Promotion & Tenure Recipients
Introduction
Congratulations to recent Promotion & Tenure (P&T) recipients! This significant career milestone reflects the faculty members hard work, dedication, and invaluable contributions to our academic community at UIC and beyond.
For more information about the P&T process, please see the P&T for Faculty or P&T for Administrators pages.
Faculty Promoted and/or Tenured in 2025
College of Applied Health Sciences
College of Applied Health Sciences
Robert Gould
Delphine Labbé
College of Applied Health Sciences
Alyson Patsavas
Arts
Arts
Paul Andersen
Alexander Eisenschmidt
Faheem Majeed
2
Lydia Diamond
Christine Dunford
Myron Elliott, Jr.
College of Business Administration
College of Business Administration
Melissa Martin
Rong Zhong
Theja Tulabandhula
2
James Cooper
Harshad Girish Puranik
Jie Wang Teaching
Luis Lopez
College of Dentistry
College of Dentistry
Nicholas Callahan
Flavio Sanchez
Maria Grace Viana
Sobia Bilal
2
Leda Mugayar
Afsar Naqvi
Adriana Semprum-Clavier
Betti Shahin
College of Education
College of Education
Joshua Radinsky
Lionel Allen
Cynthia Barron
Decoteau Irby
Ting Dai
2
Aisha Griffith
Marisha Humphries
Terrell Morton
Rebecca Teasdale
Emily Gregori
College of Engineering
College of Engineering
Hananeh Esmailbeigi
Betul Bilgin
Anh Ngo
Vivek Sharma
Meenesh Singh
Amirhossein Iranmanesh
Sara Kadkhodaei
Farideddin Peiravian
Bo Zou
Abolfazl Asudeh
Chris Kanich
Sidharth Kumar
Scott Reckinger
College of Engineering
Xiaorui Sun
Balajee Vamanan
Lo’Ay Abu Salah
Vahe Caliskan
Shuo Han
Lina He
Ning Jin Clinical
Renata Revelo Alonso
Besma Smida
Pranav Bhounsule
Yayue Pan
Yeow Siow
Matthew Alonso
School of Law
School of Law
Sarah Davila
Yelena Duterte
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Nermeen Mouftah
Chieh Chang
Constance Jeffery
Rachel Poretsky
Laura Anderson
Anoklase Ayitou
Stephanie Cologna
Ying Hu
Nan Jiang
Zachary McDowell
Ishani Mukherjee
Janis Page
Samuel Taylor
Jessica Bird
Rahim Kurwa
Max Berkelhammer
2
Daniel Borzutzky
Charles Ireland
Norma Moruzzi
Jonathan Connolly
Andreas Feldmann
Laura Dingeldein
James Freitag
Kyunghee Han
Vishesh Jain
Osama Khalil
Caroline Terry
Richard DeJonghe
Anatoly Evdokimov
Ho-Ung Yee
Edward Fagan
Christopher Estabrook
Chicago
Chicago
Swetha Gowrishankar
Richard Banchs
Nakia Hunter
Shafi Kuchay
Kamran Avanaki
Nicole Gastala
Christina Wells
Scott Borgetti
Brian Boulay
Huan Chang
Olga Garcia
Zahraa Hajjiri
Heather Heiman
Vania Leung
Abeer Mohamed
Santosh Saraf
Robert Sargis
Asim Shuja
Lopa Pandya
Joy Sarkar
Angelica Scanzera
David Allison
Helen Grace Guzman Berkson
Chicago
Carlos Murga-Zamalloa
Donald Vander Griend
Stacy Laurent
Nikolas Mata-Machado
Saurabhkumar Patel
Jagadeesh Ramasamy
Phornphat Rasamimari
Nishant Srinivasan
Felicia Wellington
Andrei Karginov
Kiwook Kim
Yulia Komarova
Yuru Liu
Sandra Pinho
Soroush Tahmasebi
Peter Bennett
Runa Bhaumik
Elizabeth Glover
Graziano Pinna
Michael Bresler
Lisa Shimotake
Tohru Yamada
Lee Alkureishi
Simone Crivellaro
Peoria
Peoria
Dominique Fons
Sharjeel Ahmad
Brian Bamberger
Saurabh Bansal
Umair Iqbal
2
Agnieszka Kulikowska
Prerna Kumar
Brinda Mehta
Rawan Musaitif
Sandeep Tripathi
Rockford
Rockford
Manorama Khare
Rhonda Verzal
Rockford
Hugh Clements-Jewery
College of Nursing
College of Nursing
Sarah Fitz
Kathryn Rugen
Natasha Crooks
Robin Johnson
College of Nursing
Hongjin Li
Pamela Pearson
Cynthia Handrup
Carolyn Dickens
College of Pharmacy
College of Pharmacy
Seung Young Lee
Terry Moore
Kiira Ratia
Douglas Thomas
2
Renee Gimbar
Marlowe Kachlic
Keri Kim Clinical
Marianne Pop
College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
Michael Siciliano
Joshua Drucker
School of Public Health
School of Public Health
Leslie Williams
Jiehuan Sun
University Library
University Library
Annie Nickum
College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
1
Maria Laurito
Faculty Promoted and/or Tenured in 2024
College of Applied Health Sciences
1
- Andrew Boyd
- Eduardo Bustamante
- Yochai Eisenberg
- Kharma Foucher
2
- Kuei-Fang Hsieh
- Leah Lebowicz
- Mansha Mirza
College of Architecture, Design and the Arts
1
- Andrew Baker
- Stephanie Cluggish
- Felicia Ferrone
2
- Christopher Frye
- Anna Jaworska
- Kimberlee Wilkens
College of Business Administration
1
- Andrew Hanson
- Vijay Kamble
- Yingda Lu
2
- John Sparks
- Ali Tafti
- Zhenyu Yuan
College of Dentistry
1
- David Avenetti
- Alison Doubleday
- Asha Eapen
- Mohammed Elnagar
- Sriram Ravindran
2
- Jasjot Sahni
- Patrick Smith
- Bin Yang
- Judy Yuan
College of Education
1
- Paola Morales
- Gholnecsar Muhammad
2
- Federico Waitoller
- Nicholas Weststrate
College of Engineering
1
- Hossein Ataei
- Pai-Yen Chen
- Matthew Daly
- Aslihan Karatas
- Myunghee Kim
- Jonathan Komperda
- Erdem Koyuncu
- Shafigh Mehraeen
- Anh Ngo
2
- Natalie Parde
- Inna Partin-Vaisband
- Zhangli Peng
- Subramanian Sankaranarayanan
- Hulya Seferoglu
- Mohammad Shadmand
- Joseph Shulenberg
- Brian Ziebart
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
1
- Danko Adrovic
- Tanja Aitamurto
- Yolanda Bada Garcia
- Randall Espinoza
- Benjamin Feigenberg
- Alexandra Filindra
- Erik Hembre
- Peter Ibarra
- Eric Leshikar
- Nicole Looper
- Rama Mantena
- Mary Mohanraj
- Nicole Nguyen
2
- Jennifer Pajda-De La O
- Yury Polikanov
- Sultan Tepe
- James Unwin
- Julia Vaingurt
- Wouter Van Limbeek
- Justin Vlasits
- Jing Wang
- Xiaojing Yang
- Jingyan Yuan
- Pingshou Zhong
- Katherine Zinsser
College of Medicine Chicago
1
- Judith Behnsen
- Alana Biggers Walker
- Michael Charles
- Vivek Chaudhry
- Joseph Colla
- Jonathan Coloff
- Jose Cordoba-Chacon
- Oana Danciu
- Tirsa Ferrer Marrero
- Jonah Fleisher
- Catherine Ford
- Gerald Gantt
- Daniel Garvey
- Patrick Godwin
- Victor Guaiquil
- Erica Hinz
- Keia Hobbs
- Yuwei Jiang
- Shrihari Kadkol
- Mayank Kansal
- Victoria Lee
2
- Anna Lipowska
- Claudia Lora
- Gautam Malhotra
- Adam Mikolajczyk
- Gayatry Mohapatra
- Gerardo Morfini
- Matthew Niemeyer
- Sang Ging Ong
- Laura Perry
- Justin Richner
- Ashima Sahni
- Daniel Shaye
- Jalene Shoener
- Thomas Sims
- Catherine Wheatley
- Adrienne Williams
- Pingwen Xu
- Cemal Yazici
- Sang-Oh Yoon
- Yongguo Zhang
College of Medicine Peoria
1
- Jean Clore
- Jonathan Gehlbach
- Venkat Kakollu
- Bhavana Kandikattu
- Ian Kang
2
- Andrew Lancia
- Annia Martial
- Channing Petrak
- Jenna Regan
College of Medicine Rockford
1
- Michael Fumo
- Joseph Ross
2
- Christopher Vittore
College of Nursing
1
- Sarah Abboud
- Melissa Carlucci
- Lauren Diegel-Vacek
- Susan Hovey
- Rohan Jeremiah
- Krista Jones
- Teresa Krassa
- Kylea Liese
2
- Angela Maeder
- Judith Schlaeger
- Celeste Schultz
- Rebecca Singer
- Patrick Thornton
- Kathryn Vanderzwan
- Rebecca Vortman
College of Pharmacy
1
- Zackery Bulman
- Shaonong Chen
- Irina Gaisina
- Alice Hemenway
- Jeffrey Mucksavage
2
- Clara Okorie-Awe
- Andrew Riley
- Rosalyn Vellurattil
- Lori Wilken
College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
1
- Philip Ashton
2
- P.S. Sriraj
School of Public Health
1
- Basmattee Boodram
- Zhengjia Chen
- Leonard Go
- Jennifer Hebert-Beirne
2
- Mary Mackesy-Amiti
- Caryn Peterson
- Emily Stiehl
University Library
1
- Benjamin Aldred
- Anne Armstrong
- Amelia Brunskill
- Elena Carrillo
- Abigail Goben
- Anna Kozlowska
2
- Mingyan Li
- Kavita Mundle
- Rebecca Raszewski
- Jung Mi Scoulas
- Tracy Seneca
- Kellee Warren