Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2016-2017 Academic Year
Department
Accounting
First name
Matthew
Last name
Sherwood
Title
Assistant Professor
Campus
Umass
Africana Studies
J.T.
Roane
McPherson/Eveillard
Postdoc Fellow & Lecturer
Anthropology
Lynnette
Arnold
Lecturer
Umass
Gerard
Visiting Lecturer in
Anthropology
Mount Holyoke
Anthropology
Anthropology
Anthropology and
Sociology
Architecture
Art
Art
William
Boone
Caterina
Pari
Clara
Paola
Smith College
Shear
Lecturer
Scaramelli
Riahi
Barnhart
Visiting Assistant Professor
of Anthropology and
Sociology
Amherst College
Assistant Professor
Umass
Lecturer
Smith College
Ferrario
Umass
Harnish Visiting Artist
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Primary subfield
Any additional areas of scholarly
within the discipline
interest/specialization
or department
Smith College
social history of Black
communities in the
late 20th Century
United States
shaping of everyday
language by social
structures and
ideologies
anthropology of
Religion,
Race and Ethnicity in Latin
anthropology of
America, Social Theory,
Development,
Secularism
activism and
community
engagement, political economic subjectivity, neoliberal
ecology, and public development, post-capitalism and
ontological politics
anthropology.
ecological
governance,
anthropology of
environmental
conservation and
water
Photography
digital photography, history of
photography, printmaking
Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2016-2017 Academic Year
Department
Art and Art History
Art and the History of
Art
Art and the History of
Art
Art and the History of
Art
Asian Languages and
Civilizations
First name
Sean
Last name
Greene
Dwight
Carey
Niko
Vicario
Cullen
Washington
Hisaaki
Wake
Astronomy
Jason
Young
Biological Sciences
Biostatistics &
Epidemiology
Andre
Nicole
Title
Visiting Lecturer in Art
Studio
Campus
Mount Holyoke
Visiting Assistant Professor
of Art and the History of Art
and Consortium for Faculty
Diversity Scholar
Amherst College
Assistant Professor of Art
and the History of Art
Amherst College
Primary subfield
Any additional areas of scholarly
within the discipline
interest/specialization
or department
pattern, fashion,
urban signage,
advertising, doodles
architecture
art and capitalism
Amherst College
White
Visiting Artist-in-Residence
Visiting Lecturer in
Japanese
Visiting Lecturer in
Astronomy
Visiting Lecturer in
Biological Sciences
VanKim
Assistant Professor
Umass
Chemical Engineering Lauren
Woodruff
Assistant Professor
Umass
Chemistry
Trisha
Andrew
Umass
Chemistry
Jonathan
Ashby
Assistant Professor
Mount Holyoke Fellow;
Visiting Lecturer in
Chemistry
Condensed Matter
Theory
Analytical, Materials,
Organic, Physical
Chemistry
Mount Holyoke
analytical chemistry
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Amherst College
Mount Holyoke
Mount Holyoke
painting
Japanese popular
culture
star formation
neurobiology,
behavior, memory
Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2016-2017 Academic Year
Department
First name
Last name
Title
Campus
Chemistry
Katie
Berry
Assistant Professor of
Biochemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry
Eric
Sravan
Strieter
Surampudi
Assistant Professor
Lecturer
Umass
Umass
Chemistry
Mingxu
You
Assistant Professor
Umass
Civil & Environmental
Engineering
Colin
Civil & Environmental
Engineering
Kara
Classical Languages &
Literatures
Rebecca
Gleason
Peterman
Worsham
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Mount Holyoke
mechanism of
transcription
regulation, RNA
folding and noncoding RNA function
in E. coli
Biological Chemistry,
Protein PostTranslational
Modifications
Bioimaging
Bioanaytical
Chemistry
Umass
Environmental and
Water Resources
Umass
Structural and
Mechanics
Fluvial hydrology, fluvial
geomorphology, remote sensing,
ungauged basins, arctic
hydrology, global water budget
Experimental and analytical
behavior of cold-formed and hotrolled steel structures; full-scale
experimentation
Eastern
Mediterranean
archaeology
Domestic architecture,
settlement structures, social
organization of Bronze Age
Greece, Greek and Latin language
& literature, Greek and Roman
history & material culture
Visiting Assistant Professor Smith College
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Primary subfield
Any additional areas of scholarly
within the discipline
interest/specialization
or department
Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2016-2017 Academic Year
Department
Classics
Classics & Italian
Cognitive Science
First name
Sarah
Martino
Tina
Last name
Olsen
Title
Visiting Assistant Profesor
of Classics
Campus
Amherst College
Primary subfield
Any additional areas of scholarly
within the discipline
interest/specialization
or department
Greek literature, art,
and culture
Lovato
Visiting Lecturer in Classics
and Italian
Mount Holyoke
Contemporary
Arabic, French and
Francophone, Italian,
literature and
cinema;
Mediterranean
Literature;
Medievalism;
Aesthetics and
Literary Theory;
Migration Literature;
World Literature.
Chen
Visiting Assistant Professor Hampshire
of Psychology
College
memory, recognition
memory
Cognitive Science
Robert
Daviau
Cognitive Science
Dillon
Markey
Visiting Assistant Professor
of Game Design
Visiting Assistant Professor
of Animation
Cognitive Science
Laela
Sayigh
Visiting Assistant Professor Hampshire
of Animal Behavior
College
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Hampshire
College
Hampshire
College
game design
film, video
social behavior and
communication of
cetaceans
Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2016-2017 Academic Year
Department
First name
Last name
Title
Campus
Cognitive Science
Rachel
Steele
Visiting Assistant Professor Hampshire
of Psychology
College
Comm Honors
John
Hagen
Lecturer
Umass
Communication
Communication
Disorders
Weiai (Wayne)
Xu
Assistant Professor
Umass
Sara
Mamo
Assistant Professor
Umass
Computer Science
Justin
Domke
Assistant Professor
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Umass
Primary subfield
Any additional areas of scholarly
within the discipline
interest/specialization
or department
emotional and
cognitive responses
to intergroup
provocations,
attempts at
intergroup
reconciliation.
Hydrology & Water
Resources
data mining and
analytics, network
analysis, public
opinion
Machine Learning,
Probabilistic
Graphical Models,
Convex Optimization,
Structured Learning
Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2016-2017 Academic Year
Department
Computer Science
Computer Science
Computer Science
First name
Phillipa
Akshay
Sunghoon
Last name
Gill
Krishnamurthy
Lee
Title
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
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Campus
Primary subfield
Any additional areas of scholarly
within the discipline
interest/specialization
or department
Umass
Computer
networking and
security, network
measurement,
network
interference, and
reliability with a
focus on designing
tools and techniques
to detect and
mitigate network
interference on the
Internet
Umass
Statistical Machine
Learning, Interactive
Learning,
Reinforcement
Learning
Umass
Mobile and
personalized health,
wearable health
sensing, embedded
systems, sensor data
analytics, clinical
science.
Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2016-2017 Academic Year
Department
Computer Science
First name
Marc
Last name
Title
Campus
Liberatore
Lecturer
Umass
Visiting Assistant Professor
of Data Science
Mount Holyoke
Primary subfield
Any additional areas of scholarly
within the discipline
interest/specialization
or department
Wearable Sensing for
Mobile Health and
Wellness
algorithmic art,
computer science,
media arts, visual arts
usable security and
privacy, smartphone
and wearable
coputing, mobile
health apps
Computer Science
Eitan
Mendelowitz
Computer Science
Computer Science
Aarathi
Neena
Prasad
Thota
Computer Science
Yueming
Yang
Visiting Assistant Professor
of Computer Science
Amherst College
Lecturer
Umass
Visiting Lecturer in
Computer Science
Mount Holyoke
Fourlas
Visiting Assistant Professor
of Applied Ethics and
Hampshire
Political Theory
College
philosophy, political
theory
Gonzales
Visiting Assistant Professor
of Geneology/ Urban &
Hampshire
Environmental Studies
College
geography, urban
and environment
studies
Larudee
Visiting Associate Professor Hampshire
of Economics
College
Page
Visiting Assistant Professor Hampshire
of New Media Studies
College
international political
economy
digital media,
feminist media
studies, media and
citizenship
Critical Social Inquiry
Critical Social Inquiry
Critical Social Inquiry
Critical Social Inquiry
George
Michael
Mehrene
Allison
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restorative and transitional
justice
economic integration on income
inequality and economic growth
American studies, race, critical
theory, and histories of capitalism
Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2016-2017 Academic Year
Department
First name
Critical Social Thought Jina
Last name
Kim
Title
Campus
Primary subfield
Any additional areas of scholarly
within the discipline
interest/specialization
or department
Mount Holyoke Fellow and
Visiting Lecturer in Critical
Social Thought
Mount Holyoke
Dance
Ephrat
Asherie
Lecturer
Smith College
Dance
Shakia
Johnson
Visiting Artist in Dance
Mount Holyoke
Dance
Shakia
Johnson
Lecturer
Smith College
ballet, modern
dance, breaking, hip
hop and house
ballet, modern, hip
hop, African and
lyrical
ballet, modern, hip
hop, African and
lyrical
Smith College
contemporary
movement practice,
composition,
repertory
Smith College
genre theory, genrebased pedagogy,
critical discourse
analysis, imagined
identities and
investment
Dance
East Asian Languages
& Literatures
Bebe
Shinji
Miller
Kawamitsu
Neilson Visiting Professor
Lecturer
East Asian Languages
& Literatures
Joannah
Peterson
Lecturer
Smith College
East Asian Languages
& Literatures
Lu
Yu
Lecturer
Smith College
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intersection of multiple modes of
East Asian Languages representation in 11th and 12th
& Cultures
century Japan
Chinese Language &
Chinese Classical
Texts
Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2016-2017 Academic Year
Department
Economics
Economics
Economics
First name
Beatrix
Rick
Daniele
Last name
Dietz
Title
Visiting Professor in
Economics
Campus
Mount Holyoke
Feldman
Girardi
Entrepreneurship
Coordinator and Visiting
Lecturer in Economics
Assistant Professor
Mount Holyoke
Umass
Mount Holyoke
Mount Holyoke
Economics
Margaret
Lay
Assistant Professor of
Economics
Economics
Johannes
Norling
Assistant Professor of
Economics
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Primary subfield
Any additional areas of scholarly
within the discipline
interest/specialization
or department
brand management,
pharmaceutical
marketing, gender
diversity
Social economy
enterprise
development and
management and
leadership
development, staff
development,
systems and
operations analysis
and improvement,
public policy analysis
and development,
financial analysis,
Data Security
Public Finance,
Macroeconomics,
and the Economics of
Aging
Economic
development,
history, and
demography
Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2016-2017 Academic Year
Department
Economics
First name
Alfredo
Last name
Rosete
Title
Visiting Lecturer in
Economics
Campus
Primary subfield
Any additional areas of scholarly
within the discipline
interest/specialization
or department
Mount Holyoke
Game Theory,
Microeconomics,
Development
Economics, Political
Economy of Power
and Dispossession
Sharma
Visiting Lecturer in
Economics
Mount Holyoke
International Trade,
Development
Economics, Applied
Microeconomics,
Industrial
Organization.
Electrical & Computer
Engineering
Amir
Arbabi
Assistant Professor
Umass
Bioimaging
English
English
Jackson
Pollin-Galay
Visiting Writer
Lecturer
Amherst College
Umass
creative writing
Economics
English Language &
Literature
English Language &
Literature
English Language &
Literature
Gunjan
Naomi
Hannah
Patrick
Gaughan
Lecturer
Smith College
Lily
Gurton-Wachter Assistant Professor
Smith College
Andrew
Leland
Smith College
Lecturer
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conceptual
performance,
playwriting, poetry
Comparative
Literature
writing, radio and
digital storytelling
History of emotions,
interdisciplinary approaches to
Romanticism, and the history of
poetics
Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2016-2017 Academic Year
Department
English Language &
Literature
English Language &
Literature
English Language &
Literature
English Language &
Literature
First name
Last name
Title
Campus
Lenelle
Moise
Lucille Geier Lakes Writerin-Residence
Nicholas
Rattner
Lecturer
Smith College
race, gender, class, i
mmigration and sexu
ality
journalism, poetry,
translation
Morgan
Sheehan-Bubla
Lecturer
Smith College
playwriting, poetry
Mihoko
Smith College
Suzuki
Kennedy Visiting Professor Smith College
Environmental Studies Jessica
Film Studies
Jennifer
Hejny
Malkowski
Visiting Assistant Professor
of Environmental Studies
Amherst College
Assistant Professor
Smith College
Finance
Finance
Food Science
Chabi-Yo
Feingold
Corradini
Assistant Professor
Lecturer
Assistant Professor
Kanamaru
Bowlick
Visiting Assistant Professor
of Geology
Amherst College
Lecturer
Umass
Geology
Geosciences
Primary subfield
Any additional areas of scholarly
within the discipline
interest/specialization
or department
Fousseni
Robert
Maria
Kinuyo
Forrest
Umass
Umass
Umass
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Renaissance and
early modern
literature and
culture, English and
European, with an
emphasis on gender
and authorship
environmental policy
Film & Media
new media vs old media
Contemporary
Cultural Studies
Paleoclimatology,
Geochemistry,
Geomorphology
Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2016-2017 Academic Year
Department
German Studies
History
History
First name
Nora
Daniel
Julie
Last name
Gortcheva
Chard
De Chantal
History
Adi
Gordon
History
Jen
Manion
History
History
History
Carolin
Steven
Lan
Title
Campus
Visiting Lecturer in German
Studies
Mount Holyoke
Lecturer
Umass
Lecturer
Umass
Five College Assistant
Professor of History
Associate Professor of
History
Mount Holyoke
Amherst College
Roeder
Visiting Instructor in History Mount Holyoke
Simon
John J. McCloy '16 Visiting
Profesor of History
Wu
Assistant Professor of
History
Amherst College
Mount Holyoke
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Primary subfield
Any additional areas of scholarly
within the discipline
interest/specialization
or department
German, European
and World Cinema;
Digital media
Early cinema and visual culture;
modernism and modernity; urban
studies and architecture
NMR Spec
modern Jewish and
European intellectual
histories with
emphases on Central Zionism and the Yishuv (the
Europe in the 19th
Jewish society in Pre-48
and 20th centuries
Palestine)
queer theory
Modern Europe with
a focus on
environmental
history and the
history of science and
exploration
history of alpinism, nature
protection, and the geographical
exploration of mountains, British
imperial history
modern Middle
Eastern history
Chinese History;
Gender History in
East Asia, Economic
History in Late
Imperial China
Comparative History of Early
Modern Empires; Asian
Modernities; Cultural History of
Asian Religion; History of Science
in East Asia
Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2016-2017 Academic Year
Department
First name
Hospitality & Tourism
Mgmt
Muzaffer
Humanities, Arts and
Cultural Studies
Alejandro
Humanities, Arts and
Cultural Studies
Humanities, Arts and
Cultural Studies
Humanities, Arts and
Cultural Studies
Institute for Social
Science Research
Eric
Last name
Uysal
Cuellar
Gottesman
Title
Prof/Dept Chair
Writing Instructor and
Faculty Associate
Visiting Associate Professor
of Film, Photography, and
Video
Campus
Primary subfield
Any additional areas of scholarly
within the discipline
interest/specialization
or department
Umass
Hampshire
College
Hampshire
College
Visiting Assistant Professor
of Video and Film
Visiting Assitant Professor
of Art History
Hampshire
College
Hampshire
College
Umass
Hampshire
College
Hampshire
College
photography
visual arts,
documentary and
experimental video
production
global contemporary
art
Patricia
Montoya
Alexis
Salas
Jessica
Pearlman
Interdisciplinary Arts
William
MacAdams
Interdisciplinary Arts
Lauren
Pakradooni
Lecturer
Visiting Assistant Professor
of Theatre
Visiting Assitant Professor
of Art
Heilman
Visiting Instructor in
International Relations;
UMass Teaching Associate
Mount Holyoke
printmaking
International
development in SubSaharan Africa and
Philosophy.
Taylor
Volpe
Assistant Professor
Professor
Umass
Umass
Epidemiology
Becker Lorca
Visiting Assistant Professor
of Law, Jurisprudence and
Social Thought
Amherst College
International Relations James
Judaic & Near East
Studies
Malissa
LARP
Joseph
Law, Jurisprudence
and Social Thought
Arnulf
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international law
academic and public education,
creative writing, social justice
activism and community service
access to global art, Latin
America, Latino studies
Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2016-2017 Academic Year
Department
First name
Last name
Title
Campus
Law, Jurisprudence
and Social Thought
Jessica
Lake
Karl Loewenstein Fellow in
Political Science and
Jurisprudence
Amherst College
LLC/French
Emmanuel
Buzay
Assistant Professor
Umass
LLC/Spanish
Management
Management
Kristie
Elizabeth
Tiffany
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Umass
Umass
Umass
Marketing
Francisco
Soares
Follmer
Trzebiatowski
Villarroel
Ordenes
Assistant Professor
Umass
Mathematics &
Statistics
Mathematics &
Statistics
Mathematics &
Statistics
Mathematics &
Statistics
Mathematics &
Statistics
Mathematics and
Statistics
Timothy
Chumley
Sara
Nunez
Peter
Rosnick
Thomas
Shelly
Jordan
Tirrell
Harris
Daniels
Assistant Professor of
Mathematics
Visiting Instructor in
Statistics; UMass Teaching
Associate
Visiting Professor of
Mathematics
Visiting Lecturer in
Mathematics
Visiting Instructor in
Mathematics
Assistant Professor of
Mathematics
Primary subfield
Any additional areas of scholarly
within the discipline
interest/specialization
or department
intellectual property
and privacy law,
visual culture and
legal history, and
politics of parenting
(focus on gender)
Middle Childhood
Development
STEM
Archival Audit
Research
Mount Holyoke
probability,
dynamical systems,
statistical physics
Mount Holyoke
biostatistics
Mount Holyoke
Mount Holyoke
Mount Holyoke
Amherst College
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algebraic number
theory
Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2016-2017 Academic Year
Department
Mathematics and
Statistics
Mathematics and
Statistics
Mathematics and
Statistics
Mathematics and
Statistics
Mathematics and
Statistics
First name
Last name
Title
Campus
Dionyssios
Mantzavinos
Lecturer/Visiting Asst Prof
Umass
Jacob
Matherne
Lecturer
Umass
Inger
Persson
STINT Fellow in
Mathematics and Statistics Amherst College
Sohrab
Shahshahani
Assistant Professor
Umass
Bulent
Tosun
Lecturer
Umass
Primary subfield
Any additional areas of scholarly
within the discipline
interest/specialization
or department
Speech Language
Pathology
multivariate analysis
and survival analysis
Mathematics and
Statistics
Karamatou
Mechanical & Industrial Shannon
Postdoctoral Fellow in
Yacoubou Djima Mathematics and Statistics Amherst College
Assistant Professor
Umass
Roberts
harmonic analysis,
diffusion geometry,
and machine learning
(and their
applications)
Legal Studies
Mechanical &
Industrial Engineering Banafsheh
SeyedAghazadeh
Umass
Condensed Matter
Physics
Smith College
history of empires; political and
socio-economic history;
imperialism and colonialism;
comparative history; transMiddle Eastern and Saharan history, corsairs and
North African history; history of piracy and maritime
commerce; imperial law, history
Mediterranean
history; Ottoman
of borderlands and trans- regional
history.
history
Middle East
Studies/History
Mukaram
Hhana
Lecturer
McPherson/Eveillard
Postdoc Fellow & Lecturer
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Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2016-2017 Academic Year
Department
First name
Last name
Music
Stephanie
Council
Music
Music & Dance
John
Edward
Music & Dance
Music & Dance
Music & Dance
Music & Dance
Music & Dance
Romie
Cornelius
Aaron
Bronwen
Leslie
McDonald
Arron
De GuiseLanglois
Du Toit
Harcus
MacArthur
Maietta
Music & Dance
Roberta
Marvin
Natural Science
Kaca
Bradonjic
Natural Science
Nursing
Operations &
Information
Management
Title
Campus
Interim Director of Choral
Ensembles and Visiting
Lecturer in Music
Mount Holyoke
Joseph E. and Grace W.
Valentine Visiting Professor
of Music
Amherst College
Lecturer
Umass
Lecturer
Lecturer
Lecturer
Lecturer
Lecturer
Umass
Umass
Umass
Umass
Umass
Professor & Dept Chair
Umass
Visiting Assistant Professor Hampshire
of Physics
College
Robin
Donna
Sears
Sabella
Visiting Assistant Professor Hampshire
of Forestry
College
Associate Professor
Umass
Nora
Junaid
Lecturer
Umass
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Primary subfield
Any additional areas of scholarly
within the discipline
interest/specialization
or department
lattice paths, Young
tableaux, and noncrossing partitions
and graphs
vocal, chamber, and
solo instrumental
work
cello
clarinet
flute
music theory
Italian opera of the
nineteenth century
foundations of
general relativity
forest management,
forest ecology and
management
censorship of Verdi’s operas,
operatic celebrity, performance
practices, the dissemination and
reception of foreign opera in
Britain
Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2016-2017 Academic Year
Department
First name
Last name
Title
Campus
Primary subfield
Any additional areas of scholarly
within the discipline
interest/specialization
or department
Renee
Pratt
Assistant Professor
Umass
Clinical and
Traditional Enterprise
Systems; postAdoption Diffusion
Behaviors;
Jeff
St. Germaine
Umass
US Latino Literature
and Culture
Philosophy
Arden
Ali
Lecturer
Visiting Instructor in
Philosophy
Philosophy
Sophie
Horowitz
Assistant Professor
Umass
Physics
Physics
Physics
Physics
Physics
Physics
Physics and
Astronomy
Physics and
Astronomy
Political Science
Anat
Patrick
Scott
Kalliopi
Tigran
Chen
Michael
James
Stage
Ben-Aaron
Visiting Lecturer in Physics
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor of
Astronomy
Visiting Assistant Professor
of Astronomy
Lecturer
Mount Holyoke
Umass
Umass
Umass
Umass
Umass
Kate
Burger
Draper
Hertel
Petraki
Sedrakyan
Wang
Follette (starts
1/1/2017)
Operations &
Information
Management
Operations &
Information
Management
Mount Holyoke
ethics and aesthetics
Experimental
nuclear/particle
physics
Radiation Oncology
Medical Physics
Data Science
Amherst College
astrophysics
Amherst College
Umass
X-ray astrophysics
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diffusion of Information
Technology; innovation;
psychological Contract;
personality Traits
Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2016-2017 Academic Year
Department
Political Science
First name
Ruxandra
Last name
Title
Paul
Assistant Professor of
Political Science
Amherst College
Umass
Political Science
Manuela
Picq
Karl Loewenstein Fellow
and Visiting Associate
Professor of Political
Science
Political Science
Douglas
Rice
Assistant Professor
Politics
Psychology and
Education
Religion
Resource Economics
Resource Economics
Russian and Eurasian
Studies
Adam
Corey
David
Debi
Rong
Irina
Campus
Amherst College
Hilton
Visiting Instructor in Politics Mount Holyoke
Flanders
Seidenberg
Mohapatra
Rong
Assistant Professor of
Psychology and Education
Lecturer
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Kogel
Five College Lecturer of
Russian
Mount Holyoke
Smith College
Umass
Umass
Mount Holyoke
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Primary subfield
Any additional areas of scholarly
within the discipline
interest/specialization
or department
international
migration,
globalization,
supranational
integration and
cyberpolitics
indigeneity, sexuality,
and extractivism in
world politics and
Latin America
Public policy and
organizations
American Politics and
Government; Political
Parties and
Organizations;
Comparative Political
Economy; Social
Movements; Urban
Politics
acute psychiatric
issues
Judaic study
Philosophy, Slavic
Languages and
Literatures
Politics of Race, Class, and
Gender; Social Policy; American
Political Development;
Democratization Studies;
Institutional Approach to Political
Science; Democratic Theory
Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2016-2017 Academic Year
Department
First name
Last name
Title
Campus
Russian, East European
and Eurasian Studies Evgeny
Dengub
Lecturer
Smith College
Sociology
Sociology
Katherine
Kathryne
Fabel
Young
Lecturer/Chief UG Advisor
Assistant Professor
Umass
Umass
Spanish
Maribel
Visiting Lecturer in Spanish Amherst College
Spanish
Paul
Rams
Schroeder
Rodríguez
Spanish, Latina/o &
Latin American Studies Adriana
Pitetta
Professor of Spanish
Amherst College
Visiting Lecturer in Spanish,
Latina/o and Latin
American Studies
Mount Holyoke
Sport Management
TECS
Must
Brunner
Lecturer
Assistant Professor
Emily
Jeanne
Theater and Dance
Yagil
Eliraz
Theater and Dance
Ninoska
M’bewe
Escobar
Umass
Umass
Visiting Assistant Professor
of Theater and Dance
Amherst College
Visiting Instructor in
Theater and Dance and
Consortium for Faculty
Diversity Scholar
Amherst College
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Primary subfield
Any additional areas of scholarly
within the discipline
interest/specialization
or department
teaching Russian as a
foreign language,
instructional design,
e-learning, teachers'
education, language
pedagogy
Materials Spec
contemporary Iberian
literature and visual
culture
Latin American
cinema
Resource Economics
theater
African diaspora
performance
Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2016-2017 Academic Year
Department
Theatre Arts
First name
Elizabeth
Undergraduate Affairs Maeve
WGSS
Lezlie
WGSS
Jeanine
Women and Gender
Laura
Last name
Title
Campus
Pangburn
Guest Artist in Costume
Design
Mount Holyoke
Howett
Frye
Ruhsam
Clinical Prof/Asst Dean
Lecturer
Lecturer
Umass
Umass
Umass
Fugikawa
Visiting Assistant Professor Smith College
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Primary subfield
Any additional areas of scholarly
within the discipline
interest/specialization
or department
Costume History,
Issues of
Representation,
Professional Costume
Shop Technologies
Performance Theory, Design
and Draping
Theory
Epistemology/Ethics
American Studies,
Ethnicity, Gender
Studies
Gender and sexuality,
comparative ethnic studies,
cultural studies, Native American
Studies, Asian American Studies