Past Adams Academy Fellows

Andrea Bierema
Specialist
College of Education
abierema@msu.edu

Kelley Blanck
Instructor-Fixed Term
College of Social Science
kblanck@msu.edu

Eddie Boucher
Assistant Professor
College of Social Science
bouche50@msu.edu

Julie Christensen
Instructor
College of Human Medicine
jachris@msu.edu

Kathryn Clements
Assistant Professor
College of Social Science
vadnais3@msu.edu

Karen Kangas-Preston
Senior Academic Specialist
College of Arts & Letters
kangaspr@msu.edu

Robey Shah
Assistant Professor
College of Human Medicine
rshah@msu.edu

Jeana Dee Allen
Academic Specialist
College of Communication Arts and Sciences
allenjea@msu.edu

Scott Farver
Assistant Professor
College of Education
farversc@msu.edu

Valerie Hedges
Assistant Professor
College of Natural Science
hedgesva@msu.edu

Anthony Ingle
Teaching Specialist
College of Engineering
ingleant@msu.edu

ChengChing Liu
Assistant Professor
College of Nursing
chengliu@msu.edu

Rachael Lund
Teaching Specialist
College of Natural Science
rlund@msu.edu

Seven Mattes
Assistant Professor
College of Social Science
bryant22@msu.edu

Ayman Mohamed
Assistant Professor
College of Arts & Letters
mohame44@msu.edu

Ryan Shadbolt
Academic Specialist
College of Social Science
shadbolt@msu.edu

Wenying Zhou
Assistant Professor
College of Arts & Letters
zhouweny@msu.edu

Piril Atabay
Assistant Professor Fixed-Term
College of Arts & Letters

Pia Banzhaf
Assistant Professor Fixed-Term
College of Arts & Letters

Tyler Becker
Assistant Professor Fixed-Term
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Lorelei Blackburn
Assistant Professor Fixed-Term
College of Arts & Letters

Brandy Ellison
Assistant Professor Fixed-Term
College of Social Science

Nicole Geske
Assistant Professor Fixed-Term
College of Osteopathic Medicine

Sadam Issa
Assistant Professor Fixed-Term
College of Arts & Letters

Raven Jones Stanbrough
Assistant Professor Fixed-Term
College of Education

Marty Jordan
Assistant Professor Fixed-Term
College of Social Science

Jiahang Li
Assistant Professor Fixed-Term
College of Education

Garth Sabo
Assistant Professor Fixed-Term
College of Arts & Letters

Elizabeth Tinsley Johnson
Assistant Professor Fixed-Term
College of Natural Science

Jameel Al-Haddad
Instructor Fixed-Term
College of Natural Science

George H. Berghorn
Assistant Professor
Agriculture and Natural Resources

Alissa Cohen
Academic Specialist-Teaching
College of Arts and Letters

Roozbeh Dargazany
Assistant Professor
College of Engineering

Allison Eden
Associate Professor
College of Communication Arts and Sciences

Crystal Eustice
Academic Specialist-Teaching
College of Agriculture & Natural Resources

Fayyaz Hussain
Associate Professor
College of Social Science

Huey-Wen Lin
Assistant Professor
College of Natural Science

Nicole McCleese
Assistant Professor Fixed-Term
College of Arts and Letters

Amol Pavangadkar
Senior Academic Specialist – Teaching
College of Communication Arts and Sciences

Rajiv Ranjan
Assistant Professor Fixed-Term
College of Arts and Letters

Catherine Ryu
Associate Professor
College of Arts and Letters

Alyssa Winslow
Academic Specialist – Teaching
College of Veterinary Medicine

Denise Acevedo
Assistant Professor
College of Arts & Letters

Marisa Brandt
Academic Specialist
Lyman Briggs

Mehrnaz Ghamami
Assistant Professor
College of Engineering

Ricardo Guimaraes
Academic Specialist
College of Communication Arts and Sciences

Lindsey Jenny
Assistant Professor
College of Human Medicine

Troy Hale
Professor of Practice/Senior Specialist
School of Journalism

Juli Liebler
Assistant Professor
College of Social Science

Saul Beceiro-Novo
Assistant Professor
College of Natural Science

Dustin DuFort Petty
Academic Advisor
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Sarah Prior
Assistant Professor
College of Social Science

Marty Spranger
Assistant Professor
College of Natural Science

Kate Birdsall
Assistant Professor
College of Arts & Letters

Kevin Brooks
Academic Specialist for Diversity and Civic Engagement
Residential College in the Arts and Humanities

Casey Henley
Director of Online Programs & Assistant Professor, Neuroscience Program
College of Natural Science

Bree Holtz
Assistant Professor
College of Communication Arts and Sciences

Yore Kedem
Assistant Professor
College of Arts & Letters

Wei Li
Assistant Professor
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Kristen Mapes
Assistant Director of Digital Humanities
College of Arts & Letters

Emilia Marcyk
Instructional Technology/Teaching & Learning Librarian
MSU Libraries

Deric McNish
Assistant Professor
College of Arts & Letters

Geoffrey Recktenwald
Academic Specialist – Teaching
College of Engineering

Dan Smith
Assistant Professor
College of Arts & Letters

Jonathan Weaver
Assistant Professor
College of Social Science

Kathy Forrest 
Instructor
Coordinator of Professional Programs
College of Nursing

Peter Hoffman
Instructor
English Language Center
College of Arts & Letters

Xinqiang Li
Assistant Professor
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
College of Arts & Letters

Ryan Maccombs
Academic Specialist, Teaching
Mathematics
College of Natural Science

Adán Quan
Assistant Professor
Anthropology
College of Social Science

Tsveta Sendova
Director
Math Learning Center
College of Natural Science

Erica Shifflet-Chila
Clinical Associate Professor, Coordinator of Academic Technology
School of Social Work
College of Social Science

Laura Smith
Assistant Professor
Art, Art History and Design
College of Arts & Letters

Ryan Tubbs
Assistant Professor
College of Human Medicine

Ben Van Dyke
Associate Professor
Art, Art History and Design
College of Arts & Letters

Bei Zhang
Academic Specialist
Biomedical Diagnostics Laboratory
College of Human Medicine

Nicolas Gisholt    
Academic Specialist    
Center for Integrative Studies
College of  Social Science

Kathryn Houghton
Academic Specialist
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
College of Arts and Letters

Patrick Johnson
Instructor
Music Theory
College of Music

Rachel Morris
Academic Specialist
Biomedical Laboratory Diagnostics
College of Natural Science

Shawna-Marie Nantais
Academic Specialist
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
College of Natural Science
College of Osteopathic Medicine

Lynn Nee
Clinical Instructor
Social Work
College of Social Science

Michaela Oldfield
Academic Specialist
Food, Science and Human Nutrition
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Amy Radford-Popp
Assistant Director
Residential Business Program Community
Broad College of Business

Michael Ristich
Academic Specialist-Assistant Professor
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
College of Arts and Letters

Ronald Stokes-Schwartz
Academic Specialist
Center for Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities
College of Arts and Letters

Arthur Ward
Academic Specialist
History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science
Lyman Briggs College

Mary Wever
Academic Specialist
Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education,
College of Education

Irma Bartolo
Instructor
College of Arts and Letters

Samantha Cass
Academic Specialist
Lyman Briggs College

Frances Pouch Downes
Professor
College of Natural Science

Maddalena Fanelli
Academic Teaching Specialist
College of Engineering

Benjamin Oberdick
Librarian II/ Head of Information Literacy
MSU Libraries

William Arnold
Assistant Professor-Fixed Term
College of Education
Department of Educational Administration

Carmen Delorenzo
Associate Professor
College of Arts & Letters

Monaca Eaton
Academic Specialist
College of Social Science

Taylor Epp
Instructor
College of Veterinary Medicine

Laura Genik
Academic Specialist
College of Engineering

Christopher Kaiser
Academic Specialist
College of Education

Stephanie LaRose
Associate Clinical Professor
College of Law

Jane Merrills
Assistant Professor-Fixed Term
College of Veterinary Medicine

Kirsten Parkin
Assistant Professor-Fixed Term
College of Human Medicine

Patricia Rogers
Assistant Professor-Tenure System
Residential College in Arts and Humanities

Mary Smania
Assistant Professor
College of Nursing

Jana Aupperlee
Assistant Professor
College of Education
Counseling, Education Psychology and Special Education (CEPSE)

Adele Denison
Associate Professor
College of Natural Science-Physiology

Julie Farman
Clinical Instructor
College of Social Science
Social Work

Helen Mayer
Instructor
College of Veterinary Medicine
Veterinary Technology

B. Nadine Roya
Academic Specialist
College of Arts and Letters
English Language Center

Patricia Thurston
Academic Specialist
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Food Science and Human Nutrition

Valeta Wensloff
Academic Specialist
College of Communication Arts and Sciences
Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media

Leah Holck Addis
Specialist / Teaching
College of Arts & Letters

Adolfo Ausín
Assistant Professor
College of Arts & Letters

Jan Bukovac-Phelps
​Assistant Professor
College of Arts & Sciences (now CAS)

Cheryl Caesar
Assistant Professor
College of Arts & Letters

Maxine Davis
Academic Specialist
Lyman Briggs College

Michael Everett
Academic Teaching Specialist
College of Agriculture & Natural Resources

Dawnmarie Ezzo
Instructor
College of Education

Diane Fischer
Specialist / Instructor
College of Agriculture & Natural Resources

Jessica C. Garcia
Visiting Professor
College of Social Science

Margo Glew
​Academic Specialist (Curriculum Development)
College of Education

Sue McQuiston
​Instructor
College of Natural Science

Elizabeth Petsche
Assistant Professor
College of Osteopathic Medicine

Jennifer Rosa
Associate Clinical Professor
College of Law

Debra Stieve
DNP Instructor
College of Nursing

Laura Symonds
Assistant Professor
Director, Undergraduate Neuroscience Program
College of Natural Science

Linda Campbell
Instructor
School of Social Work

Stacy Hickox
Visiting Assistant Professor
College of Social Science

Elizabeth Karcher
Academic Specialist
College of Agriculture & Natural Resources

Sharon Ladenson
Librarian II/Gender Studies and Communications Librarian
Department of Libraries, Computing, & Technology

Anthony Paganini
Assistant Professor
College of Human Medicine

Delores F. Rauscher
Fixed-Term Instructor
College of Arts & Letters

Jennifer Rumler
Academic Specialist, Managing Director, Sales Communication Specialization
College of Communication Arts & Sciences

Jon R. Stoltzfus
Instructor
College of Natural Science

Judith L. Strunk
Instructor
College of Nursing

Chrysoula Vasileiou
Academic Specialist
College of Natural Science

April Cognato
Assistant Professor
College of Natural Science

R. Joy Durding
Instructor
College of Arts and Letters

Adrienne Domas Goldsberry
Instructor and Online Course Coordinator
College of Social Science

Justin Longsworth Jagger
Academic Specialist
Eli Broad College of Business

Deanne Lawrence
Associate Clinical Professor of Law
College of Law

James Lucas
Curriculum Specialist
Undergraduate Education/College of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Marci Mechtel
Instructor
College of Nursing

Amy Pollock
Academic Specialist
College of Natural Science

William Raphael
Assistant Professor
College of Veterinary Medicine

Abdul Salau
Assistant Professor
College of Arts and Letters

Wilma Novales Wibert
Visiting Assistant Professor
College of Communication Arts and Sciences

Heidi Bulich
Assistant Professor
Eli Broad College of Business

Robert A. Chalou
Academic Specialist
College of Engineering

Gary Ferenchick
Associate Professor
College of Human Medicine

Syed Waqar Haider
Assistant Professor
College of Engineering

David Kozishek
Assistant Professor
College of Human Medicine

Tammy M. Long
Visiting Assistant Professor
College of Natural Sciences

Karen T. Mills
Academic Specialist
College of Social Sciences

Phillip D. Schertzing
Academic Specialist
College of Social Sciences

Sandhya Shanker
Coordinator for French
College of Arts and Letters

Steve Sharra
Visiting Assistant Professor
College of Arts and Letters

Elizabeth Spence
Visiting Assistant Professor
College of Arts and Letters

Amy Yang
Assistant Professor
College of Osteopathic and Human Medicine

Sarah Abood
Assistant Professor/Coordinator, Student Programs
Small Animal Clinical Science

Bhavini Bhavsar
Assistant Professor
Internal Medicine

Gretchen Clare Dubes
Instructor
College of Nursing

Leigh Graves Wolf
Instructor/Program Coordinator
College of Education

Timothy Hinds
Academic Specialist
College of Engineering

Robyn Mace
Specialist
School of Criminal Justice

Cathleen McGreal
Associate Professor and Coordinator of Online Programs
College of Social Science

Coretta Patterson
Assistant Professor
College of Veterinary Medicine

Darryll Patterson
Assistant Professor
College of Human Medicine

Amber Peters
Assistant Professor
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources

David Poulson
Instructor/Associate Director
College of Communication Arts & Sciences

Susan Stein-Roggenbuck
Visiting Assistant Professor
James Madison College

Todd Tarrant
Senior Academic Specialist/Assistant Director
Center for Integrative Studies–General Science

Stephen Thomas
Visiting Assistant Professor
College of Natural Science

Korine Wawrzynski
Specialist/Coordinator
College of Education/Provost’s Office