The Carleton College Board of Trustees recently announced the promotion of 11 faculty members and the appointment of two faculty members to emeritus ranking.
The following faculty were promoted from associate professor to professor: Barbara Allen, professor of political science; Chiara Briganti, professor of English; Laura Goering, professor of Russian; Michael Hemesath, professor of economics; Justin M. London, professor of music; Jenny Bourne Wahl, professor of economics; and Clayton L. Zimmerman, professor of classical languages.
In addition, Kathleen M. Ryor, associate professor of art history, was promoted from assistant professor to associate professor. Lynn Deichert, lecturer in music, Nina Olsen, lecturer in music and Rick Penning, lecturer in music, were promoted from instructor to lecturer.
Two retiring faculty members have been promoted to emeritus faculty positions. They are Caryl E. Buchwald, the McBride Professor Emeritus of Geology and Environmental Studies, and Patrick H. Dust, professor emeritus of Spanish.
Barbara Allen earned a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Indiana University. She taught at Indiana for several years before coming to Carleton in 1988, and she currently serves as chair of the political science department. Her areas of specialization include political theory, public policy and empirical theory and methodology, and during the past five years she has published two journal articles, one book chapter and a review of a four-volume monograph. A book manuscript, "Harmonizing Earth With Heaven: Tocqueville on Covenant and the Democratic Revolution," is currently under review.
Chiara Briganti holds a Ph.D. in English literature from The Pennsylvania State University and an M.S., also in English literature, from the University of California, Davis. She joined the English faculty at Carleton in 1990, and also teaches in women's studies. Briganti's teaching interests are broad, including women's literature, post-colonial literatures, Victorian literature, English romanticism, theater, feminist criticism, gender theory, modernism, 20th century British literature and post-modernism. In addition to leading off-campus studies programs, she recently completed editing essays on domestic space for the journal Signs, and has published several articles.
Laura Goering earned a B.A. in Soviet studies and German literature from Oberlin College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell University in Slavic studies. She joined the Carleton faculty as a member of the German and Russian department in 1988. Her teaching experience ranges from Russian language courses to 20th century literature, Dostoevsky, Pushkin and Russian children's literature, and she teaches a new course that examines the culture of nervous disorders in turn-of-the-century Europe. She has been an advocate for developing computer-based methods of teaching Russian, and her research focuses on European culture and the study of mental illness at the end of the 19th century. She has published on the subject and served as a research fellow in the Summer Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois.
Michael Hemesath received a B.S. in economics summa cum laude from St. John's University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard. Following a two-year teaching appointment at Tufts University, he joined the Carleton faculty in 1989. His specialties include international economics, industrial organization, comparative systems/Soviet and post-Soviet economics and health economics. He has directed an off-campus studies program and is active in interdisciplinary concentrations and programs. He co-authored an article for the journal Cross-Cultural Research, has made several presentations, participated on panels and was the recipient of a National academy of Sciences Research Grant.
Justin London serves as chair of the music department. He received a bachelor of music in classical guitar performance summa cum laude from the University of Cincinnati, an M.M. also from the University of Cincinnati and a Ph.D. in the history and theory of music from the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the Carleton faculty in 1989. His teaching areas are music history, music theory and philosophy and aesthetics. He will publish his monograph, "Hearing in Time," and has completed a major article, "Rhythm" for the "New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians." He has published more than a dozen articles and reviews and has given nine presentations since 1998.
Jenny Bourne Wahl holds a bachelor's degree summa cum laude in economics from Indiana University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. She joined the Carleton faculty in 1998 as associate professor of economics, following service as an economist at the U.S. Treasury Department and as a faculty member at St. Olaf College. Wahl teaches in microeconomics, labor economics, price theory, law and economics and American economic history. She has published two books, "The Bondsman's Burden: An Economic Analysis of the Common Law of Southern Slavery," and "An Economic Approach to Law," and has authored 15 scholarly articles on taxation, labor law, literature and law, economics and law and income and wealth issues. She is a member of the Star Tribune Board of Economists, and serves as a consultant for the Internal Revenue Service.
Clayton Zimmerman received a B.A. from Duke and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in classics and joined the Carleton faculty in 1989. His areas of interest include Greek and Latin poetry, mythography, comparative mythology and rhetoric. He teaches courses in Latin and Greek language, introductions to Latin poetry and Greek prose and courses focusing on specific periods or writers. He is working on two scholarly projects and presented a talk titled "Socrates Beloved" at a Carleton Faculty Scholarship Forum. His poetry has been published in the Carleton College Voice and in the anthology Plain Songs II.