6 faculty join Cornell College
Six new full-time faculty members will join the departments of art and art history, engineering, chemistry, English, and psychology at Cornell College this fall. Among the scholarly interests they bring to the Hilltop are cross-cultural friendship, zines, and the correlation between environmental change and bird distribution.
Harmeet Singh Bhoday, visiting assistant professor in chemistry, will teach Organic Chemistry I, Organic Chemistry II, Chemical Principles II, and Organic Lab. His research interests involve highly dipole-parallel aligned organic molecular crystalline materials. Bhoday holds a Ph.D. from Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, Missouri.
Stevie Haley Delgado, lecturer in studio art, will teach Studio Art Basics 3D, Introduction to Graphic Design, Explorations in Studio Art Practice, and Senior Thesis this year. She taught sculpture courses at the University of Iowa from 2020–2024. Delgado completed an M.F.A. in sculpture and intermedia, with secondary concentration in graphic design and printmaking, at the University of Iowa.
Mazhar Iqbal, visiting assistant professor of physics, will teach Astronomy, Introduction to Physics, Introductory Physics I, Introductory Physics II, and General Physics II. His research interests include IoT based environmental sensing for air quality assessment, and exploring the correlation between global environmental change and bird distribution, population, and migration. He taught for five years as a teaching assistant at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he won the Best Teaching Assistant Award from the Physics Department in 2022 and will complete his Ph.D. in physics this fall.
Scott Russell Morris, associate professor of English and creative writing, was an assistant and associate professor of writing and rhetoric for six years at the University of Utah Asia Campus in Incheon, South Korea. Scott is also the creator and editor of Magpies Zines. This year his courses include Introduction to Literary Studies, The Cinepoem and the Video Essay, Contemporary Fiction, and Introduction to Creative Writing. He holds a Ph.D. in English from Texas Tech University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Brigham Young University.
Krista Robbins, assistant professor of psychology, will teach Research Methods II, Human Services Practicum, Fundamentals of Psychological Science, and Abnormal Psychology. Her research interests focus on cross-cultural friendship, social support as a protective factor, psychotherapy outcomes, and international student mental health. Robbins holds a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Sam Walker, lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing, will teach courses on 20th-century literature, creative writing, and environmental writing. Walker’s primary area of research is modern and contemporary Anglophone poetry. His current project explores the role of balladry in literary modernism. For the past several years he has been a lecturer at the University of Michigan’s New England Literature Program. In 2021-2022 he was a visiting lecturer in the Department of American Studies at Technical University Dortmund in Germany. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia.
