Newly Promoted Faculty

Faculty Tenured and Promoted to Associate Professor, 2022-2023

Faculty Member	Featured Publication
Meghan Barnes English	Contested pasts, complicated presents: Pre-service teachers’ developing conceptions of community
Frederico Batista Pereira Political Science and Public Administration	Fake News, Fact Checking, and Partisanship: The Resilience of Rumors in the 2018 Brazilian Elections
Nicole Braxtan Civil and Environmental Engineering	Post-Earthquake Fire Assessment of Buildings: Evaluation Framework
William Brian Mathematics and Statistics	The Borel partition spectrum at successors of singular cardinals
Kausik Chakrabarti Biological Sciences	In vivo Architecture of the Telomerase RNA Catalytic Core in Trypanosoma brucei
Eliana Christou Mathematics and Statistics	Central quantile subspace
Konstantinos Falaggis Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science	Variable shearing holography with applications to phase imaging and metrology
Erin FitzPatrick Special Education and Child Development	Writing from Multiple Source Texts: SRSD for Fifth Grade Learners in Inclusive Settings
Ella Fratantuono History	Producing Ottomans: Internal Colonization and Social Engineering in Ottoman Immigrant Settlement
Alexia Galati Psychological Science	What is retained about common ground? Distinct effects of linguistic and visual co-presence
Janne Gaub Criminal Justice and Criminology	Assessing the Utility of Body-Worn Cameras for Collegiate Police Agencies
Eric Hoenes del Pinal Religious Studies	Guarded by Two Jaguars: A Catholic Parish Divided by Language and Faith
Philip Kaffen Languages and Culture Studies	Translating Grace, Magnifying Glass: Reframing Spectatorship in Like Someone in Love
Alexandra Kaloyanides Religious Studies	Baptizing Burma: Religious Change in the Last Buddhist Kingdom (Columbia University Press, 2009)
Erika Montanaro Psychological Science	Bystander Intervention for problematic alcohol use measure (BIPAUM) to reduce risky drinking among diverse college students
Mariya Munir Civil and Environmental Engineering	Tracking the temporal variation of COVID-19 surges through wastewater-based epidemiology during the peak of the pandemic: A six-month long study in Charlotte, North Carolina
Adriana Ocejo Monge Mathematics and Statistics	Portfolio optimization with a guaranteed minimum maturity benefit and risk-adjusted fees
Kristie Opiola Counseling	Exploring the experiences of elementary teachers after completing Child Teacher Relationship Training (CTRT): Implications for teaching in diverse school settings
Rosario Porras-Aguilar Physics and Optical Sciences	NSF CAREER Award To Support Work With Optical Systems To Find Creative Solutions
Luke Reinke Reading and Elementary Education	Teachers’ press for contextualization to ground students’ mathematical understanding of ratio
Omidreza Shoghli Engineering Technology and Construction Management	Toward AI-enabled augmented reality to enhance the safety of highway work zones: Feasibility, requirements, and challenges
Kristina Shull History	Detention Empire: Reagan's War on Immigrants and the Seeds of Resistance
Mei Sun Civil and Environmental Engineering	Ion Exchange Removal and Resin Regeneration to Treat Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Ether Acids and Other Emerging PFAS in Drinking Water
Weimin Wang Engineering Technology and Construction Management	Performance Assessment of a Photonic Radiative Cooling System for Office Buildings
Jill Yavorsky Sociology	Uneven Patterns of Inequality: An Audit Analysis of Hiring-related Practices by Gendered and Classed Contexts
Qingning Zhou Mathematics and Statistics	A Sieve Semiparametric Maximum Likelihood Approach for Regression Analysis of Bivariate Interval-Censored Failure Time Data

 

Faculty Promoted to Professor, 2022-2023

Faculty Member	Featured Publication
Mona Azarbayjani Architecture	High-Performance Double Skin Façade Buildings: Climatic-Based Exploration
Anita Blanchard Psychological Science	Blanchard, A. L., Caudill, L. E., & Walker, L. S. (2020). Developing an entitativity measure and distinguishing it from antecedents and outcomes within online and face-to-face groups
Bettie Ray Butler Middle, Secondary, & K-12 Education	Mentoring while white: Culturally responsive practices for sustaining the lives of Black college students
Erik Byker Reading and Elementary Education	Co-Executive Director of the Global-ready Research and Equitable Education in Teaching (GREET) Center at UNC Charlotte
Amy Canevello Psychological Science	Social motivation: Costs and benefits of selfishness and otherishness
Joanne Carman Political Science and Publlic Administration	Using self-assessments to improve board performance and build nonprofit capacity
Tara Cavalline Engineering Technology and Construction Management	Quality Control for Concrete Paving: A Tool for Agency and Industry
Ethan Chiang Finance	Real Exchange Rates and Currency Risk Premiums
Judith Cornelius Nursing	A survey of nursing students' knowledge and attitudes toward LGBT healthcare concerns
Robert Cramer Public Health Sciences	Development of the Self-Injury Risk Assessment Protocol for Corrections (SIRAP-C)
Jane Dalton Art and Art History	Cultivating a Culture of Learning: Contemplative Practices, Pedagogy, and Research in Education Impacting Teaching and Learning: Contemplative Practices, Pedagogy, and Research in Education The Teaching Self: Contemplative Practices, Pedagogy, and Research in Education
Kristin Davin Middle, Secondary, and K-12 Education	Promoting Multilingualism in Schools
Anthony Fernandes Mathematics and Statistics	A closer look at bilingual students' use of multimodality in the context of an area comparison problem from a large-scale assessment
William Graves Geography and Earth Sciences	Charlotte, NC: The global evolution of a new South city
Laura Gunn Public Health Sciences	Associations between Attainment of Incentivised Primary Care Indicators and Emergency Hospital Admissions among Type 2 Diabetes Patients: A Population-Based Historical Cohort Study
Scott Hippensteel Geography and Earth Sciences	Sand, Science, and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat
Hwan Lin Economics	R&D-based calibrated growth models with finite-length patents: A novel relaxation algorithm for solving an autonomous FDE system of mixed type
Xia Liu Marketing	Assessing the Unacquainted: Inferred Reviewer Personality and Review Helpfulness
Matthew Parrow Biological Sciences	Quantitative nuclear DNA content and cell cycle analysis of a mixotrophic dinoflagellate by image cytometry
Rajib Paul Public Health Sciences	Progression of COVID‐19 from urban to rural areas in the United States: a spatiotemporal analysis of prevalence rates
Dorothy Smith-Ruiz Africana Studies	Black Families and the Recession: The Enduring Impact of the Great Recession of 2007-2009
Bao-Hua Song Biological Sciences	Inclusive collaboration across plant physiology and genomics: Now is the time!
Eddy Souffrant Philosophy	Global Development Ethics: a critique of global capitalism
Tehia Starker Glass Reading and Elementary Education	Teaching for Justice and Belonging - A Journey for Educators and Parents
Juan Vivero-Escoto Chemistry	Advanced Nanoengineering Approach for Target/Specific, Spatiotemporal, and Ratiometric Delivery of Gemcitabine-Cisplatin Combination for Imrpvoed Therapeutic Outcome in Pancreatic Cancer
Michael Walter Chemistry	Obtaining Reversible, High Contrast Electrochromism, Electrofluorochromism, and Photochromism in an Aqueous Hydrogel Device Using Chromogenic Thiazolothiazoles