June 12, 2001 Sp118 Contact: Sarah Maxwell Director of Media Relations 507.646.4183 Twelve Faculty Promoted, Seven Honored at Carleton College Northfield, Minn. — The Board of Trustees at Carleton College has promoted 12 faculty members and appointed seven retiring faculty members to professor emeritus status. Those advancing to the rank of professor are Scott Carpenter, romance languages; William Hollingsworth, chemistry; Michael Kowalewski, English; Julie Neiworth, psychology; Gail Nelson, mathematics; Gregory Blake Smith, English; and Harry Williams, history. Promoted to associate professor are Nancy Cho, English; Annette Igra, history; and Matthew Rand, biology. Promoted to senior lecturer in biology is David Hougen-Eitzman and promoted to lecturer in music is Jay Johnson. Seven retiring professors have been promoted to emeriti status. They are Robert Bonner, the Marjorie Crabb Garbisch Professor Emeritus of History and the Liberal Arts; Coco Colteaux, professor emerita of Spanish; James Finholt, the William H. Laird Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and the Liberal Arts; Philip Niles, professor emeritus of history; Kim Rodner, professor emeritus of sociology; Bob Sullivan, professor emeritus of physical education, athletics and recreation; and Mylla Urban, professor emerita of physical education, athletics and recreation. Scott Carpenter, professor of French, earned his B.A. in French, English and Latin and his M.A. in French literature at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. in French from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He taught at Trinity University before joining the Carleton faculty in 1990. Carpenter teaches French language and literature classes at many levels, as well a course in literary theory. His research focuses on 19th-century French literature, especially the overlap between literature and history. He has published three books, "Acts of Fiction: Resistance and Resolution from Sade to Baudelaire," "Reading Lessons: An Introduction to Theory," and, in collaboration with colleagues, a reader entitled "Vagabondages littéraires." He has co-authored an electronic French dictionary and has participated in the development of a computerized writing environment for French. Carpenter is currently working on a book on frauds, hoaxes and counterfeits in 19th-century France. He has led four of Carleton's off-campus studies programs in France. William Hollingsworth, professor of chemistry, holds a B.S. in chemistry and a B.A. in botany from the University of Texas and earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. He began teaching at Carleton in 1986. Hollingsworth is a physical chemist who was instrumental in bringing modern experimental laser spectroscopy to Carleton’s chemistry curriculum. He teaches quantum mechanics, global biogeochemistry, and global climate change and developed a new principles of environmental chemistry course as part of Carleton’s environmental and technology studies concentration. Hollingsworth’s research focuses on laser-induced photofragmentation of metal-containing molecules, and he published several articles on the subject. He also is researching how to teach molecular orbital theory and is in the early stages of working on a textbook on environmental chemistry. Michael Kowalewski, professor of English, received his B.A. degree from Amherst College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Rutgers University. He taught at Princeton University for five years before he came to Carleton in 1991. Kowalewski has broad interdisciplinary interests and has taught a wide range of American literature, American studies and environmental and technology studies courses at Carleton, including surveys and topical courses on literature of the West and Native American literature, and an interdisciplinary course for first-year students titled "Agriculture and the American Midwest." He leads a popular off-campus studies program, "Visions of California," which examines the phenomenon of California in American literature, culture and history. He is the author of numerous conference papers, articles, reviews and book chapters, and also has published a book titled "Deadly Musings, Violence and Verbal Form in American Fiction" and edited two books of essays and an anthology about the Gold Rush. He will serve a three-year term as director of American studies beginning this fall and for the past two years has been the stadium announcer at Carleton’s football games. Julie Neiworth, professor of psychology, earned her B.A. in psychology at Reed College and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in experimental psychology at Michigan State University. She joined the Carleton faculty in 1988. Neiworth’s specialty is learning and animal cognition and she teaches courses and laboratories in learning, comparative cognition, cognitive neuroscience, and animal models of human behavior, as well as introductory psychology and courses on methods. Neiworth’s research focuses on Carleton’s 12 cotton top tamarin monkeys, and she and her students have studied the monkeys’ self-awareness, maternal care and carrying behavior, and given several conference presentations about this work. Neiworth is currently writing several articles to summarize their findings. Prior to her work with the tamarins, Neiworth published a number of articles and book chapters on the study of imagery in animals and comparative cognition. Gail Nelson, professor of mathematics, earned her B.S. degree in mathematics and music from the University of North Dakota. She holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Minnesota and came to Carleton in 1988. Nelson teaches courses on real analysis and partial differential equations and all levels of calculus. In addition, she coaches Carleton’s problem solving team, which competes three times a year. Nelson is the author of several articles on cantor sets and parabolic equations and she and a co-author are finishing a book on chain recurrent points for flows in dynamical systems that is targeted at graduate students and professionals. She recently served as president of the North Central section of the Mathematics Association of America and she has been a consultant and grader for the College Board. Gregory Blake Smith, professor of English, received his A.B. degree from Bowdoin College, his M.A. from Boston University and his M.F.A. in fiction from the University of Iowa. He joined the Carleton faculty in 1987. He teaches courses on fiction writing, American literature and modern literature. Smith is the author of several short stories and two novels, including "The Devil in the Dooryard" and "The Divine Comedy of John Venner." He is currently working on two novels and continues to write short stories and reviews. Smith has received grants to support his writing from the Bush Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has been a resident at the Djerassi Foundation and MacDowell Colony and received the James A. Michener Award from the Copernicus Society and a Loft-McKnight Award from the Loft. Harry Williams, professor of history, joined the Carleton faculty in 1989 after earning his B.A. degree in journalism from Lincoln University and his M.A. in journalism from the University of Missouri. He received an additional M.A. and his Ph.D. in American civilization at Brown University. In addition to a survey course of African-American history, Williams teaches courses on the historiography of slavery, the Civil Rights movement, and the Concord Intellectuals. His scholarship focuses on the life and works of the black conservative intellectual George Schuyler and last summer he traveled to Germany on a Fulbright Fellowship to pursue research on Schuyler and on blacks and the Holocaust. Williams currently is finishing two articles and a book proposal, with the ultimate goal of publishing a major intellectual biography on Schuyler. Nancy Cho, associate professor of English, received her B.A. in English magna cum laude from Yale University and her Ph.D. in English from the University of Michigan. She came to Carleton in 1995 and is known for her ability to encourage discussion on writers as diverse as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edith Wharton, Miguel Pinero, and performance artist Anna Deavere Smith. Her students have praised her for addressing in classroom discussions sensitive subjects like race, ethnicity and gender. Cho also teaches courses in theater studies and American studies, and is currently working on a book titled "Staging Ethnicity in Contemporary American Drama," which is expected to be a major contribution to the field of theater scholarship. Annette Igra, associate professor of history, received her B.A. in history from the University of California, Los Angeles. She also holds a certificate in Yiddish language, literature and culture from Columbia University and a master’s in women’s history from Sarah Lawrence College. She earned her Ph.D. in history from Rutgers University. Since joining the Carleton faculty in 1994, Igra has contributed to the women’s studies and American studies programs in addition to the history department. As a specialist in American women’s history, Igra has taught a two-term survey course on that topic, as well as courses on the progressive era, gender and work, U.S. consumer culture and U.S. immigrant history. Her scholarly work focuses on the social and labor history of New York City in the early 20th century, and she will publish a book next year titled "Other Men’s Wives and Children: Anti-Desertion Reform in New York." Matthew Rand, associate professor of biology, earned his B.S. from Oregon State University, his M.S. from Wichita State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. Prior to coming to Carleton in 1995, he did postdoctoral work at the Institute of Reproductive Biology at the University of Texas, Austin, where he taught for several years. Rand’s expertise is in behavioral ecology and neurobiology, and he teaches courses in animal physiology, animal behavior, behavioral endocrinology and behavioral genetics, as well as interdisciplinary courses. He conducts research projects alongside students and is known for his enthusiasm and openness to questions and dialogue. Rand’s research examines brain mechanisms that mediate male-typical and female-typical reproductive behavior in Cnemidophorous lizards. David Hougen-Eitzman, senior lecturer in biology, received his B.A. in biology from St. Olaf College and his Ph.D. in zoology from Duke University. He joined the Carleton faculty in 1992. He teaches entomology and sustainable agriculture and coordinates laboratories for introductory biology. Trained as a population geneticist and ecologist, Hougen-Eitzman studies ecological interactions within agricultural ecosystems and is interested in developing biological solutions to problems that have usually been attacked with herbicides and pesticides. He and his wife operate Big Woods Farm, a community-supported agriculture farm that provides local families with organic produce. Jay Johnson, lecturer in music, received his bachelor’s of music and master’s of music degrees in percussion with an emphasis on ethnomusicology from the University of Minnesota. He has been a member of the Carleton faculty since 1991. In addition to teaching percussion, he directs Carleton’s African Drum Ensemble, a student group that performs on indigenous instruments and uses an African approach to musical training to learn and perform rhythms and songs from West Africa. Johnson has performed numerous world premieres at major festivals and concert halls throughout the United States and Europe. He has performed locally in concert and on recordings with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Minnesota Opera, the Plymouth Music Series and the Dale Warland Singers, among others. Robert Bonner, Marjorie Crabb Garbisch Professor Emeritus of History and the Liberal Arts, earned his B.A. from the University of Wyoming, his M.A. from the University of Oregon and his Ph.D. in history from the University of Minnesota. He joined the Carleton faculty in 1967. He specializes in early modern Europe, European intellectual history, the history of England and historiography. In addition, he has taught a wide range of interdisciplinary courses linking history and literature. He is at work on a book about Buffalo Bill and the development of Wyoming. Coco Colteaux, professor emerita of Spanish, received her B.A. from Michigan State University and her M.A. from the University of Oregon. She holds a Ph.D. in Spanish and Latin American literature from the University of Minnesota and began teaching at Carleton in 1972. Colteaux is particularly interested in colonial and 19th-century Latin American literature, the contemporary narrative and the relationship between literature and society. She has served as the coordinator of Latin American studies and has traveled extensively in Spain and Latin America. James Finholt, William H. Laird Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and the Liberal Arts, received his B.A. in chemistry from St. Olaf College and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the Carleton faculty in 1960. He has taught courses on inorganic, physical and introductory chemistry. He is currently developing techniques for separating compounds that are mirror images of one another and creating molecular modeling software for use in computational and introductory chemistry courses. Philip Niles, professor emeritus of history, earned his B.A. from Reed College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Toronto. He came to Carleton in 1966 and specializes in 14th-century English history. Niles has taught courses on the early Middle Ages, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, as well as on Chaucer’s England and medieval monks and nuns. Kim Rodner, professor emeritus of sociology, earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Michigan State University and joined the Carleton faculty in 1967. He specializes in American society, political sociology, sociological theory, and macro and historical comparative sociology. Bob Sullivan, professor emeritus of physical education, athletics and recreation, served for 22 years as Carleton’s head football coach, compiling an overall record of 102-114. He received his B.A. degree in English and physical education from St. John’s University and his M.A. in English from the University of Wisconsin, River Falls. He has coached six All-Americans at Carleton, and in 1992, the Carleton football team captured the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference crown under his leadership. Mylla Urban, professor emeritus of physical education, athletics and recreation, came to Carleton in 1967 just as women’s competitive sports were beginning to emerge and was instrumental in the early development of several women’s teams. Over the course of her 30-year career at Carleton, she served as athletic director and department chair, associate dean of the college, and head coach for field hockey, women’s swimming and softball. She earned her B.S. degree from Mankato State University and her master’s of education degree from Oregon State University. # # # #