This spring, Muhlenberg College has granted tenure and promotion to faculty members Katie Bucher (education), Michael Buozis (media and communication), Gregory Collins (business), and Sarah Runcie (history), which will take effect in the upcoming 2026-27 academic year.
Katie Bucher, Ph.D. has been awarded tenure with promotion to professor of education at Muhlenberg College.
Joining Muhlenberg in January 2024, Bucher teaches courses in educational psychology, early childhood education, and teaching English to speakers of other languages. Her scholarship interests primarily focus on environmental education generally, including school and community garden programs, nature play, and outdoor-based wellness programs for children, youth, and teachers. Before coming to Muhlenberg, she was a member of the faculty at Community College of Philadelphia and a former bilingual elementary teacher in the School District of Philadelphia. Bucher holds a doctorate in education policy and a Master of Science degree in international and comparative education from Indiana University, an Master of Science in Education degree focused on elementary education from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish language and literature and Latin American studies from the University of Delaware.
Michael Buozis, Ph.D.
has been awarded tenure with promotion to associate professor of media and communication at Muhlenberg College.
Buozis received his doctorate from Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University. His research — which has been published in several journals, including: Journalism, Journalism Studies, American Journalism, Internet Histories, and Convergence — examines journalism, history, and technology from a critical and cultural studies perspective. His teaching focuses on media ethics, history, and journalism. He received Muhlenberg’s Rising Scholar Award, which gave him the opportunity to develop a book project exploring historical and contemporary folk music media as a site for cultural contestation.
Gregory Collins, Ph.D. has been awarded tenure with promotion to associate professor of business at Muhlenberg College.
Collins teaches courses in analytics, operations, and sports management. His work emphasizes a people-centered, data-driven approach, helping students apply quantitative tools to real-world decisions while critically engaging emerging technologies like AI. His research focuses on child care and early childhood education finance and economics. Outside the classroom, he brings his passion for people development to coaching youth baseball. Collins holds a doctorate in education policy from the University of Pennsylvania and master’s degrees in business from Lehigh University, applied statistics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, earth science education from Penn State University, and curriculum and instruction from Kutztown University. Prior to joining Muhlenberg, he taught high school science and economics and worked in operations engineering at Lutron Electronics.
Sarah Runcie, Ph.D. has been awarded tenure with promotion to associate professor of history at Muhlenberg College.
Runcie is a historian of modern Africa, with particular interests in public health and decolonization in West and Central Africa. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, a Master of Arts degree in health education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a doctorate in African history from Columbia University. Her research has been published in Itinerario: Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions, French Politics, Culture and Society, and the International Journal of African Historical Studies. Runcie is currently completing a book titled “Doctors with Borders: International Health and Decolonization in Cameroon” exploring how Cameroonian doctors negotiated international health programs and enduring colonial medical institutions as they built a national health administration in the first decade of independence. At Muhlenberg, she teaches courses that span ancient African history to the modern day, with thematic focuses on histories of independence movements and histories of medicine. Her courses contribute to a variety of interdisciplinary programs including international studies, Africana studies, and public health.
