The College this fall welcomes 25 new members to the faculty. Some of them
are introduced below. The remainder will be introduced in future editions.
Kevin Crocker, visiting instructor of economics, earned his Ph.D. from
the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His teaching interests include macro
and microeconomics, international trade finance and development, money and
banking, political economy and Marxian economics.
Andy Daitsman, visiting assistant professor of history, holds a masters
in Latin American history from Columbia University and master's and Ph.D.
degrees in the same field from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His
interests include modern and colonial Latin America, specifically political
participation of popular classes in 19th-century Chile.
David Evans, visiting assistant professor of psychology, holds master's
and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Iowa. He has been a research analyst
for Lansing (Mich.) Community College, involved with studies of minority student
success, faculty satisfaction and marketing analysis for a new campus and other
projects.
Ellen Foster, visiting assistant professor of economics, holds a Ph.D.
from the University at Albany, where she has held several teaching posts. She
returns to Union after having taught from 1989 through 1993. She specializes in
international economics, monetary and macroeconomics and economic history.
Thomas Kaeding, visiting assistant professor of physics, earned his
master's and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. He
has done research with the high energy physics group at Oklahoma State
University, where he also held a teaching appointment.
Reina Hayaki, instructor of philosophy, holds a Ph.D. from Princeton
University, and has earned advanced degrees in philosophy and economics from
Oxford University. Areas of interest include philosophical logic, metaphysics,
ethics and epistemology.
Nicholas Krouglicof, assistant professor of mechanical engineeering,
earned his Ph.D. from Concordia University, and has held teaching positions at
the University of Quebec, Montral. his Ph.D. thesis was on “Non-Contact
Position and Orientation Measurement Techniques for Real-Time Systems.”