This 2022-23 academic year, the College of Arts & Sciences is pleased to welcome more than 30 new full-time faculty members. These professors bring a wealth of experience to the sciences, natural sciences, humanities, and mathematics.
Learn more about a number of our new faculty members:
Biology
Kimberly Komatsu
Associate Professor, Florence Schaeffer Distinguished Scholar of Science
Specialties: Ecology: Impacts of human-caused global change drivers on our grassland, forest, and agricultural ecosystems around the world
Gwen Robbins Schug
Professor
Specialties: Bioarcheology: Using human skeletons to understand biocultural responses to adaptive challenges in the past 12,000 years, including climate change
Computer Science
Rebecca Crellin
Lecturer
Specialties: Java programming and assembly language programming, computer organization, and hardware
Allen McBride
Visiting Assistant Professor
Specialties: Bio-inspired computing, artificial morphogenesis, swarm robotics
Sunny Ntini
Lecturer
Specialties: Advanced data structures, algorithms, and software engineering
Yingcheng Sun
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning with applications in clinical informatics, and data science
English
Emma Boggs
English Lecturer
Specialties: Fiction, creative nonfiction
Candace Chambers
Professional Writing Lecturer
Specialties: Writing pedagogy, composition studies
Patrick Crowley
English Lecturer
Specialties: Contemporary Afro-Caribbean women’s decolonial aesthetic and cultural practices in literature, cinema, and philosophy
Rebecca Ethridge
English Lecturer
Specialties: Poetry, poetics of grief and illness
Gillian Perry
English Lecturer
Specialties: Creative writing, fiction, playwriting, rhetoric and composition
Informatics and Analytics
David Bickel
Associate Professor
Specialties: Statistical methods of quantifying to what extent a given conclusion is supported by the evidence
Interior Architecture
Kate Horton
Lecturer, Assistant Admissions and 1st Year Coordinator
Specialties: pedagogy in foundational design studios, instructional methods for creative classroom environments, co-design and community engagement methods, and strategies for putting mental health and wellbeing at the center of the design process
Kista Mansell
Lecturer, Historic Preservation Certificate Coordinator
Specialties: Historic preservation, community revitalization, Main Street North Carolina Program
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Jessica Bennett
Lecturer
Specialties: Spanish language, Hispanic culture
Elyssa Fenton
Director of Language Instruction for the Spanish Basic Language Program
Specialties: Phonetics, phonology, Spanish language
Guadalupe Salinas Fernandez
Lecturer
Specialties: Spanish language, Spanish culture
Yoko Kano
Lecturer
Specialties: Japanese language; Recipient of the Teacher of The Year at Southeastern Association of Teachers of Japanese (SEATJ) in 2020
Mathematics and Statistics
Sadia Khalil
Visiting Assistant Professor of Statistics
Specialties: Sample survey methodology
Online Programs
David Bull
Academic Professional Assistant Professor
Specialties: Online learning, professional studies, creative leadership, systems thinking, design thinking, innovation and entrepreneurship
Sarah Dunning
Academic Professional Instructor
Specialties: Online pedagogy, social presence in online environments, interpersonal communication, business communication, and public speaking
Philosophy
Angela Bischof
Lecturer
Specialties: Nonhuman animals (their cognition and moral standing), philosophy of mind, ethics, metaphysics, and moral psychology
Psychology
Jessica Caporaso
Lecturer
Specialties: Peer conflict resolution in children, developmental psychology
Yoojin Chang
Lecturer
Specialties: Influence of memory and experience on everyday decisions and judgements
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
J. Tiffany Holland
Lecturer
Specialties: Expansiveness and complexities of black and queer identities, the potentials of black liberation
