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New Faculty Members Announced


As of July 1, the campus has added 36 new ladder faculty to 17 departments, according to the Office of Academic Personnel. A partial list includes:

Tamar Afifi, assistant professor, communication

Walid Afifi, associate professor, communication

Paul Atzberger, assistant professor, mathematics

Philip Babcock, acting assistant professor, economics

Clarence Barlow, professor, music

Maria Bueno Cachadina, lecturer (PSOE), mathematics/CCS

Vikram Deshpande, associate professor, mechanical engineering

Racha El Omari, acting assistant professor, religious studies

Claudio Fogu, assistant professor, French & Italian

Shelly Gable, associate professor, psychology

Scott Grafton, professor, psychology

Jonas Grethlein, assistant professor, classics

Sergei Gukov, associate professor, physics

John Hajda, assistant professor, music

Trevor Hayton, assistant professor, chemistry & biochemistry
Ken Hiltner, acting assistant professor, English

Jennifer Holt, assistant professor, film & media studies

Skirmantas Janusonis, assistant professor, psychology

Kalju Kahn, lecturer (PSOE), chemistry & biochemistry

James Kearney, assistant professor, English

Weerachart Kilenthong, acting assistant professor, economics

Gary Libecap, professor, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management/economics

Ann Beate Maurseth, assistant professor, French & Italian

David Morrison, professor, physics/mathematics

Karen Myers, assistant professor, communication

Erin Khue Ninh, assistant professor, Asian American studies

David Paul, assistant professor, music

Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky, assistant professor, sociology

Martin Raubal, assistant professor, geography

Victor Rios, assistant professor, sociology