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P. 2 Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture

P. 2 College of Arts & Sciences

P. 7 College of Atmospheric and Geographic Science

P. 8 Michael F. Price College of Business

P. 10 Mewbourne College of Earth & Energy

P. 10 Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education

P. 12 Gallogly College of Engineering

P. 14 Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts

P. 15 Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication

2019 New Faculty Profiles

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Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture

Francesco CianfaraniLecturer, PhD, Sapienza University of Rome

Dept: Architecture

Academic & Research Interests: Modern Architectural Heritage and Trans-formation, Unbuilding Practices, Urban and Architectural Shrinkage

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Arts, Geography, History

Personal Interests: Music and Hiking

Anthony LevendaAssistant Professor, PhD, Portland State University

Dept: Urban Studies and Planning

Academic & Research Interests: Urban sustainability, urban politics, energy systems, political ecology, climate change, resilience, environmental justice, political economy, digital infrastructures, qualitative methods, critical theo-ry, community-driven research Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Climate change researchers, carbon footprint analysis, material flow assessments, environmental justice organizers, climate resilience researchers, urban planning and architecture

Personal Interests: Basketball, cycling, architecture, music, cooking, car-pentry

College of Arts & Sciences

Andrea BenjaminAssociate Professor, PhD, University of Michigan

Dept: African and African American Studies

Academic & Research Interests: Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. Local Poli-tics. Community Engagement.

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Political Science, Sociology, Criminology, Social Work, Public Policy

Personal Interests: I like to host fun dinner parties. I enjoy cooking and making craft cocktails. I like to read for fun. I love to travel and experience new places.

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College of Arts & Sciences

Grant BiedermannAssociate Professor, PhD, Stanford University

Dept: Physics and Astronomy

Academic & Research Interests: Matterwave control and interference, entanglement, quantum information science with singly-controlled atoms Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Optical engineering, quantum chemistry, microfabrication, and quantum information science

Personal Interests: Outdoor recreation and mountain sports

Lois ColemanAssistant Professor, PhD, University of Mississippi

Dept: Health and Exercise Science

Academic & Research Interests: Minority Health, Health Disparities, Cross-cultural Influences on Health Behaviors and Health Outcomes, Body Image and Obesity, Child Nutrition/Federal Meal Programs, Fuzzy Cogni-tive Mapping Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Sociology/Anthropology, Native American and African American Studies, Nutrition, Statistics

Personal Interests: Family, Food, Travel, Sports

Dustin CondrenAssistant Professor, PhD, Stanford University

Dept: Modern Languages, Literatures and Linguistics

Academic & Research Interests: Literature and film, Russian and Soviet cinema, early twentieth-century Russian literature, cinema of Soviet Central Asia, European modernism, photography

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Humanities and the environment, performance

Personal Interests: My wife and son, reading novels, baseball, being outside, music, making photos

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College of Arts & Sciences

Kara De LeonAssistant Professor, PhD, Montana State University

Dept: Microbiology and Plant Biology

Academic & Research Interests: Attachment of bacteria to surfaces as biofilms Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Predictive modeling of microbial community structure and function in an environment

Personal Interests: Hiking, baking, reading, playing with my dogs

Lauren DuvalAssistant Professor, PhD, American University

Dept: History

Academic & Research Interests: Early America; American Revolution; women’s and gender history Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Women’s and Gender Studies

Personal Interests: Yoga, reading, travel, playing with my dog

Kalenda EatonAssociate Professor, PhD, The Ohio State University

Dept: The Clara Luper Department of African and African American Studies

Academic & Research Interests: Africana Literatures, Women’s Studies, the American West, the African Diaspora, Nationalism, Historical Fiction, Literary History, Critical Theory, International Education, Global Learning Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: English, Women’s and Gender Studies, African Studies Institute, International Studies, HistoryPersonal Interests: International travel, Music, Art History, Outdoor Adventures

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College of Arts & Sciences

Rachel JacksonAssistant Professor, PhD, University of Oklahoma

Dept: English

Academic & Research Interests: Native American and Cultural Studies, Rhetorical Theory, Decolonial Theory, and Critical Regionalism Transrhetorical Analysis and Qualitative Methodologies Community Writing, Digital Storytelling, and Digital Humanities Kiowa and Cherokee Languages Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Social Work, Anthropology, Geography, Architecture, Regional and City Planning Personal Interests: Nature, Travel, Gardening, Gems and Minerals, Silversmithing, Native American and Indigenous Art, and Native American Languages

Rusty JonesAssociate Professor, PhD, University of Oklahoma

Dept: Philosophy

Academic & Research Interests: Classical Greek Philosophy Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Classicists

Personal Interests: Running, hobby farm

Miroslav KramarAssistant Professor, PhD, Free University Amsterdam

Dept: Mathematics

Academic & Research Interests: Dynamical Systems, topological data analysis, Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Physics, chemistry, biology, meteorology, economy, social sciences

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College of Arts & Sciences

Kevin KurucAssistant Professor, PhD, University of Texas-Austin

Dept: Economics

Academic & Research Interests: Applied Macroeconomics; Environmental Economics Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Philosophy; Environmental StudiesPersonal Interests: Cooking; Motorcycle Riding; Hiking

Yu LuAssistant Professor, PhD, Pennsylvania State University

Dept: Health and Exercise Science

Academic & Research Interests: Relationship violence, substance use, health disparities, health intervention, mixed methods Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Relationship violence, substance use, health disparities, health intervention, mixed methods public health, social work, communication, international studies

Personal Interests: Spend time with family and friends, travel, read

Jonathan McFaddenAssistant Professor, PhD, Iowa State University

Dept: Economics

Academic & Research Interests: Environmental and resource economic, Data Science, Applied Industrial Organization

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Data Science, Risk and Resilience, Climate Science, Environmental Studies

Personal Interests: Running, Hiking, Cooking, Board games, Fiction

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College of Arts & Sciences

Ricardo Augusto Emmanuel MendesAssistant Professor, PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Dept: Mathematics

Academic & Research Interests:Differential Geometry, Invariant Theory

Caroline SchroederProfessor, PhD, Duke University

Dept: Classics and Letters

Academic & Research Interests: Digital humanities, data scholarship, late antiquity, history of Christianity, Egypt, asceticism, monasticism, women and gender studies, post-colonial studies

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Digital Humanities, data scholarship

College of Atmospheric and Geographic Science

Pierre-Emmanuel KirstetterAssociate Professor, PhD, Grenoble Alps University

Dept: School of Meteorology

Academic & Research Interests: Precipitation processes, variability and microphysics, Extreme precipitation and flood events, Radar and satellite remote sensing, Radar Meteorology - Radar Hydrology, Remote sensing of atmospheric water vapor for tropical and subtropical climates, Hydromete-orology, Applied mathematics, Statistics, Geostatistics. Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Hydrometeorology Hydrology

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College of Atmospheric and Geographic Science

Feng XuAssociate Professor, PhD, University of Rouen, France

Dept: School of Meteorology

Academic & Research Interests: Atmospheric remote sensing, Atmospher-ic radiative transfer, and Light scattering by small particles Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, College of Public Health Personal Interests: Reading, Fishing, and Spending time with family

Michael F. Price College of Business

Xuan FengAssistant Professor, PhD, Indiana University

Dept: Managemnet Information Systems

Academic & Research Interests: Information Systems and the impact of technology on organizational and individual performance Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Information Systems and the impact of technology on organizational and individual performance

Personal Interests: Cooking, badminton, and spending time with family

Heejin OhnAssistant Professor, PhD, University of Iowa

Dept: Accounting

Academic & Research Interests: Institutional investors, Real effects of disclosure, Capital market feedback

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Finance and Economics

Personal Interests: Weight lifting and rock climbing

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Michael F. Price College of Business

Xuhui (Nick) PanAssistant Professor, PhD, McGill University

Dept: Finance

Academic & Research Interests: My main research interests are empirical asset pricing and energy finance, in particular extracting economic information from financial derivatives. My main teaching interests include risk management, derivatives and investment with a focus on the commodity and energy asset markets. Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: My main research interests are empirical asset pricing and energy finance, in particular extracting economic information from financial derivatives. My main teaching interests include risk management, derivatives and investment with a focus on the commodity and energy asset markets. Personal Interests: Travel, hiking, reading, sports including tennis, swim, and tai chi.

Stella SeybAssistant Professor, PhD, Indiana University

Dept: Entrepreneurship and Economic Developement

Academic & Research Interests: Entrepreneurial opportunities; innovation; cognition; communities

Rajendra SinghAssociate Professor, PhD, Georgia State University

Dept: Management Information Systems

Academic & Research Interests: Information systems, health information technology, process innovation, business analytics, action research Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Healthcare management, public health, operations, digital innovation

Personal Interests: Cricket, blues music, gardening

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Michael F. Price College of Business

Jared StanfieldAssistant Professor, PhD, University of Washington

Dept: Finance

Academic & Research Interests: Corporate finance, Leveraged buyouts and private equity, Mergers and acquisitions, Social networks in finance, Government interaction with financial markets

Mewbourne College of Earth & Energy

Runar NygaardProfessor, PhD, University of Oslo

Dept: Petroleum Engineering

Academic & Research Interests: I am a petroleum Engineer where main interest is to construct safe and efficient conduits for subsurface energy harvesting (oil and gas and geothermal). Specific topics within that scope is Drilling Efficiency and Well Integrity, and Well Monitoring. Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Open to explore any new collab-orations.

Personal Interests: Hiking and biking.

Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education

Erin CaseyAssistant Professor, PhD, University of Arkansas

Dept: Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum

Academic & Research Interests: Early Childhood Education - Social Justice and Inquiry Learning Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Psychology

Personal Interests: Camping, hiking, kayaking, reading, playing guitar

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Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education

Brittany HottAssociate Professor, PhD, George Mason University

Dept: Educational Psychology

Academic & Research Interests: School-Based Interventions, Assessment and Measurement in Special Education Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Mathematics Education, Quantitative Psychology

Personal Interests: Ultra Running, Triathlon, Pilates

Emily KuntzAssistant Professor, PhD, Vanderbilt University

Dept: Educational Psychology

Academic & Research Interests: Inclusive education, Intellectual and de-velopmental disabilities, applied behavior analysis, collaboration, teacher preparation Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: STEM and reading instruction, Quantitative methodologies Personal Interests: Hiking, skiing, fly-fishing, real estate, cheering on the Nashville Predators, personal growth

Natalie YoungbullAssistant Professor, PhD, University of Arizona

Dept: Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

Academic & Research Interests: Indigenous higher education, Indigenous research methodologies, Native Nation Building, tribal colleges and universities (TCUs), intellectual leadership and capacity building within TCUs, and Native American/Indigenous student success

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Native American Studies, women and gender studies

Personal Interests: spending time with family and friends, participating in my tribal community events and activities, playing volleyball, watching movies, baking and crafting, and attending OU athletic events

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Gallogly College of Engineering

Dimitris DiochnosAssistant Professor, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago

Dept: Computer Science

Academic & Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, theoretical computer science. Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Psychology, Medicine, Other. - Question answering and evaluation of the responses by standard psychometric tests. - Applications of classification methods to images, text, or digital/analog signals. For example, classifying tumors in medical images as malicious or benign.

Personal Interests: Walking, Basketball, Movies, Chess.

Javier JoProfessor, PhD, University of Southern California - Los Angeles, CA

Dept: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Academic & Research Interests: The overall mission of Dr. Jo’s research program is to develop optical sensing and imaging technologies that will impact how we: (1) study pathophysiological mechanism underlying major human diseases; and (2) clinically manage patients suffering from these diseases. While most academic labs in the field of biomedical imaging focus on either instrumentation development or computational imaging science, Dr. Jo leads a very unique research program dedicated to ad-dress major unmet needs in both biomedical research and clinical practice through the design, development, and validation of both optical spectros-copy/imaging instrumentation and computational tools and methods for the nondestructive, non or minimally invasive morphological, molecular and physiological characterization of biological and engineered tissues at multiple spatial and temporal scales. He has received over $8 million in ex-ternal research funding as a PI/Co-PI from the National Institute of Health (NIH), the American Heart Association (AHA), the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), and the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Medicine, dentistry, oncology, dermatology, cardiology, computer science.

Personal Interests: Family, traveling, cycling, swimming, cooking, eating

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Gallogly College of Engineering

Pejman KazempoorAssistant Professor, PhD, Tarbiat Modares University

Dept: Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Academic & Research Interests: Sustainability, Emissions Reduction, En-ergy Efficiency, Natural Gas Life Cycle, Renewable Energy, Batteries and Fuel Cells, Energy Storage, Process Modeling & Optimization

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Internet of Things; Data Analytics; Artifical Intelligence; Automation and Control; Chemical Pro-cess Design & Integration; Measurement and Sensing, Additive Manufac-turing

Personal Interests: Internet of Things; Data Analytics; Artifical Intelli-gence; Automation and Control; Chemical Process Design & Integration; Measurement and Sensing, Additive Manufacturing Music, Western Arts, Ping Pong, Soccer, Travel, and Hiking

Martin KongAssistant Professor, PhD, Ohio State University

Dept: Computer Science

Academic & Research Interests: High-performance computing, compiler optimizations, domain specific computing, automatic parallelization and locality optimizations, polyhedral compilation, dataflow and task-paral-lelization Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Hardware is evolving to be highly heterogeneous and complex. This motivates the customization of techniques to the needs of each particular field (e.g. quantum chemistry, discontinuous galerkin methods, Lattice quantum chromo-dynamics). I’m interested in exploiting knowledge and information of each field/domain so that hardware resources (cpu cores, SIMD-units, FPGAs, GPUs, network bandwidth) can be efficiently used while minimizing the user/application scientist effort.

Personal Interests: Football/soccer (Real Madrid fan), baseball (New York Yankees fan), watched every single episode of Forensic Files.

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Gallogly College of Engineering

Talayeh RazzaghiAssistant Professor, PhD, University of Central Florida

Dept: Industrial Engineering

Academic & Research Interests: Data mining, machine learning, energy analytics, healthcare Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: energy, healthcare, data mining, machine learning

Personal Interests: Painting, hiking, watching movies

Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts

Melissa BaughmanAssistant Professor

Dept: School of Music

Boyko DossevAssistant Professor, Master of Science in Corporate and Orga-nizational Communication/Master of Fine Arts in Dance, Carn-egie Mellon University

Dept: School of Dance

Academic & Research Interests: My academic and research interests focus on the art of communication in all of its forms.

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: I desire to collaborate with as many schools and colleges as possible.

Personal Interests: Music, swimming, reading.

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Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts

Seth GordonProfessor, MFA, Carnegie Mellon University

Dept: Drama

Academic & Research Interests: Theatre Leadership, Non-Profit Leader-ship, Producing Plays, Directing Plays, Dramaturgy, New Play Development. Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: All arts schools, any discipline that may not be a traditional candidate for collaboration with a theatrical production.

Personal Interests: Theatre, Film, Literature, Non-Fiction, History.

Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication

Yoon Hi SungAssistant Professor, PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Dept: Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication

Academic & Research Interests: Digital advertising and technology, Cor-porate social responsibility Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Computer engineering, Statistics

Personal Interests: Travel, hike, and art

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