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Efraín Barradas, a professor of Spanish-American literature and Latino studies in the romance languages department and the Center for Latin American Studies, comes to UF from the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Barradas, who earned his PhD from Princeton University, has been a visiting professor at the University of Puerto Rico, his alma mater, and at Harvard. His research focuses on the relationship between literature and the visual arts. He enjoys watching Mexican movies from the 1940s and 1950s and tries to keep his new garden from becoming a tropical jungle. |
| David Daegling, an associate professor of anthropology, received his PhD in 1990 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He spent nine years on the faculty at Yale University and brings to UF a laboratory to investigate the biomechanics of the primate skeleton using strain gauge analysis. In addition to his interest in functional morphology, he also uses morphometric techniques to examine primate growth and development as well as taxonomic issues in the primate fossil record. He has conducted paleontological fieldwork in Turkey, South Africa and the western interior of the US. |
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Elizabeth Dale, an assistant professor of history, comes to UF from Clemson University in South Carolina where she taught US legal history for five years. She received her PhD in US history from the University of Chicago in 1995, and before returning to graduate school in 1990, she worked as a civil rights attorney. DaleÍs research has emphasized criminal and constitutional law, and she has two books on these subjects under contract. One is a study of the evolution of the constitutional order in early seventeenth-century Massachusetts Bay. The other is an examination of a murder trial that took place in late nineteenth-century Chicago. In her second book, she considers the extent to which public opinion, as expressed in mob action, protest meetings, and news accounts, influenced the outcome of the trial. Her next project, a study of the judgments of what she refers to as ñthe informal court of public opinionî in the antebellum South, continues her exploration of the way that popular forces interact with formal law. |
| Peter Delaney is a new assistant professor in psychology. This year he graduated from Florida State University with a PhD in cognitive and behavioral science. His research is currently centered on how people make plans while solving problems. He also studies broader aspects of memory and skill, including the methods of the famous memorist Rajan, who was once listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for learning thousands of digits of pi. Outside of the office, he enjoys outdoor activities, playing games of all sorts, reading widely, and drinking good beer. |
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Jeff Gill is an assistant professor in political science. He earned his PhD from American University in 1996. His major areas of research include American politics, European politics, political methodology, public policy, statistical computing, research methods, and public administration. Currently GillÍs research focuses on projects such as Bayesian hierarchical models, budgetary behavior in the House of Representatives, political entropy, generalized linear model theory, and simulation techniques. He is the author of three books, including his most recent, Bayesian Methods for the Social Sciences. Gill has been a research fellow at Harvard University and teaches in the Intra-University Consortium for Political and Social Research summer training program at the University of Michigan. |
| Jessica Harland-Jacobs, an assistant professor of history, comes to UF from Duke University. Her research specialization is modern British and imperial history, and she teaches courses in British, Irish, Atlantic, Australian, and general imperial history. Her current research project is on Freemasonry in the British Empire from the mid eighteenth-century to the First World War and is broadly concerned with the role of cultural institutions in imperialism and processes of identity formation. For three years at Duke University she served as the program coordinator for the Oceans Connect project, an international, inter-disciplinary initiative that fosters discussion and investigation of trans-oceanic exchanges in history. In this capacity, she co-edited an Oceans Connect special issue of the Geographic Review (to which she also contributed an article). She is also the author of Balancing Tradition and Innovation: Botany and Duke and The Story of DurhamÍs Public Libraries. She enjoys spending time outdoors with her husband, Matt, their daughter, Alexandra, and Cameron, the family dog. |
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Terry Harpold is an assistant professor of film and media studies in the English department. He received his PhD in comparative literature and literary theory from the University of Pennsylvania and taught for five years at the Georgia Institute of Technology before joining the UF faculty. His primary areas of research and scholarship are cultural theory and narratology of new media, and psychoanalytic criticism. He is currently finishing a book, Links and Their Vicissitudes, which is about structures of knowledge in hypertext fiction and multimedia games. He is beginning work on a collection of essays of postcolonial critique of cyberculture. An unregenerate computer nerd and lapsed Esperantist, his extra-academic interests also include cryptozoology, the scientific study of legendary and little-known animals. |
| Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox, an assistant professor of sociology, received her PhD in sociology and demography from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research examines the support networks and psychosocial well-being of older adults, focusing on the experiences of childlessness or parenting over the life course. She comes to UF after completing post-doctoral work in the demography of aging at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health in Baltimore. While there, she began a cross-national, comparative analysis of childlessness, family supports, and living arrangements of the elderly in Eastern Europe. Koropeckyj-Cox is also collaborating on a study of the well-being of a group of middle-aged women in Baltimore who were first interviewed as young teen mothers in the late 1960s. She enjoys hiking, theater, and exploring the outdoors and the arts with her kids. |
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David Metzler is an assistant professor of mathematics and received his PhD from MIT. He comes to UF after a three-year postdoctoral instructorship at Rice, where he received his undergraduate degree. His research interests are in differential geometry, more specifically symplectic geometry, which is a kind of geometry that is based on classical mechanics. His work has focused on the use of symmetries in simplifying the analysis of classical and quantum mechanical systems. His other interests include mountaineering, classic film, and social dance. |
| Judith W. Page, an associate professor of English, comes to UF after serving as a professor and associate dean of arts and letters at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. She earned her PhD from the University of Chicago where she wrote Wordsworth and the Cultivation of Women. She has also written numerous articles and reviews on the Romantic period. Her current research interests include a study of the representation of Jews and Judaism in Britain during the Romantic period and a project on the informal and mostly unpublished writings of women in the Wordsworth circle. Page will teach courses in these areas of literature and will also work with the Center for Jewish Studies. |
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Silvana Patriarca, an assistant professor of history, received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University and comes to UF from Columbia University. She is the author of the prize-winning book Numbers and Nationhood: Writing Statistics in Nineteenth-Century Italy (Cambridge University Press, 1996), which is a study of the role of statistical knowledge in the construction of the nation state. She has also written numerous articles and book chapters on the social and cultural history of modern Italy. Her principal research interests include the genealogy of social representations, categories, and modes of inquiry, and the cultural history of nationalism and national identities. Patriarca is currently working on a book about the politics of the discourse of national character in modern Italy. In her free time she enjoys swimming, reading novels, and watching movies. |
| Brian Ward, an associate professor of history, was Reader in American History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne before coming to UF. When not agonizing over the failings of the West Ham United soccer team, he researches and teaches the history of the modern American South and the postwar African American experience. His publications include Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness and Race Relations (1998), which won an American Book Award, the James A. Rawley Prize for the best book on the history of US race relations, and the American Studies Network Prize for the best first book in American Studies. He is currently completing a book on black-oriented radio and the African American freedom struggle. |
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