Announcing New Faculty 2008-09

Diego de Acosta - Spanish Literature & Language

During 2006-2007 Diego taught at Evergreen as a Visiting Faculty member. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Cornell University. His B.A. from Princeton University is in Sociology and Linguistics. He has served as a translator in both Spanish and Portuguese.

Subcommittee members for this position were Alice Nelson, Tom Womeldorff, Susan Fiksdal, Nancy Allen, Norma Alicia Pino, Gerardo Chin-Leo, and Erika Marquez.

Ulrike Krotscheck - Classic Studies

Ulrike is a Ph.D. candidate in Classics and Archaeology at Stanford University. She received her M.A. in Classical Archaeology, Prehistory and Art History from the University of Heidelberg in Heidelberg, Germany and her BA in Art History from Mount Holyoke College. This spring she will be defending her dissertation, Scale, Structure, and Organization of Archaic Maritime Trade in the Western Mediterranean: the "Pointe Lequin 1A."

Subcommittee members for this position were Andrew Reece, Dan Ralph, Char Simons, Chuck Pailthorp, Nancy Koppelman, Bob Haft, Ernestine Kimbro, Cortney Tobin, and Leonard Schwartz.

Nancy Anderson - Public Health

Nancy is currently an Office Chief for the Office of Family Services, Washington State Medicaid Administration. She received her B.A. and M.D. from Columbia University with residencies at University of Washington-Children's Hospital and Medical Center and Emory University-Grady Memorial Hospital. She also received a M.P.H. from University of Washington. She is a board certified pediatrician and spent 5 years as a clinician and public health researcher in Mozambique. She is particularly interested in issues of health equity, both in The United States and internationally.

Subcommittee members for this position were Nancy Murray, Allen Mauney, Mark Harrison, Mike Paros, and Helena Meyer-Knapp.

Jon Davies - Teacher Education in Language Arts and Reading

Jon is currently Chairperson of the Department of Educational Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse. He received his Ed.D. from the University of San Diego. His dissertation was Transforming Leadership in the California Literature Project: Ethnographic Narrative as True Fiction. Both his B.A. and M.A. are from Oberlin College. Some of the additional places he has taught are Northern Michigan University, Louisiana State University, and Hofstra University. In addition, Jon is a former high school English teacher in the San Diego area and former director of the Upper Peninsula Writing Project, a National Writing Project site, in Marquette, Michigan.

Subcommittee members for this position were Scott Coleman, Terry Ford, Gery Gerst, Frances Rains, Loren Petty, Eric Hagrave and Anita Lenges.

Grace Huerta - ESL & Teacher Education

Grace is currently teaching at Utah State University. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from Arizona State University. Her M.A. in English is from California State University while her B.A. in English is from University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Subcommittee members for this position were Terry Ford, Susan Fiksdal, Maggie Foran, and Sherry Walton.

Red Vaughan Tremmel - Visiting History of Sexuality & Queer Studies

Red is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Chicago. Red received an M.A. in History from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Women's Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Red's dissertation, Sin City on the Hill: Play, Urban Conflict, and the Rise of Commercial Liberality, 1900-1960, will be defended this spring. Red is also finishing a documentary focused on burlesque performers who worked in the postwar period and the recent revival of burlesque.

Subcommittee members for this position were Greg Mullins and Julia Zay.

Gregg Sapp - Dean of the Library & Media Services

Gregg is currently the Head of the Science Library at University at Albany, State University of New York. He received his M.Ed. in Adult, Higher, and Community Education from Montana State University. His Master in Library Science is from the University of Washington and his Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies is from Western Washington University. Previously he has held positions at the University of Miami, Richter Library; Montana State University, Renne Library; and Idaho State University, Oboler Library.

Subcommittee members for this position were Liza Rognas, Sara Huntington, Paul McMillin, Wyatt Cates, Mindy Mutzako, Gerardo Chin-Leo, Julie Douglass, Lorri Trimble, Brian Gerheim, Alan Parker, Ken Tabbutt, and Aleia Webb.

Savvina Chowdhury - Feminist Economics

Savvina is currently teaching at California State University, Bakersfield. She has also held teaching positions at California State University, Fullerton and University of California, Riverside. Both her Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics are from the University of California, Riverside. She received a B.A. in International Studies from the University of Southern Maine. Her dissertation entitled Everyday Economic Practices as Instances of Rupture: The Hidden Transcripts of local Egyptian Voices was published as a book in 2007.

Subcommittee members for this position were Peter Bohmer, Jeanne Hahn, Mary Craven, Sarah Ryan, Steve Niva, Brooke Stepp, and Jenine Adam