New Faculty 2013-2014
FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS
KRIS BELDEN-ADAMS
Assistant Professor of Art History
City University of New York Graduate Center, Ph.D.
Modern art and architecture, history of photography
ADAM ESTES
Assistant Professor of Music
University of South Carolina, D.M.A.
Woodwind instruction, including saxophone, bassoon and clarinet, and oboe
MICHAEL GARDINER
Assistant Professor of Music
New England Conservatory of Music, D.M.A.
Music theory and composition
THE HUMANITIES
JAMES BOS
Assistant Professor of Religion
University of Michigan, Ph.D.
Biblical studies and Judaism
LINDY BRADY
Assistant Professor of English
University of Connecticut, Ph.D.
Anglo-Saxon languages and cultures, and Middle English verse
ERIN DREW
Assistant Professor of English
Notre Dame University, Ph.D.
18th century British literature, poetics, nature writing, and ecocriticism
CHIYUMA ELLIOTT
Assistant Professor in English and African American Studies
University of Texas, Ph.D.
African American literature, the Harlem Renaissance/New Negro Movement, 20th century American literature, poetry and poetics, modernism, and American intellectual history
SHENNETTE GARRETT-SCOTT
Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies
University of Texas, Ph.D.
African American political and cultural history, African Diaspora, women and gender, U.S. South, and entrepreneurship and business
JONATHAN GIENAPP
Assistant Professor of History
Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D.
Early American history
STEVEN JUSTICE
Professor of English
Princeton University, Ph.D.
Medieval European literary and intellectual history
JAROD ROLL
Associate Professor of History
Northwestern University, Ph.D.
Labor and religion in the U.S. South
DAVE SMITH
Writer-in-Residence
Ohio University, Ph.D.
Contemporary poetry and free-verse poems that deal with history and regional identity, American literature, and modern literature
IAN WHITTINGTON
Assistant Professor of English
McGill University, Ph.D.
20th century British literature, Irish literature, post-colonial literature and theory, radio, and cinema
CAROLINE WIGGINTON
Assistant Professor of English
University of Texas, Ph.D.
Early American literature, transatlantic literature, Native American studies, women and gender studies, poetry and poetics, religion and culture, and African American literature
HENRIETTA YANG
Croft Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Co-Director of the Chinese Language Flagship Program
University of Texas, Ph.D.
Chinese linguistics and culture, language teacher education, and instructional technologyfree-verse poems that deal with history and regional identityfree-verse poems that deal with history and regional identity
MATHEMATICS, PHYSICAL, AND NATURAL SCIENCES
JARED DELCAMP
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Ph.D.
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, completed postdoctoral studies
Synthetic organic chemistry as related to dye-sensitized solar cells for solar energy conversion
MARTIAL LONGLA
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
University of Cincinnati, Ph.D.
Probability theory and statistics
SOCIAL SCIENCES
MARK CHEN
Chair and Professor of Public Policy Leadership
Northern Illinois University, Ph.D.
Public policy, international relations, and Chinese politics
SIMONE DELERME
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and McMullan Assistant Professor of Southern Studies
Rutgers, Ph.D. pending
Latin American and Caribbean migration, critical race theory, language identity, and inequality
CAROLYN FREIWALD
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
University of Wisconsin, Ph.D.
Mayan and Mesoamerican archaeology
BENJAMIN JONES
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Ohio State University, Ph.D.
International security, civil and regional conflict, military intervention, and political methodology
MARCOS MENDOZA
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
University of Chicago, Ph.D.
Latin American environmental, economic, and political anthropology
MAUREEN MEYERS
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
University of Kentucky, Ph.D.
Archaeology of the southeastern U.S.
DOUGLAS RICE
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D.
American politics, judicial politics, political institutions, public policy, and organized interests
YAEL ZEIRA
Croft Assistant Professor of Political Science
New York University, Ph.D.
Comparative politics, Middle East politics, intra-state conflict, and ethnic politics