{"id":327992,"date":"2026-11-15T07:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T07:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/327992\/"},"modified":"2026-11-15T07:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T07:30:12","slug":"people-on-the-move-november-15-2026-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/327992\/","title":{"rendered":"People on the Move, November 15, 2026 \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

University of Scranton
\n\"Kazemi,Kazemi, University of Scranton (SUBMITTED)
\n\"Kelly,Kelly, University of Scranton (SUBMITTED)
\n\"Kulick,Kulick, University of Scranton (SUBMITTED)
\n\"Maurer,Maurer, University of Scranton (SUBMITTED)
\n\"McLeod,McLeod, University of Scranton (SUBMITTED)
\n\"Posa,Posa, University of Scranton (SUBMITTED)
\n\"Sannino,Sannino, University of Scranton (SUBMITTED)
\n\"Thai,Thai, University of Scranton (SUBMITTED)
\n\"Yanagitsuru,Yanagitsuru, University of Scranton (SUBMITTED)
\n\"Zhou,Zhou, University of Scranton (SUBMITTED)<\/p>\n

The university has appointed new, full-time faculty members for the 2026-27 academic year.<\/p>\n

Juliana Kazemi, Ph.D., was named an assistant professor in the philosophy department. Kazemi earned her bachelor\u2019s degrees in theology and religious studies and philosophy from Scranton, before completing a Master of Theological Studies and a master\u2019s in early Christian studies at the University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. in philosophy at Baylor University. She most recently served as an instructor of record in logic at Baylor. Her research focuses on the intersection of philosophy of religion, ethics and ancient philosophy. A lover of languages, she completed graduate studies in Latin and Ancient Greek and also studies Persian.<\/p>\n

Samantha Kelly, Ph.D., was named a faculty specialist in the department of education. She has worked as a special education director and elementary emotional support teacher at New Story Schools based in Throop. Kelly earned her bachelor\u2019s degree in early childhood education and elementary education from East Stroudsburg University, master\u2019s in special education from the university and completed her Ph.D. in special education at Lehigh University. She has contributed to six journal articles and given presentations at more than a dozen conferences across the U.S. and in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

Charles Kulick, Ph.D., was named an assistant professor in the department of mathematics. Kulick earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in mathematics from the University of Scranton, where he received the Rose I. Kelly Award, before completing his master\u2019s and Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has research expertise in statistical machine learning, data science, dynamical systems, inverse problems and scientific computing. He previously worked as a teaching assistant and teaching associate at UCSB, serving as an instructor of record for linear algebra.<\/p>\n

Margaret Maurer, Ph.D., was named an assistant professor in the English and theater department. Maurer\u2019s research examines alchemy in early modern England, as well as how gender, race and class have shaped labor and knowledge production in the history of science and literature. They have worked as a curriculum design specialist for the Sexual Violence Prevention Project at Dartmouth College. Maurer earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in English literature and theater from Brown University, a Master of Philosophy in medieval and early modern literature from Cambridge University, and Ph.D. in English and comparative literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n

Katherine McLeod, Ph.D., was named a visiting assistant professor in the department of history. McLeod previously worked as an instructor of record at New York University and as a research specialist at the Academy of Natural Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Her research has been supported by the Smithsonian Institution and the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. She earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in fine art from Columbia University, master\u2019s in sustainability science and education from the City University of New York and Ph.D. in history from New York University. McLeod\u2019s research examines how people come to understand the natural world. Her work traces how zoos, museums and the internet circulate and codify ideas about ecology, evolution, animals and people.<\/p>\n

Corey Posa, previously a faculty specialist in the nursing program at the university, was named an instructor in the department of nursing. She is a nurse navigator who specializes in perinatal addiction medicine and previously worked at UPMC Magee-Women\u2019s Hospital Pregnancy and Women\u2019s Recovery Center. She is a licensed registered nurse in Pennsylvania and certified in basic life support (BLS). She earned a Bachelor of Science in nursing and Master of Science in nursing education from Duquesne University.<\/p>\n

David Sannino, Ph.D., was named an assistant professor in the biology department. Sannino earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in biological sciences from Rutgers University and Ph.D. in microbiology from Cornell University. His research is focused on microbiology, symbiosis, host-microbe interactions, bacterial\/genetics genomics, molecular biology and other topics. He previously served as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Glasgow and a laboratory scientist at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, where he worked in a testing program during the COVID-19 pandemic. Before that, he served as a postdoctoral researcher at Weill Cornell Medical College. His work has appeared in more than a dozen publications.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Thai, Ph.D., was named an assistant professor in the chemistry department. A member of the American Chemical Society, Thai is a synthetic chemist with a background in organic, inorganic and materials chemistry, as well as teaching interests in food chemistry and alchemy\u2019s transition into modern chemistry. He most recently served as a visiting assistant professor of chemistry at Bowdoin College and Amherst College. Thai earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in chemistry from Western New England University and Ph.D. in chemistry from Colorado State University.<\/p>\n

Yuzo Yanagitsuru, Ph.D., was named an assistant professor in the biology department. Yanagitsuru\u2019s primary teaching interests are animal and human physiology, ecology and conservation biology. He previously worked as an assistant professor at Wilkes University and a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Washington and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Yanagitsuru earned bachelor\u2019s degrees in ecology behavior and evolution and earth science from the University of California, San Diego; a master\u2019s in zoology from the University of Florida; and a Ph.D. in animal biology from the University of California, Davis.<\/p>\n

Yiling Zhou, Ph.D., was named a visiting assistant professor in the philosophy department. Zhou received a bachelor\u2019s degree in philosophy from Wuhan University and completed her master\u2019s and Ph.D. in philosophy at St. Louis University. She has given presentations at colloquiums and conferences throughout the U.S. and previously served as a research assistant and instructor of record at SLU. Zhou\u2019s primary research interests are ethics, moral psychology, agency and responsibility. She is fluent in English and Mandarin and also speaks Japanese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"University of Scranton Kazemi, University of Scranton (SUBMITTED) Kelly, University of Scranton (SUBMITTED) Kulick, University of Scranton (SUBMITTED)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[60,201,182,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-327992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-business","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}