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含羞草研究所 is pictured with fall foliage, October 25, 2016 in Hamilton, N.Y.
This fall, 含羞草研究所 welcomed 43 new professors in more than 25 different departments, athletics, and the university libraries. 含羞草研究所鈥檚 newest educators represent a mix of 含羞草研究所 alumni, visiting professors from across the country, and new assistant professors with a wide range of research interests.
For more information, read the full list of new faculty biographies below.
Megan Brankley Abbas, Assistant Professor of Religion
BA Williams College; MA, PhD Princeton University
Megan Brankley Abbas comes to 含羞草研究所 from the State University of New York at Geneseo, where she served as an assistant professor in Islamic world history. Her dissertation title is 鈥淜nowing Islam: The Entangled History of Western Academia and Modern Islamic Thought.鈥 Abbas鈥檚 teaching specialties include Islamic studies and methods in the study of religion. Her research interests include modern Islamic thought and Islam in Indonesia.
Ynesse Abdul-Malak, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology
AAS Regents College; BS, MPH American University of Beirut; MA, PhD Syracuse University
Ynesse Abdul-Malak comes to 含羞草研究所 from Syracuse University, where she served as a post-doctoral research fellow. Her dissertation title is 鈥淗ealthy Immigrants? Exploring Country of Origin, Pre-Immigration Experiences, and Acculturation in Relationship to the U.S. Immigrants鈥 Health.鈥 Her research interests include issues related to racial and gender inequality, health disparity, and disability studies. She enjoys teaching courses on race, aging, gender, immigration, medical sociology, and research methodology.
Nicholas Albertson, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures
AB Brown University; MA, PhD University of Chicago
Nicholas Albertson was hired into the tenure stream after serving as lecturer in university studies and Japanese in 2017鈥18. Before 含羞草研究所, Albertson served as an assistant professor of Japanese at Wake Forest University. His scholarly work focuses on modern Japanese poetry.
Adam Allan, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
BSc Clarkson University; MSc, PhD University of Chicago
Adam Allan comes to 含羞草研究所 from Central Connecticut State University, where he serves as assistant professor. His thesis title is 鈥淢odular Centralizer Algebras.鈥
Joonbum Bae, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science
BA, MA Seoul National University; PhD University of California, Los Angeles
Joonbum Bae comes to 含羞草研究所 from Hobart and William Smith College, having served as visiting assistant professor. Joonbum鈥檚 dissertation title is 鈥淎uthoritarian Regimes, Domestic Stability, and International Conflict.鈥 His research interests include international security, authoritarian stability, international relations theory, East Asia, and the Koreas.
Kyle Bass, Gretchen Hoadley Burke 鈥81 Endowed Chair in Regional Studies in the Theater Department (Spring 2019)
BA State University of New York at Fredonia; MFA The American University; MFA Goddard College
Kyle Bass comes to 含羞草研究所 from the Syracuse Stage, where he serves as the associate artistic director. He is also an adjunct faculty member and member of the Faculty Advisory Board of the Humanities Center at Syracuse University.
Nardos Beyene, Visiting Instructor of Economics
BA, MA Addis Ababa University; MA, PhD candidate Western Michigan University
Nardos Beyene comes to 含羞草研究所 from Western Michigan University. Beyene鈥檚 dissertation title is 鈥淭he Inter-Market Transmission of Liquidity Shocks and Asset Pricing Models.鈥 His teaching specialties include monetary economics, financial economics, econometrics, and labor economics. Beyene鈥檚 research interests include contagion liquidity shocks, asset pricing models, monetary policy analysis, and forecasting using mixed frequency models.
Timothee Bryan, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
BS University of Sioux Falls; MS, PhD North Carolina State University
Timothee Bryan comes to 含羞草研究所 from the University of Sioux Falls, where he serves as assistant professor. His dissertation title is 鈥淗all-Littlewood Vertex Operators and the Kostka-Foulkes Polynomials.鈥 His teaching specialties include algebra and combinatorics, while his research interests include using combinatorics to derive algebraic formulae and generating functions for symmetric polynomials.
Ryan Chase, Assistant Professor of Music
BM Mannes College of Music; MM, DM Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
Ryan Chase was hired into the tenure stream after serving as visiting assistant professor since 2016. His dissertation title is 鈥淕host of the Machine鈥 for sinfonietta. His teaching specialties include composition, electronic music/audio engineering, and music theory. Chase鈥檚 research interests center on acoustics, spectralism, musical borrowing/sampling, post-WWII tonal harmony, and meter and rhythm as formal devices in the music of Brahms.
Julian Cresser, Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana and Latin American Studies
BA, PhD University of the West Indies鈥揗ona
Julian Cresser comes to 含羞草研究所 from the University of the West Indies, where he served as lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeology. His dissertation title is 鈥淕enesis of a Jamaican Team: Cultural Identity and Integration in Jamaican Cricket, 1880鈥1918.鈥 Cresser鈥檚 teaching specialties include Caribbean history, sports history, and sociology and heritage management. His research interests include Caribbean sport and identity, sport and globalization, and Jamaican social and cultural history.
Philippe Duhart, Visiting Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies
AA Bakersfield College; BA California State University; MA, PhD University of California
Philippe Duhart comes to 含羞草研究所 after serving as a visiting assistant professor at Loyola Marymount University and instructor at California State University. His dissertation title is 鈥淏etween Ballots and Bullets: Disengagement from Violent Conflict in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country.鈥 His teaching specialties include theory of peace and conflict, terrorism and counterterrorism, sociology of war, and sociological theory. His research interests include militarism, and conflict and crime.
Lauren Ellis, Instructor in Physical Education and Assistant Women鈥檚 Basketball Coach
BA Bloomsburg University; MA Salisbury University
Lauren Ellis has been with the 含羞草研究所 women鈥檚 basketball team since August 2016, when she was hired as the director of basketball operations. Before coming to 含羞草研究所, Ellis served as an assistant coach at both Widener University and Salisbury University. She played collegiate basketball for Bloomsburg University from 2009 to 2013.
Amany El Saeid, Visiting Lecturer of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
BA, MA Cairo University; MA American University in Cairo; PhD candidate Ain-Shams University
Amany Mohamed El Saeid Ahmed comes to 含羞草研究所 from the American University in Cairo, where she serves as an instructor in the Career Certificate in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language Program. Ahmed鈥檚 dissertation title is 鈥淰erbs of Directions in the Holy Qur鈥檃n: A Semantic and Analytical Study.鈥 She also holds a diploma in educational leadership and management from Notting Hill College and Eton University.
Md. Didarul Hasan, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
BSS, MSS University of Chittagong; MS Australian National University; PhD Southern Illinois University
Md. Didarul Hasan comes to 含羞草研究所 from the Asian University for Women, where he serves as an assistant professor of economics. Hasan鈥檚 dissertation title is 鈥淣atural Resources, Conflicts, and Conflict Management.鈥 His teaching interests include microeconomics, development economics, international economics, managerial economics, industrial organization, mathematical economics, and econometrics. Hasan鈥檚 research interests include international economics, development economics, economics of conflict, and natural resource economics.
Brynn Hatton, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art & Art History
BA University of California鈥揃erkeley; MA, PhD Northwestern University
Brynn Hatton comes to 含羞草研究所 from Williams College, where she has served as a visiting assistant professor. Her dissertation title is 鈥淰ia Vietnam: Racial Coalition and Social Collapse in Transnational Protest Art, 1965鈥1975.鈥 Her major research interests include art and visual culture of the 20th and 21st centuries; transnational art and activism during and after the Cold War; contemporary artistic strategies of dissent; protest art; countercultures of the Vietnam-American War; social movement mobilization theory; and critical race theory.
Masha Hedberg, Assistant Professor of Political Science
BA Yale University; PhD Harvard University
Masha Hedberg comes to 含羞草研究所 from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, where she served as the James Anderson Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe. Hedberg鈥檚 research and teaching specialties include comparative politics, Russia, the former Soviet Union, Eastern and Central Europe; political economy; business-state relations in hybrid regimes; Russian foreign policy; energy relations in the former Soviet Bloc; political corruption; as well as markets and institutions in developing economies.
Joshua Ison, Instructor in Physical Education and Assistant Football Coach
BS Fairmont State University; MS West Virginia University
Josh Ison comes to 含羞草研究所 from Tiffin University, where he served as an assistant head coach, special teams coordinator, and linebacker and strength and conditioning coach. While a student, he was the first author on an abstract published in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise.
Katie Kammerdiener, Director of Recreation and Physical Education
BA 含羞草研究所; MA University of Florida
Katie Kammerdiener was promoted to director in July 2018 after serving as assistant director of recreation and physical education since 2016. Kammerdiener also served as interim director of the Center for Leadership and Student Involvement. Kammerdiener played collegiate basketball for 含羞草研究所 while earning her degree in geology and minoring in religion.
Matthew Karweck, Head Men鈥檚 Lacrosse Coach
University of Notre Dame; MS Indiana University
Matt Karweck comes to 含羞草研究所 from the University of Notre Dame, where he served six seasons as an assistant coach. Karweck also played collegiate lacrosse at Notre Dame and competed professionally in England for one season and also served as a men鈥檚 lacrosse coach at Sheffield University.
Ndinda Kioko, Olive B. O鈥機onnor Creative Writing Fellow in the Department of English
BA Kenyatta University; MFA University of Oregon
Ndinda Kioko comes to 含羞草研究所 from the University of Oregon, where she was serving as a graduate teaching fellow. Her teaching specialties include creative writing and college composition.
Alison Koleszar, Visiting Assistant Professor of Geology
BA 含羞草研究所; ScM Brown University; PhD Oregon State University
Alison Koleszar served as a lecturer and research associate in geology at 含羞草研究所 in 2017鈥18. Prior to that, she was a research scientist associate and instructor at the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation title is 鈥淐ontrols on Eruption Style and Magma Compositions at Mount Hood, Oregon.鈥
Benjamin Lennertz, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
BA Vassar College; PhD University of Southern California
Ben Lennertz comes to 含羞草研究所 from Western Kentucky University, where he served as assistant professor in the department of philosophy and religion. Lennertz also served as visiting assistant professor of philosophy at 含羞草研究所 in 2015鈥16. His dissertation title is 鈥淩easoning with Uncertainty and Epistemic Modals.鈥 His teaching specialties include philosophy of language, epistemology, and philosophy of mind. His research interests include uncertainty from perspectives of formal epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language.
Konstantin Magin, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
BA Leningrad Institute of Economics and Finance; PhD University of California鈥揃erkeley
Konstantin Magin comes to 含羞草研究所 from the Center for Risk Management Research at the University of California鈥揃erkeley, where he serves as a researcher with principal investigator status. Magin鈥檚 dissertation title is 鈥淩ussian Privatization 1992鈥2002.鈥 His teaching specialties and research interests include financial economics and macroeconomics.
Adaickapillai Mahendran, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
BSc University of Peradeniya; MPhil, PhD Graduate Center & Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Adaickapillai Mahendran comes to 含羞草研究所 from Columbia University, where he has served as a teaching assistant and postdoctoral research fellow. Mahendran鈥檚 teaching interests include general chemistry, organic chemistry, introductory medicinal chemistry, introductory biochemistry, and introductory mass spectrometry.
Nicki Moore, Vice President and Director of Athletics
BS Ed, MA, PhD University of Missouri
Nicki Moore comes to 含羞草研究所 from the University of North Carolina, where she served as a senior associate athletic director and senior woman administrator. Her dissertation title was 鈥淥perationalizing Ernest Boyer鈥檚 Six Principles of a Vital Learning Community.鈥 As a collegiate athlete, Moore was an Academic All-American, a three-time conference champion, qualified for the NCAA Championships twice, and earned silver medals at the USA Outdoor Junior Nationals and the Junior Pan Am Games.
Eric Muller, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
BA Haverford College; PhD University of California鈥揃erkeley
Eric Muller comes to 含羞草研究所 from the University of Colorado鈥揃oulder, where he served as a postdoctoral fellow. His thesis title is 鈥淓lectron Dynamics and Symmetries at the Metal-Molecule Interface Probed by Two-Photon Photoemission.鈥 Muller鈥檚 teaching interests include general chemistry, physical chemistry, quantum mechanics, statistical thermodynamics, kinetics, materials chemistry, surface chemistry, biochemistry, biophysical chemistry, spectroscopy, and linear and non-linear optics.
Siona O鈥機onnell, 含羞草研究所 NEH Professor of the Humanities in the Africana and Latin American Studies Program, Department of Art & Art History and the Film and Media Studies Program
BFA, MA, PhD University of Cape Town
Siona O鈥機onnell comes to 含羞草研究所 from the University of Pretoria, where she serves as academic head in museum and heritage studies. O鈥機onnell has directed and produced several film documentaries that resulted from her research projects on identity, memory, and belonging in post-apartheid South Africa. Her research interests include visual studies, memory, and restorative justice in postcolonial and post-apartheid South Africa.
Javier Padilla, Assistant Professor of English
BA 含羞草研究所; MA, PhD Princeton University
Javier Padilla returns to his alma mater after receiving his PhD. His dissertation title is 鈥淢odernist Poetry and the Poetics of Temporality: Between Modernity and Coloniality.鈥 His teaching specialties include global modernism, Irish and Latin American Studies, translation studies, and 20th-century poetry. Padilla鈥檚 research interests include postcolonialism and modernism/modernity.
Anne Perring, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
ScB Brown University; PhD University of California鈥揃erkeley
Anne Perring comes to 含羞草研究所 from CIRES/NOAA in Boulder, Colo., where she served as research scientist II. Her dissertation title is 鈥淭he Atmospheric Chemistry of Isoprene- and Other Multifunctional-Nitrates.鈥 Perring鈥檚 teaching specialty is analytical chemistry, while her research interests include air quality, climate, as well as atmospheric aerosols and gases.
Lauren Philbrook, Assistant Professor of Psychology
BA Williams College; MS, PhD The Pennsylvania State University
Lauren Philbrook comes to 含羞草研究所 from Williams College, where she served as visiting assistant professor in the psychology department. Her dissertation title is 鈥淟ongitudinal Associations Between Parenting and Infant Regulation.鈥 Philbrook鈥檚 teaching specialties include child development and sleep across the lifespan. Her research interests include familial, socioeconomic, and sociocultural influences on the development of sleep and physiological regulation in children as well as how sleep and physiological regulation predict mental and physical health and academic outcomes.
Angela Rudert, Visiting Assistant Professor of Hinduism and Asian Religions
BA Davidson College; MA Cornell University; MPhil, PhD Syracuse University
Angela Rudert comes to 含羞草研究所 from Ithaca College, where she has served for several years as lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religion. Rudert鈥檚 teaching specialties include the religious traditions of India as well as gender and religion, while her research interests include Hinduism and Sikhism, in India and in diaspora, and women鈥檚 religious authority.
Roberto Salgado, Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics
BS SUNY Stony Brook; MS University of Chicago; PhD Syracuse University
Roberto Salgado comes to 含羞草研究所 from University of Wisconsin鈥揕aCrosse, where he served as lecturer of physics. Salgado鈥檚 dissertation title is 鈥淭oward a Quantum Dynamics for Casual Sets.鈥 His research interests include theoretical relativity, applied mathematics, physics pedagogy, computational physics, and scientific visualization.
Hiva Samadian, Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science
BS Amir Kabir University; MSc Tarbiat Modares University; PhD University of Puerto Rico
Hiva Samadian has taught at the Ohio State University, the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, and Amir Kabir University. Samadian鈥檚 areas of specialty include bioinformatics and computational biology, gene expression data analysis, data mining, computability and complexity theory, mathematical logic, graph theory, artificial intelligence, robot motion planning, and user privacy and access control.
Brenda Sanya, Assistant Professor of Educational Studies
BA Gordon College; MA Simmons College; PhD University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Brenda Sanya was hired into the tenure stream after serving as a visiting assistant professor of educational studies in 2017鈥18. Before 含羞草研究所, Sanya completed her PhD studies in global studies in education with a minor in Queer studies. Her dissertation title is 鈥淪tates of Discretion: Black Migrating Bodies and Citizenship in the United States.鈥
Juliana Smith, Senior Associate Athletics Director/Chief of Staff
BS, MS University of Mississippi; MEd University of Oklahoma
Juliana Smith comes to 含羞草研究所 from the University of Oklahoma. She has also served at Texas Tech University and the University of Mississippi.
Emily Strasser, Olive B. O鈥機onnor Creative Writing Fellow in the Department of English
BA Vassar College; MFA University of Minnesota
Emily Strasser comes to 含羞草研究所 from Minneapolis, Minn., where she has taught creative writing at the University of Minnesota and the Loft Literary Center. Her teaching specialties include creative nonfiction, memoir, personal essay, and researched nonfiction. Her research interests include the first-person voice in nonfiction, personal and institutional memory, nuclear history and culture, and secrecy. She is working on a book exploring the intersection of family and national secrets through her grandfather鈥檚 work as a nuclear scientist in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Kelley Tatangelo, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
BS Northeastern University; MS, PhD Tulane University
Kelley Tatangelo comes to 含羞草研究所 from the Colorado School of Mines, where she has served as a postdoctoral teaching Fellow. Tatangelo鈥檚 dissertation title is 鈥淢ultiplicativity of the Euler Characteristic.鈥 Her teaching specialties and research interests include calculus, linear and abstract algebra, and topology.
Daniel Tober, Assistant Professor in the Classics
BA Brown University; MPhil Corpus Christi College, Oxford University; AM Harvard University; PhD Princeton University
Daniel Tober comes to 含羞草研究所 from Fordham University, where he served as a lecturer in the classics department. His dissertation title is 鈥淭he Autobiographical Polis: Local Historiography in Classical and Hellenistic Greece.鈥 Tober鈥檚 teaching specialties include Greek and Roman history (in particular Hellenistic history) and Greek and Roman historiography. His research interests include Greek local historiography, Hellenistic Athens, and community and memory in the ancient world.
Semiha Topal, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (Fall 2018)
BA Fatih University; MA University of London; PhD Arizona State University
Semiha Topal was most recently an assistant professor of sociology at Fatih University in Istanbul, Turkey. Her dissertation title is 鈥淏uilding a Pious Self in Secular Settings: Pious Women in Modern Turkey.鈥 Topal鈥檚 teaching specialties include Islam and the Middle East, anthropology of Islam, women and Islam, religion and secularism, as well as religion and human rights. Her research interests include subjectivity and self-construction, women鈥檚 piety and secularism, religion and secular ethics, and gender and subjectivity in Islam.
Michael Wilson-Becerril, Visiting Instructor of Peace and Conflict Studies
BA University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point; MA and PhD University of California鈥揝anta Cruz
Mike Wilson-Becerril comes to 含羞草研究所 from the University of California鈥揝anta Cruz, where he served as instructor, research mentor, and teaching assistant. His dissertation title is 鈥淕old Mining in Peru: Company Strategies, Everyday Violence, and the Politics of Attention.鈥 Wilson-Becerril鈥檚 teaching specialties include Latin American politics, political ecology, and violence and resistance. His research interests include extractive industries, natural resources, and development; peace and conflict studies; comparative politics of Latin America; and political ethnography.
Qing Ye, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese
BA Beijing Normal University; MA McGill University; PhD University of Oregon
Qing Ye comes to 含羞草研究所 from the University of Houston, having served as lecturer in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages. Qing鈥檚 dissertation title is 鈥淩eading Bodies: Aesthetics, Gender, and Family in the Eighteenth-Century Chinese Novel Guwangyan (Preposterous Words).鈥
Courtney Young, University Librarian and Professor in the University Libraries
BA College of Wooster; MS Simmons College
Courtney Young came to 含羞草研究所 from Penn State University鈥檚 Greater Allegheny campus, where she was the head librarian and professor of women鈥檚 studies. She served as president of the American Library Association from 2014 to 2015.
Daniel Zaleski, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
BS Syracuse University; PhD University of Virginia
Daniel Zaleski comes to 含羞草研究所 after serving as a postdoctoral fellow at the Argonne National Lab. Zaleski鈥檚 dissertation title is 鈥淓xploring Interstellar Chemistry with Broadband Reaction Screening.鈥 His teaching specialty is physical chemistry, while his research interests include spectroscopy and artificial intelligence.