faculty and staff

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Gregory A. Bailey

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.

Core Faculty & Staff

Chris Barnard

Professor of Art, Chair of the Art Department

Painting • Drawing • Two-dimensional art • Art history • U.S. militarization and imperialism • Critical discourse in contemporary art

cbarnard@conncoll.edu

Lyndsay Bratton

Digital Scholarship and Visual Resources Librarian

Lyndsay Bratton works in the library's Instructional Technology department to promote innovative integration of technology into the curriculum, to facilitate digital scholarship on campus and to support the Digital Scholarship & Curriculum Center and the Diane Y. Williams '59 Visualization Wall. She also serves as the arts-area library liaison, responsible for collection development and research instruction for the departments of Art, Art History, and the Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology.

David Dorfman

Professor of Dance

Choreography

dcdor@conncoll.edu

Libby Friedman '80

Assistant Dean of the College for Connections

EOFRI@conncoll.edu

David Jaffe

Professor of Theater

Actor training • Collectively created performance • Theatrical adaptation • The works of Anton Chekhov

djaffe@conncoll.edu

Manuel Lizarralde

Charles and Sarah P. Becker ’27 Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies

Ethnobotany • Environmental anthropology

mliz@conncoll.edu

Timothy McDowell

Lucretia L. Allyn Professor of Art

Lithography • Woodcut • Monotype • Etching • Engraving and collograph • Cyanotype and photomechanical image making in relation to an experimental drawing course

tjmcd@conncoll.edu

Joseph A. Schroeder

Professor of Psychology, Director of the Neuroscience Program

Neurobiology of analgesia • The neurobiological mechanisms of psychostimulant related behavior • Animal models of neurodegenerative disease, schizophrenia and drug abuse • Heavy metal neurotoxicity • Spatial navigation learning and memory • psychology of sleep and ecological sleep pattern recording

jasch@conncoll.edu

Paola Sica

Professor of Italian, Chair of Italian Studies

Italian culture in comparative context (especially literary and visual representations from late 19th century through the contemporary era, with emphasis on modernism and avant garde) • Gender studies • Critical theory • Translation and transculturation • Language pedagogy

psica@conncoll.edu

Perry D. Susskind

Professor of Mathematics

Complex analysis • Geometry and low-dimensional topology, particularly Kleinian groups • Discrete groups of isometries of hyperbolic n-space • Hadamard manifolds • Geometric group theory

pdsus@conncoll.edu

Margaret (Midge) Thomas

Sylvia Marx Professor of Music, Chair of the Music Department

Tonal and non-tonal music theory • Issues of rhythm and time in contemporary music • Music theory pedagogy • Analysis of jazz and popular music

metho@conncoll.edu

Dot Wang

Associate Director/Adviser, Hale Center for Career Development

DWANG1@CONNCOLL.EDU

Marc Zimmer

Jean C. Tempel '65 Professor of Chemistry

Computational chemistry • Fluorescent proteins

mzim@conncoll.edu