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2002 New Faculty ART David East, assistant professor, received his M.F.A from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in 2000. His focus is on ceramics and as the coordinator of the 3-D Design Program. He has taught and been a visiting artist at numerous locations including the University of Wisconsin/ River Falls, Worcester Center for Crafts and the Massachusetts College of Art. David’s work has been exhibited nationally, most recently in a solo exhibition at Illinois Weslyan University in Bloomington, IL.
ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY Susan Langdon, associate professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology, completed her Ph.D. at Indiana University in 1984. Her area of teaching and research is Greek art and archaeology. Her research interests focus on the intersecting roles of art, ritual, and gender in early Greece and the east Mediterranean region, particularly in relation to social change in the early Greek state. A recent fellow at the National Humanities Center, she is currently exploring the mortuary evidence for women's ownership of property, and preparing for publication the early terracotta votive figures from the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Corinth.
BIOLOGY David Setzer, professor, completed his Ph.D. at Stanford in 1981. After three years as a post-doctoral fellow at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Embryology, he spent more than 17 years as a faculty member in the Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. His interest lies in mechanisms and control of transcription of eukaryotic genes. Troy Zars, Assistant Professor, completed his Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame in 1997. His specialty is the molecular, genetic, and systems analysis of memory phenomena in the fruit fly, Drosophila. These interests are evident in recent publications in Science; Learning and Memory; Journal of Comparative Physiology; and Neuron. Current research projects investigate the molecular mechanisms of memory extinction.
ECONOMICS Emek Basker, assistant professor, received her Ph.D. at MIT in 2002. Emek's research interests are at the intersection of macroeconomics and labor economics, and she uses empirical microeconomic techniques to study questions of interest to macroeconomists. Recent papers include the effect of Wal-Mart entry on local labor markets and the relationship between job search and migration. She is currently studying the effect of credit constraints on farmland ownership.
ENGLISH George Justice, assistant professor, received his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1994. His research interests are Eighteenth-Century British Literature; The History of the Book; The Novel; and Literary Theory. He has previously taught at Marquette University and Louisiana State University. He is currently working on a study linking the English novel and the history of education and is also, with Devoney Looser, co-editing a volume of letters of the eighteenth-century novelist, Samuel Richardson. Devoney Looser, assistant professor, received her Ph.D. at SUNY-Stony Brook in 1993. Her research interests are the English Novel to 1830; Jane Austen; Women's Literary History; and Feminist Theory and Criticism. She is the author of British Women Writers and the Writing of History (Johns Hopkins UP), named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title and awarded honorable mention for the Outstanding Book of 2000 from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. She is the editor of Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism (St. Martin's) and co-editor of Generations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue (U of Minnesota P). Paul Young, assistant professor, received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1998. His research and teaching interests include film's relationships to other media, early film history, cultural studies, the films of Alfred Hitchcock, modernist and postmodernist fiction, and critical theory. He is currently completing a manuscript entitled "The Cinema Dreams Its Rivals: New Media and Hollywood's Public Spheres", to be published by the University of Minnesota Press. In 2001 he received the E. Roe Stamps Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he taught from 1998-2001.
GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES Eric Sandvol, assistant professor, received his Ph.D. at New Mexico State University in 1995. His primary specialty is earthquake seismology and tectonophysics. Specifically he has focused on the imaging of the lithosphere and upper mantle beneath the Alpine-Himalayan mountain belt. Much of his early work focused on the observations of seismic anisotropy and deformation patterns in the earth's upper mantle. He has also worked on developing new techniques for modeling broadband seismograms in order to determine crustal and uppermost mantle structure. His most recent publication presented a new tomographic technique to elucidate the seismic attenuation structure of the lithospheric mantle. He is currently working on the processing and interpreting of data collected from a recent large experiment in the mountains of eastern Turkey. Alan Whittington, assistant professor, received his Ph.D. at the Open University (U.K.) in 1997. His research combines field and laboratory studies in the areas of petrology, geochemistry and tectonics. In particular, his research reveals how deep rocks are exhumed to the Earth's surface in mountain belts. His recent publications include articles on the viscosity of volcanic magmas, and the relationship between erosion and crustal melting in the Himalaya. His current research focuses on the tectonics of eastern Brazil during the assembly of a supercontinent, and on the emplacement of basaltic magmas in the Transantarctic mountains.
MATH Michael Taksar, professor, received his Ph.D. at Cornell in 1979. His research interests are stochastic models, stochastic control with applications to financial mathematics and mathematical insurance. He is working in the new field which results from the merging of mathematical finance and insurance. His main research there is related to optimization and risk reduction.
MUSIC Olga Haldey, assistant professor, received her Ph.D. at Ohio State University in 2002. She will be working in the area of music history & literature. Her primary research interests include Russian music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, opera production, early modernist philosophy and aesthetics, sketch studies, and ethnomusicology. A recipient of a number of prestigious fellowships and grants, including the Alvin H. Johnson AMS-50 Dissertation Fellowship from the American Musicological Society and a research grant from the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel, Switzerland, she presented papers at conferences in England and Netherlands, as well as the United States. Tom O'Neal, director of bands, received his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in 1992. His areas of expertise include concert band, wind ensemble, conducting, and band techniques. He maintains an active conducting schedule, having conducted professional student ensembles throughout North America and Europe. Ensembles under his direction have been featured at music conferences and festivals, including the Grieg Music Festival in Bergen, Norway, and the regional convention of the College Band Directors National Association. Dr. O'Neal has been featured as a clinician or guest conductor in thirty-one states throughout the United States.
Lecolion Washington, assistant professor, received his Master's of Music in Orchestral Performance at the Manhattan School of Music in 2001. He has won orchestral positions with such orchestras as the Houston Grand Opera and the Shanghai Radio Broadcasting Orchestra. An avid chamber music performer, Mr. Washington has performed with the New York Chamber Ensemble, North Country Chamber Players (comprised of principal players from such orchestras as the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the Minnesota Orchestra), Circadia Woodwind Quintet, and with principal players in the New York Philharmonic. Solo performances have included concertos with The Southern Methodist University Symphony Orchestra and the International Summer Festival Institute at Round Top. He has attended summer festivals in Cape May, New Jersey and in Houston, Texas at the Texas Music Festival. He is currently giving solo and chamber music recitals and performing with the Missouri Wind Quintet.
PHILOSOPHY Matthew McGrath, assistant professor, received his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1998. He taught previously at Texas A&M University and Stanford University. His research interests are in metaphysics and epistemology, with side interests in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and metaethics.
PHYSICS Oleg A. Kuznetsov, assistant professor, received his Ph.D. in biological physics at the Institute of Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1993. His research focuses on biophysical mechanisms of plant gravity perception and physical characterization of the receptor cells, organelles and cytoplasm, as well as on developing technology to substitute the gravity stimulus for plants in microgravity using ponderomotive forces of other nature. Flight experiments on board the Space Shuttle (STS-107) are scheduled for early 2003. His other research interests include applications of magnetic adsorbent particles and magnetomechanical forces and devices for targeted drug delivery, magnetic hemosorption, medical diagnostics and surgery, as well as for ecological and technological purposes. His most recent publications include articles in JMMM, Adv. Space Research, Plant Physiology, Plant Cell Physiology and European J. Cells & Materials. He is also co-editor of the COSPAR section F4.4. Wouter Montfrooij, assistant professor, received his Ph.D. at Delft University, the Netherlands in 1990. His specialty is phase transitions in condensed matter. Of particular interest are phase transitions in which the ordered phase does not occur until zero Kelvin, the so-called quantum phase transitions. These transitions are different from 'classical' phase transitions in the sense that quantum fluctuations are more important than thermal fluctuations, resulting in a new type of ordering behavior. These transitions are primarily studied by means of neutron scattering experiments, and by susceptibility and transport measurements. In addition, the superfluid phase of liquid helium, in which the fluid has zero viscosity, remains an area of continued research.
POLITICAL SCIENCE A. Cooper Drury, assistant professor, received his Ph.D. at Arizona State University in 1997. His research focuses on international political economy, foreign policy, economic sanctions, and political unrest. In particular, his research reveals when and how the U.S. uses economic sanctions to coerce other nations. His most recent publications include articles in Journal of Communist Studies and Transitional Politics, Pacific Focus, Political Research Quarterly, and Presidential Studies Quarterly. He is also co-editor of Sanctions as Economic Statecraft: Theory and Practice (Macmillan). Dr. Drury currently serves as the president of the Foreign Policy Analysis Section of the International Studies Association. Marvin Overby, associate professor, received his Ph.D. at the University of Oklahoma in 1991. His main area of teaching and research interest is American politics, particularly the Congress, Southern politics, state legislative politics, and minority politics. He also has interests in comparative politics, including comparative legislatures and Canadian politics. Professor Overby's most recent publications have included studies of public attitudes toward gay men and lesbians, the representativeness of state legislative committees, split ticket voting behavior in American national elections, and voting behavior in Canadian parliamentary assemblies. His current research projects investigate the use of filibusters in the U. S. Senate, leadership in the U. S. House of Representatives, and the representation of African Americans in state legislatures.
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES Moshe Naveh-Benjamin, associate professor, received his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 1981. His research interests include adult-age changes in episodic memory, the interaction of attention, encoding, and retrieval processes, and the role of memory processes in real-life settings, including the relationships between acquisition and retention of knowledge. His most recent publications include articles in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition; Memory and Cognition; and the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. He is also co-editor of Perspectives on Human Memory and Cognitive Aging (2002, Psychology Press). Ronald Friedman, assistant professor, received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1999. His areas of specialty are the influence of affect and motivation on perception, memory, and problem solving; creativity and creative insight; self-regulation and self-control. Denis M. McCarthy, assistant professor, received his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky in 1999. His research interests include cognitive motivations for alcohol use and drinking and driving behavior, with an emphasis on exploring factors that influence the acquisition and development of these motivations in adolescents. He has also published papers on treatment and intervention outcomes for substance use in adolescents, motivational factors in tobacco use and eating disordered behavior, and psychometrics. Dennis Miller, assistant professor, received his Ph.D. from Texas A & M in 1999. He studies neuropharmacology and the behavioral pharmacology of nicotine using an animal model. One area of research is the effect of toxicants and the environment on nicotine and the long-term adaptive changes in brain function associated with repeated nicotine administration. Other research focuses on the role of nicotinic receptors on the effects of antidepressants and psychostimulants.
RELIGIOUS STUDIES Richard "Chip" Callahan, assistant professor, received his Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2002. His area of teaching and research is religion and American culture, teaching courses in American religious history, African American religion(s), and Native American religion(s). He has a special research interest in vernacular religion in everyday life, especially in relation to labor and occupational cultures. He has just completed a study of religious responses to industrialization in the first decades of eastern Kentucky’s coal industry. He is currently beginning a research project on ghosts, work, and the spirits of ships in New England maritime history.
SOCIOLOGY Jaber Gubrium, professor and department chair, received his Ph.D. at Wayne State in 1970. Before he joined MU, he was a faculty member at the University of Florida for more than 15 years. His research interests are aging and long-term care, constructions of health and illness (Alzheimer's Disease; Stroke), narrative and discourse analysis, organizational ethnography, and contemporary social theory. He is one of the leading scholars in social gerontology and is on the cutting edge of methodological developments in the social sciences.
STATISTICS Nancy Flournoy, professor and department chair, received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1982. Her primary interests are adaptive experimental design, inference for stochastic processes, bioinformatics and chemometrics with applications for laboratory, health and environmental sciences and policy analysis. She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington Academy of Sciences, World Academy of Arts and Science and an elected member of the International Statistics Institute. She is Recipient of the Elizabeth Scott Award and on the Editorial Board of Journal of Statistics Planning and Inference and Communications in Statistics. |
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