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Tenure and Promotions Announced

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The tenure and/or promotion of 57 faculty members has been announced by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Records. Recipients are listed by college and with their new titles, effective Aug. 17.

Promotion

ARTS
John Short, professor of theatre and dance

BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
Sherif Khalifa, professor of economics

EDUCATION
Erica Bowers, professor of literacy and reading education

ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
Jidong Huang, professor of electrical engineering
Sudarshan Kurwadkar, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering

HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Anthony DiStefano, professor of health science
Michele Mouttapa, professor of health science
Daniela Rubin, professor of kinesiology
Elaine M. Rutkowski, professor of nursing

HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Benjamin Cawthra, professor of history
Dana Collins, professor of sociology
Peter Fashing, professor of anthropology
Pamela Fiber-Ostrow, professor of political science
Mark Fischer, professor of liberal studies
Erualdo Gonzalez, professor of Chicana and Chicano studies
James Hussar, professor of modern languages and literatures
M. Zakyi Ibrahim, professor of religious studies
Dixie Koo, professor of criminal justice
Eliza Noh, professor of Asian American studies
Jessie Peissig, professor of psychology
Nancy Ryba Panza, professor of psychology
Carter Rakovski, professor of sociology
Jessica Stern, professor of history
Allison Varzally, professor of history
J. Chris Westgate, professor of English, comparative literature and linguistics

NATURAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS
Alain Bourget, professor of mathematics
Cherie Ichinose, associate professor of mathematics
Geoffrey Lovelace, associate professor of physics
Tyler McMillen, professor of mathematics

Tenure and Promotion

ARTS
Mark Ramont, professor of theatre and dance

BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
Jennifer Chandler, associate professor of management
Yi Jiang, professor of finance
Sinjini Mitra, associate professor of information systems and decision sciences
Huiran Pan, associate professor of economics
Atul Teckchandani, associate professor of management

COMMUNICATIONS
Summer Martin, associate professor of human communication studies 

EDUCATION
Julian Jefferies, associate professor of literacy and reading education

ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
Pratanu Ghosh, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering
Kenneth Faller, associate professor of computer engineering
Chean Chin Ngo, associate professor of mechanical engineering
Haowei Wang, associate professor of mechanical engineering

HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Jason Baker, associate professor of child and adolescent studies
Rachel Fenning, associate professor of child and adolescent studies
Dennis Kao, associate professor of social work
Jennifer Piazza, associate professor of health science

HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Siobhan Brooks, associate professor of African American studies
Natalie Graham, associate professor of African American studies
Monica Hanna, associate professor of Chicana and Chicano studies
Brady Heiner, associate professor of philosophy
Andrew Howat, associate professor of philosophy
James Parham, associate professor of geological sciences
Tyler Parry, associate professor of African American studies
Patricia Schneider-Zioga, associate professor of English, comparative literature and linguistics
Samuel Stone, associate professor of political science

NATURAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS
Kevin Nichols, associate professor of mathematics

Tenure

ARTS
David Mickey, associate professor of theatre and dance 

NATURAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS
John Haan, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry