CSULB Announces 66 Faculty for Tenure and Promotion

It is a pleasure to announce the tenure and promotion of 66 faculty members in the Division of Academic Affairs! Our newly promoted faculty demonstrate excellence in all areas of scholarship, teaching, and service. We commend their hard work and dedication to support our Beach students. Their appointments will be effective beginning Fall 2023. Congratulations to the following faculty members:

Sam Anvari
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor
School of Art

Soyeon Kim
Early Tenure & Early Promotion to Associate Professor
School of Art

Mariah Proctor
Promotion to Full Professor
School of Art

Susan Joy Bloom
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor
Department of Film & Electronic Arts

Jermie Arnold
Promotion to Full Professor
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music

Ray Briggs
Promotion to Full Professor
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music

Tamara Thies
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music

Jennifer Howard
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor
Department of Accountancy

Laura Gonzalez
Tenure & Promotion to Full Professor
Department of Finance

Hojong Shin
Early Promotion to Associate Professor
Department of Finance

Mohamed Abdelhamid
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor
Department of Information Systems

Hongyu Chen
Promotion to Full Professor
Department of Information Systems

Myunggook Song
Promotion to Full Professor
Department of Marketing

Edwin Achola
Promotion to Full Professor
Department of Advanced Studies in Education & Counseling

Shametrice Davis
Promotion to Full Professor
Department of Educational Leadership

Betina Hsieh
Promotion to Full Professor
Department of Teacher Education

Oscar Navarro
Early Tenure & Early Promotion to Associate Professor
Department Teacher Education & Liberal Studies

Sara Moghtadernejad
Early Tenure & Early Promotion to Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering

Yu Yang 
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering

Pitiporn Asvapathanagul
Promotion to Full Professor
Department of Civil Engineering & Construction Management

Andrea Calabrese
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor
Department of Civil Engineering & Construction Management

Mohammadtaghi Rahmani
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor
Department of Civil Engineering & Construction Management

Jelena Trajkovic
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor
Department of Computer Engineering & Computer Science

Wenlu Zhang
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor
Department of Computer Engineering & Computer Science

Aftab Ahmed
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering

Sean Seok-Chul Kwon
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering

Navdeep Singh Dhillon
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Joseph Kalman
Early Tenure & Early Promotion to Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Christine Scott-Hayward
Early Promotion to Full Professor
Department of Criminal Justice

Michelle Barrack
Promotion to Full Professor
Department of Family & Consumer Science

Roudi Roy
Early Promotion to Full Professor
Department of Family & Consumer Science

Selena Nguyen-Rodriguez
Promotion to Full Professor
Department of Health Science

Michelle Alencar
Promotion to Full Professor
Department of Kinesiology

Melissa Bittner
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor
Department of Kinesiology

Mikiko Nakajima
Promotion to Full Professor
Department of Kinesiology

Kevin Valenzuela
Early Tenure & Early Promotion to Associate Professor
Department of Kinesiology

Kellie Walters
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor
Department of Kinesiology

Anne Fitzgerald
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor
School of Nursing

Debra Rannalli
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor
School of Nursing

Pamela Xandre
Promotion to Full Professor
School of Nursing

Jennifer Bagwell
Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor
Department of Physical Therapy

Melissa Mathews
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor
Department of Public Policy & Administration

Belinda Daughrity
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor
Department of Speech Language & Pathology

Theresa Gregor
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor
Department of American Indian Studies

Kimberly Robertson
Tenure
Department of American Indian Studies

Jessica Elkin
Promotion to Full Professor
Department of Communications Studies

Adam Kahn
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor
Department of Communications Studies

Araceli Esparza
Promotion to Full Professor
Department of English

Linna Li
Promotion to Full Professor
Department of Geography

Ann Kim
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor
Department of Human Development

Haydee Lanza
Early Promotion to Full Professor
Department of Human Development

Kristy Shih
Promotion to Full Professor
Department of Human Development

Gwen Shaffer
Promotion to Full Professor
Department of Journalism

Wanette Reynolds
Tenure
Department of Linguistics

Nicholas Laskowski
Early Tenure & Early Promotion to Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy

Anand Commissiong
Tenure
Department of Political Science

Kathryn Perkins
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor
Department of Political Science

May Ling Halim
Promotion to Full Professor
Department of Psychology

Gabriella Hancock
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor
Department of Psychology

Claudia López
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor
Department of Sociology

Jason Schwans
Promotion to Full Professor
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Jeffrey Pair
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics & Statistics

Hui Sun
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics & Statistics

Tianni Zhou
Promotion to Full Professor
Department of Mathematics & Statistics

Tracy Gilmore
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Librarian
Research & Information Services

Alexis Pavenick
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Librarian
Research & Information Services