September 9, 2001: Volume 53, Number 1

New faculty

The College welcomes 27 new faculty members this fall. With others to appear in upcoming editions, some of them are:

Erica Ball, instructor of history, earned her Ph.D. from the Graduate School and University Center at the City University of New York. Her research and teaching interests include American social and cultural history, African American history, and U.S. women's history.

Lawrence Becker, visiting assistant professor of political science, earned his Ph.D. and master's degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He wrote his dissertation on "Extra-Congressional Procedures in the New Legislative Process." His teaching interests include legislative process, the presidency, political parties and public adminstration.

Chalmers Clark, visiting assistant professor of philosophy, earned his bachelor's degree from Union College, and his master's and Ph.D. from the City University of New York. He specializes in applied ethics and naturalized epistemology.

Lorraine Morales Cox, instructor of visual arts, holds master's and Ph.D. degrees in art history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her areas include art of the U.S. and Europe from 1880 to present, and art of Latin America from 1810 to present.

Mousumi Duttaray, visiting assistant professor of economics, earned a Ph.D. from Indiana University. His teaching interests include micro- and macroeconomics, econometrics and statistics. His research is in the area of economic policies of developing countries and applied econometrics and macroeconomics.

Chris Fernandez, assistant professor of computer science, earned bachelor's, master's and Ph.D. degrees from Northwestern University. He is interested in the integration of data in distributed heterogeneous databases, semantic integration, knowledge discovery and data mediation.

Marc Freed, visiting instructor of economics, holds a Ph.D. in economics from New York University's Stern Graduate School of Business. He was a self-employed financial and economic consultant, a director of mortgage banking and a money market arbitrageur.

Paul Friedman, visiting assistant professor of mathematics, earned his Ph.D. from SUNY at Stony Brook, where he also held teaching posts. Most recently, he has been teaching at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, where he received a grant from the Danish National Science Research Council.

Sumi Furiya, instructor of classics, earned Ph.D. and master's degrees from Harvard University. Her interests include late Republican and Augustan poetry, Greek poetry, pre-Socratic philosophers and modern literary theory.

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