{"id":21908,"date":"2024-03-15T16:55:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T20:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=21908"},"modified":"2024-07-18T14:38:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T18:38:17","slug":"five-faculty-earn-tenure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/five-faculty-earn-tenure\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Faculty Earn Tenure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Five Kalamazoo College faculty<\/a> members from the Spanish<\/a>, religion<\/a>, mathematics<\/a>, computer science<\/a> and East Asian studies<\/a> departments have been awarded tenure along with promotion to associate professor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tenure milestone recognizes excellence in teaching, scholarship and service to the College, and signifies its confidence in the contributions these faculty will make throughout their careers. The Board of Trustees<\/a>-approved tenure recipients are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Assistant Professor of Spanish Ivett Lopez Malagamba<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

L\u00f3pez Malagamba currently serves as a co-chair in the Department of Spanish Language and Literatures. In her time at K, she has taught beginning through intermediate language courses, and advanced courses on Latin American literature and visual culture topics including indigeneity, contemporary women writers, fiction and documentary film, visual culture practices, and representations of nature. In fall 2019, she took 27 students to the Dominican Republic as part of K\u2019s first faculty-lead experiential study abroad program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lopez Malagamba\u2019s research centers on 20th<\/sup>– and 21st<\/sup>-century Latin American literature and visual culture. Her publications explore questions around exclusionary social and political practices and discourses in contexts of armed conflict, migration, and forced displacement. She earned her bachelor\u2019s degree in Peninsular and Latin American literatures and Latin American Studies, and her Ph.D. in Hispanic language and literatures from the University of California, Berkeley. L\u00f3pez Malagamba\u2019s experience extends to the non-profit sector. Before earning her Ph.D., she worked with Latinx youth in Southern California facilitating educational programs to prepare them for college. L\u00f3pez Malagamba sees her work at K as a continuation of her commitment to help youth access and successfully navigate higher education.     <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Assistant Professor of Spanish Ivett Lopez Malagamba (middle) with Spanish 101 students.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Marlene Crandall Francis Assistant Professor of Religion Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Maldonado-Estrada serves as the editor of the journal Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief<\/a>, a co-chair of the men and masculinities unit at the American Academy of Religion, and an editorial board member of the journal American Religion<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At K, Maldonado-Estrada has taught courses on religion and masculinity, Catholics in the Americas, urban religion, and religions of Latin America. As an ethnographer, her research includes focuses on material culture, contemporary Catholicism, and gender and embodiment. In 2021, Maldonado-Estrada was among 24 scholars from around the world selected for the Sacred Writes public scholarship training cohort.\u00a0She was also chosen as one of the\u00a0Young Scholars in American Religion\u00a0at IUPUI\u2019s Center for the Study of Religion & American Culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maldonado-Estrada is the author of Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn<\/em>,<\/strong> an ethnography about masculinity and men\u2019s devotional lives in a gentrified neighborhood in New York City. She also is working on projects about the technological and sensory history of prayer, and Latinx art and religion in New York City. She received a bachelor\u2019s degree from Vassar College, and a master\u2019s degree and Ph.D. from Princeton University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Marlene Crandall Francis Assistant Professor of Religion Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Assistant Professor of Mathematics Stephen Oloo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Oloo served K as a visiting assistant professor from 2015-2017 before earning his current position in which he teaches a variety of pure math classes such as Calculus I, II and III, Number Theory, Real Analysis and Abstract Algebra.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beyond teaching he has served in various roles by directing the Math and Physics Center, being in charge of the George Kitchen Memorial Lecture, and running the math club MathletiKs.

Oloo\u2019s Ph.D. work was in topology of algebraic varieties and geometric representation theory. He is currently applying his knowledge of geometry and representation theory in a collaboration with physics professor Dave Wilson in which they are studying how viruses change shapes as they undergo maturation. He holds mathematics degrees including a bachelor\u2019s degree from Amherst College, and a master\u2019s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Assistant Professor of Mathematics Stephen Oloo<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Assistant Professor of Computer Science Sandino Vargas-Perez<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Before arriving at K, Vargas-Perez worked as an adjunct instructor at Western Michigan University, where he earned his master\u2019s degree and Ph.D. in computer science. He also holds a bachelor\u2019s degree from Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vargas-Perez has taught courses at K in data structures, algorithms, parallel computing, computing for environmental science, object-oriented programming, and programming in Java and web development. His research interests include high-performance computing, parallel and distributed algorithms, computational genomics, and data structures and compression.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Assistant Professor of Computer Science Sandino Vargas-Perez<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Chinese Endowed Assistant Professor of Chinese Language and Literature Leihua Weng<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Weng has taught first-year Chinese, advanced Chinese, Women in China, 20th<\/sup> Century Urban China, and Chinese Films at K. She taught at Sarah Lawrence College and Pacific Lutheran University before joining the College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weng holds a bachelor\u2019s degree from Zhejiang University, a master\u2019s degree from Peking University and a Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina. Her research interests have spanned the receptions of classical texts, modern and late imperial Chinese literature, and gender studies. She is currently engaged in research on late imperial Chinese literature and is working on a book about the reception of Plato in modern China.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Chinese Endowed Assistant Professor of Chinese Language and Literature Leihua Weng<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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