September
5, 2003
New
Assistant Professors Add Depth and Breadth to MHC Faculty
As the driving force behind Mount
Holyoke’s academic excellence, faculty bring the liberal
arts to life in unique and award-winning ways. Starting this fall,
13 new assistant professors will be making their own mark on the
curriculum and furthering the College’s tradition of innovative
teaching and research.
The tenure-track hires reflect The Plan for Mount Holyoke
2010’s pledge to “keep faculty ranks vital, strong,
diverse, and renewed.” In addition, another 36 scholars,
with specialties ranging from Indian cinema to international child
welfare, will be on campus as visiting faculty and fellows. Visiting
appointments range from a semester to three years.
“Our new faculty members, those visiting as well as the
splendid group of assistant professors, are stunning in the range
of their interests, the depth of their scholarship, the spark
of their teaching,” associate dean of faculty Sally Sutherland
said. “We are delighted to have them and enormously impressed
by the hard work our faculty did last year to find them.”
Of the 13 new assistant professors, 11 began teaching this semester.
The remaining two, English professors Siraj Ahmed and Jeffrey
Santa Ana, will take up their posts in the spring after completing
fall grants. In keeping with Mount Holyoke’s commitment
to teaching excellence, the 13 were selected not only for their
stellar academic records, but also for their enthusiasm for working
closely with students.
Future issues of the College Street Journal will introduce
the new faculty to the MHC community in more depth. What follows
is an alphabetical listing of their names and areas of specialization:
Siraj Ahmed, assistant professor of English Eighteenth-century
literature, empire, postcolonial studies
Justin Crumbaugh, assistant professor of Spanish Spanish
literature, culture, and gender; international studies, tourist
economies
Ombretta Frau, assistant professor of Italian Pirandello,
the comic in Italian Renaissance theatre
Durba Ghosh, assistant professor of history South
Asian history, British imperialism and colonialism
Maria Gomez, assistant professor of chemistry
Compact vibrational wave functions in Monte Carlo simulations
Christian Gundermann, assistant professor of Spanish
Twentieth- century Latin American film and literature
Matthew McKeever, assistant professor of sociology
Economic sociology in South Africa, social inequalities
Dorothy Mosby, assistant professor of Spanish
Afro-Hispanic literature and culture, Caribbean and African diaspora
literature
Susanne Mrozik, assistant professor of religion
Buddhist ethics,
bodies, gender; the Bodhisattva ideal
Megan Núñez, Clare Boothe Luce Assistant
Professor of Chemistry DNA-mediated charge transport
chemistry
Sami Rollins, assistant professor of computer science
Application support for data management in resource-constrained,
pervasive computing environments
Jeffrey Santa Ana, assistant professor of English and
American studies Asian American literature, nineteenth-
and twentieth-century American literature, gender, and sexuality
Jessica Sidman, Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor
of Mathematics Algebraic geometry, computational algebraic
geometry and commutative algebra, combinatorics.
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