University Welcomes 90 New Full-time Faculty for 2017-18

New faculty are welcomed at a breakfast event.

Syracuse University has hired 90 new full-time faculty members for 2017-18. The additions include tenure and tenure-track professors as well as non-tenure-track faculty including teaching professors and professors of practice.

“Our newest faculty colleagues are talented and accomplished scholars and teachers, and we are very excited that they chose to make Syracuse University their academic home,” says Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs LaVonda N. Reed. “I look forward to their continued success in their own schools, colleges and departments and to their collaborative work across disciplinary lines.”

The new class includes 48 female and 42 male faculty. Slightly more than one-quarter of the total identified as other than white, including 19 Asian, 3 African American, and 1 American Indian/Alaska native.

The total number of hires represents a slight increase over last year, which saw the addition of 86 new full-time faculty. While most of the new faculty hires fill existing vacancies, several others represent new additions, Reed says. Faculty ranks will continue to grow as the University moves forward with its new initiative, Invest Syracuse, which, among other strategies to advance academic goals, calls for the addition of 100 new faculty. Reed said this fall’s cohort does not count toward that goal.

Following is a full roster of those full-time faculty hires for the 2017-18 academic year, (six faculty started in spring 2017 and are included in this group):

College of Arts and Sciences

• Samuel Johnson, assistant professor, art and music histories
• Katie Becklin, assistant professor, biology
• Ruth Phillips, assistant teaching professor, biology
• Zhanjiang (John) Liu, vice president of research/professor
• Jonathan French, assistant teaching professor, chemistry
• Olga Makhlynets, assistant professor, chemistry
• Jessica Posner, faculty fellow, curriculum, instruction and programs
• Christopher Eng, assistant professor, English
• Kaitlyn Greenidge, visiting assistant teaching professor, English
• Elizabeth Juarez-Cummings, assistant teaching professor, languages, literatures and linguistics
• Nicole Wallenbrock, visiting assistant teaching professor, languages, literatures and linguistics
• Amy Potrzeba Macrina, assistant teaching professor, mathematics
• Nicole Fonger, assistant professor, mathematics
• Denver Whittington, assistant professor, physics
• Sara Burke, assistant professor, psychology
• Brittany Jakubiak, assistant professor, psychology
• Shannon Sweeney, assistant teaching professor, psychology
• Biko Gray, assistant professor, religion
• Jayati Lal, visiting associate teaching professor, women’s and gender studies
• Rusty Bartels, assistant teaching professor, writing studies, rhetoric and composition
• Lenny Grant, assistant professor, writing studies, rhetoric and composition
• Katherine Hanzalik, assistant teaching professor, writing studies, rhetoric and composition
• Stephanie Don Chiemi Parker, assistant teaching professor, writing studies, rhetoric and composition

School of Architecture

• Mitesh Dixit, assistant professor, architecture
• Marcos Parga, assistant professor, architecture
• Linda Zhang, faculty fellow, architecture

College of Engineering and Computer Science

• Xiyuan Liu, assistant teaching professor, biomedical and chemical engineering/mechanical and aerospace engineering
• Fehime Nihan Cicekli, teaching professor, electrical engineering and computer science
• Ilyas Cicekli, teaching professor, electrical engineering and computer science
• Mehmet Kaya, assistant teaching professor, electrical engineering and computer science
• Patrick McSweeney, assistant teaching professor, electrical engineering and computer science

School of Education

• Sherrie Bruner, visiting assistant teaching professor, counseling and human services
• Caroline O’Hara, assistant professor, counseling and human services
• George Vera, visiting assistant teaching professor, counseling and human services
• Susan Thomas, assistant professor, cultural foundations of education
• Ashley Stone, visiting assistant teaching professor, higher education
• Leela George, assistant teaching professor, teaching and leadership
• Charlotte Sharpe, assistant professor, teaching and leadership

David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics

• Dayeon Shin, assistant professor, public health, food studies and nutrition

School of Information Studies

• Radhika Garg, assistant professor, information studies
• Ingrid Erikson, assistant professor, information studies

College of Law

• Laurie Hobart, assistant teaching professor, law
• Erik Teifke, professor of practice, law
• Janet Fleckenstein, associate teaching professor, law/director of law library

Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

• Yulong Wang, assistant professor, economics
• Timur Hammond, assistant professor, geography
• Brian Brege, assistant professor, history
• Emily Thorson, assistant professor, political science
• Simon Weschle, assistant professor, political science
• Steven White, assistant professor, political science
• Dana Balter, visiting assistant teaching professor, public administration and international affairs
• Colleen Heflin, professor, public administration and international affairs
• Masood Hyder, professor of practice, public administration and international affairs
• Saba Siddiki, assistant professor, public administration and international affairs
• Matthew Young, assistant professor, public administration and international affairs
• Scott Landes, assistant professor, sociology
• Shannon Monnat, associate professor, sociology
• Terrell Winder, assistant professor, sociology

Martin J. Whitman School of Management

• Eugene (Gene) Anderson, dean/professor
• David Park, assistant professor, entrepreneurship
• Fatma Sonmez-Leopold, assistant teaching professor, finance
• Joel Carnevale, assistant professor, management
• Cameron Miller, assistant professor, management
• Rong Li, assistant professor, marketing
• Guiyang Xiong, assistant professor, marketing
• Liangbin Yang, assistant professor, marketing

S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications

• Carolyn Hedges, assistant professor, communications
• Lars Willnat, professor, communications
• Cheryl Reed, assistant professor, newspaper and online journalism
• Erica Goode, visiting assistant teaching professor, public communications
• Regina Luttrell, assistant professor, public relations
• Michael Meath, assistant teaching professor, public relations
• Bill Werde, professor of practice, television, radio and film
• Imraan Farukhi, assistant professor, television, radio and film
• Benjamin Frahm, assistant teaching professor, television, radio and film
• Olivia Stomski, professor of practice, television, radio and film

College of Visual and Performing Arts

• Ralph Lorenz, senior associate dean/associate professor
• Rebecca Kelly, assistant professor, design-communications
• Jody Nyboer, assistant professor, design-environmental
• Adriana Gorea, assistant professor, design-fashion
• Kirsten Schoonmaker, assistant teaching professor, design-fashion
• Louise Manfredi, assistant professor, design-industrial
• Andrew Saluti, assistant professor, design-museum studies
• Meriel Stokoe, faculty fellow, design-museum studies
• Harold Meltzer, assistant teaching professor, School of Music
• Timothy Diem, assistant professor, School of Music
• Todd Herreman, associate teaching professor, School of Music
• Hillary Ridgley, visiting assistant teaching professor, School of Music
• Mohini Dutta, assistant teaching professor, transmedia-film
• Jeffrey Palmer, assistant teaching professor, transmedia-film