February 2016 BOV personnel resolutions
The William & Mary Board of Visitors approved several personnel resolutions at its February 2016 meeting regarding faculty promotions, designated professorships, distinguished professorships, leaves of absence, tenure, retirements and the appointment of instructional faculty. - Ed.
The following people have been appointed to to fill vacancies in the instructional faculty:
CLAIRE MCKINNEY, Assistant Professor of Government and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
ELIZABETH B. RAPOSA, Assistant Professor of Psychology
ANDREA GRACE WRIGHT, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
The following members of the instructional faculty have been recommended for promotion in academic rank:
Associate Professor to Professor
ALLISON O. LARSEN, William & Mary Law School
Assistant Professor to Associate Professor
JAMES P. BARBER, School of Education
GÉRARD L. CHOUIN, Department of History
MICHAEL P. CRONIN, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
JAMEL K. DONNOR, School of Education
CHRISTOPHER FREIMAN, Department of Philosophy
JONATHAN GLASSER, Department of Anthropology
LESLIE GRANT, School of Education
CAROLINE HANLEY, Department of Sociology
DIAFENG HE, Department of Economics
SHANTÁ D. HINTON, Department of Biology
JENNIFER G. KAHN, Department of Anthropology
MAX G. KATZ, Department of Music
JOHN LOMBARDINI, Department of Government
PETER MCHENRY, Department of Economics
PIETER PEERS, Department of Computer Science
JEREMY W. POPE, Department of History
M. MUMTAZ QAZILBASH, Department of Physics
HANNAH ROSEN, Department of History and American Studies
ENRICO ROSSI, Department of Physics
CHRISTOPHER S. TUCKER, Department of Philosophy
KRISTIN L. WUSTHOLZ, Department of Chemistry
The following members of the instructional faculty have been recommended for designated professorships:
GUL OZYEGIN, Margaret Hamilton Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies
JUNPING SHI, Margaret Hamilton Professor of Mathematics
YANFANG TANG, Chancellor Professor of Chinese Studies
CHITRALEKHA ZUTSHI, James Pinckney Harrison Professor of History
The following members of the instructional faculty have been recommended for term distinguished professorships:
MELANIE V. DAWSON, David and Carolyn Wakefield Term Distinguished Associate Professor of English
SARAH L. DAY, Cornelia Brackenridge Talbot Term Distinguished Associate Professor of Mathematics
ANNE CHARITY HUDLEY, Class of 1952 Term Associate Professor of English
SARAH L. STAFFORD, Paul R. Verkuil Term Distinguished Professor of Public Policy
The following faculty members have requested a leave of absence during the 2016-2017 academic year:
JOANNE M. BRAXTON, Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings Professor of English and Africana Studies, to accept a Library of Congress Fellowship in the John W. Kluge Center
SCOTT R. NELSON, Leslie and Naomi Legum Professor of History, to participate in an exchange program with the University of Leiden, Netherlands
The following members of the instructional faculty have been recommended for the award of academic tenure:
JAMES P. BARBER, School of Education
GÉRARD L. CHOUIN, Department of History
MICHAEL P. CRONIN, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
JAMEL K. DONNOR, School of Education
CHRISTOPHER FREIMAN, Department of Philosophy
JONATHAN GLASSER, Department of Anthropology
LESLIE GRANT, School of Education
CAROLINE HANLEY, Department of Sociology
DIAFENG HE, Department of Economics
SHANTÁ D. HINTON, Department of Biology
JENNIFER G. KAHN, Department of Anthropology
MAX G. KATZ, Department of Music
ALLISON O. LARSEN, William & Mary Law School
JOHN LOMBARDINI, Department of Government
PETER MCHENRY, Department of Economics
PIETER PEERS, Department of Computer Science
JEREMY W. POPE, Department of History
M. MUMTAZ QAZILBASH, Department of Physics
HANNAH ROSEN, Department of History and American Studies
ENRICO ROSSI, Department of Physics
CHRISTOPHER S. TUCKER, Department of Philosophy
KRISTIN L. WUSTHOLZ, Department of Chemistry
The following people have announced their plans for retirement:
Sharon Hall deFur, Professor of Education
George Greenia, Professor of Hispanic Studies
Barbara J. King, Chancellor Professor of Anthropology
Juanita Jo Matkins, Professor of Education
Terry L. Meyers, Chancellor Professor of English
Richard H. Palmer, Professor of Theatre
Charles Perdrisat, Professor of Physics
Gary W. Rice, Associate Professor of Chemistry
Larry Ventis, Professor of Psychology