We want to welcome our 30 new faculty to the college! Read more about them below. 'UNL New Faculty 2016-17' is available here.
Arthur Andrews
Psychology and Ethnic Studies
Ph.D., University of Arkansas, 2014; M.A., University of Arkansas, 2010; B.S., Oklahoma State University, 2008; B.A., Oklahoma State University, 2008. Focus: Latino mental health and service disparities.
Hamid Bagheri
Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2013; M.S., Sharif University of Technology, 2008; B.S., University of Tehran, 2005. Focus: Software engineering.
Carolyn Brown Kramer
Psychology
Ph.D., University of Nebraska– Lincoln, 2009; M.A., University of Nebraska– Lincoln, 2007; B.A., Doane College, 2004. Focus: Social and political psychology, teaching pedagogy.
Rebecca Buller
Geography
Ph.D., University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 2009; M.A., University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 2004; B.S., University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 2003. Focus: Historical and cultural geography of the Great Plains, human trafficking.
Kelsy Burke
Sociology.
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2013; M.A., University of Pittsburgh, 2009; B.A., Eastern Connecticut State University, 2006. Focus: Sexualities and gender, religion.
Kathy Chiou
Psychology.
Ph.D., Penn State University, 2013; M.S., Penn State University, 2009; B.A., University of California Berkeley, 2004. Focus: Adult clinical neuropsychology.
Stephen Cooper
Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management
Computer Science and Engineering. Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1997; M.S., Syracuse, 1992; B.S., Cornell University, 1988. Focus: computer science education, programming with Alice.
Huijing Du
Mathematics
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2013. Focus: Computational and mathematical biological modeling, interdisciplinary applied mathematics.
Irina Filina
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 2007; M.S., Saint Petersburg State University, 1998; B.S., Saint Petersburg State University, 1995. Focus: Geophysics, global tectonics, geodynamics.
Julia Frengs
Modern Languages and Literatures
Ph.D., University of Maryland- College Park, 2013; M.A., University of Oklahoma, 2009; B.A., University of Oklahoma, 2005. Focus: Francophone literature of the Pacific and Caribbean Oceans.
Brady Garvin
Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D., University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 2016; M.S., University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 2009; B.S., University of Nebraska– Lincoln, 2016. Focus: Software engineering.
Rachel Goodman
Philosophy
Ph.D.,University of Chicago, 2013; M.A., University of Chicago, 2008; B.A., University of Sydney, 2004. Focus: Philosophy of mind.
Rebecca Harbison
Physics and Astronomy
Ph.D., Cornell University, 2014; M.S., Cornell University, 2007; B.S., University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 2005. Focus: Planetary astronomy.
Mark Holden
Psychology
Ph.D., Temple University, 2011; B.S., University of Alberta, 2006. Focus: Cognitive psychology, perception, human memory, individual differences, teaching of psychology.
Margaret Huettl
History, Ethnic Studies
Ph.D., University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2016; M.A., University of Oklahoma, 2010; B.A., University of Rochester, 2008. Focus: Nineteenth and twentieth century Native American history.
Bilal Khan
Sociology
Ph.D., City University of New York, 2003; M.S., Johns Hopkins University, 1999; B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993. Focus: Network dynamics, computational social science, wireless networks, graph theory, combinatorics.
Ursula Kreitmair
Political Science
Ph.D., Indiana University, 2016; M.S., London School of Economics, 2006; M.S., University College London, 2010; B.A., University of Oxford, 2005. Focus: Environmental policy, behavioral economics, behavioral public policy.
Tri Lai
Mathematics
Ph.D., Indiana University, 2014; B.S., Hanoi University of Science, Vietnam, 2005. Focus: Combinatorics.
Matthew Loar
Classics and Religious Studies
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2015; M.St., University of Oxford (Kellogg College), 2009; B.A., Washington and Lee University, 2007. Focus: Roman myth, ancient graffiti.
Ng’ang’a Muchiri
English
Ph.D., University of Miami, 2015; M.A., University of Miami, 2012; B.A., Lafayette College, 2009. Focus: African literature, East African land rights.
Max Mueller
Classics and Religious Studies
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2015; M.A., Harvard Divinity School, 2008; B.A., Carleton College, 2003. Focus: American religious history; race, ethnicity, and religion; religion and politics; media and religion; history of the American West.
ThanhVu (Vu) Nguyen
Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 2014; M.S., Penn State University, 2006; B.S., Penn State University, 2003. Focus: Software engineering, program analysis and verification.
Xavier Pérez Giménez
Mathematics
Ph.D., Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Barcelonatech, 2007. Focus: Probabilistic combinatorics.
Ingrid Robyn
Modern Languages and Literatures, Institute for Ethnic Studies
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 2012; M.A., The University of Texas at Austin, 2007; B.A., Universidade de São Paulo, 2002.
Luis Rosa Rodriguez
Modern Languages and Literatures, Institute for Ethnic Studies
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2012; B.A., Princeton University, 2007; B.A., Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, 2005. Focus: Latin American literature, anarchism, feminism.
Patricia Simpson
Modern Languages and Literatures
Ph.D., Yale University, 1988; M.A., Yale University, 1985; B.A., Smith College, 1980. Focus: German studies and international education.
Olha Tytarenko
Modern Languages and Literatures
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2016; M.A., Penn State University, 2008; B.A., Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine, 2004. Focus: Lincoln Russian literature.
Hope Wabuke
English
M.F.A., New York University, 2007; B.S., Northwestern University, 2002. Focus: Creative writing (poetry, nonfiction); African and diasporic literature.
Deadric Williams
Sociology
Ph.D., University of Nebraska– Lincoln, 2014; M.S., Mississippi State University, 2009; B.A., Mississippi State University, 2006. Focus: Sociology of families, health disparities, social inequality.
Sijia Yao
Modern Languages and Literatures
Ph.D., Purdue University, 2016; M.A., University of North Alabama, 2011; B.A., Hangzhou Normal University, 2005. Focus: Chinese studies, teaching Chinese as a foreign language, cultural studies.
