Dartmouth hired 19 new professors in 14 different departments this year, some of whom were hired as part of the College's ongoing efforts to implement its new curriculum.
Dean of the Faculty James Wright said the number of new recruits this year is consistent with the average number from previous years, which tends to be between 18 and 20.
Wright also said after "investing a lot of time and effort in the recruitment of new faculty," Dartmouth regularly gets its top choices. The new curriculum, which started with the Class of 1998, requires more professors because of its wider distributive requirements, its interdisciplinary requirement and its required "culminating experience" in the major.
Ten of the new professors teach in the humanities, six teach in the social sciences while only three teach in the sciences.
Humanities Professors
Frank Russell, a new classics professor, said he came to Dartmouth "because of its excellent reputation as a teaching college." This year he is teaching Greek history and intermediate Latin.
Russell said he especially likes fifth and fourth century B.C. Greek history, historiography and military history. He received his Ph.D. in Classics from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Karen Painter is a new music professor who said she is particularly interested in 19th and 20th century musical culture and the way audiences interpret music.
This year she is teaching a variety of courses including The World of Music, History of Western Art Music, Decadence and Tradition: The Music of Brahms, Mahler, and Strauss and The Aesthetics of Pleasure: Music in Thought and Culture, 1790-1990.
Painter received her B.A. from Yale University with a double major in music and philosophy and her Ph.D. in musicology from Columbia University.
Allen Hockley, who will become an art history professor, hails from Canada. Hockley said his main interest lies in Japanese art. He said one of the reasons he decided to come to Dartmouth is Hanover's close proximity to the Boston Museum, which boasts the world's largest collection of Japanese art.
Hockley said this year he will teach a survey of Asian art and courses on Chinese and Japanese art.
He received his B.A. at the University of Victoria, his Master's degree at the University of British Columbia and his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto.
Adrian Randolph is another new art history professor. He said he chose to come to Hanover because of Dartmouth's strong commitment to an undergraduate education. Randolph is teaching The Early Renaissance in Italy, Introduction to the History of Art II and Italian Medieval Art this year.
He said he has a special interest in gender studies, which he discusses in his freshman seminar, Art and Gender. Randolph's credentials include a B.A. from Princeton University, a Master's from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and a Ph.D. from Harvard.
Josna Rege, the sole new English professor, has a strong interest in post-colonial literature. She said she is excited by Dartmouth's new curriculum, especially the cross-disciplinary areas because she enjoys taking a "cultural approach to literature, history, and religion."
This year, Rege is teaching Introduction to Postcolonial Literature, English 5, a freshman seminar called Issues of Race and Ethnicity in African and Asian America and Major Figues in Twentieth-Century British Fiction.
Rege has a Master's and a Ph.D. in post-colonial literature from University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a B.A. from Harvard.
Other new humanities professors are Asian and Middle Easern Languages and Literature Professor Sarah Allan, Native American Studies Professors Colin Calloway and Christopher Jocks and Studio Art Professors Brenda Garand and Marilyn Ranker.
Social Sciences Professors
Emilio Kouri, a professor of history, called Dartmouth a "great school where the students are very committed in what they do" and "the best place for any young professor to be."
This winter, Kouri said he will teach The History of Mexico, 1876-1994 and in the spring he will teach Latinos in the United States: Origins and Histories. Kouri said he has a specific interest in agrarian history.
Kouri received both his B.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard. His Ph.D. was in Latin American history.
John Skinner, a new economics professor, facetiously said he came to Dartmouth because "I heard about the good weather."
Skinner said he spent most of his teaching career at the University of Virginia and also spent time as a visiting professor at Harvard and Stanford University.
Skinner said he teaches macroeconomics and public economics. Skinner, 40, has a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA.
Dave Kang said he was impressed with Dartmouth's dedicated students and the "intellectual possibilities Dartmouth provides for doing research."
This year Kang is teaching Japanese Politics, The Politics of Economic Development in the Newly Industrializing Countries and an introductory course on International Relations.
Kang, 30, received a B.A. at Stanford University and his Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley, both degrees in government.
Constantine Spiliotes, also a new government professor, said Dartmouth offered him an opportunity to "teach and motivate undergrads." He said Dartmouth also offered him the chance to pursue his research in American political institutions.
Spiliotes said he is teaching a course on the American presidency, a seminar on American political development and a class devoted to quantitative political analysis.
Spiliotes said he has a B.A. in history from Haverford College and a Master's in political science from the University of Chicago, where he is currently a Ph.D. candidate.
The other new social sciences professors are: Anthropology Professor Paul Goldstein and Government Professor Linda Fowler.
Science Professors
Patrick Dolph, biology professor, said he decided to come to Dartmouth because of its strong genetics research.
Along with his research, which studies the vision of fruit flies, Dolph will be teaching metabolic biochemistry.
Dolph has a B.A. in biology from Oregon State University, a Master's in genetics from Ohio State University and a Ph.D. in medical sciences from the New York University Medical Center.
The other new science professors are: Computer Science Professor Neal Young and Mathematics Professor John Trout.
