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New Faculty at Barnard This Fall
Five new full-time assistant professors join the Barnard faculty this fall with a wide range of teaching specialties, including environmental education, Arab and Israeli literatures, women and gender in Latin America, European intellectual history, and women and HIV/AIDS. The newly appointed assistant professors include Maria S. Rivera Maulucci; Bashir Abu-Manneh; Nara Milanich; Carl Wennerlind and Rebecca Young.
Maria S. Rivera Maulucci
Rivera Maulucci, who joins the Barnard Department of Education, is a Barnard alumna, and graduated with a major in Biology in 1989 and earned her M.S. in Forest Science at the Yale Graduate School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in 1988. She is currently working on her Ph.D. in Science Education at Teachers College. Rivera Maulucci has also taught at Teachers College, the Raul Julia MicroSociety Dual Language School, PS/MS 3 in the Bronx, and served as Director of the Region I Science and Technology Center for the Learning Support Center, and as Director of Urban Forestry for the Environmental Action Coalition in New York City.
Bashir Abu-Manneh
Abu-Manneh, who specializes in Arab and Israeli literature, received his B.A. in English Literature from the University of Haifa, Israel, in 1994 and his D.Phil., in English Literature at the University of Oxford, England in 2002. In 2003-04, he received a Ford Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship to research "Arab Theories of Imperialism: Towards Postcolonial Liberation" at the Center for Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He was a Post-doctoral Fulbright Visiting Scholar and researched "Palestinian Liberation Theory" at the Columbia University Center for Comparative Literature and Society and the Department of English and Comparative Literature in 2002-03. At Barnard, Abu-Manneh will teach courses in global literature and Arab and Israeli literatures. He has also taught at Columbia, Wadham College, and the University of Oxford.
Nara Milanich
Milanich earned her B.A. in History from Brown University in 1994 and her Ph.D. in Latin American History from Yale University in 2002. Her teaching and research specialties include Modern Latin America, Colonial Latin America, Historical Theory and Method, and Comparative Family and Gender History in the Unites States versus Europe and Latin America. Her book, The Children of Fate: Families, Class and the State in Chile, 1857-1930 , is forthcoming from Duke University Press. She has received many fellowships and awards, including the Yale University Arthur and Mary Wright Prize on a non-U.S., non-European-topic, a Whiting Fellowship in Humanities, an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, and a Fulbright for research in Chile. She has also taught at the University of California, Davis, Northern Illinois University, and Yale University. At Barnard she will teach courses in global family history and women and gender in Latin America.
Carl Wennerlind
Wennerlind, who has been a term professor of Economics at Barnard, will now join the History Department on a continuing basis. Wennerlind will teach courses in European intellectual history and the history of political economy. His co-edited Essays on David Hume's "Political Economy" (with Margaret Schabas) by Routledge Press, London, will be published in 2005. He is also working on two books: David Hume's Political Economy and Money, Magic, and Death: Histories of the Financial Revolution . Wennerlind received his B.A. from the University of South Florida in 1993 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Texas in Austin in 1999. Wennerlind has also taught at The University of Texas at Austin and Elon College in North Carolina.
Rebecca Young
Young, whose special focus is women and HIV/AIDS, will join the Department of Women's Studies. She earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2000 and her dissertation Sexing the Brain: Measurement and Meaning in Biological Research on Human Sexuality , received the Marisa de Castro Benton Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in the Sociomedical Sciences. She received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College. Young is currently writing a book on gender and HIV/AIDS, and has published numerous papers on women and HIV, sexuality education, tuberculosis, and bioterrorism. She holds a major grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health for work on women drug users. She will teach courses on women and health, HIV/AIDS, and women in science.
Achsah Guibbory, Visiting Professor of English
Guibbory, a distinguished international scholar of Seventeenth-Century English Literature, who has been teaching at the University of Illinois since 1970, will be joining Barnard as a visiting professor of English. Guibbory is a recipient of many honors and awards including a national Endowment for the Humanities Senior Research Fellowship (2001-02) and the Harriet and Charles Luckman Undergraduate Distinguished Teaching Award at the University of Illinois (1995). She has served as the President of the Milton Society of America and the John Donne Society. She has published several books including The Map of Time: Seventeenth-Century English Literature and Ideas of Pattern in History and Ceremony and Community from Herbert to Milton: Literature, Religion, and Cultural Conflict in Seventeenth-Century English Literature . She is currently working on a book, titled Imagined Identities: the Uses of Judaism in Seventeenth-Century England and completing The Cambridge Companion of John Donne . At Barnard, Guibbory will be teaching courses in Milton and Donne and Renaissance love poetry. She received her Ph.D. from UCLA.
In addition to the faculty mentioned above, several others were hired for limited term appointments. They include: Andrew Schonebaum; Sebastian Zeidler; Jessica Goldstein; Nasreen S. Haque; Shobana Shankar; Jason Behrstock; Ilya Kofman; Lisa Northrop; and Lorena del Carmen Rodas. Click here to read their bios.
Contact: Petra Tuomi, Office of Public Affairs, 212-854-7907
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