Warm congratulations are making their way across campus in the wake of Interim Dean of the Faculty and Provost Constance Harsh’s January 28 announcement of appointments for promotion and tenure. The appointments were approved by the Board of Trustees during their winter meeting and take effect on July 1 of this year. They include:
Continuous tenure and promotion to associate professor
Ahmet Ay, Departments of Biology and Mathematics
Daniel Bouk, Department of History
Engda Hagos, Department of Biology
Jonathan Levine, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Navine Murshid, Department of Political Science
Illan Nam, Department of Political Science
Heather Roller, Department of History
Promotion to full professor
Barbara Regenspan, Department of Educational Studies
The board also approved additional appointments, made by Harsh and Interim President Jill Harsin in consultation with the Dean’s Advisory Council. Harsh’s announcement to campus read:
Faye Dudden, professor of history, named Charles A. Dana Professor of history
Faye Dudden came to Colgate from Union College in 1982. She holds a PhD in history from the University of Rochester. Her research focuses on a variety of aspects of women’s history in 19th-century America. Faye is the recipient of numerous prestigious fellowships and awards (including ACLS and NEH) and regularly acts as a museum and public history consultant. While she has published seminal articles, she has also recently published a highly-regarded third book, Fighting Chance: The Struggle over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America. At Colgate, her history department colleagues admire the breadth of her teaching, which includes not only a variety of women’s and local history courses, but also the history of the Civil War. In addition to the courses she teaches, Faye has supervised a number of remarkable honors and high honors theses — including those written when she directed the London History Study Group. Professor Dudden is not only a renowned scholar; as member of the Colgate University, she has contributed to the intellectual depth and sense of community on campus, including serving on the promotion and tenure committee and as chair of the history department.
Nancy Ries, professor of anthropology and peace and conflict studies, named the Christian A. Johnson Chair in liberal arts studies
Nancy Ries, who joined the faculty in 1994, is a widely cited scholar of political culture in Russia from the 1980s to the present, and has been instrumental in developing post-Soviet studies. She was co-founder of Soyuz: The Post-Communist Cultural Studies Interest Group, and co-editor of Cornell University Press’s prize-winning Culture and Society after Socialism series. Nancy has been a tireless university citizen as well: her leadership roles have included terms as chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, as director of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program, and as chair of the Off-Campus Study Committee, in addition to service on other elected and appointed committees in many areas of institutional life. She is a regular contributor to the Communities and Identities and Global Engagements components of the Core, as well as to the First Year Seminar program. She will begin a three-year appointment as Director of the Division of University Studies on July 1, 2016.