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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
College of Arts & Sciences
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
College of Arts & Sciences
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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
College of Arts & Sciences
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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
College of Arts & Sciences
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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
College of Arts & Sciences
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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
College of Arts & Sciences
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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
Assistant Professor, PhD University of Oklahoma
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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College of Arts & Sciences
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
College of Arts & Sciences
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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
College of Earth & Energy
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
College of Education
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
College of Earth & Energy
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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
College of Education
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
College of Education
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
College of Education
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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
College of Engineering
College of Engineering
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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College of Engineering
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D. Keith Walters
Professor, PhD Clemson University
Dept: Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
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
Assistant Professor, PhD University of Oklahoma
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
Dept: Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
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
College of Engineering
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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