The College of Liberal w88 sports betting app had another successful year of hiring an impressive group of new colleagues. Starting this academic year are 25 new faculty members in eight departments. In addition, the College has hired nine staff members since the start of 2019.
Among these new hires are chairs of two departments. w88 sports betting app Joseph Squier joints the Art Department as chair. Squier is a photographer and painter, and his creative work and research focus on the intersection of art and technology. Carolyn Warner joins the Department of Political Science as chair and Vail Pittman w88 sports betting app of Political Science. Her current research includes a project on the politics of sex abuse in the military and in the Catholic Church.
The English Department had a particularly active year of hiring with seven hires. Among these are five new lecturers who will assist, in part, with teaching Core Writing courses and thus advancing the President’s Writing and Speaking Initiative. This Initiative has the goal of ensuring that all graduates of the University have effective writing and speaking skills. In addition, Todd Ruecker, Associate Professor, joins the department as the Director of Core Writing. James Cherney, hired as an Associate Professor and Director of Basic Courses in Communication Studies, will help with the expansion of oral communication throughout each student’s education at the w88 sports betting app Nevada, Reno. He is also a specialist in disability studies.
Please welcome all our new colleagues to campus.
Regular Lecturers, Teaching Assistant Professors and Tenure-Line Faculty
Art, w88 sports betting app and Chair
- Hire: Joseph Squier
- Degree: MFA, Photography, San Francisco Art Institute
- Focus: Art and technology
Basque Studies, Assistant w88 sports betting app
- Hire: Larraitz Ariznabarreta
- Degree: Ph.D., international and intercultural studies, Universidad de Deusto
- Focus: The analysis of various expressions of Basque culture and its relations with power
Communication Studies, Lecturer
- Hire: Amy Arias
- Degree: M.A., Speech Communications, w88 sports betting app Nevada, Reno
Communication Studies, Associate w88 sports betting app
- Hire: James Cherney
- Degree: Ph.D., communication and culture, Indiana w88 sports betting app
- Focus: The rhetoric of ableism, particularly as it operates around sport and visibility
Communication Studies, Teaching Assistant w88 sports betting app; Assistant Coach of Debate Team
- Hire: Benjamin Krueger
- Degree: Ph.D., communication, w88 sports betting app Maryland
- Focus: Rhetorical criticism, argumentation, communication education
English, Teaching Assistant w88 sports betting app, Writing studies
- Hire: Casey Bell
- Degree: MFA, creative writing, w88 sports betting app Nevada, Reno
- Focus: Core writing
English, Teaching Assistant w88 sports betting app, 20th Century British and American Literature
- Hire: Seth Cosimini
- Degree: Ph.D., English, w88 sports betting app at Buffalo, SUNY
- Focus: Literature, culture and thought of the African diaspora; American literary and cultural history; and cultural studies and critical theory
English, Assistant w88 sports betting app, 20th Century American Literature and Film
- Hire: Pardis Dabashi
- Degree: Ph.D., English, Boston w88 sports betting app
- Focus: The intersection of affect, politics and form in the Euro-American novel and cinema of the 19th and 20th centuries
English, Teaching Assistant w88 sports betting app, Writing studies
- Hire: Katie Miller
- Degree: Ph.D., English (Rhetoric and Composition), w88 sports betting app Nevada, Reno
- Focus: Programmatic writing assessment and developmental writing
English, Teaching Assistant w88 sports betting app, Writing studies
- Hire: Angela Moore
- Degree: Ph.D., Rhetoric and Composition, Texas Christian w88 sports betting app
- Focus: Rhetorical strategies for inspiring understanding and empathy across differences and rhetorical strategies for inspiring critical examination of relationships
English, Associate w88 sports betting app, Director of Core Writing
- Hire: Todd Ruecker
- Degree: Ph.D., w88 sports betting app Texas at El Paso
- Focus: Investigating issues surrounding the increasing linguistic and cultural diversity of education worldwide and working to transform educational institutions and writing classrooms into more welcoming spaces for all students
English, Assistant w88 sports betting app, Creative Writing
- Hire: Jared Stanley
- Degree: MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry), w88 sports betting app Iowa
- Focus: Creative writing (poetry), contemporary poetics, interdisciplinary practice
English, Teaching Assistant w88 sports betting app, Writing studies
- Hire: Blake Watson
- Degree: Ph.D., w88 sports betting app Nevada, Reno
- Focus: Arguments about public space and professional and technical writing in landscape architecture and urban planning
History, Assistant w88 sports betting app, Modern Europe
- Hire: James McSpadden
- Degree: Ph.D., History, Harvard w88 sports betting app
- Focus: The histories of political culture, of power and politics, and of international networks
Music, Teaching Assistant w88 sports betting app, Collaborative Piano
- Hire: Daniel Fung
- Degree: DMA, The Juilliard School
- Focus: Collaborative piano
Music, Lecturer, Recording w88 sports betting app
- Hire: Tom Gordon
- Client list includes: Ozzy Ozbourne, Beach Boys, Dr. Dre and more
Music, Assistant w88 sports betting app, French Horn
- Hire: Natalie Higgins
- Degree: DMA, w88 sports betting app Missouri-Kansas City
- Focus: Horn performance
Music, Assistant w88 sports betting app, Jazz Trumpet
- Hire: Joshua Reed
- Degree: DMA, w88 sports betting app Colorado, Boulder
- Focus: Jazz studies
Political Science, Assistant w88 sports betting app, American Politics and Research Methods
- Hire: Christina Ladam
- Degree: Ph.D., Political Science, w88 sports betting app Colorado, Boulder
- Focus: American politics
Political Science, Chair and Vail Pittman w88 sports betting app of Political Science
- Hire: Carolyn Warner
- Degree: Ph.D., Political Science, Harvard w88 sports betting app
- Focus: Religion and politics, gendered violence and political corruption
World Languages and Literatures, Assistant w88 sports betting app, Spanish
- Hire: Samuel Lopez Alcala
- Degree: Ph.D., Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Madrid)
- Focus: English into Spanish translating and interpreting
World Languages and Literatures, w88 sports betting app, Chinese Literatures
- Hire: Robert Joe Cutter
- Degree: Ph.D., Asian languages and literatures (Chinese), w88 sports betting app Washington
- Focus: Early and medieval Chinese literature and history
World Languages and Literatures, Lecturer, Spanish for the Professions
- Hire: Roberto Ortiz
- Degree: M.A., foreign language and literature, w88 sports betting app Nevada, Reno
- Focus: Teaching and advising Spanish heritage language learners
World Languages and Literatures, Assistant w88 sports betting app, French Linguistics
- Hire: Elena Shimanskaya
- Degree: Ph.D., second-language acquisition, w88 sports betting app Iowa
- Focus: Second-language acquisition, French linguistics
Administrative Faculty
Music, Technology Operations Supervisor
- Hire: Ray Silva
Classified staff
Criminal Justice, Administrative Assistant
- Hire: Dora Martinez
Dean’s Office, Grants and Projects Analyst
- Hire: Angus Quinlin
Dean’s Office, Personnel Analyst
- Hire: Spencer Schultz
Fabrication Lab, Manager
- Hire: Nicole Miller
History, Administrative Assistant
- Hire: Mikki Johnson
Judicial Studies and Grant Sawyer Center, Administrative Assistant
- Hire: Heather Lara
Latino Research Center, Administrative Assistant
- Hire: Marie Recinos-Lopez
Political Science, Administrative Assistant
- Hire: Karen Braun
School of the w88 sports betting app, Administrative Assistant
- Hire: James Cavanaugh
