University of Missouri Recognizes New Faculty Promotions and Service Milestones

Here is a list of the promoted faculty by college:

**College of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources**:

- Gurpreet Kaur, associate research professor; natural resources

- Benjamin Knapp, professor; natural resources

- Allison Meyer, professor; animal sciences

- Ryan Keane Milhollin, associate extension professor; applied social sciences

- Allison Pease, associate professor; natural resources

- Gurbir Singh, associate professor; plant science and technology

- Pavel Somavat, associate professor; food, nutrition and exercise sciences

- Jordan Thomas, associate professor; animal sciences

- Shuangyu Xu, associate professor; natural resources

**College of Arts & Science**:

- Irma Arteaga-Cox, professor; government and public affairs

- Bernadette Broderick, associate professor; chemistry

- Alyssa Carlson, associate professor; economics

- Sounak Chakraborty, professor; statistics

- Libby Cowgill, professor; anthropology

- Medea Csoba DeHass, associate professor; geography

- Alice Dade, professor; music

- Frances Dickey, professor; English

- Amanda Durbak, teaching professor; biological sciences

- Carrie Ellis-Kalton, associate teaching professor; psychological sciences

- Ian Gizer, professor; psychological sciences

- Sachin Handa, professor; chemistry

- Marta Heckel, associate professor; philosophy

- Haley Horstman, professor; communication

- Sarah Jacquet, associate professor; geological sciences

- Lee Manion, professor; English

- Rebecca Meisenbach, professor; communication

- Jamie Mestres, associate teaching professor; textile and apparel management

- Dennis Miller, teaching professor; psychological sciences

- Kathleen Maria Mills, associate professor; physics and astronomy

- Christian Noon, associate teaching professor; music

- Brian Ott, associate teaching professor; sociology

- Nick Potter, associate teaching professor; visual studies

- Robert Russell, associate extension professor; government and public affairs

- Leo Saguiguit, professor; music

- Joseph Santin, associate professor; biological sciences

- Brittany Street, associate professor; economics

- Scott Taylor, associate teaching professor; languages, literature and cultures

- Caroline Waldbuesser, associate teaching professor; communication

- Ramsay Wise, associate teaching professor; visual studies

- Song-yi Youn, associate professor; textile and apparel management

- Hsin-I Sydney Yueh, teaching professor; communication

**College of Education and Human Development**:

- Hyerim Cho, associate professor; information science and learning technologies

- Bradley Curs, professor; educational leadership and policy analysis

- Kathryn Fishman-Weaver, teaching professor; learning, teaching and curriculum

- Aileen Garcia, associate professor; human development and family science

- Casandra Harper Morris, professor; educational leadership and policy analysis

- Robert Anthony Petrone, professor; learning, teaching and curriculum

- Jena Randolph, associate teaching professor; special education

- Sam Robert von Gillern, associate professor; learning, teaching and curriculum

**College of Engineering**:

- Praveen Rao, professor; electrical engineering and computer science

- Scott Thompson, professor; mechanical and aerospace engineering

**College of Health Sciences**:

- Tiffany Bolton, clinical professor; occupational therapy

- Jennifer First, associate professor; social work

- Kristin Flynn Peters, teaching professor; health sciences

- Lauren Laur, associate clinical professor; speech, language and hearing sciences

- Alexandria Lewis, associate teaching professor; social work

- Sara Parker, teaching professor; clinical and diagnostic sciences

- Brittany Ramirez, associate teaching professor; health sciences

- Candace Rodman, associate extension professor; health sciences

- Brittney Stevenson, associate clinical professor; occupational therapy

- Janell Stormo, associate teaching professor; clinical and diagnostic sciences

- Alese Thompson, associate teaching professor; clinical and diagnostic sciences

- Alice Townsend, associate teaching professor; clinical and diagnostic sciences

- Molly Vetter Dreier, teaching professor; health sciences

- Brad Willis, teaching professor; physical therapy

- Christine Woods, associate teaching professor; social work

**College of Veterinary Medicine**:

- Kevin Cummings, professor; pathobiology and integrative biomedical sciences

- Xiangwei Du, associate clinical professor; pathobiology and integrative biomedical sciences

- Tamara Gull, clinical professor; pathobiology and integrative biomedical sciences

- Suneel Gupta, associate research professor; veterinary medicine and surgery

- Tamara Hancock, associate teaching professor; pathobiology and integrative biomedical sciences

- Alisa Hutchison, associate teaching professor; veterinary medicine and surgery

- Laura Nafe, associate teaching professor; veterinary medicine and surgery

- Kelly Wiggen, associate teaching professor; veterinary medicine and surgery

**Missouri School of Journalism**:

- Fred Anklam, associate professional practice professor; journalism professions

- Gordon Dickson, associate professional practice professor; journalism

- Robert Greene, professional practice professor; journalism professions

- Sungkyoung Lee, professor; strategic communication

- Susan Renoe, associate professor; strategic communication

- Janet Saidi, associate professional practice professor; journalism

- Jared Schroeder, professor; journalism

- Elizabeth Stephens, professional practice professor; journalism

**MU Extension**:

- Amber Allen, associate extension professional; southwest region

- Emily Bergsieker, associate extension professional; northwest region

- Shawn Deering, extension professional; northwest region

- Carrie Elsen, associate extension professional; northeast region

- Tyler Hall, associate extension professional; east central region

- Brenda Schreck, associate extension professional; northeast region

**School of Law**:

- Rachel Wechsler, associate professor; law

**School of Medicine**:

- Komal Ashraf, associate professor; neurology

- Gregory Biedermann, associate professor; radiation oncology

- Meelie Bordoloi, associate professor; psychiatry

- Albert Chan, professor; cardiology

- Geetha Davis, professor; ophthalmology

- Thiago Desouza, associate professor; emergency medicine

- Korshie Dumor, associate professor; critical care

- Ila Durkin, associate professor; psychiatry

- Kimberly Eisenstein, associate professor; dermatology

- Nkanyezi Ferguson, professor; dermatology

- Brady Fleshman, associate professor; family and community medicine

- Seth Freeman, associate professor; family and community medicine

- Sandeep Gautam, professor; cardiology

- Megan Elizabeth Gauthier, associate professor; anesthesiology

- Francisco Gomez, associate professor; neurology

- Xiao Heng, professor; biochemistry

- Zachary Holliday, associate professor; critical care

- Mark Hunter, professor; obstetrics, gynecology and women’s health

- Arun Kumar, professor; cardiology

- Margaret Lange-Osborn, associate professor; molecular microbiology and immunology

- Lei Lei, associate professor; obstetrics, gynecology and women’s health

- Chrissa McClellan, professor; physical medicine and rehabilitation

- Kenneth Miller, associate professional practice professor; orthopaedic surgery

- Kathryn Mohr, associate professor; pediatrics

- Joanna Mussey, associate professional practice professor; psychiatry

- Premkumar Nattanmai Chandrasekaran, professor; neurology

- Julia Nuelle, associate professor; orthopaedic surgery

- Lauren Pringle, associate professor; radiology

- Farhan Siddiq, professor; neurosurgery

- Mohammed Azfar Siddiqui, associate professor; radiology

- Joshua Stilley, professor; emergency medicine

- Zhe Sun, associate research professor; pharmacology and physiology

- Emma Teixeiro-Pernas, professor; molecular microbiology and immunology

- George Ubinas, associate professor; emergency medicine

- Cherian Verghese, professor; hematology and oncology

- Daniel Walker, associate professor; pathology and anatomical sciences

- Carissa White, associate professor; radiology

**Sinclair School of Nursing**:

- Nancy Birtley, teaching professor; nursing

**Robert J. Trulaske, Sr. College of Business**:

- John Arnold, associate professor; management

- Ann Katie Essing, associate teaching professor; marketing

- Hoyoun Kyung, associate professor; accountancy

- Leonard Daryl Smith, teaching professor; management

**University Libraries**:

- Steven Pryor, librarian III; library administration

- Jennifer Walker, librarian III; acquisitions, collections and technology services

**Service Milestones**:

40 Years of Service:

- Michael Harmata, chemistry (College of Arts & Science)

- Robert Fisher, anesthesiology (School of Medicine)

- Stephen Halenda, medical pharmacology & physiology (School of Medicine)

30 Years of Service:

- Azlin Mustapha, food, nutrition & exercise physiology (College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources)

- Timothy Safranski, animal science (College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources)

- Reid Smeda, plant sciences (College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources)

- Andrew Thomas, plant sciences (College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources)

- Lael Keiser, Truman School of government & public affairs (College of Arts & Science)

- Emmanuel Liscum, biological sciences (College of Arts & Science)

- Linda Reeder, history (College of Arts & Science)

- Lawrence Ries, statistics and data science (College of Arts & Science)

- Bethany Stone, biological sciences (College of Arts & Science)

- John Wigger, history (College of Arts & Science)

- Elizabeth Baker, learning, teaching & curriculum (College of Education & Human Development)

- Timothy Lewis, special education (College of Education & Human Development)

- Melissa Stormont, special education (College of Education & Human Development)

- Kevin Gillis, chemical & biomedical engineering (College of Engineering)

- Kannappan Palaniappan, electrical engineering & computer science (College of Engineering)

- Patricia Alafaireet, health sciences (College of Health Sciences)

- Kyle Gibson, physical therapy (College of Health Sciences)

- William Mitchell, pathobiology & integrative biomedical services (College of Veterinary Medicine)

- David Hoffman, west central region (MU Extension)

- Letitia Johnson, northeast region (MU Extension)

- Dean Hainsworth, ophthalmology (School of Medicine)

- James Koller, general internal medicine (School of Medicine)

- Madhukar Misra, nephrology (School of Medicine)

- Deidre Wipke-Tevis, school of nursing (Sinclair School of Nursing)

- Srinath Gopalakrishna, marketing (Trulaske College of Business)

- Rebecca Graves, health sciences & specialized libraries (University Libraries)

20 Years of Service:

- Dae-Young Kim, applied social sciences (College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources)

- Mengshi Lin, food, nutrition & exercise physiology (College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources)

- Wyatt Thompson, applied social sciences (College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources)

- Andrew Zumwalt, applied social sciences (College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources)

- André Ariew, philosophy (College of Arts & Science)

- Mamadou Badiane, languages, literatures, and cultures (College of Arts & Science)

- John Brockman, chemistry (College of Arts & Science)

- Eric Brown, sociology (College of Arts & Science)

- Nicole Campione-Barr, psychological sciences (College of Arts & Science)

- Shawn Christ, psychological sciences (College of Arts & Science)

- Jeffrey Ferguson, anthropology (College of Arts & Science)

- Rebecca Meisenbach, communication (College of Arts & Science)

- Joseph Otabela Mewolo, languages, literatures, and cultures (College of Arts & Science)

- Virginia Muller, English (College of Arts & Science)

- Anne Myers, English (College of Arts & Science)

- Srirupa Prasad, women’s & gender studies (College of Arts & Science)

- Christine VanPool, anthropology (College of Arts & Science)

- Marcelle Siegel, learning, teaching & curriculum (College of Education & Human Development)

- Delinda van Garderen-Anderson, special education (College of Education & Human Development)

- Zhiqiang Hu, civil & environmental engineering (College of Engineering)

- Carla Allen, clinical & diagnostic sciences (College of Health Sciences)

- Jeff Bridges, physical therapy (College of Health Sciences)

- Constance Brooks, health psychology (College of Health Sciences)

- Crystal Gateley, occupational therapy (College of Health Sciences)

- Eric Hart, health psychology (College of Health Sciences)

- Leanna Lawrence, speech, language & hearing sciences (College of Health Sciences)

- Sara Parker, clinical & diagnostic sciences (College of Health Sciences)

- Enid Schatz, public health (College of Health Sciences)

- Rajiv Mohan, veterinary medicine & surgery (College of Veterinary Medicine)

- Scott Poock, veterinary medicine & surgery (College of Veterinary Medicine)

- Amanda Hinnant, journalism (Missouri School of Journalism)

- Randa Doty, northwest region (MU Extension)

- Melissa Scheer, urban east region (MU Extension)

- Lynette Watson, campus business and communities (MU Extension)

- Paul Litton, law (School of Law)

- Simon Mitchell, law (School of Law)

- Ajay Aggarwal, orthopaedic surgery (School of Medicine)

- Kristina Aldridge, pathology & anatomical sciences (School of Medicine)