Political Science: Zhang Wu, instructor, was completing her Ph.D. from Cornell University with a dissertation, “Public Woes in Agrarian China: Local Government and Peasant Protest in Hunan.” She has held several teaching positions at Cornell. Teaching and research interests include Chinese politics, comparative analysis of local government and social protest in China, the politics of transition in post-communist societies, the political economy of development, and East Asian political and economic development. Anne Reynolds, visiting instructor, holds a master's of Environmental Studies in Industrial Environmental Management from Yale University. She has held teaching positions at Massachusetts College of Nursing, Roxbury Community College and Yale. She also has worked extensively in air and energy advocacy and on other environmental health and safety issues in the private and public sectors, with a focus on coalition building, strategic planning, legislative research and community outreach.
Psychology: Cheryl Dicker, visiting assistant professor, holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina with a dissertation, “Exploring the Nature of the Black as Fear Stereotype: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Approach.” She has held teaching positions at the University of Missouri, University of North Carolina and Elon University. Among her research interests are examining the underlying neural and cognitive mechanisms related to stereotyping and prejudice, and exploring social categorization and the control of attention with psychophysiological measures.
Sociology: Janel Leone, visiting assistant professor, holds a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University with a thesis titled, “Conditions Under Which Women in Violent Relationships Seek Help: An Examination of a Control-Based Typology of Partner Violence.” She has taught at Wake Forest University, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Pennsylvania State University. Her primary research interests are family sociology and partner violence.