BYU recently welcomed a host of new faculty to campus for the 2015-16 academic year. Hailing from across the country ? and globe ? these new employees represent a range of academic fields and a powerful force of expertise.
- ATHLETICS
Chad Basinger, Visiting Athletic Training Fellow, Athletics
Heather Black, Visiting Athletic Training Fellow, Athletics
MacKenzie Booth, Visiting Athletic Training Fellow, Athletics, former Student Athletic Trainer at Maple Mountain High School
Natalie Broekman, Athletic Coaching Professional, Assistant Women's Gymnastics Coach, former Junior Olympic Team Coach
Elizabeth Darger, Athletic Professional, Associate Athletic Director, former Assistant Women's Basketball Coach Utah Valley University
Kevin Heiberger, Athletic Coaching Professional, Strength & Conditioning, former IMG Academy - Performance Coach
Quincy Lewis, Athletic Coaching Professional, former Assistant Men's Basketball Head Coach - Lone Peak Boys Basketball
Turreal Moore, Athletic Coaching Professional, Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach, former Strength & Conditioning Administrative Intern - University of Mississippi
Andrew Nielsen, Visiting Athletic Training Fellow, Athletics, former Clinic Manager - BYU Athletics
Chelsea Nitta, Visitng Athletic Professional, Athletics, former Director of Operations - BYU Women's Volleyball
Jaylen Reyes, Athletic Coaching Professional, Athletics, former BYU Men's Volleyball Player Leadership Committee
Tyce Routson, Athletic Coaching Professional, Assistant Swim/Head Dive Coach, former National & International Team Director - Mission Viejo Nadadores Diving Team
Luka Slabe, Athletic Coaching Professional, Assistant Men's Volleyball Coach, former Head Coach - Slovenia Men's National Team
Thomas Van Vliet, Visiting Athletic Training Fellow, Athletics
Charlene Whitted, Visiting Coaching Professional, Assistant Women's Volleyball Coach, former Director of Volleyball at the American College Connection
Guard Young, Athletic Coaching Professional, Head Women's Gymnastics Coach, former Men's Assistant Gymnastics Coach - University of Oklahoma
- MCKAY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Donald Baum, Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership & Foundations, former Research Associate, Education Policy Program at University of Minnesota
Eric Bybee, Assistant Professor, Teacher Education, former Founding Editor - Texas Education Review
Cade Charlton, Visiting Instructor, Counseling Psychology & Special Ed, former Instructor - Utah State University 2014
Alaska Black Hults, Assistant Professor, Teacher Education, former Instructor of SPLED/EDPSY at Pennsylvania State
Royce Kimmons, Assistant Professor, Instructional Psychology & Tech., former Director at Doceo Center for Innovation + Learning - University of Idaho - Moscow
Kathryn MacKay, Assistant Teaching Professors, Teacher Education, former Adjunct Faculty
Jodi Mantilla, Teacher Education
Ryan Nixon, Assistant Professor, Teacher Education, former Student Teaching Supervisor - University of Georgia
Paul Ricks, Visiting Instructor, Teacher Education, former 6th Grade Teacher - Emerson Elementary School - Salt Lake City
Christian Sabey, Instructor, Counseling Psychology & Special Ed, former Coaching and systems change - Utah State University
- IRA A. FULTON COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
Bradley R. Adams, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, former President of Reaction Engineering International
Michael Bown, Associate Teaching Professor, School of Technology, former Regional Account Director-Asia/Ociania Shell Account
Oliver Johnson, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, former Research Assistant - MIT
- COLLEGE OF FAMILY, HOME, AND LIFE SCIENCES
Kaeli Andersen, Assistant Professor, Political Science, former Adjunct Faculty - BYU
Shayne Anderson, Associate Professor, Family Life, former Acting Program Director - Marriage & Family Therapy Program - University of Connecticut
Brett Campbell, Visiting Assistant Professor, Psychology, former Adjunct Faculty-University of Nevada and Research Coordinator - Clark County School District
Zachary Chase, Visiting Instructor, Anthropology, former Director of Proyecto Arqueologico Huarochiri - Lurin Alto, Peru
Michael Cope, Assistant Professor, Sociology, former Research Associate of the Dept. of Sociology Louisiana State University
Brandon Dabling, Visiting Assistant Professor, Political Science, former Research Assistant - Claremont Graduate University and Instructor - California State - Fullerton
Jeffrey Denning, Assistant Professor, Economics, former Editorial Graduate Research Assistantship - Journal of Human Resources
Cory Dennis, Assistant Professor, Social Work, former Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work California State University
Adam Dynes, Assistant Professor, Political Science, former Fellow at the Yale Teaching Center
Cameron Hopkin, Visiting Assistant Professor, Psychology, former Adjunct Instructor - Utah Valley University
Christine Isom-Verhaaren, Assistant Professor, History-Jerusalem Center, former History Instructor - Benedictine University, Lisle, IL
Elizabeta Jevtic-Somlai, Visiting Assistant Professor, Political Science, former Project Liasion Officer - CTBTO - Nuclear Test-Ban Treat Organization
Kristin Lambert, Visiting Instructor, Social Work, former Residential Director at La Europa Academy (treatment for adolescent girls)
Xiangmei (Amanda) Li, Visiting Assistant Professor, Geography, former Visiting Scholar - BYU and Professor - Nanjing Agricultural University
Ian Lowman, Visiting Assistant Professor, History, former Visiting Assistant Professor - Kenyon College
Loren Marks, Professor, Family Life, former Professor - Louisiana State University
Mark A. North, Visiting Assistant Professor, Psychology, former Adjunct Professor - Psychology - Seattle Pacific University
Brenden Rensink, Assistant Research Professor, Charles Redd Center, former Historian/Editor, Joseph Smith Papers, LDS Church History Department
Olga Stoddard, Assistant Professor, Economics, former Visiting Assistant Professor - BYU
John E. Stovall, Assistant Professor, Economics, former Assistant Professor - University of Warwick
- COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS AND COMMUNICATION
Collin Bradford, Assistant Professor, Art, former Assistant Professor - Grand Valley State University
Tara Carpenter, Assistant Teaching Professor, Art, former Visiting Assistant Professor - BYU
Scott Christopherson, Assistant Professor, Theatre and Media Arts, former Assistant Professor - St. Edward's University
Scott Church, Assistant Professor, Communications, former Assistant Professor - University of Utah School of Business
Maddison Colvin, Visual Arts
R. Andrew Crane, Associate Professor, Music, former Director of Choral Activities - East Carolina University
Jerryl Garns, Associate Teaching Professor, Design, former Professional Photographer - Jerry Garns Studio - Commercial Clients
Robert M. Graham, Associate Professor, Design, former Lecturer - California State, and several film screenings and exhibitions
Amy Jex, Dance
Kevin John, Assistant Professor, Communications, former Teaching Assistant - University of Utah Department of Communication
Michelle Kesler, Assistant Professor, Music, former Visiting Assistant Professor
Christopher Lynn, Associate Professor, Art, former UX/UI Designer - American Greeting, Cleveland, OH
Fred McInnis, Music
Aaron Merrill, Assistant Teaching Professor, Music, former Independent Producer, Composer & Audio Engineer
Anna Kathleen Monson, Assistant Professor, Dance, former Visiting Assistant Professor - BYU
Ashley Ivory Parov, Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor, Dance, former Adjunct Faculty
Jennifer Watson, Visiting Assistant Professor, Art, former Visual Manager - Blickenstaff's
Brent Yorgason, Associate Professor, Music, former Associate Professor - Marietta College
- HAROLD B. LEE LIBRARY
Quinn Galbraith, Associate Librarian, Harold B. Lee Library, former HR Training & Development Manager - HBLL
Trevan Hatch, Assistant Librarian, Harold B. Lee Library, former Adjunct Faculty - Louisiana State University
Jeffrey Lyon, Assistant Librarian, Harold B. Lee Library, former Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative - Indiana University
Gregory Seppi, Assistant Librarian, Special Collections Division, formerly of the Church History Department
Elise Silva, Assistant Librarian, Harold B. Lee Library, former Visiting Instructor - BYU
- COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
Jason Andrus, Visiting Assistant Professor, Asian & Near Eastern Languages, former Adjunct Faculty
Juno Baik, Asian and Near Eastern Languages
Gregory Baum, Visiting Assistant Professor, Comparative Arts & Letters, former Lecturer - Indiana University
David Dalton, Spanish and Portuguese
Grant Eckstein, Assistant Professor, Linguistics and English Language, former Faculty Lecturer - Utah Valley University
Jesse Egbert, Assistant Professor, Linguistics and English Language, former Visiting Assistant Professor - BYU
Nathan Gordon, Visiting Instructor, Spanish & Portuguese Languages, former Graduate Instructor - University of Colorado
Katya Jordan, Assistant Professor, German & Russian Languages, former Instructor of Russian - Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Jason A. Kerr, Assistant Professor, English, former Visiting Assistant Professor
Michael Lavers, Assistant Professor, English, former Graduate Teaching Fellow - University of Utah
Rui Ma, Visiting Instructor, English Language Center, former Instructor - English Language Center
Stephen Moody, Assistant Professor, Asian and Near Eastern Languages
Katharina Paxman, Assistant Professor, Philosophy, former Postdoctoral Researcher - University of Antwerp
Sara Phenix, Assistant Professor, French and Italian, former Visiting Assistant Professor
Jacob Rawlins, Assistant Professor, Linguistics and English Language, formerly of the University of Louisville
Chris Rogers, Visiting Assistant Professor, Linguistics and English Language, former Adjunct Faculty at BYU
Mark Thorne, Visiting Assistant Professor, Comparative Arts & Letters, former Assistant Professor of Classical Languages and director of Latin Program-Wheaton College
Jeffrey Tucker, Vising Instructor, English, former Assistant Professor-Hampton University
Justin White, Visiting Instructor, Philosophy, former Instructor-University of California, Riverside
Elliott Wise, Instructor, Comparative Arts & Letters, former Teaching Associate - Emory University - Art History
Laura Zientek, Visiting Assistant Professor, Comparative Arts & Letters, former Lecturer/Instructor - University of Washington and University of Puget Sound
Emilie Zuniga, Visiting Assistant Professor, Asian & Near Eastern Languages, former Director of University of Maryland's Arabic Summer Institute
- JERUSALEM CENTER
Philip Allred, Professor, Jerusalem Center, former Professor - Religious Studies - BYU-Idaho
- J. REUBEN CLARK LAW SCHOOL
Curtis Anderson, Associate Teaching Professor, Law School, former General Counsel for IAC
Stephanie Bair, Associate Professor, Law School, former Law Clerk - Cour of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Washington D.C.
William Gaskill, Associate Librarian, Law Library
Felicity Murphy, Assistant Law Librarian, Law Library, former Assistant Law Librarian - University of Utah
James Phillips, Law
Maybell Romero, Visiting Assistant Professor, Law School, formerly an attorney at Harris, Preston & Chambers
- COLLEGE OF LIFE SCIENCES
Dustin Bruening, Assistant Professor, Exercise Sciences, former Director at the 3D Human Biosignatures Laboratory - Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton, OH
AliceAnn Crandall, Assistant Professor, Health Science, former Post-doctoral fellow - Emory University
Jonathon T. Hill, Assistant Professor, Physiology and Development Biology, Member of the Society of Developmental Biology Southwest Meeting Organizing Committee
Matthew Madsen, Assistant Professor, Plant and Wildlife Sciences, former Research Ecologist-USDA
- MARRIOTT SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
Robert K. Christensen, Associate Professor, Romney Institute of Public Management, former Director of PhD program in Public Administration - University of Georgia
Benjamin Galvin, Assistant Professor, Organizational Leadership & Strategy, former Assistant Professor Business Administration - San Diego State University
Aaron Miller, Assistant Professor, Romney Institute of Public Management, former Assistant Teaching Professor at BYU
James Odroyd, Associate Professor, Organizational Leadership & Strategy, former Assistant Professor of International Business - Ohio State University
Cody Reeves, Assistant Professor, Organizational Leadership & Strategy, former Staffing and Talent Management - Primary Instructor - University of Iowa
Brian Reschke, Assistant Professor, Organizational Leadership & Strategy, former Graduate Student Instructor - University of California-Berkeley 2011- Present
Timothy Seidel, Assistant Professor, Accountancy, former Instructor - Utah State University 2014
- COLLEGE OF PHYSICAL AND MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
Mark Abramson, Visiting Associate Professor, Mathematics, former Senior Mathematician - Boeing Company, Seattle Washington
Brian Eric Anderson, Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy, former Research Scientist - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Blake Barker, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, former Postdoctoral Fellow - Brown University
Kenneth A. Christensen, Associate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry, former Director of the PhD Program in Public Administration and Policy
Brian M. Hartman, Assistant Professor, Statistics, former Assistant Professor of Actuarial Science - University of Connecticut
Wolfgang Herfort, Mathematics
Curtis Kent, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, former Instructor - New York University
Martha Kilpack, Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics, former Lecturer at SUNY Oneonta
Garritt Leland Page, Assistant Professor, Statistics, former Assistant Professor - Catholic University of Chile; Santiago, Chile
Nathan Powers, Assistant Teaching Professor, Physics & Astronomy, former Field Applications Engineer at KLA-Tencor - Albany NY
Nathan Priddis, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, former Postdoc/Instructor at Leibniz University - Hannover
Robert Richardson, Assistant Professor, Statistics, former Graduate Student Instructor - University of California - Santa Cruz
Brian Rushton, Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics, former Assistant Research Professor - Temple University
Skyler Simmons, Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics, former Graduate Instructor - BYU
David Wingate, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, former Director - Lyric Labs and Analog Devices, Inc.
- RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
Robert F. Elzey, Visiting Instructor, Church History & Doctrine
Andrew Reed, Assistant Professor, Church History & Doctrine, formerly at Visiting Professor at BYU
