Specialized Resources
Center LeadershipNadav Assor, Faculty Director Steve Luber, Associate Director Rachel Boggia, Associate Fellow for Curriculum Lyndsay Bratton, Associate Fellow for Information / Research Andrew Greenwald, Associate Fellow for Events James Lee, Associate Fellow for Technology Andrea Wollensak, Associate Fellow for Design Center StaffBrian Dimmock, Digital Fabrication Technician Alison Cook, Administrative Assistant Research-Creation Group, 2022-23TBD |
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Associate Professor of Theater
Virginia (Ginny) Anderson joined the theater faculty in 2013 after four years at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, where she directed for the main stage and taught a variety of theater history courses including theater history survey courses, Women in Theater, African American Theater History, Children’s Theater, Theater in the United States, and LGBTQ Theater.
Associate Professor of Art, Judith Ammerman '60 Director, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology
Nadav Assor began his work as an assistant professor of art at Connecticut College in August, 2012, leading the development of the new Expanded Media area in the Studio Art department. Assor's current classes, all cross-listed between studio art and the Ammerman Center for Art and Technology, include Introduction to Digital Concepts in Time Based Media, Video Installation, Sound Art, and Experimental 3D.
Associate Professor of Art
As an artist, Greg Bailey makes work that functions for him as his most direct and honest response possible to the world around him. Bailey’s use of metaphor relates his work both personally and universally. He uses a range of technical, conceptual, and expressive aspects in his work. His work combines narratives and contemporary theory; it engages in political, social and cultural awareness and commentary, utilizing elements of wit, humor, irony, and visual aesthetic.
Professor of Anthropology
Catherine Benoît’s research interests have developed in two directions. First, she explores the emergence and construction of individual and collective identities in the Caribbean in relation to the bodily experience of space and nature. Second, she examines immigration issues and border reinforcement in the Caribbean and in the Indian Ocean region.
Associate Professor of Dance, Chair of the Department of Dance
Rachel Boggia's research interests include making multidisciplinary and mediated performance; performing in collaborative creations, improvisation, dance documentary/experimental dance documentation.
Digital Scholarship and Visual Resources Librarian
Associate Professor of Physics
Soon after arriving at Connecticut College, Leslie Brown worked with the department to start a new major in astrophysics and a minor in astronomy. Believing that student involvement is important for both her and the students, Brown includes students in her research and has also acted as adviser to students' theses and independent studies.
Professor of Dance
David Dorfman '81, who describes his Connecticut College education as “magic,” returned to the campus as an associate professor of dance in 2004 and was promoted to full professor in 2008.His company, David Dorfman Dance, considered one of the most influential American contemporary dance companies for the past two decades, was permanently named company-in-residence at the College in Fall 2007.
Dean of the Faculty , Fuller-Maathai Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Intersectionality Studies
R. Danielle Egan, the Fuller-Maathai Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Intersectionality Studies at Connecticut College, is Dean of the Faculty and Chief Academic Officer. The highest-ranking officer after the president, the Dean of the Faculty is responsible for providing academic leadership for the College and its faculty.
Associate Professor of Art History
Karen Gonzalez Rice's approach to teaching and research is multidisciplinary, drawing on methodologies of contemporary art history, religious studies, American studies and trauma studies. Her courses include Late 20th-Century Art, Seeing: Mona Lisa to Instagram, and upper-level courses such as Pop Art & Critical Visual Culture, and Radical Bodies: Contemporary Art & Action.
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Anthony P. Graesch identifies as an anthropologist whose scholarship and analytic sensibilities are shaped by archaeological method and theory. His active research programs address materiality and discard behavior in contemporary societies as well as the ancestral houses and households of First Nations collaborators in western North America. Although seemingly disparate research domains, some common threads link these projects: a focus on discarding as a culturally generative domain of human behavior and, by extension, a prioritization of the analytic significance of discards; a nerdy fascination with site formation processes; a deep concern with the relationship between inferential argument and the methods that generate the data on which an arguments is built; and a celebration of the less-glamorous, less-studied, and oft-dismissed realms of the material record. His publication record exemplifies these analytic dispositions and includes articles written and published with undergraduate students. At Connecticut College, Professor Graesch offers courses addressing the practice, theory, and ethics of archaeological anthropology. He subscribes to the idea that undergraduates should achieve demonstrable research literacy at the time of graduation, and he regularly mentors students pursuing advanced field- and lab-based experiential research education. His efforts to challenge students to work harder than they thought possible and to reach unanticipated levels of academic achievement garnered him a Helen Mulvey Faculty Award. Professor Graesch advises students pursuing the Anthropology major and minor as well as students pursuing the social science track of the Environmental Studies major and minor. He also serves as a faculty fellow and advises students applying for and pursuing certificate-bearing curricular programs in the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment as well as in the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology. In true Liberal Arts fashion, many of his students pursue an Anthropology major in combination with a second major in Environmental Studies, Biology, or Art. Research | Curriculum Vitae | Anthropology Department
Assistant Professor of Music
Andrew Greenwald is a composing and performing musician. HIs compositions probe questions of coherence in musical form, often using computer models to seamlessly meld improvisation and traditionally notated music. His works have been commissioned, recorded, and independently programmed by the Arditti Quartet, JACK Quartet, Mivos Quartet, Spektral Quartet, Ensemble Adapter, On Structure, Ensemble Dal Niente, Line Upon Line Percussion, Wild Up, Gnarwhallaby, and Distractfold as well as soloists Seth Josel, Ryan Muncy, Yuki Numata Resnick, Weston Olencki, Matt Barbier, Josh Modney, Austin Wulliman, and Séverine Ballon, and Marco Fusi at festivals and venues throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe.
Professor of Dance
Heidi Henderson teaches Modern Technique, Composition, Improvisation, Anatomy, and Dance Writing. Henderson is the artistic director of elephant JANE dance.
Vice President for Information Services, Librarian of the College
Associate Professor of Dance
Shawn Hove is the founder/artistic director of shove gently dance. Shawn is a multidisciplinary dance artist investigating and working in dance as a choreographer, dancer, collaborator, educator, lighting designer and media artist.
Professor of Computer Science, Chair of the Computer Science Department
Ozgur Izmirli explores new technologies to help create, understand, analyze, organize, experience and perform works in the arts with a focus on music. His research interests are concentrated in models for music understanding, music information retrieval, digital signal processing related to music audio, music perception and cognition modeling, multi-modal computer-user interfaces and real-time interactive music technology. Professor Izmirli has over 55 peer reviewed publications in conference proceedings and journals. More specifically he has devised several models for key finding and modulation detection. His key finding algorithm ranked first in the independent MIREX evaluation in 2005.
Associate Professor of Computer Science
S. James Lee's research interests are concentrated on computer graphics and visualization for interactive applications such as computer games, virtual reality environments, autonomous interactive characters, and museum installations.
Assistant Director, Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology
Chu-Niblack Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies
Di Luo’s research focuses on how particular building forms and practices in China and Buddhist Asia evolved over time, and how, more importantly, certain “prototypes” and “archetypes” persisted through these changes and became highly distinctive motifs that prevailed in China and across its borders.
Adjunct Associate Professor of Music
Jim McNeish teaches courses in solo classical guitar performance, Guitar Ensemble/Chamber Music, and Acoustics for Musicians. He also runs the College's Elizabeth Gilbert Fortune Recording Studio (a multi-room facility incorporating Fortune Hall, Evans Hall, Oliva Hall, a soundproof isolation booth and Harkness Chapel) and assists Professor Arthur Kreiger with electronic music and computer music courses in the Cummings Electronic and Digital Sound Studios.
Professor of Art
Denise Pelletier has a wide range of expertise in ceramic sculpture/handbuilding, moldmaking, slipcasting and industrial production methods, and a decade of experience in making vessels and functional pottery. She is experienced with majolika, underglazes, china paints, reduction and oxidation high-fire glazes, silkscreen and digital decals, traditional and experimental image transfer techniques, paper clay, plaster clay, casting slip and adobe.
Director of Arts Programming
Vandana Shiva Associate Professor of Gender Sexuality and Intersectionality Studies
Ariella R. Rotramel joined the College in 2012 and is the Vandana Shiva Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies. They are an interdisciplinary scholar committed to bridging theoretical and practical engagements of identity and social justice issues. Ari served as as the Interim Dean of Institutional Equity and Inclusion August 2021-January 2022.
Musician/Composer for Dance
Richard Schenk joined the College in 1995 as musician/composer for dance after 10 years as music director at The Ohio State University Department of Dance. He has composed dozens of scores for choreographers, and performs on piano, cello, guitar and percussion in addition to pursuing computer applications for composition and improvisation.
Associate Professor of Psychology, Director of the Neuroscience Program
Joseph Schroeder has a diverse background in psychology, neuroscience, cell biology, neuropathology and pharmacology. Understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of behavior has been the unifying theme of his research interests from the beginning of his career.
Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Ayako Takamori’s research is driven by an enduring interest in how belonging and identities are negotiated and mediated across borders and in post-conflict contexts. She is completing a book, Traversing Borders: Japanese American Positionings in Japan, about Japanese American transpacific migration as shaped through the shifting history of US-Japan relations. Her publications include “Rethinking Japanese American ‘Heritage’ in the Homeland” in Critical Asian Studies, "Strange Japanese [Henna Nihonogo]: On the Linguistic Baggage of Racial Strangeness” in the Journal of Japanese Language and Literature. And “Fault Lines of Occupation, Limits of Hybridity: Race, Class & Transnationalism Okinawa” in the book, Beyond American Occupation: Race and Agency in Okinawa (H. Matsuda and P. Iacobelli, ed.).
Jean C. Tempel '65 Assistant Professor of Computer Science
William Tarimo's research explores how technology and agile methodologies can be used to improve academic outcomes through applications in the learning and teaching processes.
Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies
Anna Vallye is a scholar of modern architecture. She is especially interested in how twentieth-century regimes of political administration and governance in Europe and America influenced the professional identities of architects and planners, their work, and the organization of the urban environment. Vallye is currently at work on a book titled Model Territories: German Architects and the Shaping of America’s Welfare State, about the American careers of émigré architects Walter Gropius, Martin Wagner, and Ludwig Hilberseimer, and their contributions to urban planning. She is the editor and co-director of Mapping Urban Renewal in New London, 1941-1975, a collaborative student-faculty-staff digital public history project that explores urban renewal and highway construction in New London, CT through archival documentation, interactive mapping, and resident recollections. In 2021, she is a NOMIS Fellow at eikones—Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel, Switzerland.
Professor of Art
In her work, Andrea Wollensak combines new media technology and traditional design and fabrication to explore the convergence of place, identity, and history through site-based art works. Her works are interdisciplinary and she co-creates with many collaborators including community partners, computer scientists, musicians, poets, and scientists. Specific themes in her work include place-based narratives, environment, and memory, which she adapts to a range of artistic forms including audio/video, interactive installations, data visualization, artist books, and digitally fabricated forms.
Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology
Mailing Address
Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology
Connecticut College
Box 5233
270 Mohegan Avenue
New London, CT 06320
Campus Locations
Seminar and student work space:
768 Williams Street
Administrative Office:
Pink House, 740 Williams Street
Computer Lab: Olin 214
