Below is a list of new tenured and tenure-track faculty who have joined the university since the previous list was published in Columns a year ago. It includes 11 new tenured and tenure-track faculty from the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, which became part of UGA in July. The list also includes some faculty scheduled to arrive in January.
This information was provided by the Office of Faculty Affairs, which acts as a liaison between the university and the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia on matters related to faculty appointment, promotion and tenure.
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Mark Abney, assistant professor, entomology; Ashfaq Ahmad, assistant professor, entomology; Joshua Berning, assistant professor, agricultural and applied economics; Tim Coolong, associate professor, horticulture; Xiangyu Deng, assistant professor, food science and technology; Jillian Fain, assistant professor, animal science; Brendan G. Hunt, assistant professor, entomology; Kay Kelsey, department head and professor, agricultural leadership, education and communication; Woo Kim, assistant professor, poultry science; Hongxiang Liu, assistant professor, animal and dairy science; Ali Mekki Missaoui, assistant professor, crop and soil sciences; José Reyes De Corcuera, associate professor, food science and technology; Jacob Segers, assistant professor, animal and dairy science; and Erick Smith, assistant professor, horticulture.
Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
Clark R. Alexander Jr., professor, marine sciences; Julie Allardice, assistant professor, theatre and film studies; Tessa Marie Andrews, assistant professor, genetics and biological sciences; Analisa Arroyo, assistant professor, communication studies; Fikri Avci, assistant professor, biochemistry and molecular biology; Jonathan Baillehache, assistant professor, Romance languages; Jennifer A. Birch, assistant professor, anthropology; Joshua Bousquette, assistant professor, Germanic and Slavic studies; Jay A. Brandes, professor, marine sciences; Benjamin Drury Britton, assistant professor, art; Clifton Buck, assistant professor, marine sciences; Jason Burnett, assistant professor, music; Malissa A. Clark, assistant professor, psychology; Constance Jennifer Crenshaw, assistant professor, art; Husseina Dinani, assistant professor, history; Diana M. Downs, professor, microbiology; Catherine R. Edwards, assistant professor, marine sciences; Simon Foucart, assistant professor, mathematics; Connie M. Frigo, assistant professor, music; Marc E. Frischer, professor, marine sciences; Jaclyn Hartenberger, assistant professor, music; Ryan Hili, assistant professor, chemistry; Takahiro Ito, assistant professor, biochemistry and molecular biology; James D. Lemons, assistant professor, religion; Ping Ma, associate professor, statistics; Rielle Navitski, assistant professor, theatre and film studies; Jens C. Nejstgaard, associate professor, marine sciences; James R. Nelson, associate professor, marine sciences; Elizabeth Ann Ottesen, assistant professor, microbiology; James G. Sanders, director of Skidaway Institute of Oceanography and professor, marine sciences; Dana Savidge, associate professor, marine sciences; William B. Savidge, assistant professor, marine sciences; Robert J. Schmitz, assistant professor, genetics; Sarah Shannon, assistant professor, sociology; Jiyeon So, assistant professor, communication studies; Alex Spektor, assistant professor, Germanic and Slavic studies; Aron Stubbins, associate professor, marine sciences; Jennifer Wang, assistant professor, philosophy; Wenxuan Zhong, associate professor, statistics; and Magdalena Zurawski, assistant professor, English.
Terry College of Business
Darren Keith Hayunga, assistant professor, insurance, legal studies and real estate; Caglar Irmak, assistant professor, marketing; Timothy James Quigley, assistant professor, management; Tim R. Samples, assistant professor, insurance, legal studies and real estate; Julio Cesar Sevilla, assistant professor, marketing; Bridget Marie Stomberg, assistant professor, accounting; Erin M. Towery, assistant professor, accounting; and Benjamin Curtis Whipple, assistant professor, accounting.
Odum School of Ecology
Scott James Connelly, assistant professor, and Seth Jonathan Wenger, assistant professor.
College of Education
Jennifer A. Brown, assistant professor, communication science and special education; Jaime Marie Diamond, assistant professor, mathematics and science education; George Engelhard, professor, educational psychology; Nathan T. Jenkins, assistant professor, kinesiology; Craig Hall Kennedy, dean and professor; Jennifer R. Ledford, assistant professor, communication science and special education; Rebecca Leopkey, assistant professor, kinesiology; Christina Linder, assistant professor, counseling and human development services; and Julianne D. Schmidt, assistant professor, kinesiology.
College of Engineering
Donald J. Leo, dean and UGA Foundation Professor in Engineering, and Clifton Brock Woodson, assistant professor, engineering.
College of Family and Consumer Sciences
Claire Barbier de La Serre, assistant professor, foods and nutrition; Geoffrey L. Brown, assistant professor, human development and family science; Caree Jackson Cotwright, assistant professor, foods and nutrition; Lilia Gomez-Lanier, assistant professor, textiles, merchandising and interiors; Assaf Oshri, assistant professor, human development and family science; Robert J.W. Pazdro, assistant professor, foods and nutrition; Kelly L. Pritchett, assistant professor, foods and nutrition; Ann Sanders Woodyard, assistant professor, housing and consumer economics; Sheri Lokken Worthy, department head and professor, housing and consumer economics; and Sarah E. Zenti, assistant professor, textiles, merchandising and interiors.
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Richard Chandler, assistant professor.
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
Michael A. Cacciatore, assistant professor, advertising and public relations; Shira Chess, assistant professor, telecommunications; Charles N. Davis, dean and professor; Nathaniel J. Evans, assistant professor, advertising and public relations; Jeffrey P. Jones, director of Peabody Awards, Lambdin Kay Chair for the Peabody Awards and professor, telecommunications; Glen Joseph Nowak, director of the Center for Health and Risk Communcation and professor, advertising and public relations; and Bartosz Wojdynski, assistant professor, journalism.
School of Law
Jason Alexis Cade, assistant professor; Nathan Seth Chapman, assistant professor; and Christina M. Mulligan, assistant professor.
College of Pharmacy
Houjian Cai, assistant professor, pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences; Henry N. Young, associate professor and Kroger Professor in Community Pharmacy, clinical and administrative pharmacy; and Yujun Zheng, associate professor, pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences.
School of Public and International Affairs
Christina Boyd, assistant professor, political science; Robert Greer, assistant professor, public administration and policy; Rongbin Han, assistant professor, international affairs; Stefanie Lindquist, dean and Arch Professor in Public and International Affairs; Michael Lynch, assistant professor, political science; and Rebecca A. Nesbit, assistant professor, public administration and policy.
College of Public Health
Amanda Abraham, assistant professor, health promotion and behavior; Amara E. Ezeamama, assistant professor, epidemiology and biostatistics; Nathan Hansen, department head and associate professor, health promotion and behavior; Curtis Andrew Harris, assistant professor, health policy and management; Katie Darby Hein, assistant professor, health promotion and behavior; Hanwen Huang, assistant professor, epidemiology and biostatistics; Koichiro Otani, associate professor, health policy and management; Candace Parker, assistant professor, health policy and management; and Anne Marie Zimeri, assistant professor, environmental health sciences.
School of Social Work
Mary E. Caplan, assistant professor, social work; Orion Mowbray, assistant professor, social work; Trina Salm Ward, assistant professor, social work and health promotion and behavior; and Tiffany Washington, assistant professor, social work.
Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost
Timothy Reece Cain, associate professor, Institute of Higher Education.
College of Veterinary Medicine
Michele Barletta, assistant professor, large animal medicine; Amanda Coleman, assistant professor, small animal medicine and surgery; Brenton Chadwick Credille, assistant professor, population health; Monique Silvade França, assistant professor, population health; and Allison C. Haley, assistant professor, small animal medicine and surgery.
