Indiana University East recommended the following faculty for promotion in rank, in recognition for their past achievements and their potential to carry out even greater accomplishments.

These faculty promotions are approved by Indiana University Board of Trustees, President Pamela Whitten and the IU East Chancellor. The promotions are effective beginning July 1, 2022.

School of Business and Economics
Oi Lin Cheung promoted to professor of finance. She currently serves as the director of the Business and Economic Research Center. Cheung received her Ph.D. in Financial Economics and her Master of Science in Financial Economics from the University of New Orleans. She received her Master of Business Administration in Banking and Finance and her Bachelor of Business Administration in Business Information System from the University of Macau. Cheung’s teaching interests include corporate finance, entrepreneurial finance and personal finance.

School of Education
Jamie Buffington-Adams promoted to professor of education. She currently serves as the associate dean of the School of Education. She received her Doctorate in Literacy, Culture and Language Education and her Master of Arts in Language Education from Indiana University. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education from Valparaiso University. Her research interests include disability studies, curriculum studies, the performance of early career teachers, and the needs of teachers working on emergency licensure.

School of Humanities and Social Sciences
J. Melissa Blankenship promoted to senior lecturer of English. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Non-Fiction from Murray State University and her Bachelor of Fine Arts in English with a Creative Writing minor from IU East. Her creative interests include creative nonfiction, memoir, essay forms, and poetry.

Ange Cooksey promoted to teaching professor of humanities. She currently serves as the director of the Honors Program. Cooksey received her Master in Arts in English, her Master of Arts in Philosophy and her Bachelor of Science in Philosophy from Ball State University. Her research interests include biomedical ethics, death and dying, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Greg Dam received tenure and was promoted to associate professor of psychology. He received his Doctorate in Neuroscience and his Master of Arts in Learning Sciences from Northwestern University, and his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Sacred Heart University. Dam’s research interests include motor psychophysics.

Ann Kim promoted to professor of fine arts. She currently serves as the chair of the Fine and Performing Arts Department. Kim received her Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art from Mills College and her Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts from UC Berkley. Her current interests specifically include antipodes; constructing meaning in paintings through physical actions as metaphors; layering, shredding, and weaving translucent surfaces; cutouts as drawings; mythological archetypes; and the collapse of the way we understand time and location.

E. Scott Lee received tenure and was promoted to associate professor of political science. He currently serves as chair of the Criminal Justice and Political Science Department. Lee received his Doctorate of Arts in Political Science and his Master of Public Administration from Idaho State University. He received his Juris Doctor from University of Idaho College of Law and his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Utah. His teaching interests include public policy process, public policy analysis, and public policy ethics.  His research interests include collaborative decision and policy making, environmental policy making and the Antiquities Act.

Deborah Miller received tenure and was promoted to associate professor of psychology. Miller received her Doctorate in Counseling Psychology, her Master of Arts in Counseling and her Bachelor of Science in Creative Writing from Ball State University. She is a licensed psychologist with a private practice in Muncie. She teaches courses in psychology, history of psychology in Europe, multicultural counseling, cooperative work experience, and others. Her research interests include masculinity, LGBT issues, fatherhood and clinical judgment.

Tanya Perkins received tenure and was promoted to associate professor of English. Perkins received her Master of Fine Arts in fiction from Murray State University, and a Master of Arts and Bachelor of Arts in English Studies, both with an emphasis in creative writing, from Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. She teaches courses in fiction, professional and technical writing, digital writing and creative writing studies. Her research and creative interests include short story cycle, contemporary fiction, digital media, online teaching and learning, and program assessment.

Wazir Mohamed promoted to professor of sociology. He received his Doctorate in Sociology and his Master of Arts in Sociology from Binghamton University. Mohamed received his Bachelor of Science in Communication from the University of Guyana. His research interests are on the intersections of Atlantic slavery, particularly the rise of slavery in the age of abolition, the second slavery in Cuba, Brazil, and the U.S.A. with the persistence of ethnic divisions and marginalization of the descendants of slaves in the African Diaspora of the Caribbean and the Americas.

School of Nursing and Health Sciences
LaDonna Dulemba received tenure and was promoted to associate professor of nursing. She received her Ph.D. in Nursing Practice from the University of Cincinnati and her Masters of Science in Nursing in Adult Health Nurse Practitioner from Kent State University. She completed her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Malone University. Her teaching interests are in promoting healthy rural populations, self-care, nursing curriculum design and evaluation, and advanced nursing practice concepts. Her research interests are in rural health concerns, RN to B.S.N. student issues and community health disparities.