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Home / Featured Content / Presidential Engagement and Partnership Professorships

Presidential Engagement and Partnership Professorships

2020

Keri Burchfield – Department of Sociology

2019

Leila Porter – Department of Anthropology

2018

Paul Wright – Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education
Mansour Tahernezhadi – Department of Electrical Engineering

2017

Catherine Raymond – Center for Burma Studies
Alex Gelman – Theater and Dance

2016

Teresa Wasonga – Leadership, Educational Psychology and Foundations
Andrew Otieno – Technology

2015

Judy Ledgerwood, Anthropology
Kurt Thurmaier, Department of Public Administration

2014

Christine Malecki, Psychology
Jon Miller, Biological Sciences

2013

Laurie Elish-Piper, Department of Literacy Education
Andrea Molnar, Department of Anthropology

2012

James Ciesla, School of Nursing and Health Studies

2011

Cliff Mirman, Department of Technology
Susan Russell, Department of Anthropology
Kendall Thu, Department of Anthropology

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