
35 Faculty, two librarians receive promotion and tenure
Miami University’s board of trustees approved the promotion and/or tenure of 35 faculty members and two librarians at its Feb. 16 meeting. The actions take effect July 1, 2018.
For Promotion to Professor:
Catherine Almquist, chemical, paper and biomedical engineering
Bryan Ashenbaum, management
Nazan Bautista, teacher education
Bruce Drushel, media, journalism and film
Anne Farrell, accountancy
Julia Guichard, theatre
Lena Lee, teacher education
Heidi McKee, English
Terry Nixon, finance
Vaishali Raval, psychology
Nicole Thesz, GRAMELAC
Kumar Vikram Singh, mechanical and manufacturing engineering
Lisa Weems, educational leadership
For Tenure and Promotion to Professor:
Jessica Sparks, chemical, paper and biomedical engineering
For Tenure
Tim Holcomb, management
For Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor:
Jason Berberich, chemical, paper and biomedical engineering
Dawn Blitz, biology
Per Bloland, music
Po-Chang Chen, accountancy
Elise Clerkin, psychology
Theresa Ervin Conover, justice and community studies
Linh Dich, English/languages, literatures and writing
Caleb Eckhardt, mathematics
John Forren, justice and community studies
Tyler Henry, finance
Anthony James Jr., family science and social work
Ziying Jiang, geography/social and behavioral sciences
Thomas Mays, commerce
Stephanie Nicely, nursing
Richard Page, chemistry and biochemistry
David Perez II, educational leadership
DJ (Dhananjai) Rao, computer science and software engineering
John Schaefer, anthropology/social and behavioral sciences
April Smith, psychology
Leland Spencer, interdisciplinary and communication studies