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2024-2025 Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Catalog

New Faculty and Instructional Appointments, 2021-22


(as of 1 July 2022)


Catherine Bagwell, Virginia Lasater Irvin Professor of Psychology
B.S. (University of Richmond), M.A., Ph.D. (Duke)
(spring semester)

Halie Bahr, Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance
B.F.A. (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee), M.F.A. (University of Utah)

Sandra Beasley, McGee Professor of Creative Writing
B.A. (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), M.F.A. (The American University)
(spring Semester)

Randolph Benson, Visiting Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies
B.A. (Wake Forest), B.F.A. (UNC), M.F.A. (Queens)

Renata D. Berlin, Director of Choral Activities/Artist Associate
B.M. (DePauw), M.M. (Eastman School of Music), Ph.D. (expected) (Boston University)

Alesha D. Bond, Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.S., Ph.D. (expected) (Georgia State)

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

Sarah B. Breitenfeld, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics
B.A. (Skidmore), M.A., Ph.D. (expected) (University of Washington Seattle)

Patrick Brown, Visiting Artist Associate, Director of Jazz Activities
B.M. (Appalachian State), M.M. (Winthrop), D.M.A. (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

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

Frankie Chan, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
B.A., B.A. (Cornell), Ph.D. (Purdue)

LeeAnna Y. Chapman, Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
B.S., M.S., Ph.D. (NC State)

Aviva A. Cormier, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
B.A. (Brandeis), M.A., Ph.D. (Boston University)

Andrea Duhon, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
B.S., B.S. (NC State), M.A. (New York University), M.Phil., Ph.D. (Columbia University)

Rosalba Esparragoza, Lecturer in Hispanic Studies
B.A. (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá), M.A. (University of Southern Mississippi), D.Ed. (UNC Charlotte)

Luis César Fernández-Torres, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
B.A. (Pennsylvania State), M.S. (University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez), Ph.D. (University of Houston)

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

Andrew Gadaire, Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.S. (Davidson), M.A., Ph.D. (UNC Charlotte)

Randi Gill-Sadler, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and English
B.A. (Gardner-Webb), M.A., Ph.D. (University of Florida)

Hilary N. Green, Professor of Africana Studies
B.A. (Franklin and Marshall), M.A. (Tufts), Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill)

Jon Heggestad, Visiting Assistant Professor of Digital Studies
B.A. (Drake), M.S. (King’s College London), Ph.D. (Stony Brook)

Lauren A. Henry, Visiting Assistant Professor of History
B.A. (Yale), M.A., Ph.D. (Ohio State)

Catherine E. Hundley, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
B.A. (Yale), M.A.L.S. (Georgetown), Ph.D. (University of Virginia, Charlottesville)

Stephen Kaliski, Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing Studies and Theatre
B.A. (Davidson), M.F.A. (Brooklyn College, CUNY)

John Kello, Adjunct Practicum Facilitator in Psychology
B.S. (Old Dominion), M.A., Ph.D. (Duke)

Barrett B. Kollme, Adjunct Lecturer in Economics
B.S. (University of Virginia), M.B.A. (Duke) (spring semester)

Cynthia Lawing, Artist Associate in Piano
B.M. (Wittenburg), B.M., M.M. (Cleveland Institute of Music)

Benjamin E. Levy, Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics
B.A. (Carleton), Ph.D. (expected) (UNC Chapel Hill)

Trinity Martinez, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
B.A. (New Jersey City University), M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. (CUNY)

Andrew M. McClellan, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics
B.A. (Davidson), M.A., Ph.D. (University of British Columbia)

Janet H. Melonakos, Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
B.S. (Brigham Young), Ph.D. (Duke)

Claire Merriman, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
B.A. (Vanderbilt), Ph.D. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Thomas Muzart, Visiting Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies
B.A., M.A. (Sciences-Po Lyon, France), Ph.D. (CUNY)

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

Dolores Santamaria, Lecturer in Hispanic Studies
Licenciada (University Complutense de Madrid), M.A. (University of South Carolina, Columbia)

Kapriskie Seide, Assistant Professor Sociology
B.A. (Fitchburg State), M.P.H. (University of New England), M.A., Ph.D. (expected) (University of Miami)

Sam Shuman, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
B.A. (The Jewish Theological Seminary), B.A. (Columbia), M.A., Ph.D. (University of Michigan)

Jeffrey J. Sich, Adjunct Associate Professor of Biology
B.S. (Davidson), M.S., Ph.D. (University of Cincinnati)
(fall Semester)

William Adam Spillman, Adjunct Instructor in Biology
B.S., M.A. (Appalachian State)
(fall Semester)

Jessica M. Spillman, Adjunct Instructor in Biology
B.A. (UNC Charlotte), M.A. (University of Illinois at Springfield)
(fall Semester)

Willa C. Swenson-Lengyel, Holmes Rolston III Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Science
B.A. (St. Olaf), M.A. (Yale Divinity School), Ph.D. (The University of Chicago Divinity School)

Yener Ulus, Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
B.S. (Dicle University, Turkey), M.S. (Youngstown State), Ph.D. (UNC Greensboro)

Daniel Vega, Adjunct Instructor in Chemistry
B.S., B.A., M.S. (UNC Charlotte)
(fall Semester)

Scott M. Villa, Assistant Professor of Biology
B.A. (University of Colorado, Boulder), Ph.D. (University of Utah)

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