Volume 57, Number 2    August 24, 2009         

New tenure-track faculty 2009-10

College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Aaron Belkin, associate professor of political science. Will teach courses in American politics and military studies. Ph.D. in political science from University of California, Berkeley. Most recent position: associate professor of political science at University of California, Santa Barbara. 

David M. Frost, assistant professor of sexuality studies. Will teach courses in sexuality studies.  Ph.D. candidate in social-personality psychology from City University of New York. Most recent position: adjunct lecturer at State University of New York, Purchase College.

Zuzana Janko, assistant professor of economics. Will teach courses in international finance and macroeconomics. Ph.D. in economics from University of California, Riverside. Most recent position: assistant professor at University of Calgary.

John Logan, associate professor of labor studies. Will teach courses in labor studies. Ph.D. in U.S. labor history from University of California, Davis. Most recent position: director of research and member of management team at the Labor Center, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at University of California, Berkeley.

Jason A. McDaniel, assistant professor of political science. Will teach courses in American politics, urban politics and public policy. Ph.D. in political science from University of Southern California. Most recent position: visiting assistant professor at Scripps College.

Patricia H. Miller, professor of psychology. Will teach courses in developmental psychology.  Ph.D. in psychology from University of Minnesota. Most recent position: department head and professor at University of Georgia.

Charles Postel, assistant professor of history. Will teach courses in 20th century U.S. political history. Ph.D. in history from University of California, Berkeley. Most recent position: assistant professor at CSU, Sacramento.

Chuck Tate, assistant professor of psychology. Will teach courses in social psychology. Ph.D. in psychology from University of Oregon. Most recent position: assistant professor at CSU, Bakersfield.

Qian (Janey) Wang, assistant professor of public administration. Will teach courses in budgeting and finance. Ph.D. candidate in public affairs from Indiana University, Bloomington. Most recent position: adjunct instructor at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Seung Hee Yoo, assistant professor of psychology. Will teach courses in social psychology. Ph.D. candidate in psychology from Yale University. Most recent position: instructor at Yale University.

College of Business
Daniela Balkanska, assistant professor of finance. Will teach courses in business finance. Ph.D. in business management from University of California, Irvine.

Todd Feldman, assistant professor of finance. Will teach courses in financial management. Ph.D in international economics and finance from University of California, Santa Cruz. Most recent position: lead graduate student researcher, UC Santa Cruz.

Charlotte Fillol, assistant professor of management. Will teach courses in management. Ph.D. in management from Paris Dauphine University (France). Most recent position: assistant professor of management, Paris Dauphine University.

Anne Koch, assistant professor of management. Will teach courses in management. Ph.D. in economic and social sciences from the University of Luneburg (Germany).

Jennifer Tosti-Kharas, assistant professor of management. Will teach courses in organizational behavior. Ph.D. in management from the Stern School of Business, New York University. Most recent position: doctoral student, New York University.

Andrew Walls, assistant professor of hospitality and tourism management. Will teach courses in hotel sales and marketing, and hotel management. Ph.D. in hospitality management and tourism from the University of South Florida. Most recent position: adjunct professor at the University of South Florida.

College of Creative Arts
Yutian Wong, assistant professor of music and dance. Will teach courses in dance aesthetics and dance history. Ph.D in dance history and theory from the University of California, Riverside. Most recent position: assistant professor of dance and Asian American Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

College of Education
Betty Yu, assistant professor of special education. Will teach courses in communicative disorders, particularly language acquisition in bilingual children. Ph.D. in special education from University of California, Berkeley and SF State. Most recent position: instructor at SF State.

College of Ethnic Studies
Jonathan H.X. Lee, assistant professor of Asian American studies. Will teach history of Asian Americans, Vietnamese American identity and Asians in America. Ph.D. in religious studies from University of California, Santa Barbara. Most recent position: adjunct lecturer, religion, California Lutheran University.

John-Carlos Perea, assistant professor of American Indian studies. Will begin teaching in the spring. Completing a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology at University of California, Berkeley.  Most recent position: visiting artist fellow, Institute for Diversity in the Arts, Stanford University.

College of Health and Human Services
Jackson Wilson, assistant professor of recreation, parks, and tourism. Will teach classes in leadership, information technology, management and professional development.  Completing Ph.D. in leisure behavior from Indiana University. Most recent position:  assistant instructor, Indiana University.

Shemya Vaughn, assistant professor of rehabilitation counselor training. Will teach classes in counseling process. Ph.D. in rehabilitation counselor education from Michigan State University. Most recent position: teaching assistant, educational psychology and special education, Michigan State University.

Christopher Kaszubski, assistant professor of nursing. Will teach courses in health assessment and nursing theory. Completing doctoral degree in nursing at University of California, San Francisco. Most recent position: nurse practitioner in a San Francisco AIDS Foundation program, caring for persons with HIV/AIDS.

Laura Mamo, associate professor of health education. Will teach courses in gender and health, sexuality and health, place-based health, and science and technology. Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, San Francisco. Most recent position: associate professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. 

College of Humanities
David Landy, assistant professor of philosophy. Will teach courses in the history of modern philosophy, empiricism, rationalism, and philosophy of language.  Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.  Most recent position: visiting assistant professor at Wake Forest University.

Carlos Montemayor, assistant professor of philosophy.  Will teach courses in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy of cognitive science, and philosophy of law.  Ph.D. in philosophy from Rutgers University.  Most recent position: instructor at Rutgers University.

Lynn Wardley, assistant professor of English. Will teach courses in 19th- and 20th-century American literature, American studies, American women writers, and feminist theory.  Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. Most recent position: affiliated scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University.

College of Science and Engineering
Cheng Chen, assistant professor of engineering. Will teach structural analysis, advanced steel structures and principles of earthquake engineering. Ph.D. in structural engineering, Lehigh University. Most recent position: engineering instructor at Lehigh University.

Jason Gurdak, assistant professor of geology and hydrology. Ph.D. in geochemistry at the Colorado School of Mines. Most recent position: faculty member at the Colorado School of Mines and hydrologist for the U.S. Geological Survey.

Blake Riggs, assistant professor of biology. Ph.D. in molecular, cellular and developmental biology at University of California, Santa Cruz. Most recent position: postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley and faculty at Laney College.

Anne Todgham, assistant professor of biology. Will teach human physiology. Ph.D. in biology from the University of British Columbia. Most recent position: postdoctoral scholar, Department of Ecology, University of California, Santa Barbara.

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