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Andrea Wollensak, Director Rachel Boggia, Center Gateway Course Instructor Lyndsay Bratton, Associate Fellow for Information / Research Shawn Hove, Associate Fellow / Senior Seminar Instructor James Lee, Associate Fellow for Technology Wendy Moy, Associate Fellow for Community Engagement |
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Judith Ammerman '60 Director
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.
Assistant Director
Libby manages the day-to-day operations for the Ammerman Center, including the certificate program, symposia, colloquia and all Center programming. Libby works with faculty, students and staff to further the mission of the Center and is a 1980 graduate of Connecticut College.
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.
Assistant 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’s Theater, African American Theater History, Children’s Theater, Theater in the United States, LGBT Theater, and The AIDS Epidemic in Theater and Film.
Assistant 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.
Associate Professor of Art, Co-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.
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.
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.
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.
Sue and Eugene Mercy Jr. 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, 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.
Professor of Education, Director of the Center for the Critical Study of Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE)
As a teacher and scholar, Sandy Grande centers her work in the belief that education is the heart of a critical democracy. She asserts that questions about education cannot be reduced to disciplinary parameters, but must include issues of power, history, self-identity and the possibility of collective agency and revolutionary struggle. Thus, rather than reject the language of politics, Professor Grande constructs teaching as the link between public education and the imperatives of democracy.
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.
Associate 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
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.
Professor of Computer Science
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.
Jean C. Tempel '65 Assistant 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.
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.
Assistant Professor of Music, Director of Choral Activities, Head of Music Education
Wendy K. Moy is a conductor, soprano, and nonprofit founder from Washington State. Dr.Moy was just named the third-place winner of The American Prize in Choral Conducting, professional division. She is currently the Director of Choral Activities and Music Education at Connecticut College and co-founder/co-artistic director of Chorosynthesis Singers.
Professor of Art, Co-Chair of the Art Department
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 Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Intersectionality Studies
Rotramel's research and teaching agenda reflect her interdisciplinary training and commitment to bridging theoretical and practical engagements of identity and social justice issues. Professor Rotramel has taught Feminist Approaches to Disability Studies, Transnational Women's Movements and Public Policy and Social Ethics, Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies, Introduction to Queer Studies and Feminist Theory.
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 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.
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.
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.