2014—2015 New Faculty Brochure

FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI

JOSH BRINLEE Assistant Professor of Art Memphis College of Art, M.F.A. 2-D design, drawing, color theory, digital manipulation & appropriation, ideas of originality, authorship, identity, self & ownership in the digital age

N E W

THE HUMANITIES VALERIO CAPPOZZO Assistant Professor of Modern Languages Indiana University, Ph.D. Italian poetry of the 20th century, the influence of Islamic dream, divinatory sciences on early Italian poetry

ZACHARY KAGAN GUTHRIE Assistant Professor of History Princeton University, Ph.D. Modern southern Africa, focusing on central Mozambique

DANIEL NOVAK Associate Professor of English Princeton University, Ph.D. 19th century British literature, visual theory & critical theory, history of sexuality, photography & film

V E N T R E S S

H A L L

P.O. BOX 18 48 , UNI VERSI T Y, MS 38 67 7 6 6 2 . 9 1 5 . 7 1 7 8 | libarts@olemiss.edu

Twitter @umlibarts Facebook facebook.com/umlibarts Pinterest pinterest.com/umliberalarts Blog umlibarts.tumblr.com

LIBARTS.OLEMISS.EDU

JESSICA WILKERSON Assistant Professor of History and Southern Studies University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Ph.D. U.S. Southern history, women’s history

The University of Mississippi does not discriminate against any student protected by law based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, or genetic information.

FA C U LT Y

2 0 1 4 - 2 0 1 5

M AT H E M AT I C S , P H Y S I C A L , A N D N AT U R A L S C I E NC E S KEVIN BEACH Assistant Professor of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. Condensed matter theory, computational physics

ERIK HOM

WILLIAM RESETARITS Professor of Biology and Doherty Chair in Freshwater Biology Duke University, Ph.D. Community, behavioral & evolutionary ecology in freshwater systems, experimental design & analysis

Assistant Professor of Biology

DAVITA WATKINS

University of California, San Francisco, Ph.D. Synthetic ecology, symbiosis & mutualism, experimental evolution, microbiology, genomics & metabolism, image processing

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

JONAH JURSS

HEHUI WU

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Ph.D. Inorganic chemistry, particularly solar energy conversion, artificial photosynthesis, surface attachment, proton-coupled electron transfer, electron transfer at interfaces, molecular-level organization

SAMUEL LISI Assistant Professor of Mathematics Courant Institute at New York University, Ph.D. Symplectic topology & dynamical systems, specifically Hamiltonian systems, Floer homology, pseudoholomorphic curves

University of Memphis, Ph.D. Organic chemistry, specifically the design & synthesis of small molecules for materials applications

Assistant Professor of Mathematics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ph.D. Graph theory, combinatorics

SOCIAL SCIENCES CHENG CHENG Assistant Professor of Economics Texas A&M, Ph.D. Health economics, public economics, labor economics

JOHN GARDNER

Assistant Professor of Economics

Carnegie Mellon University, Ph.D. Applied microeconomics, labor economics, applied econometrics

JODY HOLLAND Assistant Professor of Public Policy Leadership Mississippi State University, Ph.D. Public administration, food policy, nonprofit organization

ELICIA LAIR Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Massachusetts, Ph.D. Social cognition, affect & emotion, information processing styles

AMY MCDOWELL Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D. Sociology of religion, culture, gender & sexuality, qualitative methods

CATARINA PASSIDOMO Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Southern Studies University of Georgia, Ph.D. Food sovereignty, environmental sustainability, placemaking, humanenvironment interactions, critical race studies, urban geography, critical ethnography

JAMES THOMAS Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Missouri, Ph.D. Social inequalities, histories of race and racism, critical race theory, affect and embodiment, phenomenologies of power