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August 2007

Dear new colleagues,

Welcome to the Tulane community! As you scan the new faculty roster assembled in this handbook, consider that you have joined an institution that has flourished for over a century and a half. It is a wonderful and fine tradition of which you now become a part.

Ours is a university that is nationally and internationally recognized as a leading research and art-making institution -- one that is innovative, trend-setting, and student- centered. Our schools and colleges offer a wide array of undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees in architecture, business, law, liberal arts, medicine, public health and tropical medicine, science and engineering, and social work.

Tulane strives to connect its values and mission to the needs of the city of New Orleans, the state of Louisiana, and the Gulf Coast region – as well as to those of the nation and the wider world. Community involvement is now especially important as the University participates in the rebirth of our city and state in the wake of the devastation wrought by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We are very proud that Tulane faculty and staff lend their expertise to rebuilding efforts while at the same time our students gain real-world experience putting their rapidly maturing skills to use.

Excellence in research and art-making, outstanding teaching and mentorship, and the striking diversity of the degree programs we offer help attract to Tulane the very best faculty and students from across our nation and from around the world. When also given the opportunity to be involved in one of the largest urban renewal projects in history, our students ultimately have an educational experience found only in New Orleans, only at Tulane. In the final analysis, it is you and all of the faculty and staff of our University who make Tulane the truly extraordinary place that it is today; it is the students and the wider communities we serve that are our greatest legacy.

I hope that your years at Tulane are inspiring, productive and fulfilling. I wish you every success in all your endeavors.

Most Cordially,

Michael A. Bernstein Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost

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New Uptown Faculty Texas A&M University. His research John Armstrong, Ph.D. specialty is in deep-sea ecosystems and School of Science and Engineering 2007-08 marine invertebrates. Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics

Max Adrien, Ph.D. William Arceneaux, Ph.D. John Armstrong received his doctorate from Yale in 2006, where he has been School of Liberal Arts School of Liberal Arts teaching for the last year. His continuing Visiting Assistant Professor, French and Distinguished Visiting Professor of History Italian research program concerns quantum William Arceneaux has just completed 20 topology, studying the interactions between Max Adrien received his B.A. years as president of the Louisiana knot theory, category theory, in Philosophy, Business and Theology from Association of Independent Colleges and representation theory, and theoretical Loyola University Chicago, his M.A. in Universities, of which Tulane is a charter physics. He is also active in mathematical French Literature and Civilization from member. He was Louisiana’s first exposition for the generally interested lay The University of Illinois Chicago, his Commissioner of Higher Education (1972- audience, writing "The Unapologetic D.E.A. [Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies] in 1987). His last book was nominated by the Mathematician" online at Littérature et Civilisation Françaises from LSU Press for the Pulitzer Prize in the http://unapologetic.wordpress.com Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris category of Letters and Drama and is III, Paris, France, and his Ph.D. in French scheduled to be released in a French San Hla Aung, Ph.D. Literature &Civilization: Seventeenth edition this fall. School of Science and Engineering Century Classical Fables, Theater and Professor of Practice Moralists, and Medieval Literature (11th— O. Tolga Aricak, Ph.D. 13th centuries epic and courtly literatures) School of Science and Engineering San Hla Aung graduated from the from Tulane University. In 2002-04 Dr. Visiting Assistant Professor, Psychology Adrien was Visiting Instructor of French University of Rangoon, Burma, with a Language and Literature at Carleton Tolga Aricak received a B.S. in Counseling Bachelor of Science degree in Civil College, in 2004-06 he was a Visiting and Guidance from Istanbul University, an Engineering in March 1958 and taught Instructor of French at New College of M.A. in Psychological Services in there for two years. He then attended the Florida, and in 2006-07 he was an Adjunct Education and Ph.D. in Educational Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Assistant Professor of French at Tulane Sciences from the Marmara University at earned his Master of Science degree in University. Dr. Adrien's publications Istanbul. He worked at Trakya University, Civil Engineering in May 1962. After include articles in Dalhousie French School of Education as assistant professor teaching at the Rangoon Institute of Studies and Olifant. between 1999 and 2006 years. In the Technology until 1988, he came to Tulane 2006-2007 academic years, Dr. Aricak was University and worked in the Civil and Archie W. Ammons, Ph.D. a visiting scholar at Indiana University Environmental Engineering Department. School of Science and Engineering Bloomington, Department of Counseling, He obtained his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering Visiting Assistant Professor, Ecology and and Educational Psychology, where he from Tulane in May 2000 and is now a Evolutionary Biology conducted several research projects with Professor of Practice in the School of colleagues. His current research is focused Science and Engineering. His areas of Archie Ammons received a B.S. in Marine on cyberbullying among adolescents. interest in research include local buckling Biology from Texas A&M University at of high strength concrete box piers and Galveston and a Ph.D. in Zoology from

3 New Faculty: Uptown Campus, 2007-08 prefabricated construction with precast symbolic and complexity-theoretic methods molecular events in the hormone response concrete and with wood. in network security. mechanism as a model system for this research. This mechanism regulates a Leonardo Avritzer, Ph.D. Chad R. Bhatti, Ph.D. number of physiologic processes, including School of Liberal Arts cell differentiation, growth, development School of Science and Engineering Greenleaf Visiting Professor, Latin and brain function. It therefore plays a Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics American Studies and Anthropology critical role in human health and disease.

He has developed a multiscale model of Chad R. Bhatti is a NSF VIGRE Larry Catá Backer chromatin that bridges between atomic and Postdoctoral Researcher in the continuum scales. It is being utilized to Law School Department of Mathematics at Tulane Visiting Professor of Law investigate nucleosome stability and University. Dr. Bhatti completed his Ph.D. chromatin folding for entire genomes and Larry Catá Backer received a B.A. in in Statistics at the George R. Brown School to rapidly assemble individual History from Brandeis University, an of Engineering at Rice University in May nucleosomes for subsequent analysis by M.P.P. from the Kennedy School of 2007. His dissertation was titled all atom molecular dynamics simulations. Government, Harvard University, and a "Statistical Models for Intraday Trading Dr. Bishop has received support for this J.D. from Columbia University Law School. Dynamics." Dr. Bhatti's primary research From 2000, he has served as Professor of research from the Louisiana Board of interests are in the areas of statistics, high- Regents, the National Science Foundation, Law, Pennsylvania State University, and frequency finance, and econometrics. Dickinson School of Law. From 1991 and the National Institutes of Health. Current support is from the Louisiana through 2000 he served as Professor of Thomas C. Bishop, Ph.D. Law and Executive Director of the Board of Regents Research School of Science and Engineering Comparative and International Law Center, Competitiveness Program, the recently University of Tulsa College of Law. His Research Associate Professor, Center for awarded La Board of Regents and NSF current research is focused on Computational Science EPSCoR Research Infrastructure globalization law. Improvement: Information Technology Tom Bishop was recruited to Tulane and Award and an NIH R01. Gergely Bana, Ph.D. Xavier Universities under the Joint Faculty appointments program. He is a founding School of Science and Engineering Michael A. Bernstein, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics member of the New Orleans Protein School of Liberal Arts Folding Intergroup and the Center for Professor, History Gergely Bana received an M.Sc. Computational Science.He is a Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs equivalent Diploma in Physics from Eötvös computational molecular biologist and and Provost University, Budapest, an M.A. in Statistics employs high performance parallel and then a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the computers and mathematical modeling to Michael Bernstein comes to Tulane University of Pennsylvania in 2004. investigate biomolecular complexes. His University from the University of California, Subsequently, he was a post-doctoral primary research interests are the structure San Diego, where he was Dean of Arts and fellow in Mathematics at the University of and dynamics of DNA and chromatin and Humanities and a professor (and former Pennsylvania and then in Computer how they relate to genetic function and chair) of History. His teaching and research Science at the University of California, interests focus on the economic and dysfunction (e.g. transcription, regulation, Davis. His current research is focused on political history of the United States, replication and repair). He studies macroeconomic theory, industrial

4 New Faculty: Uptown Campus, 2007-08 organization economics, and the history of Zoology from Duke University. From 2003 Gary H. Brooks received his B.A. degree in economic theory. His publications explore through 2006, Dr. Blum was a federal Political Science from Millsaps College, his the connections between political and postdoctoral fellow at the Molecular M.A. degree in Political Science from economic processes in modern industrial Ecology Research Branch of the U.S. Tulane University, his Ph.D. degree in societies, as well as the interaction of Environmental Protection Agency. During Political Science from the University of economic knowledge and professional this time, Dr. Blum initiated national Kansas, and the M.Div. degree from Union expertise with those processes as a whole. research programs on the effects of land Theological Seminary in Virginia. Brooks, Along with numerous articles and use, invasive species, and global an ordained minister in the Presbyterian anthology chapters, he has published four environmental change on aquatic Church (USA), taught at the College of volumes: The Great Depression: Delayed ecosystems. His current research focuses Charleston, the University of Arkansas -- Recovery and Economic Change in Little Rock, and the University of on responses of stream fishes to land use America, 1929-1939; Understanding Mississippi and as Vice President for and salt marsh responses to global American Economic Decline [co-edited Academic Affairs at Belmont Abbey with David Adler]; The Cold War and environmental change. College. Southern politics, American Expert Knowledge: New Essays on the protest movements, and religion in History of the National Security State [co- Brenda Brasher, Ph.D. American politics are special interests. edited with Allen Hunter]; and A Perilous School of Liberal Arts Progress: Economists and Public Purpose Visiting Professor, Sociology Richard Campanella in Twentieth Century America. Brenda Brasher comes to Tulane School of Science and Engineering University from the Sociology Department, Associate Director, Center for Mary Blue, Ph.D. University of Aberdeen, Scotland. She Bioenvironmental Research School of Liberal Arts completed her doctoral work in Social Research Professor, Earth and Visiting Assistant Professor, Ethics in 1996 at the University of Southern Environmental Sciences Communication California. A former Fulbright Scholar/Researcher, she is the author of Richard Campanella is a geographer and Mary Blue completed her doctoral work at two books: Godly Women: mapping scientist and specializes in GIS, the Louisiana State University in 1981. Fundamentalism and Female Power remote sensing, and spatial analyses Her research has been primarily in (Rutgers University Press), and Give Me applied to both the physical and social communication in broadcast and film and That Online Religion (Jossey Bass), as sciences. Campanella's expertise involves she has two articles coming out in well as chief editor of the Encyclopedia of the historical geography of New Orleans, a communication journals in Fall 2007 and Fundamentalism (Routledge) and co- topic on which he has published three Spring 2008. She just completed a author (with Lee Quinby) of the recently critically acclaimed books including research grant from the National published Gender and Apocalyptic Desire Association of Broadcasters. (Equinox Press). Her current research Geographies of New Orleans: Urban Fabrics Before the Storm (2006), winner of focuses on ethnicity, globalization and identity. the Louisiana Endowment for the Michael Blum, Ph.D. Humanities “Book of the Year” Award. School of Science and Engineering Campanella has published scholarly Assistant Professor, Ecology and Gary H. Brooks, Ph.D. articles in the Journal of American History, Evolutionary Biology School of Liberal Arts Journal of Architectural Education, Michael Blum received a B.A. in Integrative Visiting Assistant Professor, Political Technology in Society, EOS Transactions- Biology from U.C. Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Science American Geophysical Union, and

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Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote strategic management, research methods, John Caruso returned to Tulane’s Sensing. He teaches classes in urban and project management. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary geography, historical geography, and GIS Biology in 2006. He previously held full- applications. Gaile S. Cannella, Ed.D. time teaching positions at the University of Research Professor New Orleans, the Louisiana Universities Albert A. Cannella Jr., Ph.D. A.B. Freeman School of Business Marine Consortium, Loyola University, and A. B. Freeman School of Business Gaile Cannella completed her doctoral Lafayette College. He received his Ph.D. Koerner Chair in Strategy and work in education at the University of from Tulane in 1977 and has served as Entrepreneurship Georgia in 1979. For the past three years Interim Curator of Fishes and Adjunct Professor at Tulane. John is a marine Albert Cannella Jr. received his MBA from she was a professor of qualitative research ichthyologist who studies the systematic the University of Northern Iowa in 1985 methods at Arizona State University and and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in before that a tenured professor at Texas and distribution of deep-sea anglerfishes. 1991. Prior to joining Tulane, he served as A&M University, where she served as the He is recognized as the world authority on Hahnco Professor of Strategic institutional chairperson of the research chaunacid and lophiid anglerfishes. Management and Department Head at review board. She has published 2 Arizona State University. He served on the authored books, 2 edited books, and a faculty of Texas A&M University from 1989 range of chapters and articles in journals Marco A. Castaneda, Ph.D. until 2004, where he was B. Marie Oth like Qualitative Inquiry and Cultural School of Liberal Arts Professor of Strategic Management. He Studies-Critical Methodologies. Her focus Assistant Professor, Economics was Program Chair for the Business Policy is the development of critical social science Marco A. Castaneda received a B.A. with and Strategy division of the Academy of research methods with an emphasis on emphasis in Mathematics and Economics Management in 1999, and President of the feminist, post-structural, and post-colonial from the University of Alaska in Juneau division in 2001. From 1998 through 2001 perspectives. and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from he was head of the Management Washington University in St. Louis. His Department’s Ph.D. program at Texas Mark Carson, Ph.D. research is focused on the effects of A&M University, and from 2000 to 2004 he School of Liberal Arts asymmetric information and incomplete served as the Director of the Texas A&M Visiting Assistant Professor, History contracts on the organization of production. Center for New Ventures and Mark Carson completed his doctoral work Entrepreneurship. He was Associate in 2003 at Louisiana State University with Editor of Academy of Management Review the successful defense of his dissertation Teri F. Chalmers, Ph.D. from 1999-2002. He currently serves on "Beyond the Solid South: Southern School of Liberal Arts the editorial review boards of Academy of Members of Congress and the Vietnam Lecturer, French and Italian Management Journal, Journal of War." He is presently revising his Management, and Administrative Science Teri Chalmers received a B.A. in Italian dissertation for publication. Quarterly. His research has appeared in and Linguistics from Newcomb College of outlets such as the Academy of Tulane University, an M.A. in Italian from Management Journal, Academy of John Caruso, Ph.D. UCLA, and a Ph.D. in Medieval Romance Management Review, Strategic School of Science and Engineering Languages and Literatures at Tulane Management Journal, Journal of Professor of Practice, Ecology and University. Her chief interests are French, Evolutionary Biology Italian and Spanish narratives of the 13th Management, and Journal of Financial th Economics. He teaches entrepreneurship, and 14 centuries, and translating. She is

6 New Faculty: Uptown Campus, 2007-08 completing a translation of an 18th century James Cronin, Ph.D. Oxford University. She is a member French manuscript describing the travels of School of Science and Engineering of the Philosophy Faculty and a permanent a Frenchman to Saint-Domingue and Professor of Practice, Cell and Molecular Fellow at St. Anne's College, Oxford Louisiana, including New Orleans. The Biology University. Dr Denham is the author of a author describes the flora and fauna of the number of scholarly works in the theory of Gulf Coast and the Mississippi River James Cronin earned a B.A. in Psychology value including the book Metaphor and region, the Native American tribes found Moral Experience (OUP, 2000). She is in 1980 from Loyola University, New there, and other aspects of life in the new currently editing a volume titled Plato on Orleans. An M.S. followed by a Ph.D. in colony. Art (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009) and Physiological Psychology (Neuroscience) completing a book on social and ethical was awarded from Tulane University in Ronan Chalmin, Ph.D. value in contemporary conceptual art. Dr. 1990. After completing his graduate Denham's current research interests School of Liberal Arts course work, he conducted research at Visiting Assistant Professor, French and include philosophical issues in moral UCLA in Los Angeles under the direction of Italian psychology, with a special focus on Dr. F Edward Dudek, who had moved psychopathic personality disorder. Before Ronan Chalmin completed his dissertation there from Tulane. He worked in industry taking up her Fellowship at St. Anne's, she in French literature at Yale University in until 2001, until returning to research at the held faculty positions at Balliol and St. 2005. His dissertation, “Corruption and the Gene Therapy Program of LSU Medical John's Colleges at Oxford University as Chemistry of the Enlightenment”, shows School in New Orleans. James began well as Reed College in the U.S. Dr. how the complex chemistry of corruption, teaching at Tulane for the Cell and Denham has twice held visiting fellowships the dark sun of the French Enlightenment, Molecular Biology Department in 2006. at the Centre Nationale de Recherche permitted that period to generate its Scientifique in Paris, France. She will offer brightest light. Dr. Chalmin is currently courses in legal ethics and moral working on a new project: Libertine Brian James DeMare, Ph.D. psychology while at Tulane. In addition to Architectures. School of Liberal Arts her scholarly work, she plays the violin and Visiting Assistant Professor, History viola and is the curator and director of Sarina Chen, Ph.D. Brian DeMare completed his doctoral work Oxford's Mary Ogilvie Gallery, exhibiting School of Liberal Arts in History in 2007 at the University of contemporary artists from both Europe and Assistant Professor, Jewish Studies California at Los Angeles. His dissertation, the U.S.

Sarina Chen wrote her doctoral work in “Turning Bodies and Turning Minds: Land Sean Desilets, Ph.D. Jewish Folklore department at the Reform and Chinese Political Culture, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where her 1946-1952” was supported by a Fulbright- School of Liberal Arts dissertation "Between Poetics and Politics - Hays fellowship as well as an NSEP grant. Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, English Vision and Paxis in Current Activity to Professor DeMare is currently revising his Sean Desilets received his B.A. from the Construct the Third Temple" was dissertation for publication. University of Massachusetts at Amherst in supported by a Varburg Fellowship. 1992, an M.A. in English from Tufts Alison Denham, D.Phil. University in 1997 and a Ph.D. in English School of Liberal Arts Shane Courtland, Ph.D. from Tufts University in 2006. His Visiting Professor of Philosophy dissertation, “Seed of Fire: Immanence in School of Liberal Arts Alison Denham obtained her B.A., from UC Cinema and the Novel,” considers the Visiting Assistant Professor, Philosophy persistence of theological models of Berkeley and her M.A. and D.Phil. from

7 New Faculty: Uptown Campus, 2007-08 presence in Victorian novels and in films College, where she was a Durant Scholar University. He worked as an academic from the first half of the twentieth century. (equivalent of magna cum laude), and an counselor at Loyola University New His essay on Carl Th. Dreyer’s The LL.M. in Taxation from New York Orleans and supervised a microscopy Passion of Joan of Arc appeared in University School of Law. Most recently, laboratory at Tulane before joining the Camera Obscura, and he has presented she has been professor of law and Arthur Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, his work at several Northeast Modern L. Dickson Scholar at Rutgers University where he currently teaches both Language Association Conferences, at School of Law – Newark. Before teaching, undergraduate and graduate courses. In Harvard University’s Center for Literary she was a partner in the international law his spare time, he enjoys painting and and Cultural Studies, and at the Center for firm of Coudert Brothers where she bicycling. the Study of Theory and Criticism at the specialized in international commercial University of Western Ontario. transactions. Her scholarship has applied socioeconomic principles to business Kate Drabinski, Ph.D. Shi Di, Ph.D. related areas of law, with a particular focus School of Liberal Arts Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Women’s School of Science and Engineering on standards of performance, in both the Studies Research Assistant Professor, Cell and domestic and international realms. Most Molecular Biology recently, she has been studying the Kate Drabinski received her Ph.D. in OHADA system of business laws, uniform Rhetoric with a Designated Emphasis in Dr. Shi Di received her Ph.D. in over 16 countries in West and Central Women, Gender and Sexuality from the Africa. physiological psychology from the University of California at Berkeley upon

University of California, Los Angeles, in completion of her dissertation, “Ancient Gustavo Didier, Ph.D. 1991. Her training and research interests Bodies, Contemporary Selves: Reading are focused on electrophysiology and School of Science and Engineering Gender in Late Antique Christian neurophysiology. She has applied the Assistant Professor, Mathematics Asceticism,” in December 2006. Her current research brings her dissertation whole cell patch clamp technique in the Gustavo Didier received a Ph.D. in work on ancient ethical and political study of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal Statistics from the University of North practices into conversation with system. In conjunction with other Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007. His current contemporary theories of embodiment and advanced molecular and imaging research interests are in Stochastic transgender subjectivity. techniques, her research has made Processes and Time Series Analysis, with progress in understanding steroid hormone a focus on Wavelets, Long Range Meredith Dudley, Ph.D. regulation of the hypothalamic Dependence and Multivariate Methods. neuroendocrine system. School of Liberal Arts Robert S. Dotson, Ph.D. Stone Center for Latin American Studies

School of Science and Engineering Visiting Assistant Professor, Latin Claire Moore Dickerson, J.D., LL.M. in Professor of Practice, Cell and Molecular American Studies Taxation Biology Law School Markus Eberl, Ph.D. Visiting Professor, Sen. Breaux Chair in Robert Steven Dotson was born in School of Liberal Arts Law Kingsport, Tennessee and grew up in the Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, foothills of Appalachia. He received a B.S. Claire Dickerson earned her J.D. from Anthropology Columbia School of Law, where she was a in Biochemistry in 1989 from Clemson Stone Scholar, her A.B. from Wellesley University, Clemson, South Carolina and a Markus Eberl received his M.A. in Ph.D. in Neuroscience in 1998 from Tulane Anthropology and Latin American Studies

8 New Faculty: Uptown Campus, 2007-08 in 1999 at the Rheinische Friedrich- Chris Ferro, Ph.D. research interests include Economic Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn, Germany, School of Liberal Arts Theory, Microeconomics and Financial with a thesis on death and burial in Classic Visiting Assistant Professor, Philosophy Economics. Maya culture that was subsequently published (2005) in a revised Spanish Chris Ferro did his doctoral work in the Holly Flora, Ph.D. philosophy department at the University of translation. In 2007, he completed his School of Liberal Arts Chicago. He defended his dissertation, doctoral thesis “Community heterogeneity Visiting Professor, Art and integration: The Maya sites of "The Possibility of Practice and Practical Nacimiento, Dos Ceibas, and Cerro de Thought," in August of 2007. His research Holly Flora received her Ph.D. at the Cheyo (El Peten, Guatemala) during the interests include the nature of human Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Late Classic” at the Department of agency; the metaphysics of mind, value, in 2005. Her research explores devotional Anthropology at Tulane University. He has and personhood; and the history of modern art in late medieval Italy, and has been been conducting archaeological fieldwork philosophy. supported by fellowships from the in Germany, Mexico, and Guatemala and American Association of University he has been working with Maya glyphic Keith Finlay, Ph.D. Women, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, inscriptions. His current research focuses School of Liberal Arts the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, on communities, social aspects of Assistant Professor, Economics Italy, and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. technology, and elite-commoner Her articles have appeared in Gesta, relationships in past societies. Keith Finlay completed his doctoral work in Bolletino Storico Pisano, and Studies in Economics in 2007 at the University of Iconography, and she is currently at work California, Irvine. His dissertation, "External Minghu Fang, Ph.D. on a book on gender and illustrated Effects of Incarceration in Labor and manuscripts of the Meditationes Vitae School of Science and Engineering Marriage Markets," explored the effect of Christi. Before coming to Tulane, Dr. Flora Postdoctoral Fellow, Physics greater employer access to criminal history worked as a curator and lecturer in New records on the labor market outcomes of York at the Museum of Biblical Art, The Minghu Fang received his Ph.D. from ex-offenders and non-offenders. Dr. Finlay Frick Collection and The Cloisters. Zhejiang University in China 1992, and did is currently working on projects examining postdoctoral work at Kyoto University. He low skill labor markets and the labor Nicole Gasparini, Ph.D. market effects of pre-employment was most recently a Professor of Physics School of Science and Engineering screening. at Zhejiang University. His research Assistant Professor, Earth and interests include Experimental Environmental Science Research on superconductivity, Magnetism Luciana C. Fiorini of low dimension materials, and Novel School of Liberal Arts Nicole Gasparini received her B.S. in physics of strongly correlated electron Visiting Assistant Professor, Economics Applied Mathematics and B.A. in Physical systems. Geography from the State University of Born in Brazil, Luciana Fiorini entered the New York at Buffalo. She received her Federal University of Minas Gerais in 1992 S.M. and Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental and received her B.A. in 1996. That same Engineering from Massachusetts Institute Dietmar Felber, Ph.D. year she entered the University of São of Technology. Dr. Gasparini was a post- School of Liberal Arts Paulo to pursue an M.A. in Economics, doctoral fellow in Geology and Geophysics Visiting Assistant Professor, German which she received in 2000. Entering at Yale University for two years. She spent Brown University in 2001, she received her one year working on Capital Hill as the M.A. in 2002 and Ph.D. in 2007. Her

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Geological Society of America/United law firm. Prior to law school, she worked and pediatric traumatic brain injury and its States Geological Survey Congressional as a Victim Witness Advocate at the impact on child and family recovery. In Fellow. Before coming to Tulane, she Suffolk County District Attorney's Office in addition, she conducts ongoing research worked as a post-doc in the School of Boston. She is a member of the New York on homelessness, African-American male Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State Bar. youths and mental health, the intersections State University. Dr. Gasparini’s research of race and socio-economic indicators in focuses on river erosion and landscape Lisa Rengo George, Ph.D. vulnerable groups, and current housing evolution. School of Liberal Arts policies and access to affordable housing Lecturer, Classics in distressed communities. Daniel Gates, Ph.D. School of Liberal Arts Lisa George received her B.A. from Vassar Antonio Gómez, Ph.D. Visiting Professor, English College and M.A. and Ph.D. from Bryn School of Liberal Arts Visiting Assistant Professor, Spanish and Daniel Gates received a B.A. in English Mawr College in Classical Studies. Her Portuguese from Seattle Pacific University and a Ph.D. most recent publication is a book, in English from the University of Notre Prostitutes in Plautus. Her specialties Antonio Gómez (Mendoza, Argentina) Dame. He has published articles on include Homer, Gender Studies and Greek recently received his Ph.D. in Latin despair in Doctor Faustus and on the and Roman Drama. American Literature from the University of religious culture of Renaissance England; Pittsburgh. His research interests include currently he is working on a book on early So`Nia L. Gilkey, Ph.D., LCSW the discourse of exile in Latin American modern emotions entitled Fevers of the School of Social Work culture, especially in Cuba and Argentina, Soul. Prior to coming to Tulane, he taught Assistant Professor, Social Work cinematic representations of trauma in courses in early modern literature at Argentine cinema, and the writing of recent Rhodes College. So`Nia Gilkey received a B.S. in history in a postnational context. He is Psychology from Alcorn State University in currently revising his dissertation El 1990, a Master of Social Work from Clark Abigail Gaunt, J.D. discurso latinoamericano del exilio: Atlanta University in 2000, and a Ph.D. in extraterritorialidad y novela en Argentina y School of Law Social Work from the University of Legal Instructor Cuba desde los años setenta for Pittsburgh in June 2007. Dr. Gilkey was an publication. International Fellow for the Training of Abigail Gaunt received a B.A. from Women and Development Research Dartmouth College in 2000 and a J.D. from Vijaya Gopu, Ph.D. Project at Clark Atlanta University and has Fordham University in 2005. Prior to joining School of Science and Engineering the Legal Research & Writing faculty at worked as a social work mental health clinician for the past 13 years. She has Professor, Center for Bioenvironmental Tulane Law School in 2007, Ms. Gaunt Research completed a judicial clerkship on the US been designated as an approved mental

District Court for the Southern District of health service provider for the Greater New Dr. Vijaya (VJ) Gopu is Distinguished New York, followed by another clerkship on Orleans Public Health Services Corps the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth program, and is soon to receive an Scholar in the Center for Bioenvironmental Circuit. During law school, she worked at appointment as a mental health clinician Research at Tulane University. He also the New York County District Attorney's for the U.S. Public Health Services Corps. serves as the Associate Director for Office, the Legal Aid Society (Juvenile She currently publishes on issues related External Programs at Louisiana Rights Division), and for a major New York to the psychosocial impact of disaster and Transportation Research Center (LTRC). critical incident in children and families, Dr. Gopu served as the Chair of the Civil

10 New Faculty: Uptown Campus, 2007-08 and Environmental Engineering He has over 160 technical papers to his Professor Gordley has been a Department at Tulane University from credit and has supervised the research Guggenheim Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow, a 2003-2007. Prior to joining Tulane work of 45 masters and doctoral students. Senior NATO Fellow and a fellow of the University, he was the Chair of Civil and Dr. Gopu served as the principal Deutscheforschungsgemeinshaft. He has Environmental Engineering and Associate investigator or co-principal investigator of been a visiting professor at the Universities Director for the University Transportation over $5M of research projects funded by of Fribourg, Regensburg, Munich, Milan, Center at the University of Alabama in local, state, federal and international and Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi; Huntsville. agencies. Dr. Gopu is active in several a visiting scholar at the Max Planck national and international technical Institute for Comparative Law in Hamburg, Dr. Gopu served as the Program Director committees, and has served as a member the European University Institute in for the Structural Systems and Engineering Fiesole, and the University of Cologne; and of several federal interagency working in the Directorate of Engineering at the the Jean Monnet Distinguished Professor groups. He is the Chairman of the National Science Foundation from 1998- in Comparative Law at the University of American Society of Civil Engineers 2001. Trent. He was awarded the UC Berkeley Committee on Wood Research and served Distinguished Teaching Award in 1984 as the Conference Chair for the World He holds the Formosa Plastics and the Rutter Award for Teaching Conference on Timber Engineering held in Distinguished Professor Emeritus position Distinction in 2001. He is a fellow of the New Orleans in 1996. While serving at at LSU where he served for 22 years. He American Academy of Arts and Sciences NSF, he established a joint NSF-HUD also served as a visiting professor at the and a titulary member of the International initiative in support of President Clinton’s Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Academy of Comparative Law. PATH --Partnership for Advancing Sweden, and as a visiting scientist at Technologies for Housing – program. Dr. He is the author of several books, including Forintek in Vancouver, Canada. He Gopu is a registered professional engineer Foundations of Private Law; received his MS and Ph.D. from Colorado An Introduction to the Comparative Study in the State of Louisiana and has served as State University in ’72 and ’75 respectively of Private Law (with Arthur von Mehren); a structural engineering consultant to and worked as a structural consultant in The Enforceability of Promises in numerous firms in the region. Denver for three years before joining the European Contract Law; Gratian, The faculty ranks in 1978. Treatise on Laws with the Ordinary Gloss James Gordley, MBA., J.D. (with Augustine Thompson); and The Law School Philosophical Origins of Modern Contract Dr. Gopu is a recipient of the International W.R. Irby Professor of Law Doctrine. Wood Award from the Forest Products

Society and numerous awards for James Gordley came to Tulane Law Diane M. Grams, Ph.D. teaching, research and professional School from Boalt Hall, University of service. His areas of research interest California, Berkeley, where he served on School of Liberal Arts include structural engineering, modeling of the faculty beginning in 1978. He was a Assistant Professor, Sociology structures, hazard mitigation, structural fellow at the Institute of Comparative Law Diane M. Grams is the author of Producing polymeric composites, heavy engineered at the University of Florence, an associate Local Color: Ethnic Art Networks in timber structures, non-destructive with the Boston firm of Foley Hoag & Eliot, Chicago (forthcoming University of and an Ezra Ripley Thayer Fellow at evaluation of infrastructure systems, and Chicago Press) and co-editor of Entering Harvard before beginning his teaching building science. Cultural Communities: Diversity and career. Change in the Nonprofit Arts (Grams and Farrell, Rutgers University Press 2008).

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Her areas of expertise are the sociology of Michael worked at Loyola University prior in various types of political settings with culture and organizations with a particular to Hurricane Katrina, and has subsequently special focus on Europe & the Middle East. focus on arts producers in racial and ethnic returned to his alma mater as a Visiting In 2005-06, he held a visiting teaching communities. She received her Ph.D. and and Research Assistant Professor, where position at Dartmouth College. M.A. from Loyola University, Chicago, he has continued to teach and conduct where she was a Schmitt Dissertation research on freshwater fishes. Michael Louise Hornby, Ph.D. Fellow. Most recently, she was the lives Uptown with his wife Terenia (also a School of Liberal Arts Associate Director at the Cultural Policy Tulane alumna) and their two children, Assistant Professor, English Center at the University of Chicago. She James and Mia Rose. has an extensive history of service, Louise Hornby received her Ph.D. in 2007 research and work in the nonprofit arts from the Department of Comparative including serving as the executive director Anjeana K. Hans Literature at the University of California, of The Peace Museum, Chicago. She has School of Liberal Arts Berkeley. Her work spans the fields of a B.A. in fine arts from Indiana University, Assistant Professor, German literature, photography, and film, which she Bloomington and is an alumna of brings together in her dissertation, Skowhegan School of Painting and Anjeana Hans completed her Ph.D. in “Photographic Modernism: The Pursuit of Sculpture. 2005 at Harvard University. Her Objectivity.” dissertation, “Defining Desires:

Catherine Gubernatis, Ph.D. Homosexual Identity and German Discourse 1900-1933,” examined sexual John Hund School of Liberal Arts and gender identity by tracing its cultural A.B. Freeman School of Business Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, English and discursive construction in German Visiting Assistant Professor Catherine Gubernatis received a B.A. in culture and literature from the beginning of English and History from Mount Holyoke the 20th century. She is currently working Janarthanan Jayawickramarajah, Ph.D. College and completed both her masters on a book-project that examines the School of Science and Engineering and her doctoral work at The Ohio State manner in which horror films of the Weimar Assistant Professor, Chemistry University. She is currently working on period symbolically represent the trauma of expanding her dissertation “The Epistolary war and modernity. Janarthanan Jayawickramarajah received Form in Twentieth-Century Fiction” into a his BS degree (with honors) in chemistry book. and a minor in anthropology from the Khaled Helmy, Ph.D. candidate University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000. He obtained a Ph.D. in organic Michael Guill, Ph.D. School of Liberal Arts chemistry from the University of Texas at School of Science and Engineering Visiting Assistant Professor, Political Austin in 2005. For his graduate work on Visiting Assistant Professor, Ecology and Science supramolecular ensembles derived from Environmental Biology Khaled Helmy is finishing his doctoral work base-pairing he received the Dorothy in Political Science at Harvard with a Banks Research Fellowship. After a short Michael Guill received a B.A. in dissertation on the interaction of Middle postdoctoral stint at Yale University he Environmental Science from the University Eastern religious parties with the unfolding joined the faculty at Tulane. Currently, his of Virginia in 1990, and an M.S. and Ph.D. political liberalization processes. His research focuses on the development of in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from research focuses on democratization and bio-inspired functional supramolecules. Tulane in 1994 and 2002, respectively. the relationship between religion & politics

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Karen Johannesson, Ph.D. with particular focus on parameters of Christopher Kane completed his doctoral School of Science and Engineering technology with regard to social and work in Philosophy in 2007 at Brown Associate Professor, Earth and cultural variations. In 2002, Mr. Jones University. He was a Visiting Assistant Environmental Sciences initiated the design practice Fievre Jones Professor of Philosophy at the University of that is involved in commercial and Nebraska at Omaha during 2006-2007. Karen Johannesson received her B.S. in residential projects throughout the United His areas of specialization are Geology from the University of New States and France. The current work of the Epistemology and Metaphysics, and his Hampshire, her M.S. in Geology and office focuses on the integration of new current research focuses particularly on Geophysics from Boston College, and her digital technologies, specifically computer causation and physicalism. Ph.D. in Hydrology and Hydrogeology from aided manufacturing in the design and the University of Nevada in Reno. She was fabrication of architectural projects. Recent Todd Kennedy, Ph.D. a post-doc and research scientist at the projects include an exhibition design for School of Liberal Arts Harry Reid Center for Environmental photographer Julius Shulman in Paris and Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, English Studies at the University of Nevada, Las a variety of residential projects in Los Vegas, and held faculty positions at Old Angeles. The work has been exhibited at Todd Kennedy earned his Ph.D. in 20th Dominion University (assistant professor) the Institut de l’architecture in Paris France Century American Literature and Film from and The University of Texas at Arlington and has been published in several the University of South Carolina, his M.A. (associate and full professor) before joining journals, including AMC Moniteur and from New York University, and his B.A. Tulane University. Her research chiefly Architecture Aujourd’hui. from the Virginia Military Institute. The concerns biogeochemical cycling and former chair of the South Atlantic MLA’s speciation of trace elements in the natural Michael O. Joyce, Ph.D. Hemingway Society, Kennedy has waters, with emphasis on the rare earth published articles on filmic texts and Bob School of Science and Engineering elements (lanthanide series) and toxic Dylan, and he is currently working his Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics metalloids such as arsenic, selenium, and dissertation into a book tentatively titled antimony. Hitting the American Highway: The Michael O. Joyce is a Tulane graduate, Ontology of the Hobo-Hero in Twentieth Victor Jones, M.Arch. class of 2000, receiving degrees in Century American Culture. Mathematics and Physics. He received his School of Architecture Ph.D. in Mathematics in 2005 at Brown Assistant Professor University, where he also completed Michelle Kohler, Ph.D. Victor Jones received a Bachelor of postdoctoral work. His research is in the School of Liberal Arts Architecture degree from California areas of number theory and algebraic Assistant Professor, English Polytechnic State University, San Luis geometry. More specifically, Michael Obispo and a Master of Architecture from Michelle Kohler received her Ph.D. in studies the behavior of whole number American Literature from the University of Harvard University’s Graduate School of solutions to polynomial equations. Outside Design. Before joining the Tulane faculty, Oregon in 2006. Her dissertation, of math, he enjoys playing cards, jogging, "Eyesight, Insight, and Literary Form in Mr. Jones taught at the University of and reading. Southern California, the University of Nineteenth-Century American Literature," was supported by two University California Los Angeles, and Clemson Christopher Michael Kane, Ph.D. University. His research addresses the fellowships, and two sections of the project application of computer aided School of Liberal Arts have appeared as articles in scholarly manufacturing techniques in architecture Visiting Assistant Professor, Philosophy journals. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled "The Forms

13 New Faculty: Uptown Campus, 2007-08 of Vision: Genre and Metaphor in citizens' democratic competence on Rebecca Lehman, Ph.D. Nineteenth-Century American Literature." opinion formation and voting behavior. School of Science and Engineering Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics Alexander Kolker, Ph.D. Nancy Lawrence, Ph.D. candidate School of Science and Engineering School of Liberal Arts Rebecca Lehman did her undergraduate Research Assistant Professor, Earth and Visiting Assistant Professor, Philosophy work at Princeton University under Wee Environmental Sciences and Women’s Studies Teck Gan and Peter Sarnak, and her graduate work at the Massachusetts Nancy Lawrence will complete her Alexander Kolker studies the effects of doctorate this year in philosophy at The Institute of Technology under Jason Starr climate variability and human activities on University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill. and Izzet Coskun. At Tulane, she is a coastal systems. He is engaged in several Her areas of specialization are the VIGRE postdoc in the Algebra/Algebraic projects including: examining the interplay philosophy of logic, epistemology, Geometry group. Her current interests are between subsidence and sediment metaphysics, and feminism, particularly the in the algebraic geometry of curves and deposition in the Mississippi Delta, metaphysics of gender. Her dissertation is moduli spaces. determining the impacts of sea level on the revisability of logic and its relation to change on wetland biogeochemistry, and a priori knowledge. In 2006-07, she was a Denys P. Leighton, Ph.D. understanding the influence of large visiting instructor at Wake Forest School of Liberal Arts atmospheric pressure systems on sea level University. Visiting Assistant Professor, History variability. He received his Masters (2000) Denys Leighton did undergraduate work in and Doctorate (2005) degrees from the Stuart Lazar, J.D., LL.M history and German language and State University of New York at Stony School of Law Brook. During this time he studied the literature at the University of Virginia and Visiting Associate Professor the University of Freiburg, Germany. He effect of climate variability and human did graduate work at Oxford University and activities in the salt marshes surrounding Professor Lazar obtained his A.B. (1990) and J.D. (1992) from the University of Washington University, St. Louis, where he Long Island, New York. received a Ph.D. in British and European Michigan and an L.L.M. in Taxation from New York University in 1996. He is visiting history in 2000. He is author of The

Tulane from Thomas Cooley School of Greenian Moment: T. H. Green, Religion Christopher N. Lawrence, Ph.D. Law, where he was the Assistant Director and Political Argument in Victorian Britain School of Liberal Arts of the Graduate Tax Program. He has also (Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic, 2004) and Visiting Assistant Professor, Political taught at Roger Williams University School various articles in British, European and Science of Law as adjunct professor and at Boston American history. He is presently Chris Lawrence received a B.A. in Political University School of Law as Lecturer in the compiling two volumes of contemporary Science from the University of Memphis Graduate Tax Program. After his recollections and documents relating to the and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the graduation from law school, Professor Oxford philosopher T. H. Green (1836- University of Mississippi. Dr. Lawrence Lazar worked as a tax associate at the 1882) and William Morris (1834-1896), the has held previous teaching appointments New York law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, socialist, artist and critic, to be published at Millsaps College, Duke University, and Meagher & Flom and then as a partner at by Pickering and Chatto in 2009. Another Saint Louis University. His current Edwards & Angell in Providence and area of his work is history of philosophy in research is concerned with the effects of Boston. His teaching, research, and the British Empire, ca. 1830-1970, and the writing interests are in the field of taxation. construction of the twentieth-century

14 New Faculty: Uptown Campus, 2007-08 subdiscipline 'comparative philosophy'. He Courtney Lopreore, Ph.D. scholarly interests include Italian recently contributed articles to the Oxford School of Science and Engineering Renaissance print culture and city imagery. Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Visiting Professor, Biomedical Engineering Between 2003 and 2007, Denys taught at Ryan K. McBride, Ph.D. the University of Delhi, India. Courtney Lopreore received a B.S. in chemistry from Tulane University and a School of Liberal Arts Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, English Eric Leininger, Ph.D. Ph.D. in chemical physics from the School of Science and Engineering University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Lopreore Ryan K. McBride completed his doctoral Postdoctoral Fellow, Cell and Molecular was a post-doctoral fellow at the Salk work in Philosophy in 2005 at Marquette Institute for Biological Studies and Howard Biology University with a dissertation on Plato’s Hughes Medical Institute. Her current Timaeus. He was a Visiting Assistant research is focused on signal transmission Professor at St. Norbert College from Eric Leininger received his Ph.D. from the in neurological cells. 2005-2007, where he taught writing- department of Cell and Molecular Biology intensive courses including Philosophy of at Tulane University in 2007. His graduate Tragedy and Aesthetics. He is currently Leandro M. Magnusson, Ph.D. work and dissertation were on the plasticity working on a book entitled Plato’s of developing hippocampal neurons. He School of Liberal Arts Theogony that works to elucidate the has authored a peer-reviewed publication Assistant Professor, Economics cosmology of the Timaeus by describing its and received awards for his graduate Leandro is a Brazilian born in São Paulo, connections to an ancient poetic genre. research. He now studies limb capital of São Paulo State, Brazil. He regeneration and development in the received his B.A. and M.A. in Economics Grant McCall, Ph.D. Muneoka lab. from the University of São Paulo. Before School of Liberal Arts starting the Ph.D. program at Brown Assistant Professor, Anthropology Jill Locke, Ph.D. University, he worked at the Institute of School of Liberal Arts Applied Economics in Brasília, as a Elisabeth McMahon, Ph.D. Visiting Associate Professor, Political researcher in labor economics. Entering School of Liberal Arts Science and Murphy Institute Brown University in 2001, he received his Assistant Professor, History M.A. in 2002 and Ph.D. in 2007. His Jill Locke completed her doctoral work in research field is econometrics. Elisabeth McMahon completed her Political Theory in 2000 at Rutgers doctoral work in African History in 2005 at University, where her dissertation was Jessica Maier, Ph.D. Indiana University, where her dissertation supported by a Charlotte Newcombe research was supported by a Fulbright Fellowship in Ethics. During the 2006-07 School of Liberal Arts Visiting Assistant Professor, Art History Fellowship. After two years as the academic year, Dr. Locke was a Faculty managing editor of the journal Africa Fellow at Tulane's Murphy Institute Center Jessica Maier received her doctorate from Today, Dr. McMahon took a visiting faculty for Ethics and Public Affairs. She is the Department of Art History and position at the University of Illinois, contributing co-editor of Feminist Archaeology at Columbia University in Urbana-Champaign. Her research Interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville 2006. Her dissertation, “Imago Romae: explores the creation of community and (forthcoming from Pennsylvania State Renaissance Visions of the Eternal City,” identity in the post-emancipation Zanzibar University Press) and writing a book about was completed with the support of a islands. the relationship between shame and Predoctoral Rome Prize Fellowship from democratic citizenship. the American Academy in Rome. Her

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James S. Miller, Ph.D. well-being among members of the biogeochemistry of boreal and arctic School of Science and Engineering marginalized social groups and improving wetlands. As a geoscience educator, he Research Associate Professor, Ecology intergroup relations. focuses on improving the quality of large and Evolutionary Biology general education courses, preparation of Michael J. Moore, Ph.D. pre-service teachers and identifying Jim Miller received his bachelor’s degree School of Science and Engineering solutions to conflict regarding socially from Hampshire College in 1976. He Assistant Professor, Biomedical controversial parts of the curriculum such received a Ph.D. in 1986 from Cornell Engineering as the geologic time scale and fossil University, where he studied the evolution Michael Moore received his B.S. in record. His Ph.D. was written at the of hostplant relationships in swallowtail Biological Systems Engineering from the University of New Hampshire leading to a butterflies. He then spent a postdoctoral University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1999, career at public and private institutions in year at the Smithsonian Institution shortly after marrying his wife Lisa. In New England and Minnesota prior to investigating the evolution of moths in the 2005, he received a Ph.D. in Biomedical coming to Tulane. Neotropical subfamily Dioptinae Engineering from the Mayo Clinic College (Notodontidae). These moths are unusual of Medicine in Rochester, MN. His Walter Lee Murfee, Ph.D. in being brightly colored as adults. Their dissertation research, focused on the use School of Science and Engineering caterpillars feed on passion vines and of biodegradable scaffolds for spinal cord Assistant Professor, Biomedical nightshades, plants famous as hosts for regeneration, was supported by a Engineering Kirschstein National Research Service tropical butterfly groups. Jim then became Walter Lee Murfee received a B.S. in curator of Lepidoptera at the American Award from the NIH. He went on to do postdoctoral work jointly between the Mechanical Engineering from Museum of Natural History (1987--1999), Massachusetts Institute of Technology and where his research continued to focus on Chemical Engineering Department at MIT and the Schepens Eye Research Institute a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the systematics of the Dioptinae. He currently University of Virginia. From 2005-2007, Dr. holds Research Associate status at both at Harvard Medical School, where his research involved injectable formulations Murfee was a post-doctoral fellow in the the Smithsonian and the American for neurotrophin delivery to the diseased Department of Bioengineering at the Museum. retina. He is currently investigating the use University of California - San Diego. His of smart biomaterials for guiding current research aims to better understand Lisa Molix, Ph.D. regenerating axons at the optic chiasm. how blood vessels grow in the adult and, in School of Science and Engineering Dr. Moore and his wife and two children particular, the regulation of microvascular Assistant Professor, Psychology live in the Broadmoor neighborhood and network patterning during pathological conditions. Lisa Molix received a B.A. in Psychology are only slightly fearful of hurricanes and and Spanish as well as an M.A. and Ph.D. floods. in Social and Personality Psychology from Angela Naimou, Ph.D. the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Sadredin Moosavi, Ph.D. School of Liberal Arts Molix’s dissertation work was supported via School of Science and Engineering Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, English funding from the National Institute of Professor of Practice, Earth and

Mental Health, the American Psychological Environmental Sciences

Association, and the Society for the

Psychological Study of Social Issues. Her Sadredin (Dean) Moosavi’s geoscience current research is focused on health and research focuses on climate change and

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Moshe Naor, Ph.D. Alliance of Artists Communities. His Exchange Commission and as an School of Liberal Arts teaching experience includes being an associate at a major New York and Los Schusterman Visiting Professor of Israel Instructor with the ACE program at the San Angeles law firm. She has written on Studies Francisco Art Institute, serving as a part- securities law topics and on topics related time Professor of Art at Escuela Cervantes, to corporate governance and directors' Moshe Naor received his Ph.D. in History and a visiting artist for the San Francisco liability. Her areas of interest include from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Arts Education Project. Mr. Neivert is corporate law, corporate "behavior," 2006. His dissertation was on war and currently creating a body of artwork that mergers and acquisitions, securities society in Israel focusing on the Jewish explores human/animal anthropology, regulation, and corporate governance. mobilization and the home-front in the culture, biology, and the failing 1948 War. Dr. Naor was a postdoctoral assumptions of human superiority to fellow at the Centre for Military and nature. Recent solo and juried exhibitions Tom O’Connor, Ph.D. Strategic Studies at the University of include: Breaking Ice: Bay Area Artists School of Liberal Arts Calgary (2005-06), and the Ray D. Wolfe Consider the African Diaspora -ArtworkSF Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, English fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Gallery, Safety Zone -Exploratorium Toronto (2006-07). His publications and Tom O'Connor received his Ph.D. in Museum, Fleeting Beauty -Soren English from SUNY Binghamton. His research interests focus on modern Jewish Christensen Gallery. History, Israel Studies, and Middle Eastern research interests are contemporary poetry, film, and media studies. His first History. He is the editor of State and Elizabeth Nowicki, J.D. Community (Hebrew University Magnes book, Poetic Acts & New Media, was just Law School Press, 2004) and Army, Memory and released from the University Press of Associate Professor of Law National Identity (Hebrew University America. Magnes Press, 2007). His current research Professor Elizabeth Nowicki joins the deals with the post-war reconstruction of Tulane Law School faculty from Annette B. Oertling, Ph.D. Israeli society in the early 1950s. He taught Washington & Lee School of Law, where School of Science and Engineering History at the Hebrew University of she was Visiting Professor during spring Professor of Practice Jerusalem and at the University of Toronto. 2007. She visited at Cornell Law School during fall of 2006, and prior to that she Annette Oertling obtained her B.S. in Matteo Neivert, M.F.A. was a member of the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering from Tulane in School of Liberal Arts University of Richmond School of Law. A May 1978 and subsequently worked for Visiting Assistant Professor, Art recipient of numerous honors as a student Exxon Company, U.S.A. She returned to at Columbia Law School, Professor Tulane and earned a M.A.T. with a Matteo Neivert received his B.F.A. in Art Nowicki also served as Senior Articles specialty in Math in August 1988, and and Design from Alfred University and an Editor of the Columbia Business Law taught high school for two years. She M.F.A. from Tulane University. In 2006, Review. After her graduation from law obtained a Ph.D. in Mechanical Mr. Neivert was an artist in residence at school, she clerked for Judge Jack the Exploratorium Museum in San Engineering from Tulane in May 2001, and Weinstein on the U.S. District Court for the is currently a Professor of Practice Francisco where he created two direct Eastern District of New York and then for cinema animated films and living paintings supporting the Biomedical Engineering Judge James Oakes on the U.S. Court of Department and serves as the Director of and sculptures from cyanobacteria and Appeals for the Second Circuit. She K-12 Outreach for the School of Science epiphytes. His residency was supported worked as an attorney in the Office of the and Engineering. In the latter capacity, by the James Irvine Foundation and the General Counsel of the Securities and she coordinates the Tulane Science

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Scholars Program, serves as Fair Director work on disasters has focused on issues of Foundation Writers' Award and a for the Greater New Orleans Science and post-disaster aid and reconstruction, Guggenheim Fellowship. Engineering Fair, coordinates the FIRST vulnerability analysis and social organization, including Lego League (middle-school robotics) and Jason Pearcy, Ph.D. FIRST Robotics (high-school) class/race/ethnicity/gender based patterns School of Liberal Arts competitions, and serves on the Gulf Coast of differential aid distribution, social Assistant Professor, Economics Math and Science Advisory Board, which is consensus and conflict, and social comprised of local industry and academia mobilization of community-based Jason Pearcy received a B.S. in partnered with school systems to bring reconstruction efforts. His work on Economics from Purdue University and a research-based curriculum to area schools. involuntary resettlement has focused on Ph.D. in Economics from the University of the impacts of displacement, place Colorado at Boulder in 2007. Jason attachment, resistance movements, and Anthony Oliver-Smith, Ph.D. conducts research in the area of applied resettlement project analysis. School of Liberal Arts microeconomics and is currently examining Greenleaf Visiting Professor, Center for issues related to price discrimination Latin American Studies and Anthropology Roberto Ortiz, Ph.D. across time. School of Liberal Arts Anthony Oliver-Smith is Professor of Visiting Assistant Professor, Spanish and Jennifer Petersen, Ph.D. Anthropology at the University of Florida Portuguese School of Liberal Arts and affiliated with the Center for Latin Visiting Assistant Professor, American Studies and the School of Communication Natural Resources and Environment. He Z.Z. Packer, M.F.A. also currently holds the Munich Re School of Liberal Arts Jennifer Petersen completed her doctorate Foundation Chair on Social Vulnerability at Visiting Professor, English at the University of Texas at Austin in the United Nations University Institute on Z.Z. Packer has been a high-school 2006. Her dissertation, “Feelings in the Environment and Human Security in Bonn, teacher and barmaid (though not at the Public Sphere: A study of emotion, public Germany in 2007-8. Dr. Oliver-Smith has same time). A graduate of Yale University, discourse and the law in the murders of done anthropological research and she received Masters degrees from Johns James Byrd Jr. and Matthew Shepard,” consultation on issues relating to disasters Hopkins and the Iowa Writers' Workshop analyzed the political and legal implications and involuntary resettlement in Peru, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow and of emotional discourse in the mediation of Honduras, India, Brazil, Jamaica, Mexico, Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. Her two prominent hate crimes. Her work has Japan, and the United States. He has collection of short stories, Drinking Coffee been published in Media, Culture and served on the executive boards of the Elsewhere was a New York Times Notable Society, International Journal of Qualitative National Association of Practicing Book, winner of a Commonwealth Club Studies in Education and in Our Virtual Anthropologists and the Society for Applied Fiction Award and an Alex Award and a World, an edited collection. She is currently Anthropology and on the Social Sciences PEN/Faulkner Award finalist. Her fiction working on a book based on her Committee of the Earthquake Engineering has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's dissertation. Research Institute. He is also a member of and Zoetrope, while her non-fiction has La Red de Estudios Sociales en been featured in the New York Times Prevención de Desastres en America Magazine, the New York Times Book Latina and is on the editorial boards of Review and Salon. She has received a Environmental Disasters, Sociological Whiting Writers' Award, a Rona Jaffe Inquiry and Desastres y Sociedad. His

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Gerhard Piringer, Ph.D. Lawrence R. Pratt, Ph.D. Before joining the faculty at Tulane, John School of Science and Engineering School of Science and Engineering was technical advisor and director of Professor of Practice, Earth and Professor and The Herman and George Albemarle Corporation’s Chemical Environmental Sciences Brown Chair in Chemical Engineering, Engineering Fundamentals Laboratory. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering His 15 years of industrial experience span Prior to his appointment as a Professor of a broad range of topics including Practice, Dr. Piringer was a visiting Lawrence R. Pratt is a theoretical and fundamental research, product professor in Civil and Environmental computational scientist who focuses on development, process design, and process Engineering and Earth and Environmental molecular understanding of complex fluid safety. Through his techniques for solving Sciences. Dr. Piringer has been teaching solutions. Of special interest are aqueous industrial problems, John made significant courses in meteorology and air pollution solutions in energy, environment, health, contributions to many of Albemarle’s modeling, air pollution control, and and molecular biology problems, even processes. These contributions resulted in environmental analysis. His research extending to NASA's follow the water his receiving several patents, corporate interests focus on environmental strategy for exploration of our solar system. technical achievement awards, and remediation with nanoparticles and on Pratt received a B.S. (1972) in Chemistry corporate research grants. quantifying the environmental impacts of from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. John received B.S. degrees in both building materials using life-cycle (1977) in Chemistry from the University of chemical engineering and mathematics assessments. He holds a masters degree Illinois. He was a post-doctoral researcher from Texas Tech University and a Ph.D. in in Engineering Physics from the Vienna at Harvard, an Assistant Professor of chemical engineering from the University of University of Technology in Austria and a Chemistry at University of California Wisconsin. He is also a licensed Ph.D. from Tulane. (Berkeley), but comes to Tulane after many professional engineer in the state of years at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Louisiana and teaches an annual P.E. Sergei Y. Ponomarev, Ph.D. New Mexico. He is probably best known Exam Review course to chemical School of Science and Engineering for the molecular theory of hydrophobic engineers working in the New Orleans Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics effects, the Pratt-Chandler theory initiated area. Since joining the department of with his thesis work, which lays a basis for chemical and biomolecular engineering, Sergei Y. Ponomarev graduated from the understanding the stability of biomolecular John has taught or actively participated in Moscow State Institute of Electronics and aggregates in aqueous solutions including the instruction of more than half the Mathematics in 2001 with a B.S./M.S. membranes and soluble proteins. undergraduate program curriculum. His Diploma in Biomedical Engineering. In Examples of recent research are the primary research interests include the 2001 he received an M.A. in Physics at molecular understanding of the health application of Process Design, Process Wesleyan University in Middleton, CT, hazards of inhaled beryllium particulates, Dynamics, and Process Control to improve followed by a Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2007, and supercapacitors based on nanotube the efficiency of renewable energy also at Wesleyan. His current research forests. processes. interests include molecular dynamics simulations of protein-DNA complexes, John Prindle, Ph.D. computational drug design; applied School of Science and Engineering programming, robotics, artificial intelligence Professor of Practice, Chemical and and neural networks. Biomolecular Engineering

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Mary Dawn Pugh, J.D., M.A. institutions in Latin American studies, such Brad Rosenheim received a B.S. in School of Law as the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Environmental Science with a Geology Forrester Fellow and Instructor in Legal Latin American Studies at The University of Concentration at the University of Vermont Writing Texas, and the Fondo Nacional para la and a Ph.D. in Marine Geology and Cultura y las Artes in Mexico. Geophysics at the Rosenstiel School of Mary Dawn Pugh completed her Juris Marine and Atmospheric Sciences of the Doctorate in 2005 at Tulane Law School, Fernando Rivera-Díaz, Ph.D. University of Miami. Dr. Rosenheim after which she practiced law in New School of Liberal Arts became a post-doctoral investigator at the Orleans until her appointment as a Assistant Professor, Spanish and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Forrester Fellow. Prior to attending law Portuguese 2005. Dr. Rosenheim’s research has school, Ms. Pugh obtained a Masters focused on assessing changes in ocean Degree from New York University in Fernando Rivera-Díaz received his Ph.D. temperature, salinity, and circulation using French Studies, and worked for a from Princeton University in 2006. His geochemical techniques applied on short member of the United States Senate in research on contemporary Latin American centennial/millennial time scales. Dr. Washington, D.C. narratives focuses on poetics and politics Rosenheim has recently commenced work of the novel, and constitution of modern with a group of researchers aiming to Andrea Queeley, Ph.D. subjects in the Andean Area. Also, he is improve the chronology of deglaciation on School of Liberal Arts specialized in literary theory and cultural the Antarctic Peninsula 10,000 years ago. Post Doctoral Teaching Fellow, Latin studies. Dr. Rivera is currently completing a American Studies book on the works by the Peruvian novelist Urmi Roy, M.A. and anthropologist, José María Arguedas. A.B. Freeman School of Business Jesús Ramos-Kittrell, Ph.D. Professor of Practice of Business School of Liberal Arts Bethany L. Rollins, Ph.D. Administration Visiting Assistant Professor, Music School of Science and Engineering Urmi Roy is a Sun Microsystems Certified Professor Ramos-Kittrell’s scholarship Visiting Assistant Professor, Psychology Java Programmer and worked as a focuses on music from eighteenth-century Bethany Rollins received a B.A. in Software Engineer for five years before and contemporary Mexico. More Psychology with a minor in Biology from joining Tulane University. Her areas of specifically, he considers the performance Ohio University in 1997 and a Ph.D. in expertise include Object Oriented of ritual and ceremony at the Metropolitan Biopsychology with a minor in Animal Programming and development of the Cathedral of Mexico from 1680 to 1750, Behavior from the University of New J2EE architectural framework in a Unix and contemporary popular music from the Orleans in 2005, just weeks before Katrina. environment. After completing her Masters north of Mexico. His archival work in After relocating to northern Virginia, Dr. in English from Calcutta University, India, Mexico City emphasizes the importance of Rollins taught several psychology courses in 1993, she obtained her Masters in music performance within the broader at Lord Fairfax Community College as an Systems Management from the National cultural context of religious practices, while adjunct professor. Institute of Information Technology, his interest in Latin American popular Calcutta, India, in 1995. In the corporate music explores ethnomusicological Brad E. Rosenheim, Ph.D. world, she has worked as a Senior Java approaches to the study of music and Application Developer for companies like transnational constructions of identity. School of Science and Engineering The Realm in New York, and Entigo Ramos-Kittrell’s research has been Assistant Professor, Earth and Corporation in Pittsburgh. Ms. Roy has recognized by awards from prominent Environmental Sciences also held various teaching positions,

20 New Faculty: Uptown Campus, 2007-08 including an Assistant Professorship in the He maintains a busy schedule as a string Civilization and Culture. Also, she English department at Southern University and orchestra clinician and adjudicator. performed in many productions of the at New Orleans and Adjunct Professorship bilingual Teatro Bravo company. Currently, in the Information Systems department at Thomas A. Sancton, D.Phil. Dr. Sans is working on the book project the Freeman School of Business. Honors Program Carnival, Identity and Globalization, which Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the examines the dialectics of the local and the Michael A. Sackey. J.D. Humanities global as presented in musical popular School of Law theatre performances in the years 2000- Forrester Fellow and Instructor in Legal Thomas Sancton grew up in New Orleans 2007. Writing and attended local public schools. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Michael Sackey received a B.A. in English College in 1971, and in 1978 received a Timothy Schuler, Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1985 doctorate in European History from Oxford School of Science and Engineering and a J.D., magna cum laude, from the University, which he attended as a Rhodes Professor of Practice, Physics Washington and Lee University School of Scholar. He worked for Time Magazine Law in 1997. Prior to joining the Tulane from 1979 until 2001, serving as a senior Timothy Michael Schuler was born in faculty, Mr. Sackey served as a judicial editor, correspondent and, most recently, Plymouth, Wisconsin to Michael and Linda clerk on the U.S. District Court for the Paris Bureau Chief. In 2002 and 2003, he Schuler in 1976. In 1995 he moved to New Southern District of West Virginia, worked taught journalism and feature writing at the Orleans to attend Tulane University, where at the Washington, D.C. law firm Arnold & American University of Paris. Sancton is he pursued majors in Physics and Porter, and taught a commercial law class the co-author of the international bestseller Mathematics with a minor in Philosophy, at The Catholic University of America Death of a Princess: The Investigation graduating with a Bachelor of Science Columbus School of Law. Mr. Sackey is a (1998), and Dear Jacques, Cher Bill (on degree in 1999. That summer he began member of the Maryland and District of Franco-American relations in the 1990s; research in the field of soft x-ray Columbia bars. pub. 1998), as well as the author of a spectroscopy and began attending memoir, Song for My Fathers: A New graduate school at Tulane in the field of Maxim Samarov, D.MA. candidate Orleans Story in Black and White (2006), and a political thriller, The Armageddon Physics under the tutelage of the School of Liberal Arts venerable Dr. David Ederer, eventually Visiting Assistant Professor, Music Project (2007). obtaining his Ph.D. in 2004. Following Maxim Samarov is in final stages of Isabel Sans, Ph.D. graduation, he began working as a completion of his doctoral work in Research Scientist for Mississippi Polymer School of Liberal Arts Orchestral Conducting at the Michigan Visiting Assistant Professor, Spanish & Technologies in Pearlington, MS, returning State University. He has previously served Portuguese to rebuild the company immediately as the Visiting Director of Orchestras at following Hurricane Katrina. In the summer Luther College in Iowa and as Assistant Isabel Sans completed her doctoral work in of 2006 he returned to the Tulane Physics Professor of Orchestra and Low Strings at Spanish Cultural Studies in 2007 at Department, and has since been appointed St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. Arizona State University, with the the position of professor of practice. He Maxim Samarov has an extensive dissertation “Identity and Globalization currently resides in his adopted hometown background both as a conductor and as a Performed by Carnival Theatre”. In Arizona of New Orleans. cellist with numerous performances in she taught Spanish Language and Russia, Europe, Israel, and United States. Literature, and Hispanic American

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Eli Shoot, Ph.D. Ashlie Sponenberg completed her received a B.S. in Mathematics from Jilin School of Liberal Arts graduate studies at Queen Mary, University in Jilin, China, followed by Assistant Professor, Music University of London (M.A., 1998) and the master’s and doctoral degrees from University of Liverpool (Ph.D., 2002). She Temple University in 1995 and 2004, Eli Shoot holds a Bachelor and a Master in taught undergraduate- and graduate-level respectively. His fields of study are Music Composition degrees from the English at Liverpool, Carlow University Algebraic Combinatorics and WZ- Juilliard School, and a Ph.D. in Music from (Pittsburgh), and, most recently, York Harvard University. He has been a algorithm. Outside of Mathematics, Xinyu College – CUNY. In 2005, she became likes puzzles, computers programming, Research Fellow at the Hebrew University editor-in-chief of AMS Press, a scholarly in Jerusalem, and his music has been computer games, outdoor activities, and publishing house based in New York City. especially tennis. heard at venues and festivals in the US, She is co-editor of Palgrave’s the UK, France, Germany, Israel and Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing Russia. Shoot's music draws inspiration 1900-1950 (2006) and is currently Peter Tillack, Ph.D. from the traditions of cantillation and completing a manuscript on the School of Liberal Arts change-ringing, and his research includes intersections of modernity and Professor of Practice, Asian Studies theory of musical contour and conservatism in the writings of British Program transformational theory. female political activists between the world Peter Tillack completed his doctoral work

wars. Dr. Sponenberg is also an assistant in East Asian Languages and Literatures in Bryan Sigel, Ph.D. editor of the journal The Space Between: 2006 at the University of Oregon. In 2006- School of Science and Engineering Literature and Culture 1914-1945. 07, Dr. Tillack was a visiting assistant Visiting Assistant Professor, Ecology and professor in the Department of Foreign Evolutionary Biology James Jan Sullivan, Ph.D. Languages and Literatures, at Loyola School of Liberal Arts University, New Orleans. He is currently Bryan Sigel received his Ph.D. from Tulane Visiting Assistant Professor, Classical working on turning his dissertation into a University in 2007. His research interests Studies book, the working title of which is Out of intersect the fields of community ecology, Place: Suburbia and the Advent of James Sullivan completed his Ph.D. at the conservation biology and biogeography. Contemporary Japanese Literature. University of Chicago and his B.A. at Recent work focuses on the effects of Columbia University in New York City. His forest fragmentation on tropical bird dissertation, “Thucydides Politicus: The Elizabeth Townsend-Gard, Ph.D., LL.M., communities where he has documented Political Dimension of Thucydides’ History J.D. serious bird species declines at La Selva of the Peloponnesian War,” was supported Law School Biological Station, Costa Rica, one of the by a Mellon Fellowship and supervised by Associate Professor, Law most well-studied Neotropical field stations. Prof. Danielle Allen. Elizabeth Townsend-Gard received her

Steven Sinnott, Ph.D. B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from UCLA in Xinyu Sun, Ph.D. European History, and her J.D. and LL.M. School of Science and Engineering School of Science and Engineering in International Trade from the James E. Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona. In 2005, Dr. Townsend-Gard was Ashlie K. Sponenberg, Ph.D. Xinyu Sun was previously a Visiting a postdoctoral Leverhulme Trust research School of Liberal Arts Assistant Professor at Texas A&M fellow at the London School of Economics, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, English University before coming to Tulane. He where she focused her work on the

22 New Faculty: Uptown Campus, 2007-08 copyright status of unpublished works in an Dr. Alexander Vuving, Ph.D. George Wang, Ph.D. international context. In 2006, she held a School of Liberal Arts School of Science and Engineering visiting assistant position at Seattle Visiting Assistant Professor, Political Visiting Assistant Professor, Ecology and University School of Law. Since 2004, she Science Evolutionary Biology has been a non-resident fellow at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Alexander Vuving holds a master’s degree George Wang received a B.S. in Zoology Society. Her research focuses on the in Political Science, Economics, and and an M.S. in Biology from Texas Tech public domain, virtual property, and Sociology and received his doctorate in University. He completed his Ph.D. at the copyright issues within an academic Political Science from the Johannes University of Louisiana at Lafayette in environment. She is currently working on Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. 2007, supported by a University of two books, Copyright and a Scholar's From 2005 to 2007, he was a research Louisiana Doctoral Fellowship. His Work, and The Making of the Great War fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of research interests involve the roles of Generation: A Comparative Biography. Government. His current research interests species interactions as ecological include grand strategy making, foreign community structuring mechanisms. policy change, Asian security, and Sasha Turner, Ph.D. international relations theory. Beth E. F. Wee, Ph.D. School of Liberal Arts School of Science and Engineering Visiting Assistant Professor, History Meena Vijayaraghavan, Ph.D. Professor of Practice, Neuroscience School of Science and Engineering Nandini Vasudevan, Ph.D. Professor of Practice, Cell and Molecular Dr. Beth Wee, Co-Director of the Masters School of Science and Engineering Biology and Undergraduate Neuroscience Research Assistant Professor, Cell and Programs and Professor of Practice in Molecular Biology Dr. Meena Vijayaraghavan received her Neuroscience, earned her Ph.D. in Zoology Ph.D. in Zoology and Tumor Biochemistry and Neuroscience at Michigan State Richard Velkley, Ph.D. in 1995 with specialization in University. She completed postdoctoral School of Liberal Arts Environmental Carcinogenesis. She did research at Northwestern University in Weatherhead Chair in Philosophy post-doctoral research at Osaka City Evanston, IL and Tulane University, Richard Velkley received a B.A. in History University Medical School, Japan, studying circadian and seasonal rhythms in from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in University of California-Davis, and mammals. Dr. Wee’s interests in animal Philosophy from the Pennsylvania State University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. During behavior, neuroscience, and University. He was formerly professor of 1997-2000, she was an Assistant neuroendocrinology are incorporated into philosophy at the Catholic University of Professor in the College of Science and the classes that she teaches, including America in Washington, D.C. He has held Engineering at Ritsumeikan University, Brain and Behavior, Methods in post-doctoral fellowships at the University Japan. She has been a Visiting Assistant Neuroscience, Behavioral of Toronto, University of Iowa and Harvard, Professor in the Department of Cell and Neuroendocrinology Laboratory, and and has received grants from the NEH and Molecular Biology at Tulane since July Service Learning components of these the American Council of Learned Societies. 2005. Her fields of research experience courses. She earned the Newcomb He is the author of two books and include environmental carcinogenesis and Alumnae Association’s “Excellence in Non- numerous articles in the area of pediatric nephrology. She teaches general Tenured Teaching Award” in May, 2006. In Continental European Philosophy since the biology to freshman and genetics to addition to her teaching, Dr. Wee advises eighteenth century. sophomore students. many of the students majoring in

23 New Faculty: Uptown Campus, 2007-08 neuroscience, a major that she helped to Michael S. Wilson, Ph.D. 2007, with a dissertation entitled “The create. She co-directs the Neuroscience A. B. Freeman School of Business Jalayirids and Dynastic State Formation in Masters Program, is a member of the Professor of Practice the Mongol Ilkhanate.” His research Study Abroad Advisory Committee, the interests include the legacy of the Mongol Health Professions Committee, and the Mike Wilson specializes in leadership, Empire in the Middle East. management, and team development, with Center for Public Service Advisory an emphasis on developing high Committee. performance within individuals, teams, and Huimin Xie, Ph.D. organizations. He has worked extensively Carmen Weigelt, Ph.D. with leadership teams in the development School of Liberal Arts A. B. Freeman School of Business, of required skills for new initiatives and Professor of Practice, Chinese Assistant Professor, Strategy performance improvement coaching. He Huimin Xie completed her Ph.D. in Applied Carmen Weigelt received her Ph.D. from has supported senior leaders of corporate, Linguistics in July, 2007 at Ball State the Fuqua School of Business at Duke government and not-for-profit University. She worked as the assistant University in 2003 and her MBA from the organizations. He teaches leadership, director of Writing Center in the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in teambuilding, organizational behavior, total Department of English at Ball State for 1997. Prior to joining the Freeman School, quality management, and human resource three years. Her research interests include she served as assistant professor of management as a Professor of Chinese linguistics, second language management at the Jesse H. Jones Management. acquisition, and foreign language teaching Graduate School of Management at Rice methods and material development. University. Her research focuses on firm Nathan A. Wilson, Ph.D. candidate capabilities, outsourcing, innovation, and School of Liberal Arts Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, Ph.D. acquisition performance. Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Arts Communication Greenleaf Visiting Professor, Stone Center Andrea J. Wilkes, J.D. Nathan A. Wilson is wrapping up his for Latin American Studies Law School doctoral work in Rhetorical Criticism Tomás Ybarra-Frausto is the former Instructor, Civil Law Clinic (expected completion date December, Associate Director for Creativity & Culture Andrea Wilkes received a B.A. in English 2007) at the University of Iowa, where his at the Rockefeller Foundation. His work Language and Literature and a J.D. from dissertation, "Was that supposed to be with the foundation includes the Vanderbilt University. Before joining the funny? A rhetorical analysis of politics, Humanities Residency Fellowship faculty at the law school, Ms. Wilkes problems and contradictions in Program, The Recovering and Reinventing practiced labor and employment law and contemporary stand-up comedy," is Cultures Through Museums Program, The represented both management and unions pending review. When completed, he U.S. Mexico Fund For Culture, and in private practice. Ms. Wilkes also has plans to adapt the project to book form. Partnerships Affirming Community public sector experience in the area and Transformation (PACT). Prior to joining the during her tenure at the National Labor Patrick Wing, Ph.D. Rockefeller Foundation, Dr. Ybarra-Frausto Relations Board, Ms. Wilkes obtained the School of Liberal Arts was a tenured professor at Stanford position of Deputy Regional Attorney at Adjunct Assistant Professor, History University in the Department of Spanish Region 15 in New Orleans. Ms. Wilkes is and Portuguese. He has served as the Patrick Wing completed his doctoral work licensed to practice in Kansas, Wisconsin, Chair of the Mexican Museum in San in Near Eastern Languages and Missouri, Texas and Louisiana. Francisco and the Smithsonian Council, Civilizations at the University of Chicago in

24 New Faculty: Uptown Campus, 2007-08 and has written and published extensively, Geology. Specifically, his interests focus focusing—for the most part—on Latin on understanding the complex interactions American and U.S./Latino cultural issues. among the earth’s cryosphere, lithosphere, In 1998, Dr. Ybarra-Frausto was awarded and hydrosphere at regional and global the Henry Medal by the Smithsonian scales as a function of time. These include Institution. his doctoral work on Holocene Baltic sea- level changes and post-doctoral work on Myke Yest, Ph.D. crustal rebound in the upper Great Lakes A.B. Freeman School of Business area while with University of Minnesota Instructor, Finance Duluth. Shiyong’s current work continues Myke Yest received a B.B.A in Finance this effort on the US Gulf Coast. The from Stetson University (DeLand, FL) and methods he uses to tackle these questions an MBA from the University of South are radiocarbon dating of sea-level index Florida (Tampa, FL). In August, 2007, he points and geophysical modeling. received his Ph.D. from Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of Business. His research focuses on investments and Dana Zartner Falstrom, Ph.D. mutual fund management structure. Myke School of Liberal Arts has taught several Finance undergraduate Assistant Professor, Political Science courses, earning Teacher Honor Roll awards in 2002, 2004 and 2007. In addition Dana Zartner Falstrom received a B.A. in to his teaching responsibilities, Myke is the International Studies from Hamline Chief Compliance Officer for a local University, and a J.D. /M.A. with a brokerage firm specializing in retirement Concentration in International Law from planning. Boston University. After five years as an immigration lawyer, she returned to academics and received her Ph.D. in Shiyong Yu, Ph.D. Political Science with an emphasis in School of Science and Engineering International Relations from the University Postdoctoral Fellow, Earth and of California, Davis. Her current research Environmental Sciences focuses on the role that domestic legal systems and legal culture play in shaping Shiyong Yu earned a Diploma in state attitudes towards international law. Geography from the Ocean University of Qingdao. He subsequently received a master’s in Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology in 1997 from Nanjing University and a Ph.D. in Quaternary Geology in 2003 from Lund University. His research lies at the interface between solid-earth Geophysics and Quaternary

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