New Arts & Sciences Faculty - 2012

Chemistry 

Bryan Knuckley  

Assistant Professor 

Degree Institution:  University of South Carolina 

Discipline:  Biochemistry 

Criminology & Criminal Justice 

Michele Covington 

Assistant Professor 

Degree Institution:  University of Central Florida 

Discipline:  Sociology/Crime Analysis Certification 

Area of Study: Policing, violence, females in the criminal justice system 

Research Interests: Policing, violence, females in the criminal justice system

History 

James Broomall  

Assistant Professor 

Degree Institution:  University of Florida 

Discipline:  History 

Area of Study: American History, Museum Studies 

Mathematics & Statistics 

Malgorazta Czerwinska  

Assistant Professor 

Degree Institution:  University of Memphis 

Discipline:  Mathematics                

Area of Study: Functional Analysis and Operator Theory 

Research Interests: Symmetric spaces of measurable operators E(M,τ) associated

to the semifinite von Neumann algebra(M,τ) and corresponding to the symmetric function space E.  

Jose Franco  

Assistant Professor 

Degree Institution:  Baylor University 

Discipline:  Mathematics 

Area of Study: Representation Theory of Lie Groups 

Research: Lie group analysis of differential equations and non-Abelian harmonic analysis.                

Music 

Todd DelGiudice  

Assistant Professor 

Degree:  MM 

Degree Institution:  University of Oregon 

Discipline:  Music Performance/Jazz Sax Flagship         

Area of Study: Jazz improvisation, jazz composition, orchestral performance, solo performance. 

Research Interests: jazz improvisation, woodwind pedagogy, jazz composition, jazz pedagogy. 

Stephen Gosden  

Assistant Professor 

Degree:  Ph.D. 

Degree Institution:  Yale University 

Discipline:  Music 

Area of Study: Music Theory 

Research: Russian music (my dissertation deals with issues of form and genre in Sergei Rachmaninoff's orchestral music); 19th-century harmony; phrase rhythm; approaches to musical meaning 

Philosophy 

Bryan Bannon  

Assisant Professor 

Degree Institution:  University of Memphis 

Discipline:  Philosophy 

Area of Study: Environmental Ethics 

Research Interests: Human-Nature interactions, Metaphysics, Contemporary European Philosophy          

Physics

 Daniel Santavicca  

Assistant Professor 

Degree Institution:  Yale University 

Discipline:  Engineering and Applied Science 

Area of Study: Experimental Condensed Matter Physics 

Research Interests: Nanoelectronics and nanophotonics 

Psychology

Jody Nicholson  

Assistant Professor 

Degree Institution:  University of Notre Dame 

Discipline:  Psychology 

Area of Study: Developmental Psychology 

Heather Truelove  

Assistant Professor 

Degree Institution:  Washington State University 

Area of Study: The social psychology of energy and environmental issues 

Research Interests: Agricultural adaptation among Sri Lankan farmers; Nuclear energy   perceptions; predictors of pro-environmental behavior. 

Sociology & Anthropology 

 Ross McDonough 

Instructor 

Degree:  MSW 

Degree Institution:  New York University 

Discipline:  Social Work