Faculty news Interpretations

Deborah Garretson, associate professor of Russian language and literature, served as an official interpreter at the arms talks between the United States and the U.S.S.R. in Geneva in September. There at the invitation of the U.S. State Department, she is a fluent linguist and has done research on second language acquisition. She is a graduate of McGill University and holds a Ph.D. from New York University.

Senegal-bound

Richard Joseph '65, associate professor of government and African and AfroAmerican Studies, will be based for two years in Dakar, Senegal, beginning in April 1986. His two-year assignment with the Ford Foundation in West Africa will be preceded by a term in Paris, beginning in January, as a visiting fellow at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. In West Africa, he will work on such matters as rural poverty and resources, governance, and public policy. In addition to his B.A. from Dartmouth, Joseph also holds a B.Phil, and D.Phil, from Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

Hill's book honored

Errol Hill, professor of drama and oratory, has received the American Theater Association's annual Barnard Hewitt Award another honor for his book Shakespeare in Sable: A Historyof Black Shakespearean Actors. The Hewitt Award is presented to the author of the year's leading theater history publication.

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