Faculty tenure and promotions
Four Goucher faculty members, David Grossman, Ph.D.; Edgar Kunz; Verónica Segarra, Ph.D.; and Daniel Swann, Ph.D.; have received tenure. Grossman has been promoted to the rank of full professor, Kunz and Swann have been promoted to associate professor, and Segarra has been reappointed as associate professor.
“Our faculty members are at the heart of Goucher’s mission to provide an innovative liberal arts education for every student, and these professors do just that,” said Elaine Meyer-Lee, Goucher’s provost and senior vice president of academic affairs. “We are proud of their scholarship and the academic excellence with which they challenge and prepare our students.”
Additionally, four Goucher faculty members have been named faculty emeriti, including Janine Bowen, Ph.D. (business management); Judy Levine Ph.D. (biology); Allyn Massey (studio art); and Rory Turner, Ph.D. (sociology & anthropology).
Read on to learn more about our newly tenured faculty.
David Grossman, Ph.D.
Professor of International Business and Marketing
David Grossman has been a member of Goucher’s faculty since 2011. He teaches international business environment, international case studies, international consulting, negotiations, marketing management, international marketing, and strategic management. He also teaches a marketing course in the graduate program. Grossman offers an ICA to Cuba, providing students with an opportunity to learn and interact with business leaders and entrepreneurs to see how cultural and business practices differ from what they experience at home. Grossman’s areas of interest focus on market entry strategies, aspirations of the middle-class consumer, and entrepreneurial spirit in emerging markets. His scholarly work has been published in journals such as The Journal of World Business, Thunderbird International Business Review, and International Business Review.
Edgar Kunz
Associate Professor of Creative Writing
Assistant Director of the Kratz Center for Creative Writing
Edgar Kunz is the author of two poetry collections: Fixer (Ecco, 2023), a New York Times Editors’ Choice Book, and Tap Out (Ecco, 2019). He created the Blueprint Reading Series at Goucher, which highlights new authors, and he has been a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His writing also been supported by fellowships and awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, the Academy of American Poets, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, which awarded him a 2024 Rubys Grant. Recent poems appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, American Poetry Review, and Oxford American.
Verónica Segarra, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biology
Verónica Segarra completed her Ph.D. in biophysics and biochemistry at Yale. She is currently the Maryland E-Nnovation Endowed Chair in Biological Sciences and Chemistry at Goucher. Her work studies how cells activate pathways to survive and respond to different forms of stress. Segarra participates in several funded projects designed to support diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM fields, particularly by uniting scientific societies to exchange promising practices and data and by creating and implementing innovative professional development programming for early-career scientists. She received the 2022 Best Teacher Award at the Vanderbilt University Basic Sciences’ Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month Celebration and in 2020 was included on Cell Mentor’s list of 100 Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx scientists in America.
Daniel Swann, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology
Daniel Swann completed his doctorate in sociology at the University of Maryland. At Goucher, Swann has taught courses on comparative social media, Generation Z, race and ethnic relations, social movements, wealth, power, and prestige, as well as data analytics. His academic interests include race, atheism and religion, political sociology, and social psychology. He is the author of Qualitative Study of Black Atheists: “Don’t Tell Me You’re One of Those!” (Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, 2020) and a chapter on minority religion in North America in Secularity and Nonreligion in North America (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024). He also was lead editor and author for the textbook Learning About Sociology and the Sociological Imagination (University Readers, 2020).