Twenty-three new professors in 15 different departments will teach their first classes this year as members of the College faculty.
Stanley Abe joined the art history department and will teach this winter. He has taught at San Francisco State University, California College of Arts and Crafts and the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley, California.
Professors Matthew Ayres and Thomas Jack became members of the biological sciences' faculty.
Ayers received his Ph.D. in entomology from Michigan State University. Before coming to Dartmouth he was a lecturer and laboratory instructor at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.
Jack received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1990 and did postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology.
In addition to one visiting professor, the chemistry department has acquired Professor John Bushweller '84. He received his B.A. with a major in chemistry from the College and his Ph.D. from the University of California.
Professor Victor Walker is the latest addition to the drama department. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Deborah Chay and Martin Favor are new English professors. Both are "on the cutting edge of their scholarship field" and "are very good additions to this department," said Louis Renza, the chair of the English department.
Professor Douglas Bolger joined the environmental studies department this year. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego. Bolger is an expert in conservation biology and evolutionary ecology."
The French and Italian department gained three new assistant professors: Virginia Jewiss, Andrea Tarnowski and David La Guardia. Jewiss graduated with a Masters degree and LaGuardia received a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Tarnowski received her Ph.D. from Yale.
Mlada Bukovansky, a specialist in international relations theory, is a new government professor.
Professor Judith Byfield, a Mellon fellow at the College for the past two years, joined the history department this year. Byfield said her main teaching interests are in African and Caribbean histories. This winter she will teach her first two courses, pre-colonial African history and Caribbean history.
The classics department has one new member, Professor Lindsay John Whaley. Whaley received her master's degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
The mathematics department acquired more professors than any other department. Prasad Jayanti, Shunhui Zhu and Elizabeth Finklestein received Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University, SUNY at Stony Brook and Columbia University, respectively, and Tamara Hummel received her Master of Science degree form Western Illinois University.
Alfonso Caramazza, who received his Ph.D. from John Hopkins University in Baltimore, is the newest psychology professor. He said he was excited to get away from the city. He said Dartmouth was a "beautiful place" and "quiet and desolate."
Professor Geoffrey Nunes, who joins the physics department, came to the College from Cornell, where he received his Ph.D. Although this is his first faculty position, he said he did some classroom teaching while he was a teaching assistant at Cornell.
The religion department welcomes two new professors: Ifi Amadiume and Amy Hollywood. Hollywood is one of the few new professors who will be teaching Fall term. She will teach Religion 13, "Women and Religion: New Exploration."
Professor Juan Medrano-Pizarro, an expert in Latin American poetry, will join the Spanish and Portuguese department.
