Faculty Promotions & Tenure
Promotion
- August Campbell – Instructional Professor
- Susan Fields – Clinical Associate Professor
- Melissa Fogarty – Clinical Professor
- Rhonda Fowler – Clinical Professor
- Paul Hernandez – Professor
- Debra McKeown – Professor
- Karen Rambo-Hernandez – Professor
- Steven Riechman – Professor
- Elizabeth Roumell – Professor
- Erinn Whiteside – Clinical Associate Professor
- Denise Woodard – Instructional Associate Professor
- Jamaal Young – Professor
- Jemimah Young – Professor
Tenure
- Margaret Quinn – Associate Professor with Tenure
Promotion & Tenure
- Yuming Lei – Associate Professor with Tenure
- Christopher Thompson – Associate Professor with Tenure
- Zhe Wang – Associate Professor with Tenure
- John Williams III – Associate Professor with Tenure
New Faculty
Educational Administration & Human Resource Development
- Lisa Brown – Assistant Professor
- Chih-Pu Dai – Assistant Professor
- Humberto de Faria Santos – Clinical Assistant Professor
- Yeonji Jung – Assistant Professor
- Sumi Lee – Clinical Assistant Professor
- Hanwen Li – Clinical Assistant Professor
- Ginger Vaughn – Professor of the Practice
- Tekeisha Zimmerman – Clinical Assistant Professor
Educational Psychology
- Jennifer Becnel – Clinical Assistant Professor
- Megan Golson – Assistant Professor
Kinesiology & Sport Management
- Jin Woo Ahn – Assistant Professor
- Bryan Crutcher – Clinical Assistant Professor
- Yue Du – Assistant Professor
- Jeff Graham – Associate Professor
- Patrick Neff – Clinical Assistant Professor
- Bo Sandoval – Professor of the Practice
- Matthew Scott – Assistant Professor
Teaching, Learning & Culture
- Kenneth Flemming – Clinical Assistant Professor
- Jose Palma – Assistant Professor
- Neil Shanks – Clinical Assistant Professor
- Hannah Thompson – Assistant Professor
- Carlos Valiente – Professor
- Xiaohan Zhu – Assistant Professor
Faculty Honors
- Rafael Alecio-Lara – U.S. Department of Education’s Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Grant
- Dae Seok Chai – AHRD Human Resource Development Cutting Edge Award; NSF Collaborative Research Grant
- Cheryl Craig – ISATT Outstanding Publication Award; ScholarGPS Top 5 Highly Ranked Scholar in Teacher Education
- Lisa Colvin – Provost Academic Professional Track Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
- Florina Erbeli – EDGES Fellow
- Susan Fields – AFS College Teaching Award; Provost Academic Professional Track Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
- Daniel Hajovsky – APA Fellow; CDSPP Meritorious Contributions to the Training of School Psychologists Award
- Beverly Irby – DKG Texas Upsilon Chapter Member in Print Award
- ArCasia James-Gallaway – ISCHE Early Career Conference Paper Award
- R. Malatesha Joshi – ILA William S. Gray Citation of Merit
- Richard Kreider – Stanford University World Top Scientists List (2025 & All-Time); Scilit Top Cited Scholar List
- Andrew Kwok – AACTE Margaret B. Lindsey Award for Distinguished Research in Teacher Education
- Oi-Man Kwok – Division of Rehabilitation Psychology Harold Yuker Award for Research Excellence
- Li-Jen Kuo – Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Award; World Languages Academy Grant
- Mark LaSota – Forbes Contributor
- Kelly Lee – CCPTP President
- Rodrick Lucero – AERA Law and Education SIG Program Chair
- Carly McCord – AFS 12 Under 12 Honoree
- Anita McCormick – AFS College Teaching Award
- Aaron Morton – NIH Loan Repayment Award to Advance Translational Research for Pediatric Muscular Dystrophy
- Sarah Nagro – U.S. Department of Education Project VERIFY Grant
- Jasmin Patron-Vargas – AERA Frantz Fanon Dissertation Award
- Margaret Quinn – University of Tennessee Graduate Student Senate Outstanding Graduate Research Mentor Award
- Karen Rambo-Hernandez – Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Award; Gifted Child Quarterly Article of the Year
- Noelle Sweany – Provost Academic Professional Track Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
- Ananya Tiwari – Springer Nature Council Research Advisory Board Member
- Julie Thompson – TXAEYC Trainer of the Year
- John Turner – AHRD 2024 Elwood F. Holton III Research Excellence Award
- Jia Wang – AHRD 2024 Monica M. Lee Research Excellence Award
- Erinn Whiteside – Hullabaloo U Instructor of the Year
- Kay Wijekumar – U.S. Department of Education EIR Grant
- John Williams III – Vanderbilt University’s Initiative for Race Research and Justice Inaugural Fellow
- Seung Won Yoon – AHRD 2024 Monica M. Lee Research Excellence Award; Human Resource Development Cutting Edge Award
- Jenna Yentes – SEC Faculty Travel Award
Student Honors
Current and Former Student Honors and Recognitions
- Abdurhman Alhaji – EAHR Undergraduate Student Human Resource Development Achievement Award
- Lisa Cantu – THECB Student Representative
- Josh Davila – NESSIS Student Research Presenter
- Samantha Hart-Ihnken – AERA Undergraduate Research Fellow
- Shelby Hearn – TACUSPA President
- Jabreon Jackson – UCEA Barbara L. Jackson Scholar
- Chloe Kang – ESPEN Research Fellowship; DJPJ Trainee Achievement Award; KNSM Student Seed Grant
- Aakash Kumar – Stanford University Center on Longevity Design Challenge Finalist
- Donghyun Kim – SMA Outstanding Student Paper Award
- Heesun Kim – AHRD Cutting Edge Award; CEHD Overall Strategic Research Award
- Junseok Kim – Sport Marketing Association Outstanding Student Paper Award
- Shuyu Wang – AEFP Travel Grant
- Savanah Knezek – CEHD Dean’s Graduate Award
- Mariam Othman – KNSM Strategic Research Award
- Ashwini Sansare – Foundation for Physical Therapy Research Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Simon Shin – AHRD Cutting Edge Award
- Yelim Yoo – NASSM Doctoral Research Grant