The College of Arts and Science is proud to announce the promoted faculty whose contributions in research, teaching, and service have been recognized through promotion.
As the new semester kicks off, we also welcome the addition of 43 new faculty members to our departments and programs. Several departments welcome new chairs while the dean’s office hosts two additional Faculty Fellows.
Promoted Faculty
Associate Teaching Professor
- Clayton Blodgett, Geography
Associate Professor
- Katina Bitsicas, School of Visual Studies
- Jordan Booker, Psychological Sciences
- Kristy Bowers, History
- Christina Carney, Women’s and Gender Studies
- Chiswili Chabu, Biological Sciences
- Gabriel Fried, English
- Rebecca Grollemund, English
- Erin Hennes, Psychological Sciences
- Heather Hennkens, Chemistry
- Jennie Ikuta, Truman School of Government and Public Affairs
- Jong Bum Kim, Architectural Studies
- Sean Lane, Psychological Sciences
- Travis Shaffer, School of Visual Studies
- David Switzer, Truman School of Government and Public Affairs
- Petros Valettas, Mathematics
- Weijie Wang, Truman School of Government and Public Affairs
Teaching Professor
- George Chikhladze, Economics
- Erika Waller, Psychological Sciences
Professor
- André Ariew, Philosophy
- Colleen Colaner, Communication
- Sean Franzel, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
- Ashley Groh, Psychological Sciences
- Kristin Hawley, Psychological Sciences
- Claire Horisk, Philosophy
- Peter Pivovarov, Mathematics
- Jim Schiffbauer, Geological Sciences
- Mary Ann Stegmaier, Truman School of Government and Public Affairs
- Haojing Yan, Physics and Astronomy
Leadership
New Faculty Fellows
- Rabia Gregory, Faculty Fellow for Humanities Undergraduate Studies
- Eric Parsons, Faculty Fellow for AI Teaching
New Chairs and Program Directors
- Lt. Col. Nicholas Baranello, Military Science
- Scott Holan, Statistics
- Marcello Mogetta, Classics, Archaeology, and Religion
- Larry Ries, Data Science
- Amanda Rose, Women’s and Gender Studies
Endowed Chairs
Frederick A. Middlebush Chair of Psychology
- Clint P. Davis-Stober, Psychological Sciences
Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair of Romance Languages
- Megan Moore, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair of English
- Matt Gordon, English
Marie M. and Harry L. Smith Endowed Chair
- Brandon Boyd, School of Music
- Jim Schiffbauer, Geological Sciences
Noble E. Cunningham, Jr. Professorship of History
- John Wigger, History
New faculty and faculty transferring to new positions
Anthropology
- Alejandro Figueroa, Assistant Professor
- Judyta Olszewski, Visiting Assistant Professor
Architectural Studies
- Jayedi Aman, Assistant Professor
- Janna Lancaster, Assistant Teaching Professor
Biological Sciences
- Mehwish Faheem, Assistant Teaching Professor
- Tara Finegan, Assistant Research Professor
- Corri Hamilton, Assistant Professor
- Sherryl Henderson, Instructor
- Sabrina Michael, Assistant Teaching Professor
- Amanda Paz Herrera, Assistant Teaching Professor
- Jie Zhu, Assistant Professor
Black Studies
- Dorothy Atuhura, Assistant Professor
- Anna Fett, Assistant Professor
Chemistry
- David Bauer, Assistant Professor
Classics, Archaeology, and Religion
- Beiyin Deng, Assistant Professor
- Raghda El-Behaedi, Assistant Professor
Economics
- Kelli Mayes Denker, Assistant Teaching Professor
- Nicolas Ziebarth, Sam B. Cook Professor
English
- Gregory Allendorf, Instructor
- Micaela Bombard, Instructor
- Rebecca Brings, Instructor
- Elise Broaddus, Assistant Teaching Professor
- Sarah Buckner, Assistant Professor
- Erick Burdock, Instructor
- Jacob Hall, Assistant Teaching Professor
- Karah Mitchell, Visiting Assistant Professor
History
- Lily Santoro, Associate Teaching Professor
Mathematics
- Gavin Ball, Assistant Professor
- Timothy Duff, Assistant Professor
- Justin Miller, Instructor
- Xuan Nguyen, Instructor
- Zhengchao Wan, Assistant Professor
Philosophy
- Troy Hall, Assistant Teaching Professor
- Gualtiero Piccinini, Professor
Physics
- Pontus Laurell, Assistant Professor
- Samuel Roland, Assistant Teaching Professor
- Charles Steinhardt, Assistant Professor
- Pavlo Sukhachov, George H. Vineyard Assistant Professor in Theoretical Physics
Psychological Sciences
- Roberto CofresÍ-Bonilla, Assistant Professor
- Kely Dugan, Assistant Professor
- Noel Elrod, Assistant Clinical Professor
- Quinnehtukhut McLamore, Assistant Professor
- Samantha Portis, Assistant Professor
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
- Carla Cornette, Associate Teaching Professor
- Maria Daveiva Murillo Condo, Assistant Teaching Professor
- Celia Keyser, Instructor
- Eric Lancaster, Assistant Teaching Professor
- Anna Marrero-Rivera, Assistant Professor
- Rosa Morales, Assistant Teaching Professor
- Iva Youkilis, Teaching Professor
School of Music
- Utka Asuroglu, Assistant Professor
- John McKeever, Assistant Professor
- Alexandra Schoeny, Assistant Professor
School of Visual Studies
- Xiaolei Guo, Assistant Professor
- Melissa Jolly, Instructor
- Lynn Kim, Assistant Professor
- Madeleine Lemieux, Assistant Teaching Professor
- Kristin Martincic, Visiting Assistant Professor
- Desiree Moore, Assistant Professor
- Ruiqi Zhang, Assistant Professor
Sociology
- Brian Ott, Assistant Teaching Professor
- Brittany Presson-Tatum, Visiting Assistant Professor
Statistics
- Mitchell Krock, Assistant Professor
- Wilson Wright, Assistant Professor
Theatre
- Emily Diggins Ehling, Assistant Professor
Women’s and Gender Studies
- Emmett Harsin Drager, Assistant Professor
The list above was pulled from campus systems. Any omissions are inadvertent. Please notify us with corrections.