Union College this fall welcomed 24 new members to the
faculty. Here we introduce 12 of them. The rest will be introduced next issue.
David Baum,
visiting assistant professor of history, earned his master's and Ph.D. degrees
from Yale University. His research
and teaching interests include Medieval and Renaissance history.
Brent Carswell, visiting assistant professor of mathematics,
earned his master's degree from Potsdam College, and his Ph.D. from University at Albany. His research interests
include complex analysis, and operator theory on spaces of analytic functions,
including multiplication and composition operators on the Bergman, Hardy, and Fock spaces.
Palma Catravas, visiting
assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, earned her S.M.,
and Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her teaching interests include development of
teaching methods for basic physics concepts, while her research interests lie
in electron beam diagnostics, novel ultrashort radiation
sources with electron beams, and advanced accelerators.
Tomáš Dvorák, assistant
professor of economics, earned his master's degree from Central European University in Praague, Czech Republic, and his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland at College
Park. For the past two years, Hehas been teaching undergraduate
econometrics and introductory graduate courses on open economy macroeconomics
at Williams College.
Nixi Cura, instructor of visual arts, earned her master's degree in the history of art and archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where she is completing her Ph.D. She recently served as a Haakon Fellow at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
Bruce C. Duncan, visiting
assistant professor of physics, earned his master's and Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. He taught as a teaching
assistant in the physics department at the University of Connecticut for ten years.
Amy Gangl, assistant professor of political science,
received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Her teaching interests include
American politics (public opinion, political psychology, and political
communication) and methodology (research methods, experimental design, and
measurement theory.)
Angel
M. González García, visiting instructor of Spanish, earned his master's
and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. His
dissertation dealt with the creation of a discourse of identity in early modern
Spain.
Amy. C. Hsiao,
assistant professor of mechanical engineering, earned her master's and Ph.D.
from Carnegie Mellon University. Hsiao
previously taught at Carnegie Mellon University.
Anupama Jain, assistant professor in English,
earned her master's and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research and teaching interests include
South Asian American literature and culture, postcolonial literature and
theory, and Asian American literature and studies.
Stephen D. Jones, visiting
assistant professor of anthropology, earned his master's degree from Hunter College of the City University of New York, and his Ph.D.
from the State University of New York at Albany. His research
interests include late iron age europe, ecology, agropastoral
anthropology, Faunal studies, European archaeology, northeast U.S. archaeology, and ethology.
Joanne Dora Kehlbeck, assistant professor of chemistry, received
her Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University. She just
finished working at Yale University at as postdoctoral associate.