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Undergraduate Bulletin for 1998-99

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College of Arts and Sciences Faculty

Faculty in Departments A through M

• African American Studies
• American Studies
• Anthropology
• Art History
• Asian Studies
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Computer and Information Sciences
• Criminal Justice
• Critical Languages
• English
• French, German, Italian and Slavic
• Geography and Urban Studies
• Geology
• Greek, Hebrew and Roman Classics
• History
• Jewish Studies
• Latin American Studies
• Mathematics

Faculty in Departments P through W

African American Studies

PROFESSOR

• Kariamu Welsh Asante, D.A., New York University.
• Molefi K. Asante, Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles.
• Joyce A. Joyce, Chair, Ph.D., University of Georgia .

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

• Abu Abarry, Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo.
• Marie-Josee Cerol (Alma Mazama), Ph.D., Sorbonne, Paris.
• Nathaniel Norment, Ph.D., Fordham University.
• Sonja Peterson-Lewis, Ph.D., University of Florida.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

• Ella Forbes, Ph.D., Temple University.
• Glendola Yhema Mills, Ed.D., Temple University.
• Nilgun Anadolu Okur, Ph.D., Hacettepe University.

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American Studies

AFFILIATED FACULTY

• Jeanne T. Allen (Film, Media Arts)
• Rebecca T. Alpert (Women's Studies)
• Nilgun Anadolu Okur (African American Studies)
• Regina Bannan (American Studies)
• Amy Birge (English)
• Patricia Bradley, Chair (Journalism/American Studies)
• Richard Chalfen (Anthropology)
• Brenda M. Dixon-Gottschild (HPERD/Dance)
• Joel E. Gerstl (Sociology)
• Judith A. Goode (Anthropology)
• Terry A. Halbert (Business)
• Lynda M. Hill (English)
• Richard H. Immerman (History)
• David M. Jacobs (History)
• Carolyn L. Karcher (English)
• Margaret S. Marsh (History)
• Miles D. Orvell (English/American Studies)
• John Raines (Religion)
• Jay Ruby (Anthropology)
• Paul Swann (Film and Media Arts)
• Kathleen S. Uno (History)
• Victor Vazquez (Latin American Studies)
• Justin Vitiello (French and Italian)
• Philip R. Yannella (English/American Studies)

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Anthropology

PROFESSOR

• Richard M. Chalfen, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
• Jonathan Friedlaender, Ph.D., Harvard University.
• Judith G. Goode, Ph.D., Cornell University.
• Leonard O. Greenfield, Ph.D., University of Michigan.
• Thomas C. Patterson, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley.
• Anthony J. Ranere, Chair, Ph.D., University of California at Davis.
• Jay W. Ruby, Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

• F. Niyi Akinnaso, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley.
• Jayasinhji Jhala, Ph.D., Harvard University.
• Denise A. O'Brien, Ph.D., Yale University.
• Richard M. Stewart, Ph.D., Catholic University.
• Charles A. Weitz, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

• Susan Hyatt, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts
• Donna J. Keren, Ph.D., City University of New York.
• Sidney White, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley.

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Asian Studies

AFFILIATED FACULTY

• Richard Chalfen (Anthropology)
• Roman Cybriwsky (Geography and Urban Studies)
• Thomas Dean (Religion)
• Robert Kidder (Sociology)
• Louis Mangione (Critical Languages)
• John Means (Critical Languages)
• Shigenori Nagatomo (Religion)
• Dieu Nguyen (History)
• Denise O'Brien (Anthropology)
• Howard Spodek (History)
• Benedict Stavis, Director (Political Science)
• Barbara Thornbury (Critical Languages)
• Kathleen Uno (History)
• Kathleen Walker (History)
• Sydney White (Anthropology)
• Bibhuti Yadav (Religion)

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Biology

PROFESSOR

• Frank N. Chang, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin.
• Edward Gruberg, Ph.D., University of Illinois.
• S. Robert Hilfer, Ph.D., Yale University.
• Nina Hillman, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
• Ralph Hillman, Ph.D., Yale University.
• Richard L. Miller, Ph.D., University of Chicago.
• Michael I. Mote, Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles.
• Stuart E. Neff, Ph.D., Cornell University.
• Thomas R. Punnett, Ph.D., University of Illinois.
• Jose A. Ramirez-Latorre, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
• Harry P. Rappaport, Ph.D., Yale University.
• Shepherd K. Roberts, Ph.D., Princeton University.
• Robert W. Sanders, Ph.D., University of Georgia.
• Robert L. Searls, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley.
• Joel B. Sheffield, Chair, Ph.D., University of Chicago.
• Laurie Tompkins, Ph.D., Princeton University.
• Richard C. Weisenberg, Ph.D., University of Chicago.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

• Karen Palter, Ph.D., Princeton University.
• Richard Waring, Ph.D., Essex University.
• Michael Wolfersberger Ph.D., Temple University.
• Lawrence N. Yager, Ph.D., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

• Thomas E. Hanson, Ph.D., Michigan State University.
• Paul Myers, Ph.D., University of Oregon.

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Chemistry

PROFESSOR

• David R. Dalton, Ph.D., University of California.
• Franklin A. Davis, Ph.D., Syracuse University.
• Antonio M. Ponte Goncalves, Ph.D., University of Chicago.
• Grant R. Krow, Ph.D., Princeton University.
• Mortimer M. Labes, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Robert E. Salomon, Chair, Ph.D., University of Oregon.
• Joseph Schmuckler, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
• John R. Williams, Ph.D., University of Western Australia.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

• James L. Bloomer, Ph.D., University of London.
• John A. Poole, Ph.D., University of Alberta.
• Jerome Schiffer, Ph.D., Princeton University.
• Francis C. Spano, Ph.D., Princeton University.
• Daniel R. Strongin, Ph.D., Washington University.
• Donald D. Titus, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology.
• Susan A. Varnum, Ph.D., University of Missouri-St. Louis.
• Stephen S. Washburne, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Stephanie L. Wunder, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

• Trevor Douglas, Ph.D., University of California-San Diego.
• Robert J. Stanley, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University.

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Computer and Information Sciences

PROFESSOR

• Robert M. Aiken, Ph.D., Northwestern University.
• Frank L. Friedman, Chair, Ph.D., Purdue University.
• Leonard J. Garrett, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
• Elliot B. Koffman, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University.
• James F. Korsh, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
• Eugene Kwatny, Ph.D., Drexel University.
• David Lefkovitz, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
• John T. Nosek, Ph.D., Temple University.
• Arthur T. Poe, Ph.D., University of Illinois.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

• Giora Baram, Ph.D., University of Toledo.
• Giorgio Ingargiola, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
• Charles A. Kapps, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
• Paul LaFollette, M.D., Temple University.
• Yuan Shi, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
• Robert L. Stafford, Ph.D., Yale University.
• Rajiv Tewari, Ph.D., Rutgers University.
• E. Judith Weiner, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

• Munir Mandviwalla, Ph.D., The Claremont Graduate School.

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Criminal Justice

PROFESSOR

• James Fyfe, Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany.
• John S. Goldkamp, Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany.
• Jack R. Greene, Ph.D., Michigan State University.
• Joan McCord, Ph.D., Stanford University.
• George Rengert, Ph.D., University of North Carolina.
• Ralph B. Taylor, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

• Alan Harland, Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany, LL.M., University of Pennsylvania.
• M. Kay Harris, Chair, M.S.W., University of Chicago.
• Philip Harris, Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany.
• Peter Jones, Ph.D., University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.
• Nikos Passas, Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
• Cathryn-Jo Rosen, LL.M., Temple University School of Law.
• Wayne Welsh, Ph.D., University of California at Irvine.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

• Edem Avakame, Ph.D., University of Alberta.
• Patricia Jenkins, Ph.D., University of Delaware.
• Alex R. Piquero, Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park.

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Critical Languages

PROFESSOR

• John B. Means, Chair, Ph.D., University of Illinois.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

• Louis S. Mangione, Ph.D., Cornell University.
• Barbara E. Thornbury, Ph.D., University of British Columbia.

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English

PROFESSOR

• Gabriele Bernhard-Jackson, Ph.D., Yale University.
• Sheldon R. Brivic, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley.
• Timothy Corrigan, Ph.D., Emory University.
• Deirdre David, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• Rachel DuPlessis, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• Marilyn Gaull, Ph.D., Indiana University.
• Carolyn Karcher, Ph.D., University of Maryland.
• Morton P. Levitt, Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University.
• Ann Matonis, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
• Joan Mellen, Ph.D., The City University of New York.
• Sally Mitchell, D.Phil., Oxford University, England.
• Daniel O'Hara, Chair, Ph.D., Temple University.
• Toby Olson, M.A., Long Island University.
• Miles D. Orvell, Ph.D., Harvard University.
• Sonia Sanchez, M.A., Hunter College.
• Alan Singer, Ph.D., University of Washington.
• Robert Storey, Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles.
• Peter A. Tasch, M.A., Columbia University.
• William VanWert, Ph.D., Indiana University.
• Lawrence Venuti, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• Susan Wells, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.
• Roy S. Wolper, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh.
• Philip R. Yannella, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

• Richard D. Beards, Ph.D., University of Washington.
• Robert L. Caserio, Ph.D., Yale University.
• Eugene W. Chesnick, Ph.D., Washington University.
• Steven Cole, Ph.D., University of Washington.
• Bruce Comens, Ph.D., CUNY Buffalo.
• Lynda Hill, Ph.D., New York University.
• Ralph E. Jenkins, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.
• Jayne K. Kribbs-Drake, Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University.
• Dennis Lebofsky, Ph.D., Princeton University.
• Monica Letzring, Ph.D., University of Maryland.
• Arabella Lyon, Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
• Paula D. Robison, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
• Muffy Siegel, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts.
• Evelyn Tribble, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley.
• Stephen C. Zelnick, Ph.D., University of Illinois.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

• Amy A. Birge, Ph.D., University of North Texas.
• Michael Kaufmann, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• Shannon Miller, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara.
• Stephen Parks, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh.
• Roland Williams, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.

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French, German, Italian, and Slavic

PROFESSOR

• Maria L. Caputo-Mayr, Ph.D. University of Vienna.
• Ruth P. Thomas, Ph.D., Yale University.
• Justin Vitiello, Ph.D., University of Michigan.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

• Margaret K. Devinney, Chair, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
• Charlotte C. Kleis, Ph.D., University of Michigan.
• James P. Mall, Ph.D., University of Illinois.
• Mariquita G. Noris, Dottore in Lettere, University of Genova, Italy.
• Wilbert J. Roget, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh.
• Maria Swiecicka-Ziemianek, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

• Istvan L. Varkonyi, Ph.D., Washington University.

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Geography and Urban Studies

PROFESSOR

• Carolyn Adams (Dean, College of Arts and Sciences), Ph.D., Washington University.
• David Bartelt, Ph.D., Temple University.
• Roman Cybriwsky, Chair, Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

• Robert Mason, Ph.D., Rutgers University.
• Rickie Sanders, Ph.D., Indiana University.
• Anne Shlay, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
• Marilyn Silberfein, Ph.D., Syracuse University.
• Gerald Stahler, Ph.D., Temple University.
• William J. Young, Ph.D., University of Tennessee.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

• Sanjoy Chakravorty, Ph.D., University of Southern California.
• Melissa Gilbert, Ph.D., Clark University.
• Michele M. Masucci, Ph.D., Clark University.

ASSOCIATED FACULTY
PROFESSOR

• Barbara Ferman, Ph.D., Brandeis University.
• Judith Goode, Ph.D., Cornell University.
• Kenneth Kusmer, Ph.D., University of Chicago.
• George Rengert, Ph.D., University of North Carolina.
• Morris Vogel, Ph.D., University of Chicago.
• William Yancey, Ph.D., Washington University.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

• David Elesh, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• Michael Hooper, Ph.D., University of Illinois.
• Arthur Schmidt, Ph.D., Indiana University.
• Conrad Weiler, Ph.D., Syracuse University.

STAFF CARTOGRAPHER

• Mark Mattson, Temple University.

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Geology

PROFESSOR

• Edwin J. Anderson, Ph.D., Brown University.
• Peter W. Goodwin, Ph.D., State University of Iowa.
• David E. Grandstaff, Ph.D., Princeton University.
• George H. Myer, Chair, Ph.D., Yale University.
• Gene C. Ulmer, Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

• Mary Louise Hill, Ph.D., Princeton University.
• Jonathan Nyquist, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin.
• Laura Toran, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin.

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Greek, Hebrew, and Roman Classics

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

• Martha A. Davis, Ph.D., Cornell University.
• Daniel P. Tompkins, Chair, Ph.D., Yale University.
• Robin N. Mitchell-Boyask, Ph.D., Brown University.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

• Hanoch Guy, Ph.D., The Dropsie College, Ph.D., Donsbach University, Ed.D., Temple University.

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History

PROFESSOR

• Allen F. Davis, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin.
• Herbert B. Ershkowitz, Ph.D., New York University.
• Harriet Freidenreich, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• Peter Gran, Ph.D., University of Chicago.
• Mark H. Haller, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin.
• Richard Immerman, Ph.D., Boston College.
• Kenneth L. Kusmer, Ph.D., University of Chicago.
• Margaret Marsh, Chair, Ph.D., Rutgers University.
• Arthur P. Schmidt, Jr., Ph.D., Indiana University.
• Howard Spodek, Ph.D., University of Chicago.
• Morris J. Vogel, Ph.D., University of Chicago.
• Russell F. Weigley, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

• Bettye Collier-Thomas, Ph.D., George Washington University.
• William W. Cutler, Ph.D., Cornell University.
• David R. Davis, A.M., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
• Barbara Day, Ph.D., University of California at Irvine.
• Philip N. Evanson, Ph.D., University of Virginia.
• Ira A. Glazier, Ph.D., Harvard University.
• Peter M. G. Harris, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• James W. Hilty, Ph.D., University of Missouri.
• David M. Jacobs, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Ruth Karras, Ph.D., Yale University.
• Howard A. Ohline, Ph.D., University of Missouri.
• David A. Rosenberg, Ph.D., University of Chicago.
• Dennis A. Rubini, D. Phil., Oxford University.
• Teshale Tibebu, Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton.
• Kathleen Uno, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

• Nguyen Thi Dieu, Ph.D., University of Aix-en-Provence.
• Wilbert Jenkins, Ph.D., Michigan State University.
• Kathy LeMons Walker, Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles.

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Jewish Studies

AFFILIATED FACULTY

• Rebecca Alpert (Women's Studies)
• Aryeh Botwinick (Political Science)
• Daniel Elazar (Political Science)
• Harriet Freidenreich (History)
• Murray Friedman (Center for American Jewish History)
• Hanoch Guy (Hebrew)
• Laura Levitt (Religion)
• Ed Newman (Social Work)
• Norbert Samuelson, Chair (Religion)

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Latin American Studies

AFFILIATED FACULTY

• Thomas O. Bente (Spanish and Portuguese)
• William Calvano (Spanish and Portuguese)
• Rosario Espinal, Chair (Sociology)
• Philip Evanson (History)
• Judith Goode (Anthropology)
• Sherri Grasmuck (Sociology)
• Jonathan Holmquist (Spanish and Portuguese)
• Donna Keren (Anthropology)
• John Means (Critical Languages)
• Hortensia Morell (Spanish and Portuguese)
• Robin Moore (Music)
• Aida Nevarez (Curriculum, Instruction, and Technology)
• Montserrat Piera (Spanish and Portuguese)
• Rickie Sanders (Geography and Urban Studies)
• Arthur Schmidt (History)
• Sandra Suarez (Poltical Science)
• Howard Winant (History)

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Mathematics

PROFESSOR

• Shiferaw Berhanu, Ph.D., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
• Orin Chein, Ph.D., New York University.
• Boris Datskovsky, Ph.D., Harvard University.
• Leon Ehrenpreis, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• Martin M. Eisen, Ph.D., University of Toronto.
• Janos Galambos, Ph.D., Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary.
• Robert Gordon, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology.
• Eric Grinberg, Ph.D., Harvard University.
• Cristian Gutierrez, Ph.D., University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Omar Hijab, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley.
• David R. Hill, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh.
• Marvin I. Knopp, Ph.D., University of Illinois.
• Seymour Lipschutz, Ph.D., New York University.
• Martin Lorenz, Ph.D., University of Essen.
• Jatinder S. Mehta, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin.
• Gerardo Mendoza, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Eli A. Passow, Ph.D., Yeshiva University.
• John Paulos, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin.
• Louis Raymon, Ph.D., Yeshiva University.
• Ranganathan Srinivasan, Ph.D., Wayne State University.
• Daniel B. Szyld, Ph.D., New York University.
• Georgia Triantafillou, Ph.D., University of Bonn, Germany.
• Simeon Vishik, Ph.D., Moscow State University.
• Wei-Shih Yang, Ph.D., Cornell University.
• Doron Zeilberger, Ph.D., The Weizman Institute of Science.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

• Francis T. Christoph, Jr., Ph.D., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
• Bruce P. Conrad, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley.
• Raymond F. Coughlin, Ph.D., Illinois Institute of Technology.
• Sarah R. Evangelista, M.A., Temple University.
• Diane Laison, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
• Jian-Guo Liu, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles .
• Nicholas Macri, Ph.D., Temple University.
• William D. Nathan, Ph.D., Syracuse University.
• K. Raghunandanan, Ph.D., Colorado State University.
• Daniel Reich, Ph.D., Princeton University.
• John J. Schiller, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
• H. Frank Thornton, M.A., Princeton University.
• David E. Zitarelli, Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

• Richard C. Glaeser, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
• Sinai Robins, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

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