New Faculty Teaching in 2012-13 (PDF) - Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College
Dean for Academic Affairs
New Faculty
2012-13
Greg Beckett, B.A., M.A. (Western Ontario), M.A., Ph.D. (Chicago), Assistant Professor of
Anthropology.
Margaret Boyle, B.A. (Reed), M.A., Ph.D. (Emory), Assistant Professor of Romance
Languages.
Dana Byrd, B.A. (Yale), M.A. (Delaware), Ph.D. candidate (Yale), CFD Postdoctoral Fellow in
Art History.
Matthew Campolattaro, B.S. (William and Mary), Ph.D. (Iowa), Visiting Assistant Professor of
Neuroscience.
Sarah Childress, B.A. (Emory), M.A., Ph.D. (Vanderbilt), Adjunct Lecturer in Film Studies.
(fall semester)
Jonathan Combs-Schilling, B.A. (Columbia), M.A., Ph.D. (California-Berkeley), Andrew W.
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Italian.
Allison Cooper, B.A. (Knox), Ph.D. (California-Los Angeles), Assistant Professor of Romance
Languages.
Soren Eustis, B.A. (Grinnell), M.A., Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), Assistant Professor of Chemistry.
Shaun A. Golding, A.B. (Bowdoin), M.S., Ph.D. candidate (Wisconsin-Madison), Visiting
Instructor in Sociology.
Mary L. Hart, B.A. (Dartmouth), M.F.A. (Bard), Visiting Assistant Professor of Art.
Michael Huffmaster, B.A. (Emory), M.A., Ph.D. (California-Berkeley), Visiting Assistant
Professor of German.
Sarah M. Iams, B.A. (Williams), M.S., Ph.D. candidate (Cornell), Visiting Instructor in
Mathematics.
Michael Klimov, B.A., M.A.-equiv. (Kyiv State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages-
Ukraine), Adjunct Lecturer in Russian.
Michéle LaVigne, B.A. (Hampshire), Ph.D. (Rutgers), Visiting Assistant Professor of Earth and
Oceanographic Science.
Tuk Yung Liu, B.S., M.Phil. (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Ph.D. (California Institute of
Technology), Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics.

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William Matthews, B.M. (Oberlin), M.A. (Iowa), M.M.A., D.M.A. (Yale), Adjunct Lecturer in
Music. (spring semester)
Tracy McMullen, B.A. (Stanford), M.M., M.A., (North Texas), Ph.D. (California-San Diego),
Assistant Professor of Music.
Casey Meehan, B.S. (Wisconsin-Madison), M.Ed. (Minnesota-Twin Cities), Ph.D. candidate
(Wisconsin-Madison), Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Education.
Durba Mitra, B.A. (Washington University-St. Louis), Ph.D. candidate (Emory), CFD
Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender and Women’s Studies and History.
Edward Muston, B.A. (Toronto), M.A., Ph.D. (Princeton), Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral
Fellow in German.
Terri Nickel, B.A. (Pacific Union), M.A. (Loma Linda), Ph.D. (California-Riverside), Visiting
Assistant Professor of English.
Michael Nishizaki, B.S., M.S. (Northern British Columbia), M.S., Ph.D. candidate
(Washington), Visiting Instructor in Biology.
John D. O’Brien, B.A. (Pomona), Ph.D. (California-Los Angeles), Assistant Professor of
Mathematics.
William Thomas Okie, B.A. (Covenant College), Ph.D. candidate (Georgia), Visiting Instructor
in History
Michael Penn, B.S. (Arkansas-Little Rock), M.A. (Indiana), Ph.D. (SUNY-Albany), Visiting
Assistant Professor of Mathematics.
Laura Premack, B.A. (Wesleyan), Ed.M. (Harvard), M.A., Ph.D. candidate (North Carolina-
Chapel Hill), Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana Studies and Latin American
Studies.
Barbara Petter Putnam, B.S. (New Hampshire), ALM (Harvard), Coastal Studies Artist-in-
Residence.
Nicholas Record, B.A., M.A. (Rochester), M.Sc. (Memorial University-Newfoundland), Ph.D.
candidate (Maine), Visiting Instructor in Earth and Oceanographic Science.
Emily Renschler, B.A. (Bryn Mawr), Ph.D. (Pennsylvania), Adjunct Lecturer in Anthropology.
Ryan Ricciardi, A.B. (Bowdoin), M.A., Ph.D. (Cincinnati), Visiting Assistant Professor of
Classics.
Andrew C. Rudalevige, B.A. (Chicago), M.A., Ph.D. (Harvard), Thomas Brackett Reed
Professor of Government.

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Marc Scarcelli, B.A. (Purdue), Ph.D. (California-Davis), Visiting Assistant Professor of
Government.
Cynthia Shelmerdine, A.B. (Bryn Mawr), B.A. (Cambridge), Ph.D. (Harvard), Adjunct
Professor of Classics.
Elizabeth Shesko, A.B. (Bowdoin), Ph.D. candidate (Duke), Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral
Fellow in History and Latin American Studies.
Daniel Stone, B.S. (Yale), M.A., Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), Assistant Professor of Economics.
Naseem Surhio, B.A. (Oberlin), M.A. (Pennsylvania), Ph.D. candidate (Harvard), Adjunct
Lecturer in Religion.
Samuel Taylor, B.S., Ph.D. (York-UK), Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology.
Melissa Thompson, B.A. (Monmouth), M.A. (Bowling Green), Ph.D. (Wisconsin-Madison),
Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater.
Wendy Thompson-Taiwo, B.A. (California-Riverside), Ph.D. (Maryland-College Park),
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana Studies.
L. Katherine Thomson, B.A. (California-Santa Barbara), Ph.D. (California-San Francisco),
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology.
Kristina Toland, B.A., M.A. (Ohio State), Ph.D. (Northwestern), Andrew W. Mellon
Postdoctoral Fellow in Russian.
Peggy Wang, B.A. (Wellesley), M.A., Ph.D. (Chicago), Assistant Professor of Art History and
Asian Studies.
Carolyn Wolfenzon, B.A. (Lima), M.A. (Colorado), Ph.D. (Cornell), Assistant Professor of
Romance Languages.
Leah Zuo, B.A. (Peking University), M.A., Ph.D. (Princeton), Assistant Professor of History
and Asian Studies.