Xavier University News June, 2011 Committee Approves Seven Faculty Promotions New Orleans LA - The University Rank and Tenure Committee and President Dr. Norman C. Francis have approved the promotions of seven faculty members in six different disciplines for the 2011-2012 academic year, according to Dr. Loren Blanchard, vice president for academic affairs. Dr. Pamela Waldron-Moore in political science was promoted to the rank of professor, while Dr. Renee Akbar in education, Katheryn LaBorde and Dr. Bonnie Noonan in English, Dr. Christopher Faircloth in sociology, and Dr. Andrea Edwards in computer science were all promoted to the rank of associate professor. Dr. Camtu Ho '99 was promoted to the rank of clinical associate professor in the College of Pharmacy's Division of Clinical and Administrative Sciences. Waldron-Moore has been at Xavier for the past 13 years, having joined the University after obtaining a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Houston. Her main teaching areas have been Comparative Politics, International Political Economy, International Law and Relations, Political Psychology, Research Methods and Quantitative Analysis. She complements her teaching with research interests, ranging from a general inquiry into issues of social justice and political development, as national transitions to democracy are consolidated, to a more specific investigation of how minority students are motivated to assume global citizenship. Currently she is pursuing research on gender justice and engaging comparative analysis of the intersections of race, class and citizenship on the multiplicative identity of women in the African diaspora. Akbar holds a Ph. D. in Educational Foundations from Florida State University. She has served at Xavier since 2003, teaching on both the undergraduate (Child Psychology, Classroom Management, Elementary Mathematics Strategies and Techniques, and Educational Psychology) and graduate level (Educational Leadership) She is also involved in the Louisiana School Turnaround Specialist program, which teaches sitting principals how to turnaround a "failing" school, and is the principal investigator of the Transition to Teaching program, which provides participants with the opportunity to become certified in teaching and earn a Master's degree. LaBorde, who teaches freshman composition courses and the New Voices practicum, came to Xavier in 2001. She is currently fleshing out a novella, which won the 2010 Pirates' Alley Faulkner Society Medal, into a full length novel for an agent's consideration. In addition, she is finishing a monograph about The Assumption of Mary (the large painting in the library) and preparing for a trip to Milledgeville GA to research the life of Flannery O'Connor. She holds a MFA degree in fiction from the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop. Noonan, who has a Ph.D. degree in English from LSU, has been at Xavier since 1991, serving as Writing Center instructor and teaching in the English Department. Her main areas of focus are Freshman Composition (all levels, including developmental and honors), Advanced Writing, Rhetoric, Writing and the Teaching of Writing. She is currently fulfilling a book contract with McFarland Publishers for Gender and the Science Fiction Films of the Sixties and Seventies. Faircloth, a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Florida who has been at Xavier since 2006, was recently elected chair of the Department of Society. He regularly teaches Medical Sociology, Sociological Theory, Popular Culture and Society, and Sociology of Deviance. He has just completed invited chapters for The Interview Handbook, 2nd Edition (Sage) and The Handbook of the Body (Routledge) and is currently researching how cancer treatment for patients with leukemia and lymphoma impacts individual's perceptions of body and self with a co-investigator at the LSU Health Science Center. Edwards holds a Ph.D. from Tulane University, has been at Xavier since 1999. Among the courses she has taught are Intro to PCs, Computer Science I and II, Data Structures, Computer Literacy and Capstone. Her research efforts are concentrated in bioinformatics and computer science literacy, including working with the Departments of Art and Communications to develop an interdisciplinary course on Engaging Digital Media. Ho, who has served at Xavier for eight years, coordinates and teaches applied pharmacokinetics and infectious disease management. 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