Below is a list of new tenured and tenure-track faculty who have joined the university since the previous in Columns one year ago. This information was provided by the Office of Faculty Affairs, which acts as a liasion between the university and the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia on matters related to faculty appointments, promotion and tenure.
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Abigail Borron, assistant professor, agricultural leadership, education and communication; Brady E. Brewer, assistant professor, agricultural and applied economics; Bhabesh Dutta, assistant professor, plant pathology; Justin Fowler, assistant professor, poultry science; Gary L. Hawkins, assistant professor, crop and soil sciences; Jessica Holt, assistant professor, agricultural leadership, education and communication; Brian H. Kvitko III, assistant professor, plant pathology; Mohamed Mergoum, professor, crop and soil sciences; Luke J. Mortensen, assistant professor, animal and dairy science; Milton G. Newberry III, assistant professor, agricultural leadership, education and communication; Chad Paton, assistant professor, food science and technology; Amber H. Rice, assistant professor, agricultural leadership, education and communication; Jason Schmidt, assistant professor, entomology; Harshavardha Thippareddi, professor, poultry science; Esther Vanderknaap, professor, horticulture; Jason Wallace, assistant professor, crop and soil sciences; and Chen Zhen, associate professor, agricultural and applied economics.
Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
Jill T. Anderson, assistant professor, genetics; John Patrick Bray, assistant professor, theatre and film studies; Thelma L. Sanders Bustle, associate professor, art; Amma Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin, assistant professor, theatre and film studies; Jesse B. Jones, assistant professor, music; Peter V. Lane, assistant professor, music; Shannon Quinn, assistant professor, computer science; Joel E. Ringdahl, assistant professor, psychology; Marni Beth Shindelman, assistant professor, art; Alberto Villate Isaza, assistant professor, Romance languages; Christopher Mark West, professor, biochemistry and molecular biology; and Michael White, assistant professor, genetics.
Terry College of Business
Theodore E. Christensen, professor, accounting; Daniel L. Gamache, assistant professor, management; John E. Hund, assistant professor, finance; Joshua L. Kinsler, assistant professor, economics; Rong Luo, assistant professor, economics; Svetlana Pashchenko, assistant professor, economics; Robert V. Pohl, assistant professor, economics; Thomas Quan, assistant professor, economics; and Hani Safadi, assistant professor, management information systems.
Odum School of Ecology
Krista Capps, assistant professor, and Pejman Rohani, professor.
College of Education
Kevin J. Burke, assistant professor, language and literacy education; Daniel K. Capps, assistant professor, mathematics and science education; Rahul Shrivastav, professor, communication science and special education; Richard O. Welsh, assistant professor, lifelong education, administration and policy; Kara L. Wunderlich, assistant professor, communication science and special education; and Sami R. Yli-Piipari, assistant professor, kinesiology.
College of Engineering
Bora Cetin, assistant professor, Cheryl Gomillion, assistant professor, Hitesh Handa, assistant professor, and Leonid Ionov, assistant professor.
College of Environment and Design
Brian A. Orland, professor.
College of Family and Consumer Sciences
Alison Clune Berg, assistant professor, food and nutrition; Jamie A. Cooper, associate professor, food and nutrition; Laura Ellen McAndrews, assistant professor, textiles, merchandising and interiors; Laura Gale McKee, assistant professor, human development and family science; and Hea Jin Park, assistant professor, food and nutrition.
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Delia Abbas Saleh, assistant professor, James Alan Martin, assistant professor, and Cristian Montes, associate professor.
College of Public Health
Jose Cordero, professor, epidemiology and biostatistics.
School of Public and International Affairs
Gene Arnold Brewer, associate professor, public administration and policy; Hanna Kleider, assistant professor, international affairs; and Tyler Scott, assistant professor, public administration and policy.
School of Social Work
Llewellyn Cornelius, professor, Jane E. McPherson, assistant professor, and Michael A. Robinson, assistant professor.
College of Veterinary Medicine
Frane Banovic, assistant professor, small animal medicine and surgery; Melinda Brindley, assistant professor, infectious disease; Krzysztof Czaja, associate professor, vet biosciences and diagnostic imaging; Kathryn A. Diehl, assistant professor, small animal medicine and surgery; Ian K. Hawkins, assistant professor, Tifton Diagnostic Lab; Jae Kyung Lee, assistant professor, physiology and pharmacology; Puliyur S. Mohankumar, professor, vet biosciences and diagnostic imaging; Sheba Mohankumar, associate professor, vet biosciences and diagnostic imaging; Courtney Murdock, assistant professor, infectious disease; Daniel R. Perez, professor, population health; Ted M. Ross, professor, infectious disease; Michael S. Trent, professor, infectious disease; and Rebecca P. Wilkes, assistant professor, Tifton Diagnostic Lab.
Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost
Suzanne E. Barbour, professor and dean, Graduate School; Julia M. Diaz, assistant professor, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography; and Elizabeth Harvey, assistant professor, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography.
Office of the Vice President for Research
Douglas P. Aubrey, assistant professor, Savannah River Ecology Lab; James Corbett Beasley, assistant professor, Savannah River Ecology Lab; Arthur Edison, professor, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center; Robert S. Haltiwanger, professor, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center; and Christine Szymanski, professor, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center.
Source: Faculty Information Data Base, Sept. 14, 2015-OIR
