New semester brings 43 new Arts and Science faculty members to campus 

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  
  • Keely 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.