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M AT H E M AT I C S , PHYSICAL, AND NAT U R A L S C I E NC E S JEREMY CLARK Assistant Professor of Mathematics University of California, Davis, PhD Probability theory, mathematical physics

KATHERINE DOOLEY Assistant Professor of Physics University of Florida, PhD Gravitational wave detection

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THÁI HOÀNG LÊ Assistant Professor of Mathematics University of California, Los Angeles, PhD Analytic number theory, combinatorics

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TONY BOUDREAUX Associate Professor of Anthropology Director of the Center for Archaeological Research

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University of North CarolinaChapel Hill, PhD Native American societies of the Southeastern US

JULIE WRONSKI Assistant Professor of Political Science Stony Brook University, PhD American politics

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LEE M. COHEN Dean of the College of Liberal Arts Professor of Psychology Dr. Cohen earned his PhD in Clinical Psychology from Oklahoma State University. Prior to joining the UM College of Liberal Arts, he served as professor and chair of the Department of Psychological Sciences at Texas Tech University. He was also the Director of Clinical Training in that department. His current research includes the behavioral, cognitive, and physiological mechanisms that contribute to nicotine use, withdrawal, and dependence.

FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS SELIM GIRAY Assistant Professor of Music Orchestra Director Florida State University, DM Musicology

TYLER LINDSEY Assistant Professor of Art and Art History University of Memphis, MFA Graphic design

THOMAS PEATTIE Assistant Professor of Music Harvard University, PhD Music history, literature

MATTHEW WILSON Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts University of Maryland, College Park, PhD Acting, directing

HUMANITIES MATTHEW BONDURANT Assistant Professor of English

REBECCA MARCHIEL Assistant Professor of History

Florida State University, PhD Creative writing (fiction), screen writing

Northwestern University, PhD American political history

CRISTINA DELANO

PAUL POLGAR

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Assistant Professor of History

Emory University, PhD 19th-century Spanish literature and culture

City University of New York, PhD American slavery

LUCA D’ANNA

VANCE SCHAEFER

Assistant Professor of Arabic

Assistant Professor of TESL

University of Naples “L’Orientale,” PhD Maghrebi Arabic dialects, Arabic sociolinguistics

Indiana University, PhD L2 phonology, pronunciation pedagogy, sociophonetics

ROBERT FRIEDLANDER

SARA WELLMAN

Assistant Professor of English

Assistant Professor of French

University of Michigan, PhD Shakespeare and Renaissance literature

University of Minnesota, PhD French literature, pastoral and ecocritical literature

AMY FANG-YEN HSIEH

ZHINI ZENG

Assistant Professor of Chinese Cambridge University, PhD Syntax, second language acquisition, psycholinguistics

COURTNEY KNEUPPER Assistant Professor of History Northwestern University, PhD Late Middle Ages

Assistant Professor of Chinese Ohio State University, PhD Chinese-language pedagogy, cross-cultural communication