New Faculty Brochure 2012

SOCIAL SCIENCES THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI

MATT DiGIUSEPPE

NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Assistant Professor of Economics

Binghamton University, Ph.D. International relations and political economy

Carnegie Mellon University, Ph.D. Microeconomics, labor economics, and urban economics

CONOR DOWLING

DANIELLE MAACK

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Binghamton University, Ph.D. American electoral politics, public opinion, and political psychology

University of Wyoming, Ph.D. Clinical psychology

TOM GARRETT

STEPHANIE MILLER

Associate Professor of Economics West Virginia University, Ph.D. Public economics, state and local public finance, and applied microeconomics

CARL KITCHENS Assistant Professor of Economics University of Arizona, Ph.D. Economic history

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Assistant Professor of Psychology University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Ph.D. Developmental psychology

ALBERT NYLANDER Director of the McLean Institute for Partnerships and Community Engagement Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Mississippi State University, Ph.D. Sociology of community leadership and sociology of education

HEATHER ONDERCIN Assistant Professor of Political Science

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Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D. American politics and gender studies

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FA C U LT Y

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MAT HEMATICS , P HYS ICA L A ND NATURA L S CIENCES

THE HUMANITIES MIKAELA ADAMS

MARIA FIONDA

DANIEL STOUT

Assistant Professor of History

Assistant Professor of Modern Languages

Assistant Professor of English

University of Georgia, Ph.D. Microbiology

University of North Carolina, Ph.D. Native American history

University of Florida, Ph.D. Hispanic linguistics

Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D. 19th century British literature

SASHA KOCIC

PATRICK ALEXANDER

DARREN GREM

ANTOINETTE SUTTO

Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies

Assistant Professor of History and Southern Studies

Assistant Professor of History

Duke University, Ph.D. African American and 19th century American literature

University of Georgia, Ph.D. 20th century U.S. history and Southern Studies

HEATHER ALLEN

DERRICK HARRIELL

Assistant Professor of Modern Languages

Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies

PATRICK CURTIS Assistant Professor of Biology

Assistant Professor of Mathematics University of Texas, Ph.D. Dynamical systems

HAILIN SANG Assistant Professor of Mathematics University of Connecticut, Ph.D. Statistics

University of Chicago, Ph.D. Nahuatl, colonial Spanish literature, and transatlantic studies

MAGALĂ? ARMILLAS-TISEYRA

F I NE AN D P E R FO RMING ARTS MICAH EVERETT Assistant Professor of Music University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Ph.D. Trombone and other brass instruments

AMANDA WANSA MORGAN Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts University of Central Florida, M.F.A. Acting and music/musical theatre

University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Ph.D. Poetry and African American literature

VALENTINA IEPURI

Princeton University, Ph.D. North American history from 1590 to 1750

DONOVAN WISHON Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion Stanford University, Ph.D. Philosophy of the mind, history of analytic philosophy, and the philosophy of language

Assistant Professor of English

Assistant Professor of Modern Languages

MEI YANG

New York University, Ph.D. African and Latin American literatures, post-colonial, cultural, and critical theory

Minsk State Linguistic University, Ph.D. Linguistics and Russian language

Assistant Professor of Modern Languages

HILARY BECKER Assistant Professor of Classics University of North Carolina, Ph.D. Etruscan, Roman, and Greek art and archaeology

JESSE CROMWELL Assistant Professor of History University of Texas, Ph.D. Colonial Latin American history

FEI LAN Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion University of Toronto, Ph.D. Chinese religion and religious ethics

University of Oregon, Ph.D. Modern Chinese literature, cinema and culture studies

TIMOTHY YENTER Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion Yale University, Ph.D. History of early modern philosophy