UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
NEW STANDING FACULTY MEMBERS
SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
NEW STANDING FACULTY MEMBERS
AY 2006 - 2007
Anthropology
Eduardo Fernandez Duque, Assistant Professor of Anthropology: Biological anthropology, with an emphasis on primate behavioral ecology. Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis.
John Jackson, Richard Perry University Associate Professor of Communication and Anthropology (joint appointment with the Annenberg School for Communication): Cultural anthropology, with special interests in race relations, urban anthropology, and visual communication. Comes to Penn from Duke. Ph.D. from Columbia.
Adriana Petryna, Associate Professor of Anthropology: Medical anthropology, in particular the culture and politics of science and medicine in Eastern Europe and the U.S. Comes to Penn from the New School. Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Deborah Thomas, Associate Professor of Anthropology: Cultural anthropology, with a focus on the Caribbean and interests in nationalism, globalization, race studies, and popular culture. Comes to Penn from Duke. Ph.D. from New York University.
Biology
Dustin Brisson , Assistant Professor of Biology (as of January 2007): Ecology and evolution of infectious disease, with a focus on the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. Ph.D. from SUNY-Stony Brook.
Kimberly Gallagher, Assistant Professor of Biology: Plant science, with an emphasis on short-root movement. Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.
Michael Lampson, Assistant Professor of Biology (as of January 2007): Cell biology, with an emphasis on chromosome instability. Ph.D. from Cornell.
Classical Studies
Thomas Tartaron, Assistant Professor of Classical Studies: Greek Bronze Age archaeology. Comes to Penn from Yale. Ph.D. from Boston University.
Criminology
Richard Berk, Professor of Criminology: Criminal justice practice and policy, quantitative methods. Secondary appointment as Professor of Statistics in the Wharton School. Comes to Penn from UCLA. Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins.
John MacDonald, Jerry Lee Assistant Professor of Criminology: Youth violence, police practices, police-community relations, and perceptions of race discrimination. Comes to Penn from the RAND Corporation. Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.
Economics
Harold Cole, Professor of Economics: Macroeconomics, including the relation between social organization and economic activity, international debt crises, and incomplete markets and trade. Comes to Penn from UCLA. Ph.D. from University of Rochester.
Jeremy Greenwood, Professor of Economics: Macroeconomics, including family economics, labor markets and business cycles, and investment and technical change. Comes to Penn from the University of Rochester. Ph.D. from the University of Rochester.
Felix Kubler, Associate Professor of Economics: General equilibrium theory and computational economics. Comes to Penn from the University of Mannheim. Ph.D. from Yale.
English
Zachery Lesser, Assistant Professor of English: Renaissance literature, with special interests in drama and the English book trade. Ph.D. Comes to Penn from the University of Illinois. Ph.D. from Columbia.
Melissa Sanchez, Assistant Professor of English: Renaissance literature, with an emphasis on issues of gender. Comes to Penn from San Francisco State. Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine.
Chi-Ming Yang, Assistant Professor of English: 18th British literature, with an interest in the influence of Orientalism. Comes to Penn from Fordham. Ph.D. from Cornell.
History
Jessica Goldberg, Assistant Professor of History: Medieval Mediterranean history, with interests that include trade and relations among Christian, Jewish, and Muslim merchants. Ph.D. from Columbia.
Peter Holquist, Associate Professor of History: History of late imperial Russia and the early Soviet Union. Comes to Penn from Cornell. Ph.D. from Columbia.
Eve Troutt Powell, Associate Professor of History: History of the modern Middle East, history of Sudan, comparative race relations. Comes to Penn from the University of Georgia. Ph.D. from Harvard.
History of Art
Robert Ousterhout, Professor of History of Art (as of January 2007): Architecture of the Byzantine Empire. Comes to Penn from the University of Illinois. Ph.D. from the University of Illinois.
History and Sociology of Science
Beth Linker, Assistant Professor of History and Sociology of Science: History of medicine, with special interests in the history of para-medical professions and rehabilitation medicine. Ph.D. from Yale.
Linguistics
Charles Yang, Assistant Professor of Linguistics: Language acquisition, change, and evolution; computational linguistics. Comes to Penn from Yale. Ph.D. from MIT.
Mathematics
Peter Storm, Assistant Professor of Mathematics: Hyperbolic geometry, geometric topology, and geometry of low dimensional manifolds. Comes to Penn from Stanford. Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
Music
Emily Dolan, Assistant Professor of Music: History of 18th-century European music, with an interest in the introduction of the concept of timbre. Ph.D. from Cornell.
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Grant Frame, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations: Ancient Mesopotamian history and culture; Akkadian language and literature. Comes to Penn from the University of Toronto. Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
Philosophy
Elisabeth Camp, Assistant Professor of Philosophy: Philosophy of language and philosophy of mind, with an interest in the cognitive and linguistic aspects of metaphor. Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley.
Adrienne Martin, Assistant Professor of Philosophy: Bioethics, applied ethics, moral psychology, and moral theory. Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Susan Schneider, Assistant Professor of Philosophy: Metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science. Comes to Penn from Moravian College. Ph.D. from Rutgers.
Physics and Astronomy
Masao Sako, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy: X-ray and optical astrophysics, with interests in supernovae cosmology and large-scale optical surveys. Ph.D. from Columbia.
Political Science
Richard Johnston, Professor of Political Science: Political election processes, with a focus on Canada and the U.S. Comes to Penn from the University of British Columbia. Ph.D. from Stanford.
Devesh Kapur, Madan Lal Sobti Associate Professor for the Study of Contemporary India (Department of Political Science): Political economy of developing nations, with a focus on India. Will serve as Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India. Comes to Penn from the University of Texas. Ph.D. from Princeton.
Andrew Kydd, Associate Professor of Political Science: International relations, with special interests in formal modeling and game theory. Comes to Penn from Harvard. Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
John Lapinski, Associate Professor of Political Science: American politics, with a focus on Congressional voting patterns and elections. Comes to Penn from Yale. Ph.D. from Columbia.
Psychology
Jason Dana, Assistant Professor of Psychology: Human judgment and decision making, with a focus on fairness norms. Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon.
Ayelet Ruscio, Assistant Professor of Psychology: Clinical psychology, with a focus on the taxonomy and phenomenology of mental disorders. Ph.D. from Penn State.
Romance Languages
Roman de la Campa, Edwin B. and Leonore R. Williams Professor of Romance Languages: Latin American literature and culture. Will serve as Chair of the Department of Romance Languages. Comes to Penn from SUNY-Stony Brook. Ph. D. from the University of Minnesota.
Fabio Finotti, Mariano DiVito Professor of Italian Studies (Department of Romance Languages): Italian literature and culture from Dante through the 20th century. Will serve as Director of the Center for Italian Studies. Comes to Penn from the University of Trieste. Laurea, Universita di Pisa; Diploma, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.
Religious Studies
Jamal Elias, Professor of Religious Studies: Islamic religion and culture, with a focus on Sufism and additional interests in Islamic art and popular culture. Comes to Penn from Amherst College. Ph.D. from Yale.
Sociology
Melissa Wilde, Assistant Professor of Sociology: Sociology of religion, especially the response of religious institutions to social change; focus on Roman Catholicism. Comes to Penn from Indiana University. Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
South Asia Studies
Lisa Mitchell, Assistant Professor of South Asia Studies: South Indian language and culture, with a focus on media, printing and knowledge production, and language and linguistic politics. Comes to Penn from Notre Dame. Ph.D. from Columbia.