David Paris, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty at Hamilton College, announced the appointment of new faculty for the 2001-2002 academic year, including five tenure track appointments, 23 visiting professors, and six lecturers, teaching fellows and instructors. New tenure track appointments include:
Kimberly Bradley, assistant professor of chemistry. Bradley comes to Hamilton from Mount Holyoke College, where she has been a visiting assistant professor in the Chemistry department. Previously she was a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in environmental chemistry at the University of Denver, from 1998-2000. Bradley earned a Ph.D. and master's degree in theoretical chemistry from Northwestern University, and a bachelor's degree from Mississippi State University. Her research has been published in Environmental Science Technology, Chemosphere, Journal of Physical Chemistry and Journal of Chemical Physics.
Marianne Janack, assistant professor of philosophy. Janack spent 2000-01 at Brown University where she was a Pembroke Fellow. Since 1997 she was an assistant professor in the Humanities Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Prior to that she was a lecturer at Colgate University. She earned a Ph.D. and master's degree from Syracuse University, and bachelor of arts from Colgate. Her areas of specialization include feminist philosophy, moral philosophy and the philosophy of science.
Michelle LeMasurier, assistant professor of mathematics. LeMasurier comes from Franklin & Marshall College where she was a visiting assistant professor for three years. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia and a master's from New York University. LeMasurier's research interests are differential geometry, geometrical methods in differential equations and singularity theory.
Juan Ormaza, assistant professor of art. A native of Ecuador, Ormaza has been an assistant professor in foundations and sculpture at the Kansas City Art Institute since 1996. Prior tot hat he was assistant professor and coordinator of sculpture at San Francisco University in Quito, Ecuador. He earned a MFA in sculpture from Alfred University, a BFA in sculpture from the Institute de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, and a BFA in architecture from Universidad Central del Ecuador. In 2000 he was named to Who's Who Among America's Teachers. He has exhibited at one-person shows and group shows in Kansas City, Quito, Ecuador, and Alfred, NY.
Sharon Rivera, assistant professor of government. Rivera came to Hamilton in 1999 as a visiting assistant professor of government. She earned a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan, and holds an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Rivera teaches in the areas of comparative politics, democratic transitions, and the politics of Russia and Eastern Europe. Her publications include "Elites in Post-Communist Russia: A Changing of the Guard?" in Europe-Asia Studies (May 2000), and "Historical Cleavages or Transition Mode? Influences on the Emerging Party Systems in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia," in Party Politics (April 1996). She is currently revising a book manuscript titled, "The Shaping of the Russian Mind: Elite Views Toward Democracy and the Market," based on two years of field research in the Russian Federation.
New visiting faculty members for the academic year include: Heather Buchman, music; Michael Cannon, anthropology; Amarilis Carrero Pena, romance languages; Leslie Cecil, anthropology; Matthieu Dalle, romance languages; Danielle DeMuth, women's studies; Thomas Diggins, biology; Tina Hall, English; Tolga Koker, economics; Luis Landron, romance languages; Matthew Panciera, classics; Anthony Reeves, music; Mary Rojas, religious studies; Henry Rubin, sociology; Scott Seays, religious studies; Tracy Sharpley-Whiting, Africana studies; Jeffrey Spires, romance languages; Ram Subramaniam, chemistry; Veronica Tichenor, sociology; Jose Vasquez, economics; Sharon William, romance languages; Carlos Yordan, government; and Yin Zhang, East Asian languages.
Returning visiting faculty members are: Matthew Amster, anthropology; David Andrews, economics; Thomas Bass, American studies, comparative literature; Hans Broedel, history; Kristin Campbell, government; Hsiu-hsien Chan, Chinese; Jacqueline Gately, philosophy; Douglas Glick, rhetoric and communication; Jennifer Johnson, psychology; Robert Martin, government; David Nalbone, psychology; Kamila Shamsie, English; Gabriela Solano, Spanish; Richard Stahnke, economics; Atsuko Suda, Japanese; and Paul Zarnoth, psychology.
Four new lecturers have also been named. They are Lawrence Bopp, biology; Maude Falcone, program in teacher education; Anat Glick, critical languages; and Kevin Kwiat, computer science. Returning lecturers are: Michael Bagge, sociology; Russell Blackwood, religious studies; Maria Brane, psychology; Austin Briggs, English; Bill Burd, theatre and dance; James Helmer, rhetoric and communication; Sharon Humphries-Brooks, College 100; Molly Johnson, psychology; Bob Kazin, psychology; Jim Schreve, physics; Eugenia Taft, critical languages; Giles Wayland-Smith, government; and Sidney Wertimer, economics.
Two new teaching fellows have also joined the foreign language departments: Aurelie Van de Wiele, French, and Jens Vossmeier, German.
