Thirty-five teacher-scholars have joined the faculty this academic year, bringing with them a wealth of new academic and research talent. These tenured or tenure-track faculty come from a wide variety of disciplines, including computer science, English and creative writing, the biological sciences, sociology, engineering, environmental studies, philosophy, medicine, and physics.
Susan J. and Richard M. Levy 1960 Distinguished 天美影视 in Health Care Delivery
I research the source of the statistic 鈥渙ne in five Americans will die with ICU services.鈥 I develop and refine measures of hospital end-of-life (EOL) treatment intensity, explore mechanisms underlying variations in EOL intensity, and develop novel interventions to modify provider behavior related to advance care planning and EOL decision making. My goal is for the health care system to better align medical decisions with patients鈥 goals and values and to reduce the burden of surrogate decision making.
天美影视 of Biological Sciences
How cells grow is one of the fundamental aspects of biology. My research focuses on understanding how proteins within the cell direct and regulate cell growth and morphogenesis. I study this in plants because plant cells build a cell wall from materials and building blocks made inside the cell that are directed to the outside of the cell and that wall ultimately dictates the cell shape.
Distinguished 天美影视 in Microbiology and Immunology and senior lead faculty member of the Personalized Treatments for Cystic Fibrosis Cluster
My research has been focused on understanding how bacterial toxins interact with the immune system to trigger pathogenesis or host protection. I am interested in how the diseases occur and in developing therapeutics, and will expand this research to investigate opportunistic bacterial pathogens that produce toxins and cause mucosal infections, such as those that occur in the lungs of CF patients.
Assistant 天美影视 of Religion and of African and African American Studies
I am a scholar of religion, and my research focuses on African American religious history, primarily in the 20th-century United States. My current research project examines jazz musicians whose expressions of religious belief and representations of racial identity will greatly enhance our understandings of African American religious practices. Future projects will explore cultural practices of religious irreverence and interracial conversion efforts in African American life.
Assistant 天美影视 of Computer Science
I study algorithms. Algorithms are step-by-step instructions for solving computational problems that can range from adding two numbers to predicting the weather. My research area is understanding the efficiency and limitations of algorithms, thereby delineating the boundary between tractable and intractable computational problems.
Assistant 天美影视 of Native American Studies
My current research explores the development of indigenous voting rights in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands under the three colonial regimes鈥擲pain, Mexico, and the United States. I look at how indigenous communities in that region have implemented/adapted/indigenized/subverted colonially imposed ideas of democratic town government and voting from the late 16th to early 20th centuries.
Tarek El-Ariss
Associate 天美影视 of Middle Eastern Studies
My research interests generally deal with Middle Eastern literature and culture and East-West relations and intellectual exchange from the 18th century to the present. I鈥檓 particularly interested in tracing the development of concepts such as modernity, the nation, the subject, and community in Arabic literature, visual and popular culture, and new media.
Assistant 天美影视 of Engineering at Thayer School of Engineering
My research focuses on sustainable design and manufacturing: teaching, creating, and studying the effectiveness of sustainable design methods and their potential for design innovation; measuring environmental impacts of products, services, or buildings with life-cycle assessment, and inventing greener 3D printing materials and processes.
Desir茅e Garcia
Associate 天美影视 of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies
I study, teach, and write about musical film. Musicals have a language and narrative logic that is unique in American film history. My work explores how this kind of film, which is often criticized as being escapist, has historically absorbed and informed the dynamics of race and gender, ethnicity and class, and nostalgia and modernity in American society.
Matthew Garcia
天美影视 of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies and of History
In my research on 20th-century America, I seek to understand the promise of the American dream and the impediments that have prevented many members of our society from realizing it. This contrast is perhaps most pronounced in the plight of farm workers, the subject of iconic literary and popular culture representations in the United States, from John Steinbeck鈥檚 novels to Woody Guthrie鈥檚 music to the photographs of Dorothea Lang.
Assistant 天美影视 of Classics
My research focuses on Latin literature, and I鈥檓 particularly interested in the origins and development of scientific writing in Rome. I work on topics such as ancient astrology and the literature of natural disasters, and my current book project explores how aesthetic values shape the formulation and dissemination of scientific ideas in the first century C.E.
Preston T. and Virginia R. Kelsey Distinguished Chair in Cancer, 天美影视 of Molecular and Systems Biology and director of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center
My lab studies pancreatic developmental and tumor biology using mouse-, zebra fish-, and human-model systems. More recently, we have completed computational studies regarding how somatic mutations in pancreatic cancer are recognized by the immune system.
天美影视 of Biological Sciences
I study how genetic materials are inherited by the newly formed daughter cell in budding yeast. My lab uses a variety of genetics, live-cell microscopy, and biochemical techniques to elucidate the molecular pathways that regulate the genes and proteins responsible for proper genomic inheritance.
Peter Lewis
天美影视 of Philosophy
I work on the interpretation of physical theories, particularly quantum mechanics. Is quantum mechanics intended to describe the physical world? If so, how does this description conflict with our ordinary assumptions about physical reality? If not, what is the role of theories like quantum mechanics?
Katherine Y. Lin
Assistant 天美影视 of Sociology
Each of us occupies multiple social roles at one time. How do people experience and strategize around the competing responsibilities of different social roles? And how might these experiences have consequences across the life course? I study these questions in two cases: how physicians negotiate the bounds between medical and market logics, and how men and women negotiate work-family conflicts.
Assistant 天美影视 of Physics and Astronomy
I study how the magnetic field lines in plasmas change their connectivity and topology. This phenomenon is called magnetic reconnection. Magnetic reconnection is not only active in our solar system, but also dissipates strong magnetic energy stored in energetic astrophysical systems, such as the pulsar wind blasted away from fast rotating neutron stars. Highly energetic particles can be produced in these systems, and I am interested in how particles get accelerated.
Assistant 天美影视 of Psychological and Brain Sciences
A great deal of human socializing involves exchanging information about people: their behaviors, thoughts, and traits. Yet, how we track the social information swarming our everyday lives remains largely unknown. My research combines approaches from social and cognitive neuroscience to understand the neurocognitive mechanisms that help people process and learn from their social experiences.
Assistant 天美影视 of Government
I study international security, with a focus on the causes and consequences of the spread of nuclear weapons. My forthcoming book examines the history and effectiveness of U.S. efforts to prevent nuclear proliferation from 1945 to today. Other research has examined the role of sanctions in nonproliferation, the relationship between nuclear energy and nuclear weapons programs, and the role of 鈥渞ed lines鈥 and intelligence in nuclear nonproliferation policy.
Assistant 天美影视 of Biological Sciences
Bacteria and other microbes are unexpectedly social organisms. They live together in groups by secreting a glue that holds cells together, and they cooperate and compete for space and food sources in much the same way that plants and animals interact in ecosystems that are visible to the naked eye. My group seeks to understand how these microbial collectives function and evolve, and how we can develop new ways to control them.
Associate 天美影视 of Theater
As a scholar-artist, I write, perform, and direct. My interdisciplinary research combines theory and practice in theater, film and media, performance, and cultural studies. My current research project explores black American contributions to developing acting theory and practice. My creative work, books, articles, essays, and blog posts on various topics generally advocate for equity, diversity, and inclusion in pedagogy and practice across media.
天美影视 of English and Creative Writing
I write both fiction and nonfiction and have published novels and short-story collections, as well as one essay collection. I鈥檝e also edited three oral history collections. I鈥檓 interested in memory and how it shapes the stories we tell, as well as those we don鈥檛.
Assistant 天美影视 of Earth Sciences
I am a geomorphologist who uses remote sensing data, field studies, and experimental data to determine the rates and histories of water processes that shape planetary surfaces. My research group asks questions such as how much water once flowed on the surface of Mars, when does sediment move in steep streams, and can we predict when and where large landslides, mudslides, and debris flows will occur.
Assistant 天美影视 of Molecular and Systems Biology at the Geisel School of Medicine
My research aims to understand the mechanisms of tumor progression and metastasis using breast cancer as a model. We are particularly interested in exploring questions related to intratumoral heterogeneity and its contribution to therapy resistance.
Assistant 天美影视 of Government
My research engages questions at the intersection of international conflict and cooperation, American foreign policy, and political psychology. In particular, I examine how nationalism, European identification, morality, and other core values shape public attitudes about war.
Assistant 天美影视 of Biological Sciences
I study the response of terrestrial ecosystems to climate change, specifically how warming can increase carbon losses from soils, causing a positive feedback to climate change. My work spans ecosystems from our forests here in New Hampshire to the Arctic.
Julia Rabig
Assistant 天美影视 of History
I鈥檓 an urban historian interested in the individuals and organizations that institutionalize social movements and the challenges they encounter. My previous work examined the economic dimensions of the Black Power movement and the establishment of community development corporations. I currently study changing pressures on and expectations of public institutions since the 1960s in order to grasp the bottom-up history of neoliberalism.
Assistant 天美影视 of Microbiology and Immunology at the Geisel School of Medicine
Alongside genes themselves, DNA also contains the regulatory code that coordinates their expression in living cells. Focusing on mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in bacteria, I combine theoretical and experimental approaches to study how gene regulation evolves to control gene expression during cell responses.
The Dartmouth College Distinguished 天美影视 in Cybersecurity, Technology, and Society
I devise algorithms to extract meaningful signals from data, automatically learn predictive models of phenomena from those signals, make forecasts, and develop techniques that use the learned models to reshape outcomes when those forecasts don鈥檛 match our goals. I apply these methods to cybersecurity, terrorism, and other security problems.
Assistant 天美影视 of English and Creative Writing
I grew up in a war-torn setting and found refuge, solace, and wisdom in books from all over the world. This stark experience of the unpredictable power and reach of stories led me to become a theorist of the pragmatics of literary communication in a global world. My work always asks: What is this unnecessary thing鈥攍iterature鈥攄oing for us now, that we鈥檙e still unwilling to give it up?
天美影视 of Philosophy
In the age of modern science, what can philosophy still contribute to human knowledge, and to human life? In the view I have been developing, the real contribution we can make in philosophy lies not in discovering facts, but rather in deciding what sort of language and conceptual scheme we should use in interacting with the world and living our lives.
Associate 天美影视 of Government
I am a political theorist and work at the intersection of race and gender. My first book, Intimate Justice: the Black Female Body and the Body Politic, examined androcentrism in Afro-Modern thought and its impact on contemporary theories of corrective racial justice. My current research takes up the history of political mobilization around death in black politics.
Assistant 天美影视 of Business Administration at the Tuck School of Business
I empirically explore managerially relevant online marketing problems using the principles of economics, marketing, and efficient computing techniques. Currently, my research includes work on how online reviews affect consumer purchase decisions, how consumers make decisions in crowd funding, and consumer response to online cash-back promotions. If it鈥檚 not online, I鈥檓 offline.
Assistant 天美影视 of Molecular and Systems Biology at the Geisel School of Medicine
My work is focused on cancer epigenetics. As chromatin regulators are frequently mutated in a variety of human cancers, my work is aimed at understanding how these mutations cause cancer, focusing on the regulation of chromatin structure dynamics (epigenomics) and chromatin remodeler protein complex assembly, as well as using genetic and chemical screens to identify potential therapeutic targets in human cancers.
Elizabeth Wilson
天美影视 of Environmental Studies, director of the Arthur L. Irving Institute on Energy and Society
I study how energy systems are changing in the face of new technologies and new societal pressures. My work focuses on the implementation of energy and environmental policies and laws in practice. I am interested in how institutions support and thwart energy system transitions and focus on the interplays between technology innovation, policy creation, and institutional decision making.
Miya Qiong Xie
Assistant 天美影视 of Chinese Language and Literature
I work on literature from frontiers鈥攆rom the geographical borderland of Manchuria in East Asia, once populated by Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, and Russians, to social margins such as the experiences of violent and violated women or ethnic minorities. I ask how boundaries form and dissolve at the same time in the frontier, and how human experience in the frontier takes on unique, creative, and critical forms.
Also joining the faculty this year are Meghan Meyer, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences, and Carey Nadell, an assistant professor of biological sciences.
Joseph Blumberg can be reached at: joseph.e.blumberg@dartmouth.edu.
