New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2014-15
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Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2014-2015 Academic Year Department First name Last name Accounting Accounting Afro-American Studies Afro-American Studies American Studies Yoon Ju Robert Toussaint Traci Wendy Kang Whited Loiser Parker Bergoffen American Studies Leah Schmalzbauer Animal Behavior Kathryn Lord Anthropology & Sociology Architecture Amy Sandra Hall Litchfield Title Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Assistant Lecturer Assoc Prof of American Studies and Sociology Visiting Assistant Professor Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology Assistant Campus UMass Amherst UMass Amherst UMass Amherst UMass Amherst Amherst College Hampshire College Helen Hills Art Alexis Kuhr Art Alex Seggerman Art and the History of Art Magdalena Holdar STINT Fellow Amherst College Art History Christine Ho UMass Amherst Art History Sooa McCormick Assistant Visiting Assistant Professor Yan Astronomy Nicolas Cowan Astronomy Daryl Haggard History Philosophy/Social Studies Hampshire School of Cognitive Science Amherst College UMass Amherst Art Lei Blacks and the Law History of Black Women Additional areas of scholarly interest/specialization Amherst College Ruth and Clarence Kennedy Professor in Renaissance Studies Smith College Professor & Dept Chair UMass Amherst Five College Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow in Islamic Art Smith College Asian Studies Primary subfield within the discipline or department Hampshire College Painting & Sculpture Art History early modern Italian architectural history Painting & Drawing History of Art modern Egyptian art Visual Arts of East Asia Hampshire School of Humanity, Arts & Culture Modern/Contemporary Chinese Art Lecturer in Chinese Mt. Holyoke College Chinese Language Assistant Professor of Astronomy Amherst College Assistant Professor of Astronomy Amherst College Methods of second language acquisition, teacher training, Chinese language pedagogy, pedagogical grammar, speaking skills Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2014-2015 Academic Year Department First name Last name Astronomy Anne Jaskot Astronomy Biochemistry & Molec. Biology Stella Offner Sergey Biological Sciences Title Campus Five College Astronomy Education and Research Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer Smith College UMass Amherst Primary subfield within the discipline or department Observational Techniques, Astronomy Research Methods, Exploring Telescopes star formations using using hydrodynamic simulations Savinov Assistant Professor Extension Assoc. Professor A UMass Amherst Lisa Mangiamele Assistant Professor Smith College Biological Sciences Biology Timothy Alexander Miles Gerson Visiting Lecturer in Biochemistry Assistant Professor Mt. Holyoke College Biochemistry UMass Amherst Physiological Ecology Biology Chemistry Andrew Berke Chemistry Kyle Broaders Chemistry Classics Classics College of Natural Science Academic Programs College of Natural Science Academic Programs Communication Communication Communication Disorders Communication Disorders Debra Virginia Cecelia Sondak Closs Feldman Assistant Professor Assistant Professor of Chemistry Visiting Lecturer in Chemistry Assistant Lecturer Evan Ross Erika Soo Young Alena Saalau-Rojas Bae Vasilyeva Kelley Richardson Lisa Sommers Computer Science James Glenn Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science Computer Science Amir Houmansadr Assistant Professor Smith College small molecule synthesis Animal Physiology/Systems Neurobiology Physical Chemistry Mt. Holyoke College Galaxy evolution and the ISM in starburst galaxies gas dynamics and understanding star formations structural and computational biology systems neuroscience/neuroanatomy Education, social networks, cultural sociology, inequality, and popular statistics Zoology dynamics and spectroscopy of gasphase atom-molecule reactions Studies living cells as materials Amherst College UMass Amherst UMass Amherst Ancient Rome/Latin Lecturer UMass Amherst enivronmental conservation Extension Asst. Professor A Assistant Professor Assistant Professor UMass Amherst UMass Amherst UMass Amherst plant pathology Media Studies Social Interaction UMass Amherst Adult Neurogenic Disorders Clinical Supervision & Adult Neurogenic Disorders UMass Amherst Additional areas of scholarly interest/specialization Roman Art & Archaeology Archaeology & Ancient World microbiology Amherst College UMass Amherst Network security, privacy ant anonymity, information hiding Systems Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2014-2015 Academic Year Department Computer Science Computer Science Computer Science First name Subhransu Brendan Heather Last name Maji O'Connor Pon-Barry Computer Science Barna Saha Computer Science Computer Science (School of) Computer Science (School of) Computer Science (School of) Computer Science (School of) Computer Science (School of) Creative Writing / African American Studies Crystal Title Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Campus UMass Amherst UMass Amherst Primary subfield within the discipline Additional areas of scholarly or department interest/specialization computer vision, machine learning, and humas-computer interactions Artificial Intelligence Symbolic systems Natural language procesing Spoken language, dialogue, computational linguistics, personalized learning, educational technology, artifical intelligence, machine learning, cognitive science Assistant Professor of Computer Science Mt. Holyoke College UMass Amherst algorithm design and analysis, discrete optimization, and databases and data management Theory Valentine Assistant Professor Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science Amherst College Gordon Anderson Lecturer UMass Amherst Software Engineering Amir Houmansadr Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Systems Subhransu Maji Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Artificial Intelligence Brendan O'Connor Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Natural Language Processing Barna Saha Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Theory John Murillo Hampshire College Hampshire School of Interdisciplinary Arts Dance East Asian Languages and Literatures Jennifer Nugent Haeng-Ja Chung Assistant Professor Visiting Artist in Dance Visiting Assistant Professor Economics Economics James Ina Ganguli Heintz Prokopovych Andrew Glyn Prof. of Economics UMass Amherst Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Economics Peter Spiegler Economics Caroline Theoharides Modern, Improvisation, Jazz, Ballet, Tap Mt. Holyoke College Smith College Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Assistant Professor of Economics Amherst College Japanese language and literature Macroeconomics Gender Ecomonics Mathematical & Quantitative Methodology in Economics Socio-Cultural Anthropology Global employment issues, Financial systems and Gendermacroeconomics Nexus Feminist Economics Feminist Economics Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2014-2015 Academic Year Department First name Last name Title Campus Primary subfield within the discipline or department Additional areas of scholarly interest/specialization Migration, poverty, caste, inequality, slavery and bonded labor Economics Vamsicharan Vakulabharanam Associate Professor UMass Amherst Political Economy Engineering Luca Caracoglia Visiting Scholar UMass Amherst Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Mechanical Engineering Engineering Robert Daniello UMass Amherst Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Mechanical Engineering Engineering Chaitra Gopalappa Lecturer Honors Faculty & Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Systems Engineering Engineering Daniel Holcomb Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering Engineering Wang Lee Hua Jungwoo Visiting Scholar Asst Professor UMass Amherst UMass Amherst Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Chemical Engineering Engineering Jae-Hwang Lee Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Materials Engineering Engineering Peijin Liu Visiting Scholar UMass Amherst Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Mechanical Engineering Engineering Maureen Lynch Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Bioengineering Engineering Engineering Pellissier Sarah Lecturer Asst Professor UMass Amherst UMass Amherst Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Industrial Engineering Chemical Engineering Engineering Rene Perry Jianhua (Joshua) Yang Professor UMass Amherst Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering Xiong Zhiyong UMass Amherst Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Mechanical Engineering English English Nathaniel Mazen Brennan Naous English Susannah Richards Visiting Scholar Visiting Assistant Professor of English Assistant Visiting Lecturer in English English English Daniel Benigno Sack Sanchez-Eppler English Matthew Tierney English English English Language and Literature Amelia Caroline Worsley Yang Sheree Thomas Assistant Lecturer Visigint Assistant Professor of English Assistant Professor of English Assistant Lucille Geier Lakes Writer-in-Residence Amherst College UMass Amherst Personalized Health Monitoring Electronic Materials English Literature Mt. Holyoke College Educational Psychology UMass Amherst Amherst College Modern/Contemporary Drama Creative Writing/English, Theater/Drama Writing fiction and poetry Amherst College Amherst College UMass Amherst Smith College Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2014-2015 Academic Year Environmental Conservation Environmental Conservation Environmental Health Science Ezra Markowitz Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Primary subfield within the discipline Additional areas of scholarly or department interest/specialization Hampshire School of Humanity, Arts & Culture remote sensing, spatial modeling, citizen science computer simulation and experimental study of building energy optimal design of renewable energy systems sustems for building applications Environmental decisions and human behavior Krystal Pollitt Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Chemical Engineering Environmental Science and Policy Camille WashingtonOttombre Assistant Professor Mount Holyoke Fellow; Visiting Lecturer in Environmental Studies Smith College Environmental Integration Department Entrepreneurship Environmental Conservation First name Last name Title Campus Tamara Stenn Visiting Assistant Professor Lena Fletcher Lecturer UMass Amherst Ho-Sung Kim Lecturer UMass Amherst Environmental Studies Samuel Ndegeah Film and Video Film, Video, World Cinema Finance French & Italian Hope Tucker Branwen Stefan Stacy Okpako Platikanov Giufre French Studies Sahar Amer French Studies Oriane Morriet Gender Studies Geography/ Urban & Environmental Stina Soderling Michael Gonzales Assistant Professor Visiting Associate Professor Lecturer Lecturer William Allan Neilson Professor Ecole Normale Superieure Lecturer g Visiting Instructor in Gender Studies Visiting Assistant Professor Hampshire College Mt. Holyoke College Geography Hampshire School of Humanity, Arts Hampshire College & Culture Hampshire School of Critical Social Hampshire College Inquiry UMass Amherst UMass Amherst Air Pollution sustainability science; resilience; social-ecological systems; climate change; adaptation; governance; water resources; social capital; East Africa; Southern Africa The institutional structures and systems shaping the peri-urban environments in Sub-Saharan Africa. Romance Languages & Literatures Smith College Medieval French Literature Asian Studies Smith College French language theater and cinema studies q y sexuality studies, Interdisciplinary research methods, anarchist theory Mt. Holyoke College Women's and Gender Studies Hampshire School of Critical Social Hampshire College Inquiry Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2014-2015 Academic Year Department First name Last name Geology & Geography Persaram Batra Government Bozena Welborne History Jun Hee Cho History History History Catherine Jason Jennifer Chou Moralee Nye Title Visiting Lecturer in Geology Assistant Professor Visiting Assistant Professor of History Five College Fellow in History Assistant Lecturer Campus Primary subfield within the discipline or department Mt. Holyoke College Geology Smith College Amherst College Middle East politics Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies Amherst College UMass Amherst UMass Amherst International Relations Mahesh Patel Journalism Kathy Forde Journalism Greeley Kyle Lecturer Landscape Studies Linguistics Steven Alex Moga Drummond Assistant Professor Lecturer Smith College UMass Amherst Linguistics Management Management Sang-Im Birton Bogdan Lee-Kim Cowden Prokopovych Lecturer Lecturer Lecturer UMass Amherst UMass Amherst UMass Amherst Climate change, Earth system science the impact of foreign capital and Arab diaspora networks on institutional reform, norms diffusion, and social change in the Middle East and North Africa Law, Women's Studies/Sociology Cyrus Vance Visiting Lecturer in International Relations Mt. Holyoke College Chair, Assoc. Professor UMass Amherst Journalism History UMass Amherst Additional areas of scholarly interest/specialization Social policy, monitoring, program evaluation, economics, human rights, tai chi and zen Journalism Law, Ethics Broadcast Journalism Urban studies and planning city planning and urban environmental history, historic preservation, community development, and urban design politics Speech, Language & Cognition Phonetics, Lab Phonoloyg, Chinese Linguistics Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2014-2015 Academic Year Department First name Last name Mathematics & Statistics Andrew Bray Mathematics & Statistics Daniel Cuzzocreo Mathematics & Statistics Amanda Folsom Mathematics & Statistics Andrea Foulkes Title Campus Primary subfield within the discipline or department Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Mt. Holyoke College Statistics Statistics Visiting Assistant Dynamical systems, complex Professor Smith College dynamics Associate Professor of Mathematics Professor of Mathematics and Statistics Amherst College Mt. Holyoke College Statistics Statistical methods for biomedical applications Arithmetic Geometry, Modular Forms, Deformation Theory of Galois Representations Gamzon Visiting Lecturer in Mathematics Mt. Holyoke College Mathematics Mathematics & Statistics Nestor Guillen Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Mathematics & Statistics Ravi Kalpathy Mathematics & Statistics Joel Louwsma Mathematics & Statistics Valerie Pare Mathematics & Statistics Gwen Spencer Mathematics & Statistics Nathan Sunukjian Mathematics & Statistics Nathan Mathematics & Statistics Xiaofei Visiting Assistant Professor Model diagnostics, point processes, reproducibility, statistical computing Statistics Mathematics & Statistics Adam Visiting Assistant Professor Visiting Assistant Professor Additional areas of scholarly interest/specialization UMass Amherst partial differential equations Analysis probabilistic, combinatorial, and analytic techniques for the analysis of applied probability, Bayesian statistics, information theory algorithms Smith College Geometric Group Theory Low-dimensional topology Statistics Missing data techniques; multiple imputation; educational research; biostatistics; public health; statistical consulting Smith College Totz Assistant Professor Visiting Assistant Professor Visiting Assistant Professor Smith College UMass Amherst Wang Lecturer in Statistics Amherst College UMass Amherst Operations Research low dimensional topology, topological and smooth 4-manifolds Partial differential equations arising from Fluid Mechanics interdisciplinary research projects combining mathematics, computer science, and environmental studies harmonic analysis, asymptotic analysis Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2014-2015 Academic Year Department First name Last name Title Wen Visiting Assistant Professor Mathematics & Statistics Yaping Microbiology Mary Modern/Contemporary Dance Deborah A. Yang Palmore Visiting Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Music Music and Dance Maria Jonathan Music and Dance Mathematics & Statistics Jun Campus UMass Amherst Primary subfield within the discipline or department Additional areas of scholarly interest/specialization analytic number theory, automorphic forms and L-functions algebraic geometry Hampshire College Mendonca Hulting-Cohen Assistant Professor Joseph & Grace Valentine Visiting Associate Prof of Music Assistant representation theory, quantum groups, oriented cohomology theries in algebraic reometry algebraic topology medical microbiology Hampshire School of Humanity, Arts & Culture Amherst College UMass Amherst Saxophone Donald James Lecturer UMass Amherst Music and Dance Music and Dance Music and Dance Music and Dance Music and Dance Music and Dance Music and Dance Music and Dance Music and Dance Sara Leslie Joshua David Emiliano Andrew Marianna Dana Jennifer Jones Maietta Michal Mosher Ricciardi Ritchey Ritchey Schnitzer Smith UMass Amherst UMass Amherst UMass Amherst UMass Amherst UMass Amherst UMass Amherst UMass Amherst UMass Amherst UMass Amherst Music and Dance Music and Dance Matthew Johanna Westgate Yunker Natural Science Roosbelinda Cardenas Physical Education Heather Putnam Assistant Lecturer Assistant Lecturer Assistant Lecturer Assistant Lecturer Lecturer Assistant/Director Wind Studies Lecturer Visiting Assistant Professor Head Crew Coach; Lecturer in Physical Education Physics Kerstin Physics and Astronomy Keisuke Goffe Nordstrom Hasegawa UMass Amherst UMass Amherst Ethnomusicology, Jazz & Irish Folk Music Music Education, Instrumental Specialist French Horn Music History Music History UMass Amherst UMass Amherst Wind Director/Conductor Hampshire College Hampshire School of Natural Science Philosophy, Instrumental Music Ed Dance Music Performance Music Theory Musicology, Historical Musicology Film Studies Music History/Musicology Vocal Performance Music Theory Wind Conducting Musicology, Music History Mt. Holyoke College Assistant Professor of Physics Mt. Holyoke College Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics Amherst College Soft matter, completx fluids, rheology, biophysics, MEMS, granular materials, network analysis. Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2014-2015 Academic Year Department First name Last name Political Science Political science Scott Paul Blinder Collins Political Science Alicja Gescinska Political Science Eleonora Political Science Title Campus UMass Amherst UMass Amherst Primary subfield within the discipline or department Political Psychology Legal Decision Making Additional areas of scholarly interest/specialization Mattiacci Assistant Professor Associate Professor Karl Loewenstein Fellow Karl Loewenstein Fellow & Vis Asst Prof in Political Science Amherst College Jonathan Obert Asst Prof of Political Science Amherst College Political Science Political Science Timothy Meredith Assistant Professor Assistant Professor UMass Amherst UMass Amherst Comparative Politics/Political Ethnographer Political Economy Political Science Carlos Pachirat Rolf SuarezCarrasquillo Lecturer UMass Amherst Housing Political Science Christopher Sweetapple Lecturer UMass Amherst Psychology Joseph Bergan Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Cultural and Llinguistic Anthropology electrophysiology, social behavior, and mental health neuroendocrinology, behavior, disorders optogenics, and molecular genetics Amherst College Psychology Katherine Dixon-Gordon Assistant Professor UMass Amherst basic and translational research on boarderline personality disorder Psychology Youngbin Kwak Assistant Professor UMass Amherst building and understanding adapticve exercise and its influence on learning environments across lifespan cognitive function Psychology Joonkoo Park Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Psychology Mariana Pereira UMass Amherst Psychology Psychology Alexandra Ashley Selbo-Bruns Woodman Assistant Professor Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer Lecturer development and underlying neural mechanisms of numerical cognition neural circuits underlying maternal behavior Smith College UMass Amherst Clinical psychology developmental disabilities Psychology & Education Jennifer Jacoby Assistant Professor of Education Mt. Holyoke College cognative and motivational processes Child and human development, teaching certification in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2014-2015 Academic Year Department First name Last name Title Visiting Assistant Professor Psychology, Clinical Peter Gilford Pubic Health Public Health Melody Matthias Slashinski Steinruecken Religion Max Mueller Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Visiting Lecturer in Religion Campus Hampshire College UMass Amherst UMass Amherst Russian Michelle Maydanchik Sociology Paul Attewell Visiting Professor Moon-Kie Jung Professor Additional areas of scholarly interest/specialization Hampshire School of Critical Social Inquiry Community Health Educ Mt. Holyoke College R. E Keiter '57 Postdoc Fellow & Vis Asst Prof of Russ Art Amherst College Sociology Primary subfield within the discipline or department Topical:childhood & adolescent mental health Race, religion and politics Film and Media Studies UMass Amherst Comparative Racial Formations:Migration,:Labor;Asisan American Studies;Political Sociology;U.S. Empire;Historical Sociology;Theorry;Law UMass Amherst Sociology Katherine Newman Professor "A" UMass Amherst Sociology Stellan Vinthagen Professor "A" UMass Amherst Social inequality, class mobility in the labor market, and poverty. Resistance Studies, Nonviolent Action Strategies (Civil Resistance), Social Movements & Change, Power Theory. Mt. Holyoke College Education Social incentives and decision making in perpetuating inequality; educational trajectories; meritocracy and the educational system; quantitative approaches to cultural sociology; network representations of cultural systems Sociology & Anthropology Timothy Malacarne Visiting Instructor in Sociology Public Social Scientist Five College New and Visiting Faculty Members, 2014-2015 Academic Year Department First name Last name Title Campus Primary subfield within the discipline or department Additional areas of scholarly interest/specialization Sociology & Anthropology Visiting Lecturer in Anthropology Ellen Rubinstein Spanish Carmen Granda Spanish Catherine Infante Spanish David Rodriguez-Solas Lecturer of Spanish Amherst College Assistant Professor of Spanish Amherst College Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish Amherst College Spanish & Portuguese Diogenes Costa Curras Lecturer A UMass Amherst Statistics Stockbridge School of Agriculture Ethan Meyers Assistant Professor Hampshire College Hampshire School of Cognitive Science Jillian Smith Lecturer UMass Amherst equine science and management Mt. Holyoke College Anthropology The anthropology of mental illness and psychiatry Film and Media Studies Romance Lang & Lit, Screen Arts & Cultures Develop Studies/Social Change, AfroAm Studies Theater Kim Yvonne Euell Lecturer UMass Amherst Vet and Animal Sciences Lenonid Pobezinsky Assistant Professor UMass Amherst understanding the role of non-coding differentiation and transformation of RNAs in regulation of development the immune system Kiran Asher UMass Amherst Natural/Social Sciences/Humanities/ Interdisciplinary Political Science/Women Studies Abigail Boggs Associate Lecturer/Associate Director UMass Amherst Graduate Program Cultural Studies Kirsten Leng Assistant UMass Amherst European History History & Women's Studies Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies
