UTSA 2021-22 New Faculty
Alvarez College of Business

Jonathan Moreno-Medina
Assistant Professor, Economics
Ph.D., Duke University

Xiaohong (Violet) Xu
Assistant Professor, Management
Ph.D., Texas A&M University

Peng Zhao
Assistant Professor, Management
Ph.D., Indiana University
College of Education and Human Development

Matias de Paula
Lecturer, Bicultural-Bilingual Studies
M.A., West Virginia University

John Harrichand
Assistant Professor, Counseling
Ph.D., Liberty University

Marie Kirkpatrick
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology
Ph.D., Baylor University

Yi-Fan Li
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Interdisciplinary Learning & Teaching
Ph.D., Texas A&M University

Joel Alejandro (Alex) Mejia
Associate Professor, Bicultural-Bilingual Studies/Biomedical Engineering (with focus on Engineering Education)
Ph.D., Utah State University
Jasmine Harris
Associate Professor, Race, Ethnicity, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
College of Engineering and Integrated Design

Gabriela Ciocarlie
Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Columbia University

Alifer Crom
Senior Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D., University of Texas at San Antonio

Esteban López Ochoa
Assistant Professor, Architecture
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Araceli Martinez Ortiz
Microsoft President’s Endowed Professor in Engineering Education, Biomedical Engineering & Chemical Engineering
Ph.D., Tufts University

Shrihari Sankarasubramanian
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering & Chemical Engineering
Ph.D., Illinois Institute of Technology
College for Health, Community and Policy

Marina Armendariz
Post Doctoral Fellow, Public Health
Ph.D., Penn State

Ganesh Baniya
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Public Health
Ph.D., University of North Texas

Mike Davis
Assistant Professor of Practice, Criminology & Criminal Justice
M.S., Texas State University

Sandor Dorgo
Professor & Department Chair, Kinesiology
Ph.D., University of Georgia

Ryan Hill
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Ph.D., Florida International University

Jusung Lee
Assistant Professor, Public Health
Ph.D., Texas A&M University

Alan Meca
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Ph.D., Florida International University

Coralia Vázquez-Otero
Assistant Professor, Public Health
Ph.D., University of South Florida
College of Liberal and Fine Arts

Jessica Eise
Assistant Professor, Communication
Ph.D., Purdue University

Abraham Gibson
Assistant Professor, History
Ph.D., Florida State University
Valeria Meiller
Assistant Professor, Modern Languages & Literatures
Ph.D., Georgetown University
College of Sciences

Richard Anantua
Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy (begins spring 2022)
Ph.D., Stanford University

Brian Brigham
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Environmental Sciences & Ecology
Ph.D., CUNY Graduate School and University Center

Gerardo Elguézabal
Senior Lecturer, Chemistry
Ph.D., Baylor University

Linda Rutherford
Assistant Professor of Practice, Computer Science
M.S., University of Texas at San Antonio

Juan Valadez
Assistant Professor of Practice, Computer Science
M.S., St. Mary's University
Aanuoluwa Adelani
Lecturer, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Matta Akanksha
Senior Lecturer, Chemistry
Ph.D., University of Delhi, India
Byron Long
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Computer Science
Ph.D., Indiana University
University College

LTC Tim Ball
Professor of Military Science, Army ROTC
M.S., Naval Postgraduate School

Karen Engates
Associate Professor of Instruction, Academic Inquiry & Scholarship/Honors College
Ph.D., University of Texas at San Antonio

Alberto Vasquez
Associate Professor of Practice, Academic Inquiry & Scholarship
M.S., University of Texas at San Antonio