Sharon Stahl,
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Introducing new faculty
The following are among the new faculty members at the University. Others will be introduced periodically in this space. Bret Gustafson, Ph.D., joins the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor with a joint appointment in the program in social thought and analysis. He earned a doctorate from Harvard University in 2002 and a bachelor's degree from Tulane University in 1991. His interests include political anthropology, indigenous languages and political movements, foreign aid and state change, and national elites and transnational governance. He works primarily in Bolivia, but also in Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Peru. Rebecca Lester, Ph.D., joins the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor, where she will be a member of the core faculty in the program in medicine & society. She earned a doctorate from the University of California, San Diego, in 1998 and a bachelor's degree from the University of Florida in 1991. She is completing a three-year postdoctoral fellowship in culture and mental health with the Committee on Human Development at the University of Chicago. Her interests are medical anthropology, gender, embodiment, religion and ritual, psychological anthropology and cross-cultural psychiatry. She works in Mexico and the United States. Gwen Bennett, Ph.D., joins the Department of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor. She earned a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University and earned a doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles, this summer. Her interests lie in the areas of Chinese archaeology and art history. Her grants include a Committee for the Scholarly Communication with China Fellowship for dissertation research in China, a Peking University Fellowship, a China Ministry of Education Grant, and a National Resource Fellowship Title VI fellowship. She is working on an excavation project that is examining the origins of salt production in Sichuan, China. Jonathan Chase, Ph.D., joins the Department of Biology in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources in 1992, a master's in fisheries and wildlife from Utah State University in 1995 and a doctorate in ecology and evolution from the University of Chicago in 1998. His research combines observational, theoretical and experimental approaches to understand and explore the variants and invariants of species distribution, diversity and abundance. Honors and awards for his work include an National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant; a University of California, Davis, Center for Population Biology postdoctoral fellowship; an American Society of Naturalists Young Investigator Prize; and four years of funding from the NSF. |
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