Karl Adam
Department of Philosophy
Karl Adam is a lecturer at UK whose research interests include social and political philosophy, ethics and the philosophy of technology. He earned his doctorate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2022.
Martin Aagaard Jensen
Department of English
Martin Aagaard Jensen will be a lecturer at UK. He examines multiethnic North American literature and he has a doctorate from the City University Graduate Center.
Ayah Almousa
Department of Mathematics
Ayah Almousa comes from the University of South Carolina and holds a doctorate from Cornell University. She studies the intersection of algebraic combinatorics and commutative algebra.
McKenzie Brannon
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
McKenzie Brannon is coming from Syracuse University, where she studied the magnitude of phosphorous release to the water column in Skaneateles Lake, New York.
Caroline Brooks
Department of Sociology
Caroline Brooks is an assistant professor at UK. Her research focuses on the intersection of the sociology of health and illness, social psychology and social networks. She has a doctorate from Indiana University.
Allison Burkette
Department of Linguistics
Allison Burkette is professor, Acting Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Department Chair for Linguistics. She specializes in sociolinguistics and language variation.
Megan Davis
Department of Psychology
Megan Davis is an assistant professor at UK. She earned her doctorate in clinical and community psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Annette Debo
Department of English
Annette Debo is professor and chair of the English Department after serving as professor of English at Western Carolina University. She has taught classes in modernism, African American literature, literary theory and women’s literature, and she holds a doctorate from the University of Maryland.
Anju Duley
Department of Chemistry
Anju Duley is a lecturer at UK. She earned her doctorate at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and her research focuses on the design, synthesis and conformational study of peptides.
John Duncan
Department of English
John Duncan is a post-doctoral scholar at UK where he teaches creative writing. He holds a doctorate from the University of Southern Mississippi and an MFA from UK with interests in short fiction and nonfiction.
Courtney Risk Easterling
Department of Political Science
Courtney Risk Easterling is a lecturer in the Law and Justice program at UK.
Ryan “Layne” Gaynor
Department of Biology
Ryan “Layne” Gaynor is an assistant professor and behavioral ecologist whose research investigates how changes in sensory environments affect animal communication and social dynamics. He earned his doctorate from Ohio State University.
Courtney George
Department of Mathematics
Courtney George is a lecturer at UK whose research interests include algebraic geometry, tropical geometry and toric vector bundles. She earned her doctorate at UK and comes from UC Riverside.
Matt Godbey
Department of English
Matt Godbey is an assistant professor at UK and director of undergraduate studies, previously serving as senior lecturer. He earned his doctorate from UK.
Frances Griffith
Department of Psychology
Frances Griffith is an assistant professor at UK whose research focuses on mental health and substance use prevention. She earned her doctorate in clinical-community psychology from Bowling Green State University and completed training at Yale School of Medicine.
Laura Huber
Department of Political Science
Laura Huber is an assistant professor at UK whose research focus includes political violence, civil conflict, terrorism and Women's Rights. She earned her doctorate from Emory University.
Yiran Jiang
Dr. Bing Zhang Department of Statistics
Yiran Jiang is an assistant professor at UK and worked as a postdoctoral associate in biostatistics at Yale. His research focuses on developing valid and efficient statistical methodologies. He holds a doctorate from Purdue University.
Kathryn Kohls
Department of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies
Kathryn Kohls is a lecturer at UK whose research investigates digital media, 19th century British literature and social media. She holds a doctorate from UK.
Cassidy Leibold
Department of Psychology
Cassidy Leibold is a lecturer at UK whose research explored the effects of chronic stress on intermittent alcohol drinking in rats. She holds a doctorate from UK in experimental psychology.
Austin Lillywhite
Department of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies
Austin Lillywhite is a Ph.D. candidate at Cornell whose research and teaching address 20th and 21st century global Anglophone literatures.
Peter Lynch
Department of Political Science
Peter Lynch is a lecturer at UK whose dissertation focused on judicial politics and behavior in the Federalist Society.
Abigail Mack
Department of Anthropology
Abigail Mack is an assistant professor at UK whose research examines how doctors and lawyers debate and negotiate care for involuntarily committed psychiatric patients with specializations in psychocultural, medical and linguistic anthropology. She earned her doctorate from UCLA.
Ruchi Mahajan
Department of Physics
Ruchi Mahajan is an assistant professor at UK specializing in experimental nuclear physics. She earned her doctorate from Panjab University Chandigarh, India.
Karyn McKenzie
Department of Psychology
Karyn McKenzie is a senior lecturer at UK. She earned her doctorate from UK and previously served on the faculty of Georgetown College.
Alexey Milekhin
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Alexey Milekhin is an assistant professor at UK who earned his doctorate from Princeton University and previously held postdoctoral positions at Caltech and UC Santa Barbara.
Aaron Padgett
Department of Sociology
Aaron Padgett is a lecturer at UK. He earned his doctorate from the University of Missouri.
Noah Randolph-Flagg
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Noah Randolph-Flagg is an assistant professor at UK whose research studies groundwater, geologic processes and planetary habitability. He earned his doctorate from UC Berkeley.
Jeremy Steinberg
Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Jeremy Steinberg is an assistant professor at UK. He earned his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania where his research examined how the Hebrew Bible came to be assimilated into Greek literary composition.
Trisha Lyn Spanbauer
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Trisha Lyn Spanbauer is an assistant professor at UK whose research investigates how environmental factors influence microorganism communities and populations over evolutionary and ecological timescales. She earned her doctorate from University of Nebraska–Lincoln and joined UK from University of Toledo.
Marta Stojanovic
Department of Psychology
Marta Stojanovic is an assistant professor and clinical neuropsychologist at UK who studies how physical exercise influences mental health. She completed postdoctoral training at Washington University in St. Louis.
Jiayi Sun
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Jiayi Sun is an assistant professor at UK and former NASA Hubble Fellow at Princeton. She earned her doctorate from Ohio State University and specializes in long-wavelength observations addressing interstellar medium, star formation and galaxy evolution.
Michael Tackenberg
Department of Biology
Michael Tackenberg is an assistant professor at UK specializing in circadian biology. He earned his doctorate from Vanderbilt University and completed postdoctoral training at University of Pennsylvania.
Yin Tang
Dr. Bing Zhang Department of Statistics
Yin Tang is a Ph.D. student at Penn State working at UK as an assistant professor. His research focuses on functional data analysis, dimension reduction, nonparametric statistics, graphical models, statistical learning theory and semiparametric methods.
Gokce Tekeli-Nolin
Department of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies
Gokce Tekeli-Nolin is a lecturer at UK. She earned her doctorate from UK.
Keller VandeBogert
Department of Mathematics
Keller VandeBogert is a long-term visitor at the Simons Institute in Berkeley, California. His research combines commutative algebra and representation theory applied to algebraic geometry, combinatorics and algebraic topology. He holds a doctorate from the University of South Carolina.
Caleb Walcott-George
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Caleb Walcott-George is an assistant professor at UK. He earned his doctorate from University at Buffalo and employs techniques such as luminescence dating, cosmogenic nuclides, GIS and numerical models to study changes in ice sheets and glaciers during the Quaternary.
Erin Wood
Department of Mathematics
Erin Wood is a lecturer at UK.