Posted on Sep 10, 1999

The College welcomes 20 new faculty members this fall.

With others to be announced in upcoing issues, some of them are:

Rachel Brown, visiting instructor of philosophy, earned her Ph.D.

from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She specializes in political

theory, history of political theory and public affairs.

Quynh Chu-Lagraff, visiting assistant professor of biology, holds her

Ph.D. in molecular neurobiology at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at

the University of Illinois-Urbana. Her teaching and research interests

include molecular biology, cell biology and genetics.

Ian Condry, visiting instructor of anthropology, earned his Ph.D.

from Yale University. He has an interest in Japanese culture and society.

His fieldwork has included explorations of the rap music scene in Tokyo and

Nagano.

Valerie Davis-Manna, visiting assistant professor in the Graduate

Management Institute, earned her Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

with a dissertation on “Health Care Policy Implementation: Caregiver

Adoption of Restraint Minimization Policy in Nursing Homes.” She has

taught marketing and management courses at several institutions.