NEW FACULTYNEW FACULTY2014–2015

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Dear Colleagues and Friends,

The new university faculty members we celebrate in this publication join an institu-

tion that has provided more than 175 years of service to the community in which it

subsists. Originally founded in 1834 as the Medical College of Louisiana, tasked to

improve the public health of the New Orleans region, Tulane University has emerged

today as a national and world leader in public service and social engagement. Our

university is also recognized as a leader in scholarship, research and art-making. We

are celebrated for being innovative, trend-setting, and student-centered. Our schools

and our undergraduate college offer an impressively wide array of degrees in architec-

ture, business, law, liberal arts, medicine, public health and tropical medicine, science

and engineering and social work. Indeed, the university has demonstrated a profound commitment to

a superior learning environment by fostering outstanding scholarship, research, and artistic accomplish-

ment among its faculty. Tulane professors have been awarded the most prestigious honors in the academic

world along with being elected to membership in the National Academies and in the American Academy

for Arts and Sciences. Tulane colleagues have received numerous Fulbright Fellowships, National Science

Foundation CAREER Awards, Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships, National Endowment for the

Humanities Fellowships, Alfred P. Sloan Fellowships and Nobel Prizes in Medicine.

Tulane today resolutely connects its values and mission to the needs of the city of New Orleans, the

state of Louisiana and the Gulf Coast region. As a consequence, the profile and impact of the research,

scholarship and artistic endeavors in which our faculty and students engage are being transformed.

More and more Tulane faculty and staff members focus their expertise on the pursuit of a wide array

of public service efforts (citywide, regionwide, nationwide, and worldwide). At the same time, our stu-

dents gain practical experience, putting their rapidly maturing skills to use. We are very proud that our

students thus have a truly unique educational experience. And we know that our outstanding teaching

and mentorship, and the striking diversity in the degree programs we offer, help attract to Tulane the

very best faculty and students from across our nation and from around the world. In the final analysis,

it is the faculty and staff who make Tulane the truly extraordinary place that it is. It is their excellence

and skill that inspires our students and that will always enlighten, sustain, strengthen and improve the

wider communities we serve. Please join me in welcoming our new faculty colleagues and in wishing

them every success in all their endeavors.

With all best wishes,

MICHAEL A. BERNSTEINJohn Christie Barr Professor of History and Professor of EconomicsSenior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost

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NICHOLAS ALMENDARES, J.D., Ph.D.Visiting Assistant ProfessorSchool of LawNicholas Almendares received his J.D. from the New York University School of Law in 2009 and his Ph.D. from NYU’s Department of Politics in 2014. Before coming to Tulane, he clerked for the Honorable Janis Graham Jack in the Southern District of Texas. His research interests include administrative law and political economy, focusing on the role of bureaucratic agencies and the courts and on campaign finance and collective responsibility.

JULIE ALVAREZ, Ph.D.Senior Professor of Practice, PsychologySchool of Science and EngineeringA summa cum laude graduate from Tulane University in 1998 and winner of a Beinecke Scholarship for graduate study, Julie Alvarez earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychol-ogy from Emory University in 2005. She completed a neu-ropsychology postdoctoral fellowship at the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Houston in 2006. In the first cohort of professors of practice following Hurricane Katrina, she taught in the Tulane’s department of psychology and is now joining the School of Science and Engineering as a senior professor of practice after spending a year exercising her clinical skills as a staff psychologist at the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System in New Orleans. As a Newcomb College alumna, she partici-pates in the Newcomb College Institute and is an active advocate for Tulane’s women students. Her research centers on the intersection of emotion and cognition with a focus on attentional and executive functioning.

JANE ANDREWS, M.D., M.P.H.Instructor of Clinical Medicine, Internal MedicineSchool of MedicineJane Andrews earned her M.D. and M.P.H. degrees from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 2011 and 2010, respectively, and completed her residency at Tulane School of Medicine in 2014. Her research interests include domestic and international access to medicines, the intersection of en-vironmental and physical health, homeless health care, and improvement in the quality of health care. She will be work-ing at Interim Louisiana Hospital as a teaching hospitalist.

PAULA ARCE-TRIGATTI, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, EconomicsSchool of Liberal ArtsPaula Arce-Trigatti received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Houston in 2014. Her research interests encom-pass public economics, labor economics, with specialized in-terest in the economics of education, educational innovation, and policies related to higher education.

ERGA ATAD, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor, Jewish StudiesSchool of Liberal ArtsErga Atad earned her Ph.D. in communication from Tel Aviv University in 2013. She specializes in global media, political communication, Israeli mass media, and the effects of mass media. Her fields of study include the Israeli me-dia and society, global media in a comparative perspective, political communication in Israel, and journalism in the digital age. Her specific research focuses on aspects of global media with emphasis on the interaction between public and private broadcasting and the levels of cosmopolitanism and nationalism of global news networks.

AIMEE AYSENNE, M.D. Assistant Professor of Clinical NeurosurgerySchool of Medicine

ADRIAN BAUDY IV, M.D.Instructor of Clinical Medicine, NephrologySchool of MedicineAfter obtaining his B.A. degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Adrian Baudy IV completed work for his M.D. at Wright State University School of Medicine. He trained in internal medicine and, later, also in nephrology at the Tulane University School of Medicine.

New faculty members learn about the Center for Public Service, established at Tulane in 2006.

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RAMESH BHAGAT, M.D.Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology, Pathology and Laboratory MedicineSchool of MedicineRamesh Bhagat received his M.D. from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 2008 and complet-ed his residency in anatomic and clinical pathology there in 2012. His fellowship in hematopathology at Houston Methodist Hospital ended in 2014.

ANTONIO BOJANIC, Ph.D.Visiting Assistant Professor, EconomicsSchool of Liberal ArtsAntonio Bojanic completed his Ph.D. in economics at Auburn University in 1994. A native of Bolivia, he held po-sitions as a civil servant in a number of governmental in-stitutions there, and he performed extensive development work in other Latin American countries and in Africa.

SUSAN BRIDLE-FITZPATRICK, Ph.D.Postdoctoral Fellow, Stone Center for Latin American StudiesSchool of Liberal ArtsSusan Bridle-Fitzpatrick received her Ph.D. in international studies from the Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 2014. Before coming to Tulane, she taught international development and food studies at the University of Colorado and the University of Denver. She has written articles on nutrition transitions, foodscapes, and health inequalities in Mexico. Her continuing research interests include the influence of socioeconomic status on nutrition and foodscapes on nutritional health, the sociol-ogy of supply-demand interactions on processed and conve-nience food, the role of foreign direct investment and trade in transforming food systems and food access, the politics and prospects of food industry regulation, and the effects of migration on food behaviors.

R. KEITH BYRAM, M.S.N., FNP-BCInstructor of Clinical Medicine, Hematology/OncologySchool of MedicineR. Keith Byram received his master of science degree in nurs-ing on a dual track in family/pediatrics from Mississippi University for Women in 2007 and completed studies to become a psychiatric nurse practitioner (FNP-BC) at the University of Southern Mississippi. He had already obtained a bachelor of arts degree in English and biology from the

University of Mississippi in 1986, an associate degree in nurs-ing from Des Moines Area Community College in 1996, and a bachelor of science degree in nursing from The University of Mississippi Medical Center in 1999. With more than 10 years experience as a charge nurse in intensive care units involved in medical/surgical, neurologic, cardiac, and transplant care, he now works as nurse practitioner in emergency room and clinical environments as well as in nephrology practice at the Tulane University Medical Group. His work currently focus-es on practice in hematology and medical oncology.

CHRISTOPHER L. CATERINE, Ph.D.Visiting Assistant Professor, Classical StudiesSchool of Liberal ArtsChristopher L. Caterine earned his Ph.D. in the classics from the University of Virginia in 2014. He served as an ad-junct in Tulane’s Department of Classical Studies last spring and will join the faculty as a visiting assistant professor.

SARA RACHEL CHANT, Ph.D.Visiting Associate Professor, PhilosophySchool of Liberal ArtsSara Rachel Chant received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin in 2004. She has held faculty posi-tions at Texas Tech University, Florida State University, and the University of Missouri, where she is currently an associ-ate professor. She is the author of a number of articles on the metaphysics of collective action, intention, and responsibility.

More than 80 new faculty members join the Tulane community this fall.

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SETH CHRISTIAN, M.D.Assistant Professor of Clinical AnesthesiologySchool of Medicine

JESSICA CLARK, M.D. Assistant Professor, DermatologySchool of MedicineAfter completing research fellowships and a residency in dermatology at Tulane, Jessica Clark has practiced at clin-ics on the downtown and uptown campuses, in Covington, Louisiana, and ones for service personnel and military veterans in Biloxi, Mississippi. Her focus centers on adult and pediatric medical dermatology as well as cosmetic and surgical procedures.

AARON COLLIER, M.F.A.Assistant Professor, ArtSchool of Liberal ArtsAaron Collier received his M.F.A. from Tulane University in 2005 after receiving an M.A. in theological studies from Reformed Theological Seminary in 2003. Since the fall of 2006, he has been a full-time professor of practice for painting and drawing in the Newcomb Art Department. His own work, which displays both representational and abstract imagery, has been exhibited in multiple venues across the United States.

STACIE DUTHU, NURSE PRACTITIONERInstructor of Clinical GastroenterologySchool of Medicine

SHERIF A. EBRAHIM, M.H.A.Lecturer, Management and EntrepreneurshipA. B. Freeman School of BusinessSherif A. Ebrahim, the president and chief executive officer of the Strategic Management Group and managing partner of SMG Capital, both national private equity and healthcare firms based in New Orleans, is a board-certified healthcare executive and a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Using a broad entrepreneurial background and wide-ranging experience, his instruction focuses on corpo-rate strategy, strategic innovation, multi-organizational inte-gration, health care, and strategic leadership.

RATISH GAMBHIRA, D.V.M., Ph.D. Research Instructor, Radiation OncologySchool of MedicineRatish Gambhira holds both a D.V.M. and Ph.D. degrees and is board certified in veterinary microbiology. He has extensive experience in infectious diseases and cancer re-search and is currently working on developing biomarkers for advanced prostate cancer patients.

RYAN GLASSER, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Physics and Engineering PhysicsSchool of Science and EngineeringAfter completing his undergraduate degree at University of California–Los Angeles, Ryan Glasser was awarded a Board of Regents fellowship and received his Ph.D. in physics from Louisiana State University in 2009. He then worked on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency quantum

James MacLaren is professor of physics and dean of Newcomb-Tulane College.

Ana Lopez is professor of communication and associate provost for faculty affairs.

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sensors program at Harris Corporation until early 2011. After completing a National Research Council postdoc-toral fellowship at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, he continued postdoctoral training in the laser cooling and trapping group at the University of Maryland. His research interests include experimental quantum and nonlinear optics with emphasis on quantum information.

BRENT GOEHRING, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental SciencesSchool of Science and EngineeringBrent Goehring earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2010. He also holds a B.A. with distinction from the University of Washington and an M.S. degree from Oregon State University. At Pennsylvania State University, he was a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climate and global change postdoctoral fellow and after that under-took postdoctoral training at Purdue University.

SARAH GRAY, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, PsychologySchool of Science and EngineeringSarah Gray received a B.A. degree from Yale University and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Massachusetts Boston. She completed both pre- and post-doctoral clinical fellowships with a focus on early childhood at the Yale Child Study Center. Her research examines re-lational and contextual risk and protective factors that con-tribute to young children’s psychosocial and educational

adjustment. A former preschool and high school teacher, she is particularly interested in studying the contexts of poverty, violence exposure, early caregiving relationships and schools, and in elucidating mechanisms of change in interventions for young children and their caregivers.

MONICA INES GUERRA, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Stone Center for Latin American StudiesSchool of Liberal ArtsMonica Ines Guerra earned her doctorate in city and region-al planning with a designated emphasis on global metropol-itan studies at the University of California–Berkeley. After joining the Stone Center for Latin American Studies this fall, her research interests will include urban and planning theory, Latin American studies, political and economic ge-ography, and ethnographic methodologies. One of her goals is to investigate the role of the state in shaping innovative policies of poverty management in cities.

NORMAN GUTHRIE, M.D. Assistant Professor, Psychiatry-AdministrationSchool of Medicine

JASON HARRIS, Ph.D.Visiting Assistant Professor, Classical StudiesSchool of Liberal ArtsJason Harris, who earned his bachelor’s degree from Penn-sylvania State University and a master of studies degree from the University of Oxford, completed his doctoral studies in

Michael Cunningham is professor of psychology and associate provost for graduate studies and research.

M.A. “Tonette” Krousel-Wood is professor, associate provost for health sciences and senior associate dean in the School of Medicine.

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2013 at the University of Southern California. He has held fellowships at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the American Academy in Rome. His main area of interest is the relationship between immigration and the state in the ancient Greek world, especially on the island of Sicily during the fourth century BC. His current project analyzes the development of the scholarly court under Greek tyrants in the Classical period.

STEVEN WEI HO, Ph.D.Visiting Assistant Professor, FinanceA. B. Freeman School of BusinessSteven Wei Ho received his Ph.D. in finance from the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill in 2013. Pre-viously, he worked as an assistant professor of finance at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.

ANDY HOROWITZ, Ph.D. CandidateAssistant Professor, HistorySchool of Liberal ArtsAndy Horowitz is a scholar of American political, cultur-al, and environmental history. A native of New Haven, Connecticut, he will receive his Ph.D. from Yale University, where he was a Whiting Fellow in the Humanities and a two-time recipient of the University’s Prize Teaching Fellowship. His dissertation examined the changing ways people in and around New Orleans responded to storms and floods over the past century, and his current research continues to focus on the history of disaster. From 2003 to 2007, he was the founding director of the New Haven Oral History Project at Yale.

HAI HUANG, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Cell and Molecular BiologySchool of Science and EngineeringHai Huang received his Ph.D. in neurobiology from Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences in 2006. After getting his doctorate, he did postdoctoral work at Oregon Health & Science University. His laboratory investigates the electrophysiology of the auditory system, focusing on how ion channels control presynaptic properties and the transmission of auditory synapses.

ADRIENNA HUFFMAN, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, AccountingA. B. Freeman School of BusinessAfter earning an undergraduate degree in economics from Washington University–St. Louis, Adrienna Huffman completed her Ph.D. at the University of Utah, where her dissertation, which explored the implications of asset mea-surement attributes for firm valuation, won the Marriner S. Eccles Research Fellowship in Political Economy for its originality, creativity, and potential for research success. Her ongoing research explores capital markets, focusing on valuation and financial reporting.

MELANIE HUSKA, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor, HistorySchool of Liberal ArtsMelanie Huska is a historian of modern Latin America with research and teaching interests in Mexican popular culture, historical memory, and the relationship between Mexico’s post-Revolutionary state and its culture industries. These

Sally J. Kenney is professor of political science and executive director of the Newcomb College Institute.

Susann Lusnia is associate professor of classical studies and ex-ecutive director of the Center for Engaged Learning and Teaching.

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currents intersect in her present research project, a book manuscript of her dissertation, “Entertaining Education: Teaching National History in Mexican State-Sponsored Comic Books and Telenovelas, 1963 to 1996,” which ex-amines debates and controversies about public history in Mexico’s transition to neoliberalism.

MARKY JEAN-PIERRE, Ph.D. Candidate Visiting Assistant Professor, French and ItalianSchool of Liberal ArtsMarky Jean-Pierre, whose Ph.D. dissertation in French and Francophone studies at the University of Connecticut Storrs is in its final phase of preparation, has already earned a number of advanced degrees from the University of Massachusetts–Amherst: a doctoral degree in education (language, literacy, and culture), a master’s degree in French and Francophone studies, and a graduate certificate in Latin American and Caribbean studies; and, from the University of Massachusetts–Boston, he has earned a master’s degree in applied linguistics. He has taught a number of courses at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst and Westfield State University. His publications include “The Challenge and Promise of Multilingualism in the Caribbean: Focus on Haiti,” a book chapter, and a book in preparation for publication, titled Language and Learning in a Post-Colonial Context: The Case of Haiti. In addition to his teaching and academic pursuits, he is involved in projects related to education and development in Haiti.

NISHAD KAPADIA, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, FinanceA. B. Freeman School of BusinessNishad Kapadia has worked with KPMG Consulting in London and Bombay on projects that involve business strat-egy, technology selection, and risk management for finan-cial services firms. His research, which has appeared in the Journal of Financial Economics, is focused on empirical asset pricing and the impact of default risk on stock returns, es-timating expected returns and the cost of capital for firms, and stock return volatility.

THOMAS KENNEDY, M.D.Professor, Pulmonary DiseasesSchool of MedicineThomas Kennedy is a practicing pulmonary and critical care physician with a special interest in occupational lung diseases. He has been engaged in drug development cen-tered around several start-up pharmaceutical companies, most involving the University of Utah, who are develop-ing low-anticoagulant analogs of the biologically derived anticoagulant heparin for use as cancer support drugs and have devised a family of sulfated, synthetic, low anticoagu-lant, heparin-like drugs from hyaluronic acid for use in oral health and interstitial cystitis. They are also working on the preclinical development of a prodrug to employ as a nitric-oxide releasing agent for cancer chemotherapy.

Agnieszka Nance is interim executive director of the Center for Public Service.

Faculty newcomers meet campus leaders and each other during fall semester events.

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LAURA KIDD, M.D.Assistant Professor of Clinical PathologySchool of MedicineLaura Kidd earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Louisiana Tech University in 2004 and an M.D. from the University of Mississippi Medical School in 2008. After a pathology residency at the University of Texas–Houston in 2012, she held fellowships in surgical pathology at Methodist in 2013 and in renal pathology in 2014, again at the University of Texas.

AMY KINZIE, M.S.N.Instructor of Clinical Medicine, Hematology/OncologySchool of MedicineAfter working as a nurse in hematologic research, Amy Kinzie received her master of nursing degree from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in 2014. She now special-izes in benign hematology and research while pursuing her doctorate in nursing practice.

MIRELA KRASNIQI, M.D. Instructor of Clinical OphthalmologySchool of Medicine

TOBY KREIMENDAHL, M.F.A.Visiting Assistant Professor, Theatre and DanceSchool of Liberal ArtsToby Kreimendahl received her M.F.A. in costume produc-tion from Boston University, where she won the Virgil C.

Johnson Award for Excellence in Costume Design. She has worked with the American Repertory Theater on Broadway productions that include Pippin, All The Way, and Broadway-bound Finding Neverland. In addition to the many seasons at Shakespeare in the Parks at Montana State University working with a traveling troupe of actors performing in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, she played a part in pro-ductions at the Huntington Theater, Goodspeed Musicals, Dallas Theater Center, Shakespeare Theater Company, and the Boston Ballet. She has been teaching costume technol-ogy at Montclair State University and has been a guest artist at Illinois Wesleyan University.

SRINI KRISHNAMOORTHY, Ph.D.Visiting Assistant Professor, Management Science A. B. Freeman School of BusinessSrini Krishnamoorthy obtained his Ph.D. from Columbia Business School, Columbia University, in 2005. Before coming to Tulane, he was on the faculty of the Richard Ivey School of Business at Western University in Canada. His research encompasses pricing analytics and sports and entertainment analytics.

ANASTASIA KURDIA, Ph.D.Professor of Practice, Computer ScienceSchool of Science and EngineeringAnastasia Kurdia earned her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Texas–Dallas in 2010 and holds a diplo-ma in applied mathematics and informatics awarded by the

Researchers Scott Grayson, Bruce Gibb, Wayne Reed and Hank Ashbaugh received a grant from the National Science Foundation to develop smart polymers.

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Belarusian State University in 2004. Before joining Tulane, she taught a range of computer science courses at Bucknell University and Connecticut College, and prior to that, worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Smith College on a computational proteomics project. Her scientific interests include algorithms and optimization with applications in computational geometry, graphics and visualization; paral-lel computing; and scientific, mobile, and biomedical soft-ware. Her current work is in computer science education with concentration on effective teaching and active learn-ing, novel pedagogies, increasing diversity in technical fields, teaching with technology, and learning at scale.

ANA PAULINA LEE, Ph.D.Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Spanish and PortugueseSchool of Liberal ArtsAna Paulina Lee holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Southern California. Her research explores the place of China in the literary and visual cul-tures of Brazil and Cuba from the mid-19th century into the 21st. She works at the intersection of Latin American and Iberian literatures with visual culture, applies critical race theory, and examines the relationship between literary studies and international relations.

AMALIA LEGUIZAMÓN, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, SociologySchool of Liberal ArtsAmalia Leguizamón earned her Ph.D. in sociology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2014, where she specialized in the sociology of development, envi-ronmental sociology, social movements, and Latin American studies. Her research focuses on the socio-ecological impact of the adoption of genetically modified crops in Argentina.

DANIELLE LEVY, M.D. Assistant Professor, Psychiatry-AdministrationSchool of Medicine

HONGBING LIU, Ph.D.Research Assistant Professor,Biochemistry and Molecular BiologySchool of MedicineHongbing Liu received his Ph.D. in molecular biology from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2003. His research interests include molecular dissection of the

p53 gene and its family members on cancer metabolism and metabolic disorders by employing mouse genetic model systems and the approaches of molecular biology.

SARAH RUTH LORENZ, Ph.D.Visiting Assistant Professor, Germanic and Slavic StudiesSchool of Liberal ArtsRuth Lorenz holds a B.A. degree in Russian studies from Carleton College and her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California–Berkeley. Her dissertation examined the tensions between imitation and transforma-tion in the literary cultures of the German Enlightenment and 19th-century Russian realism. Her ongoing research focuses on the understudied critic N.A. Dobroliubov and other members of the “radical” faction. She links them with their ideological rival F.M. Dostoevsky, showing how both radicals and conservatives in mid-19th century Russia struggled to reconcile realist empiricism with utopian visions of social and spiritual transformation. Besides the Russian language and literature, she previously taught German lan-guage, literature, and composition courses at UC–Berkeley.

LAURA HELEN MARKS, Ph.D.Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, EnglishSchool of Liberal ArtsLaura Helen Marks received her doctorate in English and women’s and gender studies from Louisiana State University in 2013. Her research centers on pornographic genre and representation, neo-Victorian fiction, and adaptation.

Antonio Gómez, Marline Otte, Adeline Masquelier and Teresa Cole, 2014 Glick Fellows, receive support for international research.

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JANE MATHIEU, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, MusicSchool of Liberal ArtsJane Mathieu, who previously taught courses at the University of Texas–Austin and Southwestern University, completed a Ph.D. in historical musicology at UT–Austin in 2014. She specializes in 20th-century American music and her research interests include popular song, early recording technologies, music geography, experimentalism, and nationalism.

MARGARET M. MAY, M.S.N., FNP-BCInstructor of Clinical MedicineSchool of MedicineMargaret May has been engaged in nursing for almost 30 years and practicing as a family nurse practitioner since 2009. She attended The College of New Rochelle–New York, for both her baccalaureate and master’s degrees and is nationally board certified with the American Nurses Credentialing Center. With a blend of medicine, nursing, and a holistic perspective for the care of the patient, she encourages educating patients in ways that enable them to make the best decisions in their quest for health and well-being. In addition to teaching, she is in charge of the in-ternal medicine discharge clinic that helps Tulane’s hospital patients make the transition to outpatient status.

TIM McLEAN, Ph.D.Professor of Practice, Ecology and Evolutionary BiologySchool of Science and EngineeringTim McLean received his Ph.D. in genetics and molecular biology from the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill

in 2001. During postdoctoral training at the University of Southern California and the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Miami, he adapted knowledge of molecular biology for the field of ma-rine ecology and refined it. In 2007, when he was an assis-tant professor at the University of Southern Mississippi, he taught courses ranging from introductory biology to grad-uate-level seminars covering topics that highlighted the in-terrelationships of oceans and human health. His research focuses genomics-based technologies and bioinformatics to understand the molecular biology and ecology of the ma-rine dinoflagellate that is responsible for forming harmful algal blooms in the Gulf of Mexico.

STRYDER MEADOWS, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Cell and Molecular BiologySchool of Science and EngineeringStryder Meadows earned his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in 2008. He has spent the past six years training as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Molecular Biology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center–Dallas. As an assistant professor in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at Tulane, his laboratory fo-cuses on understanding fundamental aspects of blood vessel development and disease.

MELISSA MIDDLETON, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Child PsychiatrySchool of MedicineMelissa Middleton, who undertook a pre-doctoral intern-ship in clinical psychology at the Tulane University School of Medicine, earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Central Florida. She recently finished a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in clinical psychology with a specialty in infant mental health at the School of Medicine.

KRISTIN MILLER, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Biomedical EngineeringSchool of Science and EngineeringKristin Miller, who holds a B.S. in biomedical engineering from Texas A&M University, received her doctoral degree in bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania after studying experimental tendon mechanics under the mentor-ship of Lou Soslowsky. She has also completed a postdoctor-al fellowship in biomedical engineering at Yale University developing computational growth models and remodeling

Michael Bernstein, professor of history and economics, is the senior vice president for academic affairs and provost.

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models for cardiovascular applications under the mentor-ship of Jay Humphrey. Her research focuses on collagenous soft tissue mechanics, employing experimental and compu-tational methods to better understand, describe, and predict extracellular matrix growth and remodeling.

NATALIE MITCHELL, Ph.D.Visiting Assistant Professor, MarketingA. B. Freeman School of BusinessAfter receiving an M.S. degree in integrated marketing communications from Florida International University and a B.S. in public relations from the University of Florida, Natalie Mitchell earned her Ph.D. in advertising from the University of Texas–Austin. Her research focused on mar-keting communications, consumer culture, and authen-ticity. Prior to these academic endeavors, her professional career included work in marketing, retail merchandising, advertising, special events, and public relations at Macy’s Inc., CSX, and other businesses. She has a particular inter-est in examining in how luxury brand mentions on real-ity television impact marginalized groups. Other research interests include consumer behavior, luxury branding, celebrity endorsements, and non-traditional advertising.

OWEN N. MOGABGAB M.D. Assistant Professor, Tulane Heart and Vascular InstituteSchool of MedicineOwen Mogabgab is an interventional cardiologist who re- ceived his M.D. from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston in 2006. He completed residency train-ing at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School where his research with the TIMI Study Group fo-cused on the circadian rhythms of cardiovascular disease, including stent thrombosis. He subsequently completed a fellowship in general cardiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, where he served as chief fellow. He went on to complete a fellowship in inter-ventional cardiology there and at the Veterans Affairs North Texas Healthcare System in Dallas. His research interests include the evaluation of novel devices and strategies for the recanalization of coronary chronic total occlusions.

ARTHUR MORA, Ph.D., M.H.A.Clinical Assistant Professor, Global Health Systems and DevelopmentSchool of Public Health & Tropical MedicineArthur Mora, a native of New Orleans, earned his master of health administration degree from the Department of Health Systems Management at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in 1998. He spent 14 years in the healthcare industry in various management and quality improvement roles and has become a certified pro-fessional in healthcare quality and a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. He returned to Tulane to earn a Ph.D. in 2014. His research interests include the influence of the organization of care delivery on quality, the facilitation of health information exchanges, and the financial impact of Medicaid expansion on hospitals. In addition to his teaching and research, he will also serve as the director for the M.H.A. residency program.

YUKIHIRO NAKANISHI, M.D.Assistant Professor of Clinical PathologySchool of Medicine

GANAPATHI “GANS” NARAYANAMOORTHY, Ph.D.Associate Professor, AccountingA. B. Freeman School of BusinessGanapathi “Gans” Narayanamoorthy received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester after completing a B.Tech. degree at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and earning an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He has published extensively in accounting

The Provost’s Office sponsors faculty development events throughout the year.

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journals including the Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research and Review of Accounting Studies. He has previously served on faculties at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and the Yale School of Management. Prior to entering academia, he was an investment banker managing public offerings of large corporations. His research interests lie in the capital markets area of accounting, with particular emphasis on market efficiency and litigation risk.

STEPHEN NELSON, M.D., Ph.D.Associate Professor, PediatricsSchool of MedicineStephen Nelson completed his Ph.D. in biomedical sciences at the University of California–Riverside followed by his M.D. at the University of California–San Diego. He then complet-ed his pediatric residency at Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, and then his child neurology residency at Stanford Hospital. He is board certified in both pediatrics and child neurology and is the section head for pediatric neu-rology, performing both inpatient and outpatient evaluations in addition to reading electroencephalograms. He served on active duty in the U.S. Air Force from 2000–2013, most recently at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, where he was the program director for the child neurology fellowship and the direc-tor of child neurology for the medical school. Although he has worked part-time doing pediatric neurology since 2007, he joins the Tulane University School of Medicine’s full- time faculty as an associate professor of pediatrics, neurology and psychiatry.

KRISTIN ADELE OKOLI, Ph.D.Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities,French and ItalianSchool of Liberal ArtsKristin Adele Okoli received a combined doctorate in French and African American studies from Yale University in May 2014. A Newcomb-Tulane College alumna with a B.A. in French, English, and art history as well as minors in history and Italian, she will be teaching a graduate seminar on the Creole Atlantic. Her teaching and research interests include Louisiana literature, Haitian art and literature, 19th-century French literature and culture, and popular music and perfor-mance in French and Creole. Her first book project surveys representations of “la belle creole,” or “the beautiful Creole woman,” in France, Louisiana, and Haiti.

CHRISTOPHER OLIVER, Ph.D.Professor of Practice, SociologySchool of Liberal ArtsChristopher Oliver holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Michigan State University, as well as a B.S. degree in ge-ography from California Polytechnic State University–Pomona, in addition to his completion of graduate work at Oregon State University in geosciences and resource man-agement. He has taught classes at Oregon State University, Kalamazoo College, the University of Kentucky, and Michigan State University, where he was a research assistant in the Center for Global Change and Earth Observation. While there he received a number of foreign language and area studies awards and Ford Foundation travel fellowships. As a professor of practice in the Department of Sociology and the environmental studies program, he teaches courses

Senior faculty participate in a Leadership Forum, including a session with President Emeritus Scott Cowen.

During the forum, the President Emeritus (above) discussed “Leading in Adversity.”

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on the environment and society, urban sociology, environ-mental crime and security, science and technology studies. Currently, his work focuses on U.S. environmental policy, regulation, and law as well as on the consequences of energy policy, regulation, and legislation on federal, state, and local environmental policymaking.

CASIUS PEALER, J.D., M.Arch.Professor of PracticeSchool of ArchitectureTrained as an architect and a real estate attorney, Casius Pealer has more than 17 years of community development ex-perience, including four years as legal counsel for public hous-ing authorities across the country that were implementing

mixed-finance redevelopment projects. He holds a B.Arch./ M.Arch. from the Tulane University School of Architecture and a J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School. He has been published in the ABA Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, the ABA Guide to Affordable Housing Law, and the AIA Journal of Architecture. He also worked in the nonprofit sector as the first director of affordable housing at the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). In addition to his academic roles at Tulane, he is an attorney in the New Orleans office of Coats | Rose, a Houston-based law firm, where he concen-trates in the areas of affordable housing, real estate finance, and energy and water efficiency, and he is licensed to practice law in New York State and Washington, D.C.

Scenes from 2014 Commencement: (upper left) President’s Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching recipients, Diego Rose (public health) and (upper right) Gary Dohanich (psychology and neuroscience), at right, with Provost Michael Bernstein; (lower left) Weiss Presidential Fellows for Undergraduate Teaching, Scott Grayson (chemistry, left) and Jeffrey Gunschol (theater and dance, right); and (lower right) President Emeritus Scott Cowen, (from right), celebrates with Wynton Marsalis and Michael White.

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DEBJEET PRADHAN, Ph.D.Visiting Assistant Professor, AccountingA. B. Freeman School of BusinessDebjeet Pradhan received his Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Texas–Dallas, an M.B.A. from Yale University, an M.S. in chemical engineering from SUNY–Buffalo, and a B.Tech. in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He has more than 15 years of experi-ence in the energy, oil and gas, airline, and media industries. He spent more than four years in the oil and gas industry working as a chemical engineer, where he applied quanti-tative modeling to the design of petroleum refineries and natural gas production plants. He has published the results of his research and development work on hydrocarbons in leading chemical engineering journals. His functional areas of expertise include customer analytics and segmentation, business development strategy, financial analysis, cash flow valuations, transfer pricing, and capital planning.

JOON RO, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Business - MarketingA. B. Freeman School of BusinessJoon Ro earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas–Austin in 2014. He also holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in eco-nomics from Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea, and an M.S. in economics from the University of Texas–Austin. His research focuses on quantitative marketing.

NAKHLE SABA, M.D.Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine,Hematology & Medical OncologySchool of MedicineNakhle Saba graduated from the Lebanese University in Beirut with an M.D. in 2005. He completed his residency in internal medicine at East Tennessee State University and in hematology and medical oncology at Tulane. In 2012, he held a research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health where his research focused on tumor biology and therapeutic approaches to chronic lymphocytic leuke-mia (CLL) and mantle cell lymphoma (MCL). He joined Tulane’s faculty in August 2014 as an assistant professor of clinical medicine and continues work on developing a trans-lational program in B-cell malignancies with a particular focus on CLL and MCL.

ANTON SCHWEIZER, Ph.D.Professor of Practice, ArtSchool of Liberal ArtsAnton Schweizer’s scholarly focus is on the history of art in pre-modern Japan. Following training as a conserva-tor of panel paintings and sculptures in Munich, he stud-ied Japanese, sinology, and art history at the University of Munich, earning an M.A. in 2002. In 2010 he completed his dissertation in art history of East Asia at Heidelberg University, where he taught the history of Japanese art from 2004 to 2012. Before coming to Tulane he was an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. Among his interests are issues of materiality, the self-fashioning of social groups, architecture

Kevin Grigsby leads a faculty leadership session on the topic, “Creating a Positive Workplace Culture.”

Grigsby is senior director of member organizational development with the Association of American Medical Colleges.

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and interior decoration, and the transmission and exchange of pictorial concepts in transcultural contexts.

CLAIRE SENOT, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Management ScienceA. B. Freeman School of BusinessClaire Senot recently received her Ph.D. from the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University. She also holds a master’s degree from the Audencia Nantes School of Management in France, and an M.B.A. from Ohio State. Her paper, “Process Management Impact on Clinical and Experiential Quality: Managing Tensions between Safe and Patient-Centered Health Care,” has been published in the Manufacturing & Service Operations Management jour-nal and received the 2012 ISA-INFORMS “Best Industry Studies Paper” award. Prior to her academic career, she worked in operations management in Sydney and Chicago. Her research interests include healthcare operations, quality management, and organizational learning.

ARMINE SHAHOYAN, Ph.D.Visiting Associate Professor, EconomicsSchool of Liberal ArtsArmine Shahoyan received her Ph.D. in economics from the Higher Certifying Commission of Russian Federation in 1994. Besides teaching and research, she has held leadership positions in international projects and provided professional consultancy for transition economies.

DANIEL SHANTZ, Ph.D.Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringSchool of Science and EngineeringDaniel Shantz joined the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in July as the Entergy Chair of Clean Energy Engineering. A native of Muskegon, Michigan, with chemical engineering degrees from the University of Florida (B.S., 1995) and the University of Delaware (Ph.D., 2000), he held an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation postdoctoral research fellowship after completing his Ph.D. For the last two years, he has been a chief scientist and a senior manager in the corpo-rate research and innovation future feedstocks group at Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC). Before join-ing SABIC, he was a faculty member in the chemical en-gineering department at Texas A&M University, where his laboratory was recognized for its work in zeolite nucleation, biomimetic materials, and hybrid materials for catalysis and

separations. At Tulane, his laboratory will develop materials that address problems in sustainability, energy storage, and solar energy capture for use in chemical conversions.

DAVID SMILDE, Ph.D.Professor, SociologySchool of Liberal ArtsDavid Smilde received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago in 2000. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal Qualitative Sociology and a senior fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA). His scholar-ship focuses on how marginalized groups gain agency through political and cultural processes. His most recent publications include Religion on the Edge: Decentering and Recentering the Sociology of Religion (Oxford 2012), Venezuela’s Bolivarian Democracy: Participation, Politics and Culture under Hugo Chavez (Duke 2011), and Reason to Believe: Cultural Agency in Latin American Evangelicalism (California 2007). He founded and moderates WOLA’s blog “Venezuelan Politics and Human Rights,” and has been interviewed and quoted by media outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, BBC and National Public Radio.

JACQUELINE TAYLOR, Ph.D. CANDIDATEVisiting LecturerSchool of ArchitectureJacqueline Taylor is an architectural and art historian who defends her Ph.D. dissertation, “Designing Progress: Race, Gender and Modernism in Twentieth Century America” this year at the University of Virginia. Since 2008 she has shared her research at international professional confer-ences and has taught undergraduate courses on the histo-ry of architecture, conducted specialized seminars dealing with race, gender and architecture, and facilitated graduate courses in architecture at the University of Virginia. She re-cently taught an undergraduate course on African American art history at Virginia Tech’s School of Visual Arts. An es-say based on her master’s thesis was included in Re-Creating the American Past: Essays on the Colonial Revival, edited by Richard Guy Wilson and Shaun Eyring (University of Virginia Press, 2006), and she has published a number of other pieces on American architects and African American artists as well. Before beginning her doctoral studies, she worked as an architectural and landscape historian for the preservation firm John Milner Associates. She has served on a number of local boards and task forces and maintains a strong interest in community design practices.

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PAVAN K. THANGUDU, M.D.Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Internal MedicineSchool of MedicinePavan K. Thangudu is an assistant professor and associate program director for internal medicine. He was trained as a biomedical engineer at Case Western Reserve University and completed medical school at Temple University School of Medicine. He was selected chief resident during his inter-nal medicine residency at Tulane. His professional focus is on student and resident education and practicing evidence-based medicine.

HEATHER L.R. TIERNEY, Ph.D.Visiting Assistant Professor, EconomicsSchool of Liberal ArtsHeather L.R. Tierney received her B.S in mathematics- economics from the University of California–Los Angeles, in 2000, then earned economic degrees from the University of California–Riverside, an M.A. in 2002 and a Ph.D. in 2005. Her main research interest has been in nonparametric econo-metrics as it applies to real-time data and monetary policy, but she also performs research that uses search engine data.

DIANE TRIEU, M.D. Assistant Professor of Clinical DermatologySchool of Medicine

MICHAEL TYBURSKI, Ph.D.Visiting Assistant Professor, Political ScienceSchool of Liberal ArtsMichael Tyburski earned his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 2014. His work focuses on international and comparative political econ-omy, specifically on the effects of migrant remittances in developing economies.

ANU VARADHARAJAN, M.B.A.Lecturer, AccountingA. B. Freeman School of BusinessAnu Varadharajan, who holds a bachelor’s degree from the National University of Singapore and an M.B.A. from the University of Rochester, is a member of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants. Now a lecturer in account-ing and the associate director of the master of accounting program, she comes to Tulane from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where she served as a lecturer in

accountancy and consistently appeared on the list of teach-ers ranked as excellent. Prior to beginning her academic ca-reer, she spent nine years with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as a tax manager and as regional finance director for PwC’s Northeast Region. In addition to teaching, she is an entrepre-neur with her own line of natural, organic, handcrafted skin care products.

SHYAM SUNDER VENKATESAN, Ph.D.Visiting Assistant Professor, FinanceA. B. Freeman School of BusinessShyam Sunder Venkatesan earned his Ph.D. in finance from Indiana University in 2014. His research interests center on issues relating to delegated portfolio management and empirical asset pricing.

J. CAMERON VERHAAL, Ph.D.Visiting Assistant Professor, Strategy and EntrepreneurshipA. B. Freeman School of BusinessJ. Cameron Verhaal received his Ph.D. in entrepreneurship and strategy from the University of Utah after earning an M.A. from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, an M.B.A. from the University of Arizona, and a B.A. from the University of Colorado–Boulder. His in-terests include entrepreneurship, organization theory, and strategic management; specifically, he is interested in the competitive dynamics of specialist craft-based organiza-tions, such as microbreweries and microdistilleries, artisan cheese producers, custom snowboard and bicycle manufac-turers, farm-to-table restaurants, and organic food produc-ers. Prior to his academic career, he lived in Mexico where he ran his own business and taught undergraduate courses in entrepreneurship and international business.

GUIGUO WANG, J.S.D. Professor and Eason-Weinmann Chair of International and Comparative Law School of LawGuiguo Wang received his J.S.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1984. Over the past 27 years, he taught law at Peking University and the City University of Hong Kong, where he served as dean of the Law School for a number of years. His research interests and expertise lie in interna-tional investment law, international trade law, international finance law, comparative law, and arbitration. In addition to teaching, he has practiced law as an arbitrator for 26 years.

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JESMYN WARD, MFAAssociate Professor, EnglishSchool of Liberal ArtsJesmyn Ward is the 2011 National Book Award winner for her novel Salvage the Bones. A native of DeLisle, Mississippi, she received her undergraduate degree in English and a master’s degree in media studies and communication from Stanford University. She is the recipient of the first Paul and Debra Gibbons Professorship at Tulane, with which, in ad-dition to teaching with the English Department, she will also work closely with the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South and the Newcomb College Institute.

ANDREW WAUGH, Ph.D.Visiting Assistant Professor, Political ScienceSchool of Liberal ArtsAndrew Waugh received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California–San Diego, in 2013. His research focuses primarily on political parties and party organizational activity in the United States.

MICHAEL YABLICK, M.D.Clinical Instructor, OphthalmologySchool of MedicineMichael Yablick completed a residency in ophthalmology at Virginia Commonwealth University and is currently serv-ing as the cornea and external disease fellow in the School of Medicine’s Department of Ophthalmology.

ANN YOACHIM, M.P.H.Visiting Professor of PracticeSchool of ArchitectureAnn Yoachim holds an M.P.H. degree from Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and a B.A. in environmental studies and political science from Dickinson College. Her research and practice fall at the intersection of built, natural, and socially constructed environments that impact health in rural and urban set-tings. Her current and past projects and programs integrate deep understanding of the environment with an under-standing of human conditions in distinct geographical re-gions that include Louisiana and the Gulf South as well as Kenya and East Africa. Her current work incorporates design thinking and collaborative approaches to address complex and emerging social and environmental challenges.

JOSHUA O. YUKICH, Ph.D., M.P.H. Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health Systems and DevelopmentCenter for Applied Malaria Research and EvaluationSchool of Public Health and Tropical MedicineJoshua Yukich received his doctorate from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute at the University of Basel in 2009. He came to Tulane as a research assistant professor shortly afterwards and has since held appointments in the Department of Global Health Systems and Development and the former Department of International Health. His research interests focus on the epidemiology and prevention of vector borne diseases, especially malaria. He regularly serves as a technical expert for malaria vector control to the World Health Organization.

Professor Daniel Shantz (center) shown with his parents, was invested in the Entergy Chair in Clean Energy Engineering.

Professor Guiguo Wang is the new holder of the Eason- Weinmann Chair of International and Comparative Law.

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NEW FACULTY FOR 2014–2015—LISTED BY SCHOOL

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURECasius Pealer, Professor of Practice

Jacqueline Taylor, Visiting Lecturer

Ann Yoachim, Visiting Professor of Practice

A. B. FREEMAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESSSherif Ebrahim, Lecturer, Management

Steven Ho, Visiting Assistant Professor, Finance

Adrienna Huffman, Assistant Professor, Accounting

Nishad Kapadia, Assistant Professor, Finance

Srini Krishnamoorthy, Visiting Assistant Professor, Management Science

Natalie Mitchell, Visiting Assistant Professor, Marketing

Ganapathi Narayanamoorthy, Associate Professor, Accounting

Debjeet Pradhan, Visiting Assistant Professor, Accounting

Joon Ro, Assistant Professor, Marketing

Claire Senot, Assistant Professor, Management Science

Anupama Varadharajan, Lecturer, Accounting

Shyam Venkatesan, Visiting Assistant Professor, Finance

Cameron Verhaal, Visiting Assistant Professor, Management

SCHOOL OF LAWNicholas Almendares, Visiting Assistant Professor

Guiguo Wang, Eason Weinmann Professor

SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTSPaula Arce-Trigatti, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Economics

Erga Atad, Visiting Assistant Professor, Jewish Studies

Antonio Bojanic, Visiting Assistant Professor, Economics

Susan Bridle-Fitzpatrick, Zemurray-Stone Postdoctoral Fellow in Latin American Studies

Christopher Caterine, Visiting Assistant Professor, Classical Languages

Sara Chant, Visiting Associate Professor, Philosophy

Aaron Collier, Assistant Professor, Art

Kristin Graves, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, French & Italian

Monica Guerra, Zemurray-Stone Postdoctoral Fellow in Latin American Studies

Jason Harris, Visiting Assistant Professor, Classical Studies

Andrew Horowitz, Assistant Professor, History

Melanie Huska, Visiting Assistant Professor, History

Marky Jean-Pierre, Visiting Assistant Professor, French and Italian

Toby Kreimendahl, Visiting Assistant Professor, Theatre and Dance

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Ana Lee, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Spanish and PortugueseAmalia Leguizamón, Assistant Professor, SociologySarah Lorenz, Visiting Assistant Professor, German and Slavic StudiesLaura Marks, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, EnglishJane Mathieu, Assistant Professor, MusicKristin Adele Okoli, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, French and ItalianChristopher Oliver, Professor of Practice, SociologyAnton Schweizer, Professor of Practice, ArtArmine Shahoyan, Visiting Associate Professor, EconomicsDavid Smilde, Professor, SociologyHeather Tierney, Visiting Assistant Professor, EconomicsMichael Tyburski, Visiting Assistant Professor, Political ScienceJesmyn Ward, Associate Professor, EnglishAndrew Waugh, Visiting Assistant Professor, Political Science

SCHOOL OF MEDICINEJane Andrews, Instructor of Clinical Medicine, Internal MedicineAimee Aysenne, Assistant Professor of Clinical NeurosurgeryAdrian Baudy, Instructor of Clinical Medicine, NephrologyRamesh Bhagat, Assistant Professor of Clinical PathologyRobert Byram, Instructor of Clinical Medicine, Hematology/OncologySeth Christian, Assistant Professor of Clinical AnesthesiologyJessica Clark, Assistant Professor of Clinical DermatologyStacie Duthu, Instructor of Clinical GastroenterologyRatish Gambhira, Research Instructor, Radiation OncologyNorman Guthrie, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry-AdministrationThomas Kennedy, Professor, Pulmonary DiseasesLaura Kidd, Assistant Professor of Clinical PathologyAmy Kinzie, Instructor of Clinical Medicine, Hematology/OncologyMirela Krasniqi, Instructor of Clinical OphthalmologyDanielle Levy, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry-AdministrationHongbing Liu, Research Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyMargaret M May, Instructor of Clinical MedicineMelissa Middleton, Assistant Professor of Clinical PsychiatryOwen Mogabgab, Assistant Professor of Clinical MedicineYukihiro Nakanishi, Assistant Professor of Clinical PathologyStephen Nelson, Associate Professor, PediatricsNekhle Saba, Assistant Professor of Clinical MedicinePavan Thangudu, Assistant Professor of Clinical MedicineDiane Trieu, Assistant Professor of Clinical DermatologyMichael Yablick, Instructor, Clinical Ophthalmology

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH & TROPICAL MEDICINEArthur Mora, Clinical Assistant Professor, Global Health Systems and DevelopmentJoshua Yukich, Assistant Professor, Global Health Systems and Development

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SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERINGJulie Alvarez, Senior Professor of Practice, PsychologyRyan Glasser, Assistant Professor, PhysicsBrent Goehring, Assistant Professor, Earth and Envionmental SciencesSarah Gray, Assistant Professor, PsychologyHai Huang, Assistant Professor, Cell and Molecular BiologyAnastasia Kurdia, Professor of Practice, Computer ScienceTimothy McLean, Professor of Practice, Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyStryder Meadows, Assistant Professor, Cell and Molecular BiologyKristin Miller, Assistant Professor, Biomedical EngineeringDaniel Shantz, Professor and Entergy Chair, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Tulane welcomes new faculty during orientation in August 2014.

NEW FACULTY