College Welcomes New Faculty Across the Disciplines

Name

Title

Department

Area of Expertise

Degree

Mia Bloom

Assistant Professor

Political Science

National security studies

PhD, Columbia University, 1999

Cinnamon Carlarne

Assistant Professor

Environmental Studies

Environmental law & policy

Bachelor of Civil Law Degree,  Oxford University, 2003; MS, Oxford University, 2002; JD, University of California at Berkeley, 2001

Donna Chrobot-Mason

Assistant Professor & Director of MA in Labor and Employment Relations program

Organizational Leadership

Human resource issues

Interim Dir., Masters I/O Psychology Program, University of Colorado; PhD, University of Georgia, 1997,

Jason Gower

Visiting Instructor

Mathematics

Teach courses transferring from Univ. College

ABD, Purdue University

Sean Gurd

Visiting Assistant Professor

Classics

Greek and Latin language and literature

PhD, University of Toronto, 2001; Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sydney, Australia

Xiaojie Hou

Field Service Assistant Professor

Math

ABD, University of Iowa

Fenfang Hwu

Associate Professor and Director of Basic Languages

Romance Languages

Spanish

PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994; Assistant Professor, Bowling Green State University, 1997-present

Zair Ibragimov

Visiting Assistant Professor

Math

PhD, University of Michigan, 2002, Research Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin, 2002-present

Suri Saranathan Iyer

Assistant Professor

Chemistry

Chemical sensors

PhD, Indiana University, 2000; Postdoctoral research associate Emory University and Los Alamos National Laboratory

Nancy Jennings

Assistant Professor

Communication

Mass media theory & research

PhD, University of Texas, 2000

William Jennings

Visiting Assistant Professor

Communication

Rhetoric

PhD, University of Texas, 2003

Andrei Kogan

Assistant Professor

Physics

Mesoscopic physics

PhD, Duke University, 2000; Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

John Layne

Assistant Professor

Biological Sciences

Molecular and cellular basis of animal behavior

Research Associate, Cornell, 2003-present; Postdoctoral Fellow, Glasgow, Scotland 1998-2000; PhD, Duke University, 1997

Joanie Mackowski

Assistant Professor

English

Creative writing - Poetry

ABD, University of Missouri-Columbia

Samuel Marshall

Visiting Assistant Professor

Biology

Assistant Professor, Hiram College, Hiram, OH; PhD, University of Tennessee, 1994

Colleen McTague

Field Service Assistant Professor

Geography

Laura R. Micciche

Assistant Professor

English

Composition

PhD,  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1999; Assistant Professor, East Carolina University, Aug. 1999-present

Lewis Owen

Associate Professor (without tenure)

Geology

Quaternary processes

Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside; PhD, University of Leicester, United Kingdom, 1988

Michelle Rodino

Assistant Professor

Communication

New media promotion

PhD, University of Pittsburgh,  2003

Michelle V. Rowley

Assistant Professor

Women’s Studies

Women’s Studies

PhD, Clark University, Worcester, MA, 2003

Nicasio Urbina

Visiting Associate Professor and Interim Director of Latin American Studies

Romance Languages

Associate Professor, Tulane University

Gary Weissman

Visiting Assistant Professor

English & Freshman Seminars

English composition and literature

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1999

Xiandong Xie

Visiting Assistant Professor

Mathematical Sciences

Geometric measure theory

PhD, University of Utah, 2001

Vrej Zarikian

Visiting Assistant Professor

Mathematical Sciences

PhD, University of California at Los Angeles, 2001