USC Upstate Welcomes 29 New Faculty Members
August 17, 2015
SPARTANBURG, SC – Twenty-nine new faculty members will join nearly 800 new freshman students in learning their way around the University of South Carolina Upstate with the start of the fall semester, which begins on Thursday, August 20.
The following faculty members were hired for the 2015-2016 academic year at USC Upstate:
Mary Black School of Nursing
Logan Camp, MSN, instructor
Ambre Ellison, MSN, instructor
Luanne Green, MSN, instructor
Kristen Hawkins, MSN, instructor
Toshua Kennedy, Ph.D., assistant professor
Diane Parker, MSN, instructor
George Dean Johnson, Jr. College of Business and Economics
Michelle Bertolini, J.D., assistant professor of business law/taxation
Ayse Erdogan, Ph.D., assistant professor of economics
Elise Harvey, Ph.D., assistant professor of marketing
Kim Land, M.B.A., instructor of marketing
Kyle Turner, Ph.D., assistant professor of management
Julie Wade, Ph.D., assistant professor of management
Michael Wooten, MAcc, instructor of accounting
School of Education
Justin Kaiser, Ph.D., assistant professor of special education
Karen Lounsbury, Ph.D., assistant professor of early childhood/elementary education
Gary Lynch, M.Ed., instructor of physical education / exercise science
Kelvin Wu, Ph.D., assistant professor of physical education / exercise science
Fine Arts & Communications Studies
Michelle Garland, Ph.D., assistant professor of communication studies
Suzanne Hall, M.A., instructor of communication studies
Bridget Kirkland, M.F.A., assistant professor of graphic design
Adam Knight, M.M., instructor of music
Michael Marks, M.F.A., assistant professor of art foundations/graphic design
History, Political Science, Philosophy and American Studies
Matthew Placek, Ph.D., assistant professor of political science
Nicole Richardson, Ph.D., assistant professor of East Asian History
Language, Literature & Composition
Melinda Keefauver, Ph.D., instructor of English
Mathematics & Computer Science
Dilli Bhatta, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics
Natural Sciences and Engineering
Kim Brewitt, Ph.D., instructor of biology
Kimberly Shorter, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology
Psychology
Justin Travis, M.A., instructor of psychology
