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This fall, 12 new members of the faculty have been hired
in tenure-track positions:
Lawrence
E. Cahoone, associate professor in the philosophy department, earned his
Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author
or editor of the books, From Modernism to Postmodernism: An Anthology; The
Ends of Philosophy; and The Dilemma of Modernity: Philosophy, Culture
and Anti-Culture.
Sharon
M. Frechette, assistant professor in the mathematics department, earned
her Ph.D. from Dartmouth College. She has served as a lecturer at Dartmouth
and a
visiting professor at Wellesley College. Her research interests include number
theory, algebra and elliptic curves.
Alessandra
Fussi, assistant professor in the philosophy department, earned her
Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. Specializing in ancient philosophy
and
Hegel, she has taught at Boston University and the University of Genova
in Italy.
Andrew
D. Hwang, assistant professor of mathematics, earned his Ph.D. from
the University of California at Berkeley. He has taught at the University
of
Toronto and Osaka
University and has published articles on Kähler
metrics.
Jennifer
Wright Knust, instructor in the religious studies department, is
a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary.
A Columbia
University President's Fellow, she has taught at the University of Connecticut and Rutgers
University. She is pastor of the First Baptist
Church of Mt. Vernon in Maine.
Matthew
B. Koss, assistant professor in the physics department, earned
his Ph.D. from Tufts University. He has taught at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute and has served as the principal investigator on a NASA-sponsored
experiment
to
study transient effects in dendritic solidification.
Ann
Marie Leshkowich, assistant professor in the sociology and
anthropology department, earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University.
The recipient
of many research fellowships
and awards, she has taught at Harvard and done
field research in Vietnam.
Shawn
Lisa Maurer, assistant professor in the English department,
earned her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She is the
author of Proposing Men: Dialectics
of Gender and Class in the Eighteenth-Century English Periodical.
William
J. Pritchard, assistant professor in the English department,
earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He has taught
at Bucknell
University and Williams
College and is the recipient of a Mellon Foundation Grant and
a McLean Teaching
Fellowship.
Paige
Reynolds, assistant professor in the English department,
earned her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. An expert
in 19th- and
20th-century Anglo-Irish
literature, she has taught at Elmhurst College and the University
of Chicago.
Constance S. Royden, assistant professor in the mathematics
department, earned her Ph.D. from the University of California
at San Francisco.
She has taught
at Wellesley College and was a postdoctoral fellow in the
Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
Stephanie
E. Yuhl, assistant professor in the history department,
earned her Ph.D. from Duke University. The recipient of a
National Endowment
for
the Humanities
Grant, she has served as the Lilly Foundation postdoctoral
fellow in humanities and the arts at Christ College, Valparaiso
University.
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