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Brad Armour-Garb
Associate Professor, Philosophy
Professor Armour-Garb's research interests include the philosophy of language, the philosophy of logic, and metaphysics, though he also has interests in epistemology.

Victor Asal
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Professor Asal's research interest is the interaction of international relations and domestic politics, particularly how this interaction influences ethnic conflict and ethnic terrorism.

Judith Barlow
Professor, English
Professor Barlow's areas of interest include American drama, women playwrights, and expository writing.

Thomas Bass
Professor, English
Professor Bass' areas of interests include creative nonfiction writing.

Ronald Berger
Professor, History
Professor Berger's areas of interest include Early modern Britain, economics, and gender in history.

Joel Berkowitz
Associate Professor; Chair of the Judaic Studies Department
Professor Berkowitz teaches courses on modern Jewish literature, theatre, history, and film.

Brett Bowles
Professor, French Studies

Arthur Brenner
Adjunct instructor, Judaic Studies
Dr. Brenner's primary area of interest is European Jewish history.

Ariel Caticha
Professor, Physics
Profesor Caticha's research interests include Entropy and Probability as tools for Inductive Reasoning; Information Geometry, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Statistical Mechanics and General Relativity, and X-Ray Optics: Theories of the diffraction, scattering and emission of x rays.

Seth Chaiken
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Professor Chaiken's research interests are in combinatorial theory and linear algebra and their applications to electronic circuits, computer architecture, algorithms, and computational geometry.

Thomas Church
Professor, Political Science
Professor Church's research interests include environmental law and policy, the general relationship of law and public policy, judicial administration, and court reform.

Rachel Cohen
Associate Professor, Philosophy
Professor Cohen teaches graduate courses in moral theory, including such topics as consequentialism vs. deontology vs. virtue ethics, moral realism, the normativity of ethics, and eighteenth century moral philosophy.

John Delano
Distinguished Teaching Professor, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Professor Delano is investigating (a) the impact history of the Earth/Moon system for its implications on the sustainability of earliest life on Earth, (b) the oxidation state of the mantle-derived volatiles that would have contributed to the composition of the Earth's early atmosphere, and (c) in collaboration with Professor James Ferris at RPI, the possible role of montmorillonites for oligomerization of RNA monomers on the early Earth.

J. Kevin Doolen
Associate Professor and Department Chair, Theatre
Mr. Doolen’s directing and teaching awards include the Commitment to Education Award presented by Alpha Psi Omega, the National Honors Dramatic Fraternity, in which he is a lifetime member, and three Kennedy Center directing awards (Lonely Planet, The Boys Next Door, Mr. Bundy). His productions of Lonely Planet, Interview/Applicant and A False Sense of Superiority (student-written) were all invited to region 7 of KC/ACTF; Fool for Love, and Act III of Quartermaine’s Terms were invited to region 1 of KC/ACTF.

Rachel Dressler
Associate Professor, Art History
Professor Dressler's current research focuses on English tomb effgies of armored knights and their articulation of concerns over social position and masculinity. She is also interested in English and American Medieval Revival art and architecture.

Jesse Ernst
Associate Professor, Physics
Professor Ernst's research areas include experimental particle physics.

Ingrid Fisher
Assistant Professor, Accounting
Professor Fisher's research interests include information systems, financial accounting standards drafting, and digital representation of financial accounting standards.

Robert Gluck
Assistant Professor, Music
Professor Gluck's recent work includes the design of live electronic musical systems for performance and installation.

Charles Hartman
Professor, East Asian Studies
Professor Hartman's research interests include: Literary Inquisitions during the Sung dynasty (960-1279); the relationship between state power and literature;
Iconology and Meaning in the Chinese Literary Visual Arts; the meaning of visual imagery common to both poetry and painting in traditional China.

Martin Hildebrand
Mathematics and Statistics
Professor Hildebrand's interests include probability on finite groups, combinatorics, hyperbolic 3-manifolds

Janell Hobson
Assistant Professor, Women's Studies
Professor Hobson's areas of research include women of the African Diaspora, interdisciplinary approaches to literature, film, visual and popular culture, and theoretical frameworks for global critical race feminism.

David Janower
Professor, Music
Professor Janower's primary area of interest is choral music. He is a frequent contributor to The Choral Journal, writing on a diverse group of composers, including Bach, Bruckner, Mendelssohn, and American composers William Grant Still and George F. Bristow.

Rachel Jean-Baptiste
Assistant Professor, History and Africana Studies
Professor Jean-Baptiste's research interests include Francophone Africa, Central Africa, gender, sexuality, urbanization, customary and modern law, and postcolonial theory.

Judith Johnson
Professor, English
Professor Johnson's areas of interest include poetry writing, poetic theory, fiction writing, myth and popular culture, women's studies, and performance art.

John Justeson
Professor, Anthropology
Professor Justeson's research focuses theoretically on evolution and adaptation in the organization of symbolic systems, chiefly on writing systems and spoken languages, and culturally on ancient Mesoamerica.

Brenda A. Kirkwood
Public Health

Richard Lachmann
Professor, Sociology
Professor Lachmann's research interests include collective behavior/social movements, comparative/historical sociology, cultural sociology, economic sociology, history of sociology/social thought, political sociology, social networks, sociological theory, development/world systems, and religion.

Timothy Lance
Distinguished Service Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
Professor Lance's research interests include algebraic and differential topology, group actions on manifolds, and the homotopy theoretic structure of spaces classifying structures on manifolds.

Gail Landsman
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Professor Landsman's research interests include cultural anthropology, gender, reproduction, feminist theory, disability studies, social movements, American culture, and the Iroquois.

William Lanford
Professor, Physics
Professor Lanford's research interests include archaeometry, nuclear physics, and the physics of materials.

Fernando Leiva
Assistant Professor, Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies
Professor Leiva's primary research interest is how particular economic ideas and policies transform class and gender relations in economies undergoing sustained processes of internationalization.

Cristian Lenart
Associate Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
Professor Lenart's research interests are in algebraic combinatorics related to representation theory (particularly of semisimple Lie algebras and Kac-Moody algebras), modern Schubert calculus, and formal group theory with applications to topology.

Max Lifchitz
Professor, Music
Professor Lifchitz is active as a composer, performer, arts administrator, and educator. He is the founder and artistic director of North/South Consonance, an organization promoting the performance of music by composers from the Americas. North/South Consonance, Inc. sponsors an annual concert series in New York City featuring new chamber music from the Americas and has issued thirty-five compact discs.

Tom Mackey
Assistant Professor, Information Studies
Professor Mackey's areas of specialization include information literacy, collaborative web development, web usability, web accessibility, and instructional technology.

Terry Maxwell
Assistant Professor, Information Studies
Professor Maxwell's areas of specialization include management and information policy.

Deborah May
Professor, Division of Special Education
Professor May's research interest include issues in special education, school readiness, students with severe disabilities, and pre-school children with disabilities.

David McCaffrey
Distinguished Teaching Professor and Collins Fellow, Public Administration and Policy
Professor McCaffrey's research interests are the design and behavior of regulatory and self regulatory systems, especially in the financial markets, and processes of cooperation and collaboration.

Antun Milas
Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
Professor Milas’ research focuses on infinite-dimensional Lie algebras, vertex operator algebras, and conformal field theory.

Bruce Miroff
Political Science
Professor Miroff's academic and teaching areas include the presidency, political leadership, American political theory, and American political development. 

Nancy Newman
Assistant Professor, Music
Professor Newman's areas of interest include European and American musical practices since 1800, film music, and gender studies.

Vivien Ng
Associate Professor, Women's Studies and History
Professor Ng's primary area of research interest is Asian American studies.

Stephen M. North
Distinguished Teaching Professor, English
Professor North's current research interest is images of writing and the writer that circulate in U.S. culture, with a special interest in the relationship between those mythologies and aspiring writers.

Patricia Pinho
Assistant Professor, Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies
Professor Pinho's research interests focus on the themes of blackness, identities, and racism, as well as forms of resistance to racism.

John Pipkin
Professor, Geography and Planning
Professor's Pipkin's areas of interest include quantitative methods, urban design, built environment, and urban geography

Steven Plotnick
Mathematics and Statistics
Professor Plotnick's areas of interst include low-dimensional topology and geometry, knot theory, transformation groups, combinatorial group theory.

Michael Range
Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
Professor Range’s research interests include multidimensional complex analysis, integral representations, boundary regularity of the Cauchy-Riemann equations, spaces of holomorphic functions in several variables, and function algebras.

Robert Rosellini
Distinguished Teaching Professor, Psychology
Professor Rosellini's research interests include associative learning processes in invertebrates (Drosophila Melanogaster), animal learning and behavior, controllability and predictability of stress, and animal models of psychopathology and addiction.

David Rousseu
Political Science
Professor Rousseau’s research interests focus on military conflict, shared identity, political development, and foreign policy.

Martha Rozett
Professor, English
Professor Rozett's areas of interest include Renaissance literature and Shakespeare studies.

David Shub
Professor, Biological Sciences
Professor Shub's areas of interest include the origin, evolution and function of self-splicing introns, intron homing and homing endonucleases, and horizontal gene transfer.

Christopher Smith
Professor, Geography and Planning
Professor Smith's areas of interest include urban social geography and East Asian (especially Chinese) cities.

Lawrence C. Snyder
Professor, Chemistry
Professor Synder's areas of interest include quantum chemical studies of the chemistry and physics of crystalline silicon and its defects, particularly those containing hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur; related research is conducted on other wide-gap semiconductors.

Scott Tenenbaum
Assistant Professor
Molecular Genetics
Department of Biomedical Sciences
School of Public Health

Mary Valentis
Associate Professor, English
Professor Valentis' areas of interest include literary theory, psychoanalysis and culture, and interdisciplinary humanities.

Michael Werner
Associate Professor, Art (Classics)
Professor Werner's research focuses on the Balkan provinces of the Roman empire.

Laura Wilder
Assistant Professor, English
Professor Wilder current research interest is in refining the methodologies she applies to literary studies in investigations of hierarchical discourse communities outside of academia, such as transitory ones that develop around a controversial issue in our media-rich but not always interactive "public sphere." She also plans to examine the writing processes and motivations of contemporary poets and novelists.

Barbara Wilkinson
Assistant Director, Institute for Teaching, Learning and Academic Leadership
Ms. Wilkinson's current research focus is on the evaluation of student outcomes in courses included in the General Education Program.

Mary Beth Winn
Professor, French Studies

Alissa Pollitz Worden
Associate Professor, Criminal Justice
Professor Worden's research interests include the study of decision making in criminal courts, particularly decision making under conditions of high discretion; exploration of the attitudes and values of criminal court actors; and modeling the links between public opinion on crime and justice issues, on the one hand, and formal policy and local criminal justice practices, on the other.

Carolyn Yalkut
Associate Professor, English
Professor Yalkut's areas of interest include creative writing, journalism, and contemporary American literature.