Eight Hamilton faculty members were approved for tenure by the College's board of trustees during its recent meeting. The granting of tenure is based on recommendations of the vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty, and the committee on appointments, with the president of the college presenting final recommendations to the board of trustees. All will receive the title of associate professor on July 1.
Faculty receiving tenure are Mark Bailey, computer science; Debra Boutin, mathematics; Alistair Campbell, computer science; Mark Cryer, theatre; M. Cecilia Hwangpo, Hispanic studies; Marianne Janack, philosophy; Gordon Jones, physics; and Rob Martin, government.
Mark Bailey received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Virginia. His research interests include compiler design, optimization, embedded systems, computer architecture and computer security. In 2003, he received a research associateship from the National Research Council to support his work in computer security at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, N.Y. He has also received a grant from the National Science Foundation for collaboration with colleagues at Florida State University to research program optimization. Bailey's previous research work has been published in journals including: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, SoftwarePractice & Experience and the ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages.
Debra Boutin came to Hamilton in 1999. She earned her undergraduate degree from Smith College in 1991 and her Ph.D. in mathematics from Cornell University in 1998. Her research interests include graph theory, geometric graph theory, and group theory. In particular, she works with graphs, their drawings, and their symmetry groups. Her teaching interests include graph theory, abstract algebra, and geometry.
Alistair Campbell received his Ph.D. in 2000 from the University at Buffalo. Before coming to Hamilton he was a lecturer in its Department of Computer Science and Engineering. His teaching and research interests lie in the areas of programming language and data structure visualizations, artificial intelligence, and semantic knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR) systems, particularly as applied to analogical representations for solving problems in bioinformatics. His work has appeared in the proceedings of international conferences and workshops such as the SIGIR Workshop on Text Understanding and Search for Bioinformatics, the Annual Conference on Computational Genomics, and the ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. From the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, N.Y., Campbell has received summer fellowships to perform research on the problems of ontology alignment and semantic integration of defense department data sets.
Campbell's current projects include SNePS-3J, a Java-based semantic-network KRR system and LIVE, an interactive tool for the visualization of algorithms and data.
Mark Cryer earned a master of fine arts in acting from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow, Scotland and studied Shakespeare at the Royal Academy of Art, London. He has appeared in the feature films Mighty Ducks 2, It Could Happen to You and The Peace Maker. Cryer wrote and performs a one-act play, 99 Questions You've Always Wanted to Ask an African American But Were Too Afraid to Ask, a look at what we think and what we know about African-Americans. The play has been performed at the annual Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, S.C. and the Edinburgh (Scotland) Fringe Theatre Festival. In 2004 Cryer performed in The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman at Swine Palace, the professional theatre at Louisiana State University.
M. Cecilia Hwangpo joined the Hamilton faculty in 1998, after earning a Ph.D. from Yale University. Her main area of specialization is the discourses of national identity in Argentina and Cuba in early 20th century. Her research interests are Latin American literature and culture, twentieth century theatre, el sainete criollo and essay. Her published articles include "Indagación del choteo: un llamado para el cambio en el modo de ser cubano," "José Antonio Ramos y la identidad nacional cubana: sentido, lenguaje y espacio," and "Los inmigrantes: el otro en el teatro argentino de principios del siglo XX."
Marianne Janack received her Ph.D. from Syracuse University. Before coming to Hamilton she was a fellow at the Pembroke Center at Brown University. She teaches classes in philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, feminist philosophy and logic. Her most recent articles include "Dilemmas of Objectivity" (Social Epistemology) and "Changing the Subject of Epistemology and Psychology: William James's Psychology without Borders" (Metaphilosophy). She is presently working on a book on experience and rationality and on a volume on Richard Rorty for the Penn State University Press series Re-reading the Canon.
Gordon Jones earned his master's and doctorate in nuclear physics from Princeton University. His research interests include using neutrons to study fundamental symmetries and polarizing neutrons for use in materials science. On the fundamental side, Jones studies time reversal symmetry and weak interactions in nuclei. On the applied side, Jones builds devices used to understand magnetic materials such as the read heads in computer hard drives. His published papers appear in a range of journals including Physical Review C, Journal of Applied Crystalography, and Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Prior to coming to Hamilton in 1999, Jones worked as a NRC Post-Doc, NIST, and a visiting scientist at Indiana University.
Rob Martin teaches political theory and his interests include American political thought, democratic theory, early modern political thought, philosophy of social science, and constitutional law. His current book, The Free and Open Press: The Founding of American Democratic Press Liberty, (New York University Press, 2001). Martin is co-editor with Hamilton professor Douglas Ambrose of The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton: The Life and Legacy of America's Most Elusive Founding Father, (New York University Press, 2006). His work has appeared in History of Political Thought, Polity, The Journal of the Early Republic and Political Research Quarterly. Researching early American theories of free speech, Martin was a summer fellow at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Mass., and a research fellow at the New-York Historical Society. He was a presenter at the Alexander Hamilton Conference at Hamilton College in 2003.
