New, Continuing, and Reappointed Faculty

Liesl Allingham
Associate Professor of German
B.A., Tufts University; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University
Tenure-Track Appointment, Academic Year 2015 - 2016
 
Emmanuel Asiedu-Acquah
Assistant Professor of International and Global Studies
B.A., M.Phil., University of Ghana; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Tenure-Track Appointment, Academic Year 2015 - 2016
 
James Myron Bateman
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
B.S. Union University; M.S. Mathematics, M.S., Computer Science, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Term Reappointment, Advent Semester 2015
 
Dharitri Bhattacharjee
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
B.A., St. Stephens College, M.A., University of Delhi, M.A., Miami University, Expected 2015 Ph.D., University of Texas
Term Appointment, Academic Years 2015 - 2016 to 2017 - 2018
 
Lisa Reinhalter Burner
Assistant Professor of Spanish
B.A., Colby College; M.A, University of Illinois; Ph.D. expected
Tenure-Track Appointment, Academic Year 2015 - 2016
 
Katherine Cammack
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.S., Santa Clara University; Ph.D., Rutgers University
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2015 - 2016   
 
Stephen Byrnes Carmody
Post-doctoral Fellow in Archaeology
B.S., College of Charleston; M.A., Ph.D., University of Tennessee
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2015 - 2016
 
John Kenyon Coffey II
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.A., Creighton University; M.S.W., University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; M.A., Claremont Graduate University; Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University
Term Appointment, Academic Years 2015 - 2016 to 2017 - 2018
 
Adam Jonathan Dahl
Assistant Professor of Politics
B.S., University of Wisconsin – La Crosse; M.A., Purdue University; Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Tenure-Track Appointment, Academic Year 2015 - 2016
 
Jacqueline Frost DiBiasie
Visiting Instructor of Classical Archeology and Classical Languages
B.A., Washington and Lee University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Texas
Term Appointment, Academic Years 2015 - 2016 to 2017 - 2018
 
Thea M. Edwards
Research Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
B.S., Virginia Tech; M.A., Ph.D., University of Florida
Term Reappointment, Advent 2015
 
Derek M. Ettensohn
Assistant Professor English and Humanities
B.A., Haverford College; M.A., Ph.D., Brown University
Tenure-Track Appointment, Academic Year 2015 - 2016
 
Francis Xavier Hart
Visiting Emeritus Professor of Physics
B.S., Manhattan College; M.S., Ph.D., Syracuse University
Term Reappointment, Advent 2015
 
Timothy Michael Jesurun
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.A., Calvin College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Akron
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2015 - 2016
 
Phoebe Kajubi
Brown Foundation Fellow and Visiting Professor of International and Global Studies
B.A., M.A., Makerere University; Ph.D. Fellow, Makerere University 
Term Appointment, Easter 2015 - 2016
 
Yuliya Volodymyrivna Ladygina
Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian
B.A., M.A., Kyiv T.G. Shevchenko State University, Ukraine; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Term Appointment, Academic Years 2015 - 2016 to 2017 - 2018
 
Julian A Ledford
Visiting Assistant Professor of French
B.A., Washington and Lee University; M.M., Johns Hopkins University; M.A., Vanderbilt University
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2015 - 2016 
 
Cheri Magid
Tennessee Williams Playwright-in-Residence and Visiting Assistant Professor of English
B.A., The University of Michigan
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2015 - 2016
 
Arturo Márquez-Gómez
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
B.A., M.A., University of Chile; M.A., Ph.D., Brown University
Term Appointment, Academic Years 2015 - 2016 to 2017 - 2018
 
Katie Elizabeth McGhee
Assistant Professor of Biology
B.S., University of Toronto; M.S., Ph.D., Florida State University,
Tenure-Track Appointment, Academic Year 2015 - 2016
 
Shane Elizabeth Minkin
Assistant Professor of International and Global Studies
B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Emory University; Ph.D., New York University
Tenure-Track Appointment, Academic Year 2015 - 2016
 
Sarah Katherine Nelson
Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.S., University of Mary Washington; M.A., Ph.D., University of California – Riverside
Tenure-Track Appointment, Academic Year 2015 - 2016
 
Sean Patrick O’Rourke
Brown Foundation Fellow and Visiting Professor of Rhetoric
Term Appointment, Advent 2015
 
Jennifer A. Pickens
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
B.S., M.S., Georgia State University; Ph.D., University of Georgia
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2015 - 2016
 
Martha Louise Smith Roberts
Visiting Instructor of Religion
B.A., M.A., Missouri State University; Ph.D., University of California
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2015 - 2016
 
Matthew D. Sanderson
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
B.S., Abilene Christian University; M.A., The University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., Dartmouth College 
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2015 - 2016  
 
Matthew Scott Schrader
Visiting Research Assistant Professor of Biology
B.S., University of Florida; M.S., Ph.D., Florida State University
Term Appointment, Academic Years 2015 - 2016 to 2017 - 2018
 
Leo Seballos
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
B.S., Loyola Marymount University; Ph.D., University of California
Term Appointment, Academic Years 2015 - 2016 to 2017 - 2018
 
Margaret “Margo” Milmore Shea
Mellon Fellow in Southern Appalachian and Place-Based Studies
B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts
Term Appointment, Academic Years 2015 - 16 to 2016-2017
 
Courtney L. Thompson
Assistant Professor of American Studies and Women's and Gender Studies
B.A., Hampton University; M.A., Ph.D., Purdue University
Tenure-Track Appointment, Academic Year 2015 - 2016
 
Brandy Nicole Tiernan
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience (Psychology)
B.A., University of North Texas; M.A., Western Kentucky University; Ph.D., Iowa State University
Tenure-Track Appointment, Academic Year 2015 - 2016  
 
Jia Wang
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
B.S., Shandong University; Ph.D., University of Oklahoma
Term Appointment, Academic Years 2015 - 2016 to 2017 - 2018
 
Jeffrey Whittle
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Art History
B.F.A, University of Georgia; M.F.A., Cornell University
Term Appointment, Easter 2016
 
Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
B.F.A., SUNY Purchase; M.F.A., New York University
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2015 - 2016
 
Cameron World
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
B.S., Ph.D., University of Queensland
Term Appointment, Easter 2016
 
Leaves
Jonathan Evans (Biol) Easter 2016
Harold Goldberg (Hist) Advent 2015
Roger S. Levine (Hist) Advent 2015
Andrea Mansker (Hist/WGS) 2015 - 2016
Deborah McGrath (Biol) 2015 - 2016
Jennifer Michael (Engl) 2015 - 2016
Stephen R. Miller (Musc) Easter 2016
George Poe (Fren) 2015 - 2016
Ken Smith (Fors/Geol) Advent 2015
Thomas D. Spaccarelli (Span) Advent 2015
Benito Szapiro (Phys) Easter 2016
Emily White (Chem) 2015 - 2016
Jessica Wohl (Art) Easter 2016

 

Faculty Not Returning
Tori M. Barnes
Thomas Francis Banchoff
Nicole Barenbaum
Larry E. Carden
Marcia Mary Cook
Timothy G. Ehresman
Jane Benton Fort
Cora Evelyn Gannaway
Anna Lee George
Emily Herman
Kevin Michael Hobbs
Don Huber
Linda Bright Lankewicz
Emily Lynch
Andrew Malone Melo
David Andrew Meola
David Alan Neely
Elizabeth Ann Norell
John R. Palisano
Jessica A. Siegel
John C. Solomon