40 faculty members promoted to professor and associate professor posts
Ella Dame
August 15, 2024
English Building
40 faculty members received promotions for this academic year. (Lincoln Hall photo.)

The College of LAS has announced 40 faculty promotions to take effect this fall. The promotions include 20 faculty members who were promoted from associate professor to professor; 18 who were promoted from assistant professor to associate professor; and two who were promoted to clinical associate professor and teaching associate professor.  

The promotions are as follows:  

 To the rank of professor  

Sayeepriyadarshini Anakk, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology 

Eric Calderwood, Department of Comparative and World Literature 

Tamara Chaplin, Department of History 

David Cooper, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures 

Ying Diao, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering 

Trish Gregg, Department of Earth Science & Environmental Change

Marc Hertzman, Department of History 

Carla Hunter, Department of Political Science 

Auinash Kalsotra, Department of Biochemistry 

Ji Hyung Lee, Department of Economics 

Mimi Nguyen, Department of Gender & Women’s Studies 

Anke Pinkert, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures 

Lori Raetzman, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology 

Gilberto Rosas, Department of Anthropology and Department of Latina/Latino Studies

Charles Sing, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 

Gisela Sin, Department of Political Science 

Ryan Sriver, Department of Climate, Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences   

Rebecca Thornton, Department of Economics 

Shelley Weinberg, Department of Philosophy 

Cara Wong, Department of Political Science  

 

To the rank of associate professor  

Daniel Berwick-Evans, Department of Mathematics 

Mark Borgschulte, Department of Economics 

Jochen Bojanowski, Department of Philosophy 

Jessica Brinkworth, Department of Anthropology 

Sabyasachi Chatterjee, Department of Statistics 

Jennifer Delfino, Department of Anthropology 

Chunyuan Diao, Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science 

Adam Dolezal, Department of Entomology 

Deanna Hence, Department of Climate, Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences 

Jamie Jones, Department of English   

Paola Mera, Department of Microbiology 

Gautham Narayan, Department of Astronomy 

Noel Saenz, Department of Philosophy 

Krystal Smalls, Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics 

Bobby J. Smith II, Department of African American Studies  

Myoung-Sun Song, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures 

Xiao Su, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering 

Emily Van Duyn, Department of Communication

 

To the rank of teaching professor  

Mardia Bishop, Department of Communication 

 

To the rank of clinical associate professor  

Korinta Maldonado, Departments of Anthropology and American Indian Studies  

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