NEW, CONTINUING, AND REAPPOINTED FACULTY

Husnain Fateh Ahmad
Assistant Professor Economics
B.Sc., Lahore University of Management Sciences; M.A., University of Arizona; Ph.D., University of Iowa
Tenure-Track Conversion, Academic Year 2018 - 2019
 
Toni Barnes
Visiting Instructor of Education
B.S., M.S., Middle Tennessee State University
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2018 - 2019
 
Angela Berry
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Art History
B.A., The University of the South; M.A., M.F.A., California College of the Arts
Term Appointment, Advent 2018
 
Daniel Clay Carter
Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
B.S., Middle Tennessee State University; M.P.A., American University; Ph.D., University of Tennessee
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2018 - 2019
 
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 Appointment, Academic Year 2018 - 2019
 
Charles V. Dalton
Visiting Instructor of Spanish
B.A., University of the South; M.A., University of Kentucky
Term Reappointment, Advent 2018
 
Kallen Esperian
Visiting Instructor of Music and Artist-in-Residence
B.A., University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2018 - 2019
 
Terri D. Fisher
Visiting Professor of Psychology
B.A., Wake Forest University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Georgia (Athens)
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2018 - 2019
 
Stephen Ford
Visiting Associate Professor of Economics
B.A., Colby College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2018 - 2019
 
Katherine Fornash
Visiting Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Systems
B.S., University of Arizona; Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2018 - 2019
 
Brooke Gorman
Visiting Assistant Professor of Education
B.S., Oglethorpe University; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
Term Reappointment, Easter 2018
 
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 Year 2018 - 2019
 
Dewey Hammond
Visiting Instructor of Accounting
B.B.A., University of Georgia; J.D., University of Virginia School of Law; MBAm, University of North Carolina
Term Appointment, Advent 2018
 
Emily Herman
Visiting Instructor of Education
B.A., Boston University; M.S., Simmons College; B.A., St. Cloud State University
Term Reappointment, Easter 2019
 
Jennifer Paige Hill
Visiting Instructor of Education
B.A., University of Tennessee; M.A., Ed.S., Tennessee Technological University
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2018 - 2019
 
Ye 'Abby' Hong
Visiting Instructor of Economics
B.S., Nanjing University of Science and Technology; M.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ph.D., University of Tennessee
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2018 - 2019
 
Timothy Michael Jesurun
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.A., Calvin College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Akron
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2018 - 2019
 
May F. Kamalick
Visiting Instructor of Arabic Language and Culture
B.A., M.A., American University of Beirut
Term Reappointment, Advent 2018
 
Eric Keen
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology and Earth and Environmental Sciences
B.A., The University of the South; M.S., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2018 - 2019
 
Rev. Leyla King
Visiting Instructor of International and Global Studies
B.A., Dartmouth College; M Div., Harvard Divinity School
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2018 - 2019
 
Yuliya Ladygina
Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian
Ph.D., University of San Diego
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2018 - 2019
 
Julian Ledford
Visiting Assistant Professor of French
B.A., Washington and Lee University; M.M., Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2018 - 2019
 
Ray McAnally
Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre
B.A., The University of the South; M.F.A., Rutgers University
Term Appointment, Easter 2019
 
Jessica Mecellem
Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics
B.A., Whitworth University; M.A., Université de Provence; Ph.D., Loyola University (Chicago) 
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2018 - 2019
 
Geoffrey Moseley
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Term Appointment, Advent 2018
 
Alejandro Mylonas-Leegstra
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
B.A., University of La Laguna; M.A., Complutense University; M.A., University of Connecticut
Term Appointment, Advent 2018
 
Sarah Naramore
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
B.A., Lafayette College; Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Three-Year Term Appointment, 2018 - 2019 -- 2020 - 2021
 
Dave Neely
Visiting Assistant Professor of Forestry and Geology
B.S., M.S., Frostburg State University; Ph.D., The University of Alabama
Term Appointment, Easter 2019
 
Ariana Orozco
Visiting Assistant Professor of German
B.A., Williams College; Ph.D., University of Michigan
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2018 - 2019
 
Agnes Ortega
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
B.S., Universidad Metropolitana (PR); M.D., University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2018 - 2020
 
Jason Palagi
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
B.S., Lawrence University; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2018 - 2019
 
Joseph Perna
Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian
A.B., University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D., New York University
Term Appointment, Advent 2018
 
Peter Povey
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
B.M., Royal College of Music; M.M., Yale University; D.M., Northwestern University
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2018 - 2019
 
Minh Tam Schlosky
Visiting Instructor of Economics
B.S., Clarion University of Pennsylvania, M.A., West Virginia University
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2018 - 2019
 
Karen Seapker
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Art History
B.A., Muhlenberg College; M.F.A., City University of New York Hunter College
Term Appointment, Advent 2018
 
Emily Senefeld
Visiting Instructor of History
B.A., University of the South; M.A., University of Virginia
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2018 - 2019
 
Chris Shelley
Assistant Professor of Biology
B.S., Imperial College London; Ph.D., University College London
Tenure-Track Appointment 2018 - 2019
 
Carrie Skulley
Assistant Professor of Politics
B.A., University of California Santa Barbara; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
Tenure-Track Appointment 2018 - 2019
 
Clint S. Swift
Visiting Instructor/Assistant Professor of Politics
B.S., Whittier College; M.A., California State University-Sacramento; Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia (expected)
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2018 - 2019
 
Yanbing Tan
Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Chinese
B.A., Austin College; M.A., Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2018 - 2019
 
Peggy Thoits
Visiting Professor of Biology
B.A., M.A., University of Colorado-Boulder; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University
Term Appointment, Easter 2019
 
Rebecca Van de Ven
Visiting Instructor of Music
B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Term Appointment, Advent 2018
 
G. Norman West
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.S., M.Ed., University of Tennessee; Ph.D., Ball State University
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2018 - 2019
 
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 2018 - 2019
 
Khristy Wilkinson
Visiting Instructor of Philosophy
B.A., M.A., Wayne State University
Term Appointment, Advent 2018
 
Teresa Rose Wiseman
Visiting Instructor of Education
Elem. 1-8, Librarian K-12, SPED., Motlow, MTSU, Trevecca; M.S., Tennessee State University
Term Reappointment, Easter Semester 2019
 
Leaves
Liesl Allingham (Grmn)           2018 - 2019
James Crawford (Thea)  Easter 2019 
David George Haskell (Biol)           Advent 2018 
Andrea C. Hatcher (Pols)  Advent 2018 
Katie E. McGhee (Biol)  Easter 2019 
Brandon C. Moore (Biol)  Easter 2019 
Bran Potter (Geol)  Advent 2018 
Marc St-Pierre (Econ)  Advent 2018 
Eric Thurman (Relg)  Advent 2018 
Brandy N. Tiernan (Psyc)  Easter 2019 
Jordan N. Troisi (Psyc)  2018 - 2019 
John C. Willis (Engl)  Easter 2019 
Kirk S. Zigler (Biol)  2018 - 2019 
 
 Faculty Not Returning
Jody Lynn Allen
Ashkan Bahrani
Stefan Jennings Batista
Dharitri Bhattacharjee
Christie Carl
Lee Connell
Thea Edwards
Laurie Fowler
Edith Freni
Daniel Groves
Diana Hatchett
Brian Jobe
Kyle Mahoney
Laura Nuffer
Jesse Schupack
Leo Seballos
Matthew Snyder
Holloway Sparks
Elizabeth Taylor
Jessica Usherwood
Thomas West III
Philip Woodlief
Cameron World
Eric J. Zinn
 
FACULTY APPOINTMENTS AND LEAVES FROM PREVIOUS YEARS CAN BE FOUND HERE.