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2019-2020 Catalog 
    
2019-2020 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

New Faculty and Instructional Appointments, 2019-20


(as of July 1, 2019)

Issac J. Bailey, James K. Batten Visiting Professor of Communication Studies
B.A. (Davidson)

Alessandra Bazo Vienrich, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology
B.A. (Salem), M.A. (Lehigh), Ph.D. (expected) (University of Massachusetts at Boston) 

Florin I. Beşchea, Visiting Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies
B.A. (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania), M.S. (University of Southern Indiana),
M.A., Ph.D. (Indiana University, Bloomington)

Alan Black, Artist Associate in Cello
B.A. (University of California, Los Angeles), M.M. (Indiana)

Maurya MacNeil Boyd, Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.A. (Davidson), M.A., Ph.D. (Ohio State)

Anika R. Bratt, Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
B.A. (St. Catherine), Ph.D. (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

Sally L. Bullock, Visiting Assistant Professor of Health and Human Values
B.S. (University of California, Davis), M.P.H. (University of California, Berkeley),
Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill)

Kevin R. Busch, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
B.A. (University of Chicago), M.A. (Brandeis), Ph.D. (Oxford)

Thomas R. Cameron, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
A.A. (Century), B.S. (University of Minnesota, Duluth),
M.S., Ph.D. (Washington State)

Dasha A. Chapman, Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance
B.A. (Boston University), M.A., Ph.D. (New York University)

Luther Clement-Lam, Visiting Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies
B.A. (St. John’s), M.F.A. (Northwestern)

Angela Cools, Assistant Professor of Economics
B.A. (Pomona), M.A., Ph.D. (Cornell)

Jacquelyn Culpepper, Artist Associate in Voice
B.S. (Western Carolina), M.M. (Baylor)

Mamyrah A. Dougé-Prosper, Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies
B.A. (Barnard), M.S. (Nova Southeastern), M.A., Ph.D. (Florida International)

Brian A. Eiler, Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati)

Amy Fallah, Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication Studies
B.A. (Christopher Newport), M.A., Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill)

Emily Frazier-Rath, Visiting Assistant Professor of German Studies
B.A. (Bucknell), M.A. (University of Cincinnati)
Ph.D. (University of Colorado, Boulder)

William Fried, Artist Associate in Piano
B.S. (Brown), M.M. (New England Conservatory),
D.M.A. (University of California, San Diego)

Andrew Gadaire, Adjunct Instructor in Psychology
B.S. (Davidson), M.A., Ph.D. (expected) (UNC Charlotte)
(Fall Semester)

Annelise H. Gorensek-Benitez, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
B.S. (Furman), Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill)

Sandrine Hope, Visiting Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (University of Alabama)

Philip N. Jefferson, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty, and Freeland Professor of Economics
B.A. (Vassar), Ph.D. (University of Virginia, Charlottesville)

Abril Jimenez, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
B.A., M.A. (San Diego State), Ph.D. (Rutgers)

Hanna M. Key, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
B.A. (Grinnell), Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley)

Jae Kyun Kim, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology
B.A. (Dongguk University, Seoul), Ph.D. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

William Kristol, Vann Professor of Ethics in Society
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Harvard)
(Fall Semester)

Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
B.S. (Université de Montréal), M.A. (Trent), Ph.D. (Tulane)

Judith K. Lang Hilgartner, Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
A.A. (Bucks County Community), B.A. (Elon), M.A. (UNC Greensboro),
Ph.D. (University of Virginia, Charlottesville)

C. Douglass Locke, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
B.A. (Kalamazoo), Ph.D. (Carnegie-Mellon University)
(Spring Semester)

Ilana R. McQuinn, Visiting Assistant Professor of History
B.A., B.A. (University of Georgia), M.A. (Indiana University, Bloomington),
Ph.D. (expected) (University of Chicago)

Dáša P. Mortensen, Assistant Professor of History
B.A. (Harvard), M.A. (Duke), M.A., Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill)

Owen Mundy, Visiting Associate Professor of Digital Studies
B.F.A. (Indiana), M.F.A. (University of California, San Diego)

Tamara Neuman, Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies
B.A. (Brandeis), M.A., Ph.D. (University of Chicago)

Siobhan M. O’Keefe, Assistant Professor of Economics
B.A. (Wellesley), Ph.D. (University of California, Davis)

Anthony Pasero-O’Malley, Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
B.A. (Saint Louis University, Madrid), M.A. (Marquette),
Ph.D. (University of Virginia, Charlottesville)

Peter H. Penar, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science
B.A. (George Washington), M.A., Ph.D. (Michigan State)

Jonad Pulaj, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
B.S. (UNC Chapel Hill), Ph.D. (Technische Universität Berlin)

Megan Y. Race, Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian Studies
B.A. (University of Chicago), M.Phil., Ph.D. (Yale)

Tomasz Robak, Artist Associate in Accompanying
B.A., B.M. (Rice), M.M., D.M.A. (expected) (Peabody Conservatory)

Rebecca N. Ruhlen, Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
B.A. (Trinity), M.A. (Harvard), Ph.D. (University of Washington)

Phia S. Salter, Associate Professor of Psychology
B.S. (Davidson), M.A., Ph.D. (University of Kansas)

Carlos E. Seminario, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Computer Science
B.S. (St. Mary’s University), M.S. (Georgia Institute of Technology),
M.S., Ph.D. (UNC Charlotte)

Melanie Sill, James K. Batten Professor of Journalism
B.A. (UNC Chapel Hill)
(Spring Semester)

Ché L. Smith, Visiting Assistant Professor of Data Science
B.S. (Spelman), Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill)

Chuck Sturtevant, Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies
B.A. (Yale), M.Phil. (University of Manchester), Ph.D. (expected) (University of Aberdeen)

Sherilyn K. Tamagawa, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
B.A. (Scripts), M.A., Ph.D. (expected) (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Christopher Thawley, Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
B.S. (Davidson), M.S. (University of Alabama), Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State)

Anne E. Truetzel, Assistant Professor of Classics
B.A., B.S. (Duke), A.M. (Washington University), Ph.D. (expected) (Princeton)

Monica M. White, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.A. (University of Missouri, Columbia), M.A., Ph.D. (Ohio State)

Alexander K. Wiedemann, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
B.A. (Tusculum), Ph.D. (University of South Carolina, Columbia)

Bryce Wiedenbeck, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
B.A. (Swarthmore), M.S., Ph.D. (University of Michigan)

Charles B. Williams III, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
B.S. (Clemson), Ph.D. (Wake Forest)

Joshua C. Yesnowitz, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science
B.A. (Skidmore), M.A. (Boston College), Ph.D. (Boston University)

Jane B. Zimmerman, John and Ruth McGee Director of the
Dean Rusk International Studies Program
B.A. (Macalester), M.A. (Tufts)