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TIMOTHY HALPIN-HEALY
Professor of Physics & Astronomy
504 Altschul Hall
(212) 854-5102
healy@phys.columbia.edu
Tim Halpin-Healy is the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Physics at Barnard College, Columbia University; Ph.D., Harvard; A.B., Princeton.
His scientific research concerns the dynamics of complexity, where the competing effects of order & disorder delicately balance,
producing some of Nature’s most beautiful pattern formation phenomena. Professor HH has been very fortunate to spend time as a research fellow at i) Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University,
England; ii) Departement de Physique, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, iii) Instituut Lorenz, Universitait Leiden, The Netherlands. Intellectual interests include
quantum field theory, phase transitions, the renormalization group, mathematical biology, game theory, nonlinear dynamics, fractals & chaos; his work is funded by
the NSF.
On behalf of the College, he's directed an NSF education grant devoted to issues of Science,
Society & Public Policy, leading to the creation of several new courses, among them: SCPP 3333x- Genetics, Biodiversity & Society, and
SCPP 3334y- Science & The State, the latter focussing on moral dilemmas posed by the development of nuclear weaponry during WWII, with particular
attention devoted to the Manhattan Project, the Nazi Uranium program, & subsequent nuclear proliferation in the Cold War.
Recently, he traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa with Diane Dittrick (EnvSci) & four Barnard Mellon-Mays Fellows
on a research & humanitarian trip concerning the plight of Apartheid-era vanadium miners.
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ELIZABETH CASTELLI
Associate Professor of Religion
201 Milbank Hall
(212) 854-8291
ec225@columbia.edu
Elizabeth A. Castelli (A.B. [honors], Brown University; M.A./Ph.D., Claremont
Graduate School) is a specialist in early Christianity. She teaches courses at
Barnard in early Christianity, religions of the ancient Mediterranean, feminist
theory, and theories and methods in the study of religion. She is the author of
Imitating Paul: A Discourse of Power (Westminister/John Knox Press,
1991); co-author of The Postmodern Bible (Yale UP, 1995); coeditor of
Reimagining Christian Origins (Trinty Press, 1996); editor of Women,
Gender, Religion: A Reader (Palgrave/St/Martin's, 2001); and coeditor of a
special issue of the Journal of the History of Sexuality devoted to the
theme, "Sexuality in Late Antiquity" (University of Texas Press, 2001)
her forthcoming book is entitled Martrydom and Memory: Early Christian
Culture-Making (Columbia UP, 2004). She is the guest editor of a
forthcoming issue of The Scholar and the Feminist Online, the electronic
journal of the Center for Research on Women at Barnard, and editor of a
forthcoming book deriving from the Center's October 2002 colloquium, "Responding
to Violence." She is editor of the series, Religion/Culture/Critique,
published by Palgrave/MacMillan; and she serves on the editorial boards of
several feminists interpretation of the Bible, early Christian martyrdom and
asceticism, women's history in late antiquity, and the Bible and contemporary
culture. She is currently interested in problems of religion and violence and
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