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2015 NEW FACULTY PROFILES

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Joint Appointment: College of Arts & Sciences and College of International Studies

College of Arts & Sciences

College of Atmospheric & Geographic Sciences

College of Business

College of Earth & Energy

College of Education

College of Engineering

College of Fine Arts

College of International Studies

College of Journalism and Mass Communication

College of Law

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Anne F. HydeProfessor and Editor, PhD University of California Berkeley

Ariel WeinbergerAssistant Professor, PhD University of California Davis

College of Arts & Sciences and College of International Studies

Amel KhalfaouiAssistant Professor, PhD University of Minnesota


Dept: Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

Academic & Research Interests: Linguistics, Pragmatics

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Cognitive approaches to

language comprehension, data sampling in qualitative/quantitative

research, data elicitation, also bridging the gap between linguistic

theory and language teaching

Personal Interests: Walking, kickboxing, yoga, pilates, midwest culture

Dept: History

Academic & Research Interests: History of the American West,

History of Families

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Native American Studies,

Women and Gender Studies

Personal Interests: My three children, can’t wait to learn more about

Oklahoma History

Dept: Economics

Academic & Research Interests: International Trade, Aggregate

Productivity, Empirical studies in International Economics

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: International Relations

Personal Interests: Soccer, relaxing with friends, problems in

economics, conversations about political science and history


Caetlin Benson-AllottDirector, Associate Professor, PhD Cornell University

Cyrus SchleiferAssistant Professor, PhD Duke University

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Bill EndresAssistant Professor, PhD Arizona State University

Dept: English

Academic & Research Interests: Digital Humanities, Imaging

of Cultural Heritage Artifacts, 3D, Insular Illuminated Manuscripts

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Computer science, classics

Personal Interests: Traveling, playing tennis, I’ve never ridden a camel

and would like to someday

Dept: Film and Media Studies

Academic & Research Interests: U.S. film history, gender and feminist

theory, LGBTQ studies, new media theory, video game theory

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Women’s and Gender

Studies, History of Technology, English, Communications, Journalism

Personal Interests: Running, yoga, baking, horror movies,

playing with my dogs

Dept: Sociology

Academic & Research Interests: Sociology of Religion

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Any

Personal Interests: Watching sports, going to concerts, having

drinks with friends


Edward CokelyAssociate Professor, PhD Florida State University

Haijuan GaoAssistant Professor, PhD Purdue University

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Daniela F. BusciglioAssistant Professor, PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison


Academic & Research Interests: Teaching language, social justice

pedagogy, world language education curriculum design

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Nueroscience

Personal Interests: Cooking delicious food, listening to fantastic music,

hanging out with my cats (Chaka Khan and Sheila E.)

Dept: Psychology

Academic & Research Interests: UX Design

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Risk and decision making

Personal Interests: Traveling, live music, time with family and friends,

founder of riskliteracy.org

Dept: Health and Exercise Science

Academic & Research Interests: Cancer Prevention

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Public Health, Clinical Medicine

Personal Interests: Exercise, cancer prevention research


Justin MalesteinAssistant Professor, PhD University of Chicago

Kathleen TiplerAssistant Professor, PhD University of Michigan

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Jenel CavazosAssociate Professor, PhD University of Oklahoma

Dept: Psychology

Academic & Research Interests: Graduation and retention, effective

teaching methods

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Freshman retention

Personal Interests: Spending time with my husband and 3 kids, playing

board games, reading, and shopping!

Dept: Mathematics

Academic & Research Interests: Geometric group theory, dynamics,

low-dimensional topology, discrete geometry

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Physics, chemistry

Personal Interests: Rock climbing, biking, traveling, Chocolate Stout

Dept: Political Science

Academic & Research Interests: Law, Political Theory

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Law, Sociology

Personal Interests: Biking and OU!


Kristen MichelsonAssistant Professor, PhD University of Arizona

Lee KennardAssistant Professor, PhD University of Pennsylvania

Mackenzie Israel-TrummelAssistant Professor, PhD Stanford University

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Academic & Research Interests: Second language acquisition, foreign

language pedagogy, experiential learning, digital literacies,

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: International studies

communication, education, digital humanities

Personal Interests: Cycling, hiking, live music, DIY projects

Dept: Mathematics

Academic & Research Interests: Geometry and topology

of Riemannian manifolds with curvature bounds

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Making mathematics and

related technical fields more inclusive and open to students of all

backgrounds

Personal Interests: Hiking, traveling, time with family


Academic & Research Interests: American Politics, race, gender,

political behavior

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Sociology, Gender Studies

Personal Interests: Cooking, traveling, reading novels and snarky

celebrity gossip


Megan Gandy-GuedesAssistant Professor, PhD Virginia Commonwealth University

Nancy E. SnowProfessor, Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing, PhD University of Notre Dame

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Matthew KruerAssistant Professor, PhD University of Pennsylvania

Dept: History

Academic & Research Interests: Native American History, Early

American History

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Anthropology, archaeology,

linguistics, geography, psychology, neuroscience

Personal Interests: Reading sci-fi, hiking, cooking

Dept: School of Social Work

Academic & Research Interests: LGBTQ populations, mental health,

social justice

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Phychiatry, nursing, women

and gender studies, psychology, public health

Personal Interests: Fly fishing, disc golf, euro-style board games,

travel, camping, dogs, local & craft beer, watching college football, star

wars, adult volleyball league, and being a “foodie”

Dept: Office of the Provost

Academic & Research Interests: Virtue ethics, moral psychology

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Psychology

Personal Interests: Reading, chess


Rhona SeidelmanAssistant Professor, PhD Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Rilla AskewAssistant Professor, M.F.A. Brooklyn College

Saleh S. TabrizyLecturer, PhD University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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Dept: History

Academic & Research Interests: History of Israel, Immigration,

Quarantine, Disease, Contagion, Tuberculosis

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Medicine, Middle East Studies,

Anthropology, Native American Studies

Personal Interests: Time with family and friends, reading, tea, outdoors

Dept: English

Academic & Research Interests: Creative Writing, Oklahoma History

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: World Literature, Languages,

Women’s and Gender Studies, American Studies, Theatre Journalism

Personal Interests: Reading, traveling, dining with friends

Dept: Economics

Academic & Research Interests: International Trade, International Finance,

Economics of Development

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: International relations,

globalization studies, interdisciplinary topics related to innovation

Personal Interests: Playing soccer, watching soccer, reading the news

about soccer, baseball


Daniel LarsonAssistant Professor, PhD University of Georgia

Diana HartleyProfessor of Practice, M.A. University of Oklahoma

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Alejandro Chavez-DominguezAssistant Professor, PhD Texas A&M University

Dept: Mathematics

Academic & Research Interests: Functional Analysis, particularly

nonlinear and noncommutative aspects of Banach space geometry

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Compressed sensing and signal

processing, quantum information theory

Personal Interests: Figure skating, cooking (especially baking), traveling


Academic & Research Interests: Nonprofit Management, Philanthropic

Studies

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Business, International Studies,

Journalism with an interest in the nonprofit sector

Personal Interests: Riding and racing bicycles


Academic & Research Interests: Sport Economics and Finance

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Marketing, Economics,

Consumer Behavior

Personal Interests: Riding and racing bicycles

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Jill Hicks-KeetonAssistant Professor, PhD Duke University

Mia MartiniRenewable Term Instructor, PhD Purdue University

Roxanne MountfordProfessor and Director, PhD Ohio State University

Dept: Religious Studies

Academic & Research Interests: Christian origins, Second Temple Judaism

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: History, Judaic Studies,

Postcolonial Theory

Personal Interests: Cooking and spending time with family

Dept: English

Academic & Research Interests: American Literature (1865-present)

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Psychology, History

Personal Interests: Gardening

Dept: English

Academic & Research Interests: Rhetorical history, theory, & criticism;

institutional history of rhetorical education; women’s rhetoric; composition

pedagogy

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Rhetoric and Communication,

Women’s and Gender Studies

Personal Interests: Training and riding thoroughbred horses, traveling


Sarah TrabertAssistant Professor, PhD University of Iowa

Scott JohnsonAssistant Professor, PhD Oxford University

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Sarah ManessAssistant Professor, PhD University of South Florida


Academic & Research Interests: Social Determinants of Health,

Adolescent Health, Adolescent Pregnancy, HPV Prevention

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Stephenson Cancer Center,

Statistics/Biostatistics, Public Health

Personal Interests: Reading, running, visting museums, cultural events,

trying new restaurants

Dept: Anthropology

Academic & Research Interests: North American Great Plains

archaeology, colonialism, ceramic technology and foodways, identity,

social change, slavery

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Native American Studies,

History, Geology, Geography

Personal Interests: Hiking, reading fiction, euro-style board games

Dept: Classics and Letters

Academic & Research Interests: Late Antiquity Greek Literature and

Culture, Syriac Literature and Culture, Coptic Literature

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: History of Science, Cartography,

Early Christianity, Eastern Religion

Personal Interests: Music, record collecting


Seth PerlowAssistant Professor, PhD Cornell University


Jason FurtadoAssistant Professor, PhD Georgia Institute of Technology

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Dept: English

Academic & Research Interests: American literature, poetry, media

studies, gender and sexuality studies, critical theory

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Film and Media Studies,

Women’s and Gender Studies

Personal Interests: Raquetball, my cat Baker

Dept: Meteorology

Academic & Research Interests: Climate Dynamics

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Social Sciences, Economics

Personal Interests: Working out, watching sports, cooking, visting

museums, pub trivia, reading


Hernan A. MorenoAssistant Professor, PhD Arizona State University

Rebecca W. LoraammDoctor, PhD University of South Florida

Tom NeesonAssistant Professor, PhD University of Michigan

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Dept: Geography and Environmental Sustainability

Academic & Research Interests: Watershed processes, Hydrologic

Change, Flood Forecasting, High Resolution Hydrologic Modeling

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Climate Studies, Radar

Meteorology, Remote Sensing, Geomorphology

Personal Interests: Meeting colleagues in other disciplines, playing the

piano and having jam sessions, soccer museums, pub trivia, reading


Academic & Research Interests: Spatial Analysis and Modeling, GIS

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Wildlife ecology, natural

resource conservation, public health, GIS

Personal Interests: Soccer, traveling, outdoors, all sorts of trivia


Academic & Research Interests: Ecology, conservation biology, coupled

human-natural systems, optimization, statistics

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Biology, computer science,

economics, engineering, statistics

Personal Interests: Hiking, canoeing, camping, my new son James

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College of Business

David WilsonAssistant Professor, PhD University of Arizona

George RuchAssistant Professor, PhD University of Alabama

Dept: Management Information Systems

Academic & Research Interests: Privacy, self-disclosure, identity

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Emotional and psychological

consequences of online social network use, privacy in healthcare

Personal Interests: Distance running (marathons or longer),

woodworking, waterskiing

Dept: Accounting

Academic & Research Interests: Financial accounting

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Economics, finance

Personal Interests: Reading, traveling, attending sporting events

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College of Earth & Energy

Jeremy BoakDirector, PhD Harvard University

Siddharth MirsaAssistant Professor, PhD University of Texas

Dept: Oklahoma Geological Survey

Academic & Research Interests: Petroleum Geology, Mineralogy

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Petroleum Engineering,

Geophysics, Risk Management

Personal Interests: Hiking, skiing, reading, watching wildlife

Dept: Petroleum and Geological Engineering

Academic & Research Interests: Reservoir Characterization, Reservoir

Modeling Sensor, Physics Geoelectromagnetism

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Electromagnetics, Mechanical

Engineering, Computational Sciences, Applied Mathematics

Personal Interests: Composing music, guitar, reading, psychology,

philosophy, strategy books

College of Education

Alexis V. ArczynskiAssistant Professor, PhD University of Utah


Andrea L’AfflittoAssistant Professor, PhD Georgia Institute of Technology

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Liangzhong XiangAssistant Professor, PhD South China Normal University

Dept: Educational Psychology

Academic & Research Interests: Multiculturalism, feminism, positive social

change, gender diversity, spirituality, atheism

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Clinical Psychology, Social

Work, Communications, Gender Studies, African American Studies, Law

Personal Interests: Yoga, indoor climbing, baking gluten-free desserts,

hiking, music, my cat Raven

Dept: Aerospace and Mechanical

Academic & Research Interests: Optimal control theory

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Electrical engineering, computer

science, biomedical engineering

Personal Interests: Traveling, cycling, reading

Dept: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Academic & Research Interests: Biomedical imaging; Nanoscale

photoacoustic tomography; X-ray-induced acoustic CT

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Cell biology, structure biology,

breast cancer research, bone studies

Personal Interests: Playing basketball, cooking

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Chris DaltonAssistant Professor, PhD University of Oklahoma

Christan Earl GrantAssistant Professor, PhD University of Florida

Han YuanAssistant Professor, PhD University of Minnesota


Academic & Research Interests: K12 engineering outreach

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: N/A

Personal Interests: Watching sports and movies, playing golf, helping

out at my church

Dept: Computer Science

Academic & Research Interests: Big data, text analytics

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Psychology, Graphics,

Linguistics, Social Media, Racial Issues

Personal Interests: Hanging out with friends and family, playing and

watching basketball and volleyball

Dept: Biomedical Engineering

Academic & Research Interests: Medical imaging, neural engineering

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Medicine, electrical engineering,

computer science, mathematics

Personal Interests: Running, gardening, traveling

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Mark NejadAssistant Professor, PhD Wayne State University

Thomas C. HaysAssistant Professor, PhD Oklahoma State University

Tyrone L. RoachAssistant Professor, PhD University of Illinois

Dept: Industrial and Systems Engineering

Academic & Research Interests: Network Optimization, Algorithmic Game

Theory, Cloud Computing, Distributed Data Analytics, Energy Systems,

Electric Vehicles

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Computer Science

Personal Interests: Swimming, hiking, traveling, nature


Academic & Research Interests: UAV composite fabrication techniques,

high efficiency small combustion engines

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Unmanned air systems for

weather research

Personal Interests: Radio control aircraft, woodworking, flight simulation

computer games

Dept: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Academic & Research Interests: Applied electromagnetics

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Signal processing and applied

wireless communication theory

Personal Interests: Hiking, sports, traveling, music

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College of Fine Arts

Damin SpritzerAssistant Professor, D.M.A. University of North Texas

College of Journalism and Mass Communication

Mary Anna EvansAssistant Professor, M.F.A. Rutgers University

Dept: Organ

Academic & Research Interests: 20th Century American/European organ

composers

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Looking forward to learning

about the possibilities

Personal Interests: Reading, traveling, art, wine, family, museums,

gardening, beadwork, cats

Dept: Professional Writing

Academic & Research Interests: Fiction and non-fiction writing, math and

science literacy

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: STEM, gender studies

Personal Interests: Playing piano, singing, gardening, cooking, traveling

Melissa MortazaviAssociate Professor, JD University of California Berkeley

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Joshua SellersAssociate Professor, PhD University of Chicago

College of Law

Dept: Law

Academic & Research Interests: Food law and policy

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Agriculture, philosophy, business

Personal Interests: Hiking, acting, making things with my hands

Dept: Law

Academic & Research Interests: Election law, civil procedure

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Political Science

Personal Interests: Traveling, reading

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