Devyn Spence Benson
Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow in Africana Studies and History
I am a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. During the 2008-2009 school year, I will be in residence at Williams College as a Gaius Charles Bolin Dissertation Fellow. My research and teaching interests include Latin American/Caribbean history, with a focus on Cuba and African Diaspora studies. I am in the process of completing my dissertation, titled "Not Blacks, but Citizens: Racial Politics in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959-1961." My master's thesis also touched on ideas of race and nation in Cuba. Titled, "A Place of Their Own: Black Slaves in the Transition to Freedom, Yaguajay, Cuba,1845-1902," this project explored how African descended slaves established a neighborhood in rural Cuba at the end of the wars of independence.

Tim Benton
Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor of Art History
Tim Benton has worked for thirty years on the history of architecture and design between the Wars, and especially on the Swiss/French architect Le Corbusier. He is fascinated by how architectural ideas are incorporated into buildings, especially in the process of drawing and revising plans. His book on the Villas of Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret 1920-1930, first published in 1984, has just been republished (the English edition is by Birkhauser, 2007). His latest book is on Le Corbusier as a lecturer, in French (Le Corbusier conférencier, Le Moniteur, Paris, 2007) which analyses Le Corbusier's rhetoric, and especially his powerful use of images. An English edition will be published by Birkhauser early in 2009.

Tim has also worked on a number of exhibitions, including Art Deco 1910-1939 (2003) and Modernism Designing for a new world (2006), both produced by the Victoria and Albert Museum London, with subsequent showings in North America.

Tim teaches at the Open University in Britain, where he has contributed architectural history components to many courses of all periods, from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. He enjoys teaching within a multi-disciplinary environment and has made over 40 television or video programmes in support of his teaching.

Leslie Brown
Assistant Professor of History
Leslie Brown was born in New York City and grew up in Albany, New York. Shettended Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, where she received a B.A. in sociology and English. She served as an administrator in admission and in student affairs at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, before attending graduate school at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, where she earned her A. M. and Ph.D. in History. From 1990-1995 she co-coordinated the project "Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South," a collaborative research and curriculum program at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke. Behind the Veil brought together students, faculty, and communities across the region to study and teach African American history during the period of legal segregation.

Brown has taught a range of content and methodology courses in race, gender, and public history at institutions that include Skidmore, Duke, and Wash U. Recipient of a Faculty Research Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, she authored Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Urban South, published in 2008 by University of North Carolina Press. As she expands her research agenda on African American and women's politics and culture in the twentieth century, she is at work on a book on black women's migration, an edited collection of interviews, and a volume of the writings and speeches of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm. Brown is an enthusiast for American politics and an avid critic of media.

This the link to my existing homepage at UCSB:
http://www.history.ucsb.edu/people/person.php?account_id=86&first_name=Jessica&last_name=Chapman
http://wiki.williams.edu/pages/editpage.action?pageId=18513#

Mea Cook
Visiting Assistant Professor of Geosciences
Mea Cook is a geologist and oceanographer who studies the influence of ocean circulation on climate change. She has a PhD in Oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program. As an undergraduate at Princeton University, she majored in Geosciences and did a minor in cello and viola da gamba performance.

Michael Crewdson and Margaret Mittelbach
Adjunct Lecturers in Environmental Studies in the Williams in New York Program
Crewdson and Mittelbach are the authors of Wild New York: A Guide to the Wildlife, Wild Places, and Natural Phenomena of New York City. They also have contributed articles to publications such as the New York Times on environmental subjects, particularly experiences of nature in urban green spaces. Their most recent book, Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger, was a nonfiction narrative about their search for an extinct animal on the island Tasmania. Crewdson and Mittelbach are also the co-founders and co-curators of the Secret Science Club, a free science lecture series in New York City supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science.

Jennifer Randall Crosby
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Jennifer Randall Crosby is a native of Winthrop, Massachusetts. Jennifer received her BA and her PhD from Stanford University, where her research focused on how intentions, expectations, and social norms can shape social attitudes and intergroup interactions. For example, Jennifer has examined how race affects academic advice and how people decide if an ambiguous situation constitutes racial discrimination. Outside of teaching and research, Jennifer enjoys theater, reading, and hiking with her family, including her husband, Scott, their sons Joshua and Jacob, and their dog, Harry.

Marek Demianski
Visiting Professor of Astronomy
http://www.williams.edu/Astronomy/people

Christopher Goh
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
I received my undergraduate degree from the University of Durham in the rugged North East of England, and continued my studies at Harvard University leading to a Ph.D. in bioinorganic chemistry. After a post-doctoral appointment at the National Polymer Research Center at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, I joined a then small start-up company in Silicon Valley, Symyx Technologies. In collaboration with scientists at large companies such as ExxonMobil and Dow, we worked on a number of long-range research projects including new methods of making various polymers. Examples are polymers used in films such as Saran wrap and those used for inner tubes of bicycle tires. After six years in industry, I took a short break from chemistry to pursue interests in personal and outdoor leadership, mediation and life coaching, and home renovations! I then joined the chemistry faculty at Williams, first as a laboratory instructor and visiting professor, and now as an assistant professor.

My research focuses on the development of transition metal based catalysts and the process of discovering these catalysts: what approaches can we use, and how do we gather more information about a system that works to guide is in the design of the next generation catalyst. Areas of application are metal mediated steps in the synthesis of organic molecules (such as drugs) and of polymers (such as adhesives and water repellents) and in biomimetic chemistries (such as the synthesis of steroids in plants).

Nicholas Goodbody
Visiting Lecturer in Romance Languages
Nicholas Goodbody graduated from Williams in 2003 with a major in Spanish. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Yale University Department of Spanish and Portuguese and is working on a dissertation entitled "The Public Self: Biography and Autobiography in the Literary Creation of Martín Luis Guzmán." His interests include contemporary Spanish-American literature and 20th century Mexican literature and culture.

Travis L. Gosa
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies
Travis L. Gosa received his Ph.D. in Sociology from The Johns Hopkins University in 2008 with a specialization in education and social inequality. He has been an education policy analyst at both the Maryland State Department of Education and American Institutes for Research in Washington, D.C. Gosa's current research examines the social and cultural worlds of African-American youth. He enjoys teaching courses on race, education, hip-hop, and the African American family.

Joseph Greer
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Dr. Joseph Greer is a clinical health psychologist who completed his doctoral degree at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst with a research focus on the recognition and treatment of anxiety and depression symptoms in primary care patients. For his postdoctoral fellowship, he worked in the Behavioral Medicine Service of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. In addition to his interests in primary care, he specializes in psycho-oncology and provides cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) to patients experiencing psychological distress related to cancer. Dr. Greer's current research activities include serving as the principal investigator on a study funded by the National Cancer Institute to develop and test a brief CBT intervention to treat anxiety associated with advanced lung cancer.

Jacqueline Hidalgo
Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow in Religion
I am currently completing my Ph.D. in Religion at Claremont Graduate University in California, and my research deals with the phenomena of "scriptures," apocalypticism, utopias, questions of ethnicities and identities, postcolonial and feminist theories, and religious ideas in the Americas with a focus on Latina/os in the U.S.A. I have a forthcoming article on the bible and the negotiation of home among Cuban immigrants in Claremont, CA and an article on scriptures and the writing of Latina/o identities online. I am also completing my dissertation, which examines the relationships between scriptures, utopias, and empires in the relationships between different peoples as they are imagined in Aztlan as deployed by the Chicana/o movement ca. 1969, the New Jerusalem from Revelation 21-22, and California as imagined in Spanish missionary settlement.
http://www.signifyingscriptures.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=104&Itemid=2

Alexandra Merley Hill
Visiting Assistant Professor of German
Alexandra Merley Hill did her graduate work in German and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she wrote her dissertation on the contemporary author Julia Franck. Her research and teaching interests include contemporary German literature, literature by women, culture and literature of the GDR, culture and literature under National Socialism, and German art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She is an active member of Women in German and an avid knitter.

More information about Alexandra Merley Hill can be found on her website:
http://www.people.umass.edu/amerley

Jennifer Jones
Class of 1946 Visiting Assistant Professor of International Environmental Studies
I look forward to joining Williams. For the past two years, I have been a traveling professor on the International Honors Program study abroad course "Rethinking Globalization: Nature, Culture and Justice". Intense travel with students to five countries over a full academic year provided the opportunity for cooperative learning experiences that challenged our personal knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs.

My academic interests center on the relationship(s) between people and other elements of the natural world, with a specific focus on the linkages between biodiversity conservation and neo-liberal globalization. My approach to the politics and polemics of ecological management is transdisciplinary. Life is not lived within disciplinary boundaries! Other interests include the role of biological natural selection and evolution in the use of mutual aid for community organization, as well as the modern industrial agriculture complex and the role of animal rights in such systems.

I spent six years in Southern Africa researching transboundary protected areas, impacts of conservation on tribal communities, and the use of integrated Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

I enjoy any opportunity to get outdoors, particularly kayaking and gardening. Students are encouraged to contact me with any queries or comments. (jenleejones@gmail.com)

Wilberforce Kisamba-Mugerwa
Class of 1955 Visiting Professor of International Studies
Dr. Wilberforce Kisamba-Mugerwa is currently the chairman of the National Planning Authority in Uganda and also a research associate with Makerere Institute of Social Research. He obtained his PhD from Makerere University in 1995, where he had served as a Senior Lecturer of Development Economics and Agricultural Policies. He was also a Senior Research Fellow at Makerere Institute of Social Research and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA and also at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex Brighton, UK.

From 2004 - 2007 he served as the Division Director of the International Service of National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) based in Addis Ababa Ethiopia, covering Latin America, Africa and Asia, under the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Washington DC. ). He started his career in 1971 as an Economist in the Ministry of Agriculture in Uganda. From1980 to 2004 he was an elected Member of Parliament and held various cabinet Ministerial positions in the Government of Uganda including the Ministry of Agriculture.

His Research interests are focused on policies regarding land tenure, natural resource management and Agricultural Innovations Systems (AIS). He has some publications including: Developing Contract Farming Systems in Uganda ;( forthcoming) in Inside Agriculture London UK, and the Rangeland Tenure and Resource Management: An over view of Pastoralism in Uganda.(1992)Makerere Institute of Social Research, Kampala/Land Tenure Centre, and University of Wisconsin, Madison

Susan L. Koegel
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
I am looking forward to returning to Williams as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Biology Department. I graduated from Williams in 2002 and then headed to the west coast to pursue a PhD in Biomedical Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. There, in the laboratory of Dr. Arthur Weiss, I combined my interests in immunology and biochemistry by studying intracellular signaling pathways in T lymphocytes.

Yoshi Konishi
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
I did my doctoral work at University of Minnesota after spending two years as a business analyst at Goldman Sachs. I am an applied microeconomist with a mix of empirical and theoretical interests in environmental and natural resource economics. My research interests lie primarily in the design of optimal policies and mechanisms to address a variety of environmental and resource issues. I am currently working on a number of research projects including environmental risk and welfare valuation, economics of ecolabeling, spatial environmental externality, and innovations and adoption of environmental-friendly technologies. My hobbies include playing and watching soccer, reading novels, watching dramas/movies, and hiking.

Kenneth Kuttner
Professor of Economics
Ken Kuttner joins the Williams faculty this year from Oberlin College, where he has taught since January 2004. Before going into teaching full time, Ken worked for 15 years a research economist at the Federal Reserve Banks of New York and Chicago. He has also held visiting or part-time teaching positions at Columbia Business School, the University of Chicago Business School, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and the New Economic School in Moscow. Ken's main research interests are in macroeconomics, monetary policy, and financial markets. He recently published an article in the Journal of Finance, co-authored with Fed Chair Ben Bernanke, on the stock market's reaction to monetary policy, and his current research project is an effort to understand why the Phillips curve has become flatter in recent years. Ken received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard in 1989, and an A.B. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1982. When he's not being an economist, Ken swims, practices the cello, and spends time with his wife, Laura, and his children, Iain and Clara.

Penny Lane
Visiting Lecturer in Art
Penny Lane is an independent filmmaker and video artist whose experimental, narrative and documentary videos have won awards at festivals and on television worldwide. Some of her interests include feminism(s), community media, media activism, oral history, and experimental documentary practice. She earned her MFA in Integrated Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and her BA in American Culture at Vassar College. Before coming to Williams, she was a visiting assistant professor of video and new media at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA.
http://www.p-lane.com

Daniel Look
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
I received my PhD from Boston University in 2005 under the direction of Robert L. Devaney. From 2005 until 2008 I taught at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. My research interests lie in the intersection of Complex Dynamics and Topology. I am particularly interested in the structure of connectedness loci for certain parameterized families of complex functions and the structure of the resulting Julia and Fatou sets. Outside of mathematics I am a fan of metal music, Godzilla movies (I watched all 28 Godzilla movies in February of 2008), and anything related to the Transformers.

Ward Lopes
Assistant Professor of Physics
Biologists have known for a long time that certain molecules will organize themselves into interesting functional systems. The tendency of these molecules to organize themselves is called self-assembly. Physicists, chemists, engineers, and material scientists are learning how to use self-assembly to fabricate materials and devices with nanoscale features. Once one has a useful self-assembled object, a question naturally arises: How does one put this "thingy" where one wants it? One answer is to use holographic optical trapping – a method which can place hundreds of microscopic "tractor beams" within the field of view of a microscope. I use self-assembly and holographic optical trapping to fabricate and manipulate systems with nanoscale features and use various forms of microscopy (optical, transmission electron, scanning electron, scanning probe) to characterize and study those systems. I earned my B.A. in Physics (with a minor in Art) at Swarthmore College and, then, received my Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago. After grad school, I worked in industry for a while http://www.arryx.com before returning to the University of Chicago to do a postdoc and then teaching and doing research at Mt. Holyoke College.

Paul MacDonald
Assistant Professor of Political Science
I am excited to be joining the department of political science this coming fall. My core research area is international relations, with a focus on issues related to empire, imperialism, and sovereign inequality in the international system. I completed my doctorate work at Columbia University, where my dissertation examined the political and social foundations of colonial governance in the British Empire. I am currently working on a variety of related topics including the determinants of successful overseas military occupations, the colonial origins of counterinsurgency doctrine, and the domestic political impact of American overseas military bases on host countries. My wife and I enjoy outdoor activities such as backpacking, skiing and snowshoeing, so we are looking forward to life in the northern Berkshires.

Caroline Maniaque
Visiting Lecturer in the Graduate Program in Art History
Caroline Maniaque, Ph.D, has a degree in architecture and a graduate degree in art history at the Sorbonne University. She has worked on the history of architecture and design after the Second World War focussing on postwar domestic architecture in America and France. Her book Le Corbusier et les maisons Jaoul: Projets et fabrique (Picard, 2005 : English edition in preparation at Princeton Architectural Press) was awarded the 2006 "Prix national du livre d'architecture de Briey''.

Caroline has also collaborated on exhibitions on modern architecture and design including L'Art de l'ingénieur (Centre Pompidou, 1997) in charge of the section on lightweight structures, from Buckminster Fuller's tensegrity mast and geodesic domes to Frei Otto's tensile structures. She is currently working on architecture and counterculture with the support of a scholarship at the CCA, Montreal. She has published a number of articles on the subject ('Hard French/Soft America', Les Cahiers de la recherche architecturale et urbaine, May 2002; 'Searching for Energy', in Ant Farm, 1968-1978, University of California Press, 2004). She is preparing a book on American Travels of European Architects: 1960-1975.

Caroline teaches history of architecture at the Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture et de paysage de Lille, France.

Steven Miller
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
I've set up a brief webpage with some information:
http://www.math.brown.edu/~sjmiller/williams/welcome.html

Bernard Moore
Visiting Lecturer in Political Science
I am currently completing my PhD in Political Science at Howard University and earned a Master of Arts in American Politics from Claremont Graduate University. My research and teaching interests includes Black Politics and Public Law. My doctoral dissertation "America's Race to Incarcerate: Locking Up Communities of Color." At Howard University, I have taught Black Politics, Science of Public Policy and American Politics.

Worked as a senior professional with many years experience in government, both at the federal and state level, I am recognized as an authority on Congress as well the federal judiciary and related complex racial disparity issues. As both Fellow/Policy Advisor to Congressman Danny K. Davis and Executive Director of Second Chance for Social Justice (secondchance-dc.org), a think tank based in Washington, D.C., Have been engaged daily in the inner-workings of the legislative process working Rep. James Clyburn, Majority Whip, Rep. Danny K. Davis, and several other members of the U.S. House of Representatives, I spearheaded, wrote, and progressed the Second Chance Act of 2007 through the U.S. Senate and the recent signing into law by the President. I gained 92 bipartisan co-sponsors of H.R. 1593 and 265 votes in the House as a result of my creative ability that refocused discussion on prison reentry issues to concerns for public safety. My favorite extracurricular activities are cycling and photography.

Sonia Perez Villanueva
Visiting Assistant Professor of Romance Languages
Professor Pérez Villanueva took her BA and MA degrees at the University of the Basque Country, in Spain. In February 2008, she successfully defended her Ph.D at the University of Birmingham, England, with the title "Vida y sucesos de la Monja Alférez, an Early-Modern Autobiography". Professor Pérez Villanueva has presented papers at national and international conferences and has published several articles in journals and conference proceedings. Her research interests include Spanish early-modern literatures and cultures, contemporary peninsular literature and film, theories of autobiography and women studies. She has been appointed as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Williams College. Professor Pérez Villanueva has taught at the University of Birmingham (UK) and Bennington College (VT).

Richard Repp
Bennett Boskey Visiting Professor of History
Dr. Repp is a Williams graduate (1957) in Classics. Moving on to Worcester College Oxford with a Wilson Scholarship, he took a second BA in Arabic and Turkish (and later a doctorate) and spent the next forty-one years teaching Ottoman Turkish history and language at Oxford. For the last sixteen years of that time he was also involved in many other aspects of University life as Master of St Cross College and, latterly, as Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University.

Joel Revill
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Joel Revill received his Ph.D. in modern French history from Duke University in 2006 and has since taught at Reed College and North Carolina State University. His teaching interests run from the Enlightenment to the present and cover a range of intellectual and cultural history topics including the revolutionary and republican traditions in France, the birth of the social sciences in late nineteenth century Europe, and the experiences and understandings of violence in modern Europe. He is currently working on the relationship of religious thought and the philosophy of science in the late nineteenth century as part of a larger project on the history of French conceptions of science and reason.

Neil Roberts
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies
I have a website that provides a good deal of information on who I am, my teaching, and research: https://jshare.johnshopkins.edu/rneil1/web/. I look forward to working with colleagues and students soon!

Vince Schleitwiler
Assistant Professor of English
I grew up in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood, and was educated at city public schools and a state-run math and science high school. I took my undergraduate degree from Oberlin College in Ohio, where I became involved in Asian American and student-of-color organizing, and subsequently lived in south London and Brooklyn, working a series of jobs in journalism and independent film. Just prior to 9/11, I moved to Seattle for advanced study at the University of Washington, where I taught classes in literature and ethnic studies, and helped to found several organizations working on diversity issues in graduate education. My current research examines the literatures of African American, Japanese American, and Filipino migrations across U.S. imperial domains in the 20th century.

Jacquelyn Sholes
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
Jacquelyn Sholes earned her Ph.D. in Musicology from Brandeis University after completing her undergraduate degree in Music and Mathematics at Wellesley College. Although her musical tastes encompass everything from Renaissance motets, Bach, and Mozart concertos, to Prokofiev, Ella Fitzgerald, the Beatles, and beyond, her current research focuses primarily on music of the nineteenth century--in particular, on the intersections of musical form, narrative, and historical reference in the works of Johannes Brahms. Before coming to Williams, Professor Sholes taught at Brandeis University, at the University of Massachusetts/Boston, and as a head teaching assistant at Harvard University. In addition to teaching about, listening to, analyzing, and writing on music, she enjoys playing the piano, genealogy, watching classic movies, running, choral singing, reading, and baking.

Richard Jean So
Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow in Comparative Literature
Richard Jean So grew up in New Jersey, where he attended public high school. He has studied at Brown University (BA-English Literature), National Taiwan University (MA-Chinese Literature), and Columbia University, where he is finishing his PhD in Comparative Literature. He specializes in modern US and Chinese literature, with an emphasis on Asian-American studies and cultural transnationalism. His dissertation, Coolie Democracy:US-Sino Social and Literary Reform, 1929-1955, examines a rich period of cultural exchange between the United States and China, and its articulation of new forms of "world democracy." He commands Chinese, classical Chinese, and German, and has lived in New York, Beijing, and Taipei. He has taught modern American and Chinese literature courses at Columbia and Qinghua University. His hobbies include playing the drums, listening to American indie rock, watching The Wire, and reading comic books.

Frederick W. Strauch
Assistant Professor of Physics
I am theoretical physicist specializing in the design and study of "artificial atoms" made of superconducting devices operating in the quantum limit at very low temperatures and with very low electrical noise. My graduate work was at the University of Maryland, and after a postdoctoral position at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) I have been with Gettysburg College as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics. I am currently working on the design of "artificial solids" capable of demonstrating novel quantum transport, with potential application in quantum computers.

Kai Sun
Visiting Lecturer in Chinese
I graduated from Qiqihar University with a bachelor of engineering in Food Science and Engineering. Now I am studying for my law degree in Peking University Law School ; my academic specialty is Intellectual Property. Before coming to Williams College, I have worked as a Chinese teacher at two Chinese language programs, ACC and IUP. For more the details about the two programs you can see the links below:http://www.hamilton.edu/academics/acc/index.html and http://ieas.berkeley.edu/iup/. My favorite extracurricular activities are playing soccer and singing kareoke.

Jane Swift
Class of 1948 Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in Leadership Studies
Jane Swift was Massachusetts' first woman Governor and the first Governor in US history to give birth (to twin daughters) while in office. She has taught public policy and education policy courses at Suffolk University, was a fellow at Williams, has been a frequent guest speaker in Leadership Studies at the college and last year taught a winter study course on Political Engagement. Swift remains involved in politics, serving as a national education advisor to John McCain. She is also on the board of several public and private companies. She lives on a horse farm in Williamstown with her husband and three elementary school aged daughters."

Web site bio link: http://www.swiftcommittee.com/page.php?PageID=110&PageName=Biography

Musa Syeed
Adjunct Professor of Art in Williams in New York Program
Musa Syeed is a documentary filmmaker. His film, 'A Son's Sacrifice' won Best Documentary Short at the Tribeca Film Festival 2007. He focuses on international and intercultural issues, usually exploring these themes through immigrant families in America. His website: http://www.sonsacrifice.com

Emmanuel Theophilus
Class of 1946 Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Born in 1959 in New Delhi, Emmanuel Theophilus grew up and was schooled in the Kumaon Himalaya in India. He graduated in English Literature and post-graduated in Social Work from Delhi University. He lives on a farm in a remote part of the Kumaon Himalaya, and has engaged with forest dependent communities on issues related to forests, conservation action and political ecology for around 15 years, as a Project Director for the Himalayan Region and as Chief Executive of the Foundation for Ecological Security.

His engagement with academia is more recent. He has been involved in creating a sub-state Biodiversity Log and Strategy input document for the Ministry of Forests and Environment, Government of India, and in the Biodiversity Conservation and Livelihoods Improvement Plan for the Askot Musk Deer Sanctuary in the Himalaya.

His extra-curricular interests are mountain climbing, sea and river swimming, natural history, photography and reading.

Ji-Young Um
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
As an East Coast native and a liberal arts college graduate, I am looking forward to moving to Williams and meeting new colleagues and students. I received my undergraduate degree from Oberlin College and my master's degree from Goldsmiths College, University of London. My current research and work is on literary and cultural narratives and U.S. wars in Asia from World War II onwards. When not exclusively dwelling on war, violence, oppression, imperialism, and other uplifting matters, I enjoy baking cakes and reading detective novels. I have taught for English and American Ethnic Studies departments at University of Washington in Seattle and will receive my Ph.D. from there in the spring.

Manu Vimalassery
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian American Studies
Manu Vimalassery is a doctoral candidate in the American Studies Program, at New York University, where he is working on his dissertation, "Skew Tracks: Chinese and Native Americans and the First Transcontinental Railroad." In his work, he examines capitalism and imperialism as motive forces in the history and culture of the United States, through a Comparative Ethnic Studies framework. He is also a composer, whose music has been performed in Europe and throughout the U.S.

Alan Wallach
Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor of Art History
I am a professor of Art History and American Studies at the College of William and Mary visiting Williams for the fall semester. My interest is primarily in the history of American art which I study from a range of perspectives but with an emphasis on social-historical approaches. I have for many years worked on the history of Hudson River School landscape painting; I am also interested in the history of American art institutions, especially art museums. I very much enjoy teaching seminars which afford professor and students an opportunity to explore new approaches to a particular topic.

Nicholas Wilson
Assistant Professor of Economics
I am an applied microeconomist with research interests in development and health. I have taught courses in development economics, population economics, and the economics of the household. I am currently working on two research projects in Zambia. In one project, I am designing and implementing a field experiment that will provide evidence on the mechanisms by which abstinence-only sexual education programs affect risky behavior. In a second project, I use GPS data on the locations of hospitals and clinics offering HIV/AIDS services to examine the nature of the Zambian government's geographic expansion of these services during the period 1998-2006. I did my doctoral work at Brown University (PhD expected May 2008), completed a MPA in International Development at Harvard University (2001), and received my BA from Reed College (1999). My interests outside of economics include fishing, sabremetrics, film noir, and hardboiled detective novels.

Nick Zammuto
Arthur Levitt, Jr. '52 Artist-in-Residence in Art
Nick Zammuto grew up near Boston, MA and studied chemistry and the visual arts at Williams College, where he graduated in 1999. Since then he worked in the field of art conservation doing material analysis on works of art, he's lived, and worked in New York City and Los Angeles, hiked the Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia, and worked as an inn keeper in North Carolina before returning to North Adams, MA to focus on his art and music. He co-founded the band 'the Books' in 2000 which has toured venues across North America and Europe and released three records and a DVD. Most recently he has edited and written the musical score for a feature documentary about the 'Biosphere 2' project located near Tuscon, Arizona. In parallel with his work in music and film, he has kept up a body of 'sound sculpture', of which 'laser show' is the most recent work. It is on exhibit at WCMA through September 14th.
http://www.thebooksmusic.com

Yinglei Zhang
Visiting Lecturer in Chinese
I graduated from Jiangsu Normal College, in Jiangsu, China and majored in Chinese language and literature. I hold an Advanced Certificate in Classical Chinese from Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. My Master Degree is in Art Education, from Saint Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont.

I have been an Adjunct Faculty member at Saint Michael's College, Green Mountain College, and Williams, where I have taught several times during Winter Study. I teach Chinese language, Painting, Calligraphy, and other areas related to Chinese culture. I expect to be teaching third and forth-year Chinese at Williams in the year to come.

My interests include Chinese philosophy, traditional Chinese medicine, and Chinese art. My daily activities include drinking Chinese tea, Taiji, and Chinese painting. I am an outdoor person and love to go hiking.