September 17, 1999: Volume 47, Number 2

New faculty Welcomed

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.

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