New faculty profiles for 2017-18: Part 2
The second installment in BingUNews' look at new faculty members
BrieAnna Langlie, assistant professor of anthropology, Harpur College of Arts and Sciences
BrieAnna Langlie, an assistant professor of anthropology, specializes in the archaeology of the Andes region of South America.
Langlie, from Ellendale, Minn., received her undergraduate degree in anthropology from the University of California-Berkeley. She received her master’s degree and doctorate in anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis.
She previously served as an anthropology instructor at Loyola University in Chicago.
Her other research interests include paleoethnobotany, and food and farming.
At Binghamton University, she will teach a graduate seminar on Andean archaeology and an undergraduate course called Taming Nature: Farming Through Time.
Her hobbies include running, cooking and gardening.
Sarah Marcus, visiting assistant professor of biology, Harpur College of Arts and Sciences
Sarah Marcus, a visiting assistant professor of biology, has taught human anatomy and physiology.
Marcus, from Highland Park, N.J., received her bachelor’s degree in conservation biology from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
She received her doctorate in toxicology and genetics from Binghamton University.
Olubunmi Oyewuwo-Gassikia, assistant professor of social work, College of Community and Public Affairs
Olubunmi Oyewuwo-Gassikia, an assistant professor of social work, will teach Advanced Social Work Practice at Binghamton University.
Oyewuwo-Gassikia, from Houston, received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social work from the University of Texas at Austin. She received her doctorate in social work from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Her research interests include domestic violence and how the intersectionality of race, gender and religious identity shape black Muslim women’s coping responses.
Oyewuwo-Gassikia enjoys reading, food, spending time with friends and family, and discovering new TV shows and movies on Netflix.
Stacey Shipe, assistant professor of social work, College of Community and Public Affairs
Stacey Shipe, an assistant professor of social work, previously taught at the University of Maryland-Baltimore and the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.
Shipe, from Yakima, Wash., received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Washington. She received master’s degrees in social work from New York University and in evidence-based social interventions from the University of Oxford in England. Shipe received her doctorate in social work from the University of Maryland-Baltimore.
She specializes in child welfare, caseworker decision-making, systematic/institutional racism in child-serving systems, and custodial/single fathers and welfare systems.
At Binghamton University, Shipe will teach Generalist Social Work Practice III and Evaluation of Social Work Practice.
She enjoys reading, hiking, yoga, international travel, teaching and learning the guitar, and spending time with her three children.
Kaiyan Yu, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science
Kaiyan Yu, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, will teach robotics at Binghamton University in the spring of 2018.
Yu received her bachelor’s degree in intelligent science and technology from Nankai University in China and her doctorate in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Rutgers University.
Her research interests include autonomous robotic systems, dynamic systems and controls, and automation science and engineering.
At Rutgers, she taught a course on engineering mechanics and statics.