Introducing new faculty members

Patrick Eisenlohr, Ph.D., joins the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor with a joint appointment in linguistics. He earned a master's degree in 1995 from Karl-Ruprechts Universitaet in Heidelberg, Germany, and a doctorate from the University of Chicago in 2001. In 2000-01, he was a lecturer in anthropology and in linguistics at Washington University. His research interests are nationalism, diaspora, language ideology, creolization, and the ethnicization of language. He works in South Asia and Mauritius.

Sara Friedman, Ph.D., joins the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor with a joint appointment in women's studies. She earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1988 and a doctorate from Cornell University in 2000. Her research interests are socialism and post socialism, market reforms, marriage, gender and sexuality, ethnicity and popular media. She works in China and Taiwan and speaks the Minnan dialect of Mandarin Chinese.

Shanti Parikh, Ph.D., joins the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor with a joint appointment in African and Afro-American studies. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia in 1990 and a doctorate from Yale University in 2000. During 2000-01, she was a postdoctoral fellow in African & Afro-American Studies at Washington University. Her research interests are AIDS, sexuality, gender, social change, community development, popular and mass culture, and globalization. She works in East Africa and speaks Kiswahili and Lusogoa, a language in Uganda.

Dorothy Katherine Grange, M.D., joins the School of Medicine as associate professor of pediatrics in the Division of Medical Genetics. She comes to the University from Saint Louis University, where she held positions in pediatrics and pathology. She earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., and a medical degree from the University of Florida College of Medicine. After residencies in pediatrics and pathology at the University of Wisconsin, she completed the Interinstitute Medical Genetics Fellowship Program at the National Institutes of Health.

Of note

Howard L. McLeod, Pharm.D., associate professor of medicine in the School of Medicine, is principal investigator on a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences titled "Functional Polymorphism Analysis in Drug Pathways." McLeod has received additional funding, bringing the total to more than $7.7 million.

Kerry Hill, who earned a master of social work degree in August, has been awarded a two-year Presidential Management Internship with the Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, HIV/AIDS Bureau. He will monitor and offer technical assistance to metropolitan and state HIV/AIDS programs funded through the Ryan White CARE Act.

Speaking of

Milorad Dudukovic, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Laura and William Jens Professor, presented an invited keynote lecture on "Analysis of Nontransparent Multiphase Systems" at the Fifth Gas Liquid Solid Symposium, held recently in Melbourne, Australia. The symposium took place in conjunction with the Sixth World Congress on Chemical Engineering. Dudukovic also presented three papers at the world congress. É

Marvin H. Marcus, Ph.D., and Rebecca Copeland, Ph.D., associate professors in the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures in Arts & Sciences, traveled to Berlin to attend the recent 2nd International Convention of Asia Scholars at the Freie UniversitŠt. Marcus served as a discussant on the panel "Reinventing the Child in the Literary Culture of Interwar Japan" and participated in a roundtable discussion of the book "Return to Japan --From 'Pilgrimage' to the West." Copeland presented "Imperiled by Fashion: Warbler in the Grove and the Modern Girl Student" in the panel "Constructed by Language: Modernity and Femininity in Meiji Japan." Copeland subsequently attended the conference "Across Time & Genre: Reading & Writing Women's Texts" at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, where she presented the paper "M is for Miyabe Miyuki" in the panel "Dial M for Murder (ÉMonsters, Manslaughtering, Miyabe Miyuki and Masculinity)."

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