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Bobby Fong, dean of the faculty at Hamilton College, announced the appointment of new faculty for the 1999-2000 academic year, including eight tenure track appointments, 28 visiting professors and 25 others.

New tenure track appointments include: Debra Boutin, assistant professor of mathematics -- Boutin most recently was a visiting assistant professor at Trinity College. She earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Cornell University and a bachelor's degree from Smith College. Boutin has served as a consultant and research fellow for the Office of Naval Research. She also developed and led yearly hands-on mathematics workshops, Expanding Your Horizons, for girls in grades 6-8 from 1993-1996. She is the recipient of a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship and is a member of the Association for Women in Mathematics, American Mathematical Society and Mathematical Association of America.

Alistair E. Campbell, instructor, computer science -- Campbell earned his Ph.D. and master's degrees from the University at Buffalo, and bachelor's degree from Colgate University. He has been a lecturer in computer science classes at the State University of New York at Buffalo and an instructor at Millard Fillmore College. Campbell has published in several scientific journals and participated in numerous professional meetings and workshops, including the AAAI Doctoral Consortium at the annual meeting of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.

Stephen Festin, assistant professor of biology -- Festin has most recently been working at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health on an IRTA Fellowship in the laboratory of cellular oncology, leukemogenesis section. He has also been an instructor at FAES Graduate School at the National Institutes of Health, in the department of biochemistry and biophysics, and served as course director for graduate biochemistry. He also taught at Albany Medical College in the department of biochemistry and biophysics. He is the recipient of a National Cancer Institute IRTA fellowship, National Cancer Institute minority NRSA fellowship and received the Minority Scholar in Cancer Research Award. He earned a master's and Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from Albany Medical College and a bachelor's degree from Villanova University. He has published for numerous scientific journals and scientific symposiums.

Gillian Gane, instructor, English -- Gane earned a doctorate from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She has written for Dickens Studies Annual (1996) and presented at numerous conferences. Since 1992, Gane has been assistant editor of the scholarly journal, College English. She has also served as a lecturer in the English department at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Ariadna Garcia-Bryce, assistant professor, Romance languages - Garcia-Bryce came to Hamilton in 1998 as a visiting assistant professor of Spanish. She previously taught Spanish and Latin American literature at Columbia University. She earned a bachelor's degree in comparative literature at Yale University and a Ph.D. at Princeton in Spanish literature. She is currently working on articles about 17th century Spanish poetry and drama.

Gordon Jones, assistant professor, physics - Jones has been stationed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology reactor as a visiting research scientist from Indiana University since 1998. Previously he was with the Physics Division Neutron Interactions and Dosimetry Group at the NIST. He earned a Ph.D. in nuclear physics and master's degree in physics from Princeton University and a bachelor's degree from Williams College. Jones has published and lectured extensively on neutron decay for various professional conferences and scientific publications.

Kirsten Paap, instructor, sociology - Paap earned a Ph.D, bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Madison-Wisconsin. Her primary research interests include the intersections of race, gender and class and their effects upon the ideology and practices of work. She has contributed a chapter to a forthcoming book, The Social Construction of Gender, (Mayfield Publishing) with Jonathan Harrington. Paap has also written numerous articles and made several presentations on gender and power. She was a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and also at the Marathon County campus. She is a member of the American Sociological Association, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Sociologists for Women in Society and Wisconsin Sociological Association.

Jun Qian, assistant professor comparative literature - Qian most recently did research as a Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the humanities at Barnard College. He earned a Ph.D and master's degree in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor's degree from Beijing Foreign Studies University, China. Qian has a book forthcoming entitled, Oriental Modern: Lin Yutang Translating China and America (Garland). He has also written several journal articles and presented numerous academic papers. Qian has taught at Barnard College, Columbia University, Santa Clara University, UC Berkeley and Nanjing Normal University.

New visiting faculty members for the academic year include: Laura Adams, sociology; Hans Broedel, history; Ling-chieh Chen, East Asian languages; Margaret Coldiron, theatre and dance; Mark Cryer, the

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