Faculty Awarded Tenure and Promotion

I am pleased to announce that the following faculty were promoted and/or tenured effective at the beginning of the 2012-2013 academic year.

Nancy A. Marlin
Provost

Promoted to Professor:

• Brian Adams - Political Science
• Peter Atterton – Philosophy
• Peter Blomgren - Mathematics and Statistics
• Joanna Brooks - English and Comparative Literature
• Sarah Elkind – History
• Margaret Field - American Indian Studies
• Eric Frost – Geological Sciences
• Christiana Hilmer – Economics
• Pamela Jackson – Library and Information Access (Promoted to Librarian)
• Scott Kelley – Biology
• David Lipson – Biology
• Kotaro Nakamura - Art, Design, and Art History
• Marjorie Olney - Administration, Rehabilitation, and Postsecondary Education
• Ghada Osman - Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages
• Marie Roch - Computer Science
• Scott Roesch – Psychology
• Sherry Ryan – Public Affairs
• André Skupin – Geography
• Julio Valdes - Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
• Diana Verzi - Mathematics and Statistics/Imperial Valley Campus

• Lasisi Ajayi – Teacher Education/Imperial Valley Campus
• Magdalena Altamirano - Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures
• Temesgen Garoma Ararasso - Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
• Ronald Arceneaux - Journalism and Media Studies
• Barbara Bailey - Mathematics and Statistics
• Denitsa Bliznakova - Theatre, Television and Film
• Eric Boime – History/Imperial Valley Campus
• Adam Branch – Political Science
• Regina Brandon – Special Education
• Jianwei Chen – Mathematics and Statistics
• M. Zohir Chowdhury - Public Health
• Luciano Demasi - Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• Kelly Doran – Biology
• Robert Dowell - Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
• Luke Duesbery – Special Education
• Liana Ewald - Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures
• John David Francis – Management
• Steven Gill – Accountancy
• Eunha Hoh – Public Health
• Gregory Keating - Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages
• Marie-Eve Lachance – Finance
• Chun-Ta Lai – Biology
• Suzanne Lindsay – Public Health
• Alan Mobley – Public Affairs
• Paula Peter – Marketing
• Sonja Pruitt-Lord - Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
• Yasemin Turan Qian – Special Education
• Mark Reed – Social Work
• Matthew Rowe – Music and Dance
• Eric Smigel – Music and Dance
• Kathleen Farley Wolf – Geography
• Roland Wolkowicz – Biology
• Congcong Zheng – Management

 Tenured:

• Melissa Lamont – Library and Information Access

• Douglas Thomson – Counseling and Psychological Services