| Since 1999, the Division has successfully recruited 110 new senate faculty with degrees from prestigious institutions, in almost every case securing departments’ first choices. Several departments made multiple hires that created constellations of research strengths within or across fields. Withtwenty-four hires in the last three years, the Division continues to bring innovative scholarship to the campus, enhancing and strengthening already strong teaching and research across the disciplines. Senior hires recently joining the Humanities and Fine Arts faculty include Ann Taves, the Virgil Cordano Endowed Chair in Catholic Studies (Religious Studies Department) and Clarence Barlow, the Dorothy and Sherrill C. Corwin Endowed Chair in Music Composition (Music Department).
New Faculty Hires 2007-2008
Ahmad Ahmad, Assistant Professor
Religious Studies Department
Ph.D., Harvard
Islamic Studies
Anthony Barbieri-Low, Assistant Professor
History Department
Ph.D., Princeton University
Early Chinese History
Stephanie Batiste, Assistant Professor
English Department and Black Studies
Ph.D., George Washington University
Literary and Cultural Studies
Robert Koenig, Associate Professor
Music Department
Collaborative Piano
Melinda Szaloky, Acting Assistant Professor
Film and Media Studies Department
European Cinema and Media
Faculty Hires 2006-2007
Clarence Barlow, Professor and the Dorothy and Sherrill C. Corwin Endowed
Chair in Music Composition
Music Department
Racha El-Omari, Assistant Professor
Religious Studies Department
Ph.D., Yale University
Arabic Language
Claudio Fogu, Assistant Professor
French and Italian Department
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Italian Literature
Jonas Grethlein, Assistant Professor
Classics Department
Ph.D., University of Freiburg, Germany
Greek Literature
John Hajda, Assistant Professor
Music Department
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Musicology
Ken Hiltner, Assistant Professor
English Department
Ph.D., Harvard University
Renaissance Literature
Jennifer Holt, Assistant Professor
Film and Media Studies Department
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Contemporary Media Studies
James Kearney, Assistant Professor
English Department
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Renaissance Literature
Anne Beate Maurseth, Assistant Professor
French and Italian Department
Ph.D., University of Trondheim, NTNU, Norway
French Literature
David Paul, Assistant Professor
Music Department
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Musicology
Greg Siegel, Assistant Professor
Film and Media Studies Department
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Contemporary Media Studies
Stefania Tutino, Assistant Professor
History Department and Religious Studies Department
Ph.D., Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Religious History
Faculty Hires 2005-2006
Janis Caldwell, Assistant Professor
English Department
Ph.D., University of Washington
M.D., Northwestern University
Victorian literature and culture
Bishnupriya Ghosh, Associate Professor
English Department
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Postcolonial theory and film
Stefan Gries, Assistant Professor
Linguistics Department
Ph.D., University of Hamburg
Computational Linguistics
Suk-Young Kim, Assistant Professor
Dramatic Art and Dance
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
Asian drama
Juan Pablo Lupi, Assistant Professor
Spanish and Portuguese Department
Ph.D., Harvard University
Twentieth-century Latin American literature
Douglas Tal Sanders, Lecturer
Dramatic Art and Dance
MFA, California Institute of the Arts
Scene design
Ann Taves, Professor and Virgil Cordano Endowed Chair in Catholic Studies
Religious Studies Department
Ph.D., The Divinity School, University of Chicago
American religious history
Salim Yaqub, Associate Professor
History Department
Ph.D., Yale University
American foreign relations
Faculty Hires 2004-2005
Risa Brainin, Assistant Professor
Dramatic Art
B.F.A., Carnegie, Mellon University Drama Program
Directing
Elizabeth Digeser, Associate Professor
History Department
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Late Roman empire/late antiquity
Dominique Jullien, Professor
French and Italian
Ph.D., Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle
Nineteenth, Twentieth-century French history
Pekka Hämäläinen, Assistant Professor
History Department
Ph.D., University of Helsinki
US/Spanish Borderlands
Thomas Holden, Assistant Professor
Philosophy Department
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Modern Philosophy
Jane Mulfinger, Assistant Professor
Art Department
M.F.A., Royal College of Art, London
Sculpture and spatial arts
Russell Samolsky, Assistant Professor
English Department
Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder
Twentieth-century Anglophone Literature
Richard Wittman, Assistant Professor
History of Art and Architecture
Ph.D., Columbia University
Early modern architecture
Faculty Hires 2003-2004
Michael Berry, Assistant Professor
East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
Ph.D., Columbia University
Modern and contemporary Chinese
Peter Bloom, Assistant Professor
Film Studies Department
Ph.D., UCLA
French cinema
Debra Blumenthal, Assistant Professor
History Department
Ph.D., University of Toronto
Medieval Europe
Helen Callus, Assistant Professor
Music Department
1st Honors Degree, The Peabody Institute
Viola
Jung-Bong Choi, Assistant Professor
Film Studies
M.A., University of Iowa
Critical/cultural theory and media
Brice Erickson, Assistant Professor
Classics Department
Ph.D., University of Texas
Greek archaeology, Crete, ceramic studies
Guy Mark Foster, Assistant Professor
English Department
Ph.D., Brown University
Racial, ethnic and American literatures
Jocelyn Holland, Assistant Professor
Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Goethe, German romanticism, rhetoric, and the philosophy of nature
Yunte Huang, Assistant Professor
English Department
Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo
American literature, transpacific literature, and translation
Derek Katz, Assistant Professor
Music Department
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Musicology; Czech music; opera; nationalism and modernism
Karen Lunsford, Assistant Professor
Writing Program
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Instructional and technical writing
Patrick McCray, Assistant Professor
History Department
Ph.D., University of Arizona
History of physical sciences
Michael Rescorla, Assistant Professor
Philosophy Department
Ph.D., Harvard University
Philosophy of psychology
Darieck Scott, Assistant Professor
English Department
Ph.D., Stanford University
American Literature, fiction, queer studies
Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Assistant Professor
History Department
Ph.D., UC San Diego
Modern Latin America and Mexico
Miriam Wattles, Assistant Professor
History of Art and Architecture
M.A., New York University, Institute of Fine Arts
Japanese art history
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