Professorships

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Samuel and Mary Abramson Endowed Professorship in the College of Arts and Sciences in Support of the Samuel and Mary Abramson Distinguished Lecture Series at LSUS – Dr. Tibor Szarvas

AEP Swepco LaPREP Super Professorship – Dr. Irina Ilioaea

Alta and John Franks MBA Professorship

American Studies Endowed Chair – Dr. William Pederson

Joe and Abby Averett Endowed Professorship in Business – Dr. Karen James

Pete and Linda Ballard Professorship in Accounting – Dr. Syed K. Zaidi

Bank One Jerry D. Boughton Endowed Professorship in Business – Dr. Chengho Hsieh

BellSouth Corporation Endowed Professorship in Business Administration – Dr. Binshan Lin

BlueCross BlueShield of Louisiana Endowed Professorship in Business – Dr. Timothy Shaughnessy

Lisa Burke Bioinformatics Professorship – Dr. Urska Cvek

Riemer and Marcia Calhoun Endowed Professorship in Education – Dr. Melissa Hawthorne

Joe B. Callaway, Jr. Endowed Professorship in Business – Dr. Justin Lord

Capital One Endowed Professorship in Education – Melissa Hawthorne

Harman and Renae Chandler Professorship for Masters of Biological Sciences Program – Dr. Amy Erickson

Dr. Dalton and Peggy Cloud Endowed Professorship in Communications – Dr. Grace M. Hildenbrand

Oscar Cloyd Real Estate Super Professorship – Dr. Doug Bible

Don and Earlene Coleman Red River Watershed Management Institute Professorship – Dr. Michael Maguigan

Dr. Norman A. Dolch Super Professorship in Nonprofit Administration – Dr. Helen Wise

James K. Elrod Super Professorship in Health Administration – Dr. John Fortenberry

Alta and John Franks Foundation Professorship for Master of Business Administration Program – Dr. Tami Knotts

James C. and Ann W. Gardner Professorship in Civic Engagement and Leadership – Dr. Felice Williams

Kelly Kemp Graves Professorship in Early Childhood Education – Dr. Linda Zhang

O. Delton Harrison, Jr. Professorship for Master of Liberal Arts Program – Dr. Elisabeth Liebert

Hubert and Pat Hervey Professorship for the Museum of Life Sciences in the College of Sciences – Dr. Stuart V. Nielsen

Bobbie Hicks Super Professorship for the Pioneer Heritage Center Authors in April Program – Marty Young

Hubert Humphreys Endowed Professorship of History – Dr. Cheryl White

India Studies Super Professorship – Dr. Sanjay Menson

Bradley S. Kemp Endowed Professorship to Support the LSUS Debate Team – Arthur “A.J.” Edwards

LEARN MORE: Hollisann and Sidney Kent Endowed Professorship in Business

LEARN MORE: George A. Khoury, Jr. Endowed Super Professorship in Space Science – Dr. Jack Hess Baricuatro

George A. Khoury, Jr. Endowed Professorship in Kinesiology – Kyle Pierce

George and Regina Khoury Super Professorship in Sciences – Dr. Stephen Banks

Kilpatrick Life Insurance Endowed Chair of Insurance and Financial Services – Dr. Harvey Rubin

LSUS Alumni Association Vincent J. Marsala Professorship in Teaching Excellence – Dr. Vonny Salim

LSU Shreveport Museum of Life Sciences Endowed Curatorship – Stuart Nielsen

Max M. and Jasmine Morelock Endowed Professorship in Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences – Dr. Elizabeth Zippi

LEARN MORE: Ruth H. Noel Endowed Chair for the Curatorship of the James Smith Noel Collection – Dr. Alexander Mikaberidze

Sybil T. and Frederick Patten Professorship for Excellence in Teaching in Liberal Arts – Dr. Chris Hale

Armand and Lynn Roos Professorship in Business and Health Administration – Dr. Mary Lois White

Abe Sadoff Endowed Chair in Bioinformatics – Dr. Marjan Trutschl

Mary Anne and Leonard Selber Endowed Professorship in Liberal Arts – Dr. Gary Joiner

Bruce and Steve Simon Endowed Professorship in Language and Literature – Dr. Kayla Shearer

LEARN More: Elmer N. and Barbara Simon Endowed Professorship for Excellence in Teaching – Michael Meeks

Miriam M. Sklar Professorship in Theoretical Math and Physics – Dr. Zsolt Lengvarszky

Dr. Richard K. Speairs Endowed Professorship in Field Biology – Dr. Beverly Burden

Ventie B. Stewart, Jr. Endowed Professorship in the College of Education and Human Development for Student Teachers – Lisa Cooper

Goodloe Stuck Endowed Professorship for the Department of Psychology – Dr. Yong Dai

Wesson-Bridger Endowed Professorship in Teacher Education – Dr. Joyce Farrow

LEARN MORE: Wheless, Meadows and Sarter Endowed Rising Star in Computer Science Professorship – Qingsong Zhao

William B. Wiener, Jr. Endowed Professorship of Archives and History Preservation in the Noel Library – Dr. Laura McLemore

Dalton J. Woods Family Endowed Professorship in Education – Dr. Cassandra H. “Cassie” Williams

William C. Woolf Endowed Rising Star Professorship in Business – Dr. Minsun Kim

Yancey Strain Endowed Professorship for the Curatorship of the Spring Street Museum – Dr. Cheryl White