Dean of Faculty Joseph Urgo announced the appointment of new faculty for the 2008-2009 academic year, including five tenure-track appointments, 31 visiting professors and instructors, and seven lecturers and teaching fellows. Following are new tenure-track appointments:
Emily Conover joins Hamilton as an assistant professor of economics. She grew up in Colombia and came to the United States for her undergraduate studies at Wellesley College. She then studied economics at the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne. Conover earned her Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley. Her fields of specialization are development and labor economics. Conover's current research interests include health policy, corruption, and formal and informal labor markets, among other topics in applied microeconomics.
Myriam Cotten, associate professor of chemistry, holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, a master's degree in chemical engineering from Ecole Supérieure de Chimie Organique et Minérale in Paris and earned a Ph. D. in chemistry from Florida State University. Cotten's research interests include the use and development of biophysical and biochemical techniques such as magnetic resonance to study the structure, function, and mode of action of membrane-interacting peptides and proteins. Her current research focuses on antimicrobial peptides. Cotten's research has been supported by the Dreyfus Foundation, National Science Foundation, and Research Corporation (RC), and she is a recipient of a RC Brian Andreen Award and an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award.
Angel David Nieves joins the Hamilton faculty as associate professor of Africana Studies. He taught in the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at the University of Maryland, College Park, from 2003-2008. He completed his doctoral work in architectural history and Africana Studies at Cornell University in 2001. Nieves' forthcoming book, 'We Shall Independent Be:' African American Place-Making and the Struggle to Claim Space in the U.S. (University Press of Colorado, June 2008), examines African-American efforts to claim space in American society despite fierce resistance. Nieves has published essays in the International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, and in several edited collections. His digital research and scholarship have also been featured on MSNBC.com and in Newsweek.
Edna M. Rodríguez-Plate, associate professor of Hispanic Studies, completed her bachelor's degree at the University of Puerto Rico, did master's work at Purdue University and completed her Ph.D. at Emory University. Her research and teaching begins with basic questions about identity, from individual identities to a collective social-national identity: How are identities constructed, represented and contested culturally, in films, literature and the mass media? How is ideology produced and how does it affect our sense of the world, our world? Rodríguez-Plate specializes in Spanish and Latin American Cinema, contemporary Latin American literature and culture, and Cuban studies. She is the author of Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an Afro-Cuban Cultural Identity, and has written several articles on Cuban film and literature.
Zhuoyi Wang, instructor in East Asian Languages and Literatures, received his master's degree in linguistics and applied linguistics at Beijing University and is now a candidate for a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Washington. Wang has taught at various institutions, including the Summer Chinese School at Middlebury College, the Department of Modern Languages and Literature at Kenyon College, and the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. He is currently working on his dissertation on Chinese film history from 1949 to 1966. His teaching and research interests include Chinese history, film, literature and language.
Visiting faculty members for the 2008-09 academic year include: Delia Aguilar, women's studies; Kathryn Almanas, art; Shoshana Brassfield, philosophy; Luisa Briones, Hispanic studies; Jacqueline Brown '04, art; Chris Calvert-Minor, philosophy; Cheryl Casey, communication; Stefan Dolgert, government; John Edlund, psychology; Tomomi Emoto, anthropology; Lynn Evans, psychology; Michael Garcia, English; Daniel Gries, mathematics; Dustin Helmer '99, theatre; TiaoGuan Huang, East Asian languages; Su Yun Kim, comparative literature; Amy Lytle, physics; Morgan Marietta, government; David McCabe, philosophy; Damhnait McHugh, biology; Anna Oldfield, comparative literature; Natalia Perez, Hispanic studies; S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate, religious studies; Aaron Spevack, religious studies; Jane Springer, English; Samuel Steinberg, Hispanic studies; Chiara Sulprizio, classics; Eglute Trinkauske, religious studies; Zhuoyi Wang, East Asian languages and Sufeng Xu, East Asian languages.
New lecturers are George Baker '74, government, Lilia Trenkova, theatre, and Frank Vlossak '89, government. Returning lecturers are Mireille Aboumrad, French; Victoria Allen, education studies; Nesecan Balkan, economics; Milton Bloch, art history; Robert Del Buono, communication; Anat Guez, critical languages; Richard Lloyd, dance; Jeremy Medina, Hispanic studies; Jean Morris, psychology; Stephen Owen, economics; and Kim Wieczorek, education studies.
Four new teaching fellows have joined the language departments: Nelly Diarra, French; Carolin Doert, German; Ying Gao, Chinese; and Pe-I Wu, Chinese.
Emily Conover joins Hamilton as an assistant professor of economics. She grew up in Colombia and came to the United States for her undergraduate studies at Wellesley College. She then studied economics at the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne. Conover earned her Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley. Her fields of specialization are development and labor economics. Conover's current research interests include health policy, corruption, and formal and informal labor markets, among other topics in applied microeconomics.
Myriam Cotten, associate professor of chemistry, holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, a master's degree in chemical engineering from Ecole Supérieure de Chimie Organique et Minérale in Paris and earned a Ph. D. in chemistry from Florida State University. Cotten's research interests include the use and development of biophysical and biochemical techniques such as magnetic resonance to study the structure, function, and mode of action of membrane-interacting peptides and proteins. Her current research focuses on antimicrobial peptides. Cotten's research has been supported by the Dreyfus Foundation, National Science Foundation, and Research Corporation (RC), and she is a recipient of a RC Brian Andreen Award and an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award.
Angel David Nieves joins the Hamilton faculty as associate professor of Africana Studies. He taught in the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at the University of Maryland, College Park, from 2003-2008. He completed his doctoral work in architectural history and Africana Studies at Cornell University in 2001. Nieves' forthcoming book, 'We Shall Independent Be:' African American Place-Making and the Struggle to Claim Space in the U.S. (University Press of Colorado, June 2008), examines African-American efforts to claim space in American society despite fierce resistance. Nieves has published essays in the International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, and in several edited collections. His digital research and scholarship have also been featured on MSNBC.com and in Newsweek.
Edna M. Rodríguez-Plate, associate professor of Hispanic Studies, completed her bachelor's degree at the University of Puerto Rico, did master's work at Purdue University and completed her Ph.D. at Emory University. Her research and teaching begins with basic questions about identity, from individual identities to a collective social-national identity: How are identities constructed, represented and contested culturally, in films, literature and the mass media? How is ideology produced and how does it affect our sense of the world, our world? Rodríguez-Plate specializes in Spanish and Latin American Cinema, contemporary Latin American literature and culture, and Cuban studies. She is the author of Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an Afro-Cuban Cultural Identity, and has written several articles on Cuban film and literature.
Zhuoyi Wang, instructor in East Asian Languages and Literatures, received his master's degree in linguistics and applied linguistics at Beijing University and is now a candidate for a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Washington. Wang has taught at various institutions, including the Summer Chinese School at Middlebury College, the Department of Modern Languages and Literature at Kenyon College, and the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. He is currently working on his dissertation on Chinese film history from 1949 to 1966. His teaching and research interests include Chinese history, film, literature and language.
Visiting faculty members for the 2008-09 academic year include: Delia Aguilar, women's studies; Kathryn Almanas, art; Shoshana Brassfield, philosophy; Luisa Briones, Hispanic studies; Jacqueline Brown '04, art; Chris Calvert-Minor, philosophy; Cheryl Casey, communication; Stefan Dolgert, government; John Edlund, psychology; Tomomi Emoto, anthropology; Lynn Evans, psychology; Michael Garcia, English; Daniel Gries, mathematics; Dustin Helmer '99, theatre; TiaoGuan Huang, East Asian languages; Su Yun Kim, comparative literature; Amy Lytle, physics; Morgan Marietta, government; David McCabe, philosophy; Damhnait McHugh, biology; Anna Oldfield, comparative literature; Natalia Perez, Hispanic studies; S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate, religious studies; Aaron Spevack, religious studies; Jane Springer, English; Samuel Steinberg, Hispanic studies; Chiara Sulprizio, classics; Eglute Trinkauske, religious studies; Zhuoyi Wang, East Asian languages and Sufeng Xu, East Asian languages.
New lecturers are George Baker '74, government, Lilia Trenkova, theatre, and Frank Vlossak '89, government. Returning lecturers are Mireille Aboumrad, French; Victoria Allen, education studies; Nesecan Balkan, economics; Milton Bloch, art history; Robert Del Buono, communication; Anat Guez, critical languages; Richard Lloyd, dance; Jeremy Medina, Hispanic studies; Jean Morris, psychology; Stephen Owen, economics; and Kim Wieczorek, education studies.
Four new teaching fellows have joined the language departments: Nelly Diarra, French; Carolin Doert, German; Ying Gao, Chinese; and Pe-I Wu, Chinese.
