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And Then
There Were Twelve
Five new appointments fill Woodruff chairs
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Recently
appointed
Shoshana Felman, formerly the Thomas
E. Donnelley Professor of French and Comparative
Literature at Yale,
researches English and French literature, theory, and
psychoanalysis.
Most recent books are What Does a Woman Want?
Reading and Sexual
Difference (Johns Hopkins 1993) and The
Juridical Unconscious:
Trials and Traumas in the Twentieth Century (Harvard 2002).
Martha Albertson Fineman, formerly
the Dorothea S. Clarke Professor of Feminist
Jurisprudence at Cornell,
specializes in family law and feminist jurisprudence.
Books include
The Illusion of Equality (University of Chicago 1991)
and The Autonomy Myth: A Theory of Dependency (New Press
forthcoming 2004).
Yusef Komunyakaa, formerly Professor of the Council of the
Humanities and Creative Writing at Princeton, received
the Pulitzer
Prize for his collection of poems Neon
Vernacular (Wesleyan
1993) and was elected a chancellor of the Academy of
American Poets
in 1999.
David Ledbetter, former
Professor and
Chair of the Department of Human Genetics at the
University of Chicago,
is a leader in the study of the molecular
characterization of human
developmental and behavioral disorders, such as autism. Research
has appeared most recently in the American Journal of Human
Genetics and Human Molecular Genetics.
Michael Perry, former Distinguished
University Chair in Law at Wake Forest, is an authority
on the American
constitution, in particular the Fourteenth Amendment,
constitutional
theory, and religious liberty. Most recent works are We the
People: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme
Court (Oxford
1999) and Under God? Religious Faith in Liberal
Democracy
(Cambridge forthcoming 2003).
Previously
appointed
Harold Berman, Law, appointed in 1985.
Michael Davis, Psychiatry, appointed in 1998.
David Eltis, History, appointed in 2002.
Luke Johnson, Theology, appointed in 1992.
Ming-Chang Lin, Chemistry, appointed in 1988.
Reynaldo Martorell, Public Health, appointed in 1993.
Kenneth Thorpe, Public Health, appointed in 1999.
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