26 tenure-track faculty join Bucknell teaching ranks
Zhiqun Zhu, one of the 26 new tenure-track faculty joining Bucknell this semester.
Posted: September 22, 2008
LEWISBURG, Pa. – A former middle school choir teacher. A passionate collector of fossil snails. A freed Ethiopian political prisoner. All of these and more are among the 26 new tenure-track professors who joined the Bucknell University faculty this fall.
Representing 17 departments across the University's College of Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering and School of Management, the new faculty members have research interests ranging from Indonesian music and dance to methods for measuring atomic-scale magnetic fields to China's relationships with the 21st-century world.
“Despite their disparate academic interests, all share a passion for teaching and for challenging their students to deliver their best,” said Provost Mick Smyer. “Whether students enroll in Alexandra Block's literature class on John Donne, Mark Haussmann’s biology classes on aging, Jessica Newlin’s civil engineering classes on bridge safety, Atiya Kai Stokes-Brown's political science classes on disenfranchised voters, or Jordi Comas’s management classes on social networks our students can expect to be pushed to think in new ways and to develop the critical thinking skills necessary for personal and professional success.”
New teaching load
Fourteen of the professors were hired into new positions created to help fulfill Bucknell's goal of transitioning from a teaching load of six courses per year to five to allow faculty to spend more time with their students and working on their scholarship and research. The other 12 new hires replace professors who have retired or left the University.
Below are links to online profiles on the new professors:
Erdogan Bakir
Department of Economics
Alexandra Block
Department of English
Jose Cardenas Bunsen
Department of Spanish
Bethany Collier
Department of Music
Jordi Comas
Department of Management
Anjalee Deshpande-Nadkarni
Department of Theatre and Dance
Doug Gabauer
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mark Haussmann
Department of Biology
James Higbie
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Robert Jacob
Department of Geology
John Kloke
Department of Mathematics
Jason Leddington
Department of Philosophy
Barry Long
Department of Music
Elizabeth Marin
Department of Biology
Dustyn Martincich
Department of Theatre and Dance
Jason McCloskey
Department of Spanish
Berhanu Nega
Department of Economics
Jessica Newlin
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Adam Piggott
Department of Mathematics
Greta Polites
Department of Management
Tom Selby
Department of Chemistry
Atiya Stokes-Brown
Department of Political Science
Bridget Sweet
Department of Music
Ruth Tincoff
Department of Psychology
Brandon Vogel
Department of Chemical Engineering
Zhiqun Zhu
Departments of Political Science and International Relations
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