USC Upstate Welcomes 20 New Faculty Members
September 8, 2014
SPARTANBURG, SC – Twenty new faculty members joined the more than 800 freshman students in learning their way around the University of South Carolina Upstate with the start of the fall semester, which began on August 21.
The following faculty members were hired for the 2041-2015 academic year at USC Upstate:
Mary Black School of Nursing
Latasha Gooden, MSN, instructor
Stacie Hamilton, MSN, instructor
Dawn Henderson, D.N.P. associate professor
Mary Alice Hodge, Ph.D., associate professor
Beatriz Torres, MSN, instructor
George Dean Johnson, Jr. College of Business and Economics
Chak Hung Jack Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of economics
Katherine Frear, Ph.D., assistant professor of management
Rebecca Goessel, M.P.A., instructor of accounting
William B. Hankins, Ph.D., assistant professor of economics
Erin Ouzts, M.B.A., instructor of entrepreneurship
School of Education
Sarah Hunt-Barron, Ph.D., assistant professor of literacy education
Fine Arts & Communications Studies
Matthew Donaldson, M.F.A., assistant professor of graphic design
Nolan Stolz, D.M.A., assistant professor of music
Carolyn Webber, Ph.D., assistant professor of communications
Language, Literature & Composition
Cassandra Jones, Ph.D., assistant professor of African American studies
Informatics
Amy Connolly, Ph.D., assistant professor
Susan Richardson, M.S., instructor
Donald “Nick” Rouse, Ed.D., instructor
Library
Ann Merryman, M.L.I.S., assistant librarian
Kevin Shehan, M.L.I.S., instructor
