The following new tenure-track faculty began appointments at the college effective July 1, 2021.
HEATHER L. BENNETT
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY
Previous Position: Assistant Professor of Biology, Bard College
Ph.D., Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology, and Biochemistry, Brown University; Dissertation: “Loss of Notch or JNK Signaling Results in FOXO Dependent Compensatory Sleep in C. elegans”
B.S., Biology, Stockton University
JORDAN T. CAMP
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN STUDIES
Previous Positions: Visiting Scholar, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University, and Lecturer, School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara; Dissertation: “The Sound Before the Fury: A Genealogy of Neoliberal Racial and Security Regimes”
M.A., Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
M.A., Sociology, Humboldt State University
B.A., Sociology, University of Mississippi
ELISE CASTILLO
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES
Previous Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Educational Studies and Public Policy and Law, Trinity College
Ph.D., Policy, Organizations, Measurement, and Evaluation, University of California, Berkeley; Dissertation: “Progressive Education Meets the Market: Organizational Survival among Independent Charter Schools”
M.A., Policy, Organizations, Measurement, and Evaluation, University of California, Berkeley
M.S., Teaching (Adolescent English), Pace University
B.A., English and Creative Writing, Barnard College
CHANDRANIL “NIL” CHAKRABORTTII
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz; Dissertation: “Performance Improvement of Storage Systems Using Machine Learning”
M.S., Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz
Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology, West Bengal University of Technology, India
AMANDA GUZMÁN
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Previous Position: Ann Plato Fellow in Anthropology and American Studies, Trinity College
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley; Dissertation: “From Island to Museum: Narrating Puerto Rican Museum Object Itineraries”
M.A., Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
A.B., Anthropology, Harvard University
CHRISTINA HEATHERTON
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN STUDIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Previous Position: Assistant Professor of American Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University
Ph.D., American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California; Dissertation: The Color Line and the Class Struggle: The Mexican Revolution and Convergence Spaces of Radical Internationalism, 1916–1946
M.A., American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
B.A., Interdisciplinary Studies, University of California, Berkeley
KELLY M. PATTON
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS
Previous Position: Faculty Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Colby College
Ph.D., Physics, North Carolina State University
Dissertation: “Investigating Nuclear and Astrophysical Systems Using Neutrinos”
B.A., Physics, The College of Wooster
SALLY B. SERAPHIN
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF NEUROSCIENCE
Previous Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Trinity College
Ph.D., Anthropology, Emory University; Dissertation: “The Neuroendocrinology, Neuroanatomy, and Behavior-Pharmacology of Dopamine in Juvenile Nursery-Reared and Mother-Reared Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta)”
M.Sc., Human Biology, Exeter College, Oxford University
B.S., Psychology, University of Massachusetts-Boston
LENIQUECA WELCOME
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AND URBAN STUDIES
Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania; Dissertation: “Where Life is Precious: The Terrains of Criminalization, Violence, and Freedom in Trinidad”
B.Arch., Architecture, University of Arkansas