Newly Tenured Professors

Congratulations to the following three faculty members who were all awarded tenure this week by the Board of Trustees:

Norman Danner
associate professor of computer science
Danner’s teaching interests focus on open-source software development. His research interests are primarily focused on the development of practical programming languages with guaranteed resource usage and low-latency networks for anonymous web-browsing.

Fernando Degiovanni
associate professor of romance languages and literatures
[Degiovanni] specializes in issues of nationalism, cultural politics and canon formation in Argentina, focusing on the first popular series of national “classic” authors in early 20th century. His research explores the ways in which opposing intellectual projects attempted to build and impose contrasting versions of the Argentine cultural tradition in times of massive immigration and democratic institutionalization.

Greg Voth
associate professor of physics
Voth’s research involves experimental studies of the dynamics of soft-condensed matter and fluid systems. Current experiments include those that use high-speed video imaging to measure particle trajectories in granular and turbulent flows.

More Newly Tenured Professors

The Board of Trustees is granting tenure to three more faculty members this summer:

Katja Kolcio — Associate Professor of Dance
Katja's research interests are focused on social somatic theory, the role of somatic creative experience in practices of knowledge production, namely pedagogy, research methodology, and technology.

Edward Moran — Associate Professor of Astronomy
Edward's area of specialization includes cosmic x-ray background radiation, obscured active galactic nuclei, black holes in the nuclei of dwarf galaxies, and the nature of power source in LINER galaxies.

Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento — Associate Professor of Theater
Cláudia's teaching and research interests lie in the intercultural and avant-garde performance, ritual and performance, and in Brazilian theatre.

Congrats to these professors, more info about them can be found here.

Prof. Potter featured in Inside Higher Ed blog

The sharp eyes of Ben Cohen '10 noticed that Professor and Chair of the American Studies Department, Claire Potter, was featured today in an article on the Inside Higher Ed blog. In "Tenure as a Tarnished Brass Ring," Scott Jaschik refers to Potter's recent blog posting on the troubles of the tenure system:

Claire B. Potter has a level of academic success many young Ph.D.’s these days can only dream about. A professor of history and chair of American studies at Wesleyan University, she has tenure at an elite college. Tenure provides her not only with job security, but with part of her identity as the blogger Tenured Radical, where she shares views on a range of topics, writing with the freedom that tenure is supposed to protect.

So why would Potter recently have approached her provost to inquire about the possibility of trading in tenure for a renewable contract?

Why, indeed? Read the article and find out some things about tenure that you've probably never thought about.

Newly Tenured Professors '08

The Wesleyan Board of Trustees recently announced the promotion with tenure of several faculty members:

Christiaan Hogendorn, Economics
Allan Isaac, English
Andrea Patalano, Psychology
Aradhana Sharma, Anthropology/FGSS
Gina Ulysse, Anthropology/African-American Studies

Congrats to them, click here to see more details of the work these professors have done.