Berry announces tenure, promotion | Hometown Headline
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Five Berry College faculty members were promoted, and three of those were granted tenure, during a recent meeting of the Board of Trustees.

Of the five faculty members promoted by the board, Zeynep Tenger and Paul Trolander were promoted to the rank of professor. The remainder — Victor Bissonnette, Jennifer Corry and Christy Snider — were promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure.

All promotions become effective in August.

  • Tenger, who teaches English, rhetoric and writing, joined the Berry faculty in 1990. She was tenured in 1997, and she served as the chair of the English, rhetoric and writing department from 2002 to 2005.

  • Tenger’s husband, Trolander, also teaches English, rhetoric and writing. He joined the Berry faculty with his wife in 1990, and he was also tenured in 1997. He served as coordinator and chair of the English, writing and rhetoric department from 1998 to 2002.

  • Bissonnette came to Berry in 2000 and teaches psychology. The native of Standish, Mich., was the first person in his family to attend college and taught for seven years at Southeastern Louisiana University before moving to Rome with his wife, Pamela.

  • Corry, who teaches Spanish, joined the Berry faculty in 2000. A native of Madison, Wis., Corry previously served as a lecturer of intermediate-level Spanish language and composition courses at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before coming to Berry.

  • Snider came to Berry in 2000 and teaches history. She has published articles on women involved in international relations, the interwar peace movement and using family history assignments in a women’s history class
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