2017 Promoted and Tenured Faculty
Achieving promotion and tenure mark significant milestones for the faculty at NC State. Promotion assigns a new rank for faculty members, and tenure acknowledges notable career accomplishments and promotes the academic freedom of the faculty.
Our faculty support NC State’s mission by fulfilling their calling to teach and lead in and outside the classroom and lab,” said Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Warwick Arden. “We remain committed to supporting their career success, which in turn creates a world-class academic atmosphere on campus.”
Promoted and tenured faculty continue to create a legacy that makes the university a premier higher education institution where people from all over the world come to research, teach, learn and serve.
“Each faculty member who achieves senior rank or an award of permanent tenure is strengthening NC State’s academic reputation,” said Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs Katharine Stewart. “What they accomplish here reaches far beyond the lab or classroom by affecting what they and their students go on to achieve in the community.”
Congratulations to the following faculty members for reaching for reaching these important points in their respective careers.
Newly Promoted Faculty
- Peter Askim, teaching associate professor, music
- Tiffany Barnes, professor, computer science
- Gary Beckman, teaching professor, music
- Autumn Belk, teaching associate professor, health and exercise studies
- Jason Bocarro, professor, parks, recreation and tourism management
- David Buchwalter, professor, biological sciences
- Hannah Burrack, professor, entomology and plant pathology
- Cheryl Cass, teaching associate professor, materials science and engineering
- Richard Clerkin, professor, public and international affairs
- Matthew Cooper, teaching associate professor, chemical and biomolecular engineering
- Christina Cowger, USDA research professor, entomology and plant pathology
- David Crouse, professor, crop and soil sciences
- Jessica DeCuir-Gunby, professor, teacher education and learning sciences
- Peter Early, clinical professor, clinical sciences
- Ahmed El-Shafei, professor, textile engineering, chemistry and science
- Tiegang Fang, professor, mechanical and aerospace engineering
- Elizabeth Fath, teaching associate professor, health and exercise studies
- Valerie Faulkner, teaching associate professor, teacher education and learning sciences
- Robert Franks, professor, plant and microbial biology
- Marian-Elizabeth Gardner, teaching professor, biological sciences
- Marsha Gordon, professor, English
- Russell Gorga, professor, textile engineering, chemistry and science
- Abhinav Gupta, professor, civil, construction and environmental engineering
- Rachana Gupta, teaching associate professor, electrical and computer engineering
- Joshua Heitman, professor, crop and soil sciences
- David Hill, professor, architecture
- He Huang, professor, biomedical engineering
- Rebecca Irwin, professor, applied ecology
- Jessica Jameson, professor, communication
- Robert Jetton, research associate professor, forestry and environmental resources
- Jeffrey Joines, professor, textile engineering, chemistry and science
- Sharon Melissa Joines, professor, graphic design and industrial design
- Thomas Koch, teaching associate professor, music
- Thomas LaBean, professor, materials science and engineering
- Jennifer Landin, teaching associate professor, biological sciences
- Craig Layman, professor, applied ecology
- Keith Linder, clinical professor, population health and pathology
- Edwin Lindsay, teaching associate professor, parks, recreation and tourism management
- Maria Mayorga, professor, industrial and systems engineering
- Steven McDonald, professor, sociology and anthropology
- Mark Megalos, extension professor, forestry and environmental resources
- Nicholas Meskhidze, professor, marine, earth and atmospheric sciences
- Tamah Morant, teaching professor, economics
- Stacy Arnold Nelson, professor, forestry and environmental resources
- Elizabeth Nichols, professor, forestry and environmental resources
- Asko Noormets, research professor, forestry and environmental resources
- Kevin Oliver, professor, teacher education and learning sciences
- Omer Oralkan, professor, electrical and computer engineering
- Lara Pacifici, teaching associate professor, forestry and environmental resources
- Melissa Pasquinelli, professor, textile engineering, chemistry and science
- Imara Perera, research professor, plant and microbial biology
- Lysa Posner, professor, molecular biomedical sciences
- Bobby Puryear, teaching professor, economics
- Roderick Rejesus, professor, agricultural and resource economics
- Robert Riehn, professor, physics
- Gabriela Seiler, professor, molecular biomedical sciences
- Danesha Seth Carley, research associate professor, horticultural science
- Angela Smith, teaching associate professor, educational leadership, policy and human development
- Robert St. Amant, professor, computer science
- David Sturgill, teaching associate professor, computer science
- Mark Walker, professor, business management
- Leonard White, professor of the practice, electrical and computer engineering
- Deyu Xie, professor, plant and microbial biology
- Wenqiao Yuan, professor, biological and agricultural engineering
- Yong Zhu, professor, mechanical and aerospace engineering
Newly Tenured Faculty
- Helen Armstrong, associate professor, graphic design and industrial design
- Wolfgang Baeumer, associate professor, molecular biomedical sciences
- Chase Beisel, associate professor, chemical and biomolecular engineering
- Lorena Bociu, associate professor, mathematics
- Belle Boggs, associate professor, English
- Igor Bolotnov, associate professor, nuclear engineering
- Jennifer Burnette, associate professor, psychology
- Chih-Hao Chang, associate professor, mechanical and aerospace engineering
- Ramon Collazo, associate professor, materials science and engineering
- Emiel DenHartog, associate professor, textile engineering, chemistry and science
- Kimberly Ebert, associate professor, sociology and anthropology
- Wesley Everman, associate professor, crop and soil sciences
- Casie Fedukovich, associate professor, English
- Dana Gulling, associate professor, architecture
- James Aaron Hipp, associate professor, parks, recreation and tourism management
- Nathaniel Isaacson, associate professor, foreign languages and literatures
- Megan Jacob, associate professor, population health and pathology
- Katherine Jennings, associate professor, horticultural science
- Yun Jing, associate professor, mechanical and aerospace engineering
- Jesse Jur, associate professor, textile engineering, chemistry and science
- Mark Knauer, associate professor, animal science
- Slavko Komarnytsky, associate professor, food, bioprocessing and nutrition sciences
- Alexander Krings, associate professor, plant and microbial biology
- Matthew Lammi, associate professor, science, technology, engineering and mathematics education
- Randall Langerhans, associate professor, biological sciences
- Cristina Lanzas, associate professor, population health and pathobiology
- Xu Li, associate professor, plant and microbial biology
- Yunan Liu, associate professor, industrial and systems engineering
- Edgar Lobaton, associate professor, electrical and computer engineering
- Terri Long, associate professor, plant and microbial biology
- Anna Manzoni, associate professor, sociology and anthropology
- Bruce McDonald, associate professor, public and international affairs
- Sujata Mody, associate professor, foreign languages and literatures
- Brendan O’Connor, associate professor, mechanical and aerospace engineering
- Jeffrey Pollack, associate professor, management, innovation and entrepreneurship
- Daniel Poole, associate professor, animal science
- Mohammad Pour-Ghaz, associate professor, civil, construction and environmental engineering
- Stephen Puryear, associate professor, philosophy and religious studies
- Sara Queen, associate professor, architecture
- David Reif, associate professor, biological sciences
- Kathleen Rieder, associate professor, art and design
- Marc Russo, associate professor, art and design
- Katherine Saul, associate professor, mechanical and aerospace engineering
- Astrid Schnetzer, associate professor, marine, earth and atmospheric sciences
- Regina Schoenfeld, associate professor, molecular biomedical sciences
- Rohan Shirwaiker, associate professor, industrial and systems engineering
- Noah Strote, associate professor, history
- Temple Walkowiak, associate professor, teacher education and learning sciences
- Hong Wang, associate professor, physics
- James Zink, associate professor, public and international affairs
