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Membership Book 2020-2021
TABLE OF CONTENTS Leadership ................................................................................................................... 1 Bienen School of Music .................................................................................................2 Feinberg School of Medicine......................................................................................... 3 Kellogg School of Management .................................................................................. 11 McCormick School of Engineering .............................................................................. 14 Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications ............... 17 Northwestern Emeriti Organization ............................................................................ 19 Northwestern University in Qatar ............................................................................... 20 Pritzker School of Law ................................................................................................ 21 School of Education and Social Policy ......................................................................... 22 School of Communication .......................................................................................... 23 University Libraries ..................................................................................................... 25 Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences ....................................................................... 26 Affiliated Faculty ........................................................................................................ 35
LEADERSHIP
Therese McGuire, Ph.D.
President
Strategy, Kellogg School of Management
therese-mcguire@kellogg.northwestern.edu
847-491-8683
Therese J. McGuire is Professor of Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern
University. She has been a faculty member at Kellogg since 2002 and has held various administrative
positions, including Director of the Real Estate Program, Chair of the Strategy Department, and Senior
Associate Dean for Curriculum and Teaching. McGuire's areas of expertise are state and local public finance,
fiscal decentralization, and regional economic development. McGuire was President of the National Tax Association in 1999-2000, as well
as the editor of the NTA's academic journal, the National Tax Journal from 2001 until 2009. McGuire has a B.A. with a dual major in
Mathematics and Economics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University.
Robert Holmgren, Ph.D.
President-Elect
Molecular Biosciences
r-holmgren@northwestern.edu
847-491-5460
Dr. Robert Holmgren’s laboratory studies Hedgehog signal transduction, which plays a central role in
animal development and human disease. The main focus of the lab is the identification and
characterization of new pathway components. Their approach is to use an in vivo RNAi
suppressor/enhancer screen to discover candidate genes, which are then validated and studied to
determine how they function within the pathway.
Lois Hedman, P.T., D.Sc.P.T.
Past President
Non-Tenure Eligible Member, Feinberg School of Medicine
l-hedman@northwestern.edu
312-908-6782
Dr. Lois Hedman is interested in developing the basic requirements of walking into a clinical tool to guide
examination and intervention. She is also interested in describing, measuring and intervening in balance
dysfunction post-stroke. Third, Dr. Hedman is interested in the development of clinical decision making
in PT students.
1
BIENEN SCHOOL OF MUSIC
John Thorne, M.M.
Music Performance
john.thorne@northwestern.edu
847-491-7228
John Thorne is an Associate Professor of Flute at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music. He
joined the Bienen School faculty after having been the Associate Principal Flute of the Houston
Symphony from 1992 until 2012. Currently, Mr. Thorne is a substitute flutist with the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra. He also performs with the Chicago Philharmonic as principal flutist.
Sarah Bartolome, Ph.D.
Music Studies
sarah.bartolome@northwestern.edu
847-491-8948
Sarah Bartolome (G02) previously held the position of assistant professor of music education at Louisiana
State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She holds a BM in voice performance and music education from
Ithaca College, an MM in music education with a concentration in voice performance and pedagogy from
Northwestern University, and a PhD in music education from the University of Washington. Her research
interests include children’s musical culture, ethnomusicology, choral culture from a global perspective,
service-learning in higher education, and music teacher preparation. She has published articles in such journals as the Journal of
Research in Music Education, Research Studies in Music Education and the Music Educators Journal.
Anne Waller, M.M.
Non-Tenure Eligible Member
a-waller@northwestern.edu
847-491-4769
Anne Waller has toured for over thirty-five years as a soloist, chamber musician, and member of the
Waller and Maxwell Guitar Duo. Ms. Waller joined the faculty of the Bienen School of Music in 1985 and
established the classical guitar program one year later. She specializes in the exploration and
performance of works for nineteenth- and early twentieth-century guitars on historical instruments. Ms.
Waller has been presented in a wide variety of festival, concert, and radio venues, and has performed, lectured and taught master
classes at colleges and universities throughout the United States and Europe. She has made recordings for the Music from
Northwestern Series and Berto Records. She is the founding Artistic Director of the Segovia Classical Guitar Series.
2
FEINBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
John Patrick F. Bebawy, M.D.
Anesthesiology
j-bebawy@northwestern.edu
312-695-0061
Dr. John Bebawy’s clinical and research interests and expertise relate to Neuroanesthesia, with a focus
on interventions that affect cerebral blood flow and cerebrovascular hemodynamics. Dr. Bebawy
completed his Anesthesiology residency and Neurosurgical Anesthesiology fellowship training at
Northwestern in 2008, where he is currently faculty, Associate Director of the Neurosurgical
Anesthesiology Fellowship Program, and Director of Neurosurgical Anesthesia Education.
Daniel R. Foltz, Ph.D.
Chair, Research Affairs Committee
Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
dfoltz@northwestern.edu
312-503-5648
Dr. Daniel Foltz received his B.A from the University of Minnesota and his Ph.D. in 2001 from the
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Integrated Graduate Program. He then moved to
San Diego to conduct postdoctoral work at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research on the UCSD
campus. Dr. Foltz accepted his first faculty position in 2008 at the University of Virginia in the Department of Biochemistry and
Molecular Genetics. He moved his laboratory to the Feinberg School of Medicine in 2015 to join the faculty of the new Biochemistry
and Molecular Genetics Department, where they study chromosome segregation.
The Cell and Molecular Biology Department is currently holding an election.
The Dermatology Department is currently holding an election.
3
Amy Kontrick, M.D.
Emergency Medicine
a-kontrick@northwestern.edu
312-694-7000
Dr. Amy Kontrick is an emergency medicine doctor in Chicago, Illinois and is affiliated with Northwestern
Memorial Hospital. She received her medical degree from University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
and has been in practice for more than 20 years. She is one of 83 doctors at Northwestern Memorial
Hospital who specialize in Emergency Medicine.
Katherine Wright, Ph.D.
Family and Community Medicine
k-wright@northwestern.edu
312-503-4630
Dr. Wright's research examines the effectiveness of health and education policy measures while considering the
mediating and moderating factors that influence population metrics. Within this context, she has also developed
new methodological approaches to account for missing data, and has extensively analyzed large scale data such as
the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).
Celia O’Brien, Ph.D.
Medical Education
celia.obrien@northwestern.edu
312-503-3888
Dr. Celia O’Brien is Assistant Professor of Medical Education and the Director of Assessment and Program
Evaluation in the Augusta Webster, MD, Office of Medical Education (AWOME). She completed her
doctorate in Higher Education at the University of Arizona in 2011. Dr. O’Brien’s research and most recent
publications focus on student assessment, competency-based medical education, and related issues in the undergraduate medical
training environment. Within AWOME she is responsible for MD program student assessment systems and for the evaluation of
curricular outcomes. She is also a faculty tutor for problem-based learning coursework.
4
Courtney Blackwell, Ph.D.
Medical Social Sciences
ckblackwell@northwestern.edu
Dr. Blackwell is a developmental methodologist with expertise in early childhood education and survey
development, particularly child- and parent-reported health outcomes measures. Her research focuses on
early learning and positive health development, and the complex social environmental factors that
contribute to such outcomes. Fundamental to her work is an emphasis on conducting research that
informs health and education policy and practice. She is currently an integral member of the Person
Reported Outcome (PRO) Core for the NIH-funded Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) research program.
Joshua M. Hauser, M.D.
Chair, Social Responsibility Committee
Medicine
j-hauser@northwestern.edu
312-503-3478
Joshua Hauser, M.D., is Associate Professor of Medicine (Palliative Care) at the Buehler Center on Aging,
Health and Society, Institute for Public Health and Medicine. He directs the palliative medicine fellowship
at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and is Palliative Care Section Chief at the Jesse Brown (Chicago) VA
Medical Center. After graduating Harvard Medical School, Dr. Hauser completed his residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and
a fellowship in health services research and medical ethics at the University of Chicago. Dr. Hauser’s research focuses on patient and
family communication, palliative care, and hospice.
Jonathan Leis, Ph.D.
Microbiology-Immunology
j-leis@northwestern.edu
312-503-1166
Jonathan Leis is a Professor of Microbiology-Immunology and the Senior Associate Dean for Research
for the Office of Finance and Administration at the Feinberg School of Medicine. His work focuses on
retrovirus replication, reverse transcription, integration, virus assembly mechanisms, and molecular genetics.
5
Derek Wainwright, Ph.D.
Neurological Surgery
derekwainwright@northwestern.edu
312-503-4345
The primary goal of our research is to analyze the immune response in human brain tumors, as well as
syngeneic and humanized mouse brain tumor models, with the intent to develop and evaluate novel
immunotherapeutic strategies for malignant brain cancer. We aim to: 1) discover new targets that
increase immunosuppression, 2) develop new drugs that inhibit immunosuppression, 3) and test novel
treatment strategies for clinical translation into human patients with malignant glioma.Current Projects-Dissect the multiple roles of
immunosuppressive indoleamine 2,3 dioxygenase 1 (IDO) in glioblastoma (GBM)-Determine how advanced age suppresses the
effectiveness of immunotherapy for treatment of GBM-Investigate the psychosocial aspects of stress, anxiety and/or depression on
the suppression of immunotherapeutic efficacy for GBM.-Characterize the gut microbiota of GBM patients, before and after
treatment with immunotherapy
Elena Grebenciucova, M.D.
Neurology
elena.grebenciucova@northwestern.edu
312-695-1100
Dr. Grebenciucova's researches multiple sclerosis treatments, specifically focusing on the effects of aging on the
immune system. According to her findings, immunosenescence as a concept is directly relevant to the world of
neuro-inflammation, as it may be a contributing factor to the risks associated with some of the current
immunosuppressive and immunomodulatory therapies used in treating multiple sclerosis (MS) and other
inflammatory disorders.
Angela Lawson, Ph.D.
Obstetrics and Gynecology
a-lawson@northwestern.edu
312-926-8244
Angela Lawson, PhD is an Associate Professor of Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology and Psychiatry at
Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. She is a licensed clinical psychologist
specializing in women’s reproductive health and sexual trauma. She joined the faculty at Northwestern
in 2008 where she provides consultation as well as psychotherapy related to infertility and other
reproductive concerns. She also conducts research on the psychological aspects of infertility and trauma. Dr. Lawson serves as a Past
Chair of the Executive Committee for the Mental Health Professional Group of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
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Carol Schmidt, M.D.
Ophthalmology
c-schmidt2@northwestern.edu
312-695-8150
Dr. Schmidt joined the Department of Ophthalmology at Northwestern 2001 after several years in
private practice in Long Grove, Barrington, and Glenview, IL. Clinically, she see patients for a wide range
of ophthalmic issues, such as detection of glaucoma, screening for diabetic retinopathy and macular
degeneration, evaluation for ocular complications of long-term systemic medications, as well as ocular
mid margin disease, dry eye, and cataracts. Her research interests have included surgical simulation in
undergraduate and graduate medical education specifically, skill development which I pursued as a Searle Fellow.
James A. Hill, M.D.
Orthopaedic Surgery
j-hill2@northwestern.edu
312-695-6800
Orthopaedic surgeon Dr. James A. Hill received his B.A. from Northwestern University and his M.D. from
the Feinberg School of Medicine. Hill joined the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in 1980 and was
appointed as a full professor in 1994. Hill has served as an attending physician at Northwestern Memorial
Hospital, Cook County Hospital, Children’s Memorial Hospital and the Rehabilitation Institute of
Chicago. Hill served as chief of staff of Northwestern Memorial Hospital from 2006 to 2008. Hill was
inducted into the NU Black Alumni Association Hall of Fame and received the Icon Award from the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boys
and Girls Club of Chicago.
Jing Zheng, Ph.D.
Otolaryngology
jzh215@northwestern.edu
312-503-3417
Dr. Jing Zheng received her Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Her lab aims to identify and
investigate molecules that play important roles in mammalian hearing, thus to enrich our understanding
of cochlear physiology, and to further develop a better strategy to prevent hearing loss.
7
Ronen Sumagin, Ph.D.
Pathology
ronen.sumagin@northwestern.edu
312-503-8144
Dr. Sumagin’s laboratory focuses on interactions of innate immune cells, specifically neutrophils with
luminally expressed epithelial adhesive receptors, and the contribution of these interactions to regulation
of epithelial barrier and mucosal wound healing, under the conditions of intestinal inflammation. A better
understanding of the mechanisms regulating PMN recruitment and retention at the mucosal surfaces,
and identification of specific molecules that may link PMN-epithelial cell interactions with epithelial
barrier function and wound repair are imperative for the development of new and improved therapeutic approaches aiding in the
resolution of mucosal inflammation, and reestablishing epithelial homeostasis.
The Pediatrics Department is currently holding an election.
Richard Miller, Ph.D.
Pharmacology
r-miller10@northwestern.edu
312-503-3211
Our laboratory is interested in the role of receptors in the regulation of nerve cell function. We are
particularly interested in the role of cytokines in nerve cell biology. The effects of cytokines on neural
stem cell development and in the genesis of chronic pain syndromes are of current interest. We study
these phenomena using biochemistry, molecular biology, electrophysiology, mouse genetics and
imaging. Projects in our laboratory involve the development of drugs that act on cytokine receptors as
well as the molecular basis for pain in osteoarthritis and diabetic neuropathy.
Christopher Reger, M.D.
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
christopher.reger@northwestern.edu
312-238-1000
Dr. Christopher Reger is physiatrist and assistant professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine. He
received his M.D. from the Chicago Medical School and completed his residency at Loyola University
Medical Center. Dr. Reger specializes in spasticity management, amputation post-operative
management, and prosthetic management.
8James Baker, Ph.D.
Physiology
j-baker@northwestern.edu
312-503-1322
Professor James Baker completed his doctorate in psychology at Brown University and postdoctoral
fellowships in biology at the California Institute of Technology. His lab studies the vestibular and visual
sensory systems and the reflex motor outputs to the eyes, neck, and limbs. Much of their research
explores the vestibulo-ocular reflex, which responds to head rotations by rotating the eyes in an equal
and opposite way so that the line of sight remains constant during head movement, maintaining fixation
on an object.
Katherine M. Martinez, P.T., Ph.D.
Physical Therapy & Human Movement Sciences
k-martinez@northwestern.edu
312-503-3341
Dr. Katherine Martinez is a physical therapist whose clinical work focuses on people with neurological
dysfunction. She received her Ph.D. from Nova Southeastern University. Dr. Martinez’s research interest
is in postural control and balance, with a specific focus on reactive balance control.
Nicholas Soulakis, Ph.D.
Preventive Medicine
nicholas.soulakis@northwestern.edu
312-908-7914
Nicholas Soulakis is a public health scientist whose research focus lies at the intersection of epidemiology and
informatics with an emphasis on understanding the expanding, data-rich environment created by health
information technology and leveraging computationally intensive analytical techniques to monitor healthcare
quality and ultimately improve population health outcomes. His current work is an expansion into the newly
emerging field of quality informatics and patient outcomes; seeking to better understand the ascertainment of healthcare networks and
developing a more comprehensive scientific approach to understanding the dynamics of care coordination for hospitalized patient populations.
Christina Boisseau, Ph.D.
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
christina.boisseau@northwestern.edu
Dr. Boisseau is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Her research focuses on
anxiety and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders using translational research methods to identify
critical, transdiagnostic mechanisms of dysfunction and barriers to recovery. She an original coauthor of
the Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders and maintains a clinical practice focused on the treatment
of OCD and anxiety disorders.
9Michelle Gentile, M.D.
Radiation Oncology
m-gentile@northwestern.edu
Dr. Gentile focuses her clinical practice in the treatment of head and neck, lung and pediatric brain
cancers in the primary, recurrent or metastatic setting. She also treats patients with a wide variety of
cancers with proton beam therapy at the Northwestern Medicine Chicago Proton Center, including
patients requiring re-irradiation. She is actively involved in clinical research evaluating factors predictive
of toxicity in the treatment of head and neck cancers. She participates in prospective clinical studies evaluating treatment de-
escalation of HPV positive oropharynx cancer and proton beam therapy for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer and breast
cancer.
Dasha Perchesky, M.D.
Radiology
dasha.pechersky@nm.org
312-695-5753
Dr. Dasha Perchesky specializes in diagnostic neuroradiology.
The Surgery Department is currently holding an election.
Shilajit Kundu, M.D.
Urology
Shilajit.kundu@nm.org
312-908-8145
Dr. Kundu is an Associate Professor of Urology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
His clinical and research interests are in urologic oncology. He has successfully conducted and published
on prospective evaluations of patients with urologic cancers including prostate, bladder, kidney and
testicular cancer and found that the impact of cancer treatment goes beyond physical limitations
associated with treatment. His recent research aims to understand the complexities associated with
patient expectations. This includes balancing factors associated with patient satisfaction including patient personality, physician-
patient relationship, information-processing style, and a comforting experience with the health care environment.
For Senator Lois Hedman, Feinberg’s non-tenure eligible representative, see Leadership above
10KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
Linda Vincent, M.B.A., Ph.D.
Accounting Information & Management
l-incent@kellogg.northwestern.edu
847-491-2659
Linda Vincent is an Associate Professor in the Accounting Information and Management department. Prior to
joining Kellogg in 1999, Professor Vincent was an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Graduate
School of Business. Professor Vincent’s research interests are in the areas of financial reporting and capital
markets with a focus on business combinations, divisive restructurings, real estate, pensions, and the
informativeness of financial reporting data for securities returns under different information environments and capital structures. Professor
Vincent has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Accounting Horizons, and the Journal of Accounting
Research. She is an ad hoc reviewer for The Accounting Review; Contemporary Accounting Research; Journal of Accounting, Auditing and
Finance; Real Estate Economics; Review of Accounting Studies; and the Review of Financial Studies. Professor Vincent was awarded the
Faculty Impact Award in 2017; Chairs’ Core Course Teaching Award in 2000; and the Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award in 2001, 2003, and 2007.
She received an MBA in Accounting and Finance from Kellogg and a PhD in Accounting from Northwestern University.
Ravi Jagannathan, M.B.A., Ph.D.
Finance
rjaganna@kellogg.northwestern.edu
847-491-8338
Dr. Ravi Jagannathan is the Chicago Mercantile Exchange/John F. Sandner Professor of Finance at
Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, Co-Director of the Financial Institutions and
Markets Research Center at the Kellogg School, and the Chair of the Advisory Committee on Investment
Responsibility. Ravi has served on the editorial boards of leading academic journals, and is a former
executive editor of the Review of Financial Studies. Ravi's research interests are in the areas of asset pricing, capital markets, and
financial institutions. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Finance,
and Review of Financial Studies, and other leading journals.
Eli Finkel, Ph.D.
Management & Organizations
finkel@northwestern.edu
Eli Finkel -- author of the bestselling book The All-Or-Nothing Marriage: How the Best Marriages Work --
is a professor at Northwestern University, where he has appointments in the psychology department and
the Kellogg School of Management. In his role as director of Northwestern’s Relationships and
Motivation Lab (RAMLAB), he has published ~150 scientific papers and is a contributor to the Op-Ed page
of The New York Times. The Economist has identified him as "one of the leading lights in the realm of
relationship psychology.
11Nabil Al-Najjar, Ph.D.
Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences
al-najjar@kellogg.northwestern.edu
847-491-5426
Al-Najjar's research focuses on the development of learning-based models of decision making in
markets, games and contracts. His papers have been published in top scholarly journals such the Journal
of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, among
others. For his excellence in teaching, Al-Najjar has twice been the recipient of the school's Sidney J. Levy
Award, in 1996-97 for his class in microeconomics, and 2006-07 for his class in competitive strategy. He
has also received the Chairs' Core Teaching Award for his class in microeconomics, as well as several Certificate of Impact awards. Al-
Najjar received his PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota. Prior to joining the Kellogg faculty in 1995, he was a faculty
member at the University of Quebec in Montreal.
Angela Lee, Ph.D.
Marketing
aylee@kellogg.northwestern.edu
847-467-5334
Angela Y. Lee is the Mechthild Esser Nemmers Professor of Marketing at the Kellogg School of
Management. Angela is a consumer psychologist. Her expertise is in consumer learning, emotions and goals.
Her research focuses on consumer motivation and persuasion, cross-cultural consumer psychology, and
nonconscious influences of memory on judgment and choice. She was the recipient of the 2006 Stanley Reiter
Best Paper Award for her research on self-regulation and persuasion, and the 2002 Otto Klineberg Award for
best paper on international and intercultural relations. Angela is a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, a Fellow of the
American Psychological Society, and a Past President of the Association for Consumer Research. She is the Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of
the Association for Consumer Research, an associate editor at the Journal of Consumer Psychology, and serves on the editorial boards of
the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing Research.
Martin Lariviere, Ph.D.
Chair, Budget and Planning Committee
Operations
m-lariviere@kellogg.northwestern.edu
847-491-8169
Martin Lariviere joined the faculty at the Kellogg School in 2000. His research has focused on applying
economic analysis to operations management problems. He has been a member of the editorial boards of
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Management Science, and Operations Research. He has
held a number of leadership positions in the Manufacturing and Service Operations Society. He is a
Distinguished Fellow of the MSOM Society and a recipient of the Saul Gass Expository Writing Award.
12For Senator Therese McGuire of Strategy , see Leadership above.
Tim Calkins, M.B.A.
Non-Tenure Eligible Member
t-calkins@kellogg.northwestern.edu
847-467-3209
Tim Calkins is Clinical Professor of Marketing at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
He teaches courses including Marketing Strategy and Biomedical Marketing. He is the author of three books
including his latest, How to Wash a Chicken –Mastering the Business Presentation. He began his career at the
consulting firm Booz Allen and Hamilton. He then spent 11 years at Kraft Foods leading brands including
Miracle Whip, Taco Bell, Parkay and DiGiorno. He received his BA from Yale and his MBA from Harvard. Tim lives in Chicago with his wife
and three children.
13McCORMICK SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Hao Zhang, Ph.D.
Biomedical Engineering
hfzhang@northwestern.edu
847-491-2946
Dr. Hao Zhang’s research focuses on biomedical optics, including optical coherence tomography, super-
resolution microscopy, ophthalmic imaging, and molecular imaging. He received his doctorate from
Texas A&M University.
Stephen Carr, Ph.D.
Chemical and Biological Engineering
s-carr@northwestern.edu
847-491-3558
Professor Carr's career has involved teaching in materials science and engineering, research on polymer
solids and fluids, and serving for 23 years as the dean of undergraduate engineering at Northwestern.
Currently Steve Carr is co-director of Northwestern’s Master of Product Design and Development
Management degree program, and he is developing coursework related to materials selection as an indispensable part of product
design and development.
Marco Nie, Ph.D.
Civil & Environmental Engineering
y-nie@northwestern.edu
847-467-0502
Dr. Nie’s primary interest is to better understand and predict the behavior of transportation networks,
and to formulate new design and control strategies to improve mobility, reliability and sustainability of
these systems. Unlike other networks such as communication and social networks, the behavior of a
transportation network depends on the interactions between human activities (travel choice and driving behavior), physical
characteristics of the infrastructure and network topology. As a result, Dr. Nie’s analyses of transportation systems take an
interdisciplinary approach that draws on tools from optimization, network science, traffic flow theory, economics, and statistics.
His research covers various aspects of transportation systems analysis, ranging from developing specialized routing algorithms to
designing Pareto-improving congestion pricing schemes. Despite their diversity, most problems that I have been working on
address research questions that not only are of theoretical interest but also promise relevant real-world impacts.
14Stephen Tarzia, Ph.D.
Computer Science
tarzia@northwestern.edu
847-491-7069
Tarzia has recently focused on Computer Science education and digital journalism. Prior to that, his
research explored acoustic sensing on mobile systems, with applications in indoor localization. He has
been a professional fellow at the Medill School of Journalism and a computational research consultant
at the Kellogg School of Management. He also spent six years working as a software engineer, engineering manager, and
entrepreneur. He earned a Ph.D. from Northwestern and a B.S. from Columbia University, both in Computer Engineering.
Manijeh Razeghi, D.Sc.
Electrical & Computer Engineering
razeghi@northwestern.edu
847-491-7251
Dr. Razeghi is one of the leading scientists in the field of semiconductor science and technology. She is a
pioneer in the development and implementation of major modern epitaxial techniques such as MOCVD,
VPE, MBE GasMBE, and MOMBE for the growth of entire compositional range if III-V compound
semiconductors, heterostructures, quantum wells and superlattices for quantum photonics and
electronic devices. Dr. Razeghi is the author of 18 books and 31 book chapters. She has authored or co-
authored more than 1000 papers and given more than 1000 invited and plenary talks. Dr. Razeghi is the recipient of the 2016 Jan
Czochralski Gold Medal.
Hermann Riecke, Ph.D.
Engineering Science & Applied Mathematics
h-riecke@northwestern.edu
847-491-8316
Dr. Riecke’s research interests are mostly in the area of computational neuroscience. One focus is
plasticity mechanisms and how they restructure neuronal networks. Dr. Riecke is particularly fascinated
by the role of feedback from higher brain areas in the restructuring of networks and the information
processing performed by the networks resulting from it, as it is observed in the olfactory system. To gain
insight into these phenomena he investigates networks of simplified neuron models. Another focus is the coherent dynamics of
networks of simple and more complex neurons, which underlie the rhythmic activity observed in many brain areas. In work on the
retina he has focused on biophysically detailed neuron models. A second area of interest has been the study of spatially extended
dynamical systems with focus on pattern formation. Specific topics investigated have been bifurcation theory with symmetry,
spatially localized patterns, complex patterns, and spatio-temporal chaos.
15Noshir Contractor, Ph.D.
Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences
nosh@northwestern.edu
847-491-3669
Noshir Contractor is the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the McCormick School of
Engineering & Applied Science, the School of Communication and the Kellogg School of Management. He is the
Director of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group. He is investigating factors that
lead to the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of dynamically linked social and knowledge networks in a
wide variety of contexts including communities of practice in business, translational science and engineering
communities, public health networks and virtual worlds.
Robert Chang, Ph.D.
Materials Science and Engineering
r-chang@northwestern.edu
Dr. Chang’s research group focuses unconventional solar cell design, fabrication and analysis,
nanostructured carbon sheets, tubes and molecules, photonic crystals, amorphous semiconducting
oxide films, and nanostructured plasmonic materials in the infrared.
Cheng Sun, Ph.D.
Mechanical Engineering
c-sun@northwestern.edu
847-467-0704
Dr. Sun’s primary research interests are in the fields of Emerging applications of nano-electronics,
nanophotonics, nano-electromechanical systems and nano-biomedical systems necessitate
developments of viable nano-manufacturing technologies. His research group is engaged in developing
novel nano-scale fabrication techniques and integrated nano-system for bio-sensing and high-efficiency
energy conversion.
Nick Marchuk, M.S.
Non-Tenure Eligible Member
nick.marchuk@u.northwestern.edu
847-467-0168
Nick manages the Northwestern Mechatronics Design Lab, coordinates the annual McCormick robot
Design Competition, advises students on design projects for courses and independent study, oversees the
Mechatronics Wiki, and works on curriculum development.
16MEDILL SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM, MEDIA,
INTEGRATED MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
Judy Franks
Integrated Marketing Communications
judy-franks@northwestern.edu
847-467-2067
IMC Lecturer Judy Franks joined the Medill IMC faculty in 2008 following a 23-year career in Chicago’s
leading ad agencies, where she rose to the executive ranks across both the media and creative strategy
disciplines. She teaches undergraduate Media and Message Delivery, graduate Media Economics and
Technology and undergraduate Consumer Insight, and she serves as the Faculty Advisor for graduate
students pursuing a concentration in Media Strategy. Franks teaches across Medill's full-time, part-time
and online programs. With extensive experience in corporate training and development, Franks also develops executive education
programs for Medill IMC.
Candy Lee
Journalism (Graduate)
candy.lee@northwestern.edu
847-491-2065
Candy Lee is a professor at Medill, teaching in journalism and in integrated marketing communications.
Lee also teaches graduate students in the Masters of Product Design and Development Management
Program at the Segal Design Institute. She is on several cross disciplinary committees and boards across
campus and her courses and research focus on leadership, content, innovation, voice synthesis and sports
marketing. Lee is a frequent guest speaker at conferences and executive education workshops.
17Caryn Ward
Journalism (Undergraduate)
caryn-ward@northwestern.edu
847-467-7689
Caryn Ward is an assistant professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She teaches
both graduate and undergraduate students and specializes in teaching video journalism and multimedia.
She is also an opinion writer and has been published in the Chicago Tribune, Al Jazeera, Huffington Post and
other media outlets. Ward writes about a variety of subjects, from feminism to politics and pop culture as
well as collegiate and Olympic wrestling. Before joining the faculty at Medill, Ward spent more than 25 years
in various news jobs at local television stations across the country. She’s worked as a reporter, producer, executive producer,
managing editor and news director. Ward has won five Emmy awards for her work in television news. Ward has her master’s degree
in journalism from Medill and a liberal arts degree from Smith College.
Ceci Rodgers
Chair, Faculty Handbook Committee
Non-Tenure Eligible Member
c-rodgers@northwestern.edu
847-467-7393
Ceci Rodgers is an award-winning journalist living in Chicago. Her stories have appeared on CNN, CNNfn,
CNBC, NBC, nationally syndicated TV show Business Week Weekend and the nationally syndicated PBS
show CEO Exchange. Rodgers has worked as a financial journalist for more than two decades, primarily
reporting national and international business stories for CNN’s Moneyline from Chicago, New York, Washington, D.C. and Tokyo.
Among her accomplishments, Rodgers was the first TV journalist to shine the national spotlight on Chicago’s booming derivatives
markets in the 1980’s, 1990’s and 2000’s, with in-depth reporting and unprecedented access to floor trading. Her live market coverage
on CNN and CNNfn from inside Chicago’s bond futures and stock index futures trading pits and live, instantaneous reaction to
economic reports and Federal Reserve news became the standard.
18NORTHWESTERN EMERITI ORGANIZATION
Richard Cohn, M.D.
Pediatrics
r-cohn@northwestern.edu
312-312-6160
Dr. Cohn came to Northwestern University as a pediatric nephrologist in 1980 where he worked at
Children’s Memorial Hospital, now Lurie Children’s Hospital for 34 years. He was Medical Director of the
Kidney Transplant Program for over 20 years, supervising care for almost 400 children. Dr. Cohn’s other
interests were childhood nephrotic syndrome and hypertension. He retired from clinical care in 2014 and is
now Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics.
19NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY IN QATAR
João Queiroga
Communication Program (NU-Q)
joao.queiroga@northwestern.edu
João Queiroga is a Portuguese award-winning filmmaker and educator. As a director, his work screened at
the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), Hot Docs Canadian International
Documentary Festival, British Film Institute (BFI), DocLisboa and many others. His hybrid documentary film
“Our Skin” was recently nominated for an Iris Award and won the Lili Award. He has also worked for several
non-profit organizations, such as Cinema/Chicago and the Chicago International Film Festival, as well as Fortune 500 companies as
an editor and cinematographer. Additional experience includes assignments with Chicago Filmmakers, the Beijing International
Movie Festival, WGN-TV Chicago and Cannes International Film Festival. He is a Calouste Gulbenkian scholar, a Hoffman scholar, a
Davis UWC scholar, and a Fulbright recipient. Most recently, Queiroga served as the Chair of the Post-Production Department at New
York Film Academy. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Residence at Northwestern University in Qatar.
Abraham Abusharif, Ph.D.
Journalism (NU-Q)
a-abusharif@northwestern.edu
Ibrahim N. Abusharif, Ph.D., is an associate professor in residence at NU-Q, in the journalism and strategic
communication program. His academic interests include the study of the intersections of religion and
media, particularly digital media disruptions and religious authority. He also researches the origins,
promulgation, and effects of key journalistic framing terminologies used in prominent Western print news
sources for Middle East events and ongoing affairs. (As an example, you may access here Parsing “Arab
Spring,” a study of the phrase “Arab Spring,” its implications, usages, spread, and origins.) Currently, he is examining the usages of
“Salafism” and “Islamism” in popular media and in academia.
James Hodapp, Ph.D.
Liberal Arts (NU-Q)
jhodapp@northwestern.edu
James Hodapp is an assistant professor in residence in the Liberal Arts Program specializing in African,
world, and postcolonial literatures. Hodapp received his PhD from the University of Maryland, his MA from
the University of Chicago, and his BA from the American University. Before joining NU-Q in Fall 2018, he
served as an assistant professor in the department of English for four years at the American University of
Beirut. He has also taught at the University of Maryland, Harold Washington College, Wilbur Wright College,
and several other universities and colleges.
20LAW SCHOOL
Clint Francis, J.D.
Law Instruction
cwfrancis@law.northwestern.edu
312-503-8340
Clint Francis is a tenured member of the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law faculty, where
he has been on the faculty since 1978. He teaches and researches in the areas of Corporate
Restructuring/Bankruptcy, Commercial Law, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Capital Management,
and Medical Innovation. 2015-2018 he served, on behalf of Northwestern, as the Founding Dean of
Hamad bin Khalifa University Law School, a member of Qatar Foundation. Professor Francis obtained
his initial legal training in New Zealand, where he completed LLB and LLM degrees, and was admitted as a Barrister and
Solicitor of the New Zealand Supreme Court. He subsequently completed a Doctorate in Law at the University of Virginia
School of Law.
Allan Horwich, J.D.
Chair, Committee on Cause
Non-Tenure Eligible Member
a-horwich@law.northwestern.edu
312-503-3230
Allan Horwich has practiced law with Schiff Hardin for more than 45 years, where he maintains a limited
role in serving clients and in administration. Allan has taught at Northwestern Pritzker School of
Law since 1999 (full-time since 2009). His teaching focuses on compliance and litigation under the
securities laws. His practice was concentrated in securities litigation and securities and corporate counseling.
21SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL POLICY
James Rosenbaum, Ph.D.
Education & Social Policy
j-rosenbaum@northwestern.edu
847-491-3795
Education researcher James Rosenbaum's current major area of research concerns the college-for-all
movement, college attendance and coaches, high-school-to-work transitions, and linkages among
students, schools, and employers. For two decades, he conducted an extensive research project on the
effects of relocating poor inner-city black families in public housing to subsidized housing in the white
middle-class suburbs of Chicago. This quasi-natural experiment, known as the Gautreaux Program, has enabled him to study the
effects of these moves on children's educational outcomes and job opportunities, as well as the social and economic effects on the
mothers. These studies encouraged the federal government to create its Moving to Opportunity (MTO) program, implemented by
the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. A specialist in research on work, education, and housing opportunities,
Rosenbaum has published six books and numerous articles on these subjects.
Lilah Shapiro, Ph.D.
Chair, Non-Tenure Eligible Committee
Non-Tenure Eligible Member
Lilah.shapiro@northwestern.edu
847-467-3815
Lilah Shapiro is a qualitative sociologist whose research focuses broadly on the intersections
among race/ethnicity, religion, social class/social location and identity in the contemporary American
context. Her work explores how each of these constructs affect individual and group identity and
experience more broadly (e.g. self-concept, gender roles, family dynamics, cultural and educational investment, etc.) both at
individual stages of development and across the life course. A particular interest is in examining how group or master narratives shape
individual life stories and exploring who has the power to determine the course and content of a narrative. She holds a Ph.D. in
Human Development from the University of Chicago and is a former fellow at the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of
Religion.
22SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION
Beverly Wright, Ph.D.
Communication Sciences & Disorders
b-wright@northwestern.edu
847-491-2453
Beverly Wright and her students explore the general principles of auditory learning, a process that
leads to dramatic improvements in perceptual skills. The lab seeks to identify the circumstances that
are necessary for learning to occur as well as those that disrupt learning. These principles are examined
using stimuli ranging from simple sounds to speech, and tasks ranging from fine-grained discrimination
to categorization and intelligibility.
Robert Hariman, Ph.D.
Communication Studies, School of Communication
r-hariman2@northwestern.edu
847-467-0746
Robert Hariman joined the Northwestern faculty in 2004. His scholarship focuses on the role of public art
and artistry in human affairs, particularly with regard to political judgment and the discursive
constitution of modern society. His most recent book, co-authored with John Louis Lucaites, is The Public
Image: Photography and Civic Spectatorship (Chicago, 2016).
Mary Zimmerman, Ph.D.
Performance Studies
maz250@northwestern.edu
847-491-3623
Mary Zimmerman is a writer and director for the theater. She is a member of the Lookingglass Theatre
Company and is an Artistic Associate of the Goodman Theatre. She has earned national and
international recognition in the form of numerous awards, including a MacArthur
Fellowship. Metamorphoses, for which she received the Tony Award for Best Direction, was developed
at Northwestern. Other acclaimed works include The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The White Snake, Journey to the West, The Odyssey, The
Arabian Nights, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, and Eleven Rooms of Proust. She is the director and co-librettist of the 2002
opera Galileo Galilei, music by Philip Glass, at the Goodman Theatre, and director of Lucia di Lammermoor, La Sonnambula, Armida
and Rusalka at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Zimmerman's interests lie in the adaptation of literary texts for performance
and directing theatre.
23Jeffrey Sconce, Ph.D.
Radio/Television/Film
sconce@northwestern.edu
847-491-5982
Jeffrey Sconce is Associate Professor in the Screen Cultures program. He is the author of Haunted Media:
Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television (2000) and the editor of Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the
Margins of Taste, Style, and Financing (2007). His new book, The Technical Delusion: Electronics, Power,
Insanity will be published by Duke University Press in 2018.
Julie Marie Myatt
Theatre
juliemariemyatt@northwestern.edu
Julie Marie Myatt is a lecturer in the Department of Theatre. Her plays have been produced at Oregon
Shakespeare Festival, The Kennedy Center, Guthrie Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Magic Theatre
and Cornerstone Theatre, among others. She has had commissions from Roundabout Theatre, Denver
Center Theatre Company, Yale Rep, Cornerstone Theatre Company, ACT Seattle, and South Coast
Repertory. Myatt received a Walt Disney Studios Screenwriting Fellowship, a Jerome Fellowship, a
McKnight Advancement Grant, and was the Mellon Foundation Playwright-in-Residence at South Coast Repertory 2013-2016. She
is an alumna of New Dramatists.
Belma Hadziselimovic
Non-Tenure Eligible Member
b-hadziselimovic@northwestern.edu
847-491-2403
Belma Hadziselimovic is a speech-language pathologist who has worked across a variety of settings,
including private practice, inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation, and early intervention. Her primary
clinical interests lie in the area of acquired neurogenic disorders of language and cognition.
24UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
Gina Petersen
Librarian
gina.petersen@northwestern.edu
847-491-2176
Gina Petersen is the Assessment Librarian for Northwestern University Libraries. Her research explores
the impact library staff, services, and interfaces have on research and teaching. In addition she evaluates
library and campus programming. She earned her MS in Library and Information Science from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Steven Adams, M.S.
Chair, Student Affairs Committee
Librarian
smadams@northwestern.edu
847-467-2511
Steven M. Adams is Librarian for The Graduate School (TGS), Communication Sciences and Disorders,
Psychology, and Counseling. Steven has an additional appointment as the Faculty Mentor for the 7 th class
of Posse Scholars and is Co-Chairing the NU Change Makers Review Committee. Steven also serves as
Board Chair for the Black Metropolis Research Consortium. Previously, he was the Biological and Life Sciences Librarian and Interim
Psychology Librarian at Princeton University. Steven earned a B.A. in Biology in 1998 and an M.L.S. in 2000 from Clark Atlanta
University.
25WEINBERG COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES
Barnor Hesse, Ph.D.
African-American Studies
hb-hesse@northwestern.edu
847-491-5122
Barnor Hesse is an Associate Professor of African American Studies, Political Science, and Sociology. His
research interests include post-structuralism and political theory, black political thought, modernity and
coliniality, blackness and affect, race and govermentality, conceptual methodologies, and postcolonial
studies. He received his Ph.D. in Government (Ideology and Discourse Analysis) from the University of
Essex (UK).
Micaela di Leonardo, Ph.D.
Anthropology
l-di@northwestern.edu
847-491-4821
Micaela di Leonardo is an interdisciplinary cultural anthropologist with broad interests in economic and
social inequality, whether by class, race, gender or sexuality--and the analysis of public spheres and
counterpublics rationalizing or protesting against those inequalities. Her book, Black Radio/Black
Resistance: The Life & Times of The Tom Joyner Morning Show was published by Oxford University Press
in 2019.
Claudia Swan, Ph.D.
Art History
c-swan@northwestern.edu
847-491-8031
Claudia Swan teaches courses on northern European visual culture 1400-1700, art and science, the
history of collecting, and the history of the imagination. She is the author of numerous publications on
Dutch art and science and on practices and theories of the imagination. Single author works include The
Clutius Botanical Watercolors and Art, Science, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Holland: Jacques de Gheyn
II; as well as (forthcoming) “Rarities of these Lands”: Encounters with the Exotic in Golden Age Holland. She is co-editor of Colonial
Botany and (forthcoming) Image. Imagination. Cognition.
26Pamela Bannos, M.F.A.
Art Theory & Practice
pbannos@northwestern.edu
847-491-8774
Pamela Bannos is an artist and researcher who explores the links between visual representation, urban
space, history, and collective memory. Her recent projects include investigations of Chicago’s Lincoln
Park and the grounds of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. She also exhibits photographic
works. Bannos has a BA in psychology and sociology from Drake University and an MFA in photography
from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her 2017 book, Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and
Afterlife, is published by the University of Chicago Press. Bannos has taught photography in the department of art theory and practice
since 1993.
Thomas Gaubutz, Ph.D.
Asian Languages and Cultures
thomas.gaubutz@northwestern.edu
847-491-2766
Thomas Gaubatz is a scholar of early modern Japanese literature, media, and society. His current project
examines the ways in which literary representations of the townsman served to contain tensions,
contradictions, and hierarchies emerging in urban society between the mid-17th and mid-18th century.
Thomas received his Ph.D. in Japanese Literature from Columbia University in 2016.
Regan Thomson, Ph.D.
Chemistry
r-thomson@northwestern.edu
847-467-5963
Regan J. Thomson was born in New Zealand in 1976, and received his Ph.D. in 2003 at The Australian
National University. Following postdoctoral studies at Harvard University, he joined the faculty at
Northwestern University in 2006 where he is currently Professor of Chemistry. Regan’s research interests
include natural product synthesis and discovery, and atmospheric chemistry. He is the recipient of an NSF
CAREER Award, an Amgen Young Investigator Award, and an Illinois Division American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award.
27Taco Terpstra, Ph.D.
Classics
taco.terpstra@northwestern.edu
847-491-8039
Taco Terpstra is a socioeconomic historian of ancient Rome. His core research focuses on Roman long-
distance trade, specifically on the question of how merchants organized their business to overcome the
problems posed by preindustrial conditions. He is the author of Trading Communities in the Roman
World: A Micro-Economic and Institutional Perspective (Brill, 2013) as well as a number of articles on
Roman trade. His teaching includes courses on Roman economic history and the archaeology of Roman Campania.
The Earth and Planetary Science Department is currently holding an election
Robert Gordon, Ph.D.
Chair, Salary & Benefits Committee
Economics
rjg@northwestern.edu
847-491-3616
Robert Gordon is a macroeconomist with a particular interest in unemployment, inflation, and both the
long-run and cyclical aspects of labor productivity. He is the author The Rise and Fall of American Growth
(Princeton University Press, 2016). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was
elected as a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association in 2014. For more than three
decades, he has been a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research's Business Cycle Dating Committee, which determines
the start and end dates for recessions in the United States.
Harris Feinsod, Ph.D.
Chair, Faculty Rights & Responsibilities Committee
English
h-feinsod@northwestern.edu
847-467-1762
Harris Feinsod (A.B., Brown; PhD, Stanford) is a literary and cultural historian of the United States, Latin
America, and the Atlantic world. He is the author of The Poetry of the Americas: From Good Neighbors to
Countercultures (Oxford, 2017), and the co-translator of Oliverio Girondo’s Decals: Complete Early Poems (Open Letter, 2018). He is
currently at work on several projects related to maritime cultural history from the age of the steamship to the present. His recent
essays and reviews appear in publications such as In These Times, The Baffler, and n+1. He joined Northwestern’s department of
English in 2011, and he is also core faculty in the Program in Comparative Literary Studies, and an affiliate of the Department of
Spanish and Portuguese and the Program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
28Alessandra Visconti, Ph.D.
French & Italian
a-visconti@northwestern.edu
847-491-8271
Alessandra Visconti was born in Beirut, Lebanon and grew up in Rome. Her academic background includes
studies in comparative literature at the University of Venice, a degree in Historical Performance at the
Mannes College of Music in NYC and an MA in Applied Linguistics at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
She has performed throughout the US, Europe and Japan and can be heard on critically acclaimed recordings of medieval,
renaissance and baroque music. She coaches operatic diction at the Chicago Opera Theater and the Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric
Opera of Chicago, and has performed with the New York Choral Artists, Musica Sacra, the Newberry Consort, Music of the Baroque,
Schola Antiqua of Chicago and the Beyond the Score series with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She has published two Italian
language manuals with McGraw-Hill and is currently doing research on the acquisition of Italian by speakers of Spanish.
Christine Helmer, Ph.D.
German
dls@northwestern.edu
847-491-2616
Christine Helmer (Ph.D. Yale) is Professor of German at Northwestern University, with a courtesy
appointment in the Department of Religious Studies. In 2017 she was awarded an honorary doctorate in
theology from the University of Helsinki for her work on German reformer Martin Luther, as well as for
her commitment to theology as an important contributor to the intellectual life of the university.
Professor Helmer’s area of research and teaching specialization is Christian theology from historical, systematic, and constructive
perspectives. Her work is focused on German intellectual history with primary interest in the theology of Martin Luther, the
philosophy and theology of Friedrich Schleiermacher, and the flourishing of scholarship on Luther and on religion in early twentieth-
century Germany, known as the Luther Renaissance. Her recent book How Luther Became the Reformer (Westminster John Knox
2019) traces the story of how early twentieth-century German theologians constructed the myth of the “Here I stand Luther”
as prototype of modernity at the end of the First World War.
David Schoenbrun, Ph.D.
History
dls@northwestern.edu
847-491-7278
David Schoenbrun (Ph.D., UCLA, 1990) has been learning, teaching, and writing about Africa since 1978.
He is the author of two books and numerous articles and the Co-Executive Producer of two films. He
works with historical linguistics, archaeology, paleoecology and biogeography, oral traditions,
comparative ethnography, and more conventional documentary sources to study East Africa’s earlier
history.
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