{"id":1408,"date":"2022-06-09T19:11:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T19:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2023-02-12T20:07:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T20:07:15","slug":"stetson-faculty-awarded-tenure-and-promotion%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/2022\/06\/09\/stetson-faculty-awarded-tenure-and-promotion%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Stetson Faculty Awarded Tenure And Promotion\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sixteen members of Stetson University\u2019s faculty have recently earned tenure and\/or promotion. The new status for these faculty will be effective August 2019 with the start of the 2019-20 academic year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Noel Painter, Ph.D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am extraordinarily proud of the accomplishments of these newly-promoted and tenured faculty,\u201d said Provost Noel Painter. \u201cTheir unwavering commitment to teaching excellence, dedication to advancing the work of their discipline through scholarship and creative activity, and their leadership at the University are excellent examples of Stetson\u2019s mission in action \u2013 a wonderful education, a transformational experience, values-oriented learning, and preparation to lead lives of significance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The faculty earning tenure and\/or promotion include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Christopher Bell, Ph.D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Christopher Bell, Ph.D.: Tenured, Promoted to Associate Professor<\/strong>
Bell joined the Stetson faculty in 2013 and teaches courses in Asian religious traditions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and Shinto. His research interests concern Tibetan demonology, as well as the worship of gods and spirits across Asia, and he frequently conducts fieldwork in Tibet, China, and India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pamela Cappas-Toro, Ph.D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Pamela Cappas-Toro, Ph.D.: Tenured, Promoted to Associate Professor<\/strong>
Cappas-Toro teaches Spanish language, Latin American and Caribbean literatures and cultures, and Latino\/a studies. Her passion for social justice, community engagement scholarship and commitment to undergraduate education guide her efforts as the co-founder and co-director of the Community Education Project, a liberal arts higher education in prison initiative based in Florida since 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Roslyn Crowder, Ph.D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Roslyn Crowder, Ph.D.: Tenured, Promoted to Associate Professor
<\/strong>Crowder joined the Stetson faculty in 2013 and currently serves as the Molecular Biology Program Coordinator. She is a molecular cancer biologist with interest in cell death pathways, and her undergraduate research program examines anticancer properties of plant compounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mayhill Fowler, Ph.D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Mayhill Fowler, Ph.D.: Tenured, Promoted to Associate Professor
<\/strong>Fowler is Associate Professor in the Department of History and has served as director of SPREES, Stetson\u2019s Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, since 2017. She has presented and published widely on theater, film, and the relationship between arts and politics in Ukraine, and she is thrilled to be a Fulbright Research Scholar in Ukraine for the 2019-2020 academic year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Krista Franco, M.F.A: Tenured, Promoted to Associate Professor
<\/strong>Franco joined the faculty in 2013, and acts as Resident Designer and Production Manager for Stetson\u2019s Second Stage Theatre, mentoring students in leadership roles and production related practice.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Melinda Hall, Ph.D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Melinda Hall, Ph.D.: Tenured, Promoted to Associate Professor
<\/strong>Hall is an Associate Professor of Philosophy, and specializes in bioethics, Continental philosophy, and the philosophy of disability. She is the co-director of the Community Education Project, Stetson\u2019s higher education in prison program. She also coordinates the blog BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY with Shelley Tremain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Matt Hurst, Ph.D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

 \u2022 Matthew Hurst, Ph.D.: Tenured, Promoted to Associate Professor
<\/strong>Hurst came to Stetson in 2012, and has taught investments, real estate and corporate financial management. His research focuses on classical Finance questions applied to specific asset classes, such as real estate and municipal bonds. Additionally, he investigates the unintended consequences of financial regulation and its impact on corporate governance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nicole Mottier, Ph.D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Nicole Mottier, Ph.D.: Tenured, Promoted to Associate Professor
<\/strong>An Associate Professor of History, Mottier offers many courses on Latin America and is developing courses on capitalism and food history. Her previous research on twentieth-century Mexico analyzed the history of microfinance and her current book project historicizes drug cartels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mary Ellen Oslick, Ph.D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Mary Ellen Oslick, Ph.D.: Tenured, Promoted to Associate Professor
<\/strong>Oslick is an Associate Professor of literacy and reading in the Department of Education, and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in reading methods, children\u2019s literature, and critical literacy practices throughout the content areas. Her research areas of interest include: social justice and critical literacy applications; multicultural children\u2019s literature; and reading and writing instruction with diverse learners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jelena Petrovic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Jelena Petrovic, Ph.D.: Tenured, Promoted to Associate Professor
<\/strong>Petrovic is an Associate Professor of communication and media studies and one of the founders and co-directors of Community Education Project, a higher education in prison program in Tomoka Correctional Institution. She came to Stetson in 2013 and is currently teaching courses in intercultural communication, media studies, immigration and criminalization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joshua Rust,  Ph.D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Joshua Rust,  Ph.D.: Promoted to Professor<\/strong>
Rust is chair of the philosophy department, and publications in his area of specialty of social ontology include \u201cInstitutional Identity\u201d in The Journal of Social Ontology (forthcoming) and \u201cTraditional Action and Traditional Authority\u201d in Max Weber Studies (2019). He is presently exploring the limits of Max Weber\u2019s suggestion that our institutions are usefully compared to machines or instruments that help us solve cooperation and coordination problems (with varying degrees of effectiveness).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stacey-Rae Simcox, J.D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Stacey-Rae Simcox, J.D.: Tenured, Promoted to Professor, College of Law<\/strong>
Simcox is a Professor of Law and Director of Stetson\u2019s Veterans\u2019 Law Institute and Veterans\u2019 Advocacy Clinic. She teaches in the areas of veterans\u2019 benefits law, administrative law, trusts and estates, and legal skills. Professor Simcox helped establish a unique medical-legal partnership between Stetson University College of Law and the University of South Florida\u2019s Morsani College of Medicine which allows medical students and faculty to collaborate with law students and faculty for the benefit of disabled veterans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sven Smith, Ph.D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Sven Smith, J.D., Ph.D.: Tenured, Promoted to Associate Professor<\/strong>
Smith is an Associate Professor in the department of Sociology and Anthropology. He graduated from Stetson and joined Stetson University\u2019s faculty originally as an adjunct in 2003. Smith has taught courses, colloquia, and tutorials for several different programs at Stetson. His most developed lines of research involves Weberian study of judge, professional behavior and the intersection of law and social learning theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Page Thanasiu, Ph.D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Page Thanasiu, Ph.D.: Tenured, Promoted to Associate Professor
<\/strong>Thanasiu joined the Stetson\u2019s Counselor Education faculty as a Visiting Assistant Professor in 2008. Since then, she has been a program coordinator and, most recently, the director of Stetson\u2019s Play Therapy Certificate program. Page teaches and advises Stetson graduate students within the Clinical Mental Health Counseling and the Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joe Woodside, D.B.A.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Joseph Woodside, D.B.A: Tenured, Promoted to Associate Professor<\/strong>
Woodside is an Associate Professor of Business Systems and Analytics in the School of Business Administration.  He teaches undergraduate, graduate, and executive courses on business analytics, health analytics and informatics, business analysis, information systems technology, and data visualization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John York, Ph.D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 John York, Ph.D.: Promoted to Professor<\/strong>
York joined the Department of Chemistry at Stetson in 2007 and has since pursued an active research agenda in computational bioinorganic and organometallic chemistry. While his area of expertise is inorganic chemistry, he also teaches courses ranging from introductory general chemistry and first-year seminar to advanced topics like organic structure analysis and biological inorganic chemistry.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sixteen members of Stetson University\u2019s faculty have recently earned tenure and\/or promotion. The new status for these faculty will be effective August 2019 with the start of the 2019-20 academic year. \u201cI am extraordinarily proud of the accomplishments of these newly-promoted and tenured faculty,\u201d said Provost Noel Painter. \u201cTheir unwavering commitment to teaching excellence, dedication […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tenure-promotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1409,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}