Five faculty members were approved for tenure or promotion at the February Board of Managers meeting.

Four tenured faculty members were promoted from associate to full professor:

Ralph R. Gomez, Mathematics & Statistics
Gomez’s teaching and research focuses on geometric structures and how these structures can help us learn more about the space itself. His scholarly work lies at the intersection of differential geometry and theoretical physics and his most recent work uses tools from algebraic geometry and topology. Gomez is particularly drawn to this work as an entry point for Swarthmore students interested in conducting research overlapping both mathematics and physics.

Daifeng He, Economics
He is a health economist who focuses on health care issues among the aging population. Beyond being a national leader in health economics, her work has an impact in public finance and financial decision making. He has published peer-reviewed journal articles in top field journals, producing a robust set of working papers. She also regularly gives invited lectures and has secured grants, including from the Department of Health and Human Services. Her teaching ranges from introductory courses up to an Honors seminar in Advanced Econometrics.

Eric Song, English Literature
Song is a specialist in early modern English literature. He teaches courses on Shakespeare, Milton, texts of exploration and conquest from Marco Polo to Robinson Crusoe, and the history of Narcissus. Song has published widely, including peer-reviewed journal articles and a scholarly book titled Love Against Substitution: Seventeenth-Century English Literature and the Meaning of Marriage. His teaching excites both majors and non-majors about the possibilities of literary study. 

Matt Zucker, Engineering
Zucker's early work focused on robotics using tools of motion planning, numerical optimization, and machine learning. More recently, he has expanded his research to laboratory automation for biology researchers and computer graphics.

His teaching includes the upper-level courses Mobile Robotics and Computer Vision, both central to the engineering curriculum. Since tenure, he has been deeply involved in curricular innovation and has helped revise the first-year engineering curriculum. Zucker has also designed and co-taught a course with Associate Professor of Art Logan Grider called Design and Sculpture in the Digital Age.

Additionally, one professor received appointment with continuous tenure and promotion to associate professor: 

Isaiah Wooden, Theater
Wooden is a scholar-artist who researches and writes about contemporary drama, performance, and visual culture. His scholarship principally explores how 20th- and 21st-century Black art, drama, and performance have helped reimagine cultural politics, norms, and meanings. Wooden's works include a book titled Reclaiming Time: Race, Temporality, and Black Expressive Culture; articles in leading peer-reviewed journals in theater and performance studies; more than 20 book chapters and essays published in edited collections and journals; as well as an assortment of essays for the general public. Wooden also has been a director at professional theaters and at colleges and universities across the county. His teaching ranges from introductory courses on Theater and Performance to Honors projects in directing, playwriting, and theater history.