Thirty new faculty members joined nearly 800 new freshman students in learning their way around the University of South Carolina Upstate with the start of the fall semester, which began last Thursday.
The following faculty members were hired for the 2016-2017 academic year at USC Upstate.
Mary Black School of Nursing
Dana Davis, Ph.D., assistant professor of nursing
Lisa Erwin, MSN, instructor of nursing
Felicia Jenkins, Ph.D., assistant professor of nursing
Colleen Kilgore, Ph.D., assistant professor of nursing
Katie Poindexter, MSN, instructor of nursing
Jennifer T. Smith, MSN, instructor of nursing
Jessica Stoelting, MSN, instructor of nursing
George Dean Johnson, Jr. College of Business and Economics
Candy A. Bianco, Ph.D., associate professor of accounting
Brian Brady, MA, instructor of entrepreneurship and Director of the Johnson College Greenhouse Incubator
Crystal M. Brown, MBA, instructor/visiting professor of economics
Angela Starrett, MS, instructor of business statistics
School of Education
Ashley Anderson-Murray, Ed.D, assistant professor of elementary education
Monica Elkins-Johnson, Ph.D., instructor of education and Director of Field Experiences & School Partnerships
Amy Fleischmann, MS, instructor of elementary education
Rebecca G. W. Mueller, Ph.D., assistant professor of social studies education
Cathy F. Sparks, Ph.D., assistant professor of child development & family studies
Veverlyn Watson-Smith, Ph.D., assistant professor of education and director of the Teacher Education Program-USC Upstate/Sumter
Fine Arts & Communications Studies
Emily Kofoed, Ph.D., assistant professor of communications studies
Renu Pariyadath, Ph.D., assistant professor of communication studies
Griffin Woodworth, Ph.D., assistant professor of commercial music
History, Political Science, Philosophy and American Studies
Scott Harris, Ph.D., assistant professor of political science
Informatics
Grover Walters, MS, instructor of informatics
Ning Yu, Ph.D., assistant professor of informatics
Mathematics & Computer Science
Ryan Harper, MS, instructor of mathematics and director of mathematics & computer science tutoring
Psychology
James Bunde, Ph.D., assistant professor of clinical psychology
Jeffrey Edwards, Ph.D., instructor of child advocacy studies
Elizabeth Freeman, MA, instructor of psychology
Sociology, Criminal Justice and Women's Studies
Robert E. Daly, Ph.D., instructor of criminal justice
Courtney McDonald, Ph.D., assistant professor of criminal justice
William E. Moore, MA, instructor of criminal justice and criminal justice advisor and recruiter, Palmetto College