Jinho Baik

Jinho Baik joins the Department of Mathematics as an Associate Professor. He earned his B.Sc. in Mathematics from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (1995) and his Ph.D. in Mathematics from NYU's Courant Institute (1999). Previously, he taught at Princeton University and the University of Michigan.

Dr. Baik's research interests include: integrable systems, random matrices and their applications to combinatorics, probability theory and mathematical physics. He has worked on longest subsequence problems in combinatorics, symmetrized permutations, certain last passage percolation models, exclusion processes, discrete orthogonal polynomials and sample covariance matrices. Recently, he also began studying the general universality questions for the models which do not necessarily have such direct connections to random matrix theory.

Dr. Baik was a recipient of the Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, the AMS Centennial Research Fellowship, the Sloan Research Fellowship and the CMFTAward for an outstanding young researcher.

Jennifer Baker

Jennifer Baker, a specialist in 18th and 19th Century American literature, joins the Department of English as an Assistant Professor. She received her B.A. in English from Georgetown University (1990), her M.A. in English from Stanford University (1993) and her Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania (2000). Previously, she taught at Vassar College and Yale University.

Dr. Baker's book, Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America (Johns Hopkins, 2005), received Yale's 2004 Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize. Recently, she co-edited a special issue of Early American Literature on economics and early American studies, and her current project is a study of literary Romanticism and the natural sciences in works by Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, and Edgar Allan Poe. She was also a Melville Lyceum Lecturer at the New Bedford Whaling Museum (2006).

Chris Barker

Chris Barker joins the Department of Linguistics as an Associate Professor. He received a B.A. in English from Yale (1983), and a B.A. in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California - Santa Cruz (1986, 1991). He has held research positions and teaching positions at SRI International, the Center for Cognitive Science at Ohio State, the Center for the Sciences of Language at the University of Rochester and the University of California - San Diego.

Dr. Barker's work characterizes meaning in natural languages from a formal (mathematical) perspective. He has published work on quantification and binding; formal models of linguistic vagueness; thematic relations in derived and relational nouns; definiteness; and partitives. His book Possessive Descriptions (1995) focused on possessive constructions. He is writing a book, with Chungchieh Shan, introducing continuations (a concept from theoretical computer science and mathematical logic) as a tool for understanding the nature of linguistic meaning.

Benoît Bolduc

An accomplished scholar of early modern French literature, specializing in theatre and court festivals of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, Benoît Bolduc joins the Faculty of Arts and Science as an Associate Professor in the French Department. Dr. Bolduc earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in French Studies from the Université de Montréal (1989, 1990, 1995). Previously, he taught at the University of Toronto and the National Theatre School of Canada.

Dr. Bolduc researches the recording of early modern performances through texts and images and the ways in which these shape both subsequent performances as well as enduring cultural and historical narratives. His publications include Andromède au rocher (Olschki, 2002), and Texte et représentation: les arts du spectacle, XVIe s. - XVIIIe s. (Texte 33/34, 2003). Support for his research has included important grants and fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Oxford University.

Ronald Briggs

With research interests that include Enlightenment philosophy and the development of the essay in the post-revolutionary Americas, Ronald Briggs joins the Department of Spanish and Portuguese as an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow. He earned his B.A. in English and Spanish from the University of the South (1998), his M.A. in Spanish from Middlebury College (1999), and his Ph.D. in Latin American Literature from New York University (2005), where his thesis was directed by Eduardo Subirats. Previously he taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Bard College.

Dr. Briggs has published an article, "Emerson, Bello, Rodríguez y la ansiedad posrevolucionaria," in Revista de Humanidades: Tecnológico de Monterrey, as well as book reviews in Críticas and poems in the South Carolina Review. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Modern Language Association, and the Latin American Studies Association, Dr. Briggs received Penfield and MacCracken Fellowships while a student at NYU.

Adam Carter

Adam Carter joins the Center for Neural Science as an Assistant Professor. He received his B.A. in Biological Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge (1997). He received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard University (2002), where he worked in the laboratory of Wade Regehr and studied synaptic transmission at interneurons in the cerebellum. Since then, he has worked with Bernardo Sabatini at Harvard Medical School and studied synaptic integration and dendritic calcium signaling in principal neurons of the striatum.

His current research addresses the cellular physiology of neurons in the brain, using a combination of electrophysiology, 2-photon microscopy and molecular biology. His overall goal is to explore the electrical and biochemical signals found in the dendrites and spines of neurons. A related goal is to determine how these signals are shaped by different neuromodulators in the brain and integrated during realistic circuit activity.

Nathaniel Daw

Nathaniel Daw joins the Center for Neural Science and the Psychology Department as an Assistant Professor. He received his B.A. in the Philosophy of Science from Columbia University (1996) and his M.A. in Computer Science and his Ph.D. in Computer Science with a certification in Cognitive Neuroscience from Carnegie Mellon University (2000, 2003). Following his Ph.D., he received a Royal Society USA Research Fellowship to pursue postdoctoral research at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London.

Dr. Daw's research focuses on learned decision making, combining computational, behavioral, and neural perspectives and approaches. He is particularly interested in the use of computational models in the design and analysis of experiments. His recent articles include "Cortical substrates for exploratory decisions in humans," co-authored with John O'Doherty et al., in Nature (2006) and "Uncertainty-Based Competition Between Prefrontal and Dorsolateral Striatal Systems for Behavioral Control," coauthored with Yael Niv and Peter Dayan, in Nature Neuroscience (2005).

Tamer el-Leithy

Born and raised in Cairo, Egypt, Tamer el-Leithy joins the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies as an Assistant Professor. He earned his B.A. in Economics from the American University in Cairo (1994), his M.Phil. in Middle Eastern History at Cambridge University (1997) and his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University (2005). After briefly working in corporate planning, his studies were inspired by a novel he read set in Mamluk, Cairo.

Dr. el-Leithy's broad academic interests include family history, genealogy, and ethnicity; inter-faith relations (including comparative studies); gender and sexuality; and political sovereignty in the context of Mamluk judicial multiplicity. His dissertation, "Coptic Culture and Conversion in Medieval Cairo," examines a pivotal wave of Christian conversion to Islam in the 14th century, and he is expanding it into a book by including comparisons to medieval Iberian mass conversions and the resultant suspicion of conversos and Moriscos.

Mark Elmore

Mark Elmore joins the Religious Studies program as an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow. He earned his B.A. and his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of California - Santa Barbara (1995, 2005) and his M.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Colorado, Boulder (1998). Previously, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy/Program in Religious Studies at the University of North Florida.

Dr. Elmore's research interests include religion in South Asia, postcoloniality, religion and state, visual culture, and theories of religion. He is currently working on several projects critically examining religion and colonialism, including an edited volume, a manuscript, and a multi-year consultation at the American Academy of Religion. He is also working on a documentary film about the public debate over animal sacrifice in the Western Himalayas. His research has been funded by Fulbright-Hays, the Lilly Endowment, U.C. Office of the President, and the Muktabodha Indological Research Institute.

Gennady Estraikh

Gennady Estraikh joins the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies as the Rauch Clinical Associate Professor of Yiddish. He earned his B.A. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Zaporozhye Technical University (1974), and his Ph.D. in Yiddish from Oxford University (1996). Previously, he worked at the Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies and the London-based School of Oriental and African Studies.

Originally from a Yiddish-speaking family from the Ukraine in the former-Soviet Union, Dr. Estraikh became a refusenik and participated in unofficial Jewish activities in Moscow. In the mid-1980s he emerged as a Yiddish writer and journalist and was Managing Editor of the Moscow Yiddish monthly Sovetish Heymland. Dr. Estraikh's recent publications include Soviet Yiddish: Language Planning and Linguistic Development (Oxford, 1999) and In Harness: Yiddish Writers' Romance with Communism (2005). His columns in the New York weekly Forverts have been popular among contemporary Yiddish readers.

Chiara Ferrari

Chiara Ferrari joins the Department of Italian Studies as an Assistant Professor. She received her B.A. from Brooklyn College, CUNY (1990) and her M.A. and Ph.D. from New York University (1994, 2003). Previously, Dr. Ferrari taught at New York University and as an Assistant Professor at the College of William and Mary.

A specialist in 19th and 20th Century Italian literature, fascism and culture, and gender studies, her research interests also include autobiography, travel narratives, and critical theory. She is currently completing a book titled The Rhetoric of Violence and Sacrifice in Fascist Italy: Mussolini, Gadda, Vittorini. Recent articles include "Discursive Ritual and Sacrificial Presentation: The Rhetoric of Crisis and Resolution in Fascist Italy" in The Italianist (2003). She received numerous honors including the Dean's Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Humanities; the Penfield Fellowship for Studies in Diplomacy, International Affairs and Belles Lettres and the Together for Peace Foundation Award.

Juan Flores

With interests that include Puerto Rican and Latina/o culture, diaspora and transnational communities, and the sociology of popular culture, Juan Flores joins the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis as a Professor. He received his B.A. in German Studies from Queens College (1964), his M.A. in German Studies from Yale University (1965) and his Ph.D. in German Studies from Yale University (1969). Previously, he taught at Stanford University and CUNY.

Dr. Flores's books include Poetry in East Germany, The Insular Vision, Divided Borders: Essays on Puerto Rican Identity, La venganza de Cortijo, and From Bomba To Hip- Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity. He is the translator of Memoirs of Bernardo Vega and Cortijo's Wake by Edgardo Rodríguez Julià , and co-editor of On Edge: The Crisis of Latin American Culture. His current projects include: Companion to Latino Studies (co-editing with Renato Rosaldo), Boogaloo y otros guisos, and The Diaspora Strikes Back: Cultural Challenges of Transnational Communities.

Toral Gajarawala

Toral Gajarawala joins the English department as Assistant Professor. She earned her B.A. in French Literature and Biology from Tufts University (1997), her M.A. in Comparative Literature from New York University (1999) and her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California - Berkeley (2004). Previously, she taught at Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon and the University of California - Berkeley.

Dr. Gajarawala's research interests lie in contemporary Anglophone literatures, untouchable caste writing in Hindi, postcolonial theory, and the various crises of realism. Her publications include "Selections from Achut Ank, Saraswati: Translation and Commentary" in Writing the Nation. An Anthology of Hindi and Urdu Texts on Nationalism in English Translation (Permanent Black, forthcoming). She is currently working on a book on social realism in Indian literatures. Dr. Gajarawala is the recipient of numerous fellowships, including the New Faculty Research Award at the University of Oregon.

Haidy Geismar

With a focus on anthropology and museum studies, Haidy Geismar joins the Anthropology Department and the Museum Studies Program as an Assistant Professor. She received her B.A. in Archaeology and Anthropology from the University of Cambridge (1997) and both her M.A. in the Anthropology of Art and her Ph.D. in Anthropology from University College, London (1999, 2003). Previously, she held a position in NYU's Program in Museum Studies.

Dr. Geismar's research interests are focused on material and visual culture, cross-cultural theories of materiality and value, the anthropology of intellectual and cultural property, and the Pacific (Vanuatu and New Zealand). She has published articles on the auction market for Pacific arts, indigenous intellectual property legislation, contemporary indigenous arts, and on the entangled history of anthropology and photography. Recent awards include a British Academy Small Research Grant (2004), a NZ-UK Link Foundation Social Science Research Fellowship (2004), and an Economic and Social Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship (2003).

Michah Gottlieb

Michah Gottlieb joins the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies as an Assistant Professor. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from McGill University (1995), his M.A. in Hebrew and Judaic Studies from New York University (1997), and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Indiana University (2003). Previously, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Brown University.

Dr. Gottlieb works in the area of Jewish thought and philosophy. His current research interests center on the problem of faith versus reason in the medieval and modern periods, the relationship between the German and Jewish Enlightenments, and philosophical approaches to Biblical interpretation. His publications include: "Moses Mendelssohn's Metaphysical Defense of Religious Pluralism" in the Journal of Religion; "What is Spinoza's Method of Biblical Interpretation and What is its Purpose?" in Jewish Studies Quarterly; and "Between Mysticism and Philosophy" for the forthcoming Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy. He was recently awarded a Yad Hanadiv Fellowship.

Maria Gouskova

Maria Gouskova joins the Department of Linguistics as an Assistant Professor. She earned her B.A. with a joint major in English Linguistics and German Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University (1998) and her Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (2003). Previously, she taught at the University of Massachusetts, Rutgers University and Georgetown University.

Dr. Gouskova's research investigates the grounding of phonological constraints in formal and phonetic hierarchies. She has worked on several topics in prosodic and segmental phonology. Dr. Gouskova's publications include: "Relational Hierarchies in OT: the Case of Syllable Contact" in Phonology; the forthcoming work "Acoustics of Epenthetic Vowels in Lebanese Arabic," with Nancy Hall, in Phonological Argumentation: Essays on Evidence and Motivation (edited by Steve Parker, Equinox) and "On the Status of Voiced Stops in Tswana: Against *ND," with Elizabeth Zsiga and One Tlale, in the NELS Proceedings.

Kristin Gunsalus

With a focus on networks and bioinformatics, Kristin Gunsalus joins the Department of Biology as an Assistant Professor. She earned her B.A. in Chemistry and Biology at Cornell University (1984) and her Ph.D. in Biology at Cornell University (1997).

Dr. Gunsalus was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Kemphues lab at Cornell University, where she retrained in functional genomics and bioinformatics and went on to develop the bioinformatics and database components to generate an RNAi-based phenomic map of the C. elegans early embryo. She obtained a National Science Foundation Advance Fellows Award for integrative functional genomics and was also named a National Academies Education Fellow in the Life Sciences. Dr. Gunsalus was recently first author on a paper about "molecular machines" in Nature and it was featured on NPR's "Imagine That," highlighted on www.NSF.gov, mentioned in Developmental Cell, and cited as a "must read" by the Faculty of 1000.

Hala Halim

Hala Halim joins the Departments of Middle Eastern Studies and Comparative Literature as an Assistant Professor. She earned her B.A. in English Literature from Alexandria University (1985), her M.A. in English and Comparative Literature from the American University in Cairo (1992) and her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California - Los Angeles (2004), where she was the recipient of a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Dr. Halim's research interests include globalization in relation to cosmopolitanism and alternative modernities; Eastern and Western travel literature; comparison between postcolonial Arabic literature and Arab Anglophone and Francophone literatures; and translation theory. Her publications include articles about filmmaker Youssef Chahine and poet Constantine Cavafy, and she is turning her dissertation, "The Alexandria Archive: An Archaeology of Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism," into a book. She won an Egyptian State Incentive Award in literature for her translation of Mohamed El-Bisatie's novel Clamor of the Lake (American University in Cairo Press, 2004).

Andrew Jewett

Andrew Jewett joins the John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Master's Program as an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in Science Studies. He earned his B.A. in History and his M.A. and Ph.D. in American History at the University of California - Berkeley (1992, 1998, 2002).

Dr. Jewett's research centers on science, religion, and the state in modern American political thought. His publications include "Science & the Promise of Democracy in America" in Dædalus (Fall 2003); he is currently writing manuscripts entitled To Make America Scientific: Science, Democracy, and the University Before the Cold War (Johns Hopkins University Press) and Against the Technostructure: Critics of Scientism Since the New Deal. Dr. Jewett has taught at Yale and Vanderbilt and has been a Society for the Humanities Fellow at Cornell University; a Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow with the National Academy of Education, and a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

A. J. Julius

A. J. Julius joins the Department of Philosophy as an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow. He earned his B.A. in Economics and Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin at Madison (1996) and his Ph.D. in Economics at the New School for Social Research (2005). At the New School he taught graduate microeconomics and did research on growth theory and on models of decentralized production and exchange.

Dr. Julius has written about the subject and scope of principles of justice in "Basic structure and the value of equality" (2003) and in "Nagel's Atlas" (2005), both in Philosophy and Public Affairs. He is working on an account of the authority of contractualist reasoning in ethics, a contractualist theory of the justification of coercion, and an integrationist theory of the values of liberty, equality, and democracy that traces them to a common source in the justification of coercively imposed institutions.

Hyunsuk Kang

Hyunsuk Kang joins the Department of Mathematics as an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow. She earned her B.Sc. and M.A. in Mathematics from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (1995, 1997) and her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania (2003). She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Kang is interested in several complex variables. Her dissertation concerned curves which arise as boundaries of analytic subvarieties in several variable complex spaces, using techniques from pseudo-differential operators to obtain indices from Fredholm operators, which are independent of the choice of parametrization of the curves. She also studies the question of polynomial convexity and the relationship between polynomial algebra and the algebra of holomorphic functions. Currently, she is studying domains of finite type and degenerate complex tangencies, extending some known results on complex tangencies of a totally real submanifold on the boundary of a strict pseudoconvex domain.

Eric Klann

With research interests that include investigations of the molecular mechanisms underlying synaptic plasticity and memory formation and how these mechanisms are altered in diseases of memory, Eric Klann joins the Center for Neural Science as a Professor. He earned his B.S. in Chemistry from Gannon University (1984) and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics from the Medical College of Virginia (1989). Previously, he held faculty positions at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Klann has numerous publications, including "Dynamic translational and proteasomal regulation of the fragile X mental retardation protein controls metabotropic glutamate receptor-dependent long-term depression," co-authored with L. Hou, M.D. Antion, D. Hu, C.M. Spencer, and R.E. Paylor, in Neuron (2006). He has received several honors and awards, including a Cynthia and George Mitchell Dementia Research Award (2003) and the Medical College of Virginia Basic Health Sciences Outstanding Alumnus Award (2004).

Perri Klass

Perri Klass joins the Department of Journalism as a Professor, with an affiliated appointment in the NYU Medical School's Pediatrics Department. She received her A.B. in Biology from Harvard (1979) and her M.D. from Harvard Medical School (1986). Previously, she practiced pediatrics at an urban health care clinic in Boston for 12 years and directed a national literacy program, Reach Out and Read.

Dr. Klass has published her medical journalism in many newspapers and magazines, including the Science Section of the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, The New England Journal of Medicine, Esquire, Parenting, and Vogue. She has written regular columns about medicine for Discover Magazine, American Health, Massachusetts Medicine, and Diversion. Her essays about medicine and medical training have been collected in the books A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student (1987), and Baby Doctor: A Pediatrician's Training (1992).

Matthew Kleban

With research interests that include string theory, particle physics and theoretical cosmology, Matthew Kleban joins the Department of Physics as an Assistant Professor. He earned his B.A. in Physics at Reed College (1996), his M.A. in Physics at the University of California - Berkeley (2000), and his Ph.D. in Physics at Stanford University (2003).

Dr. Kleban's publications include: "Observational consequences of a landscape," with B. Freivogel, M. Rodriguez Martinez and L. Susskind, in the Journal of High Energy Physics (2006); "Poincare recurrences and topological diversity," with M. Porrati and R. Rabadan, in the Journal of High Energy Physics (2004); and "1+1 dimensional compactifications of string theory," with N. Goheer and L. Susskind, in Physical Review Letters (2004). Dr. Kleban has received fellowships from the Mellam Family Foundation and the National Science Foundation and was the Roger F. Dashen Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ.

Yusef Komunyakaa

Yusef Komunyakaa joins the Creative Writing Program and the Department of English as a Professor. He earned his B.A. in English and Sociology from the University of Colorado (1975), his M.A. in Creative Writing from Colorado State University (1978) and his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of California-Irvine (1980). Previously, he taught at Princeton and Indiana University.

He is the author of numerous books of poems, including Pleasure Dome: New & Collected Poems, 1975-1999 (2001); Talking Dirty to the Gods (2000); Thieves of Paradise (1998); Neon Vernacular: New & Selected Poems 1977-1989 (1994), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize; Magic City (1992); Dien Cai Dau (1988); I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head (1986); and Copacetic (1984). Professor Komunyakaa's prose is collected in Blues Notes: Essays, Interviews & Commentaries (University of Michigan Press, 2000). He has received numerous honors and was elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets (1999).

Maud Kozodoy

Maud Kozodoy joins the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies as a Dorot Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow. She earned her B.A. in Physics from Princeton University (1988) and her M.A. in Jewish Studies and Ph.D. in Medieval Jewish Studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (1996, 2006). Previously, she has taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary and Hunter College in New York.

Her research interests are focused on medieval Jewish philosophy and literature, Jewish-Christian relations in the later Middle Ages, the history of medieval science and medicine, and the incorporation of science and philosophy into literature, secular poetry and liturgy. Named a Simon H. Rifkind Scholar in Advanced Jewish Studies by the Charles H. Revson Foundation (1999-2003, 2004-2005) and honored with a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Jewish Studies from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture (2004-2005), she wrote her dissertation on the late-fourteenth-century Jewish thinker Profiat Duran.

Edo Kussell

With research interests that include microbial genomics and informatics, Edo Kussell joins the Department of Biology as an Assistant Professor. He earned his B.A. in Mathematics at Harvard University (1997); and his Ph.D. in BioPhysics, with a focus on protein-folding theory under the direction of Dr. Eugene Shakohovich, at Harvard University (2002).

Dr. Kussell's post-doctoral research work was performed in the laboratory of Stan Liebler at Rockefeller University. This work concerned modeling stochastic switching and sensing and information processing of bacterial growth in fluctuating environments. Dr. Kussell was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship in Computational Molecular Biology. His research interests include population biology and information theory, genomics studies of evolution of switching and sensing, and ecology of mobile DNA elements and intragenome competitions. For his future work as an independent investigator, Dr. Kussell has been awarded a five year Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award through the Scientific Interface Program.

Jill Lane

Jill Lane joins the Department of Spanish and Portuguese as an Assistant Professor. She earned her B.A. in Comparative Literature and her M.A. in Theatre from Brown University (1989, 1991), and her Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University (2000). She previously taught at Ohio State University and Yale University.

Dr. Lane's research focuses on comparative performance in the Americas, in relation to the histories of colonialism, neocolonialism, and neoliberalism. She is author of Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005) and co-editor, with Peggy Phelan, of The Ends of Performance (New York University Press, 1998). With Fernando Rosenberg, she edited a special issue of e-misférica on "Performance and Law" (May 2006). Her articles appear in the anthologies Critical Theory and Performance (Michigan University Press, 2007) and The Performance Studies Reader (Routledge, 2004), and in the journals Theatre Journal and Conjunto. She is Associate Director of the Hemispheric Institute.

Yvonne Latty

Yvonne Latty joins the Department of Journalism as a Clinical Associate Professor. Originally from New York City, she earned her B.F.A. in Film/Television and her M.A. in Journalism from New York University (1984, 1990). Previously, she worked for the Philadelphia Daily News for 13 years, where she was an award winning reporter specializing in urban issues.

Professor Latty is the author of In Conflict: Iraq War Veterans Speak Out on Duty, Loss and the Fight to Stay Alive (Polipoint Press, 2006) and the critically acclaimed We Were There: Voices of African American Veterans, from World War II to the War in Iraq (Harper Collins/Amistad, 2004). She was featured in the History Channel's Documentary Honor Deferred and the upcoming documentary African American Soldiers at D-Day. She has lectured nationally. Professor Latty is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the National Association of Black Journalists.

David Levene

David Levene joins the Department of Classics as a Professor. He received both his B.A. in Literae Humaniores and his D.Phil from Oxford University (1985, 1989). Previously, Dr. Levene was Head of the School of Classics and Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Leeds, and he also taught at the University of Durham and Oxford.

Dr. Levene is the author of the book Religion in Livy (Leiden, 1993). He co-edited Clio and the Poets: Augustan Poetry and the Traditions of Ancient Historiography (Leiden, 2002) and revised and edited Tacitus' Histories (translated by W.H. Fyfe, Oxford, 1997). One of his upcoming books is entitled, Livy on the Hannibalic War, which is due to be published by Oxford University Press. Dr. Levene has also written several articles and book chapters. He recently held a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2004- 2006).

Jinyang Li

Jinyang Li joins the Courant Institute as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. She earned her B.S. in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore (1998) and her S.M. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2001, 2005). She has taught at MIT and conducted research at the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS/ CSAIL) at MIT.

Dr. Li's research interests include distributed systems and computer networks with an emphasis on design of efficient search in large distributed systems. She has published articles in numerous refereed publications, including the Proceedings of the 24th IEEE Infocom, Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems, Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation and the Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer System. Dr. Li has won a Microsoft Research Graduate Fellowship and an IEEE Singapore Information Technology Gold Medal.

Chao-Hui Jenny Liu

An art and archaeology specialist of the Tang dynasty (618-907 A.D.), Chao-Hui Jenny Liu joins the Department of Fine Arts as Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow. She received B.A.'s in English and Asian Studies from the University of California - Berkeley (1992), an M.Phil. in East Asian Archaeology from the University of Cambridge (1994), and a Ph.D. in Chinese Art and Archaeology from the University of London (2006).

Previously, Dr. Liu was Research Associate at The Metropolitan Museum of Art for China: Dawn of A Golden Age, 200-750 A.D. and a Research Specialist at the Smithsonian. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing and the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica in Taipei. She is preparing articles about imperial Tang tombs and the introduction of Chinese art to the West and a book "Ritual Concepts and Political Factors in the Making of Tang Princess Tombs (643-706 A.D.)."

David Ludden

David Ludden joins the Department of History with an interest in Political Economy and Globalization. He received both his M.A./B.A. in South Asia Regional Studies and his Ph.D. in History from the University of Pennsylvania (1972, 1978). He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania since 1981.

Dr. Ludden's current research concerns the history and political economy of human development, which he explores in long-term, comparative perspectives at various spatial levels, from the global to the local. He concentrates empirically on southern Asia, primarily on Bangladesh and surrounding regions. He has edited numerous volumes and published three books and over 50 articles and chapters. Dr. Ludden is currently writing a book on how the reproduction and transformation of imperial forms of power and authority inform and construct contemporary patterns of inequality, globally and in southern Asia. He has received numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Heather Lukes

Heather Lukes joins the John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Master's Program as a Assistant Professor/ Faculty Fellow in Gender Politics. She earned her B.A. in English from the University of California - Berkeley (1993) and her Ph.D. in American Literature from UCLA (2004).

Her work focuses on 19th and 20th Century queer culture, American literary communities, and feminist theory. Dr. Lukes has published in the Oxford Literary Review; GLQ; Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis, edited by Tim Dean and Christopher Lane (University of Chicago Press, 2001); and America First: Naming the Nation in U.S. Film, edited by Mandy Merck (Routledge, forthcoming 2006). Currently, she is researching the role of aesthetic formalism in queer identity formation from the 19th Century to the 21st Century. Dr. Lukes was the recipient of the George C. Chaves Dissertation Fellowship (2004), and she serves on the advisory board for the journal Women and Performance.

Jeff Manza

Jeff Manza joins the Department of Sociology as a Professor. He earned his B.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California - Berkeley (1984, 1995). Previously, he taught at Penn State and Northwestern, where he also served as Associate Director and Director of Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research.

Dr. Manza's research is in the area of social inequality, political sociology, and public policy. He is the co-author of Social Cleavages and Political Change: Voter Alignments and U.S. Party Coalitions (Oxford, 1999); Navigating Public Opinion: Polls, Policy, and the Future of American Democracy (Oxford, 2002); Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy (Oxford, 2006), and he has just finished a book entitled Why Welfare States Persist (Chicago, 2007). Dr. Manza has also published numerous scholarly papers in journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Perspectives on Politics, and the Journal of Politics.

Alec Marantz

Alec Marantz joins the Department of Linguistics and Psychology as a Professor. He received his B.A. in Psycholinguistics from Oberlin College (1978) and his Ph.D. in Linguistics from MIT (1981). Dr. Marantz was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University and taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and MIT, where he was Department Head and the Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Linguistics.

Dr. Marantz's work places linguistics within cognitive neuroscience, emphasizing the connections among linguistics, philosophy, psychology and brain and computer science. He has published on the topics of syntax, morphology, phonology, and psycho- and neurolinguistics. His current work centers on the theory of "Distributed Morphology," developed with Morris Halle and others. Dr. Marantz has published articles in numerous journals, including: Linguistic Inquiry, Cognition, Trends in Cognitive Science and Brain and Language. His research has been funded by grants from the NSF and the Research Development Corporation of Japan.

Clemente Marconi

Focusing on the art and architecture of the Greeks in the archaic and classical periods, Clemente Marconi joins the Institute of Fine Arts as the James R. McCredie Professor in the History of Greek Art and Archaeology. He earned his B.A. in Art History and Archaeology from the University of Rome (1990) and his Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (1997). Previously, he earned tenure at Columbia University and taught at the University of Rome.

Dr. Marconi has made landmark contributions exploring the connections of the visual arts with other media. His numerous publications include Temple Decoration and Cultural Identity in the Archaic Greek World: The Metopes of Selinus (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2006), the acclaimed Selinunte: Le metope dell'Heraion (Panini, 1994), and five volumes as author and editor on the activities and records of the Commission of Antiquities and Fine Arts of Sicily.

Paula McDowell

With a specialization in 18th Century British literature and cultural history and in the history of the book, Paula McDowell joins the Department of English. She received her B.A. in English Literature from the University of British Columbia, Canada (1982) and her Ph.D. in English from Stanford University (1991). Previously she taught at the University of Maryland, College Park and at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

Dr. McDowell is the author of The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730 (Oxford University Press, 1998) and Elinor James: Printed Writings (Ashgate Press, 2005). Her current book project is titled Fugitive Voices: Print Culture and the Idea of Oral Tradition in Eighteenth-Century Britain. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Humanities Center.

Chris Meacham

With research interests in the philosophy of physics, the philosophy of science and formal epistemology, Chris Meacham joins the Department of Philosophy as a Bersoff Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow. He earned his B.A. in Physics and Philosophy from Reed College (1999), and he will receive his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Rutgers University (2007).

Previous topics of research include issues involving the status of statistical mechanical chances and their role in constraining rational action, the tenability of making sense of chances given a Many-Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, the tenability of operationalist understandings of degrees of belief and utility, possible constraints on rational updating rules that can accommodate self-locating beliefs, and the status of a number of puzzles in Bayesian decision theory, such as the two-envelope paradox. He is also interested in philosophical methodology, and the nature of laws, causation and properties. He has published articles in Mind, Philosophical Perspectives, and Philosophical Studies.

Michele Mitchell

Michele Mitchell joins the Department of History as an Associate Professor. She earned her A.B. in History at Mount Holyoke College (1987) and her M.A. and Ph.D. in History at Northwestern University (1993, 1998). Previously, she taught at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Mitchell is the author of Righteous Propagation: African Americans & the Politics of Racial Destiny After Reconstruction (University of North Carolina Press, 2004) and the co-editor of Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender, Sexuality and African Diasporas (Blackwell Publishers, 2004). She currently co-edits the international journal Gender & History. Her articles include "Silences Broken, Silences Kept: Gender & Sexuality in African-American History" in Gender & History (1999) and "'The Black Man's Burden': African Americans, Imperialism, and Notions of Racial Manhood, 1890-1910," in the International Review of Social History Supplement (1999). Her work has also appeared in The Public Historian and Cuban Studies, as well as many book chapters.

Aditi Mitra

With research interests in theoretical condensed matter physics that include nonequilibrium phenomena, physics of nanoscale, and low dimensional strongly correlated systems, Aditi Mitra joins the Department of Physics as an Assistant Professor. She earned her B.Sc. in Physics at Presidency College in Calcutta, India (1993), her M.Sc. in Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur (1995) and her Ph.D. in Physics at Indiana University in Bloomington (2002).

Dr. Mitra's research focuses on understanding nonequilibrium properties of condensed matter systems, including: current carrying and photoexcited molecular devices; current mediated spin-torque effects in magnetic nanostructures; nonequilibrium phase transitions in open systems (coupled to reservoirs) and closed systems such as driven Bose condensates. Her publications include: "Spin dynamics and violation of the fluctuation dissipation theorem in a nonequilibrium ohmic spin boson model" in Physical Review B (2005) and "Semiclassical analysis of the Nonequilibrium Local Polaron" in Physical Review Letters (2005).

Maria E. Montoya

Maria E. Montoya joins the History Department as an Associate Professor. She received her B.A. and Ph.D. in History from Yale University (1986, 1993). After teaching at the University of Colorado and Michigan State University, Dr. Montoya joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in the Department of History and the Program in American Culture in 1994. She was also the Director of Latina/o Studies.

Dr. Montoya's research and teaching interests are in history of the American West, labor history, and Latina/o history. Her first book, Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict Over Land in the American West, 1840-1910, examined how U.S. and Mexican property regimes collided on the American Southwest landscape. She is currently working on a book about Company Towns, Creating an American Home: From Company Towns to Suburban Landscape, 1900-1960, as well as a U.S. History textbook for Houghton Mifflin Co.

Assaf Naor

Assaf Naor joins the Courant Institute as an Associate Professor of Mathematics. He earned a B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1996, 1998, 2002). In 2002, he joined the Theory Group of Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA as postdoctoral researcher, and in 2004, was appointed as a permanent member of the Theory Group.

Dr. Naor's research focuses on applications of analysis to problems in metric geometry, combinatorics, mathematical physics and theoretical computer science. In addition to solving several long-standing open problems, a large part of his work is devoted to applications of sophisticated mathematical methods to computer science, yielding numerous approximation algorithms for NP hard problems and efficient data structures. His honors include the Clore Fellowship, a European Union Marie Curie Fellowship, the Klein Prize for Excellence in Teaching from the Hebrew University, the Israeli Parliament Prize, and several plenary addresses in major conferences.

Karen Newman

Karen Newman joins the Department of English as a Professor. She earned her B.A. in English at Randolph-Macon Woman's College (1970) and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California - Berkeley (1972, 1978). Previously, she was University Professor at Brown University and has also taught at Williams College, The Johns Hopkins University and Harvard.

Dr. Newman's books include Fetal Positions: Individualism, Science, Visuality (Stanford, 1996); Fashioning Femininity and English Renaissance Drama (Chicago, 1991); and Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character: Dramatic Convention in Classical and Renaissance Comedy (Methuen, 1985). Her Cultural Capitals: Early Modern London and Paris is forthcoming from Princeton University Press. Her articles have appeared in various journals, including PMLA, Shakespeare Quarterly and Renaissance Drama. She is on the editorial board of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies and has held numerous fellowships including a Guggenheim and an NEH.

Jeanne Nugent

Jeanne Nugent joins the Department of Fine Arts as an Assistant Professor/ Faculty Fellow. She received her B.F.A. in Painting from The University of the Arts (1986) and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Modern and Contemporary Art History from the University of Pennsylvania (2001, 2005).

Dr. Nugent is a specialist on the work of the contemporary artist Gerhard Richter, and her research interests include postwar art in Germany, photographic and 'artistic' representations of the Holocaust, and the role of art criticism in shaping the discourse of the European neo-avant-garde. Her recent publications include "Overcoming Ideology: Gerhard Richter in Dresden, the Early Years," and "Gerhard Richter's 'Woodlands' and other Things of the Past," in From Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter: Paintings from Dresden (Walther Koenig Verlag, 2006). Her honors include a Fulbright Fellowship, the Samuel H. Kress Two-Year Dissertation Fellowship in Art History, and a Berlin Program Fellowship in Advanced German Studies.

Leslie Peirce

Leslie Peirce joins the Department of History and the Department of Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies as a Professor. She earned her B.A. in History and her M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard and her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University (1988). Previously, she taught at the University of California - Berkeley and Cornell University, and held visiting appointments at Harvard Divinity School and UCLA.

Dr. Peirce's field is early-modern Ottoman politics, society, and law, with special interests in gender. Dr. Peirce's publications include two award-winning books, Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab (University of California Press, 2003) and The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire (Oxford University Press, 1993). The author of numerous articles, she is currently writing a general text on premodern Ottoman society and culture. Dr. Peirce has received fellowships and grants from numerous organizations.

Nicola Persico

Nicola Persico joins the Department of Economics and the Institute for Law and Society as a Professor. Dr. Persico received his B.A. in Economics from Universita' Bocconi in Milan (1991) and his Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University (1996). Previously, he taught at the University of Pennsylvania and at UCLA.

Dr. Persico's research focuses on Law and Economics and Political Economy. Since 2001, Dr. Persico has been editor of the International Economic Review. His key publications include "Racial Profiling, Fairness, and Effectiveness of Policing." in the American Economic Review (2002) and "The Provision of Public Goods Under Alternative Electoral Incentives," co-written with Alessandro Lizzeri, in the American Economic Review (2001). Dr. Persico is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and several NSF grants. He is a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

Minh-Ha T. Pham

Minh-Ha T. Pham joins the Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis as an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow. She received her B.A. in English at the University of California - Santa Barbara (1995) and her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Film Studies at the University of California - Berkeley (2006).

Dr. Pham's research interests include Asian American popular culture, critical race theory, and transpacific approaches to Asian/Pacific/American studies. Her dissertation, Playing (with) Stereotypes studies the ideological and social purposes of representing Asian Pacific Americans as simultaneously laughable and humorless. She is currently working on a book that explores the ways in which comedy mediates lateral race relations in popular culture since the 1960s. Dr. Pham has published in the Journal of Popular Film and Television and This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation edited by Gloria Anzaldua and AnaLouise Keating.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Jayne Anne Phillips joins the Creative Writing Program as the first Lillian Vernon Distinguished Writer in Residence. She is a graduate of West Virginia University and the University of Iowa's Writers Workshop. Professor Phillips has taught at Harvard University, Williams College, Boston University, and Brandeis University.

The author of the novels Machine Dreams, Shelter, and MotherKind, as well as the story collections Black Tickets and Fast Lanes, her work has been translated into a dozen languages and has appeared most recently in Harper's, Granta, Doubletake and the Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction. Professor Phillips is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, an Academy Award in Literature by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, and a Bunting Fellowship from the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College.

Michael Purugganan

Michael Purugganan joins the Department of Biology as a Professor. He received his B.S. at the University of the Philippines (1985), his M.A. in Chemistry at Columbia University (1986) and his Ph.D. in Botany at the University of Georgia (1993). Previously, he was the William Neal Reynolds Professor of Genetics at North Carolina State University.

Dr. Purugganan is a leader in the field of Evolutionary Genomics whose work focuses on identifying the molecular basis for adaptations that occur in nature. He has authored sixty peer-reviewed publications in Science, Nature, Genetics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, and others, and he was profiled in the January 9, 2003 issue of Nature. He is PI on three multimillion dollar genome grants from NSF, for his research on rice and Arabidospis genomics. He is a member of The Faculty of 1000, an Editor of Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, and Associate Editor of Molecular and Developmental Evolution. Dr. Purugganan has been named a Guggenheim Fellow for his work on "The Ecological Transcriptome" (2006).

Sibylle Quack

With research interests that include immigration history, gender studies, Jewish history, and Holocaust remembrance, Sibylle Quack joins the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies as the new holder of the Visiting Max Weber Professorship. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Leibniz University in Hannover (1981). She has taught American History and Political Science at the Universities of Hannover and Bremen. Previously, she was managing director of the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Germany.

Dr. Quack's research interests include conflicting memories and European integration, immigration and cultural exchange, and memory as an issue of Public Policy. She has authored and edited several books, including Geistig frei und Niemandes Knecht. Paul Levi und Rosa Luxemburg (1983), Zuflucht Amerika (1995), Women Refugees of the Nazi Period (1995), Dimensionen der Verfolgung. Opfer und Opfergruppen im Nationalsozialismus, (2003), and Cora Berliner, Gertrud Kolmar, Hannah Arendt (2005).

Aaditya Rangan

Aaditya Rangan joins the Department of Mathematics as an Assistant Professor. He received his B.A. in Mathematics and Physics at Dartmouth College (1999) and his Ph.D. in Mathematics, in the area of Numerical Analysis, at the University of California - Berkeley (2003).

Recently, his work has focused on large scale network models of the mammalian primary visual cortex, as well as numerical methods specifically tailored to evolve these large networks. It is among the leading efforts in computational neuroscience, and has served to explain many recently observed experimental phenomena and challenge the classical assumptions underlying mean-field network analysis. Dr. Rangan's recent publications include "Modeling the spatiotemporal cortical activity associated with the line-motion illusion in primary visual cortex," with D. Cai and D. McLaughlin, in PNAS (2005), and "Fast numerical methods for simulating large-scale integrate-and-fire neuronal networks," with D. Cai, in the Journal of Computational Neuroscience (2006).

Nicole Rizzuto

Nicole Rizzuto joins the John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Master's Program as an Assistant Professor/ Faculty Fellow. She earned her B.A. in English and Philosophy from SUNY - Binghamton (1995), her M.A. in English and Modern Culture and Media from Brown University (1997), and her Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University (2006).

Dr. Rizzuto's research interests include American and European modernism and avant-gardes, poststructuralist, feminist, and rhetorical theories, and postcolonial studies. She recently completed her dissertation entitled "Literature and Testimony: Witnessing Traumatic History in the Works of Herman Melville, Rebecca West, and Sarah Kofman." Dr. Rizzuto has also published an article in Contemporary French and Francophone Studies on Sarah Kofman's testimonial writing and is currently developing a book that will examine witnessing and trauma in the fictional writings of Jean Rhys and Conrad and in the visual and literary productions of members of the 1930s avant-garde in France.

Hannelore Roemich

Hannelore Roemich joins the Institute of Fine Arts with an international reputation as a materials scientist conducting high quality, innovative research that has practical application for art conservation. She studied Chemistry at the University Dortmund in Germany (1984) and earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Heidelberg (1987). She served for eighteen years as a conservation scientist at the Fraunhofer-Institut-für-Silikatforschung (ISC) Würzburg, where she conducted pioneering research on the deterioration and conservation of stained glass and outdoor bronze sculpture.

Dr. Roemich's research includes non-invasive imaging of archaeological objects and the development of passive environmental sensors, including a disposable light dosimeter for museum objects, for which she was awarded the Pan-European Grand Prix for Innovation (2003). She has published over ninety articles, chapters, and other works. Most recently, Dr. Roemich has been Science Officer for the European Cooperation in Scientific and Technical Research, European Science Foundation, in Brussels, Belgium.

Jacob Rosen

Jacob Rosen joins the Department of Philosophy as a Bersoff Assistant Professor/ Faculty Fellow. He earned his B.A. in Physics at Wesleyan University (1995), and worked in Brooklyn as a housepainter and carpenter before resuming his studies at Columbia and Princeton University. He will earn his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Princeton University (expected 2006).

Professor Rosen specializes in ancient philosophy, while maintaining strong non-historical interests as well, especially in metaphysics and political philosophy. He is currently trying to understand Aristotle's account of chance in Physics book II, as well as related notions such as that of a thing's obtaining incidentally (kata sumbebêkos) and that of something's being indefinite (ahoriston). These notions figure, negatively, in arguments about the character of natural processes, and so a careful understanding of them should shed light on Aristotle's positive views about nature: in particular, what exactly his conception of natural teleology amounts to.

B. Peter Rosendorff

With research interests that include international relations, international political economy and formal methods, B. Peter Rosendorff joins the Wilf Family Department of Politics as an Associate Professor. He earned both a B.Sc. in Mathematics and a B.A. in Economics at the University of Witwatersrand, in South Africa (1985, 1986) and an M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Economics at Columbia University (1989, 1989, 1993). Previously, he taught at Georgetown, Columbia, the University of Witwatersrand and most recently as an Associate Professor and the Director of the Center for International Studies at the University of Southern California.

Dr. Rosendorff has published book chapters and numerous articles in journals, such as American Economic Review, American Political Science Review, International Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution and Games and Economic Behavior. He is editor of Economics and Politics and is a member of the editorial board of International Organization. He has been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation and the Japan Foundation.

Timothy Rosenkoetter

Timothy Rosenkoetter joins the Department of Philosophy as an Assistant Professor/ Faculty Fellow. He earned his B.A. in Philosophy from Harvard University (1993), his M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh (1997), and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago (2003). Previously, he has taught at Dartmouth College and the University of Georgia.

Dr. Rosenkoetter is working on a unified reading of Kant's theoretical and practical projects, focusing on how the practical project can qualify as a second transcendental inquiry alongside the theoretical philosophy, instead of as something whose foundation is ultimately provided by the latter. He also addresses issues in ethics and practical reason that might help the deontologist respond to the increasingly sophisticated forms of consequentialism, focusing on how one might defend the claim that our acts are sometimes properly evaluated as a variety of assertion instead of according to how they change the world.

María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo

With a specialization in Latino literary and cultural studies, María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo joins the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis as an Associate Professor. She earned her B.A. in English Literature at Yale University (1983) and her Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University (1993). Previously, she taught at Rutgers University, Brown and the University of California - Santa Barbara.

Dr. Saldaña-Portillo is the author of The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development (Duke University Press, 2003). Her recent book chapters include "From the Borderlands to the Transnational? Critiquing Empire in the 21st Century," in the Companion to Latino Studies (Blackwell, 2006) and "Reading a Silence: The 'Indian' in the Era of Zapatismo" in Unbecoming Modern: Colonialism, Modernity, Colonial Modernities (Social Science Press, 2005). Her articles have appeared in American Quarterly, Radical History Review, New Formations, Nepantla: Views from South, and the Socialist Review.

Kostis Smyrlis

Kostis Smyrlis joins the Department of History and the Program in Hellenic Studies as an Assistant Professor. He earned a Degree in Law from Athens University Law School (1992); an M.A. in Byzantine Studies from Birmingham University, U.K. (1995); and a D.E.A. d'Histoire du Monde Byzantin et Post-Byzantin and a Ph.D. from University of Paris I, Sorbonne (1996, 2002). Previously he taught at University in Istanbul.

Dr. Smyrlis is co-editing the long-running series Archives de l'Athos, in which are published the medieval documents kept in the archives of the Mount Athos monasteries in Greece. He is the author of La fortune des grands monastères byzantins (fin Xème - milieu XIVème siècle) (Paris, 2006) and co-editor of Actes de Vatopédi II, de 1330 a 1376 (Paris, 2006). His current research interests include the examination of the land regime and taxation system of the late Byzantine state.

Lakshminarayanan Subramanian

Lakshminarayanan Subramanian joins the Department of Computer Science in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences as an Assistant Professor. He earned his B.Tech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (1999) and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California - Berkeley (2002, 2005). Previously, he was a researcher at Intel Research.

Dr. Subramanian's research spans Internet routing, network security, overlay networks, wireless networks and appropriate technologies for developing countries. His thesis, "Decentralized Security Mechanisms for Internet Routing," is the recipient of the C.V. Ramamoorthy Award at the University of California - Berkeley, and he won the Best Student Paper award at ACM/USENIX NSDI 2004. His representative publications include "Reliable Broadcast in Unknown Fixed-Identity Networks," with R. Katz, V. Roth, S. Shenker and I. Stoica, in ACM PODC (2005) and "HLP: A Next-generation Interdomain Routing Protocol," with M. Caesar, C. T. Ee, M. Handley, M. Mao, S. Shenker and I. Stoica, in ACM SIGCOMM (2005).

Becca Thomases

Becca Thomases, a mathematician who studies the dynamics of fluids and solids using analytical and computational methods in partial differential equations, joins the Department of Mathematics as an Assistant Professor/ Faculty Fellow. She earned her B.A. in Mathematics at Vassar College (1997); her M.A. in Applied Mathematics at the University of California - Santa Barbara (1999); and her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California - Santa Barbara (2003), where she also received teaching awards.

Currently, Dr. Thomases is analyzing viscoelastic fluid dynamics and recently received a three-year NSF grant to support her research program. In addition to collaborating with colleagues at other institutions, she has given invited talks at sectional and national meetings of the American Mathematical Society, at the International Research Station in Banff, Canada, and in Beijing, China. She has been published in Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics and the Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations.

Florencia Torche

Florencia Torche joins the Department of Sociology as an Assistant Professor. She earned her B.A. in Sociology at the Universidad Catolica de Chile (1996) and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology at Columbia University (2000, 2004). Currently, she is Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Wealth and Inequality at Columbia University, and previously, she taught at Queens College, CUNY.

Dr. Torche researches inequality in the educational, occupational and wealth spheres using an international comparative perspective. She has published in the American Sociological Review, Sociology of Education and Poetics (forthcoming), among other leading journals. She has also published numerous book chapters, including "Wealth Distribution in Latin America" in the volume Personal Assets from a Global Perspective (ed: WIDER-UN). She has been the principal investigator of national social mobility surveys in Chile and Mexico and her research has been funded by numerous organizations, including the ESRU Foundation and the Ford Foundation.

Joshua A. Tucker

Joshua A. Tucker joins the Wilf Family Department of Politics as an Associate Professor. He earned his B.A. in Social Studies (1993) and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science (2000) from Harvard University. He also received his Master of International Studies from the University of Birmingham (1994).

Dr. Tucker studies comparative politics with an emphasis on mass political behavior in East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, including elections and voting, the development of partisan attachment, and public opinion formation. He is the author of Regional Economic Voting: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, 1990-99 (Cambridge University Press, 2006). His work has appeared in numerous journals, including the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics and Political Analysis. He is the recipient of the Emerging Scholar Award for the top scholar in the field of elections, public opinion and voting behavior within 10 years of the doctorate.

Cristina Vatulescu

With research interests in the 20th Century narrative, film studies, aesthetics and politics, immigration and cultural exchange, Cristina Vatulescu joins the Department of Comparative Literature as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Vatulescu completed her B.A. in Literature and her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Harvard (1998, 2005), and was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows (2005-2006).

She is currently completing Police Aesthetics: Literature, Film and The Secret Police, a study of the relationships between cultural and policing practices in 20th Century Eastern Europe. Two articles stemming from this project, "Arresting Biographies: The Secret Police File in The Soviet Union and Romania," and "Politics of Estrangement: Tracking Shklovsky's Device in Literary and Policing Practices" have been published in Comparative Literature and Poetics Today. Dr. Vatulescu's new project explores the experience of immigrant intimacy and the ways in which it overlaps with two other forms of intimacy: literary and cinematic intimacy.

Michael D. Ward

With seven patents and more than 150 publications, Michael D. Ward joins the Department of Chemistry as a Professor. He will also direct the department's newly established Molecular Design Institute. Dr. Ward earned his B.A. in Chemistry at William Patterson College of New Jersey (1977) and his Ph.D. in Chemistry at Princeton University (1981).

Dr. Ward has published in numerous journals, including Science, the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Chemistry of Materials and Langmuir. He also is an Editor for Chemistry of Materials, an American Chemical Society journal. He has presented more than 200 lectures at major universities and conferences and has obtained grants from numerous organizations, including the National Science Foundation, Eli Lilly, Dupont, the Office of Naval Research and DARPA. He has received numerous awards, including the NSF's Creativity Extension Award.

Jini Kim Watson

Jini Kim Watson joins the Department of English as an Assistant Professor. She earned a B.P.D in Architecture at the University of Melbourne, Australia (1994); her B.A. in English at the University of Queensland, Australia (1997); and her Ph.D. in Literature from Duke University (2006). She taught literature and urbanization, Asia-Pacific literature and postcolonialism, and women's studies at Duke University, and has taught at Chonnam National University in Kwangju, South Korea.

Dr. Watson's research fields include Asia-Pacific literature and cultural studies, postcolonial studies, spatial and architectural theory, comparative modernities, and feminist and critical theory. Her recent work focuses on postcolonial literature from three so-called "Asian Tiger" countries: Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, and examines literary aesthetics in relation to struggles around decolonization, rushed industrial development, urbanization and authoritarianism. She has been awarded fellowships and grants from the Korea Foundation and Duke's Asia- Pacific Studies Institute, Center for International Studies and Graduate School.

Barbara Weinstein

Barbara Weinstein joins the History Department as a Professor. Dr. Weinstein earned her A.B. in History and Latin American Studies at Princeton University (1973) and her M.A. and Ph.D. in History at Yale University (1976, 1980). Previously, she taught at Vanderbilt University, SUNY at Stony Brook, and the University of Maryland - College Park.

Dr. Weinstein published For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo, 1920-1964 (University of North Carolina Press, 1996) and has published dozens of book chapters, essays, and articles in journals such as the Hispanic American Historical Review, International Labor and Working Class History, the Latin American Research Review and the International Review of Social History. She has received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Fulbright-Hays program. Dr. Weinstein is the President-Elect of the American Historical Association.

Larry Wolff

Larry Wolff joins the Department of History as a Professor. He earned his A. B. in History and Literature from Harvard (1979) and his M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Stanford (1980, 1984). Previously, he has taught at Boston College and Harvard University.

Dr. Wolff is the author of Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment (2001), Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment (1994), The Vatican and Poland in the Age of Partitions (1988), and Postcards from the End of the World: Child Abuse in Freud's Vienna (1988). He has published articles in such journals as the Slavic Review, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and the American Historical Review. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003. He has served on the editorial boards of several major journals.

Rakefet J. Zalashik

Rakefet J. Zalashik joins the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies as a Dorot Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow. She received her B.A. in History and Anthropology/Sociology and her M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Tel Aviv University (1996, 2001, 2006).

Dr. Zalashik's work focuses on Israeli identity formation, immigrant absorption and the integration of Holocaust Survivors into Israeli society, and the relationship between mental health and gender. Her dissertation focused on the development of psychiatry in Palestine and Israel, 1892-1960. Some of her other research interests are modern Jewish history, German history, and race and racism. Her publications include: "Psychoanalysis and Colonialism - The Case of Wulf Sachs (1893-1949)" in Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für Deutsche Geschichte (2004); "XXXII: 93-106; Psychiatry, Ethnicity and Migration: The Case of Palestine 1920-1948" in Dynamis (2005) and "Last Resort? Lobotomy Operations in Israel, 1946-1960" in the Journal for the History of Psychiatry (2006).