OSU Board Approves Personnel Actions
The Oklahoma State University/A&M Board of Regents approved several personnel actions during its Jan. 28 meeting on the Connors State College campus.
Dr. Elizabeth A. Williams, professor of history, was named head of the Department of History, effective Aug. 1. Prior to joining the OSU faculty in 1986, she was an instructor in the Department of History at the University of Georgia, and spent three years as an editorial assistant for the American Historical Review at Indiana University. Her OSU teaching areas are the European intellectual, the history of medicine, and modern France. She is currently on sabbatical.
Williams received her B.A. from the University of Oklahoma, her M.A. from the University of Oregon, and her Ph.D. from Indiana University. Her awards and grants include five Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities Grants, four Arts and Sciences Summer Research Awards, two National Science Foundation Scholar’s Awards, and the Southwestern Bell Faculty Fellowship in 1993.
She is the author of two books, “A Cultural History of Medical Vitalism in Enlightenment Montpellier,” published in 2003, and “The Physical and the Moral: Anthropology, Physiology, and Philosophical Medicine in France, 1750-1850,” published in 1994. She also edited, with Bryant T. Ragan Jr., “Re-creating Authority in Revolutionary France” in 1992.
Williams served as an advisory editor for the History of Science Society from 2000-03, and holds memberships in the American Association for the History of Medicine and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
APPOINTMENTS: Mihyun Kang, Semra Peksoz and Rodney C. Runyan, assistant professors, design, housing and merchandising; Melanie A. Breshears and Timothy A. Snider, assistant professors, veterinary pathobiology.
TITLE CHANGES: Jose E. Sanchez, from assistant professor and director, to assistant professor, plant and soil sciences; William S. Bryans, from associate professor and head, to associate professor, history; Michael R. Gundy, from offensive coordinator to head football coach, athletics; Craig C. Beeby, from general manager and adjunct instructor, to director, KOSU and adjunct instructor.
SABBATICAL: Gary J. Conti, educational studies, 50 percent sabbatical to concentrate on a line of inquiry related to the teaching-learning transaction and to instrument development, from Aug. 1, 2005 to Aug. 1, 2006; Gretchen E. Schwarz, teaching and curriculum leadership, 100 percent sabbatical to explore and understand a new media form that is gaining in popularity among diverse readers nationwide and in credibility among educators—the graphic novel, from Aug. 1,-Dec. 31, 2005; Gary S. Gipson, civil and environmental engineering, 100 percent sabbatical to collaborate with colleagues at St. Louis University and to generate several proposals to federal agencies using a synergistic cross-disciplinary, multi-university relationship, from Jan. 15-May 31, 2005.
RETIREMENT: Carol M. Olson, April 1.
For OSU-Oklahoma City, the appointment was approved
for Garry F. Jones, instructor, social studies, and
the retirement of Mary Aaron, nurse science, was
accepted, effective Jan. 7. For the OSU-Center for
Health Sciences, a title change was approved for
Ray E. Stowers from associate professor of family
medicine and director of rural medicine and Oklahoma
Rural Health Policy, to associate professor of family
medicine and associate dean for rural health.
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