{"id":6265,"date":"2020-09-18T08:52:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T12:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter\/?page_id=6265"},"modified":"2020-09-18T08:52:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T12:52:21","slug":"new-faculty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2020\/along-the-walk\/new-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"New faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following new tenure-track faculty began appointments at the college effective July 1, 2020.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter H. Bent, Assistant Professor of Economics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Previous Position:&nbsp;Assistant Professor of Economics, American University of Paris<br \/>\nPh.D., Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst<br \/>\nDissertation: \u201c<em>Three Essays on Governments and Financial Crises in Developing Economies, 1870\u20131913<\/em>\u201d<br \/>\nM.Sc., Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science<br \/>\nM.A., Economics, University of New Hampshire<br \/>\nB.A., Liberal Arts, Evergreen State College<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chitra Jogani, Assistant Professor of Economics and International Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Previous Position:&nbsp;Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Hamilton College<br \/>\nPh.D., Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br \/>\nDissertation: \u201c<em>Essays on Development Economics<\/em>\u201d<br \/>\nM.S., Quantitative Economics, Indian Statistical Institute<br \/>\nB.Sc., Economics, Presidency College (India)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<strong>Michael C. Puljung, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Chemistry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Previous Position:&nbsp;Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford<br \/>\nPh.D., Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Chicago Dissertation: \u201c<em>An Ionic Block Model of Voltage Gating in Gap Junction Hemichannels<\/em>\u201d<br \/>\nB.S., Biochemistry, Benedictine University<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anna Terwiel, Assistant Professor of Political Science<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Previous Position:&nbsp;Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Trinity College<br \/>\nPh.D., Political Science, Northwestern University<br \/>\nDissertation: \u201c<em>Foucault and the Lateral Body Politics of Prison Hunger Strikes<\/em>\u201d<br \/>\nDipl\u00f4me, \u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure, Paris<br \/>\nM.A., Political Science, New School for Social Research<br \/>\nB.A., History, Universit\u00e9 Paris 1 Panth\u00e9on-Sorbonne<\/p>\n<p><strong>Benjamin J. Toscano, Assistant Professor of Biology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Previous Position:&nbsp;Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, Trinity College<br \/>\nPh.D., Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina<br \/>\nDissertation: \u201c<em>Effects of Individual Phenotypic Variation on Predator-Prey Relationships of Xanthid Crabs in North Inlet Estuary, South Carolina<\/em>\u201d<br \/>\nB.S., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following new tenure-track faculty began appointments at the college effective July 1, 2020.&nbsp; Peter H. Bent, Assistant Professor of Economics Previous Position:&nbsp;Assistant Professor of Economics, American University of Paris Ph.D., Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst Dissertation: \u201cThree Essays on Governments and Financial Crises in Developing Economies, 1870\u20131913\u201d M.Sc., Economic History, London School of Economics &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2020\/along-the-walk\/new-faculty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New faculty&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"parent":1466,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6265\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}