Ball State announces faculty promotions for upcoming school year

More than 50 Ball State University faculty members were promoted or tenured for the upcoming school year.

Ball State announced Wednesday that the Board of Trustees promoted nine associate professors to professors and 24 assistant professors to associate professors. It also gave 26 faculty members tenure positions.

Twenty-eight departments had at least one faculty member receive a promotion, and 13 departments had multiple people receive promotions.

The Department of English had five faculty members receive promotions or tenure - the most of any department at Ball State - including three people who were given tenure. In addition, the Department of History and the Department of Mathematical Sciences each had four faculty members get promotions or tenure.

Below is the list of faculty members who received a promotion or tenure.

Promoted to associate professorElizabeth Agnew - Department of Philosophy and Religious StudiesScott Anderson - Department of ArtAna de Brea - Department of ArchitectureMargaret Calkins - Department of Landscape ArchitectureGerman Cruz - Department of Landscape ArchitectureSyiatoslav Dmitriev - Department of HistoryJohnathan Forbey - Department of Psychological ScienceJacqueline Grutsch McKinney - Department of EnglishScott Hall - Department of Family and Consumer SciencesMartha Hunt - Department of Landscape ArchitectureFeng Jin - Department of Physics and AstronomyRichard Johnson - Department of TechnologyHarold Mortimer - Department of Theatre and DanceWendy Mortimer - Department of Theatre and DanceMark Neely - Department of EnglishJames Nyce - Department of AnthropologyMary Rose - Department of TechnologyLauren Shaffer - Department of Speech Pathology and AudiologyScott Stephan - Department of HistoryKenneth Swope Jr. - Department of HistoryEllen Thorington - Department of Modern Languages and ClassicsJian-Sheng Yang - Department of GeographyPetra Zimmermann - Department of GeographyEva Zygmunt-Fillwalk - Department of Elementary Education

Promoted to professorMichael Brown - Department of Criminal Justice and CriminologyJerrell Cassady - Department of Educational PsychologyJames Connolly - Department of HistoryKamal Islam - Department of BiologyAhmed Mohammed - Department of Mathematical SciencesM.C. Nihal Perera - Department of Urban PlanningTheresa Richardson - Department of Educational StudiesSheryl Stump - Department of Mathematical SciencesTodd Trappe - School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Science

Faculty who received tenureStefania Aegisdottir - Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance ServicesManoj Athavale - Department of Finance and InsuranceAdam Beach - Department of EnglishBarbara Bogue - Department of EnglishJill Christman - Department of EnglishDavid Concepcion - Department of Philosophy and Religious StudiesCarla Corbin - Department of Landscape ArchitectureAna de Brea - Department of ArchitectureCurtis Dean - Department of Mathematical SciencesJeffrey Fry - Department of Philosophy and Religious StudiesTimothy Gray - Department of ArchitectureDavid Grosnick - Department of Physics and AstronomyMellisa Holtzman - Department of SociologyRichard Johnson - Department of TechnologyLinh Littleford - Department of Psychological ScienceIrene Livshits - Department of Mathematical SciencesChristopher Luke - Department of Modern Languages and ClassicsMichael Pounds - School of MusicMark Pyron - Department of BiologyTheresa Richardson - Department of Educational StudiesMary Rose - Department of TechnologyDiana Saiki - Department of Family and Consumer SciencesJohn Scheib - School of MusicDorothy Stegman - Department of Modern Languages and ClassicsFu-Shing Sun - Department of Computer ScienceTodd Trappe - School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Science


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