Anderson, Marlow–Mathematics and Computer Science
Marlow’s scholarly interests focus on abstract algebra, and also on the history of mathematics, especially as it relates to the teaching of mathematics.  He is presently engaged in a study of Colin Maclaurin’s influential 1742 work A Treatise of Fluxions, the first persuasive and complete exposition of calculus from the Newtonian point of view, and will be continuing this study during his sabbatical in the fall.  He gave a preliminary report on this work at the regional MAA meeting in the spring.  He will be visiting Scotland and speaking at the Oxford History of Mathematics Study Group in the late fall, and expects to give college-wide lecture on this topic in the spring, ideally while he is co-teaching the CC history of mathematics course in Block 7.   

Anderson, Megan–Geology
Megan is a geophysicist with a variety of interests in structure, kinematics, and dynamics of active tectonic problems from the upper mantle through the crust of the Earth, particularly within subduction zones. A sampling of her active projects include investigating the structure of the active Seattle fault zone, within the Cascadia subduction zone in Washington State, with gravity and magnetic data; measuring seismic anisotropy to understand mountain building processes in the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming; and using earthquake locations and fault kinematic solutions to determine the shape and deformation of the actively subducting plate in the South American subduction zone, Argentina and Chile.

Arroyo-Rodriguez, Daniel—Spanish
Daniel specializes in the study of 20th century Spanish literature and film, particularly in the post-Franco period (1975–present). His research has a strong emphasis on literary analysis and on political and social theories. His most recent work focuses on the study of the Movement for the Recuperation of Historical Memory that is currently taking place in Spain. Throughout his research, Daniel explores literary and cinematographic discourse as a valuable window through which we can analyze the frontier between politics, memory and representation in contemporary Spain.

Ashley, Susan–History
Susan is finishing a manuscript on misfits in late 19th and early 20th century Italy and France. The work focuses on explanations of criminality, vagrancy, madness, genius, and sexual perversion, or, more briefly, on the "biology of evil" and its logic. She is also completing an article on the idea of sexual inversion and doing some initial research about the founder of French psychology, Théodule Ribot.

Bañagale, Ryan—Music
Ryan’s research examines the intersections of classical and popular music in America and the historical narratives that emerge from such points of collision.  His first book, Arranging Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue and the Creation of an American Icon (Oxford University Press, 2014), focuses on the ongoing—and surprising—life of Gershwin’s iconic Rhapsody in Blue over the course of the ninety years since its inception.  He currently sits on the editorial board of the George Gershwin Critical Edition and will be editing four separate arrangements of Rhapsody in Blue. Ryan is also one of the co-hosts of Critical Karaoke, a monthly radio program about music and the ideas it inspires as well as a contributor to the “A Day in the Life” series—both aired on KRCC and streaming online at CriticalKaraoke.com.

Barnes, Rebecca—Environmental Program
Rebecca’s research examines how anthropogenic disturbance and ecosystem variability impacts the biogeochemistry of nitrogen and carbon. Her work utilizes concepts and methods from the fields of geochemistry and ecosystem science to understand how terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems process nutrients and carbon. Currently, she is working in the montane forests near Colorado Springs to investigate the effects of fire on forest carbon stock recovery and resilience. In addition, she is examining the role of tides in the processing of nitrogen and organic matter dynamics in the Mid-Atlantic. 

Ben-Amots, Ofer–Music
The Summer of 2015 started with the completion of a new commissioned chamber work: “The Curved Road,” which was premiered in July at the Green Box Arts Festival in Green Mountain Falls, CO.  Meanwhile, I traveled to attend concert and recordings of my music in several European cities: first to Budapest, Hungary where the "Odessa Trio" was performed and professionally recorded. The next stop was the St. Vlas Music Festival in Bulgaria where the "Klezmer Concerto” was performed by the Burgas Symphony Orchestra with the renowned clarinetist Rossen Idealov. 2015-16 was an excellent year for my “Odessa Trio”: after the summer performances in Hungary and Germany, the work received numerous performance by various ensembles here in the US: Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, Colorado College, St. Paul, MN, and New York City at the prestigious North/South Consonance Series. In October, the Duo Quattro Mani (Susan Grace and Steven Beck) premiered a new two-piano work “Tango de viaje” and professionally recorded it for the Bridge Recording Label. "Tango de viaje” got a second performance later in the year when CC collaborated with UCCS in an extensive new music concert. In November I was invited to receive the first prize at the Smareglia International Competition in Udine, Italy. The highlight of the year was the production of "The Dybbuk” a chamber opera in three acts, in Big Sky Montana. The international team of performance was directed by CC Prof. Thomas Lindblade. The production was generously supported by the Dean’s  Office as well as a SEGway grant. In April the music department performed a concert to commemorate the Armenian Genocide of 1915. My piano arrangement of R. Yardumian’s “Armenian Suite” opened the program with a performance by CC’s pianist Susan Grace.  In addition to the creative work, I gave a lecture on the subject of J.S. Bach to the PILLAR Lifelong Learning Institute and conducted a master class on music composition at the Metro State University in Denver. in April the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs performed twice the “Concertino - From Darkness to Light” for clarinet, guitar, and orchestra as part of their last concert of the season. Finally, in May I attended the Rimon Artist Salon in St Paul, MN for an event titled, Copyright or Birthright: Performing the Music of Ofer Ben-Amots.  

Bentley, Tamara–Art
Tamara concentrates on relationships between visual and literary values in 17th century and 18th century Chinese and Japanese paintings and prints; as well as the international exchange of imagery in the early modern era. She has several articles published on the international circulation of prints in circa 1600 and on printed playing cards. She is particularly interested in issues of comparative print culture, expanding public markets for art, trade, and the treatment of “otherness” in this era. In 2012 she published the book The Figurative Works of Chen Hongshou (1599-1652): Authentic Voices / Expanding Markets with Ashgate Press. She is currently contributing to and editing a volume of essays by diverse scholars titled Picturing Commerce: Visual Forms in Motion in and from the Asian Maritime Circuits, 1550 -1800. She is also writing an article on trade in the South and East China Seas for the online Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, due to be published next year (2017).

Bertrand, Ralph–Molecular Biology
Ralph works on the origins and migration patterns of human populations in South America, Oceania, and the Middle East. More specifically, he is examining the patterns of migration across the Middle East into Asia, and ultimately into South America. Students interested in molecular genetics, anthropology, and evolution participate in the research.

Blasenheim, Peter–History
Peter continues to work on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Minas Gerais (Brazil) history. He recently submitted a lengthy article on politics in Minas during this period. In 2010, he co-edited a book with a Brazilian colleagues on the prominent Latin Americanist Richard M. Morse who wrote on urbanization, particularly the Brazilian city, and Latin American intellectual history, specifically on Brazilian modernism. The book, O Codigo Morse, was published that year in Belo Horizonte.

Bowman, Amanda—Chemistry and Biochemistry
Amanda is an inorganic chemist who is interested in the study of transition metal compounds, especially those that exhibit spin-crossover behavior. Spin-crossover compounds are molecules that undergo a dramatic change in magnetic behavior due to changes in external conditions such as temperature, pressure, and light. These compounds have potential applications as molecular switches, for data storage, and as optical indicators of temperature. A variety of techniques such as NMR spectroscopy, EPR spectroscopy, magnetic susceptibility measurements, X-ray crystallography, and computational chemistry are used to study these compounds and evaluate their potential applications.
Brasuel, Murphy–Chemistry and Biochemistry
Murphy’s research interests center around taking advantage of the unique properties of nano-materials. The small size is useful for developing portable multiplexed sensors for the measurement of multiple analytes with the same device. Individual sensors can be developed for measurement in confined volumes (i.e., inside cells). In an ongoing process nano-technology is being incorporated into lower and upper level chemistry courses to give students some understanding of this growing field. As this research is an application of visible light spectroscopy, knowledge in this area is also being used to develop nondestructive methods for studies in art and archaeology.

Brown, David–Mathematics and Computer Science
David’s field is mathematical biology. He has worked on a wide range of topics, including the spread of infectious diseases, predator-prey dynamics, and the regulation of gene expression in bacteria. His recent work has focused on bacterial quorum sensing (with Phoebe Lostroh) and ladybug-aphid population interactions (with Miro Kummel and Andrea Bruder). His areas of mathematical interest include differential equations and probability.

Bruder, Andrea—Mathematics and Computer Science
Andrea’s research interests are in the theory of differential equations and their applications in mathematical biology. Most recently, she has worked with David Brown in the math department and Miro Kummel in the environmental program on modeling an insect predator-prey system. Their field system consists of ladybugs and aphids, which are patchily distributed on racemes of yucca plants in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. The patches are connected by the relatively fast dispersal of the ladybugs, whereas the aphids are relatively sessile. In a 30-day field study they observed a split of the aphid population sizes into extremely large and extremely small populations, a phenomenon known as spatial self-organization or pattern formation. In order to study the effects of density independent predator and prey immigration into the system and migration due to the predator's attraction to predation, work in progress includes the study of a two-patch, ordinary differential equations model, which is continuous in time and discrete in space (with David Brown, Miro Kummel, and Hannah Thompson).

Bull, Anthony—Human Biology and Kinesiology
Anthony’s scholarly interests include energy balance and the impacts on obesity, health, and performance; improving fitness testing of athletes to enhance conditioning and performance; accurate physical activity monitoring through new more accessible technologies; and increasing local active transport and leisure time activity for improved community health.  He is developing a longitudinal examination of energy balance patterns in college students, working with local stakeholders to improve opportunities for daily physical activity in the community, and continues to mentor students in self-developed projects in kinesiology.

Burge, Janet—Mathematics and Computer Science
Janet’s research spans several areas. Her main research area is in design rationale, a sub-field of Artificial Intelligence in Design. Design rationale describes the reasons behind decisions made when designing software or other artifacts. This information can be potentially valuable to assist with design modification and re-use but is often difficult to obtain. Her research in using text mining to extract rationale from existing documents was funded under an NSF CAREER award and her most recent paper in the area (written with graduate and undergraduate students) was presented at the International Conference on Design, Computing, and Cognition (2016). She is also co-author of the book “Rationale-Based Software Engineering,” published by Springer (2008). Most recently she has been studying design theory and her paper “Untangling Wicked Problems” with Raymond McCall from the University of Colorado, Boulder, was published in the Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing Journal (2016). In addition to her design research, Janet is also an active researcher in Computer Science education. She led a large multi-institution NSF-funded project to incorporate communication into the CS curriculum and most recently has been studying if using design rationale in class assignments helps students produce better designs; research that was most recently presented at the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education conference (2016).

Burns, Shane–Physics
Shane’s principal research interest is cosmology. He is a member of the Supernova Cosmology Project, one of two research teams whose leaders received the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. The prize was awarded for the groups’ discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate. He is currently working on a textbook on particle physics and cosmology.

Butte, George–English
After publishing I Know That You Know That I Know: Narrating Subjects from "Moll Flanders" to "Marnie" (2004) in Ohio State University Press's highly-respected Theory and Interpretation of Narrative series, George has continued his project in narrative theory:  developing a non-idealist, post-structuralist phenomenology of narrative grounded in the work of the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty.  His new book, Suture and Narrative: Deep Intersubjectivity in Fiction and Film, will be published early in 2017, again in the Theory and Interpretation of Narrative series at Ohio State.  This book has chapters on suture theory in film, deep intersubjectivity in Henry James, the vexed narrative problems of the Peter Pan stories, including what he calls "the ricochet effect", and close readings of The WIngs of the Dove and The Golden Bowl in print and film, J.M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy, Nothing But A Man (1960), The Silence of the Lambs,  Disney's Peter Pan, the Coen Brothers' Raising Arizona, with an epilogue on Jeanette Winterson’s Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, and Marc Webb’s (500) Days of Summer.  His next project focuses on narrative medicine, as he develops a new course, Introduction to Narrative Medicine.

Cervantes, Phillip–Physics
Phillip’s scholarly interests lie in solid-state high pressure physics, more specifically, the electronic band structure of semiconductors under pressure. Simply put, he squeezes crystals (e.g. table salt) so they become uniformly smaller and observe/measure how their optical properties change. He is also interested in the magnetic properties of thin crystal surfaces and collaborates with the “Center for Magnetism and Magnetic Nanostructures (CMMNS)” since the Fall of 2013. He published an introductory textbook on electricity and magnetism titled “An Unconventional Introduction to Electricity and Magnetism, 3rd Ed. (2014)”.

Chan, Emily–Psychology
Emily is a social psychologist with broad interest in social cognition. She is interested in topics relating to how people perceive other social entities (branding of corporations in terms of warmth and competence), the expression of prejudices and discrimination, stereotype threat and interventions, and the cultural analysis of religious cognitions.
Coggins, Elizabeth—Political Science
Elizabeth’s scholarly interests in political science include ideological identification, public opinion, and political psychology. Her current research centers on the individual-level foundations of ideological identifications, including psychological derivations and environmental factors—and the moral and political presentation of those factors—in shaping ideological attachments. 

Coleman, Tracy–Religion
Tracy is a scholar of Hinduism and its traditions of bhakti (devotion), especially Krishna-bhakti in the Sanskrit epics and purāṇas, and her teaching and research address issues of women, men, and gender in religion and society. Her current book manuscript -- a study of Krishna's relationships with women in the Hariva ṃśa, the Vi ṣṇu Purāṇa, and the Bhāgavata Purā ṇa -- reconsiders the prevalent claim that bhakti empowers women in social and religious life. Her study demonstrates to the contrary that despite the democratic potential of various devotional movements in which women are sometimes glorified, bhakti often functions as a conservative historical process upholding the traditional patriarchal order. By situating the development of bhakti within a larger cultural discourse on dharma (truth, duty, proper behavior), the book explores Krishna's sensuous relationships with women in contrast to the Buddha's ascetic renunciation of familial attachments and thus shows how competing conceptions of dharma were linked to heroic male figures as embodiments of truth and authority in socio-religious life. The eventual book will thereby provide a brief comparative history of gender and salvation in South Asian religions and offer a new interpretation of bhakti that holds relevance for the study of religion and social change in other cultures.

Craighead, William—Economics and Business
Bill’s primary research interests are in the area of international macroeconomics.  Topics of his projects have included adjustment of current account deficits, the behavior of the US-UK real exchange rate across different historical periods and monetary policy rules for open economies.  His work has been published in journals including the Journal of International Money and Finance, Economic Inquiry, the Journal of Macroeconomics and The World Economy. 

Cramer, Owen–Classics
Owen is a Hutchins-Chicago generalist with an Oberlin education, trained at the Arionera University of Texas as a Homerist (dissertation on “Odysseus in the Iliad”). He tries to keep up with developments in early Greek literature and history but has found himself lecturing for the Sunoikisis Medieval Latin course as well. He has published occasional reviews of books on Homer, postings to the now venerable Classics List online. An ongoing scholarly interest is the cultural dynamics (even crises) of the Athenian democracy of the late 5th century and the Roman republic of the first century, BCE.

Cronin, Tom–Political Science
Tom’s latest books are Leadership Matters: Unleashing the Power of Paradox (Paradigm Publishers, 2012); Colorado Politics and Policy: Governing a Purple State, co-authored with Robert D. Loevy (University of Nebraska Press, 2012); and The Paradoxes of the American Presidency, 5th edition, co-authored with Michael A. Genovese (Oxford University Press, to be published early 2017). His current research focuses on “American Politics and Politicians.” He is also writing on American political novels.

Daly, Helen—Philosophy
Helen is a metaphysician and philosopher of language in the Anglo-American (analytic) tradition. She works on fundamental philosophical research, applied to important issues of our day. For example, she has published work on the application of philosophical theories of vagueness to the practical problem of categorization by sex and gender. The fundamental question there is how to reason logically, using vague categories, but the problem has special urgency in its application to sex and gender. Categorization by sex and/or gender is particularly fraught and so demands particular care; Helen’s approach to the logic of vague categories provides a sensible path forward. She has also recently been engaged in the question of whether eternal damnation is consistent with other tenets of Christianity--an especially important application of metaphysics for many people. Helen’s newest research project is to develop an account of insults that explains how they function as part of human communication, broadly construed. It is a practical application of her novel approach to the study of pragmatics, grounded in Paul Grice’s conversational implicatures. Her hope is that a deeper understanding of insults will lead to better communication and thereby a more civil society.

Dantzler, Prentiss—Sociology
Prentiss' research interest include urban poverty and inequality, neighborhood change and community development practice.  His studies focus on aspects of housing and residential mobility, racial politics and public policy within urban areas.  Prentiss has forthcoming papers entitled, "Exclusionary Zoning: State & Local Reactions to the Mount Laurel Doctrine" in The Urban Lawyer Journal and a review essay in the Journal of Urban History  entitled, "Agency in Policing the Poor: Protecting Social Status and Fortifying Punishment".  He currently has three papers under review centered on poverty spells amongst public housing residents, neighborhood satisfaction within a poor urban, area and the intersections of feminist thought and community activism exemplified by the Black Lives Matter movement.

Daugherty, Margaret—Chemistry and Biochemistry
Peggy is a physical biochemist who uses thermodynamics to investigate how chemistry give rise to function in biological systems. Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1 is of interest to scientists due to its ability to utilize a diverse set of nutrients as a source of carbon and nitrogen, and to its high level of competence with regards to natural transformation. Recent findings showed that A. baylyi ADP1 survives starvation induced conditions during long term stationary phase through upregulation of thirty genes, approximately 25% of which are denoted conserved hypothetical genes. Conserved hypothetical genes are those that have been identified through genetic analysis, but have not had a protein product identified. Subsequently, a number of associated genes are encoded in an operon, suggesting that they work together to confer resistance to starvation conditions. The goal of my lab is to clone these genes and characterize their biological function. My lab is initially focusing on genes that have been identified by bioinformatics to encode for enzymes with testable functions. Bioinformatic approaches identified genes that potentially encode for a cysteine protease (gene ACIAD1960), and a triad of genes that occur together which encode a kinase (gene ACIAD1964), and a phosphatase (gene ACIAD1965) and a protein of unknown function (gene ACIAD1966). We have confirmed that gene ACIAD1960, does indeed encode a cysteine protease (4). Specifically, we plan to: (1). Characterize the gene product for ACIAD1960, the cysteine protease, StiP. We will characterize the solution conditions that contribute to maximal activity, including pH, ionic strength, metal ion dependence and contribution of reducing agents. (2). Clone and characterize the gene product for ACIAD1964. We will test the hypothesis that the protein that is encoded by this gene is a kinase, as has been indicated by bioinformatics approaches.(3). Clone and characterize the gene product for ACIAD1965. We will test the hypothesis that the protein that is encoded by this gene is a phosphatase, as has been indicated by bioinformatics approaches. (4). Clone and characterize the gene product for ACIAD1966. We will test the hypothesis that the protein that is encoded by this gene forms a multimeric complex with the gene products of ACIAD1964 and ACIAD1965.

Davis, William–Comparative Literature and German
William is a specialist in European Romanticism, with particular interests in relations between German and British Romanticism as well as between philosophy and literature. He has published on Goethe, Schelling, Novalis, Hölderlin, Coleridge, and Percy and Mary Shelley. He is currently working on a project involving connections between the German Idealist philosopher, Friedrich Schelling, and Romantic poetry. He is also working on the topic of Romantic Hellenism—the relations between Romantic poets in Germany and Britain and the idea of Greece. In addition William works in the area of theories and philosophies of literature and has published articles, and made conference presentations, on various topics relating to the field of literary theory.

Davis-Green, Marie—Theatre and Dance
Marie’s performance installation designs were chosen for inclusion to the 2015 International Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space.   Her work was also chosen for exhibition for the World Stage Design 2014 Biennial in Cardiff, Wales. She created set designs for “Angels in America” and “The Dutchman” at CC this year.  Marie is currently working with environmental and design students on local community renovation projects that include the Pikes Peak Summit House, the Bon/Weber corridor and the Ivywild Greenhouse, in collaboration with local entrepreneurs, community and business partners.  She will continue work on these projects along with eco-conscious performance installations while on sabbatical this coming year.

de Araujo, Pedro—Economics and Business
Pedro is currently working on several projects related to the economics of HIV/AIDS. He constructs macroeconomic models to investigate the relationship between socioeconomic characteristics, economic growth, and HIV prevalence. In one of his most recent projects, Pedro is constructing a life-cycle model to investigate possible deterrence effects of a life insurance policy on HIV prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa. As an applied econometrician, Pedro is also interested in empirical investigations in various other fields of economics, such as: the economics of higher education.

Dobson, Marcia–Classics
Marcia’s recent writing, teaching and research lie in the interstices of Classics (in particular classical myth and drama), and contemporary psychoanalysis. She teaches ancient Greek, “Myth and Meaning,” “Discovering the Unconscious,” and “Life of the Soul”, as well as “Contemporary Psychoanalysis” at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute as a summer course for C.C. undergraduates. ” All of these courses contribute to the Psychoanalysis Minor, which she chairs.  Marcia presents at major conferences and has recently compiled and edited a series of papers, published in two journals on “Belonging and Not Belonging,” from the International Association for Self Psychology meeting, held in Jerusalem in 2014. She has also presented a paper entitled “Why Does Orestes Stay Mad?” at an International Conference on Psychology and Classics in Leuven, Belgium, in the spring of 2015. Presently, she and her husband, John Riker, Professor of Philosophy at Colorado College are co-chairs of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee on Psychoanalysis in Undergraduate Education, and run a grant awarded to Colorado College by David O’Donaghue for $10.000 a year to support psychoanalytic studies at the College.

Dounay, Amy—Chemistry
Amy is a medicinal chemist whose research involves the design and synthesis of new drug candidates. Her recent work in the pharmaceutical industry has included the investigation of new treatments for psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders, including schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease. She’s currently undertaking new collaborative research projects to address neglected tropical diseases such as African sleeping sickness and malaria.

Driscoll, Lori–Psychology
Lori’s research explores the complex interrelationships between nutrition, toxicology, and neurobehavioral development. Using rodents as a model for human neural functioning, she manipulates dietary factors, exposure to environmental toxins, and gut-brain communication in the early postnatal period and measures their impact on brain development and complex motivational and cognitive processes in adulthood. Her current projects include determining the influence of direct communication between commensal gut bacteria and the brain in shaping the development of anxiety, depression, and executive functioning.

Drossman, Howard–Education
Trained as a bioanalytical chemist, Howard’s current research focuses on biogeochemistry, environmental chemistry and environmental education. He is co-founder of the Catamount Institute and Catamount Center, two nonprofit environmental organizations that provide programs  enhancing ecological stewardship through research and education. His major current focus is studying  how conceptions of ecological stewardship develop through education and experience. Howard is currently developing a Semester in Environmental Education Program, a residential study-off campus program, where undergraduate students learn about themselves as teachers and learners through extended teaching partnerships with local K-12 schools.  Since 2005, Howard has been working with the NSF-funded Center for Multi-scale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes (CMMAP) at Colorado State University, where our partnership seeks to improve undergraduate Earth Systems Science education through new interdisciplinary classes and mentor graduate student Fellows in how to teach such classes. Howard also serves as Board President of the Catamount Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to transdisciplinary education and research on ecological and geographical issues in the southwest.

Ebersole, Jim–Organismal Biology and Ecology
Jim does research with students to learn how to restore Colorado alpine vegetation damaged by recreationists. He has published with student co-authors several journal articles in an international journal, presented at the Society for Ecological Restoration meeting, and contributed to a chapter in an edited volume. His work is well described by the title of a recent presentation: “Alpine vegetation restoration of social trails on Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks.”

Erdal, Kristi–Psychology
Kristi is currently collaborating with several students on sport psychology related projects.  Kristi and Kristen Liberty ‘15 collected additional data on Shaina Riciputi’s ’14 senior thesis project entitled, "The Effect of Stereotype Threat on Student-Athlete Math Performance," which is currently under review for publication.   Additional projects that have come out of this work about student perceptions of athletes have been assisted by Beverly Reynolds '15 and Monica Weindling '17.  Currently, Kiersten Kelly's '16 senior thesis project entitled, "Diagnostic Terminology, Athlete Status, and History of Concussion Affect Return to Play Expectations and Anticipated Symptoms Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury" is also under review for publication.

Erickson, Stefan—Mathematics and Computer Science
Stefan works on algebraic number theory and hyperelliptic curve cryptography. His most recent publication is entitled “Explicit Formulas for Real Hyperelliptic Curves of Genus 2 in Affine Representation” with Andreas Stein and Michael J. Jacobson, Jr. He is currently finishing a second paper in that field with two former CC undergraduates. He has also engaged with project with two CC students on “Reduction Algorithms for Apollonian Circle Packings.” His research in computational number theory has broad implications in the field of cryptography.

Ericson, Joan–German, Russian, East Asian Languages
Joan’s research focuses on two areas: modern Japanese women writers and their literary critics, and Japanese children’s literature and culture in the context of modernization. This includes literary parodies of folk tales such as “Momotaro” (Peach Boy) and the politicization of children’s literature, especially between 1890 and 1945. She has served as president of the international Association of Teachers of Japanese, and continues to be involved on several fronts in promoting new ways of teaching Japanese language and culture both in the classroom and in the community, including the creation of a new literary manga textbook based on the novel Botchan by Natsume Soseki aimed at students of third-year Japanese language. While she was on sabbatical in Kyoto, Japan with a Fulbright Research Grant during the academic year 2010–11, she was affiliated with Doshisha University. Her research project focused on the concept of children’s literature in Japan in the early twentieth century. 

Evitt, Re–English
Re is a medievalist who works on drama, Marie de France, Dante, and Chaucer. Interested in literary history, semiotics, and cultural poetics, she also enjoys teaching History of the English Language, Shakespeare, fabliaux, and Renaissance Culture. Re records for the Chaucer Studio and recently finished a solo recording of The Parson’s Tale. She has written articles on musical structure in medieval drama, on political uses of liturgical drama, and on dramatic representations of Jews in western medieval Europe. Most recently, Re published an article on crucifixion plays in the Wakefield cycle: “’He is inwardly flayde’: Inscription and the Wakefield Buffeting’s Self-Incriminating Jew” (in ‘Ye Baw for Bokes’: Essays on Medieval Manuscripts and Poetics. Ed. Michael Calabrese and Stephen H. A. Shepherd. Los Angeles: Marymount Press, 2012). She is currently working on a book on adversus Judaeos rhetoric in medieval drama: Antijudaism and the Medieval Prophet Plays. She has, as well, co-authored a book on literary representations of women in medieval culture.

Fenn, Aju–Economics and Business
Aju is an applied micro-econometrician. He researches topics in the economics of sports, the economics of addiction, environmental economics and the pedagogical aspects of teaching and doing research with undergraduates in Economics. His work in sports economics examines the determinants of competitive balance, the willingness to pay for a new stadium, the demand for NFL games, market power in the NFL, and the impact of race on sporting issues.  Aju has published papers on the NFL, the NBA, the NHL and MLB.  He has also examined the impact of addiction information on the demand for cigarettes and the dollar value of concealing addiction information to cigarette firms. In addition to his own research, Aju works collaboratively with students on their research and has published papers with CC students. Past student projects include the demand for NFL games, a model of profit maximization in the NFL and the impact of free agency on competitive balance in the NFL. Aju has also written chapters for Springer, Sage and Oxford that introduce the general economist to the NFL, the field of Sports Economics and the evolution of football leagues. His research has been featured in the Wall Street Journal. Aju's pedadgogical research examines the determinants of teaching evaluations, strategies to create valuable undergraduate research assistants and strategies to publish with student co-authors.  He has published in journals such as The Southern Economic Journal, The Journal of Economic Education, Economics Letters, Applied Economics, The Journal of Sports Economics and the International Journal of Sport Finance. 

Fish, Krista—Anthropology
Krista is a biological anthropologist who studies primate ecology and evolution. Her past research in Central America and Madagascar investigated the influence of habitat disturbance on primate biology and behavior. Currently, Krista is collaborating with US, South African, and Malagasy researchers on a project exploring the evolution of primate body size and activity pattern. With fieldsites in southern Madagascar and northern South Africa, the project will focus on clarifying the relationship between body size, predator pressure, and foraging behaviors in nocturnal primates.

Fricke, Henry–Geology
Henry is a stable isotope geochemist who is currently working with students on a wide range of research topics. These include: the nature of terrestrial climate during greenhouse periods of the past; reconstructing ecological relations between herbivorous dinosaurs, plants, and carnivorous dinosaurs of ancient North America and Madagascar; determining dietary preferences and migrational patterns of extinct animals such as dinosaurs and early mammals; estimating the elevation of western North American landscapes in the past; and constraining the provenance of humans remains and how movement of prehistoric human groups is related to other archaeological information.
										
Fuller, Timothy–Political Science
Tim teaches political theory with special interest in British political thought since the 17th century, in particular the work of Thomas Hobbes and Michael Oakeshott. He teaches courses on Liberalism, Conservatism, Neo-Conservativism and Libertarianism, the American political tradition, and the Foundations of Political Economy. He has published and presented on conservatism, liberal education, concepts of the university, ideas of friendship and politics, on the nature of law. He publishes regularly on contemporary issues of politics and education.

Furtak, Rick–Philosophy
Rick has been completing a book manuscript about truthfulness and cognition in affective experience, entitled Knowing Emotions and informed by research from multiple academic disciplines (from literature to psychology and other varieties of affective science).  He also continues to write about the relations between philosophy and poetry, as well as topics in existential philosophy (especially drawing upon the work of Søren Kierkegaard).  His recent publications also include several essays about love, a few having to do with the legacy of ancient Greek and 19th-century American philosophy, and some shorter works on illness, mortality, and healing.  

Garcia, Claire–English
Claire was lead editor of the collection, From Uncle Tom’s Cabin to The Help: Critical Perspectives on White-Authored Narratives of Black Life. She is continuing her work on race, modernism, gender, citizenship and the Black Atlantic. Her essay, “No one, I’m sure, is ever homesick in Paris: Jessie Fauset’s French Imaginary” was published in Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic (Jeremy Braddock and Jonathan Eburne, editors˜Johns Hopkins 2013). Her article, “‘On Being Young— A Woman — and Coloured’ in Paris and Tangiers: A Geocritical Approach to Mapping Anita Thompson Dickinson Reynolds’ Modernism” is forthcoming in Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International. Her article, “Black Women Writers, Modernism, and Paris,” was published in a special edition of The International Journal of Francophone Studies, Last year, her paper on black women students in Paris was selected as one of a dozen chosen from over seventy submissions for presentation at the Black Paris Seminar at the American Comparative Literature Association conference. She has presented papers at the Collegium for African American research in Liverpool and Paris and the Afro-Modernisms 1 and 2 Conferences in Liverpool. Her recent presentations focus on both anglophone and francophone feminist writers such as the Nardal sisters of Martinique, Harlem Renaissance luminary Jessie Fauset, and the adventurer Anita Thompson Dickinson Reynolds. She continues work on her book project, ‘They Have Discovered the Relativity of All Things”: Black Women Writers in Paris 1900-1960. Her research has taken her to archives and libraries in Aix-en-Provence, Paris, Washington, D.C., Martinique, New Haven, London, and New York. Thanks to generous grants from Feminist and Gender Studies and the English Department, Claire finished up her research in Martinique in May. She spent much of the summer in Paris working in the Sénat Archives and the BnF and writing. Claire hasn’t completely abandoned her identity as a scholar of Henry James. She contributed a chapter called, “Citizens of Babylon: Henry James’s Modern Parisian Women” to the volume Henry James’s Europe: Heritage and Transfers (Open University Press 2011). Claire has also become interested in more contemporary issues of class, race, and gender. A conference paper, “Black Bourgeois Women’s Narratives in the Post-Reagan, ‘Post-Civil Rights’, ‘Post-Feminist’ Era” is now a chapter in From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances (Wayne State University Press 2010). Claire continues to assemble an anthology of Jessie Fauset’s work with Fauset scholar Carolyn Wedin.  She does a lot of presentations on her research at other colleges and universities in the area, and has done several keynote speeches around the state on issues relating to education, race, gender, ethnic studies, and citizenship.

Gardiner, David–Religion
As part of his research in Japanese Religion, David has many articles/chapters in books on Shingon Tantric Buddhism and the 9th century monastic scholar Kukai. He is currently completing a book-length translation of a seminal theological treatise of Kukai's on the differences between "exoteric and esoteric Buddhism." He has interest in Buddhist thought and practice, comparative theology, Buddhist-Christian dialogue, conversations about “religion and science,” issues related to death and dying, and the Mind and Life Institute dialogues that bring together Buddhist scholars and practitioners (including the Dalai Lama) with leading western scholars in fields such as neuroscience, psychology, biology and ethics. He is actively engaged on and off campus in developing programs of contemplative practice that integrate with our daily lives. Recent publications include translations from Kukai in Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook (Univ. Hawaii, 2011), and the articles: “Paths Across Borders: A Comparative Study of Japanese and Tibetan Models of the Buddhist Path” (Pacific World, Fall 2011), a chapter called “The Body” in the book The Buddhist World (Routledge Press, 2015) and “Kukai’s Philosophy” in The Dao Companion to Japanese Philosophy (Springer Publications, 2016).

Giuffre, Katherine—Sociology
Kathy Giuffre is a sociologist who specializes in the social network analysis, particularly in the art world. Her most recent publications are: The Drunken Spelunker's Guide to Plato (Blair 2015), Communities and Social Networks: Using Social Network Analysis to Re-think Urban and Community Studies (Polity 2012), Collective Creativity: Art and Society in the South Pacific (Ashgate Press 2009), An Afternoon in Summer: My Year in the South Seas (Awa Press 2010), "Cultural Production in Networks" in the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2015), “The Return of the Natives: Globalization and Negative Ties” in Poetics (2010), and “Half the Right People: Network Density and Creativity” in Culture Unbound (2011). She is currently working on a new book project, tentatively titled Outrage: Social Transgression and the Reception of Genius.

Goodwin, Idris—Theatre and Dance
Idris’s work as a performance writer revolves around themes of inequality, identity politics and cultural empowerment through the arts, primarily music. His upcoming stage plays and performance pieces investigate both the physical and ideological collisions across varied cultural allegiance. As co-host and contributor to the Critical Karaoke radio program  (broadcast on KRCC) he regularly engages with music and history.​

Gould, John–Political Science
John’s past research examines the intersection of politics and economics in post-Communist Europe, the Balkans, and sub-Saharan Africa. His publications have appeared in Business and Politics, Review of International Politic al Economy , Global Governance, Comparative European Studies, Research in Social Movement Conflict and Change, Slovakia, Problems of Post-Communism and Europe-Asia Studies. John also published, The Politics of Privatization:Wealth and Power in Postcommunist Europe (Lynne Rienner, 2011). He is currently investigating the politics of LGBT rights in post-communist Europe and the impact of crises on EU cohesion amongst new EU member states.

Grace, Eve–Political Science
Eve specializes in the study of texts of political philosophy, in particular addressing the question of the radical conflicts between political, religious, and moral life on the one hand, and philosophy on the other. She teaches a variety of authors, from Plato to Shakespeare, to Nietzsche and beyond. Her scholarly research and publication until now have focused on Rousseau’s critical examination of the doctrines of the French and English Enlightenment.

Grace, Michael–Music
Michael is investigating the relationship between piano music and paintings. His current focus is on the art of Giotto and the music of George Crumb, and will be followed by work on Raphael and Liszt, Böcklin and Rachmaninoff, and Watteau and Debussy. In addition to this, he seeks new examples of early music and explores its performance practices in the context of expanding the repertoire of the Collegium Musicum.

Gratz, Lynne—Environmental Program
Lynne's scholarly interests include air quality, atmospheric chemistry and transport. The objective of her work is to understand the spatiotemporal impacts of air pollutants on communities and sensitive ecosystems. She is currently studying the emissions of mercury to the atmosphere from industrial point sources and major urban/industrial areas. She also studies the chemical transformations of speciated mercury in the free troposphere. 

Gray, Emilie—Organismal Biology and Ecology
Emilie is an evolutionary physiologist investigating how insects and other arthropods adapt to ever changing environments. She’s particularly interested in mosquitoes, as their ability to respond to stresses such as climate change and insecticide use will determine the distribution of diseases they transmit. In this context, she has been involved in research examining physiological adaptation in vectors of Malaria, Dengue, Zika and West Nile. As a resident of the arid west, she is also keen to understand eco-physiological responses to climate change in a variety of local species ranging from scorpions to mountain pine beetles.

Grover, Neena–Chemistry and Biochemistry
Neena is a nucleic acid biochemist who investigates the rules for the formation of RNA structures through thermodynamic analyses. She and her research students study small RNA that form unique structures or have interesting physiological properties, such as a small RNA derived from AIDS-causing HIV-1 virus called the TAR RNA. Her research interests include developing new pedagogical methods for teaching science. She has developed methods to use discussions in science courses along with using Research-Based and Service Learning approaches. She is especially interested in developing meaningful science outreach activities for her students.

Guerra, Santiago—Southwest Studies
Santiago is an anthropologist who researches how drug consumption, drug trafficking and drug policing impact social life. His primary research analyzes the process of social change experienced by the South Texas-Mexico border region as a result of the contemporary national security imperative to secure borders and the prohibitionist politics of drug control. He is also currently conducting an ethnographic project that analyzes evolving public attitudes towards marijuana as both a recreational substance and a medicine in Colorado during the current “legalization” period.

Hanson, Sara—Molecular Biology
Sara is an evolutionary geneticist studying the evolution of yeast sexual reproduction. Using a combination of comparative genomics and classical genetics, her research focuses on how the mechanisms underlying mating-type switching, mating, and sporulation have changed across a diverse range of yeast species. This work helps us understand how some yeast species become human or plant pathogens, and how we can improve other yeast species for industrial applications. 

Haskell, Clay—Film and Media Studies
Clay's scholarly interests include film history, social justice filmmaking, and the way technology influences visual communication styles and patterns of storytelling.  He is currently working on a number of film projects, none of which is based on a comic book.

Hatton, Olivia—Molecular Biology
Olivia’s scholarly interests lie at the intersection of immunology, cancer biology, and virology.  She is currently studying a post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD), a life-threatening cancer that can arise in organ transplant recipients and is associated with Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV).  Her research focuses primarily on understanding how EBV manipulates it’s host’s cell biology to evade detection from the immune system and to transform normal B cells into cancerous cells.  Her current project focuses on understanding how an EBV viral protein (LMP1) and its host cell homolog CD40 signal to alter cellular metabolism.

Hautzinger, Sarah–Anthropology
Sarah is an ethnographer and cultural anthropologist with particular interests in gender politics; state power, police and military subcultures; religion and ritual; Latin America, the Caribbean, and the African Diaspora; the American West. Her published books are Violence in the City of Women: Police and Batterers in Bahia, Brazil (University of California Press, 2007) about all-women police stations, and Beyond Post-Traumatic Stress: Homefront Struggles with the Wars on Terror (with Jean Scandlyn; Left Coast Press, 2014) about soldier and civilian relations in Colorado Springs in the wake of the Post 9/11 wars; over twenty CC student researchers collaborated across the course of this project. Additional student collaborations include the Feminist Last-Naming Project, and the Crestone-based Spiritual Practices and Social Applications. Published articles include work on pedagogy and field research methods and analysis. 

Hayward, Steven—English
Steve just published his fourth book, a collection of new and selected short stories called To Dance the Beginning of the World. He is at work on several projects, including Critical Karaoke, a collaborative radio project Ryan Banagale (Music) and Idris Goodwin (Drama and Dance). 

Hendrickson, David–Political Science
David has teaching and research interests in U.S. foreign policy, international relations, strategic studies, and early American history. His most recent books are Union, Nation, or Empire? The American Approach to International Relations, 1789–1941 (Kansas, 2009) and Peace Pact: The Lost World of the American Founding (Kansas, 2003). He has several blogbooks, including IR and All That, Energy Predicament, and What They Think. He has recently published essays in The National Interest, Ethics and International Affairs, and American Review (Australia).  His homepage is www.davidhendrickson.org.
 
Hernández-Lemus, Alberto–Philosophy
Alberto does research on the role of philosophy in the evolution of the concept of race. He has written on the nature of civil society in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, as well as more generally on the subject of globalization. He is currently exploring the function of state violence in Latin America and its relationship to U.S. hegemony in the region. He has an ongoing interest in the semiotics of cinema. 

Heschel, Shane–Organismal Biology and Ecology
Shane is a plant physiologist who examines how plants adapt to stressful environments. His projects include examining how water-use efficiency evolves in plant populations, how leaf-level gas exchange and germination physiology dictate species’ range limits, and the importance of water-use physiology to plants of the Southwest.

Hilberry, Jane–English
Jane Hilberry's most recent book is a volume of poetry titled Still the Animals Enter (Red Hen Press 2016).  Her previous collection, Body Painting, won the Colorado Book Award for Poetry. With her father Conrad Hilberry, she co-authored This Awkward Art: Poems by a Father and Daughter, introduced by Richard Wilbur. Her interest in visual art led her to edit a letterpress volume titled The Burden of the Beholder:  Dave Armstrong and the Art of Collage and to write a book of biography/art criticism called The Erotic Art of Edgar Britton.  She also co-authored, with Mary Lynn Pulley, a little book about email, Get Smart: How Email Can Make or Break Your Career—and Your Organization.  In addition to teaching Creative Writing, Creativity, and Literature at Colorado College, she has facilitated creativity workshops and arts-based leadership development programs across the United States and in Canada.

Hilt, Richard–Physics
Dick pursues multiple paths in the integration of physics with other fields, such as archeology, and periods, such as the Renaissance.

Hoel, Jessica—Economics and Business
Jessica works at the intersection of international development and behavioral economics. One previous project examined cooperation between spouses in Kenya, while another studied the effect of cognitive taxation on patience in Ethiopian university students. She is currently working with maize farmers in Uganda to study how ambiguity aversion affects the decision to use herbicide that may have been counterfeited, and households in Senegal to look at how cooperation between spouses affects productivity in dairy farming.

Holmes, Kevin—Psychology
Kevin's research explores the interrelations of mind, world, and language. Current projects examine the role of language in perception, thinking, and reasoning; the spatial foundations of numerical cognition; and the consequences of learning multiple languages for people's beliefs about the ontological status of categories.

Horner, John–Psychology
John is interested in how humans and animals learn about their environment. In the past, his research has involved human memory for common objects, animal choice/decision rules, the allocation of behavior, spatial memory, and the evolution of behavioral plasticity. On the philosophical end, he is interested in how science, as a collective endeavor, comes to understand the world.

Hourdequin, Marion–Philosophy
Marion’s research focuses on ethics, environmental ethics, and comparative philosophy (Chinese and Western). She also has interests in the philosophy of biology and philosophy of science.  Her recent projects have explored the social and ethical dimensions of ecological restoration; the ethics of global climate change and climate engineering; and the philosophical implications of the proposed new geological epoch known as the Anthropocene.  Marion is the author of Environmental Ethics: From Theory to Practice (Bloomsbury, 2015) and editor, with David Havlick, of Restoring Layered Landscapes: History, Ecology, and Culture (Oxford, 2015). 

Jacobs, Bob–Psychology/Neuroscience
Bob’s research focuses on quantitative neuromorphology in the human and non-human animal brain. Recent investigations have focused on comparative neuromorphology in elephant, cetacean, giraffe, and tiger brains, which complements his interests in cognitive neuroethology.

Janke, Steven–Mathematics and Computer Science
Steven’s current interests include modeling complex systems in environmental science, developing mathematical techniques in computer graphics, and using Bayesian approaches in statistics and machine learning.

Jiang, Hong—German, Russian, East Asian Languages
Hong is completing a monograph, Gender and Sexuality: Women's Writing in Post-Mao China. She is also working on an article on the issues of the relationship between word and image.

Johnson, Dan–Economics and Business
Dan studies the economics of innovation and technological change, but his liberal arts curiosity causes him to pursue other research interests as well. Recent published work includes an edited volume on agricultural productivity and peer-reviewed articles on the importance of physical location and social networks for innovators, the impact of pharmaceutical patents on health care costs, patterns in philanthropic giving to higher education, the explanation of adoption patterns for new voting equipment after the 2000 federal elections, the optimization of microloans by Grameen in the Philippines, and the long-term retention of Economics principles by undergraduate students. Forthcoming work studies the effects of patent law on productivity growth, the impact of big-box stores on residential property values, the relationship between trade and innovation, and how energy prices affect innovation in natural resource extraction sectors. He is still predicting Olympic medal counts with surprising accuracy. 

Johnson, Scott—Art
Scott is a sculptor, photographer and installation artist interested in the relationship between perceptual experience and the ways we map and understand space.  He recently installed three projects in Another Victory Over the Sun, a group exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver:  These included:  Inversion, an architectural intervention in the museum's atrium that evoked an endless landscape; Streambed, a large "cabinet of curiosities" that included found, altered and hand-crafted objects; and Meridian Sleeve, in which a beam of light was brought down the stairwell of the museum, via a heliostat and a system of mirrors, and into the basement gallery, where it was projected among the objects of Streambed.  He is presently working on a project that will be exhibited at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.
	
Kapuria-Foreman, Vibha–Economics and Business
Vibha works on the economic development of “developing” countries and on the history of economic thought. Upcoming: Charles R. McCann, Jr. and Vibha Kapuria-Foreman, "Robert Franklin Hoxie: The Contributions of a Neglected Chicago Economist”, Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Fall 2016. She is working on an essay about the determinants of FDI.
Kedhar, Anusha—Theatre and Dance
Anusha Kedhar received her Ph.D. in Critical Dance Studies from the University of California, Riverside. Her research addresses the connections between race, immigration, globalization, and the dancing body. She is currently working on her book manuscript, tentatively titled On the Move: Transnational South Asian Labor and the ‘Flexible’ Dancing Body, which chronicles the lives of transnational South Asian migrant dancers in the UK and India, and the effects of globalization on their bodily practices. In particular, it examines how race and citizenship intersect in late capitalism in often conflicting and paradoxical ways, and how dancers negotiate these contradictions through their flexible bodily labor. Her work contributes to both the field of dance studies and globalization studies by looking at the corporeal dimensions of transnational labor and ‘flexible citizenship’ (Ong 1999). Before coming to Colorado College, Anusha was a Lecturer in Dance Studies at the University of Malta and UC Riverside. Her research and teaching interests include Indian dance history and culture; intercultural performance; race and citizenship; and, migration, globalization, and the body. Anusha is also an established artist and choreographer in the field of classical and contemporary Indian dance. She has trained for over 30 years in Bharata Natyam and has performed and toured with several contemporary Indian dance companies in the U.S. and Britain, including Arpana, Angika, Atma and Sadhana. Her own choreography has been presented on various international stages, including Glorya Kaufman Hall (Los Angeles), Roehampton University (London), Mediterranean Institute of Theatre and Performance (Malta), and the Purcell Room (London). 

Killian, Darrell J. – Molecular Biology
Darrell is a molecular, cellular, and developmental geneticist interested in nervous system development. Darrell’s research is focused on the identification of genes and molecular mechanisms that govern neuron morphology, such as the elaborate branching of dendrites in sensory neurons.

Kohout, Amy—History
Amy is a cultural and environmental historian. Her research interests include the American West, the history of natural history, American empire, museum studies, world’s fairs, and the history of science and technology. Her current book project, based on her 2015 dissertation, explores the intersection of ideas about nature and empire through the experiences of American soldiers in the American West and the Philippines in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. She is also working on an article focused on curators, collectors, and loss for a special issue of Museum History. Amy is a founding editor of Backlist, an ongoing digital public project where historians recommend the books they love. Her work has appeared in Rethinking History, The Appendix, and A Companion to the History of American Science, and she has collaborated on a public history project with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s Division of Birds. 

Kolarik, Ruth–Art
Ruth is researching the art and architecture of late antiquity, archaeology of the late antique city of Stobi in (the Former Yugoslav Republic of) Macedonia, most notably the mosaic floors. Her research and publications center on late antique and early Byzantine floor mosaics from Greece and the Balkan Peninsula. She is also investigating the influence of late antique mosaics in nineteenth-century France. 

Krzych, Scott—Film and Media Studies
Scott is currently working on a book manuscript concerning contemporary conservative political documentary. His essay on Citizens United documentaries, a chapter in the book project, is forthcoming in the journal Jump Cut. An essay on technology, ethics, and time-travel narratives is also forthcoming in Cultural Critique, and two other essays on ethics, psychoanalysis, and cinema are under review. 

Kummel, Miro--Environmental Program
Miro is an ecologist interested in spatial population dynamics, climate change, agroecology, and soil ecology. His current projects involve 1) measuring the response of trees at alpine tree-line to climate change on the western side of Pikes Peak, and 2) bridging empirical observation of spatial metapopulation dynamics of Yucca aphids and coccinelid beetles with mathematical theory. His most recent publication, "How the aphids got their spots: Predation drives self-organization of aphid populations in a patchy habitat," is in the journal Oikos.

Lang, Kristine–Physics
Kristine is an experimental physicist specializing in the use of scanned probe microscopy techniques. As their name would imply, these technique rely on moving a small (nanometer scale) probe across the object of study and then using a computer to render images of that surface. Her research project is in collaboration with biology professor Phoebe Lostroh. In this project she uses the AFM to image the surface of naturally competent bacteria. These bacteria are able to uptake DNA from their environment through some as yet unstudied competence structure. The goal of this project is to image this competence structure and other surface features of the bacteria, and study how these structures change in mutants of the native bacteria. She involves CC students in all of her research.

Lee, Jonathan–Philosophy	
Jonathan’s current work continues his longstanding commitment to bringing philosophy and contemporary arts into fruitful modes of dialogue.  His primary project is Jean-Luc Godard:  Philosophical Investigations, a non-technical introduction to the cinema and video of the Swiss filmmaker and provocateur.  Jonathan has also begun a new project on contemporary Japanese photography, exploring the intersection between experimental photographic practices and philosophy.

Lee, Robert–Political Science
Bob is at work on book-length project called “Culture and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa.”   It will examine the multiple definitions of culture and the complicated ways in which national, subnational, and supranational cultures affect and are affected by national cohesion, the prospects for economic and political development, the understanding of human rights, and the delineation of foreign policy.  General argument: if culture matters, it matters in ways that are much more complicated than usually thought.

Leonard, Eric–Geology
Eric’s primary interests are glaciation and climate change, and the roles of tectonics and climate in the long-term evolution of landscape. Current projects include paleoglaciology and paleoclimate of the U.S. Rocky Mountains, topographic evolution of the Colorado mountains and piedmont, and the tectonic geomorophology of Chile. Other areas of research include glacial lake sedimentation, active rock-glacier flow, and development of GIS-based spatial analysis methods for use in both classes and research.
 
Leonard, Kate–Art
Kate directs the Graphics Research Lab, an innovative program in printmaking and design. She works from her studio in Manitou Springs, a vibrant art community at the foothills of Pike's Peak, and travels widely teaching workshops on photographic transfer techniques for printmaking and painting. (Anderson Ranch in Colorado, the Valand School of Art in Gothenburg, Sweden and the Saimaa University of Applied Sciences in Lappeenranta, Finland.) 

Levine, Victoria Lindsay–Music 
Levine co-authored an article with Emily Kohut (CC ’16) titled “Finding A Balance: Music at Liberal Arts Colleges,” which will appear in a book on music pedagogy for the twenty-first century edited by Robin Moore (University of Texas-Austin) and being published by Oxford University Press. Levine presented an endowed lecture titled “Native American Music of the Southeast in Historical Perspective” at the University of Alabama School of Music and served as a guest lecturer in a graduate seminar on music of the American South. She also presented an internationally-broadcast webinar on music curricula at liberal arts colleges for the College Music Society. Levine continues to work with Dylan Robinson (Queen’s University, Canada) on editing a collection of essays about music and modernity among First Peoples of North America. She is also at work on a textbook about Native American music (under contract with Routledge) and on an article about the circulation of musical cultures through the maritime trade circuits in the early modern era for a book being edited by CC’s Tamara Bentley.  

Lewis, Heidi R. – Feminist & Gender Studies
Heidi’s teaching and research focus on Feminist Theory, Black Studies, Critical Media Studies, Critical Race Theory, Critical Whiteness Studies, social justice, and activism. Her essay “An Examination of the Kanye West’s Higher Education Trilogy” was published in The Cultural Impact of Kanye West, and her article “Let Me Just Taste You: Li’l Wayne and Rap’s Politics of Cunnlingus“ was published in the Journal of Popular Culture. She is also the author of forthcoming essays that examine FX’s The Shield, the branding of the FX Network, VH1’s Love & Hip Hop franchise, and Bravo’s Married to Medicine. She has given talks at Kim Bevill‘s Gender and the Brain Conference, the Educating Children of Color Summit, the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, the Gender and Media Spring Convocation at Ohio University, and the Conference for Pre-Tenure Women at Purdue University, where she earned a Ph.D. in American Studies (2011) and a Certificate in Women’s Studies (2008). She has also been a contributor to Mark Anthony Neal’s NewBlackMan, NPR’s ”Here and Now,” KOAA news in Colorado Springs, and KRCC radio (the Southeastern Colorado NPR affiliate), Bitch Media, Racialicious, and Act Out. 

Leza, Christina—Anthropology
Christina is a cultural and linguistic anthropologist whose research interests include indigenous peoples of the Americas, discourse and identity, racial and ethnic discourses, grassroots activism, and cognitive anthropology.   Her most recent research has focused on border indigenous activist responses to U.S.-Mexico border policy in collaboration with the grassroots indigenous organization Alianza Indígena Sin Fronteras / Indigenous Alliance Without Borders.  Her current writing projects include a book manuscript, Divided Nations: Policy, Activism and Indigenous Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Border, and a chapter on hip-hop as U.S.-Mexico border activism and identity discourse for a scholarly volume on indigenous music and modernity.

Lindau, Juan–Political Science
Juan is working on a book about Mexican immigration into the Four Corners area of Colorado and focusing on questions of identity and self-definition among recent migrants. He continues to research the drug war in Mexico and publish articles on the subject.

Lindblade, Tom–Theatre and Dance
Tom writes extensively on contemporary performance, publishing articles in Comparative Drama, Theatre Survey, The Semiotic Bridge, and New Art Examiner on subjects as varied as John Jesurun, George Coates, Robert Wilson, and David Saunders. He is a contributor to the anthologies Apocalypse Then and Now (subject: Thornton Wilder) and Ibsen: Critical Essays, for which he translated Peter Szondi’s seminal work “Ibsen.”  Tom’s book Tactical Measures: The Interaction of Drama and Music establishes a cross-artistic critical vocabulary with which to discuss Shakespeare and Wellmer, Brecht and Adorno, Beckett and Schopenhauer, and Wilson and Pavis. He has directed, musical directed, and composed for over 70 productions in the past 30 years, centering work in the Bay Area (TheatreWorks, California Shakespeare Festival, Climate Theatre), Connecticut (Goodspeed Opera House), and nationally as an advisor and consultant for the NEH and NEA, respectively. Tom’s ongoing work includes premiere staging of Ofer Ben-Amots’ chamber opera The Dybbuk: Between Two Worlds (Montreal, Denver, Big Sky) and articles on media studies for ASTR Journal, both online and in print format. He is currently working on two projects: the libretto to Ofer Ben-Amots’ chamber opera The Gospel According to Mark and a book on the birth and evolution of technodrama in the Bay Area.

Lindeman, Ted–Chemistry and Biochemistry
While Ted continues working to enhance lab instruction, he has been increasingly tangled up in the mysteries of the newest generation of electrochemical cells (aka batteries.)  These generally involve oxidation-reduction reactions so subtle they almost can’t be explained to a lay person, or profoundly understood without reference to obscure materials science.  We are investigating the use of the most active metals, and efficient anode materials derived from cellulosic plant tissues, in the interest of greater energy efficiency and less waste upon disposal.

Linkhart, Brian–Organismal Biology and Ecology
Brian is an avian ecologist concentrating on the population dynamics and habitat selection of raptors, particularly small forest owls. In the past few years, he has presented several papers at national meetings coauthored with students, including “Climate Correlates of Breeding Phenology and Reproductive Performance in Flammulated Owls ”, “Habitat Selection by Breeding Flammulated Owls in a Post-fire Environment”, “Nest Habitat Characteristics of Flammulated Owls in Colorado”, “Selection of Songpost Trees by Flammulated Owls”, and “Migratory Movements and Stopover Habitats of Flammulated Owls”.  He is currently conducting studies in conjunction with the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Partners in Flight to determine the long-term impacts of the Hayman fire, the effects of prescribed fire and forest thinning, and the effects of climate change on breeding populations of Flammulated Owls.

Lomas, Clara–Spanish
Clara recently published a co-edited a book, Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, Volume VIII. Houston: Arte Público Press. 2012. The twelve articles in this collection explore the meaning of “Nuestra América” – our America – as José Marti posited in his well-known essay on U.S. expansionism and imperialistic ploys. Scholars from the U.S. and abroad explore the “contact zones” that originated from the clash and/or syntheses between the U.S. and Latin America. Divided into four sections, this collection focuses on themes such as “Contesting the Canon,” “Mapping Latino Voices in the United States,” “Postcoloniality in Autobiography” and “Nationalism in Contact Zones”. 

Lostroh, Phoebe–Molecular Biology
Phoebe uses molecular biology to study natural transformation in the bacterium Acinetobacter baylyi. Natural transformation is a process in which the bacteria build a nanomachine from many component protein parts, and then use that nanomachine to bind to extracellular DNA, import that DNA across their cell walls and cell membranes, and then incorporate that DNA into their genomes, using it as a source of new genetic information. In a collaboration with Kristine Lang, we are attempting to characterize the nanomachines using atomic force microscopy, while also using genetics and biochemistry to define the component parts of the nyanomachine. Phoebe is also writing a textbook for upper-level undergraduates majoring in the biological sciences. The Garland Press textbook is provisionally titled “The Molecular and Cellular Biology of Viruses.”  
Love, Genevieve–English
My current book project investigates the labor of physically disabled characters in early modern English theatre. Early Modern Theatre and the Figure of Disability shows that early modern theatrical representation relied on representations of physical disability to navigate the “likeness problems” of theatre. The first of these likeness problems is the relationship between actor and character: prosthetic disabled figures with names like Cripple and Stump capture the simultaneous presence of the imaginative world of the fiction and the material, embodied world of the theatre. The second likeness problem mediated by the bodies of early modern disabled characters is the relationship between plays in their theatrical and in their textual forms. This relationship, beginning in the period itself, has been understood in part through an appeal to disability: supposedly imperfect textual versions of plays are characterized as “lame.” Attention to physical disability enriches our understanding of early modern ideas about how theatre works; as well, theatre’s distinctiveness as a medium offers a reframing of disability as metaphor. 
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Lybecker, Kristina—Economics and Business
Kristina’s research analyzes the challenges of encouraging innovation and protecting intellectual property, with particular attention to these issues in the context of global health. Her work examines the difficulties of strengthening intellectual property rights protection in developing countries, specifically the problems related to pharmaceutical counterfeiting and the response of national governments and the pharmaceutical industry. Her recent publications have also addressed access to essential medicines, the impact of state abortion legislation on women’s use of contraception, economic forces shaping the financing, adoption and dissemination of green technology, the importance of distance to innovation diffusion over time, and the markets for jointly produced goods such as blood and blood products. Her current areas of interests also include compulsory licensing for drugs, secondary patenting in the biopharmaceutical industry, and the importance of data exclusivity and other intellectual property protections for biopharmaceuticals.

Manley, Andrew–Theatre and Dance
Andrew is engaged in an-going exploration of all the performance possibilities of Samuel Beckett’s work. He recently created and directed “Becket Rooms," a site-specific promenade performance in eighteen attic rooms of continuously performed Beckett pieces plus related installations; and "Absurd Plus" devised from fifteen absurd pieces, known and little known, prose, poetry and plays, and performed by a cast of twenty six in a disused gas utilities building. He presented papers in 2006 on site-specific Beckett at the "Beckett at 100" conference at FSU and the Comparative Drama Conference in LA. Generally Andrew is engaged in practical exploration of different forms of theatre and innovative strategies of performance—in particular site-specific theatre. Other recent site-specific productions include Peter Handke's "The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other" and a double bill of Sam Shepard's "Killer's Head" and "Action." Plans include a site specific production of Martin Crimp's post modern mystery play "Attempts On Her Life" and a self performed “Krapp’s Last Tape” in a room within a room.

Marinescu, Andreea—Spanish
Her primary areas of specialization are contemporary Latin American literature and cultural studies, with particular interests in 20th and 21st century Southern Cone literature and film through the lens of literary and critical theory. She also has expertise in film studies since her research examines auteur theory and documentary film and she regularly teaches upper-level courses on Latin American cinema. Her current research focuses primarily on the relationship between aesthetics and politics in post-coup and post-dictatorship Chile. In her scholarship, she mainly addresses the question: how can forms of artistic representation challenge official discourses on historical memory in the post-dictatorship? Her current book project focuses on representation, responsibility, and self-critique in artistic productions arising from the aftermath of the 1973 military coup d’état in Chile. She has co-authored entries on “History of Chilean Cinema” and “Biography on Raúl Ruiz” in The Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film. Her forthcoming articles explore how formal disruptions in literary genres and cinematic modes challenge traditional categories of political thought in Latin America. Her research on Raúl Ruiz’s oeuvre has recently taken the form of a co-edited book project with University of Vermont professor Ignacio López-Vicuña, titled The Films of Raúl Ruiz: Transatlantic Connections and Postcolonial Interventions.

Mason, David–English
David is a writer of poetry and essays, an editor and anthologist with many books to his name. His award-winning verse novel, Ludlow, was featured on the PBS News Hour, and he has also published a memoir, News from the Village. Other books include a collection of essays, Two Minds of a Western Poet, and The Scarlet Libretto, words for Lori Laitman's opera based on the Hawthorne classic. After Life, his opera with composer Tom Cipullo, was produced in both Seattle and San Francisco in 2015, and Washington DC in 2016. A recording is available from Naxos. He is an advisory editor for The Hudson Review and The Sewanee Review. His poems and essays appear in a variety of magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, The New Republic, and Poetry, as well as various anthologies and Public Radio outlets and Best American Poetry 2012. He has given many poetry readings around the country and his work is featured in the CD and book for the National Endowment for the Arts program, Poetry Out-loud. David has won the Thatcher Hoffman Smith “Creativity in Motion” Prize from the University of Oklahoma for a proposal to turn Ludlow into an opera libretto. Vedem, an oratorio he wrote with Laitman, premiered in Seattle in May 2010 and is available from Naxos. Act One of the Ludlow opera has now been work-shopped by the University of Colorado Music department. His most recent books are Sea Salt: Poems of a Decade, 2004-2014 and Davey McGravy: Tales for Children and Adult Children. He served as Poet Laureate of Colorado from 2010 to 2014.

McDougall, Jane–Mathematics and Computer Science
What is the surface of smallest area spanning a given contour? The answer can be found by dipping a wire contour into soapy water and observing the resulting soap film, a physical example of minimal surface. The technical definition of a minimal surface — that at each point the mean curvature is zero — results in the area minimizing property for any contour cut from the surface. Minimizing area goes hand in hand with minimizing energy of a structure, and consequently minimal surfaces frequently appear in nature. Minimal surfaces find application in areas as diverse as architectural tensile structures (the Munich Olympic Stadium or for a local example, the Denver International Airport) and molecular engineering, and have received much attention in recent decades. In 1982, Costa discovered the first new minimal surface in over a hundred years, with extraordinary complex topology. Jane’s research as a complex analyst has led her, using essentially classical techniques, to construct new minimal surfaces with “non-convex shadows” that generalize the classical Scherk surfaces. Due to their broad application and the current level of research activity, minimal surfaces form an exciting area of modern research, both pure and applied, in the new millennium.

McKendry, Corina—Political Science
Corina’s research focuses on legitimacy, effectiveness, and equity in city environmental governance. With a focus on postindustrial cities in the Global North, she is particularly interested in how city leaders negotiate the tensions between environmental protection, economic growth, and social justice, the oft-cited “three pillars” of sustainability. In particular, her work investigates the ways that local politics, national legal context, and the globalized economy intersect in cities in ways that force leaders to negotiate trade-offs – or seek to find common ground – among these three goals. Corina's book, Greening Post-Industrial Cities: Growth, Equity, and Environmental Governance, is forthcoming in 2017 from Routledge Press. Her work has been published in the journals International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law, and Economics and Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability as chapters in the books The Power of Cities in International Relations, The Economy of Green Cities: World Compendium on the Green Urban Economy, and The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society.

Mehta, Purvi—History
Purvi’s research focuses on caste, gender, and human rights issues in India.  Her current project analyzes one strand of post-independence anti-caste activism, that of transnational Dalit activism (Dalits are the groups often glossed as "outcastes" or "untouchables"). She analyzes the simultaneous use and critique of human rights in Dalit activism and demonstrates how the global field has become critical to its conceptualization and articulation of social justice.

Meyer, Sally–Chemistry and Biochemistry
Sally’s research interests are in theoretical physical chemistry and applied mathematics. 

Miller-Stevens, Katrina—Economics and Business
Katrina’s research interests include social entrepreneurship, nonprofit organizations, and collaboration. In the area of social entrepreneurship, she researches the similarities and differences between benefit corporations and nonprofit organizations. She is working on a study that explores the individual motivations and values of the founders of the two types of organizations. In the realm of nonprofit organizations, she examines the impacts of government regulations, such as the Internal Revenue Service’s 501(h) election and the Sarbanes Oxley Act, on nonprofit lobbying expenditures and governance practices.  In the area of collaboration, she explores new models and frameworks that explain how the business, nonprofit, and public sectors work together to solve social and environmental problems including sharing of knowledge and resources, leadership and governance issues, and size and scope of collaborations.
 
Monroy, Doug–History
Doug’s The Borders Within: Encounters with Mexico and the U.S. has been recently released by the University of Arizona Press. It covers such topics as NAFTA, latino identities, tourism, the California missions, Wilsonian liberalism and Mexico, immigration, and Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona. Doug is in the process of a complete revision of his 1991 book Thrown among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California.

Montaño, Mario–Anthropology
Mario continued working on an edited volume on the role of farming and water issues in the southwest. He is also putting the finishing touches on a book manuscript on food along the Texas-Mexican border.

Murphy, Jane--History
Jane examines scientific practices and practitioners in eighteenth-century Cairo, from Ottoman rule through the French occupation. Her study considers the cultural and intellectual roles of the sciences in the early modern Ottoman Empire more broadly and in European colonialism. She has presented and published recently on the topics of eighteenth-century French and Egyptian conceptions of the sciences and governance and on aspects of the “Islamization of Knowledge” project, particularly in relationship to the sciences and social sciences.

Murphy-Geiss, Gail–Sociology
As Title IX Coordinator, Gail conducted CC’s climate survey on sexual harassment and assault, as required by federal law. The findings were reported to student leaders, the President and the Board of Trustees. She also recently led the gender/racial inclusiveness monitoring team at the General Conference of the United Methodist Church in Portland, collecting data on the delegates’ participation and making daily reports. Last spring, Gail collected survey data for the United Methodist Church on clergy career trajectories and will be spending part of the summer working on the analysis and writing up the results. She is also continuing work with Visiting Professor Deb Smith on a project to investigate the negotiation of masculinities among heterosexual men partnered with women in academia. 

Murray, Gale–Art
Gale is an authority on Toulouse-Lautrec. She’s currently working on articles about his song illustrations and his altered paintings, as well as on a sequel to her first book which dealt with his early career. This one covers his mature and later years (1892–1901) and addresses subjects in his work such as the theater, popular song, prostitution, and the representation of Jewish subjects. Her newest project is a study of the cycle of monumental sculptures of French Queens and famous women that was installed in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris in the 1840s.

Myrow, Paul–Geology
Paul works with students and international colleagues on a variety of projects in sedimentary geology and Earth history. He has an active National Science Foundation (NSF) grant with a colleague at MIT for the experimental study of the underlying dynamics that govern how wave ripples in sand form and change geometry. He also has a NASA grant for the study of fossils of the oldest multicellular organisms. Paul works on Paleozoic rocks in localities across the Himalayas and Southeast Asia. He has many other active projects from Antarctica to the western US. Recent work has resulted in a number of journal articles co-authored with CC students.

Neel, Carol–History
Neel writes about medieval spiritual life, working lately on imageries of bodily confinement and liberation in relation to the realities of the experience of medieval monks, sisters, and the sick folk for whom they cared.  She has a number of small projects going, including an article on the medieval background of Mennonite pacifism, while completing a monograph entitled The Eagle’s Youth: The Canons of Prémontré and the Twelfth-Century Church.

Nelson, Dylan—Film and Media Studies
Dylan Nelson’s film interests include the history and evolution of the documentary form, modes of screen storytelling, and the industrial, technological, and aesthetic practices of Hollywood and American independent cinema. As a documentary filmmaker, she favors character- and narrative-driven historic and contemporary stories.

Noblett, Jeff–Geology
Jeff is a petrologist who focuses on Tertiary volcanic rocks in Central Colorado. His recent work includes projects on the origin of the basalt flows in Salida, examination of the links between mineral composition and chemical exchange during magma-mingling processes, and a geophysical project at Shiprock, NM using gravity and magnetics to image the subsurface structure of this volcanic diatreme. He developed this project to encourage collaborative research between CC and Navajo students.

O’Riley, Michael—French, Italian and Arabic
Michael has published three books. His most recent work examines cinema and how it informs our understanding of terrorism. Other books have examined the relationship between nostalgia and colonial history, victimization and postcolonial theory, and immigration and postcolonial representation. He is currently at work on a book with a French sociologist examining French and American conceptions of terrorism. Michael is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for his work on cultural identity, memory, and history in France and serves on the editorial board of several journals and university presses.  

Parco, James–-Economics and Business
Continuing his collaboration with Sarah Spears (CC’13) and Dave Levy from the US Air Force Academy, Jim completed his second and third papers on transgender service members in the US military, both of which  are currently under review. His is also working to publish two papers with former students Gavin Nachbar (CC’14) and Chris Mayo-Smith (CC’14). Emerging from his sabbatical this past year, he has also initiated a series of studies investigating how legalization of recreational cannabis in Colorado  has affected the black market. This latest project is in collaboration with former student and CC paraprof, Phoenix Van Wagoner (CC’13) and his daughter and Economics major, Haley Parco (CC’16). 

Pavlenko, Alexei–French, Italian and Arabic
This year former student Michelle Olson and Alexei collaborated on a translation project for a Reader of Late-Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture, which will be published by Academic Studies Press in 2013. He was invited to the Tolstoy International Conference at Yasnaya Polyana (Tolstoy’s estate and now a national preserve and museum) where he presented a paper on the peasant nightmares in Anna Karenina. Alexei also participated in a fascinating conference on “Russia: 20 Years after the Collapse of Communism” at Beloit College. His presentation was on Eduard Limonov, the writer and the leader of the Other Russia party.

Perramond, Eric–Southwest Studies
Eric is an environmental geographer and political ecologist who focuses on the Greater Southwest, Mediterranean Europe, and comparative environmental histories. Eric's approaches to research can be found in his latest co-authored book "An Introduction to Human-Environment Geography" (2013, WILEY-Blackwell). His latest project focuses on water adjudications and management in the state of New Mexico, which is now taking shape as his next book “Unruly Waters.” Additionally, he pursues work on protected areas governance in the Pyrenees, and human-environment dynamics as related to global change.

Platt, Ryan—Theatre and Dance
Ryan’s academic interests originate in avant-garde theatre and dance, with a focus on contemporary French and German theory and practice. His recent research articulates an alternative paradigm of performance, which he has named screen aesthetics. Contrary to the conventional definition of a screen, this screen designates both a material partition that impedes visual expression and also an artistic process, whose constitutive element is movement. His work addresses artists who combine movement and media practices, such as choreographers Yvonne Rainer and William Forsythe, filmmaker Chantal Akerman, and poet Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. His upcoming project will explore sonic performances, including experimental music theatre, language-based drama, and sound art.
	
Popkin, Eric–Sociology
Eric is interested in Latin American migration and in migrant communities in the U.S. He presented work on Pan Mayan ethnicity in Los Angeles, the impact of migrant remittances on Central American socioeconomic development, and how Central American and Caribbean governments leverage the migratory process to advance their development policies.

Powell, Emma—Art
Emma is a photographic artist. Her work often examines photography's history while incorporating historic processes and or devices within the imagery.  Emma has created several bodies of artwork about issues related to species decline and extinction. Her most recent project Svala’s Saga is a narrative photographic fairy tale drawing on the archetypal motif of the quest in order to address environmental problems. Svala’s Saga will be on display in a solo exhibition at Earlham College in August, 2015. www.emmapowellphotography.com

Price-Smith, Andrew–Political Science
Andrew continues his interdisciplinary work at the nexus of ecology, energy, and international politics, and his analysis of the political/social determinants of biodiversity protection. He is completing his fourth and fifth books, The Devils Tears: Oil, Ecology, and Human Security, for MIT Press, and Rising Threats, Enduring Challenges: Readings in US Foreign Policy for Oxford University Press. Drew also continues his work on the political economy of global health Governance. 

Purdue, Patricia–Physics
Patricia continues research in gravitational-wave physics and astronomy. She analyzes highly magnetized neutron stars as sources of gravitational waves, and performs numerical simulations to determine the effects of meteors on the detection capabilities of a space-based gravitational-wave detector.

Rader, Christina—Economics and Business
Christina’s scholarly interests focus on organizational behavior and human judgment and decision making.  She is particularly interested in exploring ways that people can improve their decision making by using advice from others.  Her current work investigates advisees’ perceptions of how much they have been influenced and ways to measure the influence of advice.

Ragan, Tip–History
This past academic year, Tip Ragan and his colleague, Jeffrey Merrick, completed their book manuscript, “Policing Homosexuality in Pre-Revolutionary Paris.”  In addition, Tip wrote a chapter on the decriminalization of sodomy during the French Revolution for a forthcoming book entitled “From Sodomy Laws to Same-Sex Marriage: Historical Perspectives on a Global Revolution,” edited by Mark Seymour and Sean Brady.  Finally, he started work on a digital humanities project at Colorado College that will focus on the policing of same-sex sexuality in eighteenth-century France.

Rask, Kevin—College Research Professor
Kevin is an applied econometrician whose research has focused in three areas: the economics of higher education; alternative energy use and ethanol; and the impact of public hospitals in the U.S. health care system. He is currently working on projects estimating the social and labor market value of a liberal arts education, the importance of financial aid in the college matriculation decision, the economic value of NCAA basketball and football players, and the impact of college coaches on athletes progression to the pros.

Ratchford, Jamal—Race, Ethnicity and Migration Studies
Jamal's teaching and research focus on Africana Studies, African American history, United States history, Gender, and Sports and Popular Culture. He currently is revising a book manuscript titled Raise Your Black Fists: Race, Track and Field, and Protest in the 20th Century. He asserts that athletics was one of the first integrated social fields in U.S. history. Despite opportunities for integrated competition in track and field, black athletes confronted racial injustices under conditions officially framed as integrationist and racially equal. Thus, he analyzes protest against the paradoxes of "discriminative integration" in American sport and society.

Reaves, Pamela—Religion
Pam’s research spans a range of topics in New Testament and early Christian studies, including Gnostic traditions; the emergence of orthodoxy and heresy; and martyrdom and persecution. In her current project, Pam shows how divergent views on suffering and martyrdom stem from distinctive understandings of Christ and contribute to division among early Christians. She is also working on an article that examines the Gospel of Peter’s depiction of a giant Jesus. In addition, Pam recently submitted entries on Basilides and Heracleon for The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. In the late summer, she will present on Christianity in ancient Alexandria at the 17th International Conference on Patristic Studies in Oxford, England. In September, she will share her research in two additional forums: the Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism Network meeting at Harvard University and the York Christian Apocrypha Symposium, “Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions: Writing Ancient and Modern Christian Apocrypha,” in Toronto, Canada.

Redmount, Esther–Economics and Business
Esther works on labor economics, especially child labor. She is interested in how poor households cope with unemployment, debt, illness, and other events that threaten income and consumption. Her most recent work is a paper entitled “Wage Payment Reform: Its effect on Labor Supply and Welfare” presented to the Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University and to the Society of Labor Economists and the Cliometric Society and has been published in the Journal of Economic History (December 2012). Esther’s two volume set on the Economics of the Family was published in January 2015.

Richman, Jared—English
Professor Richman teaches courses on eighteenth-century literature, British Romanticism, Atlantic studies, disability, and comics and graphic narrative. He has published essays on literary works of William Blake, Charlotte Smith, Anna Seward, and on late Georgian representations of vocal disability. Professor Richman’s work has appeared in such journals as European Romantic Review, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and Eighteenth Century Theory and Interpretation. He is currently finishing a manuscript entitled “Transatlantic Realms”: British Romanticism and the Idea of America, 1780-1832, which examines the political and cultural impact of England’s post-Revolutionary engagement with the Americas through British Romantic literary production. Professor Richman’s research has been supported by fellowships from the Library of Congress, the Lewis Walpole Library, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and most recently by the Huntington Library. His latest project traces the relationship between nascent elocutionary theories of the Enlightenment and disability in Anglo-American culture. He is also co-editing a special edition of European Romantic Review that will feature essays exploring the representation of physical and mental disability in British Romantic writing.

Riker, John–Philosophy
John read thee conference papers in foreign lands: "What Do Humans Need to be Human? Self-psychology and the Problem of Social Justice", International Conference on the Psychology of the Self, Jerusalem, October 2014; "Ancient Theology and Contemporary Self Psychology: Monotheism, Monoselfism, and the Need to Belong”, International Conference on the Psychology of the self, Jerusalem, October 2014; and "The Erotic Self: Freud, Kohut, and Plato", Conference on Psychology and the Classics, Leuven, Belgium, March 2015; to also be given at the Psychoanalytic Society of Chicago. He also published two articles: "Economics, Self Psychology, and Ethics: Why Modern Economic Persons Cheat and How Self Psychology Can Provide the Basis for a Trustworthy Economic World” in The Financial Crisis:  Neglected Ideas in Economics, Psychology, and Values, Oxford University Press, 2015; and "What Do Humans Need to Be Human? Self Psychology and the Problem of Social Justice" in the spring edition of the International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. John also addressed the Psychoanalytic Society of Chicago.

Roberts, Tomi-Ann–Psychology
Tomi-Ann is involved in personal and collaborative research on the social psychology of gender, emotions, and the body. Her work on the psychological consequences of the sexual objectification of girls and women has resulted in numerous articles, chapters, presentations and popular press editorials. She was a member of the American Psychological Association’s Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls, and is co-author of The Sexualization of Girls: Causes, Consequences and Resistance, published by Oxford University Press. Specific areas of research interest presently include embodiment of emotion, the self-conscious, moral and aesthetic emotions as they relate to bodies, women’s reproductive health and positive psychology.

Roberts, Wade–Sociology
Wade’s research agenda is currently focused on two areas—the social determinants of health and the spatial analysis of social issues. With respect to the former, he is engaged in a number of projects exploring racial and class disparities in blood lead levels in young children. Elevated lead levels have been linked to both cognitive and emotional outcomes in children, as well as related social outcomes throughout the life course, such as educational attainment. This research highlights the role of social factors in shaping health outcomes that ultimately inform long-standing questions about the mechanisms and processes behind the social reproduction of inequality across generations. A second body of research uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to map the distribution of community hazards, resources, and events to better inform our understanding of the spatial dimensions of inequality and poverty. This research is connected to his course on the spatial analysis of social issues and emerging opportunities for community-based research at Colorado College.

Robertson, Dwanna—Race, Ethnicity and Migration Studies
Dwanna's research interests include the reproduction of social inequality through race, ethnicity, and gender processes, particularly as related to Indigenous Peoples of the geographical U.S. Her work focuses on Indigenous identities and epistemologies, gendered race processes in work and occupations, and a sociohistorical lens of race, ethnicity, and national identity within the social institutions of crime, health, and education. Her most recent research, “Capitalists or Survivalists: Interpreting American Indian Women’s Self-Employment,” examines the economic violence experienced by Native women and other women of color as it challenges the normative political discourse of entrepreneurship as an economic strategy for marginalized groups. Previous publications include "Invisibility in the Color-Blind Era: Examining Legitimized Racism against Indigenous Peoples" and "A Necessary Evil: Framing an American Indian Legal Identity." Dwanna has published in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, American Indian Quarterly, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, and European Sociological Review, and numerous other academic venues. She is also active in public scholarship as a regular columnist for Indian Country Today, and has been featured on radio shows like Calling Native America and Minnesota's National Public Radio. 

Rommel-Ruiz, Bryan–History
Bryan is an historian of early America, currently examining another side of the revolutionary period in a book-length study: Between African and Colored: The Black Atlantic and Afro-Americans in Rhode Island and Nova Scotia, 1750-1850.  His conference papers and essays reinforce and extend this work on the slave trade and on the role of Afro-Americans in colonial society.

Roybal, Karen—Southwest Studies
Karen researches in the areas of Southwest Studies, Chicana/o – Latina/o Studies and Literature, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, and Borderlands history. Her work challenges and revises the “dominant archive” that documents the impact of war and dispossession on Mexican Americans in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. Southwest by locating the voices of Mexican American women within this archive. Karen’s research has been published in Southwestern American Literature; Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies; and Culture, Theory and Critique. She is currently writing an article that examines how Chicana authors cross public and private spaces when they use the novel to transform and re-envision their protagonists’ “fictional realities” by (re)telling their own (un)disciplined and unrestricted versions of historical accounts. Her book, entitled Archives of Dispossession: Recovering the Testimonios of Mexican American Herederas, 1848-1960, is forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press.

Ruiz, Carrie—Spanish
Carrie’s primary field is Early Modern Spanish Peninsular Literature. This year, as part of her studies on Early Modern Literature she was invited to give a talk on the Desengaños amorosos, a 17th century collection of novellas, at the symposium María de Zayas: New Approaches at Florida Atlantic University. This year, she has also begun new work that weaves together several of her academic interests: Baroque literature and mechanisms of deception, contemporary Spanish visual culture, and questions of national identity in 21st century Spain. Her new research explores how the theater group Els Joglars appropriates Cervantes’s play El retablo de las maravillas in their 2004-05 play. She has presented this new work at two conferences: the Early Modern Text and Image Society Conference and the Rocky Mountain MLA. Also, her work on the implementation of discursive strategies by female Others as a means for social action and agency in Medieval Spain has come to fruition in the publication of her article “Armas y escudos del amor: dimensiones sociales del lenguaje en el Libro de buen amor,” in Viator. Medieval and Renaissance Studies 43 (2012). Additionally, her book chapter “Pieces from the Past: Contestation around Francoist Monuments in Modern-day Spain” has been published in Outrage! Art, Controversy, and Society. (Eds. Andreea Deciu Ritivoi, Richard Howells, & Judith Schachter. Palgrave Macmillan P. 2012). In this study she examines the problematic issues that arise in regard to national identity, memory, and history in modern-day Spain and their relation to the visual arts.
 
Sarchett, Barry–English
In 2013, Barry chaired a panel at the Modern Language Association convention in Seattle, "Teaching Theory One Generation Later". For that panel he delivered a paper entitled "Foundational Theory", which he is currently revising for publication. In addition, Barry is working on expanding an earlier paper, “The Politics of Pleasure and the Pleasure of Politics." This is part of a longer project on "pleasure" itself and its marginalization in current cultural criticism and theory. Barry’s interests also always involve working through poststructuralistic thought, particularly the work of the Jacques Derrida.

Sawyer, Michael—Race, Ethnicity and Migration Studies
Michael takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the revolutionary potentiality, aspirations, and praxis of subaltern political subjects.  His work is primarily in political philosophy and he employs political theory/philosophy, critical race theory, literary theory, history and aesthetics to assemble analytical tools that seek to resolve the mystery of subjects in transition.  The central intellectual genealogy he employs takes up the work of thinkers that range from W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, Sylvia Wynter, Herman Melville, Toni Morrison, Malcolm X, G.W.F. Hegel, Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Angela Davis.  He has completed the co-editing of a text entitled A Reader on Black Political Thought with Professor B. Anthony Bogues that is forthcoming from Pluto/University of Chicago Press (Spring 2016). His single-authored manuscript Homo Liminalis: The Tears of the Caterpillar as well as a text co-written with Jamal al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown), The Book of the New School (H.) Rap (Brown) Game is currently under review.

Scheiner, Corinne–Comparative Literature
Corinne’s research and publications have focused on translation studies, Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Nabokov, and the practice and teaching of Comparative Literature. Recent publications include “ 'Un peu de vraie conversation . . . un peu de colloque': Samuel Beckett as Bicultural Writer” (Bicultural Literature and Film in French and English [Routledge, 2016]) and “Self-Translation” (Beckett in Context [Cambridge UP, 2013]).  Her current project centers on David Foster Wallace and examines how his views of the aural’s relation to the visual contribute to and participate in on-going philosophical debates about the hegemony of vision as well as critiques of the ocularcentric paradigm that dominates Western culture.

Showalter, Dennis–History
Dennis has done three books during the 2012-2014 time frame. Armor and Blood: Kurk, 1943 , New York: Random House, 2013, appear last summer. The Cambridge History of War, Vol. IV, War in the Modern World, ed. with Roger Chickering and Hans van de Ven, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, is an anthology. The third, Frederick The Great: A Military History, Barnsley, Frontline Books, 2012, is a new edition. The five reviewed articles cover a wide spectrum. “By the Book: Commanders Surrendering in World War I”—How Fighting Ends: A History of Surrender , ed. Hew Strachan and Holger Afflerbach (New York, Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 279-29; and “A Grand Illusion? German Reserves, 1815-1914”—Scraping the Barrel: The Military Use of Substandard Manpower 1860-1960, ed. Sanders Marble (New York: Fordham University Press, 2012), pp.28-53, address aspects of World War I. “War to the Knife: The US in the Pacific, 1941-1945,”—The Pacific War as Total War, NIDS International Forum on War History : Proceedings, March 2012, shifts to the Pacific theater. “Instrument of Policy: The Prussian Army in the French Revolutionary Wars”—The Projections and Limitations of Imperial Powers. 1618-1850, ed. Frederick C. Schneid (Leiden: Brill, 2012), pp. 83-104; and “Ways of War: The US Army, the Bundeswehr, and the NATO Central Front,” GIs in Germany: The Social Economic, Cultural, and Political History of the American Military Presence American Military Presence, 1945-2000, ed.  Thomas Maulucci and D. Junker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013). pp. 73-95deal with armed forces in policy contexts. “The Indianization of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force: Imperial Turning Point”—The Indian Army in the Two World Wars, , ed. Kaushik Roy (Leiden: Brill. 2012), pp. 145- 164, is an exercise in imperialist images and military realities.

Siddoway, Christine–Geology
Christine is a structural geologist who carries out field-based research in the Rocky Mountains and in West Antarctica. Recent work in Colorado and Wyoming related to the development of Laramide Mountains, through faulting and deformation. Previous work focused on the growth of the continent, through magmatism, tectonic accretion, and plutonism, in Precambrian time. In Antarctica, Christine has eleven seasons’ experience carrying out geological research supported by vessel in coastal regions and out of self-supported camps in remote on-continent locations. In addition to her own National Science Foundation-funded research, she has participated in Italian and German expeditions, for work in locales along the entire Pacific margin of Antarctica. The Antarctic research has been complemented by work in New Zealand, on rocks that correlate to West Antarctica. Presently she is involving CC students with Antarctic research through a “virtual geology” approach to mapping of the structures of West Antarctica using GIS and high resolution satellite imagery. Since field access is so restricted, this allows many more students to “travel” to Antarctica via computer, using facilities in the W.H. Keck GIS Commons at CC!  Coming up in 2017-18, Christine has been invited to participate in the ANDRILL-Coulman High drilling project that will recover sediment records from a bathymetric high in the Ross Sea.
 
Siddoway, Mike–Mathematics and Computer Science	
Mike’s research interests are in module theory, commutative algebra, and the history of mathematics. His studies in the history of mathematics are focused on the quadrature of lunes, which most recently involves the translation from Latin of papers by Daniel Bernoulli and Leonard Euler, and German translations of the works of 10th century Persian mathematician Ibn al-Haytham. Mike is working on a paper with theologian Phil Devenish focusing on Charles Hartshorne’s and Alfred North Whitehead’s ideas of time and the connectedness of nature.  His current research in pure mathematics centers on the divisibility theory of commutative rings. Recent papers in this area with Hungarian mathematician Pham Ngoc Anh include "Gauss's Lemma and Valuation Theory" and "Bezout Rings With a Single M-Prime Filter."

Simons, John–English
John co-authored a book with Robert Merrill entitled, Peckinpagh’s Tragic Westerns: A Critical Study, which was published in 2011. He works, publishes, and gives papers primarily in American film genres: Westerns, Crime dramas, Science Fiction, Melodrama, and Graphic Novels (into film). Simons and Merrill also published an essay, “MYSTIC RIVER as a Tragic Action,” which appeared this fall in NEW ESSAYS ON CLINT EASTWOOD, ed. Leonard Engel, U. of Utah Press, 2012. Currently Simons and Merrill have an article, “Razing Cain with Chandler and Wilder: The Prometheus Myth in DOUBLE INDEMNITY,” was published in the December, 2014 TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE.

Smith, Mark–Economics and Business
Mark has recently published, "Price Determination and Efficiency in the Market for South Platte Basin Ditch Company Shares," with Matt Payne '09 in the Journal of the American Water Resources Association.  Their paper which develops the first price index for western water rights is under review with the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.  He continues to work with Alison Levin’14 on, “The Ultra-Orthodox Haredim as a Club Good.”  In the summer of 2015 he initiated a new research project on the effect of salience on motivating voter behavior on greenhouse gas reduction.

Snyder, Marc–Organismal Biology and Ecology
Marc’s research interests include multi-species ecological interactions, their evolutionary consequences and conservation/management implications. His current projects focus on interactions between mammalian herbivores and forest trees, chemical ecology of bark beetle-conifer interactions in tropical and temperate forests, and impacts of forest management on wildlife population ecology.

Steckenbiller, Christiane—German
Christiane focuses much of her research on the intersections of literature, film, space, and identity, specifically with regard to migration. Her areas of specialization are twentieth- and twenty-first-century German literature and film, with an emphasis on Turkish-German and other minority cultural productions, cultural geography, and feminist and media studies. Her manuscript, “Putting Place Back into Displacement: Reevaluating Diaspora in the Contemporary Literature of Migration,” is an interdisciplinary project that marries cultural geography and literary criticism to examine the multiple ways in which migrants attach meanings and symbolism to their everyday lived space.

Swider, Bogdan–Art
Bogdan draws and paints from what he knows and experiences. His subjects are rural landscape, urban landscape and occasionally still life. In recent years his paintings have included narrative elements. Examples of this work appeared last year at Pierogi-2000 gallery in New York City and Galerie Motte Masselink in Paris, France.

Taber, Mike–Education
Mike is a scientist and educator, focusing on how students learn inquiry through visualization and analysis of scientific data. Mike recently received a 1.2 million dollar Robert F. Noyce grant, along with his education department colleagues, from the National Science Foundation. The Colorado College Noyce Scholarship Program (CCNSP) focuses on the preparation of culturally responsive science and math teachers. By the end of the five-year project, the CCNSP will support 29 Noyce STEM Teaching Scholars, with 9 graduating from the education department's 9th semester Teacher Preparation Program and 20 graduating from the 5th Year Master of Arts in Teaching Program. In addition, the project PIs provide up to 56 semester-long STEM teaching fellowship opportunities to freshmen and/or sophomore students. It will also employ 20 STEM freshmen and sophomore in summer research fellowships, focusing on both pedagogy and research methods and analysis.  Mike is the Chair of the Education Department.
Tallent, Alistaire–French, Italian and Arabic
Alistaire’s scholarly interests involve the eighteenth-century points of intersection between French literature and larger questions including gender, sexuality, scientific thought, and celebrity. Recent publications include an article in French Forum on the homosocial bonds between men in nineteenth-century France and their mimetic desire for the courtesan, as well as several articles adapted from the work of her monograph, Fictions of Pleasure: The Putain Memoirs of Eighteenth-Century France, exploring constructions of power, gender, and utopic fantasy in the libertine novel as a means of undermining the social iniquities of the Ancien régime. Future projects include an essay on French microgenres in the long eighteenth century and a study on the dissemination of Newton’s laws of gravity and attraction through literary texts. 

Thakur, Sanjaya—Classics
Sanjaya has published articles and reviews on the literature and culture of the early Roman Empire, in particular the reign of the emperor Augustus. His current projects include a series of articles on literature and inscriptions dating to the early period of the emperor Tiberius’ reign. One focuses on additions Tiberius made to the civic calendar, another argues that Ovid’s “double” Heroides date to the period of his exile, and attempt a comprehensive reading of the collection. He is also at work on a book manuscript entitled “Ovid and his Emperors,” which surveys the evolution in the language and images Ovid used to describe the Roman emperor, his successors and members of his family, while placing Ovid’s poetry in a broader social and political context.

Tinsley, Fred–Mathematics and Computer Science
Fred’s interest in high-dimensional geometric topology continues. He and a colleague at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are studying generalizations of their recently published work. Results to this point are encouraging. Steven Janke and Fred are continuing a project investigating meaningful applications of advanced undergraduate mathematical 
statistics to data analyses.

Tucker, Rebecca–Art
Rebecca’s field is art history in the early modern period in northern Europe as well as the colonial world. She focuses on issues of patronage, collecting and display – that is, around questions of ownership, audience, and reception in works of art. Publications include books on Leonardo da Vinci and symbolism in art; articles on Rembrandt and the theory of display; and two essays on Dutch art in pre-colonial India. Rebecca has worked on issues of trade, cultural transmission, and artistic exchange between Europe, Mexico, India, and the New World, including curating an exhibition of Spanish Colonial art in the Southwest with the Fine Arts Center of Colorado Springs. Current projects include an examination of the pedagogy of onsite teaching, and a book on the role of court patronage in the art of the Dutch Republic. 

Tynan, Dan–English
Dan is interested in exploring the relationship between literature and the environment and trying to find ways of enticing students and others to think critically about it. Last year, he taught a new course with Economics Professor Esther Redmount called "The Other Immigrants: The Jews and the Irish of New York." He maintains his interest in applying Jungian theory to literary texts.

Vaghoo, Habiba—Chemistry and Biochemistry
Habiba is an organic chemist whose research interests are in the area of organofluorine chemistry. She works on developing new reactions to introduce fluorine and fluorinated groups to small organic molecules of biological interest using microwave technology. In addition, she is also interested in the design and synthesis of fluorinated analogs of antimalarial drugs whose use is limited due to adverse side effects. Her approach involves strategically introducing fluorinated groups in an attempt to eliminate the side effects. 

Valtierra, Kristina—Education
Tina is an active qualitative researcher in teacher thrival, educator dispositions, culturally responsive education and literacy. Her book manuscript titled ‘Teach and Thrive’ will be out soon through a special series on urban education. With a Ph.D.  in curriculum studies, she publishes widely in curriculum orientated journals.  She is currently working on several projects including two studies exploring development of inclusive educator dispositions and a culturally responsive teacher orientated study aimed to impact CC MAT career sustainability.

Wade, Ibrahima–French, Italian and Arabic
Ibrahima is interested in Francophone literatures and cultures: Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, the Maghreb, and Francophone Canada; also Applied Linguistics. He is in the final stages of editing a book on socio-cultural dualism in Francophone Africa. It concerns “the interrelations between inherited Western Languages and Cultures and indigenous African Civilizations” in the formation of identity. Currently, he is working on Mémoires d’Indochine, a project involving the mémoires of the tirailleurs sénégalais and the francophone afro-asian diaspora in West Africa. 

Waters, Tricia–Psychology
Tricia is continuing research on multiple avenues for student voice, including analyses of the relationship between classroom discourse and metacognition in e-journal entries. She also investigates links between the development of Theory of Mind and self-conscious emotions in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
 
Whitaker, Manya--Education
Manya is a developmental educational psychologist whose areas of expertise are developmentally appropriate curricula and culturally responsive teaching in urban schools. Manya's research addresses teacher preparation for pre-service teachers hoping to work in culturally and linguistically diverse schools. Her current projects involve the development of scales to be used in the evaluation of culturally responsive teaching  practices. Her book, Learning from the Inside-Out: Child Development and School Choice, is scheduled for publication in Fall 2016. When not researching, Manya teaches courses centered on social and political issues in education. 

Whitehead, Matthew—Mathematics and Computer Science
Matthew’s main research interests are artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data mining. In the past he has focused on building ensemble machine learning models that are accurate and more efficient than traditional methods. More recently he has been interested in natural language processing and production and he is currently working on a system to automatically generate natural language text from structured statistical sports data.

Whitten, Barbara–Physics
Barbara's physics research is in theoretical atomic and molecular physics. She has worked on problems in x-ray laser plasmas and collisions involving oriented atoms.  Recently she has become interested in issues involving women in physics. She has conducted NSF-funded research in what makes a physics department female-friendly, and talked to many groups in order to spread the word about this topic. For a summary of their results, please see:  .  www.aps.org/programs/women/workshops/upload/whitten.pdf. With a group of students, she is also working on "Physics for Everyone," in which she is writing a series of introductory physics problems that are designed to appeal to a broader range of students.  You can learn more about "Physics for Everyone" at http://acad.coloradocollege.edu/dept/pc/RepresentativePhy/pages/home.htm.

Williams, John–History
John is a scholar of early modern China whose work focuses on the relationship between the civil service examination system and popular culture in seventeenth century China. He is also developing work on popular culture, Communist mobilization, political resistance, and folk religion in 1920s China.

Wilson, Mark–Organismal Biology and Ecology
Mark studies evolutionary relationships among orchids of the group Pleurothallidinae, particularly the genus Pleurothallis. These orchids occur as epiphytes in high elevation cloud forests from southern Mexico, through Central America, into the Andean countries of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. Through field work and collaborations with individuals and botanic gardens in each of these locations, Mark is collecting living plants or samples of the described species in the genus Pleurothallis in order to generate a molecular phylogeny representing possible evolutionary relationships in the genus. Molecular phylogenies such as this are developed through comparison of sequences in the nuclear or chloroplast genomes. This phylogeny will provide the basis for determining whether segregate, monophyletic genera can be created from species within the huge, highly diverse genus Pleurothallis. The research will also lead to the development of a database of DNA sequences unique to each Pleurothallis species, a so-called “DNA barcode,” such that in the future, identifications can be made even by untrained taxonomists, from a small sample of any plant in the genus, just by sequencing the appropriate DNA regions and comparison to the database. In addition to rapid identification, the barcoding can indicate that a species is not in the database and probably is undescribed, a “new” species. Mark has already collected several undescribed species, which will be described and named in the future.

Wittmer, Dana—Political Science
Dana studies American politics, with specific interests in gender, public opinion, public policy, and Congress. She is currently working on a project to identify effective counter-trafficking practices in the United States. She is also involved in research concerning gender and legislative effectiveness in Congress, and public opinion about Congress as a gendered institution.

Womack, Shawn—Theatre and Dance
Shawn Womack’s recent choreography investigates ways in which dancing bodies assimilate with and/or are alienated within difficult environments. In 2016, she collaborated with the Colorado Springs dance company Ormao to create Press, a site-specific performance in the former press room of the Springs daily newspaper The Gazette. Drift, created for the Russian dance company Pantera, was performed in 2015 in the central Russian cities of Kazan and Saransk as part of Kazan’s international dance festival, Telovidenie. This dance theatre work employed gesture and spoken word, dynamic and contemplative action, as well as Arctic imagery to evoke harrowing accounts of polar explorers adrift amongst polar ice floes. Professor Womack’s first project with Pantera, Terrain, was completed in 2014. Through video and live action, Terrain investigated the memories and promise of various landscapes within Kazan. In May 2016, Professor Womack’s essay “In/Visible City: Transporting Histories and Intersecting Identities in Post-war Serbia” was published in Dah Theatre: A Sourcebook.

Wong, Sandi–Sociology
Sandi’s scholarly interests include the significance of race, ethnicity and diversity in higher education and the sociology of organizational structures, norms and practices.  She is currently studying the impact of organizational isomorphism on patterns of homogeneity and conformity among liberal arts colleges, and exploring how particular institutional cultures foster distinctiveness, resistance and change in spite of expectations and conditions that conflict with their principal meanings and sense of purpose.     

Wood, Naomi—Spanish
Naomi is a scholar of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Cultures and Feminist and Gender Studies. Her current research project examines the ways that "queer" as an identity, theoretical frame, and verb has traveled and transformed throughout Latin America. Her May, 2015 article “Sketches of Chica da Silva: Fictional, Filmic, and Choreographic Accounts” uses dance theory methodologies to connect the African diaspora in the Caribbean, Brazil, and Latin America. Her forthcoming article, "Publicando el placer: los gestos queer en la música y el performance de Kumbia Queers y Krudas Cubensi" look at two queer feminist musical performance groups and the ways that they question gay-rights rhetoric through queer of color critique and an emphasis on the pleasures of queer rather than the struggles of homosexuality. 

Wright, Peter—Religion
Professor Wright continues to work on his book manuscript entitled Varieties of Islamic Humanism: Prophetic, Cosmopolitan, Gnostic and Ecstatic, under contract with Oneworld Books (London).

Adjunct Faculty & Lecturers

Ames, Gypsy–Theatre and Dance
As a costume designer, Gypsy experiments with nontraditional materials and fabric modification for her designs. Examples of alternative materials utilized for her costumes include window screening, paper, re-purposed materials, fiber optics, Ewire, Angelina Fibers, and "Great Stuff." Her principal areas of research are on Mid-Eastern and North African costume and dance, performance art costumes with an environmental design focus, and on creating art piece costumes for the International Costumers Guild competitions and other venues. Most recently, she has been exploring with students the process of creation of designs from junk materials, then creating performances inspired by the design.
 
Bizzarro, Kathy–Spanish
Kathleen Bizzarro investigated, established and directed the Spanish in Spain program 2004-2013 in Salamanca, Spain.  The program enjoyed the participation of Dean Emily Chan as a Mellon Grant student of Spanish, visits by Dean Eric Popkin, the participation of the teaching staff from all members of the Spanish/Portuguese department and a special visit by President Jill Tiefenthaler in the summer of 2013.  Building upon the consistent academic excellence and consistent popularity of the program Professor Bizzarro was asked to investigate, establish and direct the first Colorado College Winter Start Fall Semester Program in Salamanca, Spain in 2014.  The success of that endeavor has resulted in a followup 2015 Winter Start Fall Semester program in England, France, Italy and Slavonia.  The last year has been spent working with the Fulbright Spain Teacher's Program for recent college graduates interested in teaching English in Spain.  Kathleen also teaches Spanish 101 and 201 .

Grace, Susan–Music
Grammy nominated pianist, SUSAN GRACE has performed solo and chamber recitals, and has appeared as soloist with orchestras in the United States, Europe, the former Soviet Union, Korea, India and China. She has, in addition, performed in numerous series and festivals, including the Aspekte Festival in Salzburg, St Paul Chamber Orchestra’s new-music series Engine 408, Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., the Grand Teton Festival, the Cape Cod Music Festival, Festival Mozaic, Music at Oxford, and the Helmsley Festival in England. She is a member of Quattro Mani, an internationally acclaimed two-piano ensemble that made its New York debut in January, 2001 in Carnegie Recital Hall to a sold-out hall. They were immediately re-engaged for four more seasons. Their special interest in twentieth and twenty-first century repertoire has led to collaborations with such composers as George Crumb, Joan Tower and Frederic Rzewski and to participation in contemporary music festivals throughout the USA and Europe. Following the release of Quattro Mani’s debut CD, “A Game of Go,” Fanfare wrote: "Grace and Rybak play all of this music with power and intelligence, shaping large expressive phrases. Quattro Mani’s blistering performance forms the beating heart of an arresting recital." Quattro Mani’s next CD - a recording of George Crumb’s music for two pianos - was issued by Bridge Records and immediately nominated as "Best Chamber Music CD of the Year" by the International Critics Committee of the Cannes Classic Awards. This CD received Fanfare’s ‘Critics Choice’ and highest ratings from France’s Repertoire as well as from ClassicsToday.com. Speaking about Quattro Mani, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Crumb writes: "The duo piano team Quattro Mani is one of the very finest I have heard. Susan Grace and Alice Rybak are wonderful artists and their performances are both technically and musically superb." Quattro Mani has been featured on three recent critically acclaimed discs: “Harmony for a New World,” (INNOVA 603), “The Music of Poul Ruders Vol. 4,” (BRIDGE 9143) and “Complete Crumb Edition Vol. 8,” (BRIDGE 9155) which was chosen as one of the top 10 CD’s for 2004 by Amazon.com. International Record Review said of the recording “Concertos for Two Pianos,” (BRIDGE 9224) which includes works by Poulenc, Bartok and Milhaud “...the playing is first-class throughout; immaculate in technical terms and unfailingly musical...” Other releases by Bridge Records include a CD of music written expressly for the duo entitled “Kindred Spirits” (BRIDGE 9260), and another with works by Stefan Wolpe (BRIDGE 9308). In February, 2011, the duo recorded Shapeshifters, a concerto written for them by Paul Lansky, with the Alabama Symphony. In May, 2012 Quattro Mani performed the same piece with the Alabama Symphony in Carnegie Hall. The New York Times acknowledged the performance with “…the impressive duo, Quattro Mani…” Ms. Grace has recorded for Bridge Records, the Belgium National Radio, WFMT in Chicago, the Society of Composers, Wilson Audio, Klavier International and Klavier Music Productions. She was nominated for a Grammy in 2005 in the Best Small Ensemble Performance category. Ms. Grace is a recipient of the 2005 Business and Community Alliance Partner award for making a significant contribution to the non-college community in Colorado Springs, CO. In April 2009, Grace received a Pikes Peak Arts Council “Force for the Arts” award, which celebrates Colorado Springs community members who contribute to the arts in education. In September 2009 the ninth annual Pikes Peak Arts Council Awards honored her work as music director of the Summer Music Festival with the “Vision, Courage and Achievement Award”. Ms. Grace is Associate Chair, Artist-in-Residence and Senior Lecturer in Music at Colorado College and Music Director of the internationally renowned Colorado College Summer Music Festival which is in its 29th season.

Herminjard, Patrizia—Theatre and Dance
Patrizia is a choreographer who specializes in Dance for Film. Fragments, her most recent short film, explores how echoes of a Baghdad airstrike haunt a young man. Drone gun camera audio is of the July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike, which shows the slaying of Namir Noor-Eldeen and a dozen other civilians by a US helicopter. Directing, cinematography, and editing by Patrizia Herminjard (’96), original music by Wesley Brandt (’14), performance by Dustin Ordway (’14). View film. In addition, her recent choreographic work for the stage How to be more likeable was presented in the Gala performance of the American College Dance Association Northwest Conference. 

Hughes, Lisa B.—Comparative Literature
As a classicist, Lisa’s primary interests are ancient drama in historical context, and the classical tradition in American culture, especially literature and film. Recent academic publications and presentations include women and war in Greek tragedy; and Greece as a site of comedy from ancient Rome to the contemporary American cinema. She teaches courses that reflect the enduring influence of the ancient Greeks, in classes as varied as The King James Bible, Myth and Movies, and Shakespeare’s Ovid. She continues to enjoy taking Colorado College students to Greece for courses on Homer, Greek drama, and Greek romanticism.

Kannan, Phil–Environmental Program
Phil works on the relationship between environmental protection, human rights, and sustainable development. Recently, he has published articles on complex discrimination, the precautionary principle, treaty-making with Native American tribes, a constitutional theory to mitigate child abuse, mitigating global climate change, sustainable development and constitutional law.

McEnnerney, Dennis---Philosophy
Dennis specializes in political philosophy, with interests both in the history of political and philosophic thought and in contemporary political philosophy. He has several projects underway, including a book manuscript focusing on resistance and contemporary identity politics, with related articles on Sartrean existentialism, Thoreau’s resistance, and the Quebecois philosophical-artistic movement, Le Refus global. His chapter, “Democracy as Voice: Political Liberalism and Critical Philosophy in Dialogue,” was published in Political Theory: The State of the Discipline (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013). His edited collection, “Histories of Resistance,” appeared in 2009 as a special issue of the journal, Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques, with his article, “Philosophy and Politics of Résistance in Early Modern France,” included. Other recent articles include “Frantz Fanon, the Resistance, and the Emergence of Identity Politics” in The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France (Duke University Press, 2003), and “How Can Liberal Education Engage ‘Things That Matter’?” in Phi Beta Kappa’s Key Reporter (Spring 2008). He co-founded the Association for Political Theory in 2000 and served as its executive co-director from 2000 to 2008.
	
Stanec, Kris--Education
Kris is interested in the arts in education, specifically teaching with/in/about/through the arts, including visual, drama, dance and music. Her recent focus of research is on integration models that bring a depth of meaning to each content area as opposed to parallel arts instruction. Kris recently succeeded in expanding the Education Department’s secondary visual art licensure program to a K-12 license. Other areas of interest include service-learning partnerships, problem-based learning, and using technology for performance-based assessment.

Zhang, Fanny—Chinese
Fanny Zhang is a Chinese lecturer currently focusing on developing oral and written language tools that not only give students basic language skills but a broader context to meet different forms of communication and mediums. From casual conversations to business communications, these tools will help students apply their language knowledge to real-world scenarios and help students infer meanings of unfamiliar content, furthering their language development beyond the classroom.