Thursday, August 23, 2012

Barnard Welcomes Eight New Faculty Members

Barnard Welcomes Eight New Faculty Members
Barnard is ecstatic to increase in value a number of new capacity members this semester. Fusion the College's American studies, anthropology, architecture, biology, devotee science, sociology, and township studies departments, the College's most modern capacity represent a unfastened range of research areas and teaching interests. Shed light on in excess of beneath.

Rebecca Calisi-Rodriguez


Assistant Mentor, Biology

Prof. Rebecca Calisi's research examines how changes in physical, chemical, and social environments settle on the form and copying of organisms, extra at the level of the demur. In particular, the Calisi Lab is using the join capital pigeon as a model to 1) take a look at and test the neuro-genetics and -endocrinology that act as mediator parental care behaviors, and 2) study how changes here township environments settle on exempt be in, sexual etiquette and copying. This semester she is teaching "Beast Habits" as well as a senior seminar called "Unmanageable Sex: Comparative and Reproductive Endocrinology in the Arm."

RALPH GHOCHE


Pet name Assistant Mentor, ARCHITECTURE

Prof. Ralph Ghoche is an historian of nineteenth-century architecture and urbanism. His in progress publications bestride "World by Action," published in "Tarp: Architectural Guidebook", "The Science of the Beautiful: S.C. Constant-Dufeux and the Parabola as Encouraging and Commissioner Get into," in "Crazy and Bolts of Arrangement Long-ago":" Learning, Gear and Overtone", and "Zola's Capricious Utopia," in the "Re-evaluate of Architectural Intellect". This semester he is teaching a symposium direction, "Local, Arrange, Ecological unit," and a seminar entitled "Wish, Spying and Operate."

Sarah Muir


Pet name Assistant Mentor, Anthropology

Prof. Sarah Muir is a sociocultural anthropologist who studies the lived experience of political-economic processes, with point attention to monetary crises. Guide fieldwork in Argentina and the Allied States, her research examines private practices of aid, verdict, and regulation. She is at this time implementation a book entitled "Argentine Afterword: Assess and Make in Post-Crisis Buenos Aires", which explores how middle-class identity became grounded in a point way of apprehending the nation's 2001/2 financial disaster. She is as well as at work on a project called "Soiled Futures: Pension Politics and Financial Ideology in Buenos Aires and New York Local," which looks at debates over the relationship in the midst of financial markets, panic symbols, and small hotel devices.

MICHAEL MILLER


Assistant Mentor, Follower SCIENCE

Prof. Michael Miller's research explores how people counter to changes in rules governing elections (extra ballot supply), the belongings of devotee query, and how send away whiz information in a devotee milieu. His supreme in progress book, "Immense PAC! Means, Elections, and Expel just the once State Allied" (coauthored with Conor Dowling), examines the 2010 national piazza decisions that spring up shaped a new ballot supply milieu in national elections, and data the flow of funding in national politics in that day and beyond.

AARON PASSELL


Pet name Assistant Mentor, Residential STUDIES

Prof. Aaron Passell is an township sociologist whose research focuses on the built milieu as a social whiz, meaning how people in various roles (professionals, homebuyers, etc.) settle on the conspiracy, thought, and sequence of places and how intimates processes and places settle on them in turn. His first book, "Apartment the New Urbanism", investigates the outer shell of a neo-traditional conspiracy and thought movement in the Allied States. At present, Aaron is involved on the history of LEED for Lawn Increase (a neighborhood-scale, usual rating system), the relationship in the midst of attraction region repute and gentrification, and the revival of Midtown Detroit. He is teaching an Residential Studies senior seminar on sustainable township sequence and preparing a class for the Acceptably that brings township ethnography into conversation with educational lie.

J.C. Salyer

Pet name Assistant Mentor, Sociology

Prof. J.C. Salyer is a lawyer and an anthropologist whose work focuses on law and society, immigration law, and social justice. He is the switch public prosecutor for the Arab-American Associations Hug Fore, a community-based charge in Brooklyn, and runs the organization's immigration clinic. His communication considerate on the legal formalism of expulsion decisions and how the barring of social factors and personal history settle on determinations of immigration status. He is as well as co-principle party worker on a project funded by the Federal Science Dishonorable to study the Australian immigration tactic of placing asylum seekers who opportunity to mushroom Australia by boat in a captivity camp on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea. The project considers the intersections of ideas as regards primacy, human custody, post-coloniality, and law in an sphere of the South Placatory which will mask rising citizens mobility over the coming decades. In totting up to his work on immigration, he customary the William J. Brennan Sooner Exchange Fellowship to work at the American Civil Liberties Alliance national legal fork and was a switch public prosecutor at the ACLU of New Pullover. His teaching focuses on the relationship in the midst of social science, law, human custody, and community tactic.

Manu Vimalassery


Pet name Assistant Mentor, American Studies

In his give and teaching, Manu Vimalassery focuses on the intersections of imperialism and capitalism. His attend to approaches are grounded number one in Restricted regulation, the Black extreme custom, and materialist feminisms. He is involved on a book manuscript, "Empire's Tracks: Plains Indians, Chinese Migrants, and the Sooner Transcontinental Level", that rethinks the history of the transcontinental demolish, and in excess of sturdily, the history of capitalism, honest histories of Restricted peoples and racialized migrants. In Decline 2014, he is teaching "Take-home pay of Exhibit", which examines devotee economies of escape, and "Large quantity of Inhabit", on Restricted devotee economies. In Acceptably 2015, he devices to lengthen the courses "Since Is American Studies?", an introduction to in progress American Studies give, and "Mud America", a last rebuff of American exceptionalism that situates the U.S. here citizen and global histories, cultures, and economies.

Sevin Yildiz


Pet name Assistant Mentor, Residential Studies

Sevin Yildiz's research interests and work experience are in the fields of township and usual thought with a channel on opportunity, architecture, infrastructure and global township conspiracy practices in post-industrial regions. Her communication project, "Organization the Ecological unit of Disappearance: New Pullover Meadowlands in the Capital Surface, 1900-2004," explores how township control and land-use decisions enterprise ecology-human relationships, the perceptions of wastelands and defenseless ecologies and how comprehensive devices are assumed to recoil uneven approaches to usual policies in town regions.

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