The College of Charleston welcomes the following new faculty members for the 2009-2010 academic year.
Jose Casas – Department of TheatreAreas of Specialization: Playwriting
George Chartas – Department of Physics & Astronomy
Areas of Specialization: Accretion and outflows of
black holes, imaging the environments of supermassive black holes, quasar
evolution, gravitational lensing, x-ray astronomy and instrumentation
Jarod Charzewski – Department of Studio ArtAreas of Specialization: Sculpture and technology
Joshua Davis – Department of Marketing &
Supply Chain ManagementAreas of Specialization: Enterprise system
implementation success, organizational IT competence, user factors in system
success
Brian Fisher – Department of Political ScienceAreas of Specialization: International
environmental law, environmental policy, environmental justice, vulnerability,
social aspects of climate change, human security
Susan Flynn – Department of Teacher EducationAreas of Specialization: Sport pedagogy and
adapted physical education
Michelle Garceau – Department of HistoryAreas of Specialization: Medieval European
history, particularly the religious and social histories of the Mediterranean,
Catalunya and the Crown of Aragon
Anne Gutshall – Department of Teacher EducationAreas of Specialization: Educational psychology,
ethics of care in the teaching relationship, relationship variables of
effective teaching and teacher perceptions of bullying
Devon Hanahan – Department of Hispanic StudiesAreas of Specialization: New teaching techniques
and language acquisition
Bo Kai – Department of MathematicsAreas of Specialization: Mathematical statistics,
nonparametric and semiparametric modeling, robust statistics, high-dimensional
data analysis, variable selection, computational statistics
Kevin Keenan – Department of Political ScienceAreas of Specialization: Urbanization and urban
geography, terrorism, qualitative research methods
Amy Kolak – Department of PsychologyAreas of Specialization: Social emotional
development during infancy and toddlerhood, family relationships, including
parent-child interactions, sibling relationships and marital interactions
Adam Mendelsohn – Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies
ProgramAreas of Specialization: History of the Atlantic
World, American and Southern Jewish history
William Russell – Department of EnglishAreas of Specialization: Renaissance literature
and culture, sixteenth and seventeenth century England, rhetoric, poetics and
this history of criticism, classical reception
David Moscowitz – Department of CommunicationAreas of Specialization: Critical/cultural
studies, rhetorical and film criticism, postmodern identity and memory politics
(post) assimilation, whiteness, gender and the body, Jewish identity and
representation
Anh-Dung “Yum” Nguyen – Department of Health and
Human PerformanceAreas of Specialization: Sports medicine and
athletic training
David Parisi – Department of CommunicationAreas of Specialization: Emerging media, media
archaeology, digital media interfaces, touch and tactility, electronic gaming
Malte Pehl – Department of International and
Intercultural StudiesAreas of Specialization: South Asian politics,
research on party systems, electoral behavior, public opinion, democratization
and the political economy of development
Lisa Samuel – Department of International and
Intercultural StudiesAreas of Specialization: Interdisciplinary
approaches to global governance, international law and ethics, small developing
states in the WTO, justice in global economic governance.
Sandra Slater – Department of HistoryAreas of Specialization: Colonial America, gender,
Atlantic World
Michael Stern – Department of Sociology and
Department of AnthropologyAreas of Specialization: Urban, rural and
community sociology, theories of social and technological change, digital
inequality, survey research methods, social capital formation, social networks
and new media
Blake Stevens – Department of MusicAreas of Specialization: French baroque opera,
baroque instrumental music, history of music aesthetics
Jeffrey Triblehorn – Department of BiologyAreas of Specialization: Sensory Neurobiology,
neural control of behavior, neuroethology of predator-prey interactions, focus
on invertebrate systems
Christopher Vinson – Marlene and Nathan Addlestone
LibraryAreas of Specialization: Technology literacy, digital
libraries
Matthew Walter – Department of TheatreAreas of Specialization: Scenic and lighting
design, traditional drafting, rendering and modeling techniques, computer aided
design and 3D modeling
Ping-Yuan Wang – Department of HistoryAreas of Specialization: Pre-modern Europe,
cultural encounters in early modern world focusing on religious culture, trade
and travel, women’s and gender history
Nicola Williams – Department of Teacher EducationAreas of Specialization: School reform as it
relates to the achievement gap, literacy instruction and learning in diverse
school populations, teacher learning, action research and culturally responsive
theory and practice.
Steve Johnson – Department of Studio ArtAreas of Specialization: Drawing
Norma Salcedo – Department of Biology
Lei Jin – Department of International and
Intercultural StudiesAreas of Specialization: Chinese classical
literature and nineteenth-century American literature
Beth Lloyd – Department of Teacher EducationAreas of Specialization: Mathematics education
