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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 Journalism and Mass Communication

College of Law

College of Liberal Studies

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2016 New Faculty Profiles

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College of Arts & Sciences and College of International Studies


Waleed F. Mahdi

Assistant Professor, PhD University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

Dept: International and Area Studies; Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

Academic & Research Interests: US-Arab and muslim cultural politics

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: postcolonial studies, film studies, Middle East studies, and Arab American studies

Personal Interests: learn about emerging technology and explore outdoor activities

Daniel Allen

Assistant Professor, PhD University of Oklahoma

Dept: Biology

Academic & Research Interests: ecology, streams, rivers, and riparian zones

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: hydrology, geomorphology, geography

Personal Interests: spend time with my family

Roi Docampo

Assistant Professor, PhD University of Illinois at Chicago

Dept: Mathematics

Academic & Research Interests: mathematics: algebraic geometry and singularity theory

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: computer science: development of software for research in pure mathematics

Personal Interests: Travel: see the world, meet new people, learn new languages, discover new cuisines


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Debra K. Green

Assistant State Archaeologist, PhD Univ. of Illinois at Chicago

Dept: Anthropology

Academic & Research Interests: geoarchaeology (archaeological geology), human-landscape interactions, hunter-gatherer adaptions

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: geology, geography, and Native American studies

Personal Interests: run and bike

Joshua Frydman

Assistant Professor, PhD Yale University

Dept: Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

Academic & Research Interests: premodern Japanese literature, East Asian Archaeology, history of writing, premodern Chinese literature

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: cultural and technological connection and innovation across the Silk Road

Personal Interests: Play video/board/tabletop role playing games, visit zoos, museums and botanical gardens, and take road trips

Jerry Green

Visiting Assistant Professor, PhD University of Texas – Austin

Dept: Philosophy

Academic & Research Interests: ancient philosophy, ethics

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: classics, education

Personal Interests: playing the drums


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Courtney Hofman

Assistant Professor, PhD University of Maryland

Dept: Anthropology

Academic & Research Interests: ancient DNA, historical ecology, ancestral microbiomes, conservation biology, human-environment interactions and science education

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: biology, microbiology, environmental studies, history of science

Personal Interests: travel, read, crossfit, kayak, and hike

Karlos K. Hill

Associate Professor, PhD Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dept: African and African American Studies

Academic & Research Interests: African American, lynching, anti-lynching movement

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: history, sociology, political science, english

Personal Interests: play golf, tennis, and enjoy time with twins

Debra K. Green

Assistant State Archaeologist, PhD Univ. of Illinois at Chicago

Anne F. Hyde

Professor, PhD University of California Berkeley

Dept: History

Academic & Research Interests: U.S. West, race and ethnicity, Native America, 19th century

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

Personal Interests: learn about Oklahoma


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Matthew Miller

Assistant Professor, PhD University of Alaska – Fairbanks

Dept: Biology

Academic & Research Interests: avian genomics and disease ecology

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Latin American studies

Personal Interests: travel and camp with my family

Katharine (Katie) Marske

Assistant Professor, PhD University of Auckland

Dept: Biology

Academic & Research Interests: evolutionary ecology, biogeography

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: climate science, geography, sustainability

Personal Interests: hiking, travel, cooking, meeting friends for coffee/wine/beer, reading novels, exploring small local festivals

Katie Marshall

Assistant Professor, PhD University of Western Ontario

Dept: Biology

Academic & Research Interests: low temperature physiology of insects

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: climate research, machine learning

Personal Interests: run, climb, and knit


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Abby Moore

Assistant Professor, PhD University of California Berkeley

Dept: Microbial and Plant Biology; Oklahoma Biological Survey

Academic & Research Interests: evolutionary biology, plant taxonomy, genomics; how plants evolve to grow in different environments and how the changing environment has influenced the diversification of the groups of plants we see today

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: bioinformatics

Personal Interests: botanize, hike, garden, read, and cook

Matthew Pailes

Assistant Professor, PhD University of Arizona

Dept: Anthropology

Academic & Research Interests: origins of inequality, prehistoric exchange, provenance studies, quantitative methods, northern Mexico

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: geology, economics, sociology

Personal Interests: backpacking, hiking, most anything outdoors

Gabriela Raquel Ríos

Assisstant Professor, PhD Texas A&M University

Dept: English

Academic & Research Interests: indigenous rhetoric, indigenous studies, gender studies, materiality & embodiment, civic engagement & service learning, CPAR, digital humanities, language Studies

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: digital humanities, language studies, indigenous studies, civic engagement

Personal Interests: run, attend concerts, Hulu/Netflix


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Krithivasan Sankaranarayanan

Assistant Professor, PhD Binghamton University

Dept: Microbiology and Plant Biology

Academic & Research Interests: microbial ecology, biogeography, and evolution; human microbiome; hypersaline environments; bioinformatics; ancient DNA

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: anthropology, biophysics, geology, computer science

Personal Interests: go on roadtrips and short hikes

Bayrammurad (Bayram) Saparov

Assistant Professor, PhD University of Delaware

Dept: Chemistry and Biochemistry

Academic & Research Interests: synthesis and characterization of new energy materials

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: collaboration with DFT theorists, spectroscopists and condensed matter physicists

Personal Interests: speak to my colleagues, watch soccer, play table tennis

Joseph Ripberger


Dept: Political Science

Academic & Research Interests: risk and public policy, with a focus on weather, climate, energy, and water policy

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: collaboration with physical scientists, engineers, and other social scientists (i.e., economists and psychologists) who study weather, climate, energy, and/or water issues

Personal Interests: traveling, cooking, cycling

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Yihan Shao

Assistant Professor, PhD University of California Berkeley

Dept: Chemistry & Biochemistry

Academic & Research Interests: computational modeling of chemical and biological processes, multi-scale modeling methods

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: applied mathematics, scientific computing, molecular simulations in science and engineering

Personal Interests: reading, traveling

Kary Stackelbeck

State Archaeologist, PhD University of Kentucky

Dept: Anthropology

Academic & Research Interests: Southeastern and Midwestern North American archaeology, Andean archaeology, early foragers, emergence of complex societies, lithic analysis

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: long-term trends in human adaptive strategies, “tribal” systems of human organization

Personal Interests: spend time with family, read

John Stupak

Assistant Professor, PhD Stony Brook University

Dept: Physics and Astronomy

Academic & Research Interests: high-energy physics, large hadron collider, the ATLAS experiment, Higgs Boson

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: silicon-based particle detectors (condensed matter), radiation-hard semi-conductor devices (electrical engineering)

Personal Interests: watch TV/movies, rock climb, follow politics


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Le Wang

Associate Professor, PhD Southern Methodist University

Dept: Economics

Academic & Research Interests: microeconometrics (causal inference and distributional analysis) and applied microeconomics

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: econometric or statistical methods, demography, education; public policies

Personal Interests: read, listen to music, and watch college football!

Chunbei Wang

Assistant Professor, PhD University of Texas – Dallas

Dept: Economics

Academic & Research Interests: labor economics, immigration, entrepreneurship, economics of family, environmental regulation

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: sociology, business

Personal Interests: exercising, spending time with family, cooking, watching movies and drama series, reading, and traveling

John Tobin

Assistant Professor, PhD University of Michigan

Dept: Physics and Astronomy

Academic & Research Interests: formation of stars and solar systems, observational astronomy, radio astronomy

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: physics, statistics, chemistry

Personal Interests: fish, hike, watch sports, read, travel, history

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Tom Lumpkin

Professor and Chair, PhD University of Texas – Arlington

Dept: Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

Academic & Research Interests: entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, family business

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: multiple!

Personal Interests: travel, hike, read, meditate

Nicholas Bauch

Assistant Professor, PhD University of California Los Angeles

Dept: Geography

Academic & Research Interests: cultural geography, graphic arts, digital humanities, urban geography, food & agriculture

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: fine arts, history, computer science, design, film studies, architecture, urban studies

Personal Interests: walk around aimlessly with a camera and a notebook

College of Atmospheric & Geographic Sciences

College of Business

College of Business

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Richard Price

Associate Professor, PhD Stanford University

Dept: Accounting

Academic & Research Interests: financial accounting, intermediate accounting, financial statement analysis, accounting research, market efficiency, accounting conservatism, financial reporting issues, corporate governance, and the behavior of individual investors

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: marketing, finance, and political science

Personal Interests: fix and build things, learn new things

Beth Stetson

Associate Professor, PhD University of Oklahoma

Dept: Accounting

Academic & Research Interests: tax procedure and tax equity

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: law

Personal Interests: spend time with spouse and canine children, follow Sooner sports, and read

Margaret Shaffer

Professor, PhD University of Texas – Arlington

Dept: Management and International Business

Academic & Research Interests: international management, global employees

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: psychology

Personal Interests: travel, read, bike

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College of Business

Xuewu (Wesley) Wang

Assistant Professor, PhD University of Michigan

Dept: Finance

Academic & Research Interests: behavioral finance, empirical asset pricing, insider trading, derivatives

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: psychology, statistics, mathematics

Personal Interests: watch NBA games; play a bit computer game; seeking great food; cook

Marcus Wolfe

Assistant Professor, PhD Indiana University

Dept: Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

Academic & Research Interests: failure, cognition, biological influences on entrepreneurship

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: psychology, biology, life sciences

Personal Interests: play and watch sports, read, cook

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Nori Nakata

Assistant Professor, PhD Colorado School of Mines

Dept: Geology and Geophysics

Academic & Research Interests: seismology, signal processing, wave phenomena

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: induced seismicity

Personal Interests: climbing, skiing


Saeed Salehi

Assistant Professor, PhD Missouri Univ. of Science and Tech.

Dept: Petroleum & Geological Engineering

Academic & Research Interests: well construction, integrity and well control, drilling geomechanics, drilling optimization and advanced drilling systems, plugging, abandonment and decommissioning

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: system and civil engineering

Personal Interests: sports, movies

Michael Behm

Assistant Professor, PhD Vienna University of Technology

Dept: Geology and Geophysics

Academic & Research Interests: seismic imaging and monitoring, passive seismology, crustal seismology, near surface processes

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: environment, petroleum engineering, civil engineering

Personal Interests: outdoor activities, spending time with family

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Zulfiquar Reza

Associate Professor, PhD University of Alberta

Dept: Petroleum & Geological Engineering

Academic & Research Interests: advanced reservoir simulation and simulator development, multi-physics, multi-scale coupled systems modeling, accelerated computing

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: geology and geophysics, engineering and scientific computing disciplines

Personal Interests: spending time with family


Courtney Beers

Assistant Professor, PhD Florida Atlantic University

Dept: Education

Academic & Research Interests: early childhood education, child development

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: education, developmental psychology

Personal Interests: yoga, traveling, and spending time with friends and my dog


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John R. Jones

Clinical Associate Professor, EdD Oklahoma State University

Dept: Education

Academic & Research Interests: instructional leadership, teaching that promotes greater depths P-12 student learning

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: anything that relates to improvement of leadership skills

Personal Interests: running, playing tennis


Delini Fernando

Associate Professor, PhD University of New Orleans

Dept: Educational Psychology

Academic & Research Interests: clinical mental health counseling, group and disaster counseling, counselor supervision

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: special education faculty

Personal Interests: sing, listen to music, do gardening, cook, and spend time with my grand babies

Derek Houston

Visiting Asst. Prof., PhD Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dept: Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

Academic & Research Interests: quantitative methods, equity in intercollegiate athletics, equity and access relative to the P-20 educational pipeline, education finance policy

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: sociology of education

Personal Interests: n/a

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Nancy E. Marchand-Martella

Professor and Chair, PhD Utah State University

Dept: Education

Academic & Research Interests: academic remediation, content area reading/study strategies, adolescent literacy, behavior analysis

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: education, psychology

Personal Interests: ride horses, cycle, hike/walk, ski, spend time with my two children and husband, cheer for the Broncos!

Ronald Martella

Professor, PhD Utah State University

Dept: Education

Academic & Research Interests: behavior management, positive behavior support, behavior analysis

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: education, psychology

Personal Interests: cycle, walk/hike, spend time with my family, watch sports


Kyong-Ah Kwon

Associate Professor, PhD Purdue University

Dept: Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum

Academic & Research Interests: child development (infants and toddlers), parenting, classroom quality, program evaluation, early math and education

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: psychology, public health, social work

Personal Interests: cook, listen to music, visit museums, movies


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Rachel Childers

Assistant Professor, PhD The Ohio State University

Dept: Biomedical Engineering

Academic & Research Interests: engineering education, cardiovascular biomechanics, diversity in engineering, and scientific public literacy

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: anything that could help me incorporate exciting science and cutting edge technology into the new biomedical engineering lab courses

Personal Interests: try new foods, outdoor activities (cycling, camping, kayaking), video games, board games, and crafting

Heidi Torres

Assistant Professor, PhD Indiana University – Bloomington

Dept: Education

Academic & Research Interests: international and cross-cultural education for children, multiliteracies and the arts in social studies

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: international/area studies, children’s literature, museum studies, history, cultural anthropology/geography, visual arts, Native American studies

Personal Interests: travel, develop cross-cultural friendships, read, cook/bake, study history, engage in spiritual pursuits, spend time in nature



Michael Detamore

Professor and Director, PhD Rice University

Dept: Biomedical Engineering

Academic & Research Interests: regenerative medicine, biomaterials, musculoskeletal medicine

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: biology, chemistry, physics, medicine, dental, business, pharmacy, math

Personal Interests: spend time with my wife, travel, watch sports, exercise, go to concerts, play guitar

Chung-Hao Lee

Assistant Professor, PhD University of California Los Angeles

Dept: Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Academic & Research Interests: cardiovascular biomechanics, multiscale biomaterials design patient-specific diagnosis and care

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: biomedical engineering, medical imaging for diagnosis and treatment planning, materials sciences and engineering

Personal Interests: reading, jogging, softball

Paul Moses

Assistant Professor, PhD Curtin University of Technology

Dept: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Academic & Research Interests: power quality, intelligent “smart” grids, nonlinear electromagnetic disturbances, terrestrial/aerospace/marine power and energy systems

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: pursuing electrical power and energy system research in spacecraft and aircraft applications

Personal Interests: traveling and exploring, swimming, cycling

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D. Keith Walters

Professor, PhD Clemson University


Academic & Research Interests: computational fluid dynamics (CFD), computational heat transfer, turbulence, numerical methods

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: aerospace applications of CFD, energy applications of CFD, biomedical applications of CFD

Personal Interests: play tennis, read, play with my kids

Yuchen Qiu


Dept: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Academic & Research Interests: medical image analysis, machine learning

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: mathematics, computer science

Personal Interests: hang out with my friends

Hamidreza Shabgard

Assistant Professor, PhD University of Connecticut


Academic & Research Interests: multiphase transport phenomena, heat transfer, CFD, thermal energy storage, heat pipes

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: micro and nano fluid preparation, heat transfer and fluid flow in biological systems

Personal Interests: volleyball, hiking, chess, movies, reading

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Keisha Walters

Professor, PhD Clemson University

Dept: Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering

Academic & Research Interests: polymer science, surface engineering, nanotechnology, fluids, heat transfer, applied/engineering math

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: chemistry, biomedical engineering, thermal-fluid and transport processes

Personal Interests: read, play tennis, garden and spend time with my family

College of Fine Arts


Roxanne Lyst

Assistant Professor, MFA Hollins University

Dept: Dance

Academic & Research Interests: dance theory and pedagogy

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: music, voice, and theater

Personal Interests: attend performances, read, workout, watch Netflix, FaceTime my niece and nephew

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College of Journalism and Mass Communication

Jeong-Nam Kim

Professor, PhD University of Maryland

Dept: Public Relations

Academic & Research Interests: public relations, strategic communication, public behavior, public health, civil society

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: n/a

Personal Interests: love watching soccer

Jensen Moore

Assistant Professor, PhD University of Missouri

Dept: Public Relations

Academic & Research Interests: the intersection of social media, health communication and crisis communication, online learning in journalism and mass communication.

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: psychology/thanotechnology, health communication

Personal Interests: read, work out, and spend time with my kids

College of Liberal Studies

Steven Gullberg

Assistant Professor, PhD James Cook University

Dept: Aviation

Academic & Research Interests: astronomy, archaeoastronomy

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: archaeology, anthropology

Personal Interests: travel

College of Law

Kristen van de Biezenbos

Associate Professor, JD Tulane University

Dept: Law

Academic & Research Interests: energy law, oil & gas law, energy transition, land use, offshore energy, international commercial law

Desired Interdisciplinary Collaborations: interactions of energy law with anthropology, rhetoric, economics, and political science

Personal Interests: yoga, run, listen to records, read, talk to my dog like a person, paint badly, play the guitar really badly

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