New Standing Faculty Members 2003 - 2004
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Joseph Lowry, Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle
Eastern Studies: Islamic law, Middle Eastern literatures,
classical Islamic civilization. Ph.D. from the University
of Pennsylvania.
Biology
Michael Hippler, Assistant Professor of Biology (January
2004): Systems biology, with a special interest in
photosynthesis and chloroplast biogenesis. Ph.D. from the
University of Freiburg.
Tatyana Svitkina, Assistant Professor of Biology (January 2004): Cell biology, with an emphasis on electron microscopic analysis of the cytoskeleton. Ph.D. from the Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow.
Economics
Elena Krasnokutskaya: Assistant Professor of Economics: Industrial
organization, with a special interest in empirical implementation
of auction models. Ph.D. from Yale University.
Dirk Krueger, Assistant Professor of Economics: Macroeconomics, public finance, and economic growth and development. Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.
Iourii Manovskii, Assistant Professor of Economics: Macroeconomics, public economics, and labor economics. Ph.D. expected from the University of Western Ontario.
English
Charles Bernstein, Professor of English: Poetry
and poetics, with an emphasis on modernist and contemporary
art, aesthetics, and performance. A.B. from Harvard University.
Comes to Penn from the State University of New York – Buffalo.
Timothy Corrigan, Professor of English: Film studies, with special interests in modern American and German film, film and literature, and the teaching of film. Ph.D. from Emory University. Comes to Penn from Temple University.
Heather Love, Assistant Professor of English: Gender studies, queer theory, and late nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American literature. Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.
Yolanda Padilla, Assistant Professor of English: Latino and Chicano literature and culture. Ph.D. expected from the University of Chicago.
Josephine Nock-Hee Park, Assistant Professor of English: Contemporary Asian American literature and poetry. Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Germanic Languages and Literatures
Bethany Wiggin, Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages
and Literatures:Early modern German literature and
culture. Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.
History
Antonio Feros, Associate Professor of History (January
2004): Spanish history, with special interests in
the early modern period and Spain’s colonial empire.
Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Comes to Penn from
New York University.
Ronald Granieri, Assistant Professor of History: International relations, with an emphasis on postwar German relations with the West. Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Comes to Penn from Furman University.
Steven Hahn, Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History: History of the nineteenth-century American South. Ph.D. from Yale University. Comes to Penn from Northwestern University.
Stephanie McCurry, Merriam Term Associate Professor of History: History of the nineteenth-century American South. Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Binghampton. Comes to Penn from Northwestern University.
Julia Rudolph, Assistant Professor of History: Early modern British history, especially legal and political thought. Ph.D. from Columbia University. Comes to Penn from Bucknell University.
Margo Todd, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History: Early modern English and Scottish history and Reformed (Calvinist) Protestantism in Britain and early America. Ph.D. from Washington University. Comes to Penn from Vanderbilt University.
History of Art
Michael Cole, Assistant Professor of History of Art: Italian
Renaissance and Baroque art, with a special interest in
sculpture. Ph.D. from Princeton University. Comes to Penn
from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.
History and Sociology of Science
Nathan Ensmenger, Assistant Professor of History and
Sociology of Science: History of technology, with
an emphasis on information technology. Ph.D. from the University
of Pennsylvania.
Mathematics
Robin Pemantle, Merriam Term Professor of Mathematics: Modern
discrete probability and combinatorics. Ph.D. from MIT.
Comes to Penn from Ohio State University.
Florian Pop, Professor of Mathematics: Arithmetic
algebraic geometry and modern Galois theory. Ph.D. from the
University of Heidelberg. Comes to Penn from the University
of Bonn.
Music
Mark Butler, Assistant Professor of Music: Music theory, ethnomusicology, music
history, and popular music studies. Ph.D. from Indiana University.
Kok-Chor Tan, Assistant Professor of Philosophy: Ethics and political philosophy, with interests in global justice and nationalism. Ph.D. from the University of Toronto.
Michael Weisberg, Assistant Professor of Philosophy: Philosophy of science, in particular philosophy of biology and chemistry. Ph.D. from Stanford University.
Physics and Astronomy
Marija Drndic, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy: Experimental
condensed matter physics, with an emphasis on mesoscopic
physics. Ph.D. from Harvard.
Licia Verde, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy: Astrophysics and cosmology, with interests in the cosmic microwave background and galaxy clusters. Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh.
Political Science
Tulia Falleti, Assistant Professor of Political Science
(January 2004): Latin American politics, with special
interests in federalism and decentralization. Ph.D. from
Northwestern University.
Diana Mutz, Annenberg Professor of Political Science and Communication: American politics, with an emphasis on political communication, mass media, and political behavior. Ph.D. from Stanford University. Comes to Penn from Ohio State University.
Heiner Schulz, Assistant Professor of Political Science (January 2004): International relations theory and political economy, with a special interest in decision-making within the European Union. Ph.D. from Stanford University.
Psychology
Delphine Dahan, Assistant Professor of Psychology: Psycholinguistics, with
an emphasis on word recognition in spoken language. Ph.D. from the Sorbonne.
Sara Jaffee, Assistant Professor of Psychology: Developmental psychopathology, parenting, antisocial behavior, and behavioral genetics. Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.
Richard Murray, Assistant Professor of Psychology (January 2004): Perception, with a special interest in visual psychophysics and spatial vision. Ph.D. from the University of Toronto.
Daniel Swingley, Assistant Professor of Psychology: Psycholinguistics, with an emphasis on language acquisition in children. Ph.D. from Stanford University.
David White, Assistant Professor of Psychology: Avian behavioral ecology: sociallearning, social development, and social evolution. Ph.D. from McMaster University.
Romance Languages
Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, Associate Professor
of Romance Languages: Colonial Latin American literature
and culture, contemporary Latino and Caribbean studies.
Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Comes
to Penn from Rutgers University.
Sara Nadal-Melsió, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century peninsular Spanish literature and Catalan literature. Ph.D. from New York University.
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Ilya Vinitsky, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages
and Literatures: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century
Russian literature and culture. Ph.D. from Moscow State
Pedagogical University.