10 COSSPP Tenure-Track Faculty Promoted

2023-2024 COSSPP Tenured Faculty promotions with headshots of all the faculty promoted.
Headshots from left to right: Kai Ou, John Hamman, Hans Hassell, Chris Uejio, Will Butler, Shantell Buggs, Sourabh Singh, Luke Rodgers, Cynthia Yang, Carl Kitchens

The College of Social Sciences and Public Policy announced the promotions of ten faculty members for the 2023-2024 promotion and tenure cycle.

In total, the promotions added five full Professors and five new Associate Professors.

Promoted to full Professor:

Will Butler, Ph.D. – Urban and Regional Planning
Dr. Butler started in Florida State University’s Department of Urban and Regional Planning in 2010 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2016. He also graduated from the FSU Emerging Leaders program in 2021.

John Hamman, Ph.D. – Economics
Dr. Hamman started as an Assistant Professor of Economics in 2009 and was promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Economics in 2016. He is also a Bernard Sliger Scholar in the department.

Hans Hassell, Ph.D. – Political Science
Dr. Hassell has been at FSU since 2018, serving as an Assistant Professor until 2020, when he was promoted to Associate Professor of Political Science. He also served as the Director for FSU’s Insitute of Politics.

Carl Kitchens, Ph.D. – Economics
Dr. Kitchens started as an Assistant Professor in FSU’s Department of Economics in 2014, until he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018. He is also a Bernard Sliger Scholar in the department and serves as their Director of Graduate Studies.

Chris Uejio, Ph.D. – Geography
Dr. Uejio has been at FSU since 2012, serving as an Assistant Professor until 2018, when he was promoted to Associate Professor of Geography. In this role, he also serves FSU’s Public Health Program and the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine.

Promoted to Associate Professor:

Shantell Buggs, Ph.D. – Sociology
Dr. Buggs joined FSU in 2017 as an Assistant Professor for the Department of Sociology, as well as the African American Studies program.

Kai Ou, Ph.D. – Political Science
Dr. Ou started at FSU in 2016 as an Assistant Professor of Political Science and a faculty member for the FSU xs/fs Experimental Social Science Research Group.

Luke Rodgers, Ph.D. – Economics
Dr. Rodgers joined the Department of Economics as an Assistant Professor in 2017.

Sourabh Singh, Ph.D. – Sociology
Dr. Singh came to FSU as an Assistant Professor of Sociology in 2018, and also serves as an adjunct assistant teaching professor in the same department.

Cynthia Yang, Ph.D. – Economics
Dr. Yang joined FSU as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics in 2018. She’s earned several awards while at FSU, including the College of Social Science and Public Policy Faculty Research Award in 2023.

All the promotions are set to become official at the start of the Fall 2024 Semester.