The College welcomes 20 new faculty members this fall.
Continued from last issue, they are:
Megan Ferry, assistant
professor of Chinese, holds a Ph.D. from Washington University in St.
Louis. She has taught at WU, Emory University and the University of
Missouri at St. Louis.
Andrea Foroughi, assistant
professor of history, earned a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota with
a dissertation that used a case study of Nininger, Minn., from 1847 to
1870 to analyze the gendered components of frontier community evolution.
John Fox, visiting professor
of anthropology, was a research associate in the American section of the
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. He was
chair of anthropology at Baylor University, where he taught for 20 years.
He earned his Ph.D. at the University at Albany.
Yana Hashamova, visiting
assistant professor of Russian, holds a Ph.D. from the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her interests include 20th century European
literature, film and painting, gender studies and postmodern theory.
Robert Hislope, assistant
professor of political science, earned a Ph.D. from Ohio State University
with a dissertation titled “Nationalism, Ethnic Politics and
Democratic Consolidation: A Comparative Study of Croatia, Serbia and
Bosnia-Hercegovina.
Alexander Hollman, visiting
assistant professor of classics, has been teaching at Harvard University,
where he earned his Ph.D. His interests include Greek literature (archaic
and classical) Greek prose (historiographic and ethnographic) and Greek
religion and magic.
David Ogawa, visiting
assistant professor of visual arts, earned a Ph.D. from Brown University
with a dissertation on “Conditions of Beholding: Images of Femininity
in the Work of Jean Baptiste Camille Corot.” He has also held
teaching posts at Marist College, Assumption College, Worcester Art
Museum, Brown University, and Rhode Island School of Design.
Thomas Rieg, visiting
assistant professor of psychology, earned a Ph.D. from the University of
Rhode Island. His dissertation was titled “Differential Reinforcement
of Other Behavior: Response-Reinforcement Contingency and
Contiguity.” He previously held teaching posts at Winona (Minn.)
State University, Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Va., and
Eastern Virginia Medical School.