College Welcomes New Faculty

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."