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Pomona
Welcomes Six New Faculty Members
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Pomona College, one of the nation’s top-ranked liberal arts
colleges, has hired six new faculty for the 2003-2004 school
year. They are Jennifer Friendlander, Stephanie Harves,
Frank Pericolosi, Jennifer Scanlon, Slavi Slavov, and
Olga Vaysman.
Oona Eisenstadt, Fred Krinsky Professor of Jewish
studies and Assistant Professor of religious studies, will
teach Jewish Mysticism and Modern Jewish Thought starting in
spring 2004. Eisenstadt specializes in contemporary
continental philosophy, modern Jewish philosophy, and
Judaism and political theory. She has published Driven Back
to the Text: The Premodern Sources of Levinas’s
Postmodernism (Duquesne University Press, 2001), in addition
to articles in Derrida’s Bible, Politics, Philosophy,
Writing: Plato’s Art of Caring for Souls, and in the
journals Crosscurrents and The Journal of the American
Academy of Religion. Eisenstadt earned both her
undergraduate and doctorate degrees from McMaster
University.
Jennifer Friendlander, an assistant professor of art
and art history, teaches Introduction to Media Studies,
Media Theory, and a senior seminar in media studies. Her
research and articles focus on contemporary art
controversies, cultural studies, film theory, and
psychoanalytic theory. She combines the fields to "explore
ways in which media and cultural products not only create
and embody social and economic practices, but also
precipitate viewer anxieties and pleasures." She seeks to
bring cultural studies together with psychoanalysis in order
to "bridge the cultural with the psychic." She has published
a number of articles, including most recently, "How Should a
Woman Look? Scopic Strategies for Sexuated Subjects, " in
the Journal for Psychoanalysis of Society and Culture. She
earned her Ph.D, in communication and rhetoric, and a
certificate in cultural studies from the University of
Pittsburgh, and her B.A. degree, magna cum laude, in
literature and rhetoric from Binghamton University.
Assistant Professor of German and Russian Stephanie
Harves teaches the courses Language and Thought,
Acquisition of Language, Comparative Slavic/Germanic
Linguistics, and Elementary Russian. Her research and
articles focus on Slavic syntax and morphosyntax, the
syntax-semantics interface, argument structure and agreement
in Russian. Using a Chomskyian model of syntax, she has been
closely studying the syntax of Slavic languages in order to
understand underlying, or “innate,” principles of language.
Her articles have been published in Journal of Slavic
Linguistics and Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics. She
earned her Ph.D in general and Slavic linguistics from
Princeton University, as well as a M.A. in Slavic
linguistics from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in
Russian Language and Literature from Grinnell College.
Frank L. Pericolosi has been named assistant
professor of physical education and head baseball coach.
During 2002-2003, he served as Pomona’s assistant football
coach and the interim head baseball coach. He also teaches
courses in Beginning Archery, Weight Training, and
Racquetball. Most recently, Pericolosi served as the Varsity
Baseball Coach at The International School of Brussels,
Brussels Belgium, and coached at the top level of baseball
in Belgium, as the Seniors Head Coach at Brussels Kangaroos
Baseball Club. This past summer, he served as an envoy coach
for Major League Baseball in Sweden and Denmark. There he
hosted clinics in playing and coaching baseball, as well as
promoting the game. He completed his M.Ed. in physical
education with a concentration in sports management from
Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts, and his
B.A. in history from Williams College.
Assistant Professor of Physical Education Jennifer
Scanlon is coaching the Pomona-Pitzer women’s soccer
team and teaches courses in Weight Training, Archery, and
Speed and Agility. Her research interests include girls and
women in sports; speed and agility training; and strength
and conditioning. For her recently completed thesis, Scanlon
focused on the influences on girls' playground behavior and
activity choices. Professor Scanlon completed her M.S. in
kinesiology at the University of New Hampshire, and her B.A.
in history from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN.
Assistant Professor of Economics Slavi Slavov teaches
Macroeconomic Theory and International Economics. He
researches Eastern Europe, its economic transition in the
last few years, the relationship of Eastern countries to the
European Union, and ways that smaller countries can manage
their exchange rates to protect themselves the impact of UN
sanctions on third-world countries, and the impact of the
introduction of the euro on prices and exchange rate
pass-through in the Euro-zone. He received his Ph.D in
general and Slavic linguistics from Princeton University,
and his B.A. in economics and political science from
Grinnell College.
Instructor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science Olga
Vaysman teaches Introduction to the Study of Language,
Language Change and Variation, and Introduction to
Phonology. She specializes in Slavic languages, specifically
the more obscure languages such as Nganasan (Western Siberia
in Tamyr Peninsula) and Eastern and Western branches of the
Mari languages indigenous to the Ural mountain region. She
has done fieldwork in phonology in both of these areas. Her
articles have been published in Natural Language and
Linguistic Theory, and in two editions of the Proceedings of
the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society.
Vaysman is completing her Ph.D. in linguistics from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and earned her B.A.
in linguistics from Cornell University. |
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