New, Continuing, and Reappointed Faculty
Anke Arnaud
Visiting Professor of Management
B.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.; University of Central Florida
Term Reappointment, Advent 2022
Mahdi Yousefi Atashgah
Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics
B.S., University of Tabriz; M.S. Shahid Beheshti University; M.S., Ph.D., Old Dominion
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2022-2023
Stephen Berquist
Visiting Assistant Professor of International & Global Studies
B.A., University of Chicago; M.S., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of Toronto
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2022-2023
Daniel Clay Carter
Teaching Assistant Professor of Earth & Environmental Science
B.S., Middle Tennessee State University, M.P.A., American University, Ph.D., University of Tennessee
Term Reappointment, Academic Years 2022-2023 and 2023-2024
Cameron Coates
Visiting Instructor of Philosophy
B.A., St. John’s College; M.A., Loyola University; Ph.D., DePaul University (in progress)
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2022-202
Joseph A. Coll
Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics
B.A. Buena Vista University; M.A, A.B.D., University of Iowa
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2022-2023
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, Advent 2022
Claire Cooper
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
B.A., Georgetown University; M.A., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2022-2023
Isabel Duarte-Gray
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
B.A., Amherst College; Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2022-2023
Chris Eppolito
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
B.A.,Canisius College; M.S., Ph.D. Candidate, Binghamton University
Term Appointment, 2022-2023 - 2023-2024
Maria Falikman
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Lomonosov Moscow State University
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2022-2023
Terri D. Fisher
Teaching Professor of Psychology
B.A., Wake Forest University; M.A., The University of Georgia; Ph.D., The University of Georgia
Term Reappointment, Academic Years 2022-2023 - 2024-2025
Anna M. Foy
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
A.B., Princeton University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2022-2023
Robert N. Gaines
Visiting Professor of Rhetoric
A.B., M.A., University of California, Davis; Ph.D., University of Iowa
Term Appointment, Advent 2022
Seth Gannon
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
B.A., Transylvania University; M.S., University of Dayton; M.A., Ph.D. Candidate, University of Louisville
Term Appointment, 2022-2023 - 2023-2024
Patrick Gauding
Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics
B.A., M.A., University of Cincinnati; Ph.D. Candidate, University of Kansas
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2022-2023
Aaron Gold
Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics
B.A., The Citadel; M.A., East Carolina University; Ph.D., The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2022-2023
Wait Griswold
Visiting Instructor of Chemistry
Term Appointment, Advent 2022
Sarah Hamilton
Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre
B.F.A., Southern Methodist University; M.F.A., University of Iowa
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2022-2023
Stephen Hancock
Visiting Instructor of Physics
B.S., University of the South; B.S., M.S., Washington University in St. Louis
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2022-2023
Diana Hatchett
Visiting Assistant Professor of International & Global Studies
B.A., University of the South; M.A., University of Chicago; Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2022-2023
Shuler Hopkins
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
B.S., King University; M.S., Ph.D. Candidate, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Term Appointment, 2022-2023 - 2023-2024
Juyoun Jang
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
B.A., M.A., Sogang University; Ph.D. Candidate, University of Mississippi
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2022-2023
Ian K. Jensen
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
B.A., University of Washington; M.A., University of Montana, Missoula; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2022-2023
Huarui Jing
Assistant Professor of Economics
B.A., Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; M.S., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Tenure-Track Conversion, Academic Year 2022-2023
Eric Keen
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
B.A., University of the South; M.S., University of California, San Diego; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Term Reappointment, Academic Years 2022-2023 - 2024-2025
Matthew Keogh
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
B.S., Rhodes College; Ph.D., North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2022-2023
Andrew Parker Lawson
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
B.A., Centre College; M.Phil., Ph.D., University of Cambridge
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2022-2023
Trent Leipert
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
B.A., M.A., University of British Columbia; Ph.D., University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Term Appointment, 2022-2023 - 2023-2024
Jessica C. Lowe
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
B.A., The College of William & Mary; M.A., Duke University; Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Term Reappointment, Advent 2022
Stormy Malone
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.A., Texas A&M University-Commerce; M.A., University of North Dakota; M.A., Ph.D. Candidate, Wichita State University
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2022-2023
N.H. Manzur-E-Maula
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
B.Sc., University of Rajshahi; M.B.A., University of Dhaka; M.A., Ritsumeikan University; Ph.D. Candidate, Texas Tech University (TTU)
Term Appointment, 2022-2023 - 2023-2024
Alessia Martini
Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian
B.A., Università di Pisa; M.A., Universià per Stranieri de Siena; M.A., Florida Atlantic University; Ph.D., UNC Chapel Hill
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2022-2023
Lindi Masur
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
B.A., Western University, Canada; M.A., University of British Columbia; Ph.D. Candidate, University of Toronto
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2022-2023
Giordano Mazza
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish & Italian
B.A., Università degli Studi Dell’Aquila; M.A., Università degli Studi “G.D’Annunzio” Pescara-Chiete; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2022-2023
Luis Mendez
Instructor of Psychology
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.S., Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2022-2023
Kathryn Y. Morgan
Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.A., Millsaps College; M.Ed., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, Peabody College of Education
Tenure-Track Appointment
Alejandro Mylonas-Leegstra
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
B.A., University of La Laguna; M.A., Complutense University; M.A., University of Connecticut
Five-Year Term Appointment, Academic Years 2020-2021 -- 2024-2025
David Neely
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology and Earth and Environmental Sciences
B.S., Frostburg State University; M.S., Frostburg State University; Ph.D., The University of Alabama
Term Reappointment, Advent 2022
Ved Patel
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion
B.A., University of California Irvine; M.A., University of Florida; M.St., University of Oxford; Ph.D. Candidate, Emory University
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2022-2023
Thomas Powell
Visiting Assistant Professor of Forestry
B.S., University of the South; M.S., University of Florida; Ph.D., Harvard University
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2022-2023
Misha Rai
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
B.A., University of Delhi; M.A., University of Leicester; M.F.A., Bowling Green State University; Ph.D., Florida State University
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2022-2023
Thomas Reppert
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology
B.S., Virginia Tech; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Tenure-Track Conversion, Academic Year 2022-2023
Heidi Siegrist
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
B.A., University of Chicago; M.F.A., University of the South; M.A., Ph.D, University of Virginia
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2022-2023
Chris Silver
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.A., B.S., M.S., D.E.L.L., University of Tennessee, Chattanooga; M.A., Wilfrid Laurier University; Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2022-2023
Sid Simpson
Assistant Professor of Politics
B.A., University of Houston; Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Tenure-Track Conversion, Academic Year 2022-2023
Justin D. Taylor
Brown Foundation Fellow
B.A., University of Florida; M.F.A., The New School
Term Appointment, Advent 2022
Mario Torres
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
B.S., B.M., M.M., Northwestern State University of Louisiana, Natchitoches, LA; M.M., Ithaca College; D.M.A. Candidate, University of Washington
Term Appointment, Academic Years 2022-2023 - 2023-2024
Chiedozie Uhuegbu
Visiting Assistant Professor of German
B.A., M.A., University of Nigeria, Nsukka; Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Term Appointment, Academic Years 2022-2023 - 2023-2024
W. Grady Wells
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
B.S., Tennessee Technological University; M.S., Murray State University; Ph.D., Tennessee Technological University
Term Reappointment, Academic Years 2022-2023 to 2024-2025
G. Norman West
Visiting Professor of Psychology
B.S., M. Ed., University of Tennessee; Ph.D., Ball State University
Term Appointment, Advent 2022
Elena “Susanna” Weygandt
Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian
B.A., Bryn Mawr; M.A., Middlebury College; Ph.D., Princeton University
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2022-2023
Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder
Visiting Assistant Professor of English & Theatre
B.F.A., SUNY Purchase; M.F.A., New York University
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2022-2023
Cameron World
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
B.S., Ph.D., University of Queensland
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2022-2023 - 2023-2024
Mahdi Yousefi Atashgah
Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics
B.S., University of Tabriz; M.S. Shahid Beheshti University; M.S., Ph.D., Old Dominion
Academic Year 2022-2023
Eric J. Zinn
Instructor of Accounting
B.A., University of the South; J.D., L.L.M., University of Florida; M.S., M.B.A., University of Colorado, Denver
Three-Year Term Reappointment, 2022-2023 - 2024-2025
HONORARY FACULTY
Elena Eneva
Research Instructor of Computer and Data Science
Robert N. Gaines
Research Professor of Rhetoric
Sherry Hamby
Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology
Linda Mayes
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Psychology
Craig Stubblebine
Research Professor Emeritus of Political Economy
Victoria Camille Westmont
Research Professor of Southern Studies
Leaves
| Helen Bateman (PSYC) | Easter 2023 |
| Kati Curts (RELG) | 2022 - 2023 |
| Mila Dragojevic (POLS) | Advent 2022 |
| Derek Ettensohn (ENGL/HUMN) | 2022 - 2023 |
| Elizabeth Grammer (ENGL) | 2022 - 2023 |
| Evan Joslin (CHEM) | Advent 2022 |
| Andrea Mansker (HIST) | Advent 2022 |
| Arturo Marquez-Gomez (SPAN) | Easter 2023 |
| Deborah McGrath (BIOL) | 2022 - 2023 |
| Jennifer Michael (ENGL) | 2022 - 2023 |
| Alison Miller (ARTH) | Easter 2023 |
| Shana Minkin (IGS) | 2022 - 2023 |
| Emily Puckette (MATH) | Advent 2022 |
| Matthew Rudd (MATH) | 2022 - 2023 |
| Chris Shelley (BIOL) | 2022 - 2023 |
| Ken Smith (EES) | 2022 - 2023 |
| Benito Szapiro (PHYS) | 2022 - 2023 |
| Jeffrey Thompson (ARTH) | Advent 2022 |
| Keri Watson (EES) | 2022 - 2023 |
| Jessica Wohl (ARTH) | Easter 2023 |
FACULTY NOT RETURNING
Kendanne Altizer
Vassil Boiadjiev
John Coffey
Virginia Craighill
Lucia Dale
Chelsie Dunn
Steve Ford
Hugh Geller
Darin Graber
Emily K. Harrison
Jennifer Paige Hill
Barbara King
Karen Kuers
Alex Lee
Tiffany Lu
Pamela Macfie
Ben Mangrum
John McCardell
Katie Nelson-Coffey
Peter Povey
Leo Seballos
Carrie Skulley
Courtney Thompson
Hilary Dow Ward
Elizabeth Wiener
