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News about the College's Faculty and Departments

College Kudos
Research Grants and Awards
About the emeritus faculty members
Other News 		  Promotions
New Tenure Track and Continuing Faculty
Department and Program Chairs

   Faculty Members on Leave
Interim Faculty Members
Postdoctoral Fellows
BMC obituaries

Kudos for

These colleagues who were named awardees at Commencement, May 18, 2008

  • Homay King , Associate Professor of History of Art, was awarded the McPherson Fellowship for excellence in teaching, research, and service to the community;
  • Neal Williams, Assistant Professor in Biology, was awarded the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching; and
  • Kate Thomas , Associate Professor of English was given the Roslyn R. Schwartz Teaching Award.

    • Recent Research Grants and Awards

    To be announced

    Promotions

    The Board of Trustees confirmed the following promotions at its 2007-2008 meetings, effective September 2008:
    • Madhavi Kale, History, to Full Professor
    • Sharon Ullman, History, to Full Professor
    • Juan Arbona, Growth and Structure of Cities Program, to Associate Professor with tenure
    • Jeremy Elkins, Political Science, to Associate Professor with tenure
    • Tim Harte, Russian, to Associate Professor with tenure
    • Homay King, History of Art, to Associate Professor with tenure
    • Bethany Schneider, English, to Associate Professor with tenure
    • Kate Thomas, English, to Associate Professor with tenure

     

    New Tenure Track and Continuing Faculty Members

    We are pleased to welcome to the faculty these new colleagues in the 2008-09 academic year:
    • Gregory Davis , Biology
      Rank: Assistant Professor
      Highest degree and institution: Ph.D., 2002, Developmental Biology, University of Chicago
    • Lynne Elkins, Geology
      Rank: Instructor/Lab Coordinator
      Highest degree and institution: Ph.D. Candidate (currently) MIT-WHOI (joint program)
    • Yonglin Jiang , East Asian Studies
      Rank: Visiting Associate Professor
      Highest degree and institution: Ph.D.,1997, Chinese History, University of Minnesota
    • Astrid Lindenlauf, Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
      Rank: Assistant Professor
      Highest degree and institution:       Ph.D., 2001, classical Archaeology, University College, London
    • Kaylea Mayer, Spanish
      Rank: Instructor
      Highest degree and institution: Ph.D. Candidate (currently), Applied Spanish Linguistics, Georgetown University
    • Hoang Tan Nguyen , English
      Rank: Lecturer
      Highest degree and institution: Ph.D., expected 2008, Rhetoric, Film Studies, University of California, Berkeley
    • Elly Truitt , History
      Rank: Assistant Professor
      Highest degree and institution: Ph.D., 2008, History of Science, Harvard University
    • Bharath Vallabha , Philosophy
      Rank: Assistant Professor
      Highest degree and institution: Ph.D., Philosophy, Harvard University
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    Postdoctoral and Predoctoral Fellows

    The College welcomes the following new postdoctoral fellow for the 2008-09 academic year:
    • Veronica Martinez-Matsuda, Ph.D. Candidate (currently) United States History, University of Texas at Austin Predoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, she will be affiliated with the Department of History.
    • Gina Velasco, Ph.D. Candidate (currently). History of Consciousness, she will be affiliated with the Department of Anthropology and the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program

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    Last updated August 2008.