Faculty receive promotion and tenure
During the Feb. 20 meeting, Miami University’s board of trustees approved recommendations for promotion and tenure effective July 1, 2015.
For Promotion to Professor:
Maria Alvarez, Spanish and Portuguese
Kevin Bush, family studies and social work
Chi Hao Cheng, electrical and computer engineering
Brian Domino, philosophy
Timothy Eaton, accountancy
Michael Edwards, teacher education
Tracy Featherstone, art
Paula Gandara, Spanish and Portuguese
Venelin Ganev, political science
Charlotte Newman Goldy, history
Paul Harding, biology
Brian Keane, biology
Chun Liang, biology
Susan Marine, chemistry and biochemistry
Thomas Misco , teacher education
Zafer Ozdemir, information systems and analytics
Ivonne Ortiz Parsons, mathematics
T.M. Rajkumar, information systems and analytics
Jason Rech, geology and environmental earth science
Marguerite Shaffer, history and American studies
Liang Shi, German, Russian, Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Brett Smith, marketing
Melissa Thomasson, economics
Zara Torlone, classics
Rose Marie Ward, kinesiology and health
Leah Wasburn-Moses, educational psychology
Roscoe Wilson, art
Raymond Witte, educational psychology
Ellen Yezierski, chemistry and biochemistry
For Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor:
Fauzia Ahmed, sociology and gerontology
Elena Albarran, history
Jose Amador, Latin American, Latino/a and Caribbean studies
Helen Armstrong, art
Andrew Casper, art
H. Louise Davis, American studies
Kate de Medeiros, sociology and gerontology
Michael Evans, educational leadership, teacher education and family studies and social work
D.J. Ferguson, microbiology
Nishani Frazier, history
Iddo Friedberg, microbiology
Peter Jamieson, electrical and computer engineering
Jeremy Long, music
Lewis Magruder, theatre
Amity Noltemeyer, educational psychology
Rod Northcutt, art
Roxanne Ornelas, geography
Stephen Quaye, educational leadership
Jennifer Quinn, psychology
Mary Rogero, architecture and interior design
Tatiana Seijas, history
Haifei Shi, biology
Stephen Siff, media, journalism and film
Susan Spellman, history
Geralyn Timler, speech pathology and audiology
Yoshinori Tomoyasu, biology
Virginia Wickline, psychology
Jing Zhang, statistics
For Tenure:
Amy Yousefi, associate professor of chemical, paper and biomedical engineering
For Promotion to Associate Librarian and Continuing Contract:
Elizabeth "Eli" Sullivan, B.E.S.T. library