Faculty News

Nine new faculty joined the Arts and Sciences this fall—the smallest cohort in years. Among the "new- comers" is Michael Gazzaniga '61 who returns to Dartmouth after serving as the director of the Center for Neuroscience and as professor of neurology and of psychology at the University of California, Davis. He had left a Dartmouth professorship in 1992 for California. Back at Dartmouth, he is now the David T. McLaughlin '54 Distinguished Professor and will direct a new program in cognitive neuroscience.

Two other senior appointments are John Campbell and David Nicol. Campbell joins the sociology department as a full professor after having taught at Washington State University, the University of Wisconsin, and Harvard. His Collapse of an Industry on the nuclear power industry won the American Library Association's Award for Outstanding Academic Book. Nicol is a new associate professor in the computer science. He comes to Dartmouth from the College of William and Mary, where he won the Alumni Society Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching. His primary research interests are in the use of parallel computers to accelerate the solution of complex computational problems.

The remaining six hires were all at the assistant professor level. Margaret Graver, in the classics department, specializes in Roman literature—particularly Cicero and Seneca. Ricardo Ortiz, in English, teaches critical and cultural theory as well as contemporary U.S. ethnic and gay and lesbian literature. Israel Reyes, who is interested in Latino literature, migration and cultural exchange, teaches in the Spanish and Portuguese department. Norberto De Sousa teaches political theory in the government department. He is researching the origins and early history of the concept of civil society in European political thought and on the development of the doctrine of "reason of state" in late sixteenth- Geoffrey Davis has joined the math department after having taught here for two years as a John Wesley Young Instruc-

tor. Meixun Zhao is new to the earth sciences department. His research interests are quaternary oceanographic and climatic evolution and global change.