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I am dedicating this issue of Notes from the Dean to the new faculty who will be joining us this fall! As you’ll see below, we have included a quick introduction to each new member, including the department they’ll join and the expertise they bring. The College is tremendously fortunate to welcome 12 of 13 new tenure-track faculty and two lecturers to our community this coming year (one tenure-track faculty will join us in 2022). In addition, assistant professors Melissa Brown (Communication) and Eric Mosinger (Political Science) who were hired last year will be starting with us this fall. They are all remarkable in their talents and accomplishments, as you will quickly learn when you meet them. Relatively few colleges and universities were hiring this past year, so I am doubly grateful that we were among those that could recruit, and that we did so very successfully. A great deal of work goes into making such successful faculty appointments. My deepest gratitude to the departments, who crafted such thoughtful job announcements, recruited stellar candidates and shepherded them through the interview process – all remotely! I am eagerly anticipating the fall, when I expect to greet this new faculty cohort in person... come to think of it, I can't wait to meet many of you in person as well! Until then, enjoy reading the descriptions below. Daniel New Associate Professor
19th and 20th Century Race Relations; Critical Race Theory; Comparative histories of the African-American and Native American peoples and the ways in which these histories interact with American culture and colonialism.
New Assistant Professors
Intersections of urban change and gentrification, place-based immigration enforcement, contested spaces, and religious practice.
Political participation, public opinion, racial/ethnic politics, surveys and experiments, public sector programs.
Spanish Bi-/multilingualism, Codeswitching, Heritage Grammars, Morphosyntax of Gender, and Heritage & Second Language Teaching.
Literary fiction centered on Black girlhood, Black womanhood, mental health, and social justice; additional topics of interest include generational trauma, Black identity, African Diaspora writing, and the slave narrative genre.
Intersectionality theory, women of color organizing (and organizations), social reproduction and capital accumulation.
Ethics of technology and bioethics with special interests in pregnancy, reproductive technology and the use of artificial intelligence in health care.
Systematic Theology; Ecclesiology; Theological Anthropology; social issues and questions concerning embodiment.
African American Theatre, Black performance studies, Black feminist theory, popular culture, and Digital Humanities.
Hispanic linguistics, second language acquisition, study abroad, social network analysis, and language proficiency assessment.
Christian theology, East Asian literature, feminist/queer theories, postcolonial studies.
Disparities in mental health care access and utilization, Reduction in stigma barriers to care, Promotion of mental health and wellbeing in Latinx communities.
Literatures and cultures of Francophone Africa and the African diaspora, Migration Studies, Film and Media Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Transnationalism, Intersectionality.
New Lecturers
Studying genes that mediate the DNA damage response in cancer.
Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Feminist Theory.
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