President Mildred García welcomed new members of the tenure-track faculty during Monday’s Convocation and at a dinner held that evening in their honor. The newly hired faculty members, all assistant professors except where noted, and their school/departments, by college, are:
College of the Arts
Art — Kristen Seaton
Music — Dustin Barr and Katherine Reed
Theatre and Dance — Hyun Sook Kim, associate, and Kathryn Wilson
College of Communications
Cinema and Television Arts — Mun Chee Yong
Communications — Julio Bermejo and Chelsea Reynolds
Engineering and Computer Science
Computer Science — Wenlin Han and Paul Salvador Inventado
Mechanical Engineering — John Sanders and Siheng Su
College of Education
Educational Leadership — Maritza Lozano
Elementary and Bilingual Education — Armando Garza and Carolina Valdez
Special Education — Sung Hee Lee and Aja McKee
College of Health and Human Development
Counseling — Eric Price
Health Science — Phillip Gedalanga
Nursing — Kristina Fortes, Sharrica Miller and Jutara Srivali Teal
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
American Studies — Sara Fingal and Alison Kanosky
Anthropology — Ahmed Afzal
Geography and the Environment — Trevis Matheus
Politics, Administration and Justice — Alissa Ackerman and Lidia Nuño, both in criminal justice
Psychology — Adam Roberts
Mihaylo College of Business and Economics
Accounting — Jonathan Durrant, Margaret Kim, Pureum Kim and Edward Lynch
Economics — Pedro Amaral, associate
Information Systems and Decision Sciences — Gang Peng, associate
Management — Dayoung Kim
Marketing — Joshua Dorsey and Mahdi Ebrahimi
School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Chemistry and Biochemistry — Daniel Curtis, associate; Kelvin Billingsley and Marcos Ortega
POLLAK LIBRARY
Sarah Parramore, senior assistant librarian (began Aug. 1)
Student Health and Counseling Services
Phi Loan Le, student services professional (began July 17)