New members of the Faculty of the Arts and Sciences
With this issue, Vox continues its ongoing series of articles introducing
new members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. "I am delighted that they
have made Dartmouth their intellectual home," says Dean of the Faculty of Arts and
Sciences and Professor of Biological Sciences Carol Folt.
"Individually and as a community, these scholars stand at the academic
heart of the College, offering our students an unparalleled range of expertise,
and ensuring that Dartmouth continues to offer an innovative learning
environment."
Richard Granger Jr.
William H. Neukom 1964 Distinguished Professor in Computational
Science
Richard Granger, Jr.
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Richard Granger Jr. is the inaugural holder of the William H. Neukom 1964
Distinguished Professorship in Computational Science, a new endowed chair at
Dartmouth created as part of Board of Trustee Chair William H.
Neukom's '64 gift establishing the Neukom Institute for Computational
Science. Granger serves as director of the institute, which seeks to
strengthen collaborative research between computer science and other
disciplines. He is also a professor of psychological and brain sciences. A
leading authority on computational analysis and cognitive neuroscience, Granger
is a pioneer in the development of emerging disciplines and cross-disciplinary
collaborations between brain function, computational analysis, and
observational and pharmacological brain studies.
Granger received his B.A. from MIT and his Ph.D. from Yale University.
Before coming to Dartmouth, he was a professor at the University of California,
Irvine, and director of its Brain Engineering Laboratory, where he developed
several research studies that led to patents and products, including novel
computational methods that are used with electroencephalographic (EEG)
data.
He has written extensively on topics such as the physical foundations of
brain function, memory and learning, neural networks, and computational
algorithms as diagnostic tools, among many other subjects. His work has been
published in journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, the Journal of Neuroscience, and Experimental
Neurology, to name a selected few.
Granger is an elected Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and was recently the
recipient of Awards from the University of California for excellence in
mentoring underrepresented minorities and in undergraduate research. His work
has been funded by numerous agencies and organizations, including the Office of
Naval Research (ONR) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
He holds editorial positions for numerous scholarly publications, including
Behavioral Neuroscience, the Journal of Cognitive
Neuroscience, and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis, among
others. His work has also been featured in a number of articles in the popular
press, including recent stories in Forbes and Wired, and on
CNN.
Jamie Horton
Associate Professor of Theater
Jamie Horton
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Jamie
Horton, actor, director, writer, producer, and teacher, comes to Dartmouth
from the Tony Award-winning Denver Center Theatre Company, where he was a
principal actor and played leading roles in over 80 productions. His film and
television credits include Lovestreams, Double Obsession,
Wavelength, Perry Mason, Land of Little Rain, and
Prison for Children. A graduate of Princeton University, he received
his M.F.A. in acting from the National Theatre Conservatory.
In addition to his work in film, theater, and television, he has been an
adjunct faculty member of the Denver Center Theatre Academy and the National
Theatre Conservatory. He has also conducted master classes and special projects
for the Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Play House M.F.A. Program and
the Denver School of the Arts.
Horton has written for children's television and for the NBC series St.
Elsewhere, and he cowrote and played a starring role in Top of the
World, an independent feature that was part of the 1993 Toronto and Denver
Film Festivals. His latest film, A Rumor of Angels, was released by
MGM/UA in February 2002. His producing credits include the independent feature
Octavia and Monty, a 90-minute video about the famous British
general, which aired on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) stations around the
country.
Among his directing credits are the world premieres of Inna
Beginning and The Scarlet Letter at the Denver Center Theatre
Company; National Theatre Conservatory productions of Arms and the Man
and Our Country's Good; Hay Fever, Steel Magnolias,
and To Fool the Eye at the Commonweal Theatre Company; Pan &
Boone and cowboylily at the Creede Repertory Theatre; and
Fiction at the Curious Theatre Company. In 2005 he directed the late
Wendy Wasserstein's play The Heidi Chronicles at Dartmouth.
Dean Lacy
Professor of Government
Dean Lacy
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Dean Lacy
brings a broad spectrum of analytical and methodological expertise to bear on
his teaching and research in American politics, game theory, and statistics.
His published works illuminate the relationships between economic and political
issues, voter behavior, and election outcomes, and he is a leading expert on
electoral institutions and behavior, political parties, Congress, the
presidency, and public opinion. A graduate of the University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, he received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University.
Before joining the Dartmouth faculty, Lacy taught at The Ohio State University,
where he was an associate professor of political science.
Lacy is known primarily for demonstrating that people's opinions on
political issues are more complex and sophisticated than public opinion polls
typically show. He has also written extensively on third-party candidates in
American politics. His articles have been published in scholarly journals,
ranging from the Journal of Politics and the American Journal of
Political Science to the British Journal of Political Science and
the Journal of Theoretical Politics, among many others. Lacy is
currently working on several new articles and books, including Political
Opinions: The Structure and Expression of Political Attitudes and
Preferences; Taxing, Spending, Red States, and Blue States; and
Voting in a System of Checks and Balances.
Lacy has been recognized for excellence in teaching with the Sphinx and
Mortarboard Outstanding Faculty Award and the Political Science Department
Teaching Award, both at The Ohio State University, where he was also a nominee
for the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teacher Award.
His scholarship has been supported by several grants from the National Science Foundation. In addition, he is
the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Robert Eckles
Swain National Fellowship at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; the
Robert Durr Award for "best paper applying political methodology to a
substantive problem in political science" from the Midwest Political
Science Association; the American Political Science Association Award for Best
Dissertation in Political Economy; and the Harold Gosnell Award for "best
work in political methodology," conferred by the Political Methodology
Section of the American Political Science Association.
Lacy has served as a consultant to several state and national political
campaigns, as a political analyst for the BBC, CNN, The New York
Times, and the Ohio News Network, and as an election observer for the 2000
Presidential Election in Taiwan, ROC, sponsored by the Taiwan Ministry of
Foreign Affairs.
Joseph Bafumi
Assistant Professor of Government
Joseph Bafumi
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Focusing on two major fields within political science: political methodology
and American government, Joseph Bafumi
teaches and conducts research in a variety of areas within those categories. In
American government, he focuses on electoral behavior, ideology, public
opinion, the Supreme Court, public policy, and representation. In the field of
political methodology, he examines Bayesian inference, multilevel modeling,
time series, ideal point estimation, factor analysis, and research design.
He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Connecticut and
pursued graduate work at Columbia University, where he received his M.Phil. and
Ph.D. degrees. As a graduate student, he taught at Barnard College as a lab
instructor and teaching assistant, and at Columbia he was an adjunct professor
and postdoctoral fellow.
Bafumi is the coauthor, with David K. Park and Andrew Gelman, of
"State-Level Opinions From National Surveys: Poststratification Using
Multilevel Logistic Regression," recently included in an edited volume
titled Public Opinion in State Politics. His research has been widely
published in such scholarly journals as Political Analysis, the
British Journal of Political Science, and Political Science and
Politics. Bafumi's collaborations with Park, an assistant professor of
political science at Washington University in St. Louis, and Gelman, a
professor of statistics and political science at Columbia, have yielded a
considerable body of work focusing on campaign and election methodology.
The recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, Bafumi received the Warren
Miller Prize for best article in 2004 from Political Analysis, was an Institute
for Social and Economic Research and Policy Fellow at Columbia University, and
received the Clogg Scholarship from the University of Michigan. He is editorial
assistant for Political Analysis and the Political Science Quarterly,
and serves as a reviewer for the Journal of Politics, the American
Political Science Review, and Political Communication.
Bafumi's expertise has been tapped by media outlets, polling organizations,
and candidates for elected office. He has served as an election consultant to
The New York Times, was an associate at KRC Research, interned for New
York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and managed a Congressional campaign.
Bridget Coggins
Assistant Professor of Government
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Bridget
Coggins's research lies at the nexus between domestic politics and
international relations. Her scholarship and teaching focus on civil conflict,
non-state actors, international relations theory, and social psychology. She
also has an area interest in Chinese politics. A graduate of the University of
Minnesota, she received her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. Her
dissertation, titled "Secession, Recognition and the International
Politics of Statehood" recently won the Henry R. Spencer award for the
best dissertation defended during 2005-2006.
She is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including a Presidential
Fellowship, a Dissertation Fellowship, a Foreign Language and Area Studies
Fellowship, and a Professional Enhancement of Graduate Studies Fellowship, all
received while a student at Ohio State. As a Stuart Bremer Human Rights Fellow
in 2000, Coggins served as assistant to the expert member from the United
States at the United Nations Sub-Commission for the Promotion and Protection of
Human Rights and the United Nations Indigenous People's Conference.
Before coming to Dartmouth, she was a graduate teaching and research
assistant and then a graduate instructor at Ohio State and she earlier worked
at the University of Minnesota Law School's Human Rights Center.
She has presented her research at numerous conferences and colloquia,
including those hosted by the American
Political Science Association and the Midwest Political Science Association.
Coggins was also an invited participant at workshops and training institutes
including Arizona State University's Institute on Qualitative Research Methods;
Georgetown University's Women in International Security Summer Institute; and
The Ohio State University's Summer Institute in Political Psychology, where she
later served as the program's assistant director. She is a member of the
American Political Science Association, the International Society of Political
Psychology, the International Studies Association, the Midwest Political
Science Association, and Women in International Security.
Pascaline Dupas
Assistant Professor of Economics
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Pascaline Dupas focuses
her research on providing rigorous evidence that can inform public policy in
poor countries, particularly in education and health, two key components of
development. She is a graduate of the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris,
where she received B.A. and M.A. degrees, and of the École des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales & Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (EHESS-PSE), where
she received her Ph.D. Her current research, conducted mostly in Kenya,
includes studies of adolescents' behavioral response to information about HIV,
the impact of class size and teacher contracts on learning, the role of
subsidies in improving the take-up of health care services, and how banking
services can improve the ability of poor households to cope with income and
health shocks.
She is an affiliate at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT,
research associate of Innovations for Poverty Action, and the cofounder and CEO
of Together Against Malaria, an NGO
that provides free mosquito nets to pregnant women who attend prenatal clinics,
as a way to both protect them and their children from malaria and to improve
utilization of prenatal services. Her research was recently featured in the
French daily Libération and The New York Times.
Ryan Calsbeek
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
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Through the geographic dispersal and behavior of certain lizard species, Ryan Calsbeek is able to shed
new light on the interplay of environmental and evolutionary processes. His
research has revealed, for example, that weather may play a significant role in
the evolution of certain island lizards and can actually influence natural
selection. When some animals are blown away by hurricanes or other storms and
transplanted to other habitats, the evolutionary process specific to that
species takes a different direction. He is also interested in how various
reproductive strategies influence the evolution of certain species of lizards
and how their behaviors have developed to maximize those strategies.
Calsbeek received his B.S. from Indiana University and his Ph.D. from the
University of California, Santa Cruz. He has taught since 1999 when he was an
instructor at the California Summer School for Mathematics and Science
(COSMOS). While in graduate school, he was a teaching assistant at the
University of California, Santa Cruz, and, before joining the Dartmouth
faculty, was a visiting professor at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in
Paris. He has also been a research associate at the Center for Tropical
Research at UCLA.
With articles based on his research on species variation, ecological
differentiation, and reproductive patterns among lizard species, Calsbeek's
work has appeared in such journals as Nature, Ethology,
Evolutionary Ecology, American Naturalist, Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, and Proceedings of the Royal Society of
London, among others. He has received numerous academic awards and honors,
including grants from the American Museum of
Natural History, the Society of
Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Gaige Fund, the National Geographic Society, and
a Latin America Research Award.
Calsbeek is a frequent speaker at scholarly gatherings in the United States
and in France, and he has reviewed papers for Evolution, Proceedings of the
Royal Society of London, Behavior, Behavioral Ecology, Functional Ecology,
Ecology Letters, and Molecular Ecology.
Laura Edmondson
Assistant Professor of Theater
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Laura
Edmondson is a theater scholar whose work focuses on East African
performance. She has published widely on Tanzanian theater, including articles
in Theatre Research International, TDR, and the anthology
African Performance Arts (Routledge 2002). Her book, Performance
and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage, which examines the
intersection of national identity and urban popular culture, is forthcoming
from Indiana University Press. Her research in Tanzania has been supported by
grants from the National Endowment for the
Humanities and the American Association of
University Women.
Currently, she is researching the intersection of war and performance in
northern Uganda, a region that has been decimated in the longest civil war in
postcolonial African history. Her article, "Marketing Trauma and the
Theatre of War in Northern Uganda," which was published in Theatre
Journal, draws upon fieldwork she conducted in a rehabilitation center for
former child soldiers. She is also researching and writing on representations
of the 1994 Rwandan genocide on U.S. and British stages.
Also a playwright, Edmondson's creative work is closely tied to her research
interests. Her play, Out of Isak, examines the writer Isak Dinesen
through the perspective of one of her Kenyan servants. The play recently
received a staged reading at the Abingdon, an off-Broadway theater company. She
is also collaborating on a performance piece, Vessels of Fire, with
Ugandan performer Okello Kelo Sam and Tanzanian musician Robert O. Ajwang'. The
piece integrates music, dance, and testimony to explore the conflict in
northern Uganda as based on Okello's personal experiences. Vessels of
Fire has received performances in Tallahassee, Fla., and Los Angeles, and
plans are underway to bring Okello to Dartmouth to continue working on the
project in early 2007.
A graduate of Indiana University, Bloomington, Edmondson received her M.A.
and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. Before joining the
Dartmouth faculty, she held teaching posts at the University of Georgia and
Florida State University. She has also taught theater history and playwriting
at the Bagamoyo College of Arts in Tanzania and Makerere University in Kampala,
Uganda. She is a member of the Association of
Theatre in Higher Education and the American
Society of Theatre Research.
Ethan Gatewood Lewis
Assistant Professor of Economics
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A 1995 graduate of Williams College, Ethan Lewis received his Ph.D.
from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2003. Prior to his appointment
to the Dartmouth faculty, he was an economist in the research department of the
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
Lewis's research primarily relates to two major forces affecting the U.S.
economy: immigration and technological change. His technology research includes
papers that ask what drives the surprisingly large and persistent differences
in computer use at similar businesses in different regions of the United
States, and how investments in information technology in recent decades have
affected the earnings of more- and less-skilled workers. His immigration
research aims to uncover the consequences of higher immigration for U.S.
workers and labor markets. A recent study, forthcoming in a National Bureau of Economic Research volume
Mexican Immigration, asks how U.S. metropolitan areas adjusted to the
surge in Mexican immigration during the 1990s.
A theme in Lewis's research is the idea that businesses adopt new
technologies only if it is cost effective to do so. Lewis has shown that this
simple idea may help explain a puzzle for economic theory: the fact that many
studies find immigration has little negative impact on U.S. workers' wages and
employment. Lewis's research shows the "puzzle" may derive from the
theory's assumption that businesses only use the newest technology, when they
may actually adopt technologies suited to the available workforce. Consistent
with this, one of his recent studies finds that inflows of less-skilled workers
induce manufacturers to use less automation in their plants.
Lewis's articles have been cited in the popular press, including The
Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and the Associated Press.
Lewis's work has been supported by the National
Science Foundation, and he was named Outstanding Graduate Student
Instructor in the economics department at the University of California,
Berkeley. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and economics research
organizations across the country and around the world, most recently at the
London School of Economics and the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Jennifer M. Lind
Assistant Professor of Government
Jennifer M. Lind
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Jennifer
Lind's scholarship focuses on East Asian international relations, Japanese
security policy, U.S. foreign and military policy, and historical memory in
international relations. She has written widely on these subjects, with
articles in scholarly journals ranging from International Security to
Pacific Review. Lind received her B.A. from the University of
California, Berkeley, her Master's in Pacific International Affairs from the
University of California, San Diego, and her Ph.D. in political science from
MIT.
Her book manuscript, Sorry States: Apologies in International
Politics, will be published next year by Cornell University Press. The
book tests the efficacy of apologies and other acts of contrition in reducing
threat perceptions and promoting reconciliation between adversary nations. It
examines how Japanese remembrance of World War II sustains tensions in East
Asia, and how German contrition after the war promoted reconciliation in
Europe.
Lind is returning to the Dartmouth faculty after spending a year at the
University of Pennsylvania as a postdoctoral fellow in political science.
Earlier, she taught courses at Dartmouth as part of a fellowship in the
government department. She has also been a consultant to the RAND Corporation,
a staff analyst with the U.S. Department of Defense, and an intern in the
Congressional Budget Office. Lind previously worked for Toyota Tsusho America,
an import/export firm, and has also worked in Japan as a translator for Aprica
Kasai Inc. and was a columnist for the Tagawa Bunkajoho newspaper.
The recipient of numerous academic awards, Lind held postdoctoral
fellowships at Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania and was a
Harvard-MIT MacArthur Transnational Security Fellow in Dissertation Writing.
Lind was also a visiting scholar at Yonsei University's Center for
International Studies in Seoul, Korea, and at the Foundation Nationale des
Sciences Politiques in Paris. She is a member of the organization Women in International Security, and
runs a national network of junior scholars of international security.
Sharlene Mollett
Assistant Professor of Geography
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Sharlene
Mollett recently completed her dissertation titled, "The Politics of
Natural Resource Access: Indigeneity, Race and Property Rights in the Honduran
Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve." Her current research interests explore
issues of race and natural resource conflict, indigenous peoples, land
legalization, political ecology, environmental conservation, and international
development. Educated in Toronto, Canada, Mollett has a B.A. in international
studies from Glendon College, a Master's in environmental studies from York
University, and her Ph.D. in geography is from the University of Toronto. She
has also held teaching posts at Morgan State University and the University of
Toronto.
Mollett has written articles for media outlets in Honduras including the
UNDP Honduras, and her most recent publication appeared earlier this
year in Latin American Research Review. She is currently preparing two
research articles concerning racial politics and land rights in Central
America. Her graduate research was supported by numerous fellowships and
awards, most notably from the Social
Science Research Council of Canada, the International Development Research
Centre of Canada, and the University of Toronto.
Mollett is a frequent conference participant in both Canada and the United
States and is a member of the American
Association of Geographers, the Latin American Studies
Association, and the Political Ecology Society.
Sam Vásquez
Assistant Professor of English
Sam Vásquez
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Sam
Vásquez's scholarship focuses on African American, Caribbean, and other
Black diasporic literatures. She is also interested in Black women writers,
poetry and poetics, and critical race theory. A graduate of Colgate University,
she received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University.
Vásquez is particularly interested in the role of humor in Black diasporic
literature, specifically the ways in which authors engage Western canonical
texts in exploring assertions of identity. Her recent article in the
Journal of Religion and Theatre, "The Deployment of Humor, Song
and Signifying in Asserting Black Diasporic Identity in Aimé Césaire's A
Tempest," examines a text that appropriates William Shakespeare's The
Tempest. Her works, "Anja" and "Rialto," have been
published by the Rutgers Literary Magazine and The Prism,
respectively.
Prior to joining the Dartmouth faculty, Vásquez held teaching positions at
Boston University and at Wheaton College. She was recently selected to
participate in Cornell University's School of
Criticism and Theory summer panel.
Thalia Wheatley
Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brian Sciences
Thalia Wheatley (All photos by Joseph Mehling '69)
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Thalia Wheatley is interested in the neural basis of conscious experience.
Her research focuses on the feeling of intentionality and volition and how well
that sensation tracks actual behavior. In her graduate work at the University
of Virginia, she investigated how, under certain circumstances, consciousness
can be "tricked" into believing an act is intentional when it is, in
fact, based on a conditioned response. Wheatley received her B.A. from the
University of Texas, Austin, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University
of Virginia.
Before joining the Dartmouth faculty she pursued postdoctoral work at the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a postdoctoral Intramural Research
Training Award recipient and then as an NIH Research Fellow with Alex Martin,
who oversees the cognitive neuropsychology section at the NIH. There she
learned how to use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine the
brain's hemodynamic response when recognizing animacy and emotion. Her articles
have been published in numerous scholarly journals, including the Journal
of Cognitive Neuroscience, the Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, American Psychologist, Psychological Science, and
NeuroImage.
She has also contributed, in collaboration with Daniel Wegner, a chapter on
automaticity in action for the International Encyclopedia of the Social and
Behavioral Sciences, and made a similar contribution to the book,
Metacognition, with her essay, "Protecting Our Minds: The Role of
Lay Beliefs."
Wheatley is the recipient of teaching awards and academic honors, twice
winning the University of Virginia's Distinguished Teaching Fellow Award, and
its Graduate Teaching Award. She also received the University's Pathfinder
Award for Best Masters Thesis in Psychology. She has participated in colloquia
in cognitive neuroscience across the country and around the world, and is a
frequent speaker at conferences and presentations.
Wheatley is an ad hoc reviewer for several scholarly journals in her field,
including Brain Research, Cerebral Cortex, Human Brain Mapping, the
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, and
Psychological Bulletin, to name a few. She is a member of the Society for Neuroscience, the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, the
Society for Human Brain
Mapping, and the Society for Personality and
Social Psychology.
By LAUREL STAVIS
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