Faculty News

Charles Wood and David Lagomarsino co-taught History 3 last winter term for the last time; Wood retires this month. For more than two decades the duo taught the class, which went from the fall of Rome to 1715 in just nine and a half weeks. The faculty celebrated Christian Wolff's 25th year at Dartmouth with a concert of his works. Professor Wolff came to Dartmouth in 1971 and received an appointment in classics, comp lit, and music. Historian Mary Kelley will spend next year at the Huntington Library in California as the Times-Mirror chair of American Studies working to complete her book on women's intellectual lives in nineteenth-century America.

The emeriti have been equally busy with research. Psychologist William Smith is looking to see if there is a relationship between the asymmetry of the brain and asymmetry of the face. Charles McLane continues his work on the Maine coastal islands in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He has published four volumes already. Colin Campbell won the Duncan Black Prize for his article, "New Hampshire's Tax-Base Limits: An Example of the Leviathan Model." He is also researching school finance systems as well as inflation in Bolivia. Fred Berthold '45 still teaches one course a year in the religion department. He led the department's foreign study program to Edinburgh, Scotland, last fall. Neal Oxenhandler's new book Looking for Heroes in PostwarFrance: Albert Camus, MaxJacob, Simone Weil was published by the University Press of New England. David Sices is working on a new annotated translation of Machiavelli's Discourses. Willis Doney will preside at a colloquium honoring Descartes at the meeting of the American Philosophical Society. Artist Ashley Bryan will see some poems from his award-winning collection Sing to the Sun put to music by composer Alvin Singleton.