By Office of Media Relations | Sept. 15, 2022
The University of Texas at Dallas welcomed one of its largest groups of new tenured and tenure-track faculty members with 43 of them joining the University this year, including many who started this fall. The professors bring an array of expertise in disciplines ranging from art history and game design to psychology and neuroscience, to computer science and mechanical engineering.
The School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology welcomes new faculty Dr. Ali Asgar Alibhai, Jeff Price, Dr. Jonathan Tsou, Dr. Mai Wang, Dr. Katrina Rushing, Kristen Cochran, and Dr. Dora Valkanova.
Assistant Professor of Art History
Education: PhD in Arabic and Islamic studies, Harvard University; Master of Arts in medieval studies, Southern Methodist University; Bachelor of Arts in Arabic and Islamic studies, Aljamea-tus-Saifiyah, Surat, India
Research areas: art; architecture and material culture of the Islamic world
Associate Professor of Game Development
Education: Master of Fine Arts in multimedia, animation, and graphic design, Virginia Commonwealth University; Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic design, University of Oklahoma
Research areas: game design; photogrammetry; virtual and augmented reality
Professor of Philosophy, Marvin and Kathleen Stone Distinguished Professor of Humanities in Medicine and Science
Education: PhD in conceptual and historical studies of science, University of Chicago; Master of Arts in philosophy, University of Western Ontario; Bachelor of Arts in philosophy, Simon Fraser University in British Columbia
Research areas: philosophy of science, philosophy of psychiatry, philosophy of mind/cognitive science, history of 20th-century philosophy of science
Assistant Professor of Literature
Education: PhD and Master of Arts in English, Stanford University; Master of Fine Arts in creative writing, Boston University; Bachelor of Arts in English, Yale University
Research areas: transnational diasporic literary studies
Assistant Professor of Instruction — Music Theory
Education: Doctor of Musical Arts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Masters of Music Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, Louisiana. Bachelor of Music Louisiana College, Pineville, Louisiana.
Research areas: music theory, ear training, sight singing, music fundamentals, music appreciation, piano pedagogy
Assistant Professor of Instruction — Visual Arts
Education: MFA Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX. BFA Painting/Printmaking University of Washington, Seattle, WA. BA English University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Research areas: sculpture, drawing, design
Dr. Dora Valkanova
Visiting Assistant Professor – Critical Media Studies
Education: PhD in Communications and Media (Minor in Cinema Studies), 2020 Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign, IL, Masters of Arts in Communication and Society 2010, Bachelors of Arts in Political Science, 2007
Research areas: film production, film theory, film analysis
This article is based on an article by Phil Roth, which originally appeared in the UT Dallas News