September 20, 2002: Volume 56, Number 2

College welcomes new faculty

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.

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