Robert Almeder, the McCullough Distinguished Visiting Professor of Philosophy, has been professor of philosophy at Georgia State University since 1980. He is editor of The American Philosophical Quarterly and co-editor of the annual book series Biomedical Ethics Reviews. Almeder is the editor, with James Humber, of Human Cloning (1998, Humana Press). He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1969. Almeder received the Georgia State University Alumni Distinguished Professor Award for College of Arts and Sciences in 1984, and for the university in 1995. He received the Outstanding Educator of America Award in 1973 and is recipient of National Fellowship Award from the Council for Philosophical Studies, two SUNY research grants and two Georgia Endowment for the Humanities grants to conduct public conferences on bioethical issues. Almeder also received a NSF/CDC grant for research on the method of quantitative risk assessment.
Agnes Bertiz, visiting assistant professor of art history, earned a Ph.D. and master's degree in art history from the University of Southern California, where her major area of study was Italian Renaissance art. She has taught at the University of LaVerne and the Art Center College of Design, and with the University of Southern California's Verona Summer Program.
Rosemarie Conforti, visiting assistant professor of communication, comes to Hamilton from Southern Connecticut State University where she is a tenured associate professor and chair of the Media Studies Department. She earned her Ph.D. and master's degree from New York University. Conforti has taught courses in mass media, media research, communications and gender, and communications and behavior.
Silke Franz, teaching fellow in German, earned a Cambridge certificate of proficiency in English as a foreign language at Hammersmith and West London College. She studied English, German, social psychology and social anthropology at Ruhr-Universitat-Bochum. Since 2004 she was a student assistant in the department of education at the University of Dortmund, Germany.
Barry Gerson, lecturer in art, is an artist-filmmaker who has made films, sculpture, photographic constructions and film sculpture. He is most noted for his films, which have been shown in one-man shows at The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art and The Guggenheim Museum. Gerson has received two CAPS fellowships (film and mixed media), two NEA fellowships in media arts, a grant from the American Film Institute and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in film installations. He has taught filmmaking, film installations and film aesthetics at the Rhode Island School of Design, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Bard College and The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Brian Glenn, visiting instructor in government, is a doctoral candidate at Oxford University. Glenn is a political historian who writes about the place of insurance in the American welfare state. He earned master's degrees at Brown University and Oxford University. Glenn has been a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting fellow in the department of government at Harvard University, both where he has taught courses related to American politics. Glenn has written numerous papers and articles that have appeared in such publications as The Forum, Political Studies Review, Law & Social Inquiry and PS: Political Science and Politics.
Sarah Harwell, lecturer in English, earned a master of fine arts in creative writing from Syracuse University. She has been employed as a linguistic analyst at the Center for Natural Language Processing at Syracuse University, and has served as poetry editor for Salt Hill, a Syracuse University publication. Harwell's work has been published in Poetry and Margie, and she has received several honors for her writing including the Syracuse University Traveling Fellowship, The Joyce Carol Oates Award for best group of poems and The Delmore Schwartz Poetry Prize for best poem in 2005.
Jack Horne, visiting assistant professor of biology, was most recently a guest lecturer in an undergraduate course in cell biology at Clark University. He earned his Ph.D. from Duke University, and has research experience as a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology and the National Institute for Medical Research in London. Horne received a bachelor's degree in zoology from the University of Florida, Gainesville. As a postdoctoral fellow he developed molecular techniques to use with in vivo imaging of the Xenopus tadpole visual system in order to define the cell biological functions that control development of the nervous system. Horne is a senior editor at Nature Cell Biology, and also served as an associate editor at Nature Neuroscience. He served as a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology through the American Cancer Society.
Camille Jones came to Hamilton in 2005 from a position as a research chemist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Center for Neutron Research. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Butler University, she worked as a pharmaceutical analytical chemist at Eli Lilly and Company, and later obtained a Ph. D. in physical chemistry from the University of Toledo. She has held postdoctoral positions at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and NIST. Her current research involves the use of neutron scattering and ab initio methods for the study of the crystal structure, dynamics, and hydrogen content of materials, particularly inclusion compounds. Jones has published papers in many professional journals, including the Journal of Physical Chemistry, Journal of Solid State Chemistry and Physical Review B, and presented numerous invited talks.
Takao Kato, visiting scholar in economics, is professor of economics at Colgate University. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from Queen's University and a master's degree from Nagoya University in Japan. Kato teaches courses in labor economics and the Japanese economy. He has published papers in numerous professional journals, including Economic Inquiry, Economics Letters, Industrial and Labor Relations Review and International Review of Economics and Finance.
Roset Khosropour, lecturer in physics, earned a Ph.D. and master's degree in physics from the University of California at Los Angeles. She was a scholar in residence at Hamilton in 2001 and 1987, and has also taught at Union College and UCLA. Khosropour has published papers in many professional journals, including Phys. Rev. E, The Physics Teacher and American Journal of Physics.
Anne Lacsamana, assistant professor of women's studies, earned a Ph.D. in American culture studies from Bowling Green State University. She co-edited Women and Globalization (2004), and has written articles and book reviews in Socialist Review, Nature, Society and Thought and Critical Asian Studies. Lacsamana has taught at Minnesota State University and the New York State University at Albany. Her areas of specialization include feminist theory, ethnic studies and cultural studies.
Kelly Landry, visiting instructor of psychology, earned a master's degree in counseling psychology from Anna Maria College. She has taught at Clinton Elementary School and at SUNY Morrisville. Landry also served as assistant director of the Office of Alcohol and Drug Education at the University of Notre Dame.
Ted Lehmann, visiting assistant professor of government, comes to Hamilton from Williams College, where he was visiting assistant professor of political science. He earned a Ph.D. in political science from Ohio State University. Lehmann is interested in U.S. foreign policy, world politics and energy issues. He served as a graduate research associate at the National Regulatory Research Institute at Ohio State University and as a research assistant at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Kathleen Lopez, visiting assistant professor of history, earned her Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan and holds a master's in Asian studies from Cornell University. She was the recipient of a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship in 2003-04. Lopez published an article in the edited volume The Chinese in the Caribbean (2004). Her research and teaching interests include international migration and race and ethnicity in the Americas.
Yen-ching Lu, visiting instructor of East Asian languages, earned a master's degree from National Taiwan Normal University and a bachelor's degree from National Sun Yat-sen University. She has taught at National Taiwan Normal University and with the Associated Colleges in China program.
Scott MacDonald, visiting professor of art history, earned a Ph.D. and master's degree from the University of Florida. He has been a visiting professor of film at Bard College and a visiting scholar at the University of Arizona. MacDonald has edited and written many books and essays related to film, including Cinema 16: Documents Toward a History of the Film Society (2002), A Critical Cinema 4: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers (2004) and The Garden in the Machine: A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place (2001). He has also published essays and book chapters in Film Quarterly, Afterimage, Journal of Film and Video and Film Criticism.
Mack Mariani, visiting instructor of government, is a Ph.D. candidate at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Mariani is the author of Diverging Parties (with Jeffrey Stonecash and Mark Brewer), and editor of The Insiders Guide to Political Internships. His research interests include woman and politics, congressional and state legislative elections, and "new urbanism." Mariani has taught at Monroe Community College and Syracuse University. He was previously employed with U.S. Representative Bill Paxon in various capacities, including district director and press secretary, from 1993-97.
Mary McHugh, visiting assistant professor of classics, comes to Hamilton from Gustavus Adolphus College, where she taught Greek and Latin. She earned her Ph.D. and master's degree in classics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a master's from Tufts University. The recipient of a number of fellowships, McHugh has studied at both the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and the American Academy in Rome. Her research interests include Roman social history; Latin literature; Julio-Claudian history, art history,
and gender studies; Homeric poetry; and Greek philosophy, especially Plato. McHugh's essay, "Historiography and Freedom of Speech: the
Case of Cremutius Cordus," was published in a volume edited by I. Sluiter and R.M. Rosen, titled Free Speech in Classical Antiquity
(Leiden: Brill, 2004). McHugh also served as a research assistant to the associate editor of American Journal of Philology from 2002-2004.
Susan Morgan, lecturer in education studies, was most recently a visiting assistant professor in the biology department at Hobart and William Smith College. She previously taught biology at Hamilton from 1991-98. Morgan is the recipient of grants from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Health and the American Cancer Society. She is the author of numerous papers in professional journals.
Hoa Ngo, visiting assistant professor of English, taught most recently at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where he earned a Ph.D. and master's degree in English. Ngo served as managing editor of The Missouri Review from 2000-04. He has published book reviews, essays and short stories in Optic Magazine, Vox Magazine, The Missouri Review and Midlands. Ngo's interests include contemporary fiction, Asian-American literature, nonfiction and electronic studies. He was recently selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities to participate in the East-West Center's Summer Institute at the University of Hawaii-Manoa.
Mark Oakes, visiting instructor in psychology, is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington. He is author or co-author of several papers in such publications as Memory and Cognition, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and Social Cognition. Oakes has taught social psychology and cognitive psychology at the University of Washington. His research interests include social and cognitive psychology and autobiographical memory.
Stephen Owen, lecturer in economics, was chief financial officer and vice president of finance at Coyne International Enterprises Corp. in Syracuse. He earned a master's degree in teaching from Tufts University and bachelor's degrees from the University of Massachusetts and Boston University.
Tiffany Patterson, associate professor of Africana studies, comes to Hamilton from the department of history at Binghamton University. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and master's degree from Southern Illinois University. She is the author of Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life, editor of A Question of Color and associate editor of Black Women in United States History. Patterson has also written articles for Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History, the Oxford Companion to United States History and Encyclopedia of Black Women in the United States.
Joy Powell, visiting assistant professor of art, comes to Hamilton from Alfred University, where she most recently served as project coordinator of the Alfred on 25th Street, Master of Fine Arts exhibition in New York City. She earned a master of fine arts, with a concentration in sculpture, from Alfred, and has taught several courses there in metal casting, drawing and introduction to sculpture.
Manuel Herrero Puertas, teaching fellow in Hispanic studies, is the recipient of a Fulbright teaching assistantship. A native of Spain he most recently studied at the University of Oviedo. Previously he was the recipient of an Erasmus Scholarship, which enabled him to study at the University of Sheffield in England.
Karen Rosenbecker, visiting assistant professor of classics, most recently taught in the department of classics at Loyola University, New Orleans. She earned a Ph.D. and master's degree in classics from the University of Pittsburgh. Rosenbecker's research interests include the sociology of food in the ancient world and drama and performance in the ancient world. She has published reviews in Cloelia and was co-editor of Representation of Philosophy in the Classical World. Ancient Philosophy, Special Volume 19.
Andrew Rotter, visiting Mellon Faculty Exchange Scholar in History, is professor of history at Colgate University. He is the author of Comrades at Odds: The United States and India, 1947-1964; The Path to Vietnam: Origins of the American Commitment to Southeast Asia; editor of Light at the End of the Tunnel: A Vietnam War Anthology, and has written articles for the Journal of American History, American Historical Review and New England Journal of History. Rotter earned his Ph.D. and master's degree from Stanford University.
Janelle Schwartz, visiting instructor in comparative literature, is a 1997 graduate of Hamilton. She is a candidate for a Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she received her master's degree. Her teaching and research interests include British and continental romanticism and Victorian literature and science.
Melissa Smith, visiting instructor in psychology, is a candidate for a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Clark University. She has taught at Quinnipiac University and the University of Connecticut. Smith's research interests focus on early child language development, specifically on how toddlers use language with caregivers.
Nicholas Tampio, visiting assistant professor of government, earned his Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins University and his master's from Indiana University, Bloomington. He researches Kant's legacy in contemporary political theory. He has taught at Hopkins, the University of Virginia and George Mason University. Tampio was assistant editor of Political Theory from 2003-04.
Anne Steinberg, teaching fellow in French, obtained her maitrise of English, translation, and her licence LLCE Anglais at the University of Paris III Las Sorbonne Nouvelle.
Ayako Tanemura, teaching fellow in Japanese, earned a master's in Japanese pedagogy from Ohio State University, where he has taught beginning- and advanced-level Japanese.
Yu-Sheng Yang, teaching fellow in Chinese, is a graduate of the Institute of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University.
Yvonne Zylan, assistant professor of sociology, earned a Ph.D. in sociology from New York University and a juris doctor from the University of San Diego School of Law. She has published articles in Gender & Society, Social Forces, American Journal of Sociology and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Her areas of scholarship include law and society, sociology of gender, the state and social policy and political sociology. After being admitted to the California bar, she practiced law for three years in the litigation department at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, an international business law firm.
Verónica Willmott Puig is co-director for the Antarctic Program in Geosciences. Verónica sailed with the Hamilton group in the past and has been a visiting researcher at the College. She has four year of experience working with Antarctic marine sediments. (vwillmot, ext. 4699)
