2025 Promotion and Tenure Awardees

Ian-Khara Ellasante
Promoted to Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies
Terminal degree and institution: Ph.D., University of Arizona
Scholarly and creative work: Trans poetics and life-writing, Black and Indigenous feminisms and solidarities, cultural identity persistence, and reproductive justice. Ellasante is also an award-winning poet whose current manuscript was a finalist for the National Poetry Series 2024 competition.