David Paris, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty at Hamilton College, announced the appointment of new faculty members for the 2002-2003 academic year, including 10 tenure track appointments, 14 visiting professors, and 24 lecturers, teaching fellows and instructors. Classes at Hamilton began on Monday, September 2.
New tenure track appointments include:
Juan Gonzalez-Espitiá, instructor in Spanish, earned a Ph.D. in Hispanic literature from Cornell University, and master's from Institute del Altos Estudios para el Desarrolo in Bogota, Columbia. He has published essays and translations in Panamericana Editorial and Dictionary of Literary Biography.
John LaGraff, assistant professor of chemistry, comes to Hamilton from Union College, where he was a visiting professor. He will teach physical and general chemistry and conduct research in the area of nanobiotechnology. LaGraff was also a visiting scientist at the New York State Department of Health's Wadsworth Center, where he worked in the Nanobiotechnology Center on projects related to patterning of proteins on materials surfaces and the interface between microelectronics and biomolecules. Previously LaGraff was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in chemistry at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, where he earned a Ph.D. in ceramic science. He has published 30 papers in numerous journals, including PhysicaC, Superconducting Science and Technology, Journal of Physical Chemistry and Journal of Materials Research, made 60 invited and contributed presentations and has eight patents pending.
Masaki Kamiya, instructor in East Asian languages, earned a master's from East Carolina University and is a candidate for a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Maryland, College Park. Kamiya's research interests include Japanese linguistics, first and second language acquisition, syntax, semantics and lexicon.
Robert Martin, assistant professor of government, earned a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Minnesota. Martin, a visiting assistant professor at Hamilton College in 2001-02, 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, was published by NYU Press. His work has appeared in History of Political Thought and Political Research Quarterly. Recently, book reviews of his appeared in the American Political Science Review and The Review of Politics. Researching early American theories of free speech, Martin was a summer fellow at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Ma.
Michael McCormick, assistant professor of biology, earned a Ph.D. and master's degree in environmental engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he was most recently a post-doctoral research fellow. He was a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins, and also worked as a research engineer at E.I. DuPont Washington Works. Previously McCormick was acting country director of the U.S. Peace Corps in Sierra Leone. He has published several papers and made numerous invited presentations about carbon tetrachloride research.
Tara Eberhardt McKee, instructor of psychology, earned a Ph.D. and master's in clinical psychology from the University of Connecticut. Her clinical work has focused on children in school settings and in-patient hospital settings. Her research focuses on families coping with children with externalizing disorders. McKee is author or co-author of numerous papers published in Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Behaviour Research and Therapy, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Journal of the American Medical Association, and has made several invited presentations.
Kyoko Omori, instructor in East Asian languages, is a candidate for a Ph.D. in Japanese literature from Ohio State University in fall 2002. Her special interests include Japanese popular culture in the early 20th century and Noh drama. Omori has published three professional papers and made several invited presentations.
Brian Rosmaita, assistant professor of computer science, earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame and a master's degree in computer science from Vanderbilt University. He most recently taught at the State University of New York at Cortland, and previously taught at Kent State University. Rosmaita is the author of a forthcoming review in Research in Philosophy and Technology (Fall, 2002) and has given several invited presentations.
Julio Videras, assistant professor of economics, is a candidate for a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he earned a master's degree. He has published a paper in Contemporary Economic Policy and is co-author of a forthcoming paper in Handbook of Contingent Valuation.
Steven Yao, assistant professor of English, earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. He taught at Ohio State University from 1997 to 2002. He is the author of Translation and the Languages of Modernism (Palgrave/St. Martins, 2002). Yao's academic interests include literary translation, poetry, Asian-American literature, and cross-cultural politics.
New visiting faculty members for the 2002-2003 academic year are: Hanadi AbdelSalam, physics; John Adams, rhetoric and communication; Nesecan Balkan, economics; Milton Bloch, art; Peter Cannavo, government; David Craig, physics; Jennifer Day, German and Russian; Matthew Evans, geology; Celeste Friend, philosophy; Soledad Gelles, Spanish; Hong Gu, East Asian languages; Christina Heckman, English; Astrid Helfant, biology; Alister Inglis, East Asian languages; Joshua Lesperance, mathematics; Gregory Littman, philosophy; Mark Masterson, classics; Maggie Morehouse, history; Minnie Bruce Pratt, women's studies; David Rivera, government; Christine Swain, Spanish; and Gilman Whiting, rhetoric and communication.
Returning visiting faculty members are: Thomas Bass, American studies; Kristin Campbell, government; Hsiu-hsien Chan, East Asian languages; Danielle DeMuth, women's studies; Marta Folio, German & Russian; Anat Glick, critical languages; Tina Hall, English;Mary Rojas, religious studies; Gabriela Solano, Spanish; Jeffrey Spires, French; Richard Stahnke, economics; Ram Subramaniam, chemistry; Carlos Yordan, government; and Yin Zhang, East Asian languages.
New lecturers have been named: Michael Bagge, sociology, Eileen Moeller, English; and Karen Stearns, oral communication program. Returning lecturers are Austin Briggs, English; James Helmer, oral communication; Richard Lloyd, theatre & dance; Sylvia deSwaan, art ; Eugenia Taft, critical languages; Giles Wayland-Smith, government; Kim Weiczorek, program in teacher education; and Sidney Wertimer, economics.
Four new Teaching Fellows have joined the foreign language departments: Toshihiro Asai, East Asian languages; Hongwei Lu, East Asian languages, Typhanie Soulet, French, and Wiebke Spitzer, German.
