New & Visiting Faculty 2015-16
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Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2015-2016 Academic Year Department First name Last name Title Campus Primary subfield within Any additional areas of scholarly discipline or department interest/specialization Behavorial/ Managerial/ Financial Research Accounting Accounting American Institutions & International Diplomacy Jeremiah Yao Bentley Yu Franklin Odo Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Assistant Professor UMass Amherst John J. McCloy ’16 Professor of American Institutions and International Diplomacy Amherst College Anthropology Barker Fariss Repatriation Coordinator UMass Amherst Archaeology Anthropology Anthropology Jason Paulette Kamilar Steeves Assistant Professor Lecturer UMass Amherst UMass Amherst Biological Anthropology Archaeology Visiting Lecturer in Anthropology Ecology and Evolution of Primates Native American Studies Anthropology of science; history of anthropology; Maya studies; religion and cosmology; cosmopolitics; historical knowledge Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Photography Histories and Theories of Photography , Modern and Contemporary Art, Theories of New Media Anthropology Matthew Watson Applied Ethics Perry Zurn Art Anna Lee Art Shane Mecklenburger Art Erica Art Art Conor Juana Mount Holyoke College Hampshire College Visiting Assistant Professor School of Critical Social of Applied Ethics Inquiry Smith College Environmental Archaeology, Cultural Resource Management UMass Amherst Morawski Assistant Professor Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Architectural History Art History Digital Animator/ Sculptor Smith College Architecture Film, Video & New Media The History of Design, Interior Design and Associate cultural aesthetics, Tourism and Policy Peterson Valdes Five College Visiting Assistant Professor of Art & Technology Assistant Professor Hampshire College School for Interdisciplinary Arts UMass Amherst Printmaking Sculpture Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2015-2016 Academic Year Department First name Last name Title Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and the History of Art Visiting Lecturer in Art & Art History Five College Visiting Lecturer in Architectural Studies Campus Primary subfield within Any additional areas of scholarly discipline or department interest/specialization Art & Art History Brianne Cohen Art & Art History Kimberly Faler Art & Art History Jean Jaminet Art & Art History Toby Millman Art & Art History Art & Art History/Asian Languages & Civilizations Nichole Van Beek Yael Rice Asian Studies Rafal Stepian Astronomy Jason Young Biochemistry Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Vinita Lukose Amherst College Hampshire School of Assistant Professor of Asian Humanity, Arts Religions & Culture Visiting Assistant Professor of Astronomy in the Department of Physics and Astronomy Amherst College Visiting Instructor in Mount Holyoke Biochemistry College Becky Miller Lecturer UMass Amherst cell and molecular biology Margaret Stratton Jason Andras Biology Patricia Brennan UMass Amherst Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke College biophysics Biology Biology Biology Jeeyon Kari Jeong Loomis Biology Katherine Schreiber Assistant Professor Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Visiting Lecturer in Biological Sciences Assistant Professor of Biology Lecturer Visiting Lecturer in Biological Sciences Guest Artist in Studio Art Visiting Artist in Art & Art History Assistant Professor of Art and the History Art and of Asian Languages and Civilizations Amherst College Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke College Amherst College UMass Amherst Mount Holyoke College genetics Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2015-2016 Academic Year Department Biology Biology Biostatistics & Epidemiology Biostatistics & Epidemiology Biostatistics & Epidemiology Black Studies Black Studies & History Black Studies & History First name Last name Title Campus Primary subfield within Any additional areas of scholarly discipline or department interest/specialization Joachim Elena Sturve Vazey STINT Fellow Assistant Professor Amherst College UMass Amherst neurobiology Marquis Hawkins Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Epidemiology Ken Kleinman Associate Professor UMass Amherst Biostat Alkema Charisse Leontine Burden-Stelly UMass Amherst Amherst College Biostat Alec Hickmott Mary Hicks Assistant Professor Five-College Fellow Visiting Lecturer in Black Studies and History Assistant Professor of Black Studies and History Amherst College Amherst College Center for Agriculture, Food & the Environment Jody Jellison Classics Andreas Zanker Director, CAFÉ, and Assistant VC Agriculture Research and Engagement Assistant Professor of Classics Visiting Assistant Professor Hampshire School of of Developmental Cognitive Cognitive Neuroscience Science UMass Amherst plant pathology biochemistry/biophysics Amherst College Cognitive Neuroscience Diane Rosenberg College of Nursing Gabrielle Abelard College of Nursing Pamela Aselton Clinical Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Clinical Associate Professor UMass Amherst A College of Nursing Katherine Bobianski Clinical Assistant Professor UMass Amherst FNP-BC, MSN College of Nursing College of Nursing Mary Ellen Lucia Burke Carvalho Clinical Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Clinical Instructor UMass Amherst College of Nursing College of Nursing College of Nursing College of Nursing Stephen Genevieve Lisa Jeungok Cavanagh Chandler Chiodo Choi Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor Associate Professor CNM, MSN, RN ASN, BSN, MSN, RN PhD, RN, FInstLM, FRSPH, FAAN, FACHE BSN, MSN, PhD, RN BS, MS, PhD BSN, MPH, MSN, PhD, RN UMass Amherst UMass Amherst UMass Amherst UMass Amherst BSN, DNP, RN, PMHCNS-BC, PMHNP BS, BSN, FNP, MPH, MSN, PhD, RN Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2015-2016 Academic Year Department First name Last name Title Campus Primary subfield within Any additional areas of scholarly discipline or department interest/specialization College of Nursing College of Nursing Margaret Jean Curnin DeMartinis Clinical Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Associate Professor UMass Amherst MSN, RN, BS MA, PhD, BS, FNP-BC College of Nursing Kimberly Dion Clinical Assistant Professor UMass Amherst ASN, BSN, MSN, RN, CNE College of Nursing Edith Dundon Clinical Assistant Professor UMass Amherst CPNP, RN, PhD College of Nursing College of Nursing College of Nursing Katharine Stephanie Elizabeth Green Griggs Henneman Clinical Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Clinical Instructor UMass Amherst Associate Professor UMass Amherst CNM, PhD © MSN, RN, BS FAAN, PhD, RN, CCNS College of Nursing MaryAnn Hogan Clinical Assistant Professor UMass Amherst BSN, MSN, RN College of Nursing College of Nursing Cynthia Karen Jacelon Kalmakis CRRN-A, FGSA, FAAN, PhD, RN-BC MPH, PhD, FNP-BC College of Nursing Clare Lamontagne Professor UMass Amherst Associate Professor UMass Amherst Clinical Assistant Professor UMass Amherst A PhD, RN College of Nursing Erin Lamoureux Clinical Assistant Professor UMass Amherst RN, GCNS-BC, PhD © College of Nursing College of Nursing Raeann Linda LeBlanc Lewandowski Clinical Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Professor UMass Amherst DNP, RN, GNP-BC, ANP-BC, PhD FAAN, PhD, RN College of Nursing College of Nursing Maud Lori Anne Low Lyne Clinical Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Lecturer UMass Amherst MSN, RN, RNC MS, ACNP-BC College of Nursing College of Nursing Kristy Deborah Pereira Rosenbloom Clinical Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Assistant Professor UMass Amherst CPN, MSN, RN PhD, AGACNP-BC College of Nursing College of Nursing College of Nursing College of Nursing College of Nursing Commonwealth Honors College Barbara Jean Rachel Annette Donna Stanley Swinney Walker Wysocki Zucker Clara Pinto-Correia Clinical Assistant Professor Professor Assistant Professor Professor Associate Professor Visiting Scholar (Professor/Lecturer) BSN, MS, MSN, RN BSN, PhD, RN, MA PhD, RN FAAN, PhD, RN BSN, FAAN, MSN, PhD, RN History of science; history of reproductive biology UMass Amherst UMass Amherst UMass Amherst UMass Amherst UMass Amherst UMass Amherst Interdisciplinary Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2015-2016 Academic Year Department Communication Comparative Literature Comparative Literature (LLC) Computer Science Computer Science Computer Science First name Last name Campus Kimberlee Perez Assistant Professor Jennifer Bajorek Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature UMass Amherst Hampshire School of Humanity, Arts & Culture Jessica Joydeep Michael Rene Barr Biswas Hay Just Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Visiting Professor A Assistant Professor UMass Amherst UMass Amherst UMass Amherst UMass Amherst Performance Studies; Interpersonal Communication European Medieval Literature and Culture Robotics All aspects of computer security with an emphasis on virtualized systems and usability Smith College Valentine Assistant Professor Assistant Professor of Computer Science Amherst College Choi Lecturer Smith College Korean Studies Smith College Chinese Language and Literature Klemperer Mazumdar Computer Science Sara Sheehan Computer Science Crystal East Asian Studies Ellie Moyer Economics Margaret Blume-Kohout Economics Collin Raymond Assistant Professor Visiting Lecturer in Economics Assistant Professor of Economics Mount Holyoke College Amherst College Creative Writing Software Engineering Mount Holyoke College UMass Amherst Peter Arya Jessica Primary subfield within Any additional areas of scholarly discipline or department interest/specialization Visiting Lecturer in Computer Science Assistant Professor Computer Science Computer Science East Asian Studies Title Computational and Genomic Biology Detecting population size changes East Asian Languages and Civilizations Representation of Gender, desire, marriage and femininity in classical China, modern Chinese fiction Outcomes of federal investments in R&D; scientific workforce participation, innovation and entrepreneurship. Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2015-2016 Academic Year Department Economics First name Heather Last name Tierney Title Visiting Lecturer in Economics Campus Primary subfield within Any additional areas of scholarly discipline or department interest/specialization Nonparametric economics; time series economics; real-time data; search engine data; monetary policy; applied microeconomics; data-driven modeling Mount Holyoke College Economics Hendrik Van den Berg Visiting Lecturer in Economics Economics Naoki Yoshihara Assoc. Professor UMass Amherst Microeconomics Economics Educational Policy, Research & Administration/Colle ge of Education Educational Policy, Research & Administration/Colle ge of Education Educational Policy, Research & Administration/Colle ge of Education Mariyana Zapryanova Assistant Professor Smith College Public Economics UMass Amherst Psychometrics and Educational Research Methods UMass Amherst Psychometrics and Educational Research Methods UMass Amherst Psychometrics and Educational Research Methods Juliana Arife Scott Cerentini Pacico Kart Monroe Visiting Scholar Visiting Scholar Assistant Professor Mount Holyoke College Engineering Kristen Dorsey Assistant Professor Smith College Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering Niveen Ismail Assistant Professor Smith College Civil and Environmental Engineering International economics, international trade, international finance, economic growth and development, economic development of Latin America, economics of immigration Normative Economics, Social Choice Theory, Game Theory Applied Microeconomics and Applied Econometrics design and fabrication of microand nanoscale sensors for applications in air quality monitoring and gas chemical sensing freshwater quality Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2015-2016 Academic Year Department Engineering Engineering: Civil & Environmental Engineering: Electrical & Computer Engineering: Electrical & Computer Engineering: Mechanical & Industrial Engineering: Mechanical & Industrial Engineering: Mechanical & Industrial Engineering: Mechanical & Industrial English First name Last name Title Campus Primary subfield within Any additional areas of scholarly discipline or department interest/specialization Paramjeet Pati Picker Professor of Practice Smith College Environmental Engineering Symeon (Simos) Gerasimidis Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Structural Engineering & Mechanics Christof Paar Adjunct Professor UMass Amherst Embedded Security Guangyu Xu Asst. Professor UMass Amherst Biomedical Juan Jimenez Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Biomedical Engineering Siby Samuel Research Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Industrial Engineering Bernd Schliemann Schliemann UMass Amherst Yubing Sun Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Kimberly Brown Assistant Professor of Mount Holyoke English and Africana Studies College Nanotechnology, nano particles recovery and recycle of nanowaste, Sustainability of Bio fuel Infrastructure Resilience, Structural response of critical infrastructure systems subjected to extreme-loading events, Resilience-oriented structural design Transportation safety Biomedical Engineering Feminist theories of the Diaspora, Contemporary literature and photography, slavery and the body in contemporary culture, visual culture of the Americas, cultural representations of violence and memory Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2015-2016 Academic Year Department English English First name Rebecca Yu-Ting Last name Title Campus Dingo Associate Professor UMass Amherst Huang Mellon-Keiter Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Amherst College Professor of English Primary subfield within Any additional areas of scholarly discipline or department interest/specialization Women's Studies (minor) & Rhetoric and Composition Philosophy 20th and 21st century Anglophone Writing, Irish Literature, James Joyce and Music, Modernism and Music, Irish Studies English English Katherine Benigno O'Callaghan Sanchez-Eppler Visiting Lecturer in English Lecturer in English Mount Holyoke College Amherst College English Malcom Sen Assistant Professor UMass Amherst English English Language & Literature English Language & Literature English Language & Literature Lynn Xu UMass Amherst Marilyn Chin Smith College Poetry Creative Writing Arda Collins Lecturer Grace Hazard Conkling Writer-in-Residence Grace Hazard Conkling Writerin-Residence Modern & Contemporary English Literature, Sociology, Irish Studies Political Science, History Comparative Literature & Critical Poetry Theory Smith College Poetry Creative Writing and Literature Ruth Ozeki English Language & Literature Lynn English Language and Literature & Study of Women and Juliana Gender English/Film & Media Studies English/Film & Media Studies Environmental Conservation Staley Hu Pegues Elizabeth Drew Professor Smith College Ruth and Clarence Kennedy Professor in Renaissance Studies Smith College Joshua Guilford Pooja Rangan Assistant Professor Smith College Visiting Assistant Professor of English in Film and Media Amherst College Studies Assistant Professor of English in Film and Media Studies Amherst College Alison Bates Lecturer UMass Amherst Advanced Fiction Writing film, Buddhism Medieval constitutionalism, literary history, Women in literary Medieval Studies history Gender and Sexuality Renewable energy and sustainability Native and Indigenous Studies and Asian American studies Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2015-2016 Academic Year Department Environmental Conservation Environmental Conservation Environmental Science & Policy Environmental Studies First name Christopher Chao (Luna) Last name Sutherland Xiao Alexander Barron Jennifer Albertine Film Studies Eric Gottesman Film Studies Finance Finance Chris J'Noel (Ginnie) Matthew Johnson Gardiner Linn French French Anouk Dwight Alquier Carey French Raphael Sigal French Elsa Stéphan Gender Studies Elias Vitulli Geology & Geography Serin Houston Title Assistant Professor Lecturer Campus UMass Amherst population/ Statistical ecology UMass Amherst sustainable construction management Assistant Professor Visiting Lecturer in Environmental Sciences Visiting Assistant Professor of Film, Photography, & Video Guest Artist; Visiting Instructor in Film Studies Lecturer Assistant Professor Smith College Mount Holyoke College Hampshire School of Humanity, Arts & Culture Mount Holyoke College UMass Amherst UMass Amherst Mount Holyoke Visiting Instructor in French College Mendenhall Fellow Smith College Assistant Professor of Amherst College French Lecturer Visiting Lecturer in Gender Studies Assistant Professor of Geography and International Relations Primary subfield within Any additional areas of scholarly discipline or department interest/specialization Smith College Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke College policy, ecosystem ecology, Ecology and Evolutionary environmental chemistry, global Biology environmental change Finance Finance Statistics Art History Architecture French Literature and Journalism Nineteenth- and Twentiethcentury French Literature; Science and Technology Studies, Media Studies; The French Global; Utopian Studies Queer studies; transgendered studies; race and racism, gender and sexuality; intersectionality; critical prison studies Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2015-2016 Academic Year Department First name Last name Title Campus Primary subfield within Any additional areas of scholarly discipline or department interest/specialization earth surface dynamics, geomorphology and landscape evolution German & Scandinavian Studies Geosciences German & Scandinavian (LLC) Isaac Larsen Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Sara E Jackson Assistant Professor UMass Amherst German Studies German Studies Lisa Anna Haegele Schrade Lecturer Lecturer in German William Allan Neilson Professor Smith College Amherst College German Language Minor in Religious Studies German literature and comparative literature Smith College Feminist Legal Theory law and society Government Martha Health Promotion & Kimberly Policy Fineman History Reem Bailony History Adi Gordon History Sarah Geissler Hines History Soonyi Lee History History History April Garrett Kevin Journalism Journalism Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Assistant Professor Visiting Assistant Professor of History Five College Assistant Professor of History Lecturer UMass Amherst Mount Holyoke College Amherst College Smith College Latin American History Mount Holyoke College Environmental History, American West, North American West, Bolivia, Bolivian studies Modern East Asian Social and Intellectual History, Chinese Socialism Trask Washington Young Visiting Lecturer in History Visiting Assistant Professor Amherst College of History Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Japanese History Latin American History Sociality of Religion (minor) Latin American Studies Joshua Braun Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Journalism Studies Rodrigo Zamith Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Journalism Studies Digital News and Media Sociology Big Data, Computational Social Science Carolina Aragon Asst. Professor UMass Amherst Urban Greening Regional and Greenway Planning Theodore Eisenman Asst. Professor UMass Amherst Sustainable Landscape Design Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2015-2016 Academic Year Department Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought First name Sarah Last name Johnson Title Campus Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought Amherst College Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought Sharif Youssef Linguistics Daniel Altshuler Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought Amherst College Hampshire School of Assistant Professor of Cognitive Linguistics Science Linguistics Gaia Snover (Jarosz) Assistant Professor Management Charles Johnson Management Marketing David Matthew Lepak Glennon Mathematics Jamie Juul Mathematics Eunice Kim Mathematics Yusra Naqvi Mathematics Gabriel Sosa Mathematics Yongheng Zhang Primary subfield within Any additional areas of scholarly discipline or department interest/specialization UMass Amherst Clinical Associate Professor UMass Amherst Endowed Chair of the Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship Marketing Lecturer Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics Visiting Assistant Professor of Statistics Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics UMass Amherst UMass Amherst Amherst College Amherst College Amherst College Amherst College Amherst College Phonological Theory Mathematics-Probability & Statistics (2nd Major) Entrepreneurship Corporate lawyer/partner Choate, Hall, & Stewart LLP Boston, MA Human Resource Management The strategic management of human capital, individual interpretations and reactions to HRM practices, international HRM Sales Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2015-2016 Academic Year Department Mathematics & Statistics Mathematics & Statistics Mathematics & Statistics Mathematics & Statistics Mathematics & Statistics Mathematics & Statistics Mathematics & Statistics Mathematics & Statistics Mathematics & Statistics Mathematics & Statistics First name Last name Title Campus Primary subfield within Any additional areas of scholarly discipline or department interest/specialization Efstathios Charalampidis Lecturer UMass Amherst Applied mathematics Liubomir Chiriac Lecturer UMass Amherst number theory UMass Amherst statistics, bioinformatics, machine learning Patrick Carrie Flaherty Hosman Assistant Professor Kouzehkanani Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke College Li Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Hoyer-Leitzel Amir Yao Observational studies and casual inference; omitted variable bias, statistics education; analysis of comparative studies in the social and health sciences Mount Holyoke Visiting Lecturer in Statistics College Visiting Lecturer in Mathematics Visiting Instructor in Statistics Alanna Hamiltonian Dynamical systems and relative equilibria in the nvortex problem; bifurcations and disturbance in dynamical systems, especially applications related to resilience and climate Ava Mauro Lecturer UMass Amherst mathematical biology, stochastic processes, numerical analysis Nathan Totz Lecturer UMass Amherst analysis UMass Amherst multivariate analysis, modeling dependence in econometrics, random sets Zheng Wei Lecturer solitary waves, ordinary and partial differential equations, gravitation, numerical analysis, mathematics physics scientific computing, partial differential equations, dynamical systems applied mathematical problems and bio-mathematics, topological dynamical system on noncompact space Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2015-2016 Academic Year Department First name Last name Title Middle East Studies Steven Heydemann Assistant Professor Molecular Biology Castorino Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology John Music Micaela Baranello Music Amanda Huntleigh Music Henry Kramer Music Music Adeline Eric Campus Smith College Hampshire College School of Natural Science McPherson/Eveillard Postdoc Fellow Smith College Assistant Director of Choral Activities and Lecturer Smith College Iva Dee Hiatt Visiting Artist Smith College and Lecturer Mueller Mount Holyoke Assistant Professor of Music College Wubbels Joseph E. and Grace W. Valentine Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Amherst College Primary subfield within Any additional areas of scholarly discipline or department interest/specialization Middle Eastern Studies political history of Syria, authoritarianism and democratization in the Arab world, and the political economy of the Middle East operetta and opera in Vienna; Richard Strauss; opera staging and Regietheater, American musical theater; music criticism and Nineteenth- and contemporary operatic culture in Twentieth-Century Music the United States and Europe Visual information among choral singers, Gestures and Vocal Choral Conducting pedagogy Pianist Circulation and consumption of eighteenth-century opera, art song, and ballet in the Germanspeaking lands, with an emphasis on Mozart; Mozart opera production in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; music and childhood, folksong and folkloristics in the enlightenment; early film music, film sound, and the film musical Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2015-2016 Academic Year Department First name Music & Dance Jamie-Rose Music & Dance Music & Dance Neuroscience & Behavior Operations & Information Management Operations & Information Management Philosophy Last name Guarrine Title Campus Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Shigefumi (Fumi) Tomita Christopher White Assistant Professor Assistant Professor UMass Amherst UMass Amherst Kenneth Colodner Assistant Professor of Mount Holyoke Neuroscience and Behavior College Renee Pratt Lecturer Amber Young Rafeeq Hasan Philosophy Philosophy Jo-Jo Ned Koo Markosian Philosophy Benjamin Yelle Philosophy/Political Theory George Fourlas Photography Nolasco Claudio Assistant Professor Assistant Professor of Philosophy Mount Holyoke Fellow; Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy Professor Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy Primary subfield within Any additional areas of scholarly discipline or department interest/specialization Voice Jazz Pedagogy & Performance Music Theory Musicology (minor), Music Education Jazz, Contemporary Media Studies Organ & Music Theory UMass Amherst Management Information Organizational Behavior Systems UMass Amherst Management Information Leadership and Organizational Development Systems Amherst College Mount Holyoke College UMass Amherst Mount Holyoke College Metaphysics Visiting Assistant Professor Hampshire School of of Political Philosophy Critical Social Inquiry Hampshire School of Assistant Professor of Humanity, Arts Photography & Culture Physics Brokk Toggerson Lecturer UMass Amherst Political Science Justin Gross Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Political Science Rebecca Hamlin Assistant Professor UMass Amherst experimental particle physics Statistics and Public Policy Political Science, Public Law, American Government, Comparative Studies Public Law, Migration Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2015-2016 Academic Year Department First name Last name Title Campus Political Science Leila Kawar Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Political Science Robert Paul Musgrave Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Political Science Jamie Rowen Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Mount Holyoke College Politics Politics Psychological & Brain Sciences Psychological & Brain Sciences Psychology Psychology Psychology Ali Bernard Aslam Forjwuor Visiting Lecturer in Politics Mount Holyoke Fellow; Visiting Lecturer of Politics Primary subfield within Any additional areas of scholarly discipline or department interest/specialization Public Law, Law and Society, Migration and Citizenship Government, International Relations International Criminal Law, Theories of Criminal Justice, Legal Regulation of Morality, Restorative Justice Democratic theory and practice, social movements Comparative ethnic and racial politics; African politics; critical race theory; black political theory; contemporary political theory Mount Holyoke College developmental psychology Kirby Deater-Deckard Professor UMass Amherst Jinyoung Park Davis Assistant Professor Visiting Lecturer in Psychology & Education UMass Amherst Mount Holyoke College DiBianca Fasoli Visiting Lecturer in Psychology and Education Mount Holyoke College Meaning in Life, Authenticity, Wellbeing Developmental Psychology, Cultural psychology, moral psychology and development, children's social interaction, language socialization Mount Holyoke College Functions of emotions in shaping social behavior and decisions; interplay of emotions and nonverbal behavior; Design and evaluation of gratitude interventions to promote wellbeing; role of nonconscious mimicry in social interactions William Allison Leah Dickens Visiting Instructor in Psychology and Education social psychology Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2015-2016 Academic Year Department First name Last name Title Campus Psychology Deborah Holoien Psychology Public Health Megan Andrea McCarty Ayvazian Assistant Professor of Amherst College Psychology Robert E. Keiter 1957 Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Amherst College Lecturer UMass Amherst Taylor Five College Fellow; Visiting Mount Holyoke Instructor in Religion College Resource Economics Jamie Mullins Assistant Professor Social Entrepreneurship Daniel Ross UMass Amherst Hampshire College Visiting Assistant Professor School for of Social Entrepreneurship Interdisciplinary Arts Sociology Sociology Sancha Mark Medwinter Puchucki Assistant Professor Assistant Professor UMass Amherst UMass Amherst Sociology Ofer Sharone Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Religion Sarah Sociology Kathryne Young Sociology & Anthropology Nicole Wild Frederick Aldama Visiting Lecturer in Mount Holyoke Sociology & Anthropology College John J. McCloy ’16 Professor Amherst College of Spanish David Rodriguez-Solás Assistant Professor Spanish Spanish & Portuguese (LLC) Assistant Professor Primary subfield within Any additional areas of scholarly discipline or department interest/specialization environmental & natural resource economics Social Theory, Research Methods, Social Problems Work and Inequality, Sociological Theory, Gender and Work Sociology of Law, Sociology of Law, Social Psychology, legal and rights consciousness, qualitative research methods, crime and deviance, culture and the law, sexual orientation, rural sociology media, politics, humor, popular culture, conspiracies, and moral panics UMass Amherst UMass Amherst 18th-21st C. Peninsular Spanish Literature Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literature & Language Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2015-2016 Academic Year Department First name Spanish, Latina/o, & Latin American Studies Dimaris Spanish, Latina/o, & Latin American Studies Jesus Spanish, Latina/o, & Latin American Studies Ana Spanish, Latina/o, & Latin American Studies Vanessa Last name Title Campus Primary subfield within Any additional areas of scholarly discipline or department interest/specialization Barrios-Beltran Visiting Language Instructor Mount Holyoke in Spanish College Syntax and Semantics, First and second language acquisition, bilingualism, typical and atypical language acquisition, specific language impairment Hernandez Visiting Lecturer in Spanish, Latina/o, & Latin American Mount Holyoke Studies College Latina/o studies, American/ethnic studies, literary studies, diaspora studies, cultural studies Rosa Mount Holyoke Fellow; Visiting Lecturer in Latina Studies Mount Holyoke Fellow; Visiting Lecturer in Latina Studies undocumented student and immigration laws; Latina/o education access, retention and persistence; history of social and education inequalities; racial microaggressions in education, identity development and negotiation race and ethnicity, citizenship, cities, housing policy, political participation Lopez Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke College Sport Management Liz Delia Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Sport Management Matt Katz Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Sport Management Nicole Melton Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Sport Management Will Norton Data Science soil science Statistical & Data Sciences Amelia McNamara Lecturer UMass Amherst Visiting Assistant Professor of Data Science, MassMutual faculty Fellow Smith College Stockbridge School of Agriculture Marco Keiluweit Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Computer Programming and Design, Data Visualization, Statistical Softwares Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2015-2016 Academic Year Department First name Student Development/Colleg e of Education John Student Development/Colleg e of Education Michelle Study of Women and Jennifer Gender Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies/College of Education Muhammad Theater Jessica Last name Title Campus Primary subfield within Any additional areas of scholarly discipline or department interest/specialization Hosp Professor UMass Amherst Special Education Hosp Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Special Education Smith College African American historical fiction, documentary and narrative films Queer Studies and Queer as well as African American visual Theory art UMass Amherst UMass Amherst Language, Literacy and Culture Costume Design DeClue Naeem Butt Ford Theater and Dance Peter Schmitz Theatre Laura Donovan Theatre Talya Kingston Theatre Mei Ann Teo Theatre Ashley Tyler Theatre Jonathan Yukich Assistant Professor Visiting Scholar Assistant Professor Visiting Resident Artist of Theater and Dance Amherst College Mount Holyoke Guest Artist in Theatre Arts College Hampshire College Visiting Assistant Professor School for of Theatre Interdisciplinary Arts Hampshire College Assistant Professor of School for Theatre Interdisciplinary Arts Guest Designer in Theatre Mount Holyoke Arts College Mount Holyoke Guest Artist in Theatre Arts College Metal Sculpture Studies Playwriting, dramatic literature, dramatic structure
