ASU announces new faculty members and new department chairs

Fall Convocation will welcome 20 new faculty members and 2 administrators to Augusta State this fall semester. New administrators include Richard Harrison who was named dean of the College of Education in May and Peggy Ruth Geren, assistant dean in the College of Education. Charles Jackson will serve as the chair of the Department of Educational Leadership, Counseling, and Special Education. The Hull College of Business welcomes Mark Thompson as the new Cree-Walker Chair in Economics.

New faculty joining the university this fall (as of July 27) are:

Katherine Reese Pamplin College of Arts and Sciences

Chemistry and Physics       
Trinanjan Datta, Temporary Instructor of Physics              
M.S., Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur)
                                   
David A. Delafuente, Temporary Instructor of Chemistry              
Ph.D., University of Virginia

Christian J. Poppeliers, Assistant Professor of Physics                   
Ph.D., Indiana University
                                   
English and Foreign Languages
Wesley Kisting, Assistant Professor of English                    
M.A., University of Iowa
                                                                                                           
Eric W. Stalions, Assistant Professor of English                   
M.A., Western Kentucky University
                                   
History, Anthropology & Philosophy        
Heather J. Abdelnur, Assistant Professor of History                       
Ph.D., Texas Christian University
                                                           
Mathematics & Computer Science           
Mark A. Freitag, Assistant Professor of Mathematics                     
Ph.D., University of Georgia

Nursing                                 
Carol E. Hunter, Assistant Professor of Nursing                  
M.S.N., University of Colorado
                       
Psychology                
Dana Claunch-Reaume, Temporary Instructor of Psychology         
Ph.D., Florida Institute of Technology
                                   
Adrian S. Janit, Assistant Professor of Psychology             
M. A., Northern Illinois University
                                                           
Nicole E. Rossi-Bastarache, Assistant Professor of Psychology                  
M.A., Brandeis University
                                   
Sociology                  
Shirley J. Huisman Jezowski, Assistant Professor of Social Work              
Ph.D., University of South Carolina
                                                                       
S. Dale White, Assistant Professor of Social Work               
Ph.D., Florida State University

College of Education

Lori F. Anderson, Assistant Professor of Special Education
Ph.D., University of Iowa, Iowa City
                                   
Richard G. Deaner, Assistant Professor of Counselor Education
Ph.D., University of South Carolina - Columbia
                                   
Paulette M. Schenck, Assistant Professor of Counselor Education
M.S., South Dakota State University

Philip L. Smith, Associate Professor of Educational Research
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Department of Teacher Education

Kelly H. Farmer, Temporary Full Time Instructor of Teacher Education
M.Ed., Augusta State University
                                   
Department of Kinesiology and Health Science

Susan F. Schultz, Assistant Professor of Physical Education Pedagogy
Ph.D., University of Idaho
                                   
Hull College of Business

Mark A. Thompson, Associate Professor and Cree-Walker Chair in Business Administration
Ph.D., Texas Tech University               

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