette College; Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Term Appointment, Academic Years 2018 - 2019 to 2020 - 2021
 
David Neely
Visiting Assistant Professor of Forestry and Geology
B.S., M.S., Frostburg State University; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
Term Appointment, Easter 2020
 
Jason Palagi
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
B.S., Lawrence University; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Peter Povey
Teaching Assistant Professor of Music
B.M., Royal College of Music; M.M., Yale University; D.M., Northwestern University
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Jason Carl Rosenberg
Assistant Professor of Music
B.A., New College of Florida; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Tenure-Track Appointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Kyle A. Sanders
Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics
B.A., Davidson College; M.A., Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Minh Tam Schlosky
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
B.S., Clarion University of Pennsylvania; M.A., West Virginia University
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Warren T. Swenson
Visiting Instructor of Rhetoric
Term Appointment, Advent 2019
 
Clint S. Swift
Visiting Instructor/Assistant Professor of Politics
B.S., Whittier College; M.A., California State University, Sacramento
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Yanbing Tan
Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Chinese
B.A., Austin College; M.A., Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
Tenure-Track Conversion, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Elizabeth "Lily" C. Thompson
Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences (Geology)
B.S., University of New Orleans; M.S., Ph.D., University of Chicago
Tenure-Track Appointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Zhexiu Tu
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
B.A., Bard College; M.S., Ph.D., Cornell University
Tenure-Track Appointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Matthew Lee Ward
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
M.M., Bard College; D.M.A., Louisiana State University
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
G. Norman West
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.S., M.Ed., The University of Tennessee; Ph.D., Ball State University
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Camille Westmont
Visiting Assistant Professor and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Historical Archaeology
B.A., University of Kentucky; M.S., D.Phil., University of Maryland
August 1, 2019 - June 30, 2021
 
Elena "Susanna" Weygandt
Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian
B.A., Bryn Mawr; M.A., Middlebury College; Ph.D., Princeton University
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder
Tennessee Williams Playwright-in-Residence and Visiting Assistant Professor of English
B.F.A., SUNY Purchase; M.F.A., New York University
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Khristy Wilkinson
Visiting Instructor of Philosophy
B.A., M.A., Wayne State University
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2019 - 2020
 
Cameron World
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
B.S., Ph.D., University of Queensland
Term Reappointment, Advent 2019
 
Eric J. Zinn
Instructor of Accounting
B.A., The University of the South; J.D., L.L.M., University of Florida; M.S., M.B.A., University of Colorado, Denver
Term Appointment, 2019 - 2020 to 2021 - 2022
 
Leaves
Husnain Fateh Ahmad (Econ) Easter 2020
Emmanuel Asiedu-Acquah (IGS)           Advent 2019
Sid Brown (Relg) 2019 - 2020
Lisa Burner (Span) Easter 2020
Stephen Carl (Math) Easter 2020
Kristen Cecala (Biol) 2019 - 2020
John Coffey (Psyc) Easter 2020
Russell Fielding (EES) 2019 - 2020
Lucia Garcia-Santana (Span) Advent 2019
Daniel Holmes (CLST) 2019 - 2020
JoyAnna Hopper (Pols) Advent 2019
Matthew Irvin (Engl) Advent 2019
Maha Jafri (Engl) 2019 - 2020
Elise Kikis (Biol) 2019 - 2020
James Ross Macdonald (Engl) Advent 2019
Rodelio (Rae) Manacsa (Pols) Advent 2019
Stephanie McCarter (CLST) 2019 - 2020
Kathryn Mills (Fren) Easter 2020
Katie Nelson-Coffey (Psyc) Easter 2020
Richard O'Connor (Anth) Advent 2019
Amy Patterson (Pols) 2019 - 2020
James Peters (Phil) Easter 2020
Greg Pond (ARTH) Easter 2020
Woody Register (Hist) Easter 2020
Nicholas Roberts (Hist) Advent 2019
Ruth Sánchez Imizcoz (Span) Advent 2019
Paige Schneider (Pols, WGS) Easter 2020
Lauryl Tucker (Engl) 2019 - 2020
Courtney World (Thtr) Easter 2020
 
 
Faculty Not Returning
Jody L. Allen
Angela Berry
Gregory Clark
Joel Cunningham
Kallen Esperian
Katherine Fornash
Dewey Hammond
Emily Herman
Timothy Michael Jesurun
Yuliya Ladygina
Cesar Leal
Raymond McAnally
Brandon Moore
Geoffrey Moseley
David Neely
Ariana Orozco
Agnes Ortega
Joseph Perna
Karen Seapker
Emily Senefeld
Peggy Thoits
Rebecca Van de Ven
Merle 'Mae' Wallace
Gwendolyn Whitfield
Caroline Randall Williams
Teresa Rose Wiseman
 
Faculty Appointments and Leaves from previous years can be found here.