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African Studies
David Blaney, professor of political science, teaches courses on international politics, global political economy, and development. His research centers on the political theory and political economy of international relations. He is currently working on two edited books that explore the state of international relations as a global discipline. He serves on the editorial board of the Routledge Press series Worlding Beyond the West, and the Iranian Review of Foreign Affairs. Professor Blaney teaches courses on international relations, global political economy, development, political economic thought, and global citizenship.
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Jean-Pierre Karegeye, assistant
professor of French and francophone studies, focuses his research and teaching on African francophone literature and genocide studies, especially the Rwandan Genocide. He is particularly interested in the growing body of African francophone literary texts and other artistic works in dialogue with other disciplines. His publications include two edited books and more than 30 articles and book chapters. His recent article, "Rwanda. Littérature post-génocide, écritures itinérantes: témoignage ou engagement?" was published by the International Journal of Semiotics "Protée." He also serves as director for the Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies Center, an international scholarly association.
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Erik Larson, associate professor of
sociology, pursues research in political sociology, economic sociology, and the sociology of law by examining patterns of uniformity and diversity in globalized institutions. To this end, he has studied the formation and operation of new stock exchanges in Ghana, Fiji, and Iceland. A second collaborative project examines political contention and policy formation about indigenous rights, with a focus on economic affirmative action.
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Sowah Mensah, instructor of music, is an ethnomusicologist, composer, and master drummer from Ghana. As director of the popular African Music Ensemble, he gives private lessons in African drumming, xylophone, singing, and flute.
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Jamie Monson, professor of history,
teaches African History, African Environmental History, Ethics of Volunteer Service, and African Life History Narratives. Her current research studies technology and labor during the construction of Chinese infrastructure projects in Africa during the Cold War. Her book Africa's Freedom Railway was recently re-released in paperback by Indiana University Press. Her latest publication, Maji Maji: Lifting the Fog of War, is a co-edited volume about colonial warfare in German East Africa, published by Brill Press.
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David Chioni Moore, associate professor of international studies and English, focuses on the literatures and cultures of the Black Atlantic world, with interests in both Africa and African America. He maintains allied interests in post-coloniality, the post-Soviet world, and globalization. He edited Martin Bernal's 2001 Black Athena Writes Back, is completing an edition of Langston Hughes's lost 1934 book A Negro Looks at Soviet Central Asia, and has been published in journals such as Transition, Diaspora, PMLA, Frontiers, Genre, Research in African Literatures, and Callaloo.
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William Moseley, professor of geography, is a development and humanenvironment geographer. He teaches Human Geography; People, Agriculture, and the Environment; Geography of Africa; Geography of Development; and Comparative Environment and
Development Studies. Most of his fieldwork has been in West and Southern Africa. He is the author of more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and is the editor of four books: Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial African Issues; Hanging by a Thread: Cotton, Globalization and Poverty in Africa; The Introductory Reader in Human Geography: Contemporary Debates and Classic Writings; and African Environment and Development: Rhetoric, Programs, Realities.
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Ahmed Samatar, James Wallace Professor of International Studies, is the author and editor of five books that
include The African State: Reconsiderations; Somalia: State Collapse, Multilateral Intervention, and Strategies for Political Reconstruction; The Somali Challenge: From Catastrophe to Renewal?; African Studies and Undergraduate Education: Ideas Toward the 21st Century; and Socialist Somalia: Rhetoric and Reality, as well as dozens of scholarly articles. He is a member of the editorial board of the International Studies Review and editor of Macalester International and Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies.
See Selected Works
Dianna Shandy, director of the
African Studies Program and professor of anthropology, is a sociocultural anthropologist whose work spans U.S. and international settings, with broad research and teaching interests in gender, migration, political conflict and violence, human rights and humanitarianism, and research methods. Specific research projects have explored African asylum seekers in Ireland; the Nuer (southern
Sudanese) diaspora in Ethiopia, Egypt, and the United States; Darfur; the International Criminal Court; and the representation of violence in Africa. Her 2007 book Nuer-American Passages: Globalizing Sudanese Migration was recently re-released in paperback.
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Joëlle Vitiello, associate professor of French and Francophone studies, teaches 20th-century French literature; Haitian literature and culture; French, African, and Caribbean cinema; contemporary French culture; women writing in French; and French language. She specializes in representations of relationships (love, motherhood, friendship, and transmission of knowledge) in contemporary literature. Besides completing a manuscript on friendship in anthropology, philosophy, and literature, she is working on cinemas of diverse communities in French cities, and on representations of systemic violence (especially in Haiti and Rwanda).
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Karl Wirth, associate professor of geology, does research using geochemistry to study the origins of igneous rocks and the evolution of continental and oceanic crust. Recent research with students has focused on rocks in the Bering Sea
region, southern Ontario and northern Minnesota, the Galapagos Islands, Tanzania, and Cozumel.
See Selected Works
American Studies
Karin Aguilar-San Juan, associate professor, is an urban sociologist with a special interest in Asian American studies. She is the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship and a Woodrow Wilson National Foundation Fellowship. She is the editor of The State of Asian America: Activism and Resistance in the 1990s (South End Press, 1994), and author of Little Saigons: Staying Vietnamese in America (University of Minnesota Press, 2009).
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Duchess Harris, associate professor, teaches courses in African American studies and is a specialist on 20th-century African American political history. Within that broad subject, she is specifically interested in the civil rights movement, the contributions of women of color to feminist theory post-1970, autobiography, and critical legal studies. She is the author of Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Obama (Palgrave Macmillan; Reissue edition, March, 2011) and co-editor of Racially Writing the Republic: Racists, Race Rebels, and Transformations of American Identity (Duke, 2009). In 2010, she earned a JD from William Mitchell College of Law where she held a Bush Foundation Leadership Fellowship.
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SooJin Pate, visiting assistant professor,
earned a PhD in American Studies from
the University of Minnesota in 2010.
Her research focuses on transracial and
transnational child adoption, paying
particular attention to the case of Korean
adoption. She also teaches about mixedrace
identities and cultures, and about
United States empire and global politics.
Juliana Hu Pegues, is the Consortium
for Faculty Diversity pre-doctoral fellow
in American Studies. She is a PhD
candidate at the University of Minnesota,
and her interests include comparative
analysis of Asian American and Native
American colonial histories, and gender
and sexuality studies.
Jane Rhodes is Macalester's Dean for the Study of Race and Ethnicity as well as professor and chair of the American Studies Department. She teaches courses on race, ethnicity, gender, social movements, transnationality, and mass media. As dean she provides leadership on curricular and co-curricular matters related to multiculturalism across the college. Among her publications are Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century (Indiana University Press, 1998) and Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon (New Press, 2007).
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Ron Barrett, assistant professor, is a cultural and medical anthropologist whose research is on religious healing,
the social aspects of infectious diseases, and the ways that human beings come to terms with their own mortality. He is the author of Aghor Medicine: Pollution, Death, and Healing in Northern India. He has conducted fieldwork in Northern and Western India as well as in the United States.
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Olga Gonzalez, assistant professor, teaches courses on Latin America, psychological anthropology, violence, and anthropological theory. Her work studies the relationship between memory and secrecy in the context of war and violence, which she explores in her book Unveiling Secrets of War in the Peruvian Andes.
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Arjun Guneratne, professor and chair, teaches courses on South Asian society and culture, the anthropology of
development, environmental anthropology, and ethnographic interviewing. He is the author of Many Tongues, One People: The Making of Tharu Identity in Nepal and Culture and the Environment in the Himalaya. His current research examines the relationship of biodiversity conservation in Sri Lanka to neo-liberal economic reforms and globalization.
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Scott Legge, assistant professor, is a biological anthropologist with research interests in human and non-human
primate skeletal biology as well as areas of growth and development in both skeletal and living populations. He has academic and research experience in human variation, human population biology, bioarchaeology, and skeletal biology, as well as extensive experience in historic and prehistoric archaeology.
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Sonia Patten, visiting assistant professor, teaches courses on African ethnography, gender and development in Africa, world ethnography, and the anthropology of tourism. Her current research focuses on household food security and child nutrition in rural Malawi. Her publications include chapters in Conformity and Conflict and co-authored chapters in The Behavioral Sciences and Health Care, Family Practice Currents, and Indigenous Knowledge Systems: The Cultural Dimension of Development.
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Dianna Shandy, associate professor and chair, is a sociocultural anthropologist
whose research projects span southern Sudanese (Nuer) diaspora, African asylum
seekers in Ireland, and negotiating work and family in America. She is the author/
co-author of three books: "Nuer-American Passages: Globalizing Sudanese Migration";
"Glass Ceilings and 100-Hour Couples" (with Karine Moe); and "The Cultural Experience:
Ethnography in Complex Society, 2nd edition" (with David McCurdy and James
Spradley), which features the work of 10 Macalester students..
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Jack Weatherford, DeWitt Wallace
Professor of Anthropology and 2012
recipient of Mongolia's first annual "Jack
Weatherford Prize," holds an honorary
doctorate from Chinggis Khan College
of Mongolia. His most recent book is The
Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How
the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His
Empire. His book Genghis Khan and the
Making of the Modern World was a New
York Times best-seller and won the 2005
Minnesota Book Award for history and
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Architecture Program
Stanton Sears, associate professor and
program advisor, teaches sculpture and
3-D design. His professional career
includes public sculpture throughout the
United States. He and his collaborative
partner Andrea Myklebust '95 completed
architecturally integrated artworks for
the new microbial sciences building at
the University of Wisconsin–Madison in
2007 and the World War II memorial at
the Minnesota State Capitol. Their mosaic
floor inlays can be seen at the Lindbergh
Terminal at the Minneapolis–St. Paul
International Airport. Works in progress
include wall-mounted sculptural works
based on maps and aerial landscapes
for the ticket lobby of Anchorage
International Airport, Alaska.
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Gary Erickson, visiting assistant
professor, teaches ceramics. He has
been awarded both a Minnesota State
Arts Board Fellowship and a McKnight
Artist Fellowship for ceramic artists.
He was one of only four international
ceramic artists accepted for a residency
at the Taller Cultural in Santiago de
Cuba. On a Freeman grant in 2007, he
traveled to Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute
in Jingdezhen, China, the city where
porcelain was invented. His work is
included in the Renwick Gallery of the
Smithsonian Institution.
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Ruthann Godollei, professor, teaches
printmaking and senior seminar. Her
prints reflect concerns about social
justice, such as two commissions by the
Minneapolis Family Housing Fund about
homelessness. In 2008 her work was in a
two-person exhibit at the MAEP gallery
of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
She had six prints in the International
Triennial of Printmaking in Tallinn,
Estonia, in 2007.
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Art and Art History
Joanna Inglot, chair of the Art and
Art History Department, associate
professor, and Edith M. Kelso Chair of Art
History, has an expertise in modern and
contemporary art. She has received grants
and awards from the Fulbright Fellowship,
American Council of Learned Societies,
International Exchanges Commission,
and the National Endowment for the
Humanities. Curator and author of
several exhibition catalogs, Inglot has
also written two books: The Figurative
Sculpture of Magdalena Abakanowicz: Bodies,
Environments, and Myths and WARM: A
Feminist Art Collective in Minnesota.
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Gary Erickson, visiting assistant
professor, teaches ceramics. Summer 2011
he had a solo exhibition at the Jingdezhen
International Academy of Ceramics in
China. Other exhibitions have been at the
Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Galeria
Oriente in Santiago de Cuba. His work
has been collected by the Smithsonian's
Renwick Gallery of the American
Museum of Art, Weisman Art Museum
in Minneapolis, and the Cuban Institute
of Friendship with the People. He has
been awarded grants from the National
Endowment for the Arts, McKnight Artist
Fellowship for Ceramic Artists, and the
Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship.
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Ruthann Godollei, professor, teaches
printmaking and a senior seminar. A
seven-time resident artist at the Frans
Masereel Print Centre in Belgium,
her prints about social justice are in
many collections, including the Denver
Art Museum and the Polish National
Museum of Art. Her work was in the
Clemson University Juried National
Print Exhibit, 2011, and the 2010
Penang International Print Exhibition in
Malaysia. She was in Political/Poetical,
an international printmaking triennial
in Tallinn, Estonia, in 2007 and a twoperson
exhibit at the MAEP gallery of the
Minneapolis Institute of Arts in 2008. Her
book Road Show: Art Cars & the Museum of
the Streets, co-authored with Eric Dregni
'90, was released in 2009.
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Gudrun Lock, visiting assistant professor,
teaches 2-D Design. The themes of
garbage and waste, women's roles in
society, and the fine line between stable
and unstable mental states are fundamental
to the work that she makes. Her work was
shown at the Tweed Museum in Duluth
in 2010, the Minneapolis Center for
Photography in 2011, and will appear at
the Cinémathèque de Tanger in Morocco
in 2012.
Justin Newhall, visiting assistant
professor, teaches Introduction to Digital
Photography. His work has been exhibited
both nationally and internationally,
including exhibitions at the Museum
of Contemporary Photography in
Chicago, Galerie Lichtblick in Cologne,
Jen Bekman Gallery in New York, and
Franklin Art Works and the Minneapolis
Institute of Arts, both in Minneapolis.
Newhall is the recipient of fellowships
and grants from the McKnight
Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts
Board, and the Jerome Foundation.
Vanessa Rousseau, visiting assistant
professor, teaches Art of the West I. She
specializes in the art and archaeology
of the Ancient and Late Antique
Mediterranean. She is also the specialist
for wall paintings with the Archaeological
Exploration of Sardis, president of the
Minnesota chapter of the Archaeological
Institute of America, and antiquities
consultant for the Weisman Art Museum.
Stanton Sears, associate professor,
teaches sculpture and 3-D design. His
recent projects include the World War
II Memorial at the Minnesota State
Capitol and artworks for the Central
Corridor Light Rail line in St. Paul.
His mosaic-floor inlays can be seen at
the Minneapolis–St. Paul International
Airport and in the Alexander G. Hill
Ballroom, Kagin Commons, at Macalester
College. He and collaborative partner
Andrea Myklebust '95 have completed
more than 40 large-scale commissioned
works for public spaces over the past
18 years. Their 37-acre studio in rural
Wisconsin serves as a sculpture lab.
See Selected Works
Kari Sheperdson-Scott, assistant
professor, teaches Introduction to Visual
Culture and Asian Art History. She
specializes in Japanese visual culture from
the 19th and 20th centuries. Her current
research examines how Japanese media
and exhibitions during the 1930s and
early 1940s presented Manchuria.
Megan Vossler, visiting assistant
professor, teaches drawing. In 2012,
her work was featured in the solo
exhibition Overlook: Landscape Studies in
the Macalester College Art Gallery. Her
works are exhibited in venues such as
Franklin Art Works in Minneapolis, the
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the de
Young Museum in San Francisco. She has
been the recipient of a Jerome Foundation
Fellowship, a McKnight Artists Fellowship,
and a Jerome Foundation Travel and
Study grant.
Christine Willcox, associate professor,
teaches painting, figure painting, and
mural painting. Recently she had two
solo exhibitions, one at the Minneapolis
Institute of Arts titled "90° South" and
another, "Into the Woods," at the Phipps
Center for the Arts in Hudson, Wisconsin.
She has had many solo exhibitions and
has been included in several group
painting exhibits including shows at
Oberlin College, University of Minnesota,
Soo Visual Arts Center in Minneapolis,
and Arthouse gallery in Austin, Texas. In
2005 she won a Minnesota State Arts
Board Artist Initiative grant.
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Asian Languages and Cultures
Satoko Suzuki, DeWitt Wallace
Professor and department chair, is a
specialist in Japanese linguistics and
teaches all levels of the language courses
as well as Japanese linguistics courses.
Her research interests are in linguistic
pragmatics and discourse analysis. She is
the editor of Emotive Communication in
Japanese and is the author of a number of
journal articles and book chapters.
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Patricia Anderson, visiting instructor,
teaches intermediate and advanced
Chinese. Her research interests include
feminist writings, primarily of the
20th and 21st centuries, and issues of
translation. Her doctoral work involves
a comparative study of Chinese women
writers of the modern and contemporary
periods, with a focus on how the mother
figure is portrayed.
Sachiko Dorsey, visiting instructor,
teaches advanced and fourth-year Japanese
and has taught a topics course called Early
18th-Century Love-Suicide Plays by
Chikamatsu Monzaemon.
Miaki Habuka, visiting instructor,
teaches upper levels of Japanese courses.
Her interests include interactive teaching,
reading instruction, content-based
instruction, connections with the outside
world, learning styles and strategies, and
national standards for foreign language
Rivi Handler-Spitz, assistant professor,
studied Chinese at Columbia University, Fudan University, National Taiwan University and the University of Chicago, and holds a Certificate in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language from National Taipei University of Education.
Arthur Mitchell, visiting assistant
professor, spent several years living in
Japan where he studied at the Inter-
University Center and Sophia University.
His dissertation was on literary
modernism in Japan, with a specific
interest in the way Japanese modernist
fiction engages and critiques modern
society through strategies of language and
narrative form. Professor Mitchell will be
teaching First-Year Japanese and Japanese
Culture courses.
Ritsuko Narita, visiting assistant
professor, teaches intermediate and
advanced Japanese. She completed
her PhD in Japanese linguistics. Her
dissertation is titled "The Effects of
Pragmatic Consciousness-Raising
Activities on the Development of
Pragmatic Awareness and Use of Hearsay
Evidential Markers for Learners of
Japanese as a Foreign Language."
Jin Stone, visiting assistant professor,
instructs all levels of Chinese. His research
interests include Asian American literature,
international relations, and foreign
language instruction and acquisition. As
a Chinese instructor, he is particularly
interested in exploring dynamic and
interactive teaching approaches to develop
students' communication skills in Chinese.
Xin Yang, assistant professor, received
her PhD in Chinese literature from the
University of Oregon. She specializes
in modern and contemporary Chinese
literature, culture and film, women's
writing, cyber fiction, urban culture, and
gender and sexuality. Her book, From
Beauty Fear to Beauty Fever: A Critical Study
of Contemporary Chinese Female Writers, was
released in 2011.
See Selected Works
Mark Davis, DeWitt Wallace Professor
and chair of the Biology Department,
is an ecologist with teaching interests
in regional and global ecological issues.
His research, writings, presentations,
and interviews on invasive species have
attracted international attention. He
has involved more than 60 Macalester
students in his research, which has resulted
in numerous co-authored publications
with students. Currently, he collaborates
with students on invasive species research
at Macalester's Ordway field station.
See Selected Works
Lin Aanonsen, O.T. Walter Professor
of Biology and director of the Health
Professions Advisory Committee, is a
neurobiologist who regularly teaches
Cell Biology, Human Physiology, various
neurobiology courses and additional
new non-majors courses exploring
science and spirituality. Her research
focuses on elucidating the mechanisms
of pain transmission in the spinal cord,
in particular, the molecular changes
underlying chronic pain. Students are
actively engaged in her research during
the summer and academic year and have
co-authored publications. She received
the 2003 Macalester College Excellence
in Teaching Award.
See Selected Works
Mike Anderson, laboratory supervisor,
is a terrestrial plant ecologist. His research
examines the nature of the symbiosis
between alder shrubs and the nitrogenfixing
bacterium Frankia, and the effects
of this partnership on ecosystem function
in Alaskan boreal forests.
Sarah Boyer, assistant professor, is an
evolutionary biologist with interests
in animal diversity and biogeography.
Her research uses phylogenetic analysis
of DNA sequences and morphology
to reconstruct evolutionary trees. She
has worked closely with undergraduate
researchers in lab settings and on field
collecting trips to New Zealand and Sri
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Devavani Chatterjea, assistant professor,
is an immunologist and director of
the interdisciplinary concentration
in Community and Global Health.
She teaches courses in cell biology,
immunology and public health. Her
research focuses on the immune
mechanisms underlying inflammatory
pain and actively engages student
collaborators, with eight to ten students
working in the laboratory each year. She
works on immune reconstitution
mechanisms underlying opportunistic
fungal meningitis in Uganda in
collaboration with researchers at the
University of Minnesota and Makarere
University, Kampala, Uganda.
See Selected Works
Kristi Curry Rogers, assistant professor,
is a vertebrate paleontologist who also
has a joint appointment in the Geology
Department. Her research focuses on
dinosaur paleobiology, evolution, and
biogeography, and she employs a number
of techniques including bone histology,
comparative anatomy, and phylogenetic
analysis. Her research is nationally
funded and includes Macalester students
in laboratory, field, and museum-based
Jerald Dosch, visiting assistant professor
and director of Macalester' s Katharine
Ordway Natural History Study Area,
is a terrestrial ecologist with interests
in ornithology, restoration ecology, and
environmental science. His research
interests include non-native species, postagricultural
succession in abandoned
cattle pastures in southern Costa Rica,
and historic heavy metal impacts on
Common Loons in Minnesota.
Daniel Hornbach, DeWitt Wallace
Professor and chair of the Environmental
Studies Department, is a freshwater
ecologist. His research focuses on factors
that influence freshwater mussels in
large river systems and involves many
students, some of whom have co-authored
papers with him. His work also involves
collaboration with government agencies
on managing and recovering endangered
Elizabeth Jansen, adjunct professor of
biology, is a neuroscientist with expertise
in the areas of neural regeneration and
plasticity and neuroprotective drug
therapies. She has employed behavioral,
neurochemical, and molecular biological
techniques in her research on ischemic
stroke. She serves on the steering
committee for Macalester's concentration
in Community and Global Health and
directs the Taylor Fellowship Program.
See Selected Works
Mary Montgomery, associate professor,
examines the evolution of the molecular
genetic pathways that direct the earliest
stages of animal development. Grants from
the National Science Foundation have
allowed her to purchase equipment related
to this research. Students participating in
her research program often present their
work at national conferences. She also
serves as a health professions advisor.
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Marcos Eduardo Ortega, assistant professor, uses bacteriophage as model systems to try and understand the complex machinery required to initiate replication of double stranded DNA viruses. The research goals in his lab are to crystallize viral proteins involved in assembly of a mature virus. The protein crystals will allow for structure solution of these viral proteins which will hopefully help in developing viral therapies for eukaryotic viruses, including adenovirus, herpes virus, and Epstein Barr virus.
Paul Overvoorde, associate professor, is
a plant biologist with teaching interests in
cell biology, synthetic biology, genomics,
and plant physiology. His research focuses
on understanding the role of the plant
hormone auxin during root development.
An ongoing collaboration with colleagues
in Ghent, Belgium, involves Macalester
students in a "chemical genetics" project
that aims to define the role of auxin
during lateral root formation. The
National Science Foundation, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, the Merck/
AAAS Undergraduate Science Research
Program, and the University of Ghent
have funded this project.
See Selected Works
Steve Sundby, instructor and laboratory
supervior, is a microbiologist with an
emphasis in virology. He has been on the
steering committeee of the Community
and Global Health concentration since
its inception, and has a special interest in
helping students pursue health-related
Rebecca Hoye, professor and chair, is
an organic chemist with a background
in strained ring chemistry and natural
product synthesis. Her current research
encompasses new synthetic methodology,
natural product synthesis, and
stereochemistry, and the investigation of
organic reaction mechanisms. Recently,
work in her laboratory has centered
on the synthesis of biologically active
marine natural products and other small
molecules for chemical genetics assays.
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Ronald Brisbois, professor, is a
synthetic chemist. His varied research
interests include synthetic methodology
development, ligand and catalyst design,
cyclophane construction, and transition
metal-mediated supramolecular
self-assembly. On a sabbatical in the
Biomaterials Technology Center at 3M,
he initiated and continues investigations
regarding highly fluorescent hexaazaanthracene
derivatives. In 1993, President
Clinton designated him a Presidential
Faculty Fellow.
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Paul Fischer,professor, is an
organometallic chemist. His research
program targets transition metal
complexes with novel properties. In
his laboratory, Macalester students have
prepared the first substances exhibiting
hydrogen bonds with chromium and
tungsten acceptors, and developed a
methodology to permit rare nucleophilic
attack at metal-copper bonds. His research
program is presently funded by two grants
from the American Chemical Society
Petroleum Research Fund.
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Keith Kuwata, professor, has a
background in spectroscopy, atmospheric
chemistry, and computation. His main
research interests include simulations of
oxidation reactions in the troposphere and
modeling organic and inorganic systems
in collaboration with experimentalists. His
research students use quantum chemistry
and statistical rate theory for these studies,
which have been supported by grants
from the American Chemical Society, the
Dreyfus Foundation, and the National
Science Foundation.
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Kathryn Splan, assistant professor, is a
bioinorganic chemist with a background
in porphyrin chemistry and medicinal
biochemistry. She teaches in both the
biochemistry and introductory chemistry
sequences. Her current research focuses
on Inhibitor of Apoptosis Proteins (IAPs),
which play a key role in the control of
programmed cell death. Specifically, her
current work focuses on the development
and characterization of multivalent
peptide inhibitors that target IAP.
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Thomas D. Varberg, DeWitt Wallace
Professor, is a physical chemist. Trained at
MIT, he was a NATO Fellow at Oxford
University before coming to Macalester
in 1993. He teaches introductory and
physical chemistry. His collaborative
research with students is focused on the
spectroscopy of gas-phase free radicals.
To support this work, he has in the last
decade received $900,000 in funding
through five different research grants
from NSF and ACS.
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Beth Severy-Hoven, associate professor,
has a PhD from the University of
California–Berkeley, and degrees from
Oxford and Bryn Mawr College. Her
research focuses on Rome in the Age of
Augustus and the history of gender. She
has taught in Rome at the Intercollegiate
Center, and at Macalester teaches Women,
Gender, and Sexuality in Ancient Greece
and Rome; Greek Myths; Roman World;
as well as Greek and Latin courses. She
directs January in Rome and helped
develop the program in Egypt.
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Nanette Scott Goldman, senior
lecturer, is a PhD candidate at the
University of Minnesota. She teaches
Hebrew as well as Latin and Greek, and
is an expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls and
Hellenistic crisis literature. She helps
coordinate study abroad programs in
Rome, Israel, Turkey and Egypt.
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Brian Lush, assistant professor, completed
his PhD in 2008 at the University of
Wisconsin–Madison on the subject
of recognition and epistemology in
Euripides. His research deals with issues
of identity, perception and recognition in
Greek tragedy and epic, and he teaches
Greek and Latin language courses; Greek
World; Greek Myths; and a seminar on
Athenian Tragedy.
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Andrew Overman, Harry Drake
Distinguished Professor in Humanities
and Fine Arts and chair, specializes in
religion, culture, and ethnicity in the
Greco-Roman world, having earned a
PhD at Boston University. His courses
include Pagans, Christians, and Jews; India
and Rome; Introduction to Archaeology;
and Greek language. He directs
Macalester's archaeological excavations
in Israel, which began in 1999.
See Selected Works
Wessam El-Meligi, visiting assistant
professor, has a doctorate from the
University of Alexandria in Egypt. He
taught Arabic, Comparative Literature,
English, and Arabic Translation at Pharos
University, the University of Alexandria,
and the Middlebury College Study
Abroad Program in the Middle East
before coming to Macalester in the fall
of 2012. He is the core of Macalester's
Arabic language program, and also helps
coordinate January in Egypt.
Computer Science
Susan Fox, (PhD, Indiana University)
works in the area of artificial intelligence,
programming robots that can navigate
in the world and learn from their
experiences. She enjoys working one-onone
with students from both MSCS and
the neuroscience studies program, doing
independent projects, capstone projects,
and summer research.
See Selected Works
Shilad Sen, (PhD, University of
Minnesota) helps people become
more effective contributors to online
communities such as Facebook,
Wikipedia, and YouTube. Professor Sen
teaches a variety of classes including
object-oriented programming, algorithms,
Internet programming, and collective
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Libby Shoop, (PhD, University of
Minnesota) conducts research with
students in bioinformatics, data
visualization, and parallel computation
over very large datasets, using cluster and
cloud computing. She teaches courses in
software development, parallel computing,
databases, operating systems, and
computational biology.
See Selected Works
Gary Krueger, professor, studies
reforms in Russian industrial enterprises.
He teaches classes in econometrics,
comparative economic systems, and the
economics of transition.
See Selected Works
Amy Damon, assistant professor, has
research interests that include investigating
the impact of international migration
from Central America to the United
States and the impact that this migration
process has on families living in Central
America. She teaches principles of
economics, international economic
development, and a course on the
economics of global food problems.
See Selected Works
Liang Ding, professor, is a financial
economist with research interests in
financial economics and monetary
economics. He teaches principles of
economics, finance, and capital markets.
See Selected Works
Jeffery Evans, adjunct professor,
is a certified public accountant and
computerized accounting systems
consultant to small businesses throughout
the Twin Cities. He teaches financial
accounting, managerial accounting, and
Peter Ferderer, professor, is a macroeconomist
whose teaching interests include
international finance, macroeconomics,
and behavioral economics. His research is
in economic history, financial markets, and
business cycles.
See Selected Works
Joyce Minor '88, Karl Egge Professor in Economics, earned her MBA from Harvard Business School in 1993. She has worked at several companies including her last position at Lehman Brothers in New York as a senior vice president, Equity Research. She teaches classes in investment banking, securities analysis, and business communications.
Karine Moe, F. R. Bigelow Professor and
chair, has research and teaching interests
in labor and demographic economics. She
teaches courses on economics of gender,
economics of poverty in the United
States, and labor economics.
See Selected Works
Raymond Robertson, professor,
researches the effects of globalization
on labor markets. He teaches courses in
international economics, econometrics,
and economic restructuring in Latin
See Selected Works
Mario Solis-Garcia, assistant professor,
has research interests in macroeconomics,
business cycles, and economic growth and
development. He teaches intermediate
macroeconomics and quantitative
macroeconomic analysis.
Vasant Sukhatme, Edward J. Noble
Professor of Economics, is interested
in microeconomics and the economic
prospects of developing countries. He
was given the college's Thomas Jefferson
Award in 2002 for lifetime teaching,
research, and service contributions to the
See Selected Works
Sarah West '91, professor, has teaching
and research interests in the areas of
environmental economics, public finance,
and microeconomics. She teaches courses
in those areas as well as principles of
See Selected Works
Educational Studies
Ruthanne Kurth-Schai, professor
and chair, teaches courses on social,
philosophical, and political issues in
education and teacher preparation. Her
scholarly interests include philosophic
and policy analyses of the role of public
education in addressing social justice,
environmental, aesthetic, and spiritual
issues, and in promoting democratic civic
See Selected Works
Brad Belbas, instructor, teaches a course
on education and emerging technologies.
His teaching and scholarship include
the design and analysis of learning
environments, in particular, instructional
uses of technology that facilitate social
interaction and collaborative knowledge
Ann Hite, visiting instructor, teaches
Race, Culture, and Ethnicity in
Education. She has taught Spanish and
World Cultures in the Roseville Area
school district. As a veteran public
educator, her primary interest is to be an
active part of creating a truly equitable
education system that engages, honors,
and values the perspectives of all students.
Tina Kruse, visiting assistant professor,
teaches educational psychology as well
as other courses focusing on educational
theory and classroom practice. Her
teaching and research interests include
teacher preparation, culturally responsive
classrooms, early childhood learning,
youth development, and the evaluation of
educational programs.
James Dawes, professor and chair,
teaches American literature. He is the
author of That the World May Know:
Bearing Witness to Atrocity and The Language
of War, as well as numerous articles on
topics including narrative theory, human
rights law, and pedagogical technique. His
teaching interests include interdisciplinary
approaches to literary studies (ethics,
law, psychology, sociology) and U.S.
literature. He is the founder and director
of Macalester's Human Rights and
Humanitarianism program.
See Selected Works
Peter Bognanni is a native Iowan and former student of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His first novel, The House of Tomorrow (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam 2010) won the L.A. Times Book Award for First Fiction, the Emerging Author Prize at the Iowa Author Awards, and an American Library Association Alex Award. It was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award and Semi-finalist for the Virginia Commonwealth University Cabell First Novelist Award. In addition to writing fiction and nonfiction, Bognanni is also an occasional screenwriter. He was the winner of the 2013 Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Neil Chudgar, assistant professor,
studies the British literature of the 18th
century. His scholarship and teaching
aim to explore the ways in which
literary language helps modern people
think, feel, and believe in relation to the
tangible objects that surround us. He is
currently at work on The Augustan Touch,
a book about the ethics and aesthetics of
touching in British literature from the late
17th century to 1740.
See Selected Works
Daylanne English, associate professor,
has published essays on African American
literature in scholarly journals such as American Literature and Critical Inquiry.
She is the author of Unnatural Selections:
Eugenics in American Modernism and the
Harlem Renaissance (an ALA Outstanding
Academic Book in 2004). Her teaching
interests include the Harlem Renaissance,
contemporary African American novels,
and detective fiction. She has recently
completed a second book, Political
Fictions: Time and Justice in African American
Literature, that is forthcoming from the
University of Minnesota Press.
See Selected Works
Marlon James, assistant professor, teaches
creative writing and literature. His second
novel, The Book Of Night Women, was a
finalist for the National Book Critics
Circle Award and won the 2010 Dayton
International Literary Peace Prize and the
2010 Minnesota Book Award. His other
publications include the novel John Crow's
Devil (Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book
Prize, and the Commonwealth Prize) as
well as numerous short stories and essays.
His teaching interests include fiction,
nonfiction, travel writing, prose poetry,
Caribbean literature, American literature
post-1945, post-colonial literature, and
literary perspectives on 9/11.
See Selected Works
Casey Jarrin, assistant professor, teaches
20th-century British/Irish literature,
international film/visual culture, diaspora
studies, ethics/aesthetics of violence,
working-class studies and subcultural
theory, and cultural legacies of the Vietnam
War. She has published essays in Eire-
Ireland and Geographies and Genders, and
is completing a book project, Confessional
Enactments: Penitents, Prisoners, and
Embodiment in Irish Literary/Visual Culture.
See Selected Works
Theresa Krier, professor, teaches courses
on medieval and Renaissance literature,
and on literature and environment, with
interests in gender theory, poetics, and
pre-modern ways of understanding the
natural world. She has published books
and essays on ancient classical and biblical
poetry, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Spenser, and
Irigaray, including Gazing on Secret Sights:
Spenser, Classical Imitation, and the Decorums
of Vision, and Birth Passages: Maternity and
Nostalgia, Antiquity to Shakespeare.
See Selected Works
Kristin Naca, assistant professor, teaches creative writing and 20th-century American, Latino, and Asian American literature. She has earned fellowships and grants from the Consortium for Small Colleges, Macondo Writers Workshop, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and the Astraea Foundation. Her book of poetry, BIRD EATING BIRD (2009), was selected for the mtvU National Poetry Series Prize.
Wang Ping, associate professor, teaches
creative writing with special interests in
environment, public health, and social
justice. She is a poet, fiction writer,
photographer, and translator. She is the
recipient of grants and awards from
the NEA, and the Bush, Lannan, and
McKnight foundations, among many
others. Her numerous publications include
The Last Communist Virgin (Minnesota
Book Award and the Association of Asian
American Studies Book Award) and
Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China (Eugene M. Kayden Book Award).
See Selected Works
David Chioni Moore, associate
professor of English and international
studies, focuses on the literatures of
the Black Atlantic world (most notably
the global Langston Hughes) and has
allied interests in postcolonial theory,
globalization, and cultural critique. He
is widely published in journals such as
Transition, Diaspora, and PMLA.
Sonita Sarker, professor, Women's,
Gender and Sexuality Studies and English
departments, has published books and
articles on cultural globalization, women's
writings, and literary and cultural theory.
She is currently writing on transnational
receptions of fascism and empire by
women writers of the 1920s and 1930s.
She has received awards from several
foundations. She offers courses in feminist
postmodern and postcolonial theories, and
in 20th- and 21st-century transnational
comparative women's writing.
Environmental Studies
Dan Hornbach, DeWitt Wallace
Professor of Biology and chair of the
Environmental Studies Department, is
an aquatic ecologist. His research focuses
on freshwater ecology, and he works
closely with the National Park Service.
He teaches Environmental Science; Lakes,
Streams and Rivers; Ecology; and Aquatic
See Selected Works
Louisa Bradtmiller, assistant professor,
is a climate scientist and geochemist
whose research focuses on global climate
changes since the last ice age. She teaches
Environmental Science, Earth's Climate
System, Climate and Society, Paleoclimate,
and the department's senior seminar.
Jerald Dosch,visiting assistant professor
of environmental studies and biology
and director of Macalester's Katharine
Ordway Natural History Study Area, is an
ecologist with research interests in nonnative
species, restoration ecology, and
ornithology. He teaches Environmental
Science and Ecology.
Christie Manning, visiting assistant
professor of environmental studies and
psychology, is an experimental and
cognitive psychologist. Her research
investigates the role of psychological
distance in people's response to
information about environmental issues,
particularly global climate change. She
teaches Environmental Classics and
Psychology of Sustainable Behavior.
Marianne Milligan, visiting assistant
professor of environmental studies and
linguistics, does fieldwork on Menominee,
an Algonquian language spoken in
Wisconsin. She teaches Endangered
and Minority Languages; 100 Words
for Snow: Language and Nature; and
Roopali Phadke, associate professor,
teaches in the area of environmental
policy and politics. Her research is at
the nexus of environmental studies,
international development, and science
and technology studies. Her current
research focuses on water and wind
energy development. She teaches
Environmental Politics and Policy, the
Environmental Leadership Seminar and
Practicum, Water and Power, Science and
Citizenship, and Sustainable Development
and the Global Future.
See Selected Works
Chris Wells, associate professor, is
an environmental historian whose
research focuses on 20th-century U.S.
environmental history. He combines the
perspectives of environmental history,
intellectual and cultural history, and the
history of technology to examine the
history of human interactions with the
natural world. He teaches American
Environmental History, Environmental
Justice, Consumer Nation, Imperial
Nature, U.S. Urban Environmental
History, Car Country, and Three Rivers
Environmental History.
See Selected Works
French and Francophone Studies
Joëlle Vitiello, associate professor,
received her PhD in French and Italian
from Stanford University. She specializes
in 20th-century French literature and
culture. She teaches contemporary French
culture and literature; cinema (French,
North African, and Caribbean); and
Haitian literature and culture. She has
co-edited two books/special issues on
women writers, including Elles écrivent des
Antilles: Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and
co-authored a book on American culture.
Recent publications include articles and
book chapters on Haitian writers and
artists, representations of shantytowns
in Haitian literature, the teaching of
African literature, Algerian women
writers, and representations of violence in
contemporary literature and cinema. She
is completing a book-length manuscript
on Haitian literature. She is working on
a collaborative project on Haiti and the
Caribbean with a student.
See Selected Works
Andrew Billing, assistant professor,
recently completed his PhD at the
University of California–Irvine, and was a
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Macalester
in 2008–09. His current research explores
the "animal/human relation" as well as
intersections between literary fiction
and moral and political philosophy in
the French Enlightenment. His teaching
interests include 18th-century French
literature, Enlightenment political and
moral philosophy, colonialism, and critical
See Selected Works
Annick Fritz-Smead, visiting assistant
professor, teaches French at all levels.
She specializes in 20th-century French
literature and culture, with research
interests in poetry, women writers, and
cinema. She has published a book on the
poetry of Francis Ponge, Francis Ponge:
De l'écriture à l'oeuvre.
See Selected Works
Jean-Pierre Karegeye, assistant professor,
recently completed his PhD at the
University of California–Berkeley. Trained
in social ethics, philosophy, African
linguistics, and literary analysis and theory,
he specializes in African literature. His
research focuses on the 1994 Rwandan
Genocide in literature in dialogue with
ethical, political, and philosophical
discourses. He is the cofounder of the
Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies Center
in Kigali, Rwanda. Publications include
edited books: L'Eglise catholique à l'épreuve
du génocide and Récits du génocide, traversée
de la mémoire. His teaching interests
include testimonial literature, children
and war, and genocide studies.
See Selected Works
Juliette Rogers, associate professor
and chair, received her PhD from Duke
University. She specializes in 19th-century
French literature and in Quebec literature.
She is the author of Career Stories: Belle
Epoque Novels of Professional Development
and the guest co-editor of Eclectic
Expressions: Selected Essays of the 2006
Women in French 19th-Century Conference.
She is currently working on a booklength
manuscript on Travailler et vivre:
Recent Women's Fiction from Quebec and
France. She was recently president of the
Women in French organization.
Martine Sauret, visiting assistant
professor, received her PhD from the
University of Minnesota. She has
published Les voies cartographiques and
"Gargantua" et les délits du corps, as well
as the French translation of The Graphic
Unconscious in Early Modern French Writing,
by Tom Conley. She is working on diaries
of French Norman explorers and on
Montaigne and the New World.
David Lanegran, John S. Holl Professor
of Geography, teaches courses in human
and urban geography. His interests have
led to extensive studies and comparisons
of urban planning processes around the
world. He has published several books,
including Minnesota on the Map: A
Historical Atlas, and articles on urban and
cultural geography. He is developing a
new team-taught course: "Placing Race
and Seeing Social Inequality."
See Selected Works
Sanchayeeta Adhikari, Berg
Postdoctoral Fellow, is an environmental
geographer. She teaches Introduction
to Environmental Remote Sensing and
Environmental GIS. Her research focuses
on human-environment interactions,
conservation policies, landscape ecology,
and application of spatial tools such as
remote sensing, GIS and spatial statistics
in land-cover/land-use change studies.
Holly Barcus, associate professor, is a
population geographer with interests in
rural environments around the globe.
She teaches Population 7 Billion; Rural
Landscapes and Livelihoods; Migrants
and Migrancy; Introduction to GIS, and
GIS and Community Partnerships. Her
recent projects focus on the intersection
between migration and identity among
ethnic minorities in rural Mongolia and
the migration induced changes in ethnic
diversity of rural communities in the
United States.
See Selected Works
Eric Carter, Edens Professor in Global
Health and assistant professor, joins
Macalester in fall 2012 and will teach
courses in medical geography, geography
of environmental hazards, and advanced
GIS for health applications.
See Selected Works
Laura Smith, associate professor, teaches
courses in urban economic geography,
transportation, the regional geography
of the U.S. and Canada, and statistical
methods. She also teaches an urban GIS
seminar that connects the class with a
community project. Her recent research
projects have focused on mortgage
foreclosures in the Twin Cities and on
issues of American Indian land ownership.
See Selected Works
Daniel Trudeau, associate professor,
teaches Urban Social Geography;
Qualitative Methods; Political Geography;
Introduction to Urban Studies; and Cities
of the 21st-century. His research focuses
on urban governance, racial segregation
and integration, and sustainable urban
planning movements.
See Selected Works
William Moseley, professor and chair,
is a development and environment
geographer. He teaches Human
Geography; People, Agriculture and
the Environment; The Geography of
Development and Underdevelopment;
Geography of Africa; and a senior seminar
in Comparative Environment and
Development Studies. His research focuses
on tropical agriculture, food security,
environment and development policy,
and Africa.
Kelly MacGregor, associate professor
and chair, joined the department in 2003.
She earned her PhD from the University
of California–Santa Cruz, where she
studied glacial geomorphology. She
regularly conducts fieldwork in Montana,
British Columbia and Minnesota.
See Selected Works
John Craddock '80, professor, came to
Macalester in 1989 from the University
of Michigan, where he obtained his
PhD. He is a structural geologist and his
research interests include the mechanics
of mountain belt formation, rock strain
analysis, the Keweenawan rift, and
Antarctic geology.
See Selected Works
Raymond Rogers,professor, received
his PhD from the University of Chicago
in 1995 and came to Macalester in 1997.
He studies the stratigraphy, sedimentology,
and taphonomy of fossil-rich rocks, with
field areas in Montana and Madagascar.
See Selected Works
Kristi Curry Rogers, assistant
professor, received her PhD from Stony
Brook University in 2001 and came to
Macalester in 2008. She is a vertebrate
paleontologist specializing in the largest
of all dinosaurs, the sauropods. She is
also an assistant professor in the Biology
See Selected Works
Karl Wirth, associate professor, came
to Macalester in 1990 from Cornell
University, where he earned his PhD. He
is an igneous petrologist with research
interests that focus on the origin of
igneous rocks and the chemical evolution
of the Earth's crust.
See Selected Works
German Studies
Linda Schulte-Sasse, DeWitt Wallace
Professor and chair, teaches 18th- and
20th-century literature and specializes in
film and cultural studies. She has written
widely on German and American cinema
and political discourses. In 1996 Duke
University Press published her book on
Nazi cinema, Entertaining the Third Reich.
See Selected Works
Brigetta Abel, visiting assistant professor,
has research and teaching interests focused
primarily on 20th-century film, literature,
and culture, with emphasis on exile
history and literature, and German and
American feminisms. She is also interested
in the use of educational technology in
both language and culture classes.
Rachael Huener, visiting assistant
professor, teaches late 19th- and early
20th-century literature and culture, and
specializes in media studies. She has been
active in the areas of computer-assisted
language learning and German cultural
studies, and she researches pre-World
War I German advertising.
Kiarina Kordela, professor, writes
on and teaches critical theory and the
relationships among philosophy, literature,
psychoanalysis, social and political theory,
cultural studies, and ideology. She has
published numerous articles in academic
journals, as well as the book Surplus:
Spinoza, Lacan (SUNY Press, 2007) and
the co-edited collection of essays Freedom
and Confinement in Modernity: Kafka's
Cages (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011).
See Selected Works
David Martyn, professor, teaches 18thand
19th-century German literature
and cultural studies. He has published
numerous articles on German and French
literature and philosophy of the romantic
period and on literary theory. His book,
Sublime Failures: The Ethics of Kant and
Sade, was published in 2003 by Wayne
State University Press.
See Selected Works
Gisela Peters, instructor, teaches
upper-level grammar and conversation composition
courses, as well as courses
on media and culture. She specializes
in cultural studies and foreign language
Hispanic and Latin American Studies
Margaret (Molly) Olsen, associate
professor and chair, specializes in Trans-
Atlantic literatures of the 16th and 17th
centuries, as well as Afro-Caribbean texts
of the colonial and contemporary periods.
See Selected Works
Susana Blanco-Iglesias is a visiting
instructor from Bilbao, Spain. Her
research focuses on Spanish language
acquisition, with an interest in
sociolinguistics, dialectology, and language
contact issues (Spanish/English in the U.S.
and Basque/Spanish).
See Selected Works
Antonio Dorca, professor, is from
Barcelona, Spain. His interests include
peninsular prose fiction, modern Catalán
literature, Spanish intellectual history, and
critical theory and narrative techniques.
See Selected Works
Galo Gonzalez, professor, is from Quito,
Ecuador. He teaches and researches
primarily 20th-century Latin American
literatures and cultures, especially the
literature of social protest movements,
the study of race relations in Latin
American narrative fiction, and the study
of Hispanic/Latino literature and culture
in the U.S.
See Selected Works
Cynthia Kauffeld, assistant professor,
teaches Hispanic linguistics. Her interests
include Spanish and Latin American
dialectology, phonology, historical
linguistics, and paleography. Her current
research focuses on documents relating to
the settlement of New Mexico during the
colonial period.
See Selected Works
Teresa Mesa, senior lecturer,
from Granada, Spain, specializes in
contemporary Latin American literature,
especially women's writing, subaltern
studies with an emphasis on U.S. Latino
and Latin American testimonial and
cultural production, feminist theory, and
research ethics.
Alicia Muñoz, assistant professor, teaches
20th-century Latin American literature
and U.S. Latino Studies. Her research is
on representations of women who kill
in Latin American literature and popular
culture, and articulations of urban space in
Latino literature. Areas of interest include
border studies, the Latino immigrant
experience, and crime fiction.
See Selected Works
J. Ernesto Ortiz-Díaz, assistant
professor, specializes in representations
of nature in modern Latin American
literature. He also studies contemporary
historical phenomena that affect
the region, such as drug trafficking,
revolutionary or activist movements, and
environmental activism.
Rosa Rull Montoya, visiting assistant
professor from Barcelona, Spain, teaches
language and peninsular literature and
culture. Her research focuses on women
writers in 20th-century Spain, and
contemporary Spanish writers and film.
Lynn M. Hudson, associate professor,
teaches courses on slavery and abolition in
the United States, western history, social
movements, and the history of gender
and sexuality. She specializes in African
American history and U.S. women's
history. Her recent research investigates
legal, cultural, and social manifestations of
Jim Crow discrimination in California in
the 19th and early 20th centuries.
See Selected Works
Ernesto Capello, associate professor,
teaches courses on Latin American
cultural and social history, comparative
urban history, and transnationalism. He
has written a book on the impact of early
20th-century constructions of collective
memory on the spatial and social map of
his hometown of Quito, Ecuador.
See Selected Works
Jamie Monson, professor and chair,
teaches courses on African history and on
the history of China-Africa relations. She
is currently completing a book and film
project on China's Cold War engagement
with Africa, and is researching a second
project on African women's diplomatic
visits to China in the 1960s. She has
broader interests in eastern and southern
African history; African environmental
history; Maji Maji War; and memory and
narrative in African history.
See Selected Works
Yue-him Tam, professor, researches
modern Japanese intellectual history
and Sino-Japanese relations. He teaches
modern and traditional periods of China
and Japan, East Asian civilizations, and war
crime and memory in contemporary East
Asia. He holds visiting professorships in
China, Japan, and the United States.
See Selected Works
Karin Vélez, assistant professor, teaches
courses on world history, popular religion,
and comparative Atlantic empires. Her
research and teaching interests also
include first contact at frontier zones, the
spread of religion, transoceanic exchange,
and the communal formulation of myth.
Peter Weisensel, professor, specializes
in modern Russian history. He wrote
two monographs on Russia in the 19th
century and is at work on another about
Central Asia through Russian eyes. In
addition to courses in Russian/Soviet
history and film in the USSR, he teaches
courses in modern German history, the
history and philosophy of socialism, and
survey courses on Europe.
See Selected Works
Chris Wells, associate professor, is
an environmental historian whose
research focuses on 20th-century U.S.
environmental history. He combines the
perspectives of environmental history,
intellectual and cultural history, and the
history of technology to examine the
history of human interactions with the
natural world.
International Studies
David Chioni Moore, associate
professor of international studies and
English, focuses on the literatures and
cultures of the black Atlantic world,
with interests in both Africa and African
America. He maintains allied interests
in postcoloniality, the post-Soviet world,
and globalization. He has published a
score of articles and four dozen reviews
in journals such as Transition, Diaspora,
PMLA, Frontiers, Genre, Research in African
Literatures, and Callaloo.
See Selected Works
Zeynep Gürsel's scholarship addresses imagination and mediation through material forms: how ideas emerge in and through material worlds, circulate, and generate other ideas and forms. How do individuals imagine the worlds in which they live and how do these "ways of world making" change alongside or in opposition to innovations in technology and the emergence of new narrative forms in a range of media?
Nadya Nedelsky, associate professor
and chair, is a specialist in the areas
of human and minority rights,
comparative nationalisms, and transitional
justice. She has authored multiple
essays on comparative Czech and
Slovak nationalisms, and is leading a
multinational, multi-scholar Cambridge
University Press research project on
transitional justice. Her book on Central
European nationalisms, Defining the
Sovereign Community: The Czech and Slovak
Republics, was recently published by the
University of Pennsylvania Press.
See Selected Works
James von Geldern, professor of
international studies and of Russian
studies, holds a PhD from Brown
University and a JD from the University
of Minnesota Law School. As a Russianist,
he is a widely published author on
Soviet mass and popular culture and,
more broadly, a cultural historian. As a
legal scholar and practitioner, his work
focuses on international codes of conduct,
immigration, and transborder rights. His
courses include focused offerings on the
European Union as well as the post-
Soviet sphere.
See Selected Works
Ahmed Samatar, James Wallace
Professor of International Studies, is
the author and editor of five books
including Socialist Somalia: Rhetoric and
Reality; The Somali Challenge: From
Catastrophe to Renewal?; African Studies and
Undergraduate Education; and The State in
Africa: Reconsiderations, as well as several
dozen scholarly articles. He is a member
of the editorial board of the International
Studies Review and editor of Macalester
International and Bildhaan: An International
Journal of Somali Studies. His current
research is on two tracks: leadership
in Africa, and Muslims in the age of
John Haiman, professor and chair, has
done research on syntactic change in
Germanic languages, the grammar of
Hua (Papua New Guinea) and Khmer
(Cambodia), iconicity in syntax, and
the Rhaeto-Romance languages of
Switzerland and Italy. He was awarded
a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1989 for
the study of sarcasm. His latest book, a
grammar of Cambodian, was published
in 2011.
See Selected Works
Christina Esposito, assistant professor,
is a specialist in acoustic and articulatory
phonetics. She has done fieldwork on
Zapotec, a language of Southern Mexico.
See Selected Works
Karen Saxe (PhD, University of Oregon)
is department chair and teaches all calculus
and analysis courses. She is especially
interested in operator theory, functional
analysis, the mathematics of elections and
voting, and the history of mathematics.
See Selected Works
Andrew Beveridge (PhD, Yale
University) is interested in the
intersection of combinatorics and
probability. He studies random walks,
random graphs, and their applications to
real-world networks, such as the Internet
and ad-hoc wireless networks.
See Selected Works
David Bressoud (PhD, Temple
University) is past president of the
Mathematical Association of America,
author of six textbooks in number
theory, combinatorics, vector calculus,
and analysis, and of many research and
expository articles in mathematics. He is
particularly interested in using the history
of mathematics to motivate and illuminate
its important ideas.
See Selected Works
Daniel Flath (PhD, Harvard University)
has research and teaching experience
ranging from algebra to applications,
with research expertise in group
representations, and often engages in
collaborative projects. A permanent
interest in curricular reform has led him
to collaborate in the writing of several
popular calculus textbooks.
See Selected Works
Tom Halverson (PhD, University of
Wisconsin–Madison) teaches courses in
linear and abstract algebra, discrete math,
and calculus. His research on interactions
between algebra and combinatorics is
often done in collaboration with others—
including students—and is sponsored by
the National Science Foundation.
See Selected Works
Danny Kaplan (PhD, Harvard
University) coordinates the Applied Math
and Statistics major. He comes from a
background in biomedical engineering.
He's the author of several textbooks on
scientific computing, statistical modeling,
and nonlinear dynamics.
See Selected Works
Chad Topaz (PhD, Northwestern
University) uses applied mathematical
tools to study the spontaneous
emergence of patterns in biological
swarms, chemical reactions, and other
natural systems. He advises students on
theoretical and experimental research
projects, and teaches a variety of courses
in mathematical modeling, differential
equations, and calculus.
See Selected Works
Stan Wagon (PhD, Dartmouth College)
is most interested in the use of computers
to enhance our understanding of
mathematics and science. He has authored
11 books, five of them about the software
system Mathematica, which he uses in all
his courses.
See Selected Works
David Shuman (PhD, University of Michigan) focuses on signal processing and stochastic control. He will support interdisciplinary work between the fields of the Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science Department and will strengthen the department's connections to Economics and Physics.
Media and Cultural Studies
Morgan Adamson, assistant professor, received her PhD from the Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature Program at the University of Minnesota in 2011, and was an ACLS New Faculty Fellow at Duke University in 2012-2013. Her teaching interests include film and media theory, documentary and avant-garde cinema, critical theory and cultural studies, film and video production, and critical political economy. Her research focuses on the intersections of financial capitalism and culture, particularly visual culture.
Leola Johnson, associate professor and
chair, teaches courses on television, the
press, and other mass media as social and
cultural institutions. Her most recent
publication, in the spring 2010 issue of
the International Journal of Communication,
is "Barack Obama's Body and the Body
Politic." She is currently editing an
essay about representations of Michelle
Obama's body, based on a paper she
presented at the American Studies
Association conference in November
See Selected Works
John Kim, assistant professor, came to
Macalester after teaching at the University
of San Francisco, Stanford University,
and Williams College. He is a theorist
and practitioner of new media who
has exhibited interactive installations at
museums and galleries across the country.
Before returning to teaching, he also
worked as a programmer and designer
at a handful of Internet startups.
See Selected Works
Howard Sinker, a Macalester graduate,
teaches news reporting. He has authored
a chapter in the textbook Real Sports
Reporting and has run workshops for
journalists with the DART Center for
Journalism and Trauma and the Poynter
Institute's National Writers Workshops.
Mark Mazullo, professor and chair, is
a musicologist and pianist. His writing
on wide-ranging subjects has appeared
in The Yale Review, The Musical Quarterly,
American Music, Popular Music, and other
publications. His book Shostakovich's
Preludes and Fugues: Contexts, Style,
Performance was published by Yale
University Press in 2010. Mazullo appears
regularly as a pianist in solo, chamber,
and concerto settings in the Twin Cities.
He teaches piano as well as courses in
the history of Western art music and
American popular music.
See Selected Works
Randall Bauer, assistant professor, teaches music theory, ear training, and composition, as well as courses on jazz and improvisation. He holds a PhD from Princeton University, where he completed a dissertation on Keith Jarrett. Bauer is a recognized composer in both Western classical and jazz idioms.
Victoria Malawey, assistant professor,
holds a PhD in music theory from Indiana
University. Her research interests include
analysis of contemporary pop-rock
music, the music of Björk, music theory
pedagogy, and gender studies. She has
given papers at regional and international
conferences on musical borrowing in
the music of Paul Simon and Bob Dylan;
embodiment and gender in teaching
aural skills; and temporal effects in Björk's
Medúlla. She teaches music theory, ear
training, and topics courses.
Mark Mandarano, assistant professor, is the conductor of the Macalester Orchestra and director of instrumental music. He has conducted numerous orchestras across the U.S. and abroad and has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center. He has conducted premieres by composers such as John Corigliano, Melinda Wagner, and Karel Husa, and has conducted recordings for Bridge Records and Arabesque Recordings. He holds degrees from the Peabody Institute and Cornell University.
Michael McGaghie, assistant professor, conducts the Macalester Concert Choir and Highland Camerata. He holds a DMA in choral conducting from Boston University. His dissertation on Minnesotan composer Dominick Argento received the 2010 Julius Herford Prize from the American Choral Directors Association. Prior to his appointment at Macalester he taught and conducted ensembles at The Boston Conservatory and Harvard University.
Chuen-Fung Wong, associate professor,
was a Chancellor's Fellow at UCLA,
where his dissertation focused on the
music and culture of the Uyghur people
of northwest China. He teaches courses
in ethnomusicology and world music
topics. Wong recently received a highly
competitive fellowship from the American
Council of Learned Societies to complete
his book on Uyghur music.
See Selected Works
Martin Gunderson, DeWitt Wallace
Professor of Philosophy and chair,
specializes in ethics. He is also interested
in philosophy of law and bioethics. Within
these areas he is especially interested in
right-to-die issues, civil liberties, and
human rights. He is co-author of AIDS:
Testing and Privacy and has published
numerous articles in the areas of bioethics
and ethics.
See Selected Works
Janet Folina, professor, specializes in
the philosophy of mathematics. She also
works on the philosophy of science and
on the epistemological foundations of
science. She is the author of Poincaré and
the Philosophy of Mathematics. Her current
research interests include the philosophy
of mathematics of the 19th and 20th
centuries, and the concept of proof in
See Selected Works
Geoffrey Gorham, associate professor,
specializes in the history of philosophy,
especially the intersection of philosophy
and science in the 17th century in
figures such as Descartes, Newton, and
Locke. He is also interested in problems
in contemporary metaphysics and
philosophy of science, such as space
and time, freedom and causality. He has
published numerous articles, such as
"How Newton Solved the Mind-Body
Problem," History of Philosophy Quarterly,
2011. He recently published Philosophy of
Science: A Beginner's Guide (2009).
See Selected Works
Joy Laine, adjunct professor, specializes
in the philosophy of mind and language.
Her work in these areas encompasses
both Western and Indian philosophical
traditions. She has published articles in
the areas of personal identity and Indian
philosophy, and has written entries for
the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
on topics in Indian philosophy. She is
currently working on a book, Philosophical
Persons, in which she examines the
development of philosophical theories of
personal identity and how such theories
relate to broader cultural concerns.
See Selected Works
Diane Michelfelder, professor and
former provost and dean of the faculty at
Macalester, specializes in the European
philosophical tradition, particularly
existentialism and hermeneutics, as well
as in the philosophy of technology. Her
publications include the influential, coedited
work Dialogue and Deconstruction:
The Gadamer-Derrida Encounter, as well
as numerous articles and book chapters.
In her current research, she focuses on
ethical issues emerging from information
and communication technologies. She is
an editor of Techné: Research in Philosophy
and Technology and a past president of the
International Society for Philosophy
and Technology.
See Selected Works
William Wilcox, visiting associate
professor, specializes in philosophy of
law, political philosophy, and ethics.
His current research interest is political
philosophy, moral theory, applied ethics,
philosophy and psychiatry, and philosophy
of law.
Physics and Astronomy
Tonnis ter Veldhuis, associate professor
and chair, is a theoretical elementary
particle physicist. He investigates the basic
interactions between the fundamental
constituents of matter. Macalester
undergraduate students frequently work
with him on research projects with the
aim to use data produced at the Large
Hadron Collider and other experimental
facilities to test and constrain extensions
of the standard model of elementary
particle physics.
See Selected Works
John Cannon, assistant professor, is an
observational astronomer with a focus on
nearby, low-mass galaxies. Using data from
a variety of ground-based (e.g., the Jansky
Very Large Array) and space-based (e.g.,
the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer
Space Telescope) observatories, he works
with students to understand the nature
and evolution of these galaxies in the local
See Selected Works
James Doyle, professor, is an
experimentalist in plasma and materials
physics with an emphasis on materials
used in thin film solar cells. Students
are regular participants in his studies
of reactive sputtering, computer
modeling of plasma systems, plasmaenhanced
chemical vapor deposition, and
See Selected Works
Sung Kyu Kim, professor, is the author
of Physics: The Fabric of Reality and
coauthor of Modern Physics for Scientists
and Engineers. He directs the Macalester
Summer Physics Institute for pre-medical
students. He is the recipient of the 1993
Burlington Northern Excellence in
Teaching Award.
See Selected Works
James Heyman, professor, is interested
in experimental condensed matter
physics and ultrafast laser spectroscopy.
Students regularly collaborate with him
in his research on ultrafast processes in
semiconductors and the generation of
picosecond pulses of electromagnetic
See Selected Works
Political Science
Julie Dolan, associate professor, teaches
courses on American politics, legislative
politics, women and politics and political
participation. Her research focuses on
public administration, representative
bureaucracy, and women in politics.
See Selected Works
Franklin Adler, G. Theodore Mitau
Professor, is interested in political and
social theory and the comparative politics
of Europe.
See Selected Works
David Blaney, James Wallace Professor,
teaches courses on international
politics, global political economy, and
development. His research centers on the
political theory and political economy of
international relations.
See Selected Works
Adrienne Christiansen, associate
professor, teaches courses on political
communication, campaign rhetoric, and
the rhetoric of social movements. She
has published work on AIDS activists,
contemporary conservatism, and the
Persian Gulf War.
Paul Dosh, associate professor, teaches
courses on comparative politics and Latin
America. He recently published a book
about urban social movements in the
shantytowns of Peru and Ecuador.
See Selected Works
Zornitsa Keremidchieva, visiting
professor, teaches courses in political
communication and feminist political
theory. Her published scholarship
concerns relationships between women's
status, immigration politics, and
Andrew Latham, professor and chair,
teaches courses on international politics,
comparative foreign policy, international
security and medieval political thought.
His research is currently focused on late
medieval international relations and the
historical evolution of sovereignty.
See Selected Works
Lesley Lavery, associate professor, teaches courses on U.S. politics and politics and policymaking. Research interests include public and social policy, education policy, political behavior and civic participation.
Patrick Schmidt, associate professor,
teaches courses on American politics
and law. His research focuses on lawyers
in America, judicial politics, and the
Supreme Court. He is currently writing
a book on disclosure laws in the United
See Selected Works
Wendy Weber, visiting instructor, teaches
courses on global governance, gender and
global politics, and humanitarianism. Her
research focuses on changing patterns
of governance in the contemporary era,
especially in the areas of international law
and human rights.
See Selected Works
Michael Zis, visiting instructor, teaches
American politics, public policy, and
health policy. His research focuses on
health care and public policy.
Brooke Lea, professor and chair,
teaches courses in cognitive psychology,
psychology of language, and research
methods and statistics. He specializes
in human cognition. His research
interests include theories of discourse
comprehension, models of human logical
competence, and the interaction between
literary devices and memory.
See Selected Works
Kendrick Brown, associate professor,
teaches courses on social psychology,
understanding and confronting racism,
psychology of multiculturalism, and
research methods and statistics. His
research interests focus on intergroup
contact experiences of people of color,
racial prejudice and racism, and the
psychological consequences of perceiving
oneself to be the target of discrimination.
E. Darcy Burgund, assistant professor,
teaches courses on cognitive neuroscience,
neuroimaging techniques, and research
methods. Her research specializes in highlevel
visual cognition and memory, with a
particular focus on object recognition and
See Selected Works
Steve Guglielmo, assistant professor, teaches courses exploring core social psychological questions: how do people interpret negative and positive behavior, how do they make inferences about others' mental states, and how do these various assessments shape judgments of right and wrong.
Joan Ostrove, associate professor, teaches
courses in psychology of gender, health
psychology, personality and history of
psychology. Her research concerns
the connections between individual
psychology and social structure.
See Selected Works
Jaine Strauss, professor, teaches courses
in clinical and community psychology.
She studies gender and mental health
with a particular focus on body image,
eating concerns, and depression. Her
recent research focuses on women's
internalization of body ideals throughout
the lifespan.
See Selected Works
Eric Wiertelak, DeWitt Wallace
Professor of Psychology, teaches courses
in behavioral neuroscience, drugs and
society, and sensation and perception. He
conducts behavioral and physiological
research to investigate the role of
environmental stressors and learning in
neurophysiological response mechanisms
such as pain modulation.
See Selected Works
Religious Studies
James Laine, Arnold C. Lowe Professor
and chair, specializes in the religions of
South Asia and Islam. He works with the
study abroad program in India sponsored
by the Associated Colleges of the Midwest
and continues to research Hindu-Muslim
relations in 17th-century India.
See Selected Works
Paula Cooey, Margaret W. Harmon
Professor of Christian Theology and
Culture, teaches courses on the history
of Christian traditions, comparative
ethics, theory and method, religion and
environmental ethics, and religion and
globalization. Her scholarly expertise
lies at the intersection of history of
Christian thought, theory of religion, and
gender studies. She is currently working
on a project tentatively titled "Getting
Religion: The Ethics of the Study of
See Selected Works
Erik Davis, assistant professor, teaches courses on Buddhism, Asian religions, and concepts in theory of religion. His research focuses on Buddhism and religion in Cambodia; thematically, he focuses on funerals, memory, ritual, and the connection between agriculture and the religious imagination.
Susanna Drake, assistant professor, offers courses in biblical studies and early Christian history. Special interests include early Christian and Jewish relations, the construction of orthodoxy and heresy, and gender studies.
Brett Wilson, assistant professor,
specializes in Islamic Studies, focusing on
intellectual transformations, the Qur'an,
and Sufism (Islamic mysticism in modern
Turkey), the Ottoman Empire, and Egypt.
He has published several academic articles
and is completing a book on the cultural
politics and history of translating the
Qur'an into Turkish.
See Selected Works
Russian Studies
James von Geldern, professor and chair, is an expert on Soviet mass culture and society. He has published a monograph, Bolshevik Festivals, 1917–1920, and two anthologies, Mass Culture in Soviet Russia and Entertaining Tsarist Russia. His latest
project is Seventeen Moments in Soviet History, a digital sourcebook on Soviet history accessible at soviethistory.org.
See Selected Works
Julia Bekman Chadaga, assistant professor, works on Russian visual art, architecture, film, and literature from the 18th century to the present day. She has published articles on the
relationship between material culture and the law; illusion and ideology in Soviet subterranean spaces; and the political uses of spectacle. She is working on a book on creativity and crime in Russian culture.
See Selected Works
Khaldoun Samman, associate professor,
specializes in world historical-comparative
sociology, urban sociology, globalization,
the sociology of religion, and classical
and modern sociological theory. His
latest book is The Clash of Modernities:
The Islamist Challenge to Jewish, Turkish and
Arab Nationalism. His research explores
three modes of identities in the Middle
East: occidentalizing, modernizing,
and orientalizing nationalist identities.
Drawing comparisons between Turkey,
Israel, and the Arab World, his research
surveys the origins of the present strife
in the region and suggests alternative
strategies that may help peacefully resolve
conflicts in the Middle East.
See Selected Works
Terry Boychuk, associate professor,
specializes in comparative-historical
sociology, social policies, and nonprofit
organizations. His latest publication, The
Making and Meaning of Hospital Policy
in the United States and Canada, is a
comparative study of why movements to
establish national health insurance failed
in the United States and succeeded in
Canada. More recently, he has devoted
his attention to a study of the historical
origins of the legal frameworks that define
the nature and scope of the charitable
nonprofit sector in the United Kingdom,
the United States, and the British
See Selected Works
Mahnaz Kousha, professor, specializes
in the sociology of race, ethnicity, and
immigration, and sociology of the family.
Her latest book, Voices from Iran: The
Changing Lives of Iranian Women, explores
intimate family relationships between
parents and daughters within the context
of broader sociocultural changes during
the last three to four decades. Her recent
publication is a translation of the novel
My Bird, by Fariba Vafi, one of the
most acclaimed contemporary Iranian
writers. Her current work explores issues
regarding men's gender roles, and family
relationships, and she is one of the cofounders
of the journal Critique: Critical
Studies of the Middle East.
See Selected Works
Erik Larson, associate professor and
chair, specializes in economic sociology,
political sociology, and the sociology of
law. His research focuses on the emergence
and transformation of legal, economic,
and political institutions in relation to
global and national developments. For this
research, he has traveled to Fiji, Ghana,
Iceland, Switzerland, Japan, China, and
Taiwan. Three of his projects have received
funding from the National Science
Foundation. His publications include
"Institutionalizing Legal Consciousness:
Regulation and the Embedding of
Market Participants in the Securities
Industry in Ghana and Fiji" in the
Law & Society Review and "Emerging
Indigenous Governance: Ainu Rights at
the Intersection of Global Norms and
Domestic Institutions" in Alternatives:
Global, Local, Political (co-authored with
two Macalester students).
See Selected Works
Theatre and Dance
Beth Cleary, associate professor, chair
and director, teaches at the intersection of
theatre history, performance theory, and
playmaking. During the 2011–12 season,
she directed the U.S. premiere of Naomi
Wallace's The Inland Sea at Macalester,
with an all-student cast.
See Selected Works
Thomas C. Barrett technical director and adjunct professor of design, teaches Technical Theatre and Makeup Design and Application. He is a professional scenic designer in the Twin Cities, working regularly at Mixed Blood and Stages Theatre Company among others.
Wynn Fricke, director of the dance program, is a prominent member of the Twin Cities dance community, as a choreographer, dancer, director, and teacher. At Macalester, she choreographs new work for the concerts and teaches Experiential Anatomy and Cultures of Dance.
Becky Heist, director of the dance
program, teaches Modern Technique and
Dance Composition, and in 2012 piloted
a new course, Dance for the Camera,
based on her current passion. Her new
dance film, The Klatch, follows five
women who continue to dance in their
golden years.
See Selected Works
Dan Keyser, associate professor and
resident designer, has designed over 100
shows at Macalester. A professional scenic
and lighting designer, Dan teaches several
levels of design courses, and designs for
both theatre and dance productions.
See Selected Works
Lara D. Nielsen, assistant professor,
teaches critical theory in performance
and theater studies, with an emphasis
on the transnational Americas; gender
and feminist criticism; and orality,
experimental ethnography, and
multimedia documentary methodologies.
See Selected Works
Harry Waters, Jr., associate professor,
teaches Acting Theory and Performance
I and Performance II, as well as
Community-Based Theater, Hip Hop
Performance, and African American
Theater. In 2011, Harry directed Waiting
for Giovanni, a dream play about James
Baldwin by Jewelle Gomez, in San
See Selected Works
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Lin Aanonsen, chair of WGSS and O.T.
Walter Professor of Biology, focuses her
research on spinal mechanisms by which
chronic pain is transmitted and induced.
She involves students in every aspect of
her research. Aanonsen teaches courses
in cell biology, neurobiology, human
physiology, and pharmacology. She
chairs the Health Professions Advisory
Committee and was awarded the 2003
Macalester Teaching Award.
Corie Hammers, assistant professor in
WGSS, has published essays in a variety
of journals. Her main research project
has been one of examining lesbian/queer
public sexual cultures and sexual spaces
in Canada and the U.S. She is working
on a new project exploring the politics of
(non)belonging among African American
women within the LGBT community
and their networking practices. Her
core courses include Race, Sex and
Work in the Global Economy; Feminist/
Queer Theories and Methodologies; and
Sexuality, Race and Nation: Introduction
to LGBT Studies.
See Selected Works
Sonita Sarker, professor in WGSS and
the English department, co-edited Trans-
Status Subjects: Gender in the Globalization
of South and Southeast Asia (2002) and
is sole editor of Sustainable Feminisms (2007). She is currently writing a book
on transnational receptions of fascism
and empire by women writers of the
1920s and 1930s. She has published
essays on Shashi Deshpande, Rokeya
Sakhawat Hossain, and Virginia Woolf
in publications by The Feminist Press,
in Archiv Orientalni, and in the National
Women's Studies Association Journal,
Modernism/Modernity, and other journals.
She is the recipient of awards from the
Ford, Mellon, Bush, Hewlett, and Wallace
foundations. She offers courses in feminist
postmodern and postcolonial theories,
20th- and 21st-century transnational
comparative women's writing, and
sociopolitical activism.
See Selected Works


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