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Andrea Wollensak, Faculty Director
Stephen Luber, Associate Director

Rachel Boggia, Associate Fellow / Center Gateway Course Instructor

Lyndsay Bratton, Associate Fellow for Information / Research

Butch Rovan, Associate Fellow for Technology

Ariella Rotramel, Associate Fellow for Community Engagement

Current Students

Seniors	Juniors	Sophomores
Bempa Ashia Anna Chin Sarah Hession-Kunz Luke Karis Emily Klingebiel Scott Leff Natasha Strugatz Page Waldo Dexter Willett Hayley Zukerberg	Cameron Aaron Megan Aldrich Anna Baronsky Madison Ford Emma Furgueson Alexis Lynch Ezra Norris Kevin Odwesso Abi Pradhan Julia Rossiter Carla Torres Tatiana Wiener	Applications due October 17, 2019

Seniors

Juniors

Sophomores

Bempa Ashia
Anna Chin
Sarah Hession-Kunz
Luke Karis
Emily Klingebiel
Scott Leff
Natasha Strugatz
Page Waldo
Dexter Willett
Hayley Zukerberg

Cameron Aaron
Megan Aldrich
Anna Baronsky
Madison Ford
Emma Furgueson
Alexis Lynch
Ezra Norris
Kevin Odwesso
Abi Pradhan
Julia Rossiter
Carla Torres
Tatiana Wiener

Applications due

October 17, 2019

Directors & Fellows

Joseph Alchermes

Associate Professor of Art History, Chair of Art History and Architectural Studies, Director of the Architectural Studies Program

Joseph Alchermes' main research interests range from the Roman and Early Christian world to the art and architecture of the Byzantine Empire with links to western Europe. He teaches a comparably broad array of courses, from the survey of ancient and medieval art to specialized investigations of Roman, eastern and western medieval, and Islamic art and architecture.

Virginia Anderson

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. At Connecticut College she teaches Theater and Culture I & II, Musical Theater in American Culture, Practical Dramaturgy, Theater of the AIDS Epidemic, Theater for Young Audiences, and production directs. She serves on the steering committee for the Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy and as a core faculty member of the Public Health Pathway.

Nadav Assor

Associate Professor of Art

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.

Gregory A. Bailey

Associate Professor of Art, Chair of the Art Department

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.

Catherine Benoit

Professor of Anthropology

Catherine Benoit’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.

Rachel Boggia

Associate Professor of Dance

Rachel Boggia's research interests include making multidisciplinary and mediated performance; performing in collaborative creations, improvisation, dance documentary/experimental dance documentation.

Lyndsay Bratton

Digital Scholarship and Visual Resources Librarian

Leslie Brown

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.

David Dorfman

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.

Danielle Egan

Fuller-Maathai Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Intersectionality Studies, Chair of the Gender, Sexuality and Intersectionality Studies Department

Danielle Egan’s research examines the social construction of sexual “problems.” She is fascinated by the ways in which cultural institutions (medical, religious, political, psychological, scholarly disciplines) create and defend norms of social and sexual acceptability. She is also particularly interested in the creative ways people negotiate, resist and are, at times, complicit with sexual hegemony.

Karen Gonzalez Rice

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.

Anthony Graesch

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Chair of the Anthropology Department

Anthony P. Graesch is an anthropologist whose research and teaching focus on the archaeology of North America, including the study of aboriginal and colonizing societies in both past and present settings, as well as anthropological studies of modern material culture. He is an ardent supporter of cross-disciplinary and mixed-methods approaches in the social sciences, particularly those that illuminate the roles of objects and built space in the shaping of everyday experience.

Sandy Grande

Professor of Education, Director of the Center for the Critical Study of Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE)

As a teacher and scholar, Professor Sandy Grande centers her work in the belief that education is the heart of a critical democracy. Rather than reject matters of politics, Professor Grande views teachers as the link between the education of an informed citizenry and the imperatives of democracy. She asserts that education cannot be reduced to technical or “training” models but must address questions of power, subjectivity, and the possibility of collective agency, through the foundational disciplines of the liberal arts.

Charles O. Hartman

Lucy Marsh Haskell '19 Endowed Professor, Department of English, Poet in Residence, Co-Director of Creative Writing Program

Charles Hartman studies and practices poetry, jazz, and computer programming, and all three find their way into the classroom. Hartman teaches classes in the writing of poetry, modern poetry, contemporary poetry, science fiction, and poetry and music. His computer program, "English Metrics," a poetry scansion tutorial, is used in introductory level English courses.

Heidi Henderson

Professor of Dance

Heidi Henderson teaches Modern Technique, Composition, Improvisation, Anatomy, and Dance Writing. Henderson is the artistic director of elephant JANE dance.

Lee Hisle

Vice President for Information Services, Librarian of the College

wlhis@conncoll.edu

Shawn Hove

Assistant 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.

Ozgur Izmirli

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.

S. James Lee

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.

Stephen Luber

Assistant Director, Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology

sluber@conncoll.edu

James McNeish

Adjunct Associate Professor of Music, Classical Guitar Performance, Acoustical recording engineer

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 McNeish holds a Master of Music degree in Applied Classical Guitar Performance from the Yale University School of Music, New Haven, Conn. He studied classical guitar with Benjamin Verdery and performed in master classes with Eliot Fiske, David Leisner, Jaap Schroeder, Ricardo Isniola, Michael Newman, Seymore Bernstein, and the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. He also studied computer music programming with Jonathan Berger, and arranging with Willie Ruff. While earning a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Acoustics and Music from the College of Engineering, University of Hartford, Hartford, Conn., he studied acoustics with Robert Celmer and Craig Stalk and audio recording/engineering with David Budries. Earning a Bachelor of Music in Applied Classical Guitar. Hartt School of Music, Hartford, CT, he studied classical guitar with Oscar Ghiglia, Richard Provost, Robert Guthrie, and Alan Spriestersbach. He performed in master classes with David Tannenbaum, Manuel Barruecco, Sharon Isben, Nigel North, and Ben Verdery. Mr. McNeish is a member of the Connecticut College Chamber Players and has performed with the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, the Goodspeed Opera Orchestra, the United States Coast Guard Band, and the Connecticut Orchestra. Mr. McNeish also performs regularly at the College, as a soloist throughout New England, and has recorded 2 classical guitar solo CD's, 1 flute and guitar CD (with ECSO Principal flautist Nancy Chaput). Prof. McNeish has several, live performance, solo and ensemble music videos, which can be found on YouTube.

Wendy K. Moy

Associate Professor of Music, Director of Choral Activities, Head of Music Education

Dr. Wendy K. Moy is an award-winning conductor, soprano, and nonprofit founder from Washington State. She is currently the Director of Choral Activities and Music Education at Connecticut College, the Director of the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Chorus, and the Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director of Chorosynthesis Singers. This ensemble recently released a double CD of new choral music premieres on the Centaur Records label and was named the 2nd place winner of The American Prize in Choral Performance, professional division. Dr. Moy also continues to perform as a soprano soloist and sings with the Connecticut Choral Artists (CONCORA) and Chorosynthesis Singers. An advocate for collaboration and new music, Dr. Moy has helped to spearhead international calls for scores on themes of social consciousness. She has premiered/commissioned numerous new works by both established and emerging composers. Dr. Moy has directed ensembles at the collegiate, community, and K-12 levels. For 12 years, she taught instrumental and choral music at the secondary level in Washington State. During that time, her ensembles were invited to perform at the Northwest Music Educator Conventions. She went on to serve as interim conductor of the Seattle Pacific University Chamber Singers and directed them in their annual Sacred Sounds of Christmas at Benaroya Hall. Dr. Moy has also held the position of the Director of Choral Music at Tacoma Community College, Director of the University of Washington Women's Chorus, Guest Music Director of the Bellevue Chamber Chorus, and Guest Conductor of the Seattle Women's Chorus. Equally at home in the orchestral world, Dr. Moy has held the positions of chamber music coordinator and assistant conductor with the Cascade Youth Symphony Organization. She has conducted the Connecticut College Orchestra and conducts the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Chorus in its annual presentation of Handel’s Messiah. Dr. Moy has appeared as guest conductor with choruses and orchestras on three continents including the Shenzhen Alpha Youth Chorus, the Coral Universitário Gazzi de Sá, the Rhode Island All-State Senior High School Chorus, and the Heartland High School Honor Choir. In January 2020, she will be conducting the Connecticut Eastern Region High School Mixed Choir. Dr. Moy was named the third-place winner of The American Prize in Choral Conducting, professional division, an American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) International Conducting Fellow, and a conducting associate at the Carnegie Hall Choral Institute/Transient Glory Symposium. She was also selected to participate in the National Endowment for the Humanities Bach Institute, the Conductors Retreat at Medomak, the Westminster Chamber Choir, the Tallis Scholar Summer School, and the Yale/Norfolk Chamber Choir at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.

Denise Pelletier

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.

Rob Richter

Director of Arts Programming

raric@conncoll.edu

Ariella R. Rotramel

Vandana Shiva Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Intersectionality Studies

Professor Ariella Rotramel is an interdisciplinary scholar committed to bridging theoretical and practical engagements of identity and social justice issues. Rotramel holds a bachelor of arts degree for an Independent Program of Study (Intersections of Racial, Sexual and Gender Identities) from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Richard Schenk

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.

Joseph A. Schroeder

Associate Professor of Psychology, Director of the Behavioral 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.

William Tarimo

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.

Anna Vallye

Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies

Anna Vallye’s research explores the histories of modernism in art and architecture as it intersected with changing social and political institutions, as well as with cultural transformations in urban life. She is especially interested in how twentieth-century regimes of political administration and governance in Europe and America influenced the professional identities of architects, designers, and planners, their work, and the physical organization of the urban fabric. More broadly, this relationship illuminates how expert knowledge has shaped the spaces of everyday life.

Andrea Wollensak

Professor of Art, Judith Ammerman '60 Director, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology

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 artwork. Specific themes in her work include community, environment, surveillance and memory, which she adapts to a range of artistic forms including audio/video and interactive installations, data visualization and 3-D printed forms.

Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology

View Center Page P: 860-439-2001 F: 860-439-5311 E: cat@conncoll.edu

Mailing Address

Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology
Connecticut College
Box 5365
270 Mohegan Avenue
New London, CT 06320

Campus Locations

Seminar and student work space:
768 Williams Street

Administrative Office:
Winslow Ames House

Computer Lab: Olin 214

Director

Andrea Wollensak
ajwol@conncoll.edu

Associate Director

Steve Luber
sluber@conncoll.edu

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Directors & Fellows

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