Appointments are Effective July 1
HARTFORD, CT — Despite the downturn in the state and national economy, Rena Fraden, dean of the faculty and vice president for academic affairs at Trinity College, has announced that 11 tenure-track faculty members have been hired, effective July 1. They will be introduced at the first faculty meeting of the fall 2009 semester.
Below is a list of the new faculty members, where they received their degrees and the titles of their dissertations and/or books they have published:
Davarian Baldwin, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies
B.A., Philosophy and African-American Studies, Marquette University
M. A., American Studies, New York University
Ph.D., American Studies, New York University
Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Ciaran Berry, Assistant Professor of English
B.A., English, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland
M.F.A., Creative Writing: Poetry, New York University
The Sphere of Birds. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008.
Nicole Dudukovic, Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.A., Psychology, Stanford University
M.A., Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D., Psychology, Stanford University
Dissertation: Attending to Our Memories: The Role of Attention during Declarative Memory Encoding and Retrieval.
Scott Gac, Assistant Professor of History and American Studies
B.A., History, Columbia University
M.M., Double Bass, The Julliard School
M.Phil., U.S. History, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Ph.D., U.S. History, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Reform. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.
Kifah Hanna, Assistant Professor of Language and Culture Studies (Arabic)
B.A., English Literature, Al-Baath University, Homs, Syria
M.Sc., Comparative and General Literature, Edinburgh University
Ph.D. pending 2009, Comparative and General Literature, Edinburgh University
Dissertation: The Politics of Gender in the Levant: Feminism(s) and the Nationalism(s) in the Fiction of Ghadah al-Samman and Sahar Khalifah.
Shafqat Hussain, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
B.A., Development Economics, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
M.Sc., Global Diversity: Monitoring and Conservation, University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom
M.E.M., Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University
Ph.D. pending 2009, Forestry and Environmental Studies and Anthropology, Yale University
Dissertation: A Historiography of Marginality: Nature and Culture in the Western Himalayas.
Sara Kippur, Assistant Professor of Language and Culture Studies (French)
A.B., Romance Languages and Literatures, Princeton University
A.M., Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Ph.D., Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Dissertation: The Translingual Self: Life-writing across Languages in the Works of Héctor Bianciotti, Jorge Semprún, and Raymond Federman.
Seth Markle, Assistant Professor of History and International Studies
B.A., English and Africa and the New World Studies, Tufts University
Ph.D. pending 2009, History, New York University
Dissertation: ‘We Are Not Tourists: The Black Power Movement and the Making of ‘Socialist’ Tanzania, 1964-1974.
Lida Maxwell, Assistant Professor of Political Science
B.A., Religion, Wellesley College
Ph.D., Political Science, Northwestern University
Dissertation: Law, Culture and Lawlessness in Modern Political Thought.
Dan Román, Assistant Professor of Music
B.M., Guitar, Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico
M.M., Composition, The Hartt School, University of Hartford
D.M.A., Composition, The Hartt School, University of Hartford
Composition: Concierto de San Juan Bautista.
J. Prakash Younger, Assistant Professor of English
B.A., English and Cinema Studies, University of Ontario
M.F.A., Film Studies, York University
Ph.D., Film Studies, University of Iowa
Dissertation: Boats on the Marne: Jean Renoir’s Critique of Modernity.
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