Welcome new college faculty

September 20, 2016

New college faculty collage

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.