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Ahmed E. Abdel-Meguid, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Emory University, 2011
Islamic theology and philosophy; German transcendental philosophy, phenomenology, and hermeneutics.
Edwin Ackerman, Assistant Professor, Sociology
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 2016
Political Sociology, Comparative-Historical Sociology, Latin-American Studies, Social Theory
Meera Adya, Director of Research, Burton Blatt Institute, College of Law
Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2004; J.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2002
Affiliated Faculty, Psychology; Lawpsychology, decision-making, employment discrimination, genetic discrimination, disability
Lois Agnew, Associate Professor, Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition
Ph.D., Texas Christian University, 1999
History of rhetoric and composition studies, classical and British rhetorical theories, ethics and public discourse, stylistics, rhetoric and philosophy, rhetoric, composition
Seth Aldrich, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1990
Christine Allen, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1987
David M. Althoff, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Washington State University, 1998
Species interactions, molecular ecology, insect community ecology
Ran Dani Anbar, Adjunct Assistant Professor
M.D., University of Chicago, 1983
Douglas R. Anderson, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Yale University, 1966
Algebraic topology
Emily Ansell, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, 2005
Interpersonal interactions, stress, personality, and addiction
Kevin Antshel, Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Training, Department of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Developmental psychopathology with particular emphasis on attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Cognitive/behavioral interventions designed to improve functioning in these populations.
Philip P. Arnold, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1992
History of Religions, Indigenous Traditions of the Americas
Marina Artuso, Professor, Physics
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1986
Elementary particles, experiment
Carol Babiracki, Associate Professor, Art and Music Histories
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1991
Ethnomusicology, South Asian music and dance, ethnic and immigrant music and dance in the U.S., music of the Middle East
Suzanne L. Baldwin, Michael G. and Susan T. Thonis Professor of Earth Sciences
Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany, 1988
Mineralogy, petrology, thermochronology, tectonics
Stefan Ballmer, Associate Professor, Physics
Ph.D. MIT , 2006
Theoretical Astrophysics, gravitational Waves
Uday Banerjee, Professor
Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1985
Numerical solutions of differential equations
Crystal Bartolovich, Associate Professor, English
Ph.D., Emory University, 1993
Marxism, early modern studies, cultural studies
Kenneth Baynes, Professor, Philosophy and
Political Science
Ph.D., Boston University, 1987
Social and political philosophy, critical theory, continental philosophy
Dorri Beam, Associate Professor, English
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2001
Nineteenth-century American literature and culture, gender and sexuality studies, race and nineteenth-century American literature
Katie M. Becklin, Assistant Professor, Biology
Ph.D., University of Missouri, 2010
Plant physiological ecology, global change effects on plant physiology
Frederick C. Beiser, Professor
D.Phil., University of Oxford (United Kingdom), 1980
Early modern philosophy, Kant, German idealism, 19th Century Philosophy
John M. Belote, Professor
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1979
Developmental genetics, genetic and molecular analysis of sex determination in Drosophila
Patrick W. Berry, Assistant Professor, Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011
Literacy Studies; Qualitative Research Methods; Computers and Writing; Teacher Education; Cultural Historic Activity Theory; Higher Education in Prison; Professional Writing and Publishing; and Histories of Rhetoric & Composition
Tej K. Bhatia, Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1978
Hindi, linguistics; Indic languages, literature, and linguistics
Himika Bhattacharya, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2008
Feminist Theory, Third World and Transnational Feminisms, Feminist Ethnography
Marion E. Bickford, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1960
Petrologist and isotope geochemist
Benita A. Blachman, Trustee Professor; Coordinator, Learning Disabilities
Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1981
Educational psychology, reading and other learning disabilities, teacher preparation
Marlene F. Blumin, Associate Professor;
Director, Study Skills Program
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1988
Curriculum and instruction, college reading/study skills
Steven Blusk, Professor, Physics
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1995
Experimental high-energy physics
Molly Bourne, Adjunct Faculty, Florence
Harvard University, Ph.D.,
Specialist in Gonzaga court circa 1500; artistic patronage, villa design, cartography, and the domestic interior in Renaissance Mantua
Mark Bowick, Joel Dorman Steele Professor of Physics
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1983
Condensed matter theory
Benjamin Bradley, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1999
Ethical theory, environmental ethics, philosophy of death
Mark S. Braiman, Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Solar photoreduction of carbon dioxide for carbon sequestration and energy storage; membrane protein expression, purification, and crystallization; time-resolved vibrational spectroscopy applied to photochemical systems.
Zachary J. Braiterman, Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1995
Modern Jewish thought and culture specializing in 20th-century thinkers, religion, art
Susan Branson, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Northern Illinois University, 1992
Early American History
Collin G. Brooke, Associate Professor, Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition
Ph.D., University of Texas at Arlington, 1997
Rhetorics of technology, histories and theories of rhetoric, critical theory
Amanda Brown, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Boston University, 2007
Languages, literatures, and Linguistics, applied linguistics
Duncan Brown, Charles Brightman Professor of Physics
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2004
Theoretical astrophysics, relativity
Erella Brown, Instructor
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1989
Modern and postmodern Jewish, Israeli, European, and American prose fiction, drama, and contemporary literary theory.
Stuart Scott Brown, Professor
Joan Bryant, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Yale University, 1996
American religious history
Gail Bulman, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1996
Spanish, 20th-century Latin American literature
Michael Burkard, Associate Professor, English
M.F.A., University of Iowa, 1973
Creative writing, poetry
Virginia Burrus, W. Earl Ledden Professor
Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union, 1991
Ancient Christianity including: gender, sexuality, the body; martyrdom and asceticism; ancient novels and hagiography; constructions of orthodoxy and heresy; histories of theology and historical theologies
Dympna Callaghan, William Safire Professor of Modern Letters, English
Ph.D., Sussex University, 1986
Feminism, early modern culture, and theory
Horace Campbell, Professor, African American Studies and Political Science
Ph.D., Sussex University, 1979
Comparative politics of Africa and the Caribbean, armaments culture, political economy
Robert Carey, Adjunct Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1966
Jeffrey S. Carnes, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1986
Greek poetry, mythology and Augustan Rome
Linda Carty, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Toronto (Canada), 1989
Race, class, and gender studies; comparative sociology; international development postcolonial discourse; Third World feminisms
Carlos Castañeda, Assistant Professor
PhD., Johns Hopkins University, 2009
Biophysics, biophysical chemistry, protein structure, dynamics and function, posttranslational modifications, chemical biology, structural biology, nuclear magnetic resonance of proteins and protein complexes, neuroscience
Theo Cateforis, Associate Professor, Art and Music Histories
Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony, 2000
American music, popular music and media, film music
Simon Catterall, Professor
Ph.D., Oxford University (United Kingdom), 1988
Elementary particles, theory, computational physics
Joseph Chaiken, Professor, Physics
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1982
Physical chemistry, inter-/intramolecular energy transfer, molecular beam/laser spectroscopy, laser chemistry, fractals, coalescence growth systems, biomedical spectroscopy
Arindam Chakraborty, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2005
Theoretical and computational investigation of energy conversion processes in quantum dots and solar cells; electrochemical processes on metal surfaces; development of quantum mechanical methods for nuclear and electronic dynamics; applications to materials and biomolecules
Samuel H.P. Chan, Professor
Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1970
Mitochondrial membrane complexes, bioenergetics in normal and tumor tissues
Pinyuen Chen, Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1982
Statistics
John D. Chisholm, Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2000
Organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, synthesis, catalysis.
Heather Coleman, Assistant Professor
PhD, University of British Columbia, 2008
Genetic and environmental control of cell wall formation, biotechnology, molecular farming, functional genomics
Dan Coman, Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1997
Several complex variables
Sally J. Cornelison, Professor, Art and Music Histories
Ph.D., Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1998
Italian Renaissance Art
Catherine A. Cornwell, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1975
Neurobiology of learning and memory
J. Theodore Cox, Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1976
Probability
Amy H. Criss, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Ph.D., Indiana University, 2004
Human memory; mathematical modeling
Jonathan Dee, Assistant Professor, English
B.A., Yale, 1984
Creative writing, fiction
Steven Diaz, Professor
Ph.D., Brown University, 1982
Algebraic geometry
Pedro DiPietro, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in Philosophy, Binghamton University, SUNY, 2012
Women’s, Gender, and Queer Studies; Latina/o Studies; Feminist Philosophy; Philosophy of Race, Gender, and Sex; Women of Color Epistemologies Areas of Concentration: Comparative Ethnic Studies; Critical Theory; Andean and Mesoamerican Cosmologies
Joseph W. Ditre, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology
Ph.D., University of South Florida
Health Psychology, Behavioral Medicine, Addiction/Addictive Behaviors and Chronic Physical and Mental Health Disorders
David Kwame Dixon, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Clark-Atlanta University, 1996
International relations/comparative polits, political economy and American government
Helen M. Doerr, Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor, Emeritus
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1994
Secondary mathematics education, teacher and student learning, mathematical modeling, and mathematical communication.
Karen Doherty, Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994
Audiology, psychoacoustics, hearing aids, speech perception
Steven Doles
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2014
Film, reception studies, the social problem genre
Steve Dorus, Associate Professor
Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 2004
Evolutionary genetics and genomics of reproductive systems
Sharon Dotger, Associate Professor
Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 2006
Science teacher education, inclusive science education
Janice Dowell, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2002
Philosophy of language, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, metaethics
Robert P. Doyle, Professor, Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor, Associate Department Chair
Ph.D., University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2002, Anderson Foundation Fellow, Yale University, 2004
Peptide conjugate chemistry, biochemistry, oral drug development
Marvin Druger, Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1961
Science teacher education, general biology instruction, evolutionary genetics
Kishi Animashaun Ducre, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2005
Environmental justice
Collette P. Eccleston, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005
Stigma, prejudice, and discrimination; motivation; coping; intergroup relations
Tanya L. Eckert, Associate Professor; Director, Graduate Training Program in School Psychology
Ph.D., Lehigh University, 1996
Assessment of academic and behavioral problems, school-based interventions, acceptability of assessment procedures
Susan Edmunds, Professor, English
Ph.D., Yale University, 1991
Twentieth-century American literature, modernism, African American literature, theories of the body
Kevan Edwards, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Rutgers University, 2006
Philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, cognitive science
Mary Louise Edwards, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1979
Phonetics, phonology, articulation, phonological development and disorders
Mona Eikel-Pohen, Assistant Teaching Professor
Ph.D. Modern German Literature, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, 2009
Chris A. Eng, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center, 2016
American studies, Asian American studies, performance studies, gender and sexuality studies
Scott E. Erdman, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1994
Regulation of cell differentiation
Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Associate Professor, Art and Music Histories
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2000
Seventeenth century music, music in England, musical theater
Kathryn Everly, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas, 2000
Contemporary Peninsular Spanish literature, Catalan literature and women writers
Carol Fadda-Conrey, Associate Professor, English
Ph.D., Purdue University, 2006
U.S. ethnic literatures, Arab American studies
Joshua C. Felver, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Oregon, 2013
Mindfulness-based interventions in school and community settings
Stephanie A. Fetta, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2008
Chicana/o and Latina/o literatures from a hemispheric perspective
Gareth J. Fisher, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2006
Buddhism, Chinese Buddhism, contemporary religion, globalization
Ryan Fisher, Research Assistant Professor, Physics
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2009
Relativity, astrophysics experiment
Paul G. Fitzgerald, Professor, Earth Sciences, Associate Dean of Science Mathematics and Research
Ph.D., University of Melbourne (Australia), 1988
Tectonics, Low temperature thermochronology (fission track, U-T h/He)
Nicole M. K. Fonger, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Western Michigan University, 2012
Mathematical Education, Students’ Fluency in Algebraic Representation
Arthur Flowers, Associate Professor, English
B.A., City University of New York, 1979
Creative writing, fiction
Thomas P. Fondy, Professor
Ph.D., Duquesne University, 1961
Cancer biology and cancer chemotherapy, drug resistance and host immune response in cancer, liposomal drug formulations in experimental cancer treatment, animal models in cancer research
Chris Forster, Assistant Professor, English
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2011
Modernism, British twentieth century literature and culture, digital humanities
Rodney Foster, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1998
Eighteenth-century music
Wayne Franits, Distinguished Professor, Art and Music Histories
Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1987
Baroque art, 17th-century Dutch painting
John M. Franck, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2008
Physical chemistry; analytical chemistry, Biophysical chemistry, Dynamics and unique hydration
Properties of biological and materials systems
Douglas A. Frank, Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1990
Plant and ecosystem ecology, emphasizing the effects of ungulates on grasslands
Walter Freeman, Teaching Assistant Professor, Physics
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2011
Lattice particle physics, educational research
Jason D. Fridley, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2002
Patterns of biodiversity, functional significance of biodiversity for ecological systems
Ken Frieden, B.G. Rudolph Professor
Ph.D., Yale University, 1984
Comparative literature, Hebrew and Yiddish fiction; European and American Judaic traditions; psychoanalysis and literary theory
Jannice Friedman, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2009
Plant evolutionary biology, ecological genetics, evolution of plant reproductive systems
Kim Frost, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2012
Philosophy of mind, philosophy of action
Sarah Fuchs Sampson, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2016
Nineteenth-and early twentieth- century opera, history of recorded sound, film music, fin-de-
siècle French musical culture, performance practices and printed media
André Gallois, Professor
B. Phil., University of Oxford, 1971
Epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, ethics
Myrna Garcia-Calderón, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1989
Caribbean literature
Alejandro García-Reidy, Assistant Professor
Ph.D, Universidad de Valencia, Spain, 2009
Early modern Spanish literature and culture
Anthony Garza, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Texas A and M University, 1995
Microbiology, gene expression in development
Les A. Gellis, Assistant Clinical Professor of Practice, Department of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Memphis, 2006
Cognitive and behavioral elements that contribute to stress, insomnia, and other sleep disorders. Currently he is testing and designing techniques to treat insomnia while understanding the causes and consequences of sleep problems.
Stefano Giannini, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2002
Italian
Casarae Gibson, Assistant Professor of African American Literature
Ph.D., Purdue University, 2015
African American Protest Movements and Civil Unrest between 1964-1992, The Black Arts Movement, themes of resistance in Black women’s writing in Jamaica and Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, and Hip Hop Studies
Hope Glidden , Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1976
French
Ann Grodzins Gold, The Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1984
Teaching and research on religion in South Asia, popular Hinduism, women’s expressive traditions, religions and environment, folklore, oral history
Paul Gold, Distinguished Professor of Biology
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1971
Aging, cell signaling and communication; learning, memory, and plasticity; neurological and psychiatric conditions
Mike Goode, Associate Professor, English
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2001
British Romantic and early Victorian literature and culture, gender studies
Michael Gordon, Adjunct Associate Professor
Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1977
Judith Gorovitz, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 1973
Samuel Gorovitz, Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1963
Ethics, public policy, decision making
Leonard Grant, Assistant Professor, Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition
Ph.D., Virginia Tech, 2017
Rhetorics of Health and Medicine, Rhetoric of Science, Technical and Professional Writing,
Veterans’ Issues
Jack E. Graver, Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1966
Combinatorics and graph theory
Biko M. Gray
Ph.D., Rice University, 2017
African-American religion, philosophy of religion and race, theories of religion and subjectivity
Duane T. Graysay, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2016
Mathematics Education, Mathematical Practices
Christopher Green, Assistant Professor, Linguistics
PhD, Linguistics, Indiana University, 2010
Prosodic phonology, the phonology-morphology interface, and field linguistics
David Greenberg, Adjunct Associate Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1966
Combinatorics and graph theory
Gerald R. Greenberg, Associate Professor, Associate Dean
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1985
Russian, Slavic linguistics
Roger P. Greenberg, Adjunct Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1968
Philip S. Griffin, Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1982
Probability.
Lin Guo, Assistant Teaching Professor
Ph.D., Second and Foreign Language Education,The Ohio State University, 2014
Lakhan Gusain, Assistant Teaching Professor
PhD, Linguistics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Erika Haber, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1993
Russian language and literatures
Rania Habib, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Florida, 2008
Languages, Literatures and Linguistics; Linguistics, Arabic, Middle Eastern Studies
F. Reed Hainsworth, Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1968
Physiological ecology and comparative physiology, emphasizing energetic relationships in small mammals and birds
Sarah Hall, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2004
Cellular memory of developmental history in C. elegans
Roger Hallas, Associate Professor, English
Ph.D., New York University, 2002
Film, documentary, visual culture, LGBT studies
Matthew Hammill, Assistant Teaching Professor
Ph.D., English with a concentration in Applied Linguistics, Arizona State University, 2014
M. Gail Hamner, Professor
Ph.D., Duke University, 1997
Pragmatism, critical theory, women’s studies, film, and popular culture
Chris Hanson, Assistant Professor, English
Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2010
Screen studies: new media, television, film, and game studies
John F. Harkulich, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Florida State University, 1979
Brooks Haxton, Professor, English
M.A., Syracuse University, 1981
Creative writing, poetry
Daniel W. Hayes, Assistant Professor
Mark Heller, Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1984
Metaphysics, epistemology
H. Ernest Hemphill, Associate Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1967
Microbiology, microbial genetics
James A. Hewett, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1991
Central nervous system, inflammation, arachidonic acid metabolism, therapeutics, gene expression, cell culture.
Sandra J. Hewett, Beverly Petterson Bishop Professor of Neuroscience
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1992
Mechanisms underlying cell death in the central nervous system: the interplay between excitotoxicity and inflammation
Margaret Himley, Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Chicago, 1983
Composition and critical pedagogy, curriculum design, LGBT studies and queer rhetoric, phenomenological theories of children and childhood
Joseph T. Himmelsbach, Adjunct Associate Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1972
Gregory D. Hoke, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University, 2006
Geomorphology, sedimentary geology, tectonics
Richard Holmes, Research Assistant Professor, Physics
Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1985
Elementary particles, experiment
Jeehee Hong, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2008
Art of China; Arts of East Asia
Peter D. Horn, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Rice University, 2009
Knot concordance and Heegaard Floer homology
James L. Hougland, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2005
Bioorganic chemistry; biochemistry; enzymology; substrate selection and molecular recognition in protein posttranslational modification
Rebecca Moore Howard, Professor, Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition
Ph.D., West Virginia University, 1984
Theory of authorship, print culture studies, stylistics, composition history, sociolinguistics, writing across the curriculum, composition pedagogy, writing program administration
Wu -Teh Hsiang, Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1977
Differential geometry and differential equations
Jay Hubisz, Associate Professor, Physics
Ph.D. Cornell University, 2006
Theoretical particle physics, cosmology
Bruce S. Hudson, Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1972
Molecular spectroscopy and biophysical chemistry; inelastic neutron scattering studies of molecular crystals, especially those with unusual hydrogen bonding and comparison with theory; biophysical applications of fluorescence
Marsha A. Hunt, Part-time Instructor
J.D., Syracuse University, 1987
Brian Hurley, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Japanese Literature, Film and Culture, University of California at Berkeley, 2014
Sydney Hutchinson, Associate Professor, Art and Music Histories
Ph.D. New York University, 2008
Ethnomusicology
Richard Ingersoll, Ph.D.
Ph.D., University of California; Berkeley
16th century Italian architecture and survey of Italian urbanism.
Linda C. Ivany, Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1997
Evolutionary paleoecology, paleontology, paleoclimatology, stable isotope paleobiology
Tadeusz Iwaniec, John Raymond French Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Syracuse University and FiDiPro (Finland Distinguished Professor) at the University of Helsinki.
Ph.D., University of Warsaw, 1975
Geometric Function Theory, Nonlinear Analyses and Partial Differential Equations with applications to Elasticity Theory and Material Sciences.
Mary M. Jackowski, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ph.D., State University of New York Health Science Center, 1979
Mary E. Jeannotte, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1993
Samuel Johnson, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2015
Modern and Contemporary European Art
Jean Jonassaint, Professor
Ph.D., Universite de Montreal (Canada), 1990
Francophone studies, Haitian novel
Harold Jones, Emeritus
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1968
Spanish golden age literature
Robin Jones, Lecturer in Neuroscience
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2012
Neuroscience; alternatives to traditional teaching approaches and utilization of active learning
Techniques to help students grasp scientific concepts
Randall S. Jorgenson, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1983
Health psychology, effects of personality coping, stress and heredity on cardiovascular reactivity
Christopher Junium, Assistant Professor, Earth Sciences
Ph.D., Penn State University, 2010
Paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, geobiology, and stable isotope and organic geochemistry
Tara Kahan, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2010
Physical chemistry, analytical chemistry, atmospheric and environmental chemistry, spectroscopy, developing a molecular-level understanding of physical and chemical processes occurring at environmental surfaces
Bette Kahler, Instructor
M.Mus., Syracuse University, 1971
Organ performance and instruction, music history and theory
Michael L Kalish, Professor, Department of Psychology
Ph.D. University of California at San Diego, 1993
Cognitive mechanisms responsible for the nature of human learning and memory, with a particular focus on categorization and dimensional attention.
James Kallmerten, Professor
Ph.D., Brown University, 1979
Organic chemistry, organic synthesis, emphasizing methods and strategies for the preparation of biologically active natural products and electro-optical materials
Mary Karr, Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of English Literature
M.F.A., Goddard College, 1980
Creative writing, poetry
Jeffrey A. Karson, Professor, Earth Sciences
Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany, 1977
Structural geology and tectonics
Tazim R. Kassam , Associate Professor
Ph.D., McGill University, 1993
History of religions, specializing in Islamic traditions and religions of South Asia
Christa A. Kelleher, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 2013
Hydrology/Hydrogeology
David Kellen, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Ph.D. Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, 2014
Mathematical cognitive psychology
Christopher Kennedy, Associate Professor, English
M.F.A., Syracuse University, 1988
Creative writing, poetry
Krista Kennedy, Assistant Professor, Writing Program
Ph.D. University of Minnesota Twin Cities, 2009
Digital Rhetorics, Intellectual Property and Authorship, Textual Materiality, Technical and Professional Communication
Eunjung Kim, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Chicago, 2007
Feminist disability studies; disability and the media; sexuality studies; and Korean cultural
history of disability, gender, and sexuality (20th century).
Hyune-Ju Kim, Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1988 Statistics
Youmie Kim, Assistant Teaching Professor
Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, Arizona State University, 2016
Claudia Klaver, Associate Professor, English
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1995
Nineteenth-century British literature and culture, feminist theory, women’s studies, gender studies, and imperialism
Mark Kleiner, Professor
Ph.D., Kiev (USSR) State University, 1972
Representations of finite dimensional algebras
Ivan V. Korendovych, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Tufts University, 2006
Bioinorganic chemistry, biophysics, inorganic chemistry, chemical biology
Jaklin Kornfilt, Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1984
Syntactic theory, typology, German syntax, Turkish and Turkic linguistics
Donna Korol, Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Virginia, 1991
Neural mechanisms of learning and memory across the lifespan
Timothy M. Korter, Professor, Department Chair
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2001
Laser spectroscopy and computational chemistry
Leonid Kovalev, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Washington University, 2005
geometric function theory
Thomas J. Krisher, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Psy.D., Hahnemann University, 1986
Robert Kuehnel, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Maine, 1988
Matthew LaHaye, Assistant Professor, Physics
Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park, 2005
Experimental condensed matter physics
John Laiho, Assistant Professor, Physics
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2004
Lattice QCD, Flavor Physics & CP Violation, Chiral Pertubation Theory, Lattice Gravity
Gregg Lambert, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California at Irvine, 1995
Comparative literature and theory
George M. Langford, Professor
Ph.D., Illinois Institute of Technology, 1971
Cell and molecular biology of the actin cytoskeleton, axonal transport in nerve cells
Larry J. Lantinga, Adjunct Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Nebraska, 1973
Loredana Lanzani, Professor
Ph.D. Purdue University; 1997
Harmonic analysis, PDEs and several complex variables
Laura K. Lautz, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2005
Hydrology, hydrogeology
Meera Lee, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., American Studies, Dankook University, 2005
Korean literature and films, Asian American literature and media. Postcolonial studies.
Graham J. Leuschke, Professor
Ph.D., University of Nebraska, 2000
Algebra, commutative algebra
Lawrence J. Lewandowski, Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1978
School psychology, exceptional children, neuropsychology
Katharine Lewis, Associate Professor, Biology
Ph.D. University College, London 1998
Sspecification and patterning of spinal cord interneurons, formation of functional neuronal circuitry, evolution of spinal cord patterning
and function, dorsal-ventral neural tube patterning, zebrafish development
John A. Lindberg Jr., Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1960
Banach algebras, Banach spaces
Carol Lipson, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1971
Rhetoric of ancient cultures before the Greeks, technical communication, science writing
Soren Lowell, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2005
Voice physiology, voice disorders, swallowing, neurolaryngology
Zunli Lu, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2008
Low temperature geochemistry and uses a variety of methods (trace elements, isotopes and models) to investigate crustal fluids, carbon cycle and global environmental changes.
Yan -Yeung Luk, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2001
Bio-organic, chemical biology, nanometerscale and biocompatible materials, biosurfaces
Adam Lutoborski, Professor
Ph.D., Polish Academy of Sciences, 1981
Numerical analysis, applied mathematics
Scott Lyons, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Miami University, 2000
Native American literature and rhetoric
Olga V. Makhlynets, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Tufts University, 2011
Metalloproteins, manganese homeostasis, protein design, antimicrobial hydrogels and catalytic fibrils
Erin S. Mackie, Professor, English
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1994
Restoration and 18th-Century British literature
Jessica MacDonald, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of British Columbia, 2008
Genetic and epigenetic mechanisms regulating neuronal development and function; gene-
environmental interactions and neurodevelopmental disorders
Diane Kunzelman Magini, Adjunct Restorer, Uffizi Gallery, Florence History and practice of art restoration
Christine Mahoney, Assistant Professor
Eleanor Maine, Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1984
Developmental genetics, cell-cell interactions
Stephen Maisto, Professor, Department of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1975
Etiology and treatment of alcohol and drug use disorders, treatment and process, outcome evaluation
M. Lisa Manning, Associate Professor, Physics
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008
Defects and deformation in disordered solids and glasses; Surface tension and emergent mechanical properties in developing embryonic tissues; Mitotic waves and pattern formation in biological tissues; Constitutive models for friction and shear banding
M. Cristina Marchetti, William R. Kenan Distinguished Professor of Physics
Ph.D., University of Florida, 1982
Condensed-matter theory
Brian K. Martens, Professor, Department of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1985
Applied behavior analysis and school consultation
Charles Martin, Visiting Professor
Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1987
Poetry
Aja Y. Martinez, Assistant Professor, Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2012
Rhetorics of Race and Racism, Histories of Rhetorics. Critical Race Theory
Joanna O. Masingila, Laura J. and L. Douglas Merdith Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1992
Teacher learning, Prospective Teacher Educator Learningeducation.
Matilde Mateo, Assistant Professor, Art and Music Histories
Ph.D., University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), 1994
Art and Architecture of Middle Ages, Medievalism
Vivian M. May, Professor
Ph.D., Emory University, 1997
Feminist epistemologies, African American and Third World feminist theories, decolonizing the imagination, critical pedagogy, literature and social change
Mathew M. Maye, Professor
Ph.D., SUNY Binghamton, 2005
Inorganic chemistry, materials science, nanoscience, biomimetics, self-assembly
Janis A. Mayes, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Brown University, 1975
Francophone, African, Caribbean, and African-American literatures, literary translation
Terry R. McConnell, Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1981
Probability, analysis
Kris McDaniel, Professor
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2004
Metaphysics, philosophy of religion, ethics
Moira A. McDermott, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1996
Commutative Algebra
Dennis J. McKillop, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1984
Alick McLean, Ph.D.
Ph.D., Princeton University School of Architecture
Italian Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance architecture and urban design.
Jeff Meyer, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1997
Number theory, special functions
Alan Middleton, Professor, Physics
Ph.D., Princeton, 1990
Condensed matter, theory; computational physics
Claudia Miller, Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997
Commutative algebra
Linda Milosky, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1986
Language development and disorders, discourse processing, pragmatics, cognition and language
Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Professor
Ph.D., Education, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1987
Transnational feminist theory, anti-racist pedagogy, post-colonial and third world studies, cultural studies and radical education
Jennifer Karas Montez, Assistant Professor, Sociology
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2011
Life course and aging, social demography, medical sociology
Patricia Moody, Associate Professor, English
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1972
English language histories and history of linguistics, Discourse analysis, particularly medieval, Reception of the medieval, and Critical pedagogy
Kevin Morrison, Assistant Professor, English
Ph.D., Rice University, 2009
Victorian literature and culture
Robert Moucha, Assistant Professor, Earth Sciences
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2003
Geodynamics, Geophysics and High Performance Computing
Raymond Mountain, Research Assistant Professor, Physics
Ph.D., Notre Dame, 1992
Elementary particles, experiment
Liviu Movileanu, Associate Professor, Physics
Ph.D., University of Bucharest, 1997
Biophysics
Micere Githae Mugo, Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor
Ph.D., University of New Brunswick (Canada), 1973
Orature, literature, creative writing, Pan-Africanist studies, education
Henry T. Mullins, Professor
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1978
Tropical carbonate platforms, oceanography, and the Lacustrine Record of Quaternary climate change in the Finger Lakes and Ireland
Jonathan Nelson, Ph.D.
Ph.D. in Art History, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Renaissance art history.
Leonard Newman, Associate Professor; Director, Graduate Training Program in Social Psychology
Ph.D., New York University, 1990
Social cognition, social stigma, attitudes, psychology of genocide
Cathryn R. Newton, Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, 1983
Paleobiology, paleoecology of mass extinctions, environmental stratigraphy
Christopher Noble
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2009
Ancient Philosophy
Brice Nordquist, Assistant Professor, Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition
Ph.D., University of Louisville, Louisville, 2014
Composition Theory and Pedagogy, Language Diversity, Global Rhetorics, Literacy Studies, Writing Across the Curriculum
Richard M. O’Neill, Adjunct Associate Professor
Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1983
Dana M. Olwan, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Queens College, 2009
Transnational Feminist Theories of Race, Gender, and Religion; Gendered and Sexual Violence and the Honor Crime; Representations of Arab and Muslim women; Indigenous and Feminist Solidarities.
Jani Onninen, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Jyvaskyla (Finland), 2002
Nonlinear analysis and geometric function theory
Hille Paakkunainen, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh 2011
Ethics, philosophy of action
Tibor Palfai, Professor, Department of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Waterloo, 1969
Psychopharmacology, effects of drugs on learning and memory
Aesoon Park, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
PH.D., University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006
Longitudinal person-environment interplay on alcohol misuse across emerging and young adulthood.
Stephen Parks, Associate Professor, Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1993
Rhetoric, composition, community literacy/publishing, language politics, cultural studies
Susan Parks, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2003
Behavioral ecology, acoustic communication, marine science, conservation biology
Joseph Paulsen, Assistant Professor, Physics
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2013
Surface-tension driven flows, memories in disordered materials, and elasticity and geometry of this sheets
Joseph Pellegrino, Clinical Assistant Professor
Au.D., University of Florida, 2004
Adult audiologic assessments and hearing aids
Melissa Pepling, Professor
Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1995
Mouse germ line development, oogenesis
Louise Wetherbee Phelps, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 1980
Rhetoric & composition/writing studies, including theory, method, and disciplinary histories; writing program design and administration; and graduate curriculum and pedagogy.
Scott Pitnick, Weeden Professor of Biology
Ph.D., Arizona State University, 1992
Microevolutionary processes and macroevolutionary relationships
Donald Planty, Professor
Britton Plourde, Professor, Physics
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2000
Condensed matter, experiment
Evgeny Poletsky, Professor
Ph.D., University of Moscow (Russia), 1973
Geometric theory of functions of real and complex variables
Gwendolyn D. Pough, Professor
Ph.D., Miami University, Ohio, 2000
African American rhetorical traditions, feminist rhetorics, popular culture, writing, rhetoric, composition, Black feminist theory, public sphere theory, popular culture
Jonathan Preston, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2008
speech sound disorders, persistent articulation difficulties, childhood apraxia of speech
Beth Prieve, Professor
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1989
Auditory physiology, the diagnosis of hearing loss
Declan Quinn, Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1985
Algebra, algebraic geometry, graph theory
Ramesh Raina, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Jawarharlal Nehru University (India), 1991
Molecular signaling mechanisms between plants and their pathogens
Surabhi Raina, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Banaras Hindu University, 1992
Plant molecular genetics, biotechnology
Romita Ray, Associate Professor, Art and Music Histories
Ph.D., Yale University, 1999
18th- and 20th-century European and British Empire art/architecture, Indian art and architecture
Kara Richardson, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2008
Medieval philosophy, early modern philosophy
Brian Rieger, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Fordham University, 1996
Michael Rieppel
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2013
Philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and metaphysics.
Ellyn Riley, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2011
Adult acquired neurogenic disorders, particularly aphasia, acquired alexia, and patient-related factors affecting treatment outcomes.
Robin Riley, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2000
Gender, war and militarism, transnational feminism, gender studies and queer theory, feminist international relations theory, feminist methodologies, popular culture, feminist theory, feminist pedagogy
Alicia Rios, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1992
Latin American literature and culture
Mark Ritchie, Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1987
Biodiversity, plant-herbivore interactions, conservation biology
William Ritchie, Emeritus
Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Michigan, 1969
Adult Second Language Acquisition
William A. Robert, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005
Continental philosophy of religion; Christianity; mysticism; gender; ethics.
Marcia C. Robinson, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Emory University, 2001
Christian thought, African American religion and art
Carl Rosenzweig, Professor, Physics
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1972
Elementary particle theory, relativistic quantum field theory, gauge theory, cosmology
Minghao Wu Rostami, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2012
Numerical linear algebra; computational fluid dynamics
Zaline M. Roy-Campbell, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Cultural and linguistic diversity, successful schools for African American students
Patricia Roylance, Associate Professor, English
Ph.D., Standford University, 2005
Early American literature and culture
Matthew Rudolph, Assistant Professor, Physics
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011
Experimental particle physics, searches for new physics with precision measurements at the Large Hadron Collider, and hardware and software development for high energy physics
Herbert Ruffin, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University, 2007
African American history, U.S. West history, urban history.
Karin Ruhlandt, Distinguished Professor, Dean
Dr.rer.nat., Philipps University, Marburg (Germany), 1991
Inorganic and organometallic chemistry, crystallography, synthesis and structural characterization of inorganic compounds and their application in synthetic, solid state, and polymer chemistry
Natalie Russo, Assistant Professor,Deparment of Psychology
Ph.D., McGill University, 2007
Autism Spectrum Disorders, ADHD, & sensory processing disorders.
Scott D. Samson, Professor
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1990
U-pb geochronology, chemical evolution of the crust-mantle system, evolution of neoproterozoic
circum-Atlantic erogens
Peter Saulson, Martin A. Pomerantz ‘37 Professor in Physics
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1981
Relativity, astrophysics experiment
George Saunders, Professor, English
M.F.A., Syracuse University, 1988
Creative writing, fiction
Douglas J. Scaturo, Adjunct Associate Professor
Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School, 1979
Will Scheibel, Assistant Professor, English
Ph.D., Indiana University, 2014
Film and media studies
Eileen E. Schell, Associate Professor, Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1993
Composition theory, 19th- and 20th-century rhetorical theory, women’s rhetoric, feminist theory
Eric A. Schiff, Professor, Physics
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1979
Amorphous and crystalline semiconductors: defects, transport and recombination
Christopher A. Scholz, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Duke University, 1989
Sequence stratigraphy, lacustrine and rift basin sedimentation and reflection seismology
Lael J. Schooler, Professor, Department of Psychology
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon, 1993
Investigates simple heuristics - decision strategies that use limited information to make effective decisions in an uncertain world - with computer simulations and behavioral experiments to help explain how people make decisions and how to improve these processes.
Jennifer Schwarz, Associate Professor, Physics
Ph.D., Harvard, 2002
Condensed matter theory
Sascha Scott, Associate Professor
Ph.D, Rutgers University, 2008
American art and Native American art
Tony Scott, Associate Professor, Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition
Ph.D., University of Louisville, 2002
Composition Theory, Political Economics of Writing, Writing Assessment, Writing Program Administration
Kari A. Segraves, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 2003
Plant-insect interactions, mutualism, coevolution, and phylogenetics
Stefano Selenu, Assistant Teaching Professor
Ph.D., Italian Studies, Brown University, 2010
Nathaniel Sharadin
Ph.D. , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2014
Ethics, epistemology, social and political philosophy, and aesthetics
Nathaniel Sharadin
Ph.D. , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2014
Ethics, epistemology, social and political philosophy, and aesthetics
Lixin Shen, Professor
Ph.D., Zhongshan University, 1996
Wavelets and image processing
Stephanie Shirilan, Assistant Professor, English
Ph.D., Brandeis University, 2009
Seventeenth-century literature and culture
Donald I. Siegel, Professor, Chair, Earth Sciences
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1981
Regional hydrogeology, wetland hydrogeology, groundwater geochemistry, Jazz guitarist, chef and raconteur
Robert Silver, Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1977
Cell division, macrophages, secretion of neurotransmitters without fusion (porocytosis),
mechanisms of parthenogenetic activation of eggs versus fertilization, energetic materials
Merril Silverstein, Marjorie Cantor Professor of Aging Studies, Sociology
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1990
Intergenerational relations, social support, caregiving policy, migration in later life, and international views on aging families
Tomasz Skwarnicki, Professor, Physics
Ph.D., Institute of Nuclear Physics, Krakow (Poland), 1986
Elementary particles, experiment
Bruce Smith, Professor, English
M.A., Bucknell University, 1971
Creative writing, poetry
David Sobel, Irwin and Marjorie Guttag Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1997
Ethics, political philosophy
Mitchell Soderberg, Associate Professor, Physics
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 2006
Elementary particles, experiment
Paul Souder, Professor, Physics
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1971
Medium energy experiments
James T. Spencer, Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor, Associate Dean, Founder, Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute (FNSSI)
Ph.D., Iowa State University, 1984
Inorganic and organometallic-main group cluster complexes, forensic science, solar energy conversion chemistry, formation of solid state materials, nanostructures and nonlinear optical materials
Dana Spiotta, Associate Professor, English
B.A., Evergreen State College, 1992
Creative writing, fiction
Michael B. Sponsler, Professor
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1987
Organic and organometallic chemistry, liquid crystalline holographic materials
Robert P. Sprafkin, Adjunct Professor Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1968
W. Thomas Starmer, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1972
Population genetics, evolutionary biology, ecological genetics
Scott Stevens, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1997
Visual culture, museum studies, Native American literature
Sanford Sternlicht, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1962
Drama, fiction
Sheldon Stone, Distinguished Professor, Physics
Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1972
Elementary particles, experiment
Kevin Sweder, Professor of Practice, Dir, Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute (FNSSI)
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Biochemistry, Biochemical methods in bioforensic and bioterrorism detection, DNA repair mechanisms, and genetic toxicology.
Melody Troeger Sweet, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1985
Physiology and molecular biology
Harvey A. Taub, Adjunct Professor
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 1963
Harvey Teres, Dean’s Professor for the Public Humanities in English
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1986
Twentieth-century American literature and culture, Marxist theory, American studies
Jay B. Thomas, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Virginia Tech, 2003
Petrology and geochemistry, experimental studies of mineral and rock formation
Laurence Thomas, Professor, Philosophy and Political Science
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1976
Ethical theory, social philosophy, the Holocaust
Maria Emma Ticio Quesada, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 2003
Languages, Literatures and Linguistics; Linguistics
John W. Tillotson, Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Iowa, 1996
Science teacher education, teachers’ beliefs and practices, rural education
Silvio Torres-Saillant, Professor, English
Ph.D., New York University, 1991
Caribbean, United States, Latino, and comparative literature
Nancy I. Totah, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Yale University; 1990
New methods for organic synthesis, asymmetric synthesis of natural products
Victoria Tumanova, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Iowa, 2010
Fluency, stuttering in young children
Joseph T. Tupper, Professor
Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany, 1970
Growth-factor regulation of cell proliferation
John Ucci, Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkely, 1964
Algebraic topology
Edwin I.S. Van Bibber-Orr, Assistant Professor of Chinese
Ph.D., Yale University, 2013
Chinese Language, Premodern Chinese Poetry, Chinese Song Lyric (Ci), Chinese Women Writers, Reception History, Translation Theory, Print Culture in Premodern China, Ming and Qing Fiction
Matthieu H. van der Meer, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Groningen, 2006
The history of Platonic literature in Antiquity and the Middle Ages with a special emphasis of the reception of Platonism by the philosopher Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464).
Robert Van Gulick, Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1976
Philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology
Peter A. Vanable, Professor and Interim Dean of the Graduate School, Interim Vice President of Research
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1997
Health psychology, HIV/AIDS prevention, substance use disorders
Kathy R. Vander Werff, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2002
Auditory evoked potentials, diagnostic audiology, and cochlear implants
Laura E. VanderDrift, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Ph.D., Purdue University
Inter- and intra-personal dynamics of close relationships; examining predictors of relationship outcomes, most notably dissolution behaviors and health outcomes, as well as the processes associated with these outcomes
Gregory Verchota, Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1982
Partial differential equations, analysis
Gianfranco Vidali, Professor, Physics
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1982
Surface physics: adsorption/desorption phenomena, two-dimensional matter, thin-film growth; lowtemperature physics
Andrew Vogel, Professor
Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1989
Partial differential equations
William Voltermann, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., McMaster University, 2011
Statistics
Elizabeth Voss, Assistant Teaching Professor
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2015
Karina von Tippelskirch, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Marburg University (Germany), 1997
German literature
Joanne P. Waghorne, Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1976
History of religions, South Asian religion, globalization
Ernest E. Wallwork, Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1971
Ethics, religion, the social sciences, and bioethics
Jianchun Wang, Research Assistant Professor, Physics
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of T echnology,1997
Elementary particles, experiment
Yi Wang, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2012
Applied and computational harmonic analysis (wavelets, digital image processing)
B.R. Ware, Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1972
Biophysical chemistry
Betsy B. Waterman, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1990
Mark E. Watkins, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Yale University, 1964
Combinatorics, algebraic graph theory
Scott Watson, Associate Professor, Physics
Ph.D. Brown University, 2005
Particle physics; cosmology theory
James W. Watts, Professor
Ph.D., Yale University, 1990
Hebrew Bible and ancient Near Eastern religious traditions
Laura Webb, Research Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1999
Structural geology, thermochronology, tectonics
Stephan Wehrli, Assistant Professor, Mathematics
Ph.D. University of Zurich, 2007
Topology
Roy Welch, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997
Biochemistry, molecular signaling mechanisms
Louise Wetherbee Phelps, Emeritus Professor
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 1980
Composition and rhetoric (theory, phenomenological description, criticism, pedagogy), writing program administration
Michele G. Wheatly, Professor of Biology, Vice Chancellor and Provost
Ph.D., Birmingham University, U.K., 1980
Comparative physiology, biocomplexity
Jason R. Wiles, Associate Professor
Ph.D., McGill University 2008; M.S.T ., Portland State University, 1996; M.S., Mississippi State University, 2007
Biology and science education, teaching and learning of biological evolution
Bruce H. Wilkinson, Research Professor, Earth Sciences
Ph.D, University of Texas, 1974
Sedimentary geology
Kheli R. Willetts, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2002
African American art history and museum studies
James G. Williams, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2013
African and African American musical traditions
Larry L. Wolf, Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1966
Ecology and social behavior, community and population ecology
Sarah Woolf-King, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2010
Health psychology, epidemiology, and behavioral medicine
William Wylie, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2006
Riemannian geometry, geometric flows, global geometric analysis.
Amy S. Wyngaard, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1998
French Literature
Yuesheng Xu, Emeritus
Ph.D., Old Dominion University, 1989
Applied mathematics
David Yaffe, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., City University of New York, 2003
Contemporary American studies, literature, music
Meina Yates-Richard, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Rice University, Houston, TX 2016
Twentieth/Twenty-First Century American Literature and Culture
Yuan Yuan, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Rutgers University, 2010
Analytic and geometric function theory in several complex variables and complex differential geometry.
Seungmin Yun, Assistant Teaching Professor
Ph.D., TESL/Applied Linguistics, Oklahoma State University, 2015
Dan Zacharia, Professor
Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1981
Algebra
Weiwei Zheng, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Florida State University, 2011
Inorganic chemistry, materials science, nanotechnology, assembly, green energy harvesting
Jon Zubieta, Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1971
Inorganic chemistry, coordination complexes, polyoxometalates, microporous materials, technetium-based radiopharmaceuticals
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