school of social science - Hampshire College

FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES
SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATIONS AND
COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Joan Braderman, professor of video, film] and media
studies, has a B.A. from Radcliffe College and an M.A. and
M.Phil. from New York University. Her award-winning
documentaries and art videos have been shown on PBS, and
in many galleries, festivals, cable stations. and universities
internationally and are in the permanent collections of such
museums as the Stedelijk in Amsterdam. the Centre
Pompidou in Paris, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in
London. She has written and spoken widely on the politics of
representadon in video and film and was a founding member
of Heresies: A Feminist Journal on Art and Politics. Writing
about her work has appeared in such publications as The
Village Voice, The Independent, Afterimage, Contemporanea,
and The Guardian (London). She has received grants from
the Jerome Foundation, New York State Council on the
Arts, Massachusetts Council on the Arts, New York Foundation
on the Arts, and others. She has taught at the School of
Visual Arts, N.Y.U .• and her teaching interests continue in
video production in a variety of genres and in film. video,
art, and media history and theory.
Christopher Chase, associate professor of cognitive
science, received his B.A. from St. John's College and his
Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of California at
San Diego (UCSD). Before coming to Hampshire, he was a
research associate at the UCSD medical center in the division
of pediatric neurology where he studied developmental
neuropathology in children with disorders such as cystinosis.
Williams syndrome, focal brain damage, language and
reading disabilities, and AIDS. He reaches courses in the
field of cognitive neuroscience that explore the biological
foundations of mental functions. He directs the Reading
Research Laboratory and co-directs the Lemelson Evoked
Potential Lab. His research interests include cognitive
neuropsychology. reading development. learning disabilities.
and connectionist modeling. He currently is studying visual
processing deficits that interfere with letter and word
recognition in developmentally dyslexic readers. Professor
Chase will be on sabbatical leave during spring term 1998.
Raymond Coppinger, professor of biology, has worked
at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. the United States
Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Beebe Tropical Research
Station in the West Indies. He holds a Four College Ph.D.
(Amherst. Smith, Mount Holyoke, University of Massachuse([s).
Varied interests include animal behavior. birds, dogs
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neoteny theory (book in progress). Dr. Coppinger has been a
past New England sled dog racing champion and now works
with rare breeds of sheepdogs. His research leads to numerous
technical and popular publications in most of these
fields.
Mark Feinstein, professor of linguistics, is co-dean of
Cognitive Science and Cultural Studies. He holds a Ph.D.
from the City University of New York, and has been at
Hampshire since 1976. His teaching and research interestsoriginally
focused on the phonetics and phonology (sound
patterns) of human language-are now more broadly
concerned with general bioacoustics, animal cognition and
communication, mammalian vocalization and behavior, and
the evolution of cognition and behavior. He is a co-author of
Cognitive Science: An Introduction (MIT Press) and has
published papers on phonological structure, communication
in the canids. and the evolution of vocal behavior.
David Kerr, associate professor of mass communications
and Merrill House director of academic life, has a B.A.
from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. and M.A.s from
Vanderbilt University and Indiana University. He has
worked as a reporter and editor and teaches courses in
journalism and history of the American press. His educational
interests include the role of the press in the debate
over imperialism. travel and safari writings. issues in popular
culture. and cultural studies.
Zhaolu Lu, visiting assistant professor of philosophy,
received his B.A. from Beijing Normal University and his
Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario. His teaching
and research interests are in Chinese philosophy and the
philosophical foundations of cognitive science (issues
involved in philosophy of perception, philosophy of mind,
philosophical psychology or philosophy of psychology,
epistemology, philosophy of language, logic). He has taught
10 undergraduate and graduate programs at Beijing Normal
University. the University of Western Ontario, and
Concordia University.
. Meredith Michaels, associate professor of philosophy.
IS co-dean of Cognitive Science and Cultural Studies. She
taught philosophy and women's studies at Mount Holyoke
College before coming to Hampshire. She has a B.A. from
the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an M.A. and
a Ph. D. from the University of Massachusetts. She teaches
courses in metaphysics. epistemology. and ethics. and has
worked extensively on a variety of issues in feminist theory
and pedagogy.