Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to share with you good news about some of our esteemed colleagues. After a rigorous and lengthy review process, the following faculty and librarians have been appointed as newly endowed professors or achieved rank and tenure promotions for their contributions to teaching, service, and scholarly research.  

Endowed Professorships

• Yuling Yan, Bioengineering, Phil and Bobbie Sanfilippo Professor

Promotion to the Rank of Professor

• John Birmingham, Physics
• Rohit Chopra, Communication
• Linda Garber, Women’s & Gender Studies
• Christian Helmers, Economics
• Brian Love, Law
• Haibing Lu, Information Systems and Analytics
• Lee Panich, Anthropology
• Guy Ramon, Physics
• Jennifer Woolley, Management and Entrepreneurship

Awarded Tenure and Promotion to the Rank of Associate Professor

• Margareta Ackerman, Computer Science and Engineering
• Jamie Chang, Public Health Science
• Christopher Hadley, S.J., Jesuit School of Theology
• Lindsay Halladay, Psychology
• Michael Hartglass, Mathematics and Computer Science
• Maryam Khanbaghi, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Sara Krehbiel, Mathematics and Computer Science
• Samuel Lee, Finance
• Kirstyn Leuner, English
• Bachana Lomsadze, Physics
• Karen Peterson-Iyer, Religious Studies
• Kirsten Read, Psychology
• Katherine Sun, Education

Promotion to the Rank of Senior Lecturer

• Jeffrey Bracco, Theatre and Dance
• Laura Callahan, Modern Languages and Literatures
• Ryan Carrington, Art and Art History
• Dawn Hart, Biology
• Jacquelyn Hendricks, English
• Natalie Linnell, Mathematics and Computer Science
• Pauline Locsin-Kanter, Theatre and Dance
• Sandy Piderit, Management and Entrepreneurship

Promotion to the Rank of Clinical Professor of Law

• Devin Kinyon, Law
• Laura Lee Norris, Law

Promotion to the Rank of Associate Librarian

• Anna Yang

I thank each of these faculty members and librarians for their hard work, passion and dedication to their students, their disciplines and the University. Let me also express my gratitude to the numerous members of the rank and tenure committees at all levels of the University. The committees require great attention and care throughout the process, and I am grateful to each of the members for fulfilling their commitment so generously for the good of the University. 

Please join me in congratulating our colleagues and thanking them for a job well done.

Sincerely,

Julie Sullivan
President