April 12, 2018

53 faculty members earn promotion, tenure

The SIU Board of Trustees today approved promotions in academic rank and tenure for 53 faculty members effective with the 2018-19 academic year. They are:

College of Agricultural Sciences

  • Ruplal Choudhary, professor, Plant, Soil, and Agricultural Systems
  • Ahmad Fakhoury, professor, Plant, Soil, and Agricultural Systems
  • Matthew Rendleman, professor, Agribusiness Economics

College of Applied Sciences and Arts

  • Rolando Gonzalez-Torres, tenured associate professor, Architecture

College of Business

  • Nwamaka Anaza, tenured associate professor, Marketing
  • Min Carter, tenured associate professor, Management
  • Ye Dai, tenured associate professor, Management

College of Education and Human Services

  • Patrick Dilley, professor, Educational Administration and Higher Education
  • Saran Donahoo, professor, Educational Administration and Higher Education
  • Sosanya Jones, tenured associate professor, Educational Administration and Higher Education
  • Jane Nichols, tenured associate professor, Rehabilitation Institute
  • Julie Partridge, professor, Kinesiology
  • Jared Porter, professor, Kinesiology
  • Cynthia Sims, professor, Workforce Education and Development

College of Engineering

  • Jun Qin, tenured associate professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

College of Liberal Arts

  • Kristen Barber, tenured associate professor, Sociology
  • Getahun Benti, professor, History
  • Susan Davenport, professor, Music
  • Chad Drake, tenured associate professor, Psychology
  • Julie Anne Hibdon, tenured associate professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice
  • Allison Joseph, professor, English
  • Jiyong Lee, professor, Art and Design
  • Christopher Morehouse, professor, Music
  • AKM Mahbub Morshed, professor, Economics
  • Breanne Rae Pleggenkuhle, tenured associate professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice
  • La Shonda Stewart, professor, Political Science
  • Rebecca Walker, tenured associate professor, Communication Studies
  • Natasha Zaretsky, professor, History

Library Affairs

  • Matthew Gorzalski, tenured associate professor, Library Affairs
  • Joshua Vossler, tenured associate professor, Library Affairs

College of Mass Communication and Media Arts

  • Dong Han, tenured associate professor, Journalism

College of Science

  • Justin Boyles, tenured associate professor, Zoology
  • Derek Fisher, tenured associate professor, Microbiology
  • Thushari Jayasekera, tenured associate professor, Physics
  • Gregory Whitledge, professor, Zoology
  • Jianhong Xu, professor, Mathematics

School of Law

  • George Mocsary, tenured associate professor, Law

School of Medicine

  • Devin Amin, associate professor of clinical surgery, Surgery/Neurosurgery
  • Careyana Brenhan, professor of clinical family and community medicine, Family and Community Medicine
  • Xiang Cai, tenured associate professor, Physiology
  • Brandon Cox, tenured associate professor, Physiology
  • Edgard Cumpa, associate professor of clinical internal medicine, Internal Medicine/General
  • Anthony Huang, tenured associate professor, Anatomy
  • Paula Mackrides, professor of family and community medicine, Family and Community Medicine
  • Venkata Majiiga, associate professor of clinical pediatrics, Pediatrics/Neonatology
  • Ramzi Nicolas, professor of clinical pediatrics, Pediatrics/Cardiology
  • Sohail Siddique, associate professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology, Obstetrics and Gynecology/Urogynecology
  • Tracey Smith, research associate professor, Family and Community Medicine
  • Elizabeth Ramsey Unal, clinical associate professor, Medical Education/MFM
  • Laura Vargas, associate professor of clinical pediatrics, Pediatrics/Neonatology
  • Andrew Yochum, associate professor of family and community medicine, Family and Community Medicine
  • Rong Yuan, tenured associate professor, Internal Medicine/Geriatrics
  • Yahia Zeino, associate professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology, Obstetrics and Gynecology/General