The breadth of scholarly interests and teaching expertise of the college’s newest faculty—from environmental humanities and many-body physics to economic globalization and the history of visual storytelling—enriches and expands the arts and sciences across the WSU system.
Click “read more” to learn a little about each of these new faculty members.
Arts & Humanities | Sciences | Social Sciences
Arts & Humanities
Diamond Beverly-Porter
Assistant Professor
Digital Technology and Culture (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
Exploring play, critical making, multimodal representations, and narrative storytelling through the medium of digital games and technology; blackness in gaming spaces; narrative, identity and Black girlhood in digital games.
Previous post:
University of Texas, Dallas
Education and training:
MFA, arts, technology, and emerging communication, University of Texas, Dallas; BS, digital media technology, Tarleton State University.
Honors and achievements:
Author, “Blerd: The Exploration of Blackness in Gaming Spaces, Fan-Interpretations, and Creation Of Counter Publics” in Hyperrhiz; and Affirmations 2.0: The Politics of Liberation and Exploration of Healing in Digital Games video game published on itchio.io; Optcal Bios, animation and sound instillation at The Fort Worth Community Arts Center.
Outside of work, I enjoy playing Dungeons and Dragons, reading fanfiction, playing with my cat J’zargo and, of course, playing video games. I’m also a teaching artist and collaborator with The SmART Project based in Dallas.
Email: d.beverly-porter@wsu.edu
![Diamond Beverly-Porter.](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2023/09/Beverly-Porter-Diamond-396x396.jpg)
Mark Black
Assistant Professor, Career Track
Languages, Cultures, and Race (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
French language and culture; linguistics, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition; teaching texts and technology
Name of most recent institution or company/industry:
Washington State University
Education and training:
PhD, French linguistics, Indiana University; Licence, linguistics, Université de Rouen; MA and BA, French, University of Wyoming
Outside of work, I enjoy playing baseball/softball, video games, hiking, and helping my young children discover the world.
Email: mark.black@wsu.edu
![Mark Black.](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2023/09/Black-Mark-1-396x396.jpg)
Billie Feather
Assistant Professor, Career Track
Music (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
Classical and jazz guitar and banjo pedagogy; making music accessible; blending popular musical genres with classical music; Suzuki guitar teaching; promoting musician’s wellness; audio engineering; musicology; bluegrass, country, and traditional Appalachian musical styles; songwriting; music business and management.
Previous post:
Meredith College
Education and training:
Professional Artist Certificate (terminal degree) and MA, classical and jazz guitar, guitar pedagogy, University of North Carolina; Undergraduate degrees from UNC and North Carolina Central University
Honors and Achievements
“Artpreneur” grant, Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts at UNC; president, UNC Graduate Student Council; first prize, “Collaborative Songwriting Using an International Online Classroom Setting” undergraduate poster, North Carolina Central University
Outside of work, I enjoy songwriting, banjo, competitive swimming, cycling, historical European martial arts (broadsword fencing), exploring nature, and traveling. I’m also a member of the classical music and bluegrass fusion touring band “Hank, Pattie and The Current”.
Email: billie.feather@wsu.edu
![Billie Feather.](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2023/09/Feather-Billie-1-396x396.jpg)
Sabrina Gonzalez
Assistant Professor
History (Tri-Cities)
Research and teaching interests:
Latin American history; women’s, gender, and sexuality studies; transnational history; history of education and science
Previous post:
University of Maryland, College Park
Education and training:
PhD, history, University of Maryland, College Park
Honors and achievements:
Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY) Dissertation Prize honorable mention; Dr. Mabel S. Spencer Award for Excellence in Graduate Achievement, University of Maryland; Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award, Latin American Studies Center & Honors Humanities, University of Maryland
Outside of work, I enjoy organizing events and communities, spending time with friends and family, gardening, hiking, and playing video games.
Email: sabrina.gonzalez1@wsu.edu
![Sabrina Gonzalez.](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2023/09/Gonzalez-Sabrina-1-396x396.jpg)
Aaron Hill
Assistant Professor
Music (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
Presently working on transcribing the music of French composer Olivier Messiaen for performance on saxophone, and composing music for large jazz ensembles
Previous post:
North Carolina Central University
Education and training:
DMA, saxophone performance, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; MM, jazz studies, North Carolina Central University; BA, music, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Outside of work, I enjoy art, food, travel, and golf.
Email: aaron.hill@wsu.edu
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Jihyun Kim
Assistant Professor, Career track
Music (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
Writing compositions for various combinations of acoustic instruments ranging from solo instruments to full orchestra; coalescing polar opposite ideas: the traditional with the experimental, the past with the future, and as of late, Eastern and Western traits.
Previous post:
Oberlin Conservatory
Education and training:
DMA, composition, Cornell University; MM, composition, Indiana University; BM, composition, Yonsei University
Honors and Achievements:
Consortium Commission from American Composers Orchestra, Alabama Symphony, American Youth Symphony; ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award; League of Composers winner, International Society for Contemporary Composers
Outside of work, I enjoy running, reading books, taking photos of my cats, and playing video games!
Email: jihyun.kim1@wsu.edu
![Jihyun Kim.](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2023/09/Kim-Jihyun-396x396.jpg)
Jiemei (Mei) Lin
Assistant Professor
Art (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
Using visual art and visual communication to navigate social justice issues including racism sexism and environmental issues caused by colonization.
Previous post:
Washington State University
Education and training:
MFA, University of Cincinnati; BA, visual communication, Zhejiang University
Outside of work, I enjoy reading, cooking, baking, gardening, and hosting parties (my son calls our house a “party house”). My nickname Mei is pronounced like “May.”
Email: jiemei.lin@wsu.edu
![Jiemei (Mei) Lin.](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2023/09/Lin-Jiemei-396x396.jpg)
M.A. Miller (they/he)
Assistant Professor
English/Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century global anglophone literature; environmental humanities; queer and trans ecologies; studies of empire and settler colonialism; Caribbean studies; postcolonial studies of diaspora and the Global South; queer/trans and feminist theory; gender and sexuality studies; film studies
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University of Nevada, Reno
Education and training:
PhD, English, emphasis in feminist theory & research, University of California, Davis; MFA, creative writing, Mills College; BA, anthropology and English, University of Denver
Honors and Achievements:
Dissertation writing fellowship and marine laboratory fellowship, Bilinski Educational Foundation; Author, “Organ/ic Gender and Trans*-Planted Selves in Manjula Padmanabhan’s The Island Of Lost Girls And Harvest,” in Transgender Science Fiction and “Cultivating Colonial Sexualities: Queer Extinction in Anglo-Persia, the Qajar Dynasty to Post-Revolutionary Iran” in Routledge Companion to Global Victorian Literature and Culture (both forthcoming)
Outside of work, I enjoy competitive Muay Thai kickboxing and I enjoy vinyasa yoga. I have two cats: Bippity and Citrus. My favorite ecosystems are coastal wetlands and the intertidal. My favorite marine invertebrates are helmet urchins and sand dollars. My favorite geological material is chalk.
Email: m.a.miller@wsu.edu
![M.A. Miller.](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2023/09/Miller-MA-396x396.jpg)
Brenna Miller
Assistant Professor, Career Track
History (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
20th century Southeastern Europe, including nationalism, socialism, Islam, cultural history, transnational history, movement and migration, and the Global Cold War; the emergence of an officially recognized, secular Muslim nation in Tito’s Yugoslavia
Previous post:
Washington State University
Education and training:
PhD, Ohio State University; MA, University of Toronto; BA, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Honors and achievements
Funding from the International Research and Exchanges Board, American Councils, and the Ohio State Mershon Center.
Email: brenna.miller@wsu.edu
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Seoryung (Sam) Park
Assistant Professor, Career Track
Digital Technology and Culture (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
Interdisciplinary graphic design, branding design, and storytelling
Previous post:
Washington State University
Education and training:
MFA, Washington State University; BFA, illustration, Parsons/The New School.
Email: seoryung.park@wsu.edu
![Seoryung Park.](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2023/09/Park-Seo-396x396.jpg)
Bibhushana Poudyal
Assistant Professor
English (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
Transnational feminism, global (south) and comparative rhetorics; decolonial border rhetorics/the borderlands; digital and multimodal writing; design justice; critical archival studies; anti-oppressive theories, praxes, and pedagogies; public rhetorics and writing; visual rhetorics
Previous post:
University of Texas, El Paso
Education and training:
PhD, English, University of Texas at El Paso; MPhil, English, Institute of Advanced Communication Education Research Kathmandu, Pokhara University; MA, English, Tribhuvan University
Honors and achievements:
NEH Understanding Digital Culture Institute Fellow; Chairs’ Memorial Scholarship, Conference on College Composition and Communication; Graduate Research Development Award, Rhetoric Society of America; research articles and chapters published in several journals and articles.
Outside of work, I enjoy music, food, movies and series; building, joining, and learning from anti-oppressive communities on social media; communicating with friends and cousins via memes; enjoying the solitude; being with people who feel like a safe and dignified space; exploring and doing things that are healing individually & collectively.
Email: bibhushana.poudyal@wsu.edu
![Bibhushana Poudyal.](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2023/09/Poudyal-Bibhushana-396x396.jpg)
Jeannie Shinozuka
Arnold & Atsuko Craft Assistant Professor
Languages, Cultures, and Race (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
Asian American studies, environmental studies, and the history of medicine and science; weaving these disparate fields together to strengthen interdisciplinary conversations that span both the humanities and the sciences
Previous post:
Soka University of America
Education and training:
PhD, history, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; MA, Asian American studies, University of California, Los Angeles; BA, history and political science, La Sierra University
Honors and Achievements:
Author, Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890-1950 (University of Chicago Press). Honors include longlist for the ICAS Book Prize (Humanities) and honorable mention for the Frederick Jackson Turner Award at the International Convention of Asia Scholars
Outside of work, I enjoy hiking, biking, reading non-academic books, testing vegan/vegetarian recipes, and practicing Japanese. If you want to talk about bugs and Asian plant immigrants, I am your person.
Email: jeannie.shinozuka@wsu.edu
![Jeannie Shinozuka.](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2023/09/Shinozuka-Jeannie-396x396.jpg)
Eugene Smelyansky
Assistant Professor, Career Track
History (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
Medieval Europe; history of religion; urban history; history of intolerance and persecution; uses and abuses of the Middle Ages during later periods; and world history
Previous post:
Washington State University
Education and training:
PhD, history, University of California, Irvine; MA and BA, history, San Francisco State University
Honors and achievements:
Author, Heresy And Citizenship: Persecution of Heresy in Late Medieval German Cities, Routledge, and The Intolerant Middle Ages: A Reader, University of Toronto Press
Outside of work, I enjoy hiking and travel with my wife, cooking, and supporting community theater in the area.
Email: eugene.smelyansky@wsu.edu
![Eugene Smelyansky.](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2023/09/Smelyansky-Eugene-396x396.jpg)
Jonathan (Jon) Sweet
Director of Athletic Bands
Associate Professor, Career Track
Music (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
Marching band design and program coordination; effective pedagogical techniques for wind bands; aural listening hierarchy in music educational training; student leadership and development
Previous post:
Purdue University
Education and training:
DMA, University of Kentucky; MM, Stephen F. Austin State University; BS, music and education, Abilene Christian University
Honors and achievements:
Adjudicator, Marching Band Championships, State of Kentucky; marching band designer for many universities and high schools throughout the country
Outside of work, I enjoy Lego, golf, reading, and a good cup of coffee.
Email: jonathan.sweet@wsu.edu
![Jonathan Sweet.](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2023/09/Sweet-Jonathan-396x397.jpg)
Gregory Turner-Rahman
Professor
Digital Technology and Culture (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
Currently exploring the intersections of physical and virtual spaces and affective storytelling; teaching activity includes design history, motion graphics, graphic design, digital imaging, and visual storytelling
Previous post:
University of Idaho
Education and training:
PhD, visual culture and new media, and MS, architecture, Washington State University; BFA, industrial design, University of Washington
Honors and achievements:
Author, Virtual Interiorities: New Approaches to Virtuality in Gamespaces and the Built Environment, ETC Press (Carnegie Mellon University); International Award for Excellence, The Constructed Environment; Clarion Award, Association for Women in Communications
Outside of work, I enjoy time with my daughters or going on walks with my wife. I am a published children’s author-illustrator so spend my free time drawing and painting.
Email: g.turner-rahman@wsu.edu
![Gregory Turner-Rahman.](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2023/09/Turner-Rahman-Gregory-396x396.jpg)
Raelene (Rae) Wyse
Assistant Professor, Career Track
Languages, Cultures, and Race (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
Latin American and U.S. Latinx/e literature and cultural production, with a focus on Jewish life and culture; multilingualism and Jewish languages, Yiddish and Ladino; diaspora and immigration, and their intersections with race, class, gender, sexuality, culture; transnational cultural flows and production
Previous post:
Washington State University
Education and training:
PhD and MA, comparative literature, University of Texas, Austin; MA, Latin American studies, New York University; BA, English literature, Seattle University
Outside of work, I enjoy reading, cooking, watching films and TV shows, getting to know the Palouse, becoming more involved in my community, and spending time with my kiddo, Lucy (3).
Email: raelene.wyse@wsu.edu
![Raelene “Rae” Wyse](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2023/09/Wyse-Raelene-396x396.jpg)
Sciences
Chencheng Cai
Assistant Professor
Mathematics and Statistics (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
Causal inference and experimental design under interference; time series analysis; high-dimensional matrix decomposition; Monte Carlo methods
Previous post:
Temple University
Education and training:
PhD, statistics, and MS, financial statistics and risk management, Rutgers University; BS, physics and computer software, Peking University
Honors and achievements:
Author, “Kopa: Automated Kronecker Product Approximation” in the Journal of Machine Learning Research; “Individualized Group Learning” in Journal of the American Statistical Association; “State Space Emulation and Annealed Sequential Monte Carlo for High Dimensional Optimization” in Statistics Sinica
Outside of work, I enjoy traveling and video games.
Email: chencheng.cai@wsu.edu
![Chencheng Cai.](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2023/09/Cai-Chencheng-396x396.jpg)
Linda Cook
Assistant Professor, Career Track
Biological Sciences (Pullman, Global)
Research and teaching interests:
Systematic botany: the evolutionary relationships among plants, particularly polyploidy as a mode of evolution; also teaching science to students who may not be going on to pursue scientific careers
Previous post:
Washington State University/Spokane Falls Community College
Education and training:
PhD, systematic botany, and BA, English and secondary teaching certification, Washington State University
Outside of work, I enjoy volunteering with the Whitman County Extension in 4-H; volunteering at the Palouse Empire Fair; quilting; playing with my sheep, chickens, rabbits and cats; cooking for anyone who shows up at my house! Also just completed homeschooling my kiddos.
Email: lcook@wsu.edu
![Linda Cook.](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2023/09/Cook-Linda.jpg)
Abigail Higgins
Assistant Professor, Career Track
Mathematics and Statistics (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
mathematics education, teacher preparation
Previous post:
California State University, Sacramento
Education and training:
PhD and MS, mathematics, Washington State University; BS, mathematics, Walla Walla University; AA, general studies, Columbia Basin College
Outside of work, I enjoy running, reading, piano, juggling, and snuggling with my cat.
Email: abigail.higgins@wsu.edu
![Abigail Higgins.](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2023/09/Higgins-Abigail-396x396.jpg)
Brian Jensen
Director, Institute for Shock Physics
Professor
Physics and Astronomy (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
Material response at extreme conditions, including multiphase equations-of-state, phase transitions and kinetics, and understanding material strength; real-time, novel diagnostics (X-ray diffraction, temperature, density, and stress) that can access length scales from the microscopic to the continuum on relevant time scales.
Previous post:
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Education and training:
PhD, physics, Washington State University; BA, physics, Knox College
Honors and Achievements:
Los Alamos Laboratory Fellows’ Prize; Fellow of the American Physical Society; chair, APS Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter
Outside of work, I enjoy reading, traveling, cooking, and spending time with family and friends.
Email: bjjensen@wsu.edu
![Brian Jensen.](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2023/09/Jensen-Brian-396x396.jpg)
Scott Jess
Assistant Professor
Environment (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
How the landscape around us evolves through the interaction of numerous Earth systems, including tectonic events, changes in climate, landslides, and volcanic activity
Previous post:
University of Toronto
Education and training:
PhD, University of Aberdeen; BSc, University of Glasgow
Honors and achievements:
Postdoctoral Leadership Award, University of Toronto, Mississauga
Outside of work, I enjoy travel, running, and trying to find the best sandwich in every town I can.
Email: scott.jess@wsu.edu
![Scott Jess.](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2023/09/Jess-Scott-396x396.jpg)
Frank McGrade
Assistant Professor, Career Track
Mathematics and Statistics (Vancouver)
Email: frank.mcgrade@wsu.edu
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Yefeng Mei
William Band Distinguished Assistant Professor
Physics and Astronomy (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
Atomic, molecular, and optical physics; many-body physics; quantum optics; nonlinear optics; quantum information science; precision measurement
Previous post:
University of Michigan
Education and training:
PhD, physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; BS, physics, Tsinghua University
Honors and Achievements:
Postgraduate Research Excellence Award, HKUST; publications in flagship journals for physics and optics
Outside of work, I enjoy hiking, traveling, and spending time with my family.
Email: yefeng.mei@wsu.edu
![Yefeng Mei.](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2023/09/Mei-Yefeng-396x396.jpg)
Peterson Moyo
Assistant Professor, Career Track
Mathematics and Statistics (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
Mathematics education focusing on teacher preparation; PCK and MKT in teacher preparation; and history of mathematics.
my teaching spans mathematics education, methods, and high-level undergraduate courses.
Previous post:
University of New Mexico
Education and training:
PhD, teaching, learning, and teacher education, and MS, mathematics, University of New Mexico; BA, mathematics and general education, Lakeland University
Honors and Achievements:
Twice named as Outstanding Teaching Assistant, University of New Mexico
Outside of work, I enjoy staying with family and seeing new places.
Email: peterson.moyo@wsu.edu
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Gani Nurmukhametov
Assistant Professor, Career Track
Mathematics and Statistics/Data Analytics (Everett)
Research and teaching interests:
Teaching data analytics and statistics courses
Previous post:
University of Washington
Education and training:
PhD, University of Washington; MS, St. Cloud State University; BS, Kazan State University
Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with my wife, son, and two cats, playing pickleball, badminton, and board games, traveling, and hiking.
Email: gani.nurmukhametov@wsu.edu
![Gani Nurmukhametov.](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2023/09/Nurmukhametov-Gani-396x396.jpg)
Kuei Sun
Assistant Professor, Career Track
Physics and Astronomy (Tri-Cities)
Research and teaching interests:
Theoretical condensed-matter and atomic-molecular-optical physics, with interests in superconductivity, superfluidity, Bose-Einstein condensation, and fundamental quantum mechanics.; teaching spans introductory physics with labs, advance labs, and quantum physics.
Previous post:
University of Texas, Dallas
Education and training:
PhD, physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Outside of work, I enjoy hiking in mountains.
Email: kuei.sun@wsu.edu
![Kuei Sun.](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2023/09/Sun-Kuei-396x396.jpg)
Jin-Sun Sung
Assistant Professor, Career Track
Mathematics and Statistics (Vancouver)
Research and teaching interests:
Math education, teacher education, calculus in engineering.
Previous post:
Washington State University
Education and training:
MA, math education, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies; BA, mathematics, Kwangwoon University
Email: jin.sung@wsu.edu
![Jin Sung.](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2023/09/Sung-Jin-396x396.jpg)
Anne (Annie) Wilhelm
Associate Professor
Mathematics and Statistics (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
Best practices for teaching mathematics, especially for underserved populations; teacher learning with an emphasis on teachers’ learning on the job.
Previous post:
Southern Methodist University
Education and training:
PhD, mathematics education, and MEd, curriculum and instructional leadership, Vanderbilt University; MA, mathematics, University of Washington; BS, mathematics and computer science, Santa Clara University
Honors and achievements:
Early Career Publication Award, American Education Research Association SIG-RME; current co-PI on two NSF-funded grants: “Validation of the Equity and Access Rubrics for Mathematics Instruction” and “Supporting School Administrators in Leading Towards Racially Just and Ambitious Mathematics Instruction” and on another funded by the McDonnell Foundation: “Understanding How Elementary Teachers Take Up Discussion Practices to Promote Disciplinary Learning and Equity”
Outside of work, I enjoy being active with my family. My husband and I have 2 children (ages 6 and 8). My favorite activities include walking, biking, playing basketball, and baking.
Email: anne.wilhelm@wsu.edu
![Anne (Annie) Wilhelm.](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2023/09/Wilhelm-Anne-396x396.jpg)
Jian (Jay) Wu
Assistant Professor, Career Track
Chemistry (Vancouver)
Research and teaching interests:
Quantum and computational chemistry, application of molecular symmetry in chemistry, computer-aided designed materials, metal-organic frameworks, charge transfer in DNA
Previous post:
Washington State University
Education and training:
Postdoctoral researcher, Dalhousie University and WSU Pullman; PhD, Nanjing University; BS, Anqing Normal University
Honors and Achievements:
Royal Society Sino-British Fellowship; IBM-Lowdin Fellowship for Postdoctoral Associates
Outside of work, I enjoy travel, gardening, and music.
Email: jian.wu@wsu.edu
![Jian (Jay) Wu.](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2023/09/Wu-Jian-1-396x396.jpg)
Social Sciences
Julia Carboni
Director, William D. Ruckelshaus Center (Seattle)
Professor
Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs
Research and teaching interests:
Collaboration and asset-based community development to improve the lives and wellbeing of communities; organizational collaboration and collaborative philanthropy with an emphasis on veteran-serving networks, food systems, and community development, teaches includes courses on collaboration, community development, nonprofit management, and fund development.
Previous post:
Syracuse University
Education and training:
PhD, management, University of Arizona
Honors and achievements:
Co-convener of “Minnowbrook at 50” event; member of the board of directors for the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action and the University Network for Collaborative Governance; co-founder of the Indy Food Council
Email: julia.carboni@wsu.edu
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Mackenzie (Mack) Cory
Assistant Professor, Career Track
Anthropology (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
Northwest Plains; stone circles (tipi rings); childhood; play; Indigenous landscapes; U.S. boarding schools; GIS modeling; lithic transport; peopling of the Americas; public archaeology (education)
Previous post:
Indiana University
Education and training:
PhD and MA, anthropology, Indiana University; BA, anthropology, University of Wyoming
Outside of work, I enjoy writing and running TTRPG campaigns for my friends, cooking, traveling, and camping.
Email: mackenzie.cory@wsu.edu
![Mackenzie (Mack) Cory.](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2023/09/Cory-Mackenzie-396x383.jpg)
Vanessa Delgado
Assistant Professor
Sociology (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
The incorporation pathways and educational experiences of Latino/a families; employing qualitative methods to examine how Latino/a families navigate punitive immigration laws and policies and a restrictive socio-political climate.
Previous post:
Stony Brook University
Education and training:
PhD and MA, sociology, University of California, Irvine; BA, sociology, Washington State University
Honors and achievements:
Linda Burton Award, American Sociological Association Family Section; Early Career Fellow, Center for College to Workforce Transitions, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Cristina Maria Riegos Distinguished Student Paper Award, American Sociological Association Latino/a Section
Email: vanessa.delgado@wsu.edu
![Vanessa Delgado.](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2023/09/Delgado-Vanessa-396x396.jpg)
Henry Evans
Associate Dean for Equity and Outreach
Associate Professor, Career Track
Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
Deliberative democracy; understanding the role of policy; political narratives in administrative decision-making
Previous post:
Idaho State University
Education and training:
DA and MA, political science, Idaho State University
Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with family, fly tying, and fly fishing.
Email: henry.evans1@wsu.edu
![Henry Evans.](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2023/09/Henry-Evans-1.jpg)
Samantha (Sam) Fladd
Director, Museum of Anthropology
Assistant Professor
Anthropology (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
Pueblo archaeology; gender; power; social identity; depositional processes; assemblages; museum representation; collaborative practice; ethics; indigenous ontologies; history of archaeology; archival research
Previous post:
University of Colorado Boulder
Education and training:
PhD and MA, anthropology, University of Arizona; BA, anthropology and archaeology, University of Virginia
Honors and achievements:
Seed grant, Research & Innovation Office, University of Colorado, Boulder; Museums for American grant, Institute of Museum and Library Services; Lead author, “Trash Reconsidered: A Relational Approach to Deposition in the Pueblo Southwest” in Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
Outside of work, I enjoy family time with my husband and young daughter, baking, hiking, and running.
Email: samantha.fladd@wsu.edu
![Samantha “Sam” Fladd.](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2023/09/Fladd-Samantha.jpg)
Melissa Jenkins
Assistant Professor, Career Track
Psychology (Vancouver)
Research and teaching interests:
Introductory psychology; introductory statistics; industrial psychology; organizational psychology; diversity in organizations; work, stress, and health; field experience in personnel psychology
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Washington State University
Education and training:
PhD and MS, psychology, Washington State University; BA, psychology, Nevada State University; AS, ornamental horticulture, College of the Sequoias
Honors and achievements:
Core-To-Career Faculty Fellowship, BaCE Certification in Community & Equity, and Research Assistantship for Diverse Scholars, Washington State University
Outside of work, I enjoy listening to music & adding to my vinyl collection; attending concerts, operas, & ballets; consuming fictional media of the sci-fi or fantasy persuasion (watching movies and shows, reading books); playing console video games; being on/in/near water; eating good food; and cuddle puddles with my two cats.
Email: melissa.jenkins@wsu.edu
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Steven Mejia
Assistant Professor
Sociology (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
Global social, environmental, economic, and political change; how world culture shapes nation-states, societies, and individuals; how economic globalization such as foreign direct investment, trade, and foreign credit impact the environment, social welfare, and demographic outcomes; quantitative methodological approaches; analyzing country-level data
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San Jose State University
Education and training:
PhD, University of California, Irvine; BA, University of California, Los Angeles
Honors and achievements:
Publications in the International Journal Of Comparative Sociology and Sociological Forum.
Outside of work, I enjoy lifting weights, video games, shopping, and enjoying time with my wife.
Email: steven.mejia@wsu.edu
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Caroline Owens
Assistant Professor
Anthropology (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
Applying biocultural anthropology to examine interconnections between environments, culture, and human wellbeing, emphasizing resource security and health in rural, underserved populations; health policy and programs; engaged pedagogy and community-based learning
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Emory University
Education and training:
PhD and MA, Emory University; BA, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Honors and achievements:
Author, “Advancing food is medicine: lessons from medical anthropology for public health nutrition” in Perspectives in Public Health (forthcoming); Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, NSF Cultural Anthropology Program; George Armelagos Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student, Emory University
Outside of work, I enjoy spending time outdoors, running, yoga, swimming, attempting to grow herbs and veggies, and spoiling my long-haired cat, George.
Email: caroline.owens@wsu.edu
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Yvonne Sherwood
Assistant Professor
Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
Indigenous sociology and Indigenous law
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University of Toronto, Mississauga
Education and training:
PhD and MA, sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz; BA, sociology and women’s & gender studies, Eastern Washington University; AA, ethnic studies, Yakima Valley Community College
Honors and achievements:
“Unsettling the Spectacle of Settler Sovereignty: Democracy and Indigenous Justice” in Disciplinary Futures: Sociology in Conversation with American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies, New York University Press; Black, Indigenous, and Racialized Scholar Grant, University of Toronto, Mississauga
Outside of work, I am also a language warrior with the Syilx Language House.
Email: yvonne.sherwood@wsu.edu
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Emily Van Alst
Assistant Professor
Anthropology (Pullman)
Research and teaching interests:
Indigenous archaeology; rock art; gender; traditional ecological knowledge; landscape archaeology; ethnobotany; archaeological ethics; Native American art; U.S. Northern Plains (South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana)
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Indiana University
Education and training:
PhD and MA, anthropology, Indiana University; BA, anthropology and archaeology, Yale University
Honors and Achievements:
Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, Wenner Gren Foundation; Co-editor, Indigenizing Archaeology: Applying Theory Into Practice, University of Florida Press (forthcoming)
Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with my family, tabletop RPGs with my husband and friends, beading, walking, and reading.
Email: emily.vanalst@wsu.edu
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