Eighteen SMU professors receive tenure, promotion for 2017-18
Eighteen outstanding SMU faculty members will begin the 2017-18 academic year with new tenure as associate professors or promotion to full professorships.
The following individuals have received tenure or promotion effective Friday, Sept. 1, 2017:
Cox School of Business
Recommended for promotion to Full Professor:
- Stanimir Markov, Accounting
Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
Recommended for tenure and promotion to Associate Professor:
- Karisa Cloward, Political Science
- Erin Hochman, History
- Chrystyna Kouros, Psychology
- Benno Rumpf, Mathematics
- Jayson Sae-Saue, English
- Brian Zoltowski, Chemistry
Recommended for tenure (associate professorship previously awarded):
- Barry Lee, Mathematics
Dedman School of Law
Recommended for tenure and promotion to Associate Professor:
- Chris Jenks, Law (autonomous weapons, military law, national security law, evidence, criminal law, international law, human rights)
Recommended for promotion to Full Professor:
- Thomas Wm. Mayo, Law (bioethics, election law, health law, nonprofit/tax-exempt organizations)
- Meghan J. Ryan, Law (law and science, torts, criminal law, criminal procedure, death penalty, actual innocence)
- Joshua C. Tate, Law (legal history, trusts and estates, property)
Meadows School of the Arts
Recommended for tenure and promotion to Associate Professor:
- Archie Cummings, Theatre
- Amy Freund, Art History
- Jon Hackler, Theatre
- Peter Kupfer, Music (Musicology)
- Brian Molanphy, Art
Recommended for promotion to Full Professor:
- Carol Leone, Music (Piano)