Faculty and staff directory
Chair(s)
Associate chair(s)
Director
Full-time faculty
Boris Baltes
Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Academic Personnel
Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Stephanie Brock
Professor
Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Charisse Burden-Stelly
Associate Professor
2023-2024 Visiting Scholar, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University
Simone Chess
Director, Center for Gender and Sexuality (CGS) and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies (GSW)
Associate Professor of English
Kefentse K Chike
Assistant Professor of Teaching African-American Studies
Learning Community Coordinator
Jorge L Chinea
Distinguished Service Professor
Academic Director, Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies
Paul Clemens
Derek E. Daniels
Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies (Graduate Officer)
Elizabeth Faue
Director, Labor@Wayne; Employment and Labor Relations Program
Professor, History and Employment and Labor Relations
Silvia Giorgini
Professor of Teaching & Director of Italian Language Courses
Director of Wayne in Abruzzo Study Abroad Program
Stephanie Hartwell
Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Professor of Sociology, Adjunct Prof. of Psychiatry
Renee carine Hoogland
Professor
Vice Chair of the Academic Senate, Editor of Criticism, and Senior Editor in Chief of MacMillan Handbooks: Gender
Mary Kassa
Associate Professor of Teaching & WSU Audiology Program Coordinator
Clinical Audiologist, Henry Ford Health
Christopher V Kelly
Associate Professor
Director of the Richard Barber Interdisciplinary Research Program
Saeed Khan
Associate Professor of Teaching in Near Eastern Studies
Research Fellow, Center for Study of Citizenship
Pramod Khosla
Professor
Member of Academic Senate Policy Committee, AAUP-AFT Local 6075: Faculty Grievance Coordinator
Catalina Kopetz
Associate Professor of Psychology
President of the Society for the Science of Motivation
Pontus Leander
Associate Professor of Social Psychology
Director, Center for Peace and Conflict Studies
Ariel Levi
Mark R. Luborsky
Professor of Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
Co-Director, SWAN Social Work and Anthropology doctoral program, Professor of Gerontology, Aging & Health Disparities Research Program Leader
Todd Lucas
Tausha D. Moore
Director, WSU Speech-Language Pathology Clinics
Clinical Coordinator for Speech-Language Pathology
Jodi Nachtwey
Christopher Nazelli
Associate Professor of Teaching
Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Center for Excellence and Equity in Mathematics (CEEM)
Hien Nguyen
Carl Johnson/Pfizer Professor of Organic Chemistry
Department of Oncology, Molecular Therapeutic Program
Karen O'Leary
Retired, WSU Speech-Language Pathology Clinics
Clinical Coordinator for Speech-Language Pathology
Lori Pile
Professor
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, Co-Director MARC at Wayne State University program
Richard Pineau
Associate Professor of Teaching
Member, Academic Senate; Member, WSU Academy of Teachers; STA 1020 Course Coordinator
Matt Piszczek
Leonidas Pittos
Associate Professor of Teaching in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
Associate Chair
Mary T. Rodgers
Professor, Physical and Analytical
Visiting Scientist, FELIX Laboratory, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Takeshi Sakamoto
Associate Professor in Physics
Adjunct Professor in Department of Physiology, School of Medicine
Ann Stacks
Kosuke Sugita
Sarah Swider
Associate Professor
Affiliated Faculty Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Moriah Thomason
Viveka Vaughn
Larry Williams
Lisa Ze Winters
Associate Professor, African American Studies and English
Associate Chair, English Department
Adjunct | affiliated | visiting faculty
Ivan Avrutsky
Erica Bennett
Senior Staff Audiologist at Henry Ford Health System
Clinical Director of WSU Audiology Clinic
Bhujyo Bhattacharya
Adjunct Professor of Physics
Associate Professor of Physics, Department of Natural Sciences, Lawrence Technological University
Yu-Chung Cheng
Associate Professor of Radiology
Adjunct to Physics, Adjunct to Biomedical Engineering, and Adjunct to Medical Physics
Nebojsa Duric
Ewart Haacke
Bhanu Jena
Barbara Lynette Jones
Community Dispute Resolution Specialist and Faculty Instructor
Part-Time Faculty, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Indermeet Kohli
Caroline Milstene
George Moschelli
Adjunct Professor of Physics
Assistant Professor of Physics, Department of Natural Sciences, Lawrence Technological University
Prem Vaishnava
Emeritus faculty
Nancy Barrett
Marion Beth Bates
John Breckenridge
Lawrence Brenton
Jhy-Jiun Chang
Juei-Teng Chen
Jorgelina Corbatta-Wing
Professor Emerita of Latin American Literature and Culture
Graduated as an Academic Associate, Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute
Gerald Dunifer
Lawrence Favro
David Gluck
Lowell Hansen
Garrett Heberlein
Chorng-Shi Houh
Margaret Jordan
Walter Kauppila
Rafail Khasminskii
Tachen Liang
Peter Malcolmson
Togo Nishiura
Jingyal Pak
Andrea Sankar
Professor Emeritus, Cultural Anthropologist
Former Chair; Past Editor "Medical Anthropology Quarterly"
Melbourne Stewart
Robert Thomas
Leon Warshay
Stephen Williams
Part-time faculty
Krystal Bakkila
Nasser Beidoun
Molly Brennan
Todd Burroughs
Robert Carr
Laura Corrunker
Aurelia Crant
Jacqueline Daugherty
Marilena David
Markeysha Davis
Sabina Emerenini
Becky Jackson
Carrie Leach
Research Assistant Professor, Institute of Gerontology
Community Engagement Co-Director, Center for Urban Responses to Environmental Stressors (CURES)
Joseph Mannozzi
Edward Marks
Nicholas Marowsky
James McQuaid
Extension Program Coordinator II, Labor@Wayne
Secretary, Michigan Labor History Society
John O'Neill
Yasmin Helena Olsen
Eve Ann Page
Stephen Pobutsky
Emily Powell
Daniel Preisler
Jean-Claude Quenum
Rob Romain
Valentina Ruggeri
Scott Sandefur
Mary Spaulding
Marty Spranger
Madiha Tariq
Ricci Tarockoff
Rayfield Waller
Sheyonna Watson
Travis White
Noppi Widjaja
Nicholas Zambardi
Academic advisor(s)
Staff
Sonya Bell
John Brender
Director, Center for Student Global Engagement, and ESL Instructor, Office of International Programs
Caroline Brzuchowski
Peter Chen
Michael Covington
Delores Cowen
Ryan Cunningham
Kishya Curry
Rouba Daher
Patrick Harnadek
Andrea Jimenez
Joe Kieleszewski
Marcia Lovett
Margaret Mason
Megan McCullen
Director, Wayne State University Planetarium
Associate Director, Gordon L. Grosscup Museum of Anthropology
Robert Miller
Melissa Miranda Morse
Francine Owczarek
Jason Parizon
Elizabeth Ries
Melissa Rochon
Academic Services Officer IV
Advising for AGRADE, Master of Arts and Ph.D. Programs in Chemistry
Michael Schmidt
Assistant Professor of Teaching
Assistant Director & Academic Student Services Coordinator, Center for Gender and Sexuality
Alan Sebastian
Elizabeth Stone-Hall
Research staff
Sandip Aryal
Saptaparna Bhattacharya
Zachary Devereaux
Katherine Dwyer
Weerarathna Matara Mahavidana Muhandhiram Patabandhige Gayangani
Victor Gonzalez
Sameer Joshi
Deepinder Kaur
Achyut Khanal
Chun-Xiao Li
Dmitri Liventsev
Jyoti Mahajan
Rajendra Maity
Lekshmy Palliyil
Yi Peng
Gregoire Pihan
William Schiff
Ahmad Sleiman
David Stewart
Malu Sudha
Shalini Tripathi
Naseem Ud Din
Bingwen Wang
Graduate students
Daniel Adebayo
Michael Adu
Munirah Alduhailan
Zachary Auner
Francis Baer
Grace Boudjalis
Doctoral Student in Industrial Organizational Psychology
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Rachel Carey
Doctoral Student in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience
IMSD Fellow | Institute of Gerontology Fellow
Christina Carney
Paige Charania
Hyui Won Cho
Rand Dabal
Brittanie Dabney
Najae Dixon
Anna Djavaheri
Robert Dolan
Georgina Drury
Florence Ekedegba
Hilary Emenheiser
Konstantin Emming
Ali Fardous
Greg Fehmer
Bamina Hannadige Lakshitha Madhushan Fernando
Da'Jonae Foster
Aishwarya Ghosh
Michelle Gilleran
Olivia Godfrey
Amy Graham
Doctoral Student, Clinical Psychology; Dual Title Infant Mental Health
Research Fellow, The Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute
Udayan Guha
Joseph Hadous
Maxx Haehn
Hayden Hall
Brian Hanley
Paula Harrison
Lama Hassoun Ayoub
Doctoral Student in Developmental Science
Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute Fellow
Iryna Hatala
Nariman Hawily
Dulmalika Herath Manchanayake
Aleck Hernandez
Sophia Hertrich
Nozuko Hlwatika
Hoai Anh Ho
Jacob Hudock
Teresa Jeffrey
Jingwei Jia
Kalimah Johnson
Shahzad Kalloo
Shelby Kasto
Bernadette Kelly
Aeneas Koosis
Rebecca Krawczak
Doctoral Student in Clinical Psychology
Graduate Teaching Assistant | Graduate Research Assistant
Hiranthi Kulathungage
Ashley LaCroix
Vincent Lawal
Ian Lewis
Songwei Li
Tyleen Lopez
Doctoral Student in Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Graduate Research Assistant & Graduate Teaching Assistant
Kaveendya Mallika Arachchilage Dona
Christopher Mataczynski
Chuck McKeever
Grant McNamara
Alaa Mokhtar
Kristi Morris
Abubakar I MUKHTAR
Doctoral Student Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Ishita Munshi
Anh Nguyen
Thomas Norton
Eseiwi Obaseki
Akinbami Oladokun
Muritada Oshinuga
Austin Owsley
Corbin Pacheco
Robin Park
Peter Patrick
Bianca Pereira
James Perrotta
Thi Phung
Alexis Pinela
Kelly Plante
PhD (August 2023)
Managing Editor, Aphra Behn Online (ABO): Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1840
Bara Rababah
Neha Rajput
Eleazar Reward
Lauren Richardson
Jessica Rodrigues
Darius Rushaj
Jessie Sanchez
Lauren Sather
Michael Schwendeman
Director of Research & Development, Denison Consulting
Doctoral Candidate in Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Sydney Scofield
Naveenkumar Senthilkumar
Mike Sergeant
Aiman Shahab
Ali Shakoor
Alan Sherman
Gunjeet Singh
Chathuranga Sirimanna
Neal Slabbekoorn
Logan Smith
Rachel Sochocki
Molli Spalter
Eric Stimpson
Sumiya Khan Sujana
Justina Thomas
Jasmine White
Amelia Wilcox
Dylan Wollschlager
Kin Hang Wong
Aaron Woyshville
Hadi Yassine
Jessica Zalewski
Doctoral Student in Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Yahya Zarrinnarges
Junliang Zhu
Alessandra Zieleniewski
Anja Zlatanovic