The University of Connecticut Office of the Provost is pleased to announce the award of promotion and/or tenure to 69 faculty across the Storrs and regional campuses.
Evaluations for promotion, tenure, and reappointment apply the highest standards of professional achievement in scholarship, teaching, and service for each faculty member evaluated. Applications for promotion and tenure are reviewed at the department level, school or college level, and finally at the Office of the Provost before recommendations are forwarded to the Board of Trustees.
This process involves significant work on the part of each faculty member, as well as assistance and support of colleagues and administrative staff who provide guidance and manage many of the logistics through each stage of the promotion and tenure cycle. It is a notable milestone for each faculty member awarded these promotions, as well as for their colleagues.
In a message to the UConn community, Provost Carl Lejuez congratulated the faculty on this achievement in their careers.
“This is one of the most significant moments in any academic’s career. I am so pleased to celebrate this occasion with each of our faculty gaining tenure and being promoted this year. Each of you represent the best of UConn across our campuses, and on the national and international stage.”
The listing of faculty promoted and/or granted tenure is listed below, organized by school, college or other academic unit.
College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
Promotion to Associate Professor and Tenure
- Robert Fahey, Natural Resources and the Environment
- Beth Lawrence, Natural Resources and the Environment
Promotion to Associate Professor In-Residence
- Laurie Devaney, Kinesiology
Promotion to Extension Educator
- Emily Wilson, Extension
Promotion to Professor
- Jessica Lubell-Brand, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
Promotion to Professor In-Residence
- Syma Ebbin, Agricultural and Resource Economics
School of Business
Promotion to Associate Professor and Tenure
- Hang Bai, Finance
- Shu He, Operations and Information Management
- Kelly Herd, Marketing
- Jaideep Shenoy, Finance
- Lingling Wang, Finance
Promotion to Associate Professor In-Residence
- Joshua Racca, Accounting
Promotion to Professor
- George Plesko, Accounting
Promotion to Professor In-Residence
- Michel Rakotomavo, Finance
Neag School of Education
Promotion to Associate Clinical Professor
- Justin Evanovich, Educational Leadership
Promotion to Professor
- Dorothea Anagnostopoulos, Curriculum and Instruction
- Hannah Dostal, Curriculum and Instruction
- Rachael Gabriel, Curriculum and Instruction
School of Engineering
Promotion to Associate Professor and Tenure
- Benjamin Fuller, Computer Science & Engineering
- Ying Li, Mechanical Engineering
- Thanh Nguyen, Mechanical Engineering
Promotion to Associate Professor In-Residence
- Mousumi Roy, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Promotion to Professor
- Arash Esmaili Zaghi, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Ali Gokirmak, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Tenure as Associate Professor
- Yupeng Chen, Biomedical Engineering
School of Fine Arts
Promotion to Associate Professor and Tenure
- Clarissa Ceglio, Digital Media & Design
- Oscar Guerra, Digital Media & Design
Promotion to Professor
- Robin Greeley, Art & Art History
- Eric Rice, Music
School of Law
Promotion to Professor and Tenure
- Kiel Brennan-Marquez
- John Cogan
- Miguel de Figueiredo
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Promotion to Associate Professor and Tenure
- Meina Cai, Political Science
- Leighton Core, Molecular and Cell Biology
- Sharde Davis, Communication
- Carlos Garcia-Robledo, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
- Adrian Garcia-Sierra, Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences
- Jungbin Hwang, Economics
- Karen Menuz, Physiology & Neurobiology
- Yonatan Morse, Political Science
- Nu-Anh Tran, History
Promotion to Associate Professor In-Residence
- Thomas Abbott, Molecular and Cell Biology
- Jason Courtmanche, English
- David Daggett, Molecular and Cell Biology
- Thomas Meade, Communication
- Linda Pelletier, Linguistics
- Patricia Rossi, Molecular and Cell Biology
- Natalia Smirnova, Economics
- Howard Winston, Physics
- Xian Wu, Physics
Promotion to Associate Research Professor
- Zofia Baumann, Marine Sciences
Promotion to Clinical Professor
- Terry Yanaway, Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences
Promotion to Professor
- Mary Bercaw-Edwards, English
- Deborah Bolnick, Anthropology
- Elena Dormidontova, Physics
- Anna Mae Duane, English
- David Lund, Marine Sciences
- Matthew Singer, Political Science
- Carlos Trallero, Physics
Promotion to Professor In-Residence
- Lloyd Blanchard, Public Policy
- Phoebe Godfrey, Sociology
- John Andrew Jolly-Ballantine, Geography
Library
Promotion to Librarian 3
- Michael Rodriguez
Promotion to Librarian 4
- Erika McNeil
School of Nursing
Promotion to Associate Professor and Tenure
- Ruth Lucas
School of Pharmacy
Promotion to Associate Professor and Tenure
- Raman Bahal, Pharmaceutical Sciences
Promotion to Professor
- Xiuling Lu, Pharmaceutical Sciences
Tenure as Associate Professor
- Adrian Hernandez, Pharmacy Practice
School of Social Work
Promotion to Professor
- Cristina Wilson
