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BARNARD
WELCOMES NEW FACULTY TO CAMPUS
Seated
left to right: Mindy Aloff, Lee Anne Bell, Nadia Abu
El-Haj, Rachel Mesch, and Lisa Son.
Standing left to right: Joanna Goodey, Jamie Rodriguez,
Elizabeth Weinstock, Kenneth Shockley, Erin Runions,
Tanya Erzen, Kaiama Glover, Yaelle Azagury, Jesus Suarez
Garcia, Saskia Hamilton, and Pamela Cobrin. |
Nearly
two dozen scholar-teachers have joined the Barnard faculty
for the 2002-2003 academic year, including experts on the
Middle East, plant development and evolution, gender equity
in education, women and HIV/AIDS, police brutality and human
learning and memory.
The professors and their work include:
ANTHROPOLOGY
Nadia Abu El-Haj, assistant professor, recently published
Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial
Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society (University of Chicago
Press, 2002). She spent the past academic year at the Institute
for Advanced Study at Princeton and has received numerous
fellowships. Her research focuses on the Middle East. At
Barnard, she will teach "Theories of Culture"
and "Race and Sex in Scientific and Social Practice."
B.A., Bryn Mawr; Ph.D., Duke
ART HISTORY
Anne Higonnet, professor with tenure starting January
2003, had taught at Wellesley since 1988 and last year was
a visiting associate professor at Barnard. Currently working
on a book about private art museums in the United States
and Europe from 1848 to World War II, she has already published
three books: two about Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot
and Pictures of Innocence: The History and Crisis of
Ideal Childhood (Thames & Hudson, 1998). She received
a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2001 and a Getty Library Research
Grant in 2000.
B.A., Harvard; Ph.D., Yale
ASIAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN CULTURES
Ari Borell, term assistant professor, is completing
his doctorate in East Asian languages and culture, with
a dissertation on the intellectual history of the Sung dynasty.
He taught previously at Columbia and at Santa Clara University.
His Barnard courses will be in Asian humanities.
B.A., M.A., University of Wisconsin; Ph.D. forthcoming,
Columbia
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Kristen Shepard, assistant professor as of January
2003, will establish a research program in plant development
and evolution at Barnard. She is doing postdoctoral research
at the University of North Carolina in a similar area. In
addition to teaching advanced courses in plant physiology
and development at Barnard, she will teach "Revolutionary
Concepts in Biology."
B.A., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., University of California
at Berkeley
CHEMISTRY
Joanna Goodey Pellois, term assistant professor,
is completing postdoctoral research at the University of
Houston on nonlinear optical and ferroelectric materials.
Her doctoral thesis was on low-dimensional intermetallic
compounds. She has published 10 papers on making new materials
with unusual properties and has taught at both her alma
maters. At Barnard, she will teach inorganic chemistry,
work in the general chemistry introductory lab course, and
co-run the "Quantitative and Instrumental Techniques
Analytical Laboratory" course.
B.S., William and Mary; Ph.D., University of Houston
DANCE
Mindy Aloff, assistant professor of Professional
Practice in Dance, has written about dance, literature,
and music for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Atlantic
Monthly, The New Republic, and other periodicals. She
is a consultant to the George Balanchine Foundation, former
dance critic for The Nation, and the 1987 recipient
of the Whiting Writers Award. Barnard courses will include
dance history, dance criticism, and a first-year seminar
on the personal essay.
B.A., Vassar; M.A., SUNY-Buffalo
EDUCATION
Lee Anne Bell, adjunct professor and director of
the Education Program, taught reading and social studies
in the Hartford, Conn., public schools and was chair of
the Department of Educational Studies at SUNY-New Paltz.
Her scholarship focuses on gender equity, social justice
education, experiential pedagogy, and race talk and its
consequences in education. She studied in Mexico as a Fulbright
Scholar in 1992 and has won the SUNY Chancellors’ Award
for Excellence in Teaching.
B.A., Indiana University-Bloomington; Ed.D., University
of Massachusetts-Amherst
ENGLISH
Pamela Cobrin, associate, is director of the Writing
Center and acting director of the Writing Program. She has
taught at Bard, Brooklyn College and New York University.
Her doctoral dissertation focuses on feminist theater from
the beginning of the 20th century until 1920, the year women
won the right to vote.
B.A., University of Delaware; M.A., Brooklyn College; Ph.D.
forthcoming, New York University
Saskia Hamilton, term assistant professor, has had
her poetry published in Ploughshares, Colorado Review,
The Threepenny Review and New England Review.
The author of As for Dream (Graywolf Press, 2001),
she is editing a book of letters by Robert Lowell, scheduled
to be published next year by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
She has run the Literary Program of the Lannan Foundation
and taught at New York University, University of California
at Berkeley, and Harvard. She is acting director of Women
Poets at Barnard and will teach poetry writing, the history
of poetry, and poetics.
B.A., Kenyon College; M.A., New York University
Elizabeth Weinstock, assistant professor, has taught
at several colleges in New York City, including Columbia,
Cooper Union, and Queens College. Her dissertation is about
discourses of loss and the medieval devotional subject.
She will teach courses in medieval literature and culture
at Barnard.
B.A., Brown; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. forthcoming, Columbia
FRENCH
S. Yaelle Azagury, lecturer, wrote her doctoral dissertation
on Proust and has done research on Francophone literature
of the Maghreb, especially of North African and Sephardic
Jews. She is also interested in narratives dealing with
the self. She received a diploma in political science from
the Institute of Political Studies in Paris.
B.A., Sorbonne-Nouvelle; Ph.D., Columbia
Kaiama L. Glover, assistant professor, joined the
Barnard faculty in 2001 as a term assistant professor. She
teaches in both the French and the Pan African Studies departments.
Her recently completed dissertation deals with 20th-century
Francophone Caribbean fiction.
B.A., Harvard; D.E.A. (Master’s), Sorbonne; M.A., M.Phil.,
Ph.D., Columbia
Rachel Mesch, lecturer, is developing a book, to
be called The Hysteric’s Revenge, based on her
doctoral thesis on the depiction of sexuality in the work
of French women writers from 1880 to 1910. Her courses at
Barnard will include French and a first-year seminar.
B.A., Yale; M.A., Columbia; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
HISTORY
Anene Ejikeme, term assistant professor 2002-05,
started teaching at Barnard in 2001 as a term assistant
professor of Pan African Studies and continues as interim
director of that program. She teaches courses in both History
and Pan African Studies. She has previously been on the
faculty of Columbia, Rutgers, and Fairfield University.
Her dissertation topic is Catholic women in Nigeria from
1885 to 1964 (approximately the period it was a British
colony).
B.A., Yale; M.A., Ohio State; Ph.D. forthcoming, Columbia
MATHEMATICS
Christopher Leninger, adjunct assistant professor,
completed his undergraduate education only five years ago.
He is teaching at Barnard as part of a National Science
Foundation postdoctoral research fellowship, having completed
his Ph.D. in low-dimensional topology in May. He has published
three research papers and received a research grant this
year from the Clay Mathematics Institute.
B.S., Ball State; Ph.D., University of Texas
PHILOSOPHY
Kenneth Shockley, term assistant professor, served
with the Peace Corps in Malawi, studied in Australia as
a Fulbright Scholar, and was an exchange student in Warwick,
England. He received the Dean’s Award for Excellence
in Teaching at Washington University, where he is completing
a doctoral dissertation titled "Social Groups and Special
Obligations." He has written about contract theory,
the social nature of normativity, social ontology, and Harvard
philosopher and mathematician W.V.O. Quine. He is also a
hiker and martial artist.
B.S., University of Wisconsin in Madison; M.A., SUNY-Buffalo;
Ph.D. forthcoming, Washington University
PSYCHOLOGY
Lisa Son, assistant professor, has been a postdoctoral
fellow at Columbia since 2001, studying human and animal
memory and meta-cognition. At Barnard she will teach courses
on cognitive psychology and on human learning and memory.
B.A., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., Columbia
RELIGION
Tanya Erzen, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow 2002-04,
co-edited the book Zero Tolerance: Quality of Life and
the New Police Brutality in New York City (New York
University Press, 2001). Articles she wrote will be included
in forthcoming books about religious healing and ethnography
and cultural activism in America. Her doctoral dissertation
examined issues of sexuality and religion in the politics
of the Christian Right, specifically the "ex-gay movement."
At Barnard, she will teach about the ethnography of religion
and conservative religious movements in U.S. history.
B.A., Brown; Ph.D., New York University
Erin Runions, term assistant professor, works as
an afterschool tutor in Harlem and a translator at immigrant
detention centers in the New York area. Author of Changing
Subjects: Gender, Nation and Future in Micah (Sheffield
Academic Press, 2002), she is concerned with issues of gender,
violence, and justice. Barnard courses will include "Gender
and Religion," "Religion and Film," "Millennium:
Apocalypse and Utopia" and "Feminist Texts I:
Wollenstonecraft to Beauvoir" (Women’s Studies).
B. Music, University of British Columbia at Vancouver; Ph.D.,
McGill University
SOCIOLOGY
Elizabeth Bernstein, assistant professor, is a New York
City native who graduated from Stuyvesant High School. She
was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Barnard during the past
academic year. Her scholarship focuses on sociology of sexuality,
gender, feminist theory, and sociology of law. She has written
several works, including her dissertation, about sexual
labor in various places around the world, and she co-authored
a report for the San Francisco Task Force on Prostitution.
B.A., Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
SPANISH AND LATIN AMERICAN CULTURES
Jesús Suárez Garcia, associate professor,
has taught at Duke and at the university level in Russia,
Spain and Wales. He is completing his dissertation on the
role of dictionaries in vocabulary acquisition when learning
second languages, and he has published several articles
on the methodology of teaching languages.
B.A., University of León (Spain); Ph.D. forthcoming,
University of Wales in Swansea
WOMEN’S STUDIES
Rebecca Young, term assistant professor 2002-04,
specializes in women and HIV/AIDS, a subject about which
she will teach at Barnard. She has also studied sexuality
education, tuberculosis, and bioterrorism. She holds a major
grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National
Institute on Drug Abuse for work on women drug users. She
received the Marisa de Castro Benton Prize for Outstanding
Dissertation in the Sociomedical Sciences when she completed
her Ph.D. in 2000.
B.A., Bryn Mawr; Ph.D., Columbia
—Adrienne Onofri
Contact: Suzanne Trimel, (212) 854-7583, strimel@barnard.edu
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