The University of Connecticut Office of the Provost is pleased to announce the award of promotion and/or tenure to 91 faculty across its multiple 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.
The listing of faculty promoted and/or granted tenure is listed below, organized by school, college, or other academic unit. Please join us in congratulating our colleagues on this momentous occasion.
Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources
Promotion To Professor
Jason Henderson, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
Elaine Lee, Kinesiology
Charles Towe, Agriculture and Resource Economics
Promotion To Associate Professor
Neha Mishra, Pathobiology and Veterinary Sciences
Promotion To Associate Professor And Tenure
Sohyun Park, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
Haiying Tao, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
Promotion To Associate Professor In-Residence
Maryclaire Capetta, Kinesiology
Eleni Diakogeorgiou, Kinesiology
Promotion To Extension Professor
Thomas Worthley, Extension
Promotion To Associate Cooperative Extension Educator
Shuresh Ghimire, Extension
Business
Promotion To Professor
Resul Cesur, Finance
Vishal Narayan, Marketing
Promotion To Associate Professor And Tenure
Stefan Hock, Marketing
Chrstina Kan, Marketing
Tao Lu, Operations and Information Management
Promotion To Associate Professor In-Residence
Alexander Amati, Finance
Engineering
Promotion To Professor
Ali Bazzi, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Kay Wille, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Liang Zhang, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Promotion To Associate Professor And Tenure
Derek Aguiar, Computing
Necmi Biyikli, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Kristin Morgan, Biomedical Engineering
Sina Shahbazmohamadi, Biomedical Engineering
Xueju Wang, Materials Science & Engineering
Yuanyuan Zhu, Materials Science & Engineering
Yi Zhang, Biomedical Engineering
Tenure As Associate Professor
Shalabh Gupta, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Promotion To Professor In-Residence
Reza Sheikhi, Mechanical, Aerospace & Manufacturing Engineering
Fine Arts
Promotion to Professor
Solomiya Ivakhiv, Music
Promotion to Associate Professor and Tenure
Jennifer Scapetis-Tycer, Dramatic Arts
Sophie Shao, Music
Alexander Woodward, Dramatic Arts
Law
Promotion To Professor And Tenure
Jessica De Perio Wittman
Promotion To Clinical Professor
Mary Beattie
Promotion To Associate Clinical Professor
Ashley Armstrong
Rachel Reeves
Rachel Timm
Liberal Arts and Sciences
Promotion To Professor
David Embrick, Sociology
Delia Furtado, Economics
Debarchana Ghosh, Geography
Julie Granger, Marine Sciences
Jason Hancock, Physics
Jie He, Chemistry
Nicholas Leadbeater, Chemistry
Marcus Rossberg, Philosophy
Beth Russell, Human Dev And Family Sciences
Michael Whitney, Marine Sciences
Sarah Willen, Anthropology
Yaowu Yuan, Ecology And Evolutionary Biology
Jing Zhao, Chemistry
Promotion To Associate Professor And Tenure
Dexter Gabriel, History
Aoife Heaslip, Molecular And Cell Biology
Sean Li, Mathematics
Daniel McCarron, Physics
Linnaea Ostroff, Physiology And Neurobiology
Alexandra Paxton, Psychological Sciences
Evan Perkoski, Political Science
Debapriya Sarkar, English
Ilya Sochnikov, Physics
Clay Tabor, Earth Sciences
Tracy Llanera, Philosophy
Xiang Chen, Geography
Tenure As Associate Professor
Scott Wallace, Journalism
Promotion To Professor In-Residence
Lisa Blansett, English
Michael Finiguerra, Ecology And Evolutionary Biology
Susan Herrick, Ecology And Evolutionary Biology
Sherry Zane, Women’s Gender And Sexuality Studies
Promotion To Associate Professor In-Residence
Jessica Dafhne Aguirre, Chemistry
Anne Basaran, Communication
Tianxu Chen, Economics
Sarah Decapua, English
Jeffrey Divino, Physiology And Neurobiology
Vindya Pathirana, Mathematics
Promotion To Clinical Professor
Nicole Gallagher, Speech, Language, And Hearing Sciences
Promotion To Associate Clinical Professor
Kacie Wittke, Speech, Language, And Hearing Sciences
Promotion To Associate Research Professor
Jamie Vaudrey, Marine Sciences
Library
Promotion To Librarian 2
Thomas Lee
Promotion To Librarian 3
Roslyn Grandy, Roslyn
Hilary Kraus, Hilary
Edward Junhao Lim
Renee Walsh
Neag School of Education
Promotion to Professor
Alyssa Hadley Dunn, Curriculum and Instruction
Devin Kearns, Educational Psychology
Allison Lombardi, Educational Psychology
Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead, Educational Psychology
Jennie Weiner, Educational Leadership
Promotion to Associate Professor and Tenure
Grace Player, Curriculum and Instruction
Nursing
Promotion To Associate Professor and Tenure
Louise Reagan
Promotion to Associate Clinical Professor
Valarie Artigas
Denise Bourassa
Social Work
Promotion to Professor
Kathryn Libal
