Forty-two new full-time faculty members began teaching at Elon Tuesday, Aug. 27, as the university opened its 113th academic year. Details and photos...
The new faculty members are listed below by schools:
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| Jaime Orejan, assistant professor of leisure/sport management. Bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from The University of Southern Mississippi. Previously taught at DeSales University |
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| Bird Stasz, associate professor of education. Bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College, master’s degree from the University of Vermont, and doctoral degree from Syracuse University. Previously taught at Wells College |
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| Hal Walker, associate professor of leisure/sport management. Bachelor’s degree from Brock University, master’s and doctoral degrees from The Ohio State University. Previously taught at Barry University. |
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| School of Communications | |
| Kelli Burns, instructor in communications. Bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University, master’s degree from Middle Tennessee State University. Currently enrolled in doctoral program at University of Florida. Previously taught at Middle Tennessee State University |
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| Nancy Engelhardt, assistant professor of communications. Bachelor’s degrees from Louisiana Tech University, master’s degree from Louisiana State University and doctoral degree from the University of Southern Mississippi. Previously served as senior communications manager for the World Wildlife Fund in Washington, D.C. |
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| Anthony Earl Hatcher, associate professor of communications. Bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, doctoral degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously taught at Pfeiffer University |
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| Harlen Makemson, assistant professor of communications. Bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas, master’s degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia and doctoral degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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| Michael Skube, assistant professor of communications. Bachelor’s degree from Louisiana State University. Recipient of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize in the category of Criticism, Skube previously taught at Indiana University |
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| Nadia Watts, instructor in communications. Bachelor’s degree from the College of William and Mary and master’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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| Martha and Spencer Love School of Business | |
| William Burpitt, associate professor of business administration. Bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia, doctoral degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously taught at Meredith College |
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| Arthur Cassill, professor of accounting. Bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Eastern Kentucky University, doctoral degree from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Previously taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
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| Casey DiRienzo, assistant professor of economics. Bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University and master’s degree from North Carolina State University. Recently completed her doctoral studies at North Carolina State University |
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| Sharon Hodge, assistant professor of business administration. Bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Old Dominion University and doctoral degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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| Earl Honeycutt Jr., professor of business administration. Bachelor’s degree from Appalachian State University, master’s degrees from Chapman College and Appalachian State and doctoral degree from the University of Georgia. Previously taught at Old Dominion University |
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| Joseph Meredith, assistant professor of finance. Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, master’s degree from Millsaps College, doctoral degree from the University of Mississippi. Recently completed his doctoral studies at the University of Mississippi |
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| David Noer, Frank S. Holt Jr. Professor of Business Leadership and professor of business administration. Bachelor’s degree from Gustavus Adolphus College, master’s degree from Pepperdine University and doctoral degree from The George Washington University. Previously worked for Noer Consulting, Inc., in Greensboro |
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| Robert Pavlik, associate professor of finance. Bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago and master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Houston. Previously taught at Southwest Texas State University |
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| Jennifer Platania, assistant professor of economics. Bachelor’s degree from West Virginia University and master’s and doctoral degrees from Florida State University. Previously taught at the University of West Florida |
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| Robert Sims, instructor in business administration. Bachelor’s degree from the University of Utah and master’s degree from the University of Oklahoma. Former adjunct faculty member and vice president of customer service at Nortel |
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| Alexander Yap, assistant professor of business administration. Bachelor’s degree from the University of the Philippines, master’s degrees from Williams College and the University of Exeter and doctoral degree from the Copenhagen Business School. Previously taught at Virginia Commonwealth University. |
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| Elon College, The College of Arts and Sciences | |
| Arts and Humanities | |
| Richard Branyon, assistant professor of English. Bachelor’s degrees from Clemson University, master’s degrees and doctoral degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University |
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| Hallie Coppedge, assistant professor of music and coordinator of vocal studies. Bachelor’s degree from Austin Peay State University, master’s degree from the University of Louisville and doctoral degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Previously served as an adjunct faculty member at Elon |
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| Michael Fels, assistant professor of art. Bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University and master’s degree from The Pennsylvania State University. Previously taught at Penn State |
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| Ryan Futrell, instructor in English. Bachelor’s degree from Cedarville College, master’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Previously served as an adjunct faculty member at Elon |
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| David Johnston, assistant professor of philosophy. Bachelor’s degree from Denison University, master’s and doctoral degrees from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Previously taught at Denison University |
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| Shouze Ma, assistant professor of performing arts. Master’s degree from the University of Iowa. Previously taught at the University of Minnesota. |
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| Carol Magee, Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow and assistant professor of art. Bachelor’s degree from San Francisco State University and master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Previously taught at Dickinson College |
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| Thomas Mould, assistant professor of English. Bachelor’s degree from Washington University and master’s and doctoral degrees from Indiana University. Previously served as an adjunct faculty member at Elon |
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| Paula Rosinski, assistant professor of English. Bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from Michigan State University. Previously taught at Michigan State |
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| Shane Shukis, instructor in English. Bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of North Texas. Previously served as an adjunct faculty member at Elon |
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| Scott Windham, instructor in foreign languages and director of the Language Media Center. Bachelor’s degree from Davidson College. Doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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| Sciences and Mathematics | |
| Cary Caruso, assistant professor of physics. Bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Southern Methodist University and doctoral degree from Cornell University. Previously taught at North Carolina Central University |
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| Anthony Crider, assistant professor of physics. Bachelor’s degree from Bowling Green State University and master’s and doctoral degrees from Rice University. Previously taught at American University |
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| David Duncan, assistant professor of mathematics. Bachelor’s degree from the College of Charleston and doctoral degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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| Douglas Stemke, assistant professor of biology. Bachelor’s degree from Southwest Texas State University and doctoral degree from Louisiana State University. Previously taught at Hanover College |
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| Kelly Marie Van Busum, instructor in computing sciences. Bachelor’s degree from DePauw University and master’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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| Social Sciences | |
| Julia Brandon, assistant professor of psychology. Bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado and master’s and doctoral degrees from North Carolina State University. Previously taught at North Carolina State University |
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| Bette Brownlow, assistant professor of psychology. Bachelor’s degree from East Carolina University, master’s degree from Slippery Rock University and doctoral degree from Nova Southeastern University. Previously served as an adjunct faculty member at Elon |
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| Michael Carignan, assistant professor of history. Bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from Michigan State University. Previously taught at Michigan State |
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| Joseph Scott Glass, assistant professor of human services. Bachelor’s degree from North Carolina State University, master’s degree from East Carolina University and doctoral degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
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| Tim Vercellotti, assistant professor of political science. Bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame, master’s degree from Columbia University and doctoral degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and served as an adjunct faculty member at Elon |
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| Honglin Xiao, instructor in geography. Bachelor’s degree from Yunnan University and master’s degree from Guizhou Normal University. Doctoral candidate at the University of Georgia. |
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Adjunct Faculty
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