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NEW FACULTY 2009-2010
ANTHROPOLOGY
Kathryn Fewster, Term Assistant Professor
Nicole Peterson, Term Assistant Professor
ASIAN & MIDDLE EASTERN CULTURES
Hossein Kamaly, Fanny Brett de Bary Term Assistant Professor
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Krista McGuire, Assistant Professor
CHEMISTRY
Marisa Buzzeo, Assistant Professor
MATHEMATICS
Daniela De Silva, Assistant Professor
PHILOSOPHY
John Morrison, Assistant Professor
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Elise Giuliano, Visiting Assistant Professor
PSYCHOLOGY
Koleen McCrink, Assistant Professor
Joshua New, Assistant Professor
THEATRE
Sandra Goldmark, Assistant Professor of Professional Practice
ANTHROPOLOGY
Kathryn Fewster, Term Assistant Professor in Anthropology, received her B.A. in Archaeology from the University of Sheffield (1986), M.A. in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge (1987), M.A. in Economic Development Studies from the University of Manchester (1990), and her Ph.D. in Archaeology from the University of Sheffield (1996). Her recent awards include a British Academy Research Grant and a grant from the Pantyfedwen Fund, UWL for ethnoarchaeological fieldwork in Botswana. She recently published “The role of agency and material culture in remembering and forgetting: An ethnoarchaeological case study from central Spain” in the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 20(1) 89-114 (2007) and “The potential of analogy in post-processual archaeologies: A case study from Basimane ward Serowe” in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 12(1) 61-87 (2006). She has taught at the University of Durham, England, and the University of Wales, Lampeter. At Barnard she will be teaching The Origins of Human Society, Hunter-Gatherers: Pasts, Presents and Possible Futures, The Prehistory of Europe, and Ethnoarchaeology.
Nicole D. Peterson, Term Assistant Professor in Anthropology, received her B.A. in Biochemistry from Rice University (1997), and her M.A. (1999) and Ph.D. (2005) in Anthropology from the University of California, San Diego. She was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for US-Mexican Studies at UCSD in 2004, and since 2005, she has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University. Her recent publications include “Climate and Weather Discourse in Anthropology: From Determinism to Uncertain Futures” in Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions with K. Broad. Edited by S. Crate and M. Nuttall, Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2009, and has two forthcoming articles: "Options, and Constraints: Decisions in Natural Resource Management" in the journal Human Organization, and "Excluding to include: (Non)participation in Mexican natural resource management" in Agriculture and Human Values. She has taught at University of California, San Diego, Barnard College, and Columbia University. At Barnard she will be teaching Introduction to Environmental Anthropology, Environment and Development, Political Ecology, and Anthropology and the Politics of Climate Change.
ASIAN & MIDDLE EASTERN CULTURES
Hossein Kamaly, Fanny Brett de Bary Term Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University (2004). His primary interest is in Islamic intellectual history. His forthcoming book is Giving Voice to Scripture: The Imami Shia Tradition of Tafsir. He has taught at Hunter College, Brooklyn College, and Columbia University. His courses have been on Middle East History,Islam and Islamic Societies, Governance and Democracy in Islam, Middle East Fiction, Literature Humanities, and Classical Persian Literature. At Barnard he will be teaching Topics in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Asian Humanities, Reform & Radicalism in Islam, Quranic Studies, etc.
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Krista McGuire, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, received her B.S. in Biology from Muhlenberg College (2000) and her Ph.D. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2007). She recently received a Kearney Foundation grant for research in California ecosystems (2008), was awarded Rackham Graduate School Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award (2007), and a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (2005). Her recent publications include “The common ectomycorrhizal net may maintain monodominance in a tropical rain forest” (2007) in Ecology 88:567-574 and “Recruitment dynamics and ectomycorrihizal colonization of Dicymbe corymbosa, a monodominant tree in the Guiana Shield” (2007) in the Journal of Tropical Ecology 23:297-207. She has taught at the University of Michigan and in Bluefields, Nicaragua. At Barnard she will be teaching course on Microbiology.
CHEMISTRY
Marisa Buzzeo, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, received her B.A. in Chemistry from Barnard College (2001) and her D.Phil. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Oxford, St. John’s College (2005). She was awarded an Analytical Division Studentship from the Royal Society of Chemistry and a CASE studentship sponsored by Alphasense Ltd. during her graduate studies. From 2006 to 2008, Marisa was a postdoctoral scholar in the group of Jacqueline K. Barton (BC ‘74) in the Chemistry Department at the California Institute of Technology; she spent the past year in Columbia’s NSF Center for Electron Transport in Molecular Nanostructures as an independent research scientist. She most recently published “Redmond Red as a redox probe for the DNA-mediated detection of abasic sites” with Jacqueline K. Barton in Bioconjugate Chemistry (2008) 19: 2110-2112 and a review, “DNA-mediated electrochemistry” with Alon A. Gorodetsky and Jacqueline K. Barton, also in Bioconjugate Chemistry (2008) 19: 2285-2296. Her research involves the application of physical methods to biological problems with particular focus on membrane transport, drug-membrane binding, and DNA sensing. At Barnard she will be teaching the Integrated Chemistry Laboratory course in the Fall and the Thermodynamics and Kinetics lecture and Quantitative and Instrumental Techniques Laboratory course in the Spring.
MATHEMATICS
Daniela De Silva, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, received her B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Naples “Federico II” in 1997, and her Ph.D. in Mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005. She held a doctoral fellowship at the University of Naples “Federico II”, from 1998-2000 and an I.N.d.A.M. fellowship at the University of Naples “Federico II” in 1998. In the fall of 2005, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley. Her publications include, Some remarks on nonlinear elliptic equations and applications to Hamilton-Jacobi equations, (with C. Trombetti), C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris, t. 333, Serie I, p. 91-96, 2001. Estimates for the gradient of solutions of elliptic equations in Orlicz-Sobolev spaces, Ricerche di Matematica, vol. LI, issue 1, p. 25-47, 2002, and submitted Symmetry of global solutions to a class of fully nonlinear elliptic equations in 2D, (with O. Savin) Preprint, 2007. She has taught at John Hopkins, MIT, and the University of Naples “Federico II”. She has been a Term Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Barnard since 2007. In the Fall she will be teaching Calculus II.
PHILOSOPHY
John Morrison, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, received his B.A. in Philosophy and Mathematics from Williams College (2001) and his M.A. (2008) and Ph.D. (2009) in Philosophy from New York University. His research is primarily focused on the philosophy of mind and the history of modern philosophy. He was awarded the Frankel Fellowship from New York University (2008-2009), which is awarded to one graduate student in philosophy each year. At Barnard he will be teaching courses on the philosophy of psychology, the history of modern philosophy, and logic.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Elise Giuliano, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, received her B.A. in Russian Studies from the University of Pennsylvania (1990), her M.A. (1992) in International Relations and her Ph.D. (2000) in Political Science from the from the University of Chicago. She specializes in the study of ethnic politics, nationalist secession, and Russian politics. Her book, Constructing Ethnic Grievance: The Rise and Decline of Ethnic Nationalism in Russia, is forthcoming from Cornell University Press. Other recent publications include, “Secessionism from the Bottom-Up: Democratization, Nationalism, and Local Accountability in the Russian Transition”, in World Politics 58, January 2006 and “Islamic Identity and Political Mobilization in Russia: Chechnya and Dagestan Compared”, in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 11.2, Summer 2005. She has taught at the University of Chicago, University of Miami, New York University, and Columbia University. At Barnard she will be teaching International Politics, Russia and the West, and a Senior Seminar in International Relations.
PSYCHOLOGY
Koleen McCrink, Assistant Professor of Psychology, received her B.A. from Douglass College, Rutgers University (2000), Her M.A. (2003), M.Ph. (2004), and Ph.D. (2007) in Psychology from Yale University. Since 2007 she has held a postdoctoral research position at Harvard University. Her recent awards include the James Grossman Prize for Best Dissertation in Psychology (2007), a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation (2004-07), and a Yale Graduate School Fellowship (2002-04). She published “Mathematical Reasoning” with K. Wynn in Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development, edited by M. Haith & J. Benson Vol. 2 280-289, 2008. She also published “Ratio abstraction by 6-month old infants” with K. Wynn in Psychological Science 18, 740-746, 2007. She has taught at Rutgers University, Yale University, and Harvard University. At Barnard she will be teaching Developmental Psychology and Introductory Psychology.
Joshua New, Assistant Professor of Psychology, received his B.A. (1998) and Ph.D. (2006) in Psychology from University of California, Santa Barbara. Since 2006 he has been a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Perception and Cognition Laboratory at Yale University. He received a National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Mental Health (2006), the Lancaster Award for Best Dissertation in Social Sciences in 2004-2006 and the President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship (2004) from the Graduate Division of U.C. Santa Barbara. He published “’Perceptual scotomas’: A functional account of motion-induced blindness.” with B. Scholl in Psychological Science, 19, 653-659, 2008, and “Category-specific attention for animals reflects ancestral priorities not expertise.” with L. Cosmides & J. Tooby in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104, 16598-16603, 2007. He has taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara. At Barnard he will be teaching Introduction to Psychology and courses on Cognitive Psychology.
THEATRE
Sandra Goldmark, Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in Theatre, received her B.A. in American History and Literature from Harvard University in 1997 and her M.F.A. in Design from Yale School of Drama in 2004. She has designed scenery and/or costumes for numerous productions in New York and regionally. She is resident set designer with the award-winning company Transport Group, with designs ranging from reinterpretations of American classics like Bury the Dead, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and All theWay Home to new musicals including Crossing Brooklyn. Other favorite designs include the New York premiere of Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue, the regional premiere of The Pillowman, and new plays with a wide range of New York-based theatre companies. At Barnard College, she has designed sets and costumes for numerous productions, including Proof and As Five Years Pass. She has been a Lecturer in Theatre at Barnard since 2006. In addition to designing departmental productions at Barnard and advising student design work, she teaches Scene Design, Costume Design, Problems in Design, Senior Thesis, and Rehearsal & Performance. |
