May 08, 2014

53 faculty earn promotion, tenure

The SIU Board of Trustees, meeting today, Thursday, May 8, approved promotions in academic rank and tenure for 53 faculty members effective with the 2014-15 academic year. They are: 

College of Agricultural Sciences 

  • Amer AbuGhazaleh, professor, Animal Science, Food and Nutrition
  • Jason P. Bond, professor, Plant, Soil, and Agricultural Systems
  • Eduardo L. Gastal, tenured associate professor, Animal Science, Food and Nutrition
  • Clayton K. Nielsen, professor, Forestry
  • Silvia Secchi, tenured associate professor, Agribusiness Economics 

College of Applied Sciences and Arts 

  • Matthew W. Harrison, tenured associate professor, Aviation Technologies
  • Thomas R. Imboden, tenured associate professor, Information Systems and Applied Technologies
  • Timothy F. Janello, tenured associate professor, Automotive Technology
  • John T. Legier, tenured associate professor, Information Systems and Applied Technologies
  • Karen J. Sullivan, tenured associate professor, Aviation Technologies
  • Omar C. Trinidad, tenured associate professor, Automotive Technology 

College of Business 

  • Wanli Zhao, tenured associate professor, Finance 

College of Education and Human Services 

  • Peter J. Fadde, professor, Curriculum and Instruction
  • Maria Claudia Franca, tenured associate professor, Rehabilitation Institute
  • Christina C. McIntyre, tenured associate professor, Curriculum and Instruction
  • Jared Porter, tenured associate professor, Kinesiology
  • Joel E. Ringdahl, tenured associate professor, Rehabilitation Institute 

College of Engineering 

  • Garth V. Crosby, tenured associate professor, Technology 

College of Liberal Arts 

  • Nilanjana Bardhan, professor, Communication Studies
  • K.K. Collins, professor, English
  • Gretchen Dabbs, tenured associate professor, Anthropology
  • Rachel A. Griffin, tenured associate professor, Communication Studies
  • Yuko Kato, tenured associate professor, Music
  • Sun Kyoung Kim, tenured associate professor, Art and Design
  • Tammy Kochel, tenured associate professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice
  • Meera Komarraju, professor, Psychology
  • Robert A. Lopez, tenured associate professor, Art and Design
  • LaShonda M. Stewart, tenured associate professor, Political Science
  • Chris Wienke, tenured associate professor, Sociology 

College of Mass Communications and Media Arts 

  • Mark J. Dolan, tenured associate professor, Journalism
  • Uche Onyebadi, tenured associate professor, Journalism
  • Hong Zhou, tenured associate professor, Cinema and Photography 

College of Science 

  • Sara Baer, professor, Plant Biology
  • Dubravka Ban, professor, Mathematics
  • Boyd Goodson, professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
  • Matthew McCarroll, professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
  • John McSorley, professor, Mathematics
  • David Olive, professor, Mathematics 

Library Affairs 

  • Amber Loos, tenured associate professor, Library Affairs 

School of Law 

  • Lucian Dervan, tenured associate professor, Law

School of Medicine

  • Dr. Robert Abrams, associate professor, Clinical Obstetrics, Gynecology Obstetrics, Gynecology
  • Dr. Sajida Ahad, tenured associate professor, Surgery
  • Joe Cheatwood, tenured associate professor, Anatomy
  • Dr. Katherine Hild-Mosley, associate professor, Clinical Obstetrics, Gynecology Obstetrics, Gynecology
  • Dr. Chad Huston, associate professor, Clinical Obstetrics, Gynecology Obstetrics, Gynecology
  • Farid Kadyrov, tenured associate professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Dr. Ricardo Loret de Mola, professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology
  • Daotai Nie, professor, Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology
  • Chad Noggle, associate professor, Clinical Psychiatry, Psychiatry
  • Sophia Ran, professor, Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology
  • Dr. Robert Robinson, associate professor, Clinical Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine
  • Dr. Omar Vargas, associate professor, Clinical Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine
  • Dr. Christina Vassileva, tenured associate professor, Surgery