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Jason Chambers, assistant professor of advertising, College of Communications. Education: BA in history and ethnic studies, Bowling Green State University; MA and PhD in U.S. history, Ohio State University. Research experience: The history of advertising to and by African-Americans. "To date, there has been very little research done on African-American involvement in the production of advertising – the founding of agencies, the building of measurement infrastructures, the development of media vehicles," said Kim Rotzoll, dean of the College of Communications. "It is an important and impressive story, and one that is long overdue in being told. Jason is one of very few people to have done research in this area and we are proud that he will be writing this pathbreaking work here at the UI." At Illinois: He is scheduled to teach "Advertising History." In future years, he will be developing a course on race and advertising that probably will be offered jointly with Afro-American studies.
Susan A. Cole, assistant professor of social work, School of Social Work. Education: BA in history, Marygrove College, Detroit; MSW, University of Michigan; PhD, Case Western Reserve University. Experience: "Dr. Cole has an impressive background as a practitioner and researcher," said Jill Doner Kagle, dean of the School of Social Work. "Prior to entering the doctoral program at Case Western Reserve University, she served as a social work practitioner and administrator in Hawaii and the Marshall Islands, and taught graduate students in medicine, nursing and public health as well as social work. She has participated in research on a wide range of issues, most notably studies of youth violence, in-home services for older adults, and adoption and foster care." At Illinois: She will continue a line of research that she developed in her dissertation: child development and child welfare. She also will teach courses in social work practice and child welfare.
Fernando Elichirigoity, assistant professor of library science, Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Education: BA in political science, Principia College, Illinois; MALS in social and political theory, New School for Social Research, New York; MLIS and PhD in history of science, UI at Urbana-Champaign. Research: His research interests are globalization and information infrastructures; industrial classification and transnational spaces of production and consumption; knowledge management and new forms of corporate structures; the use of the Web for personal investing and business information; Spanish-language Internet portals and the virtual construction of "Latin America"; history of coordination and collaborative technologies; and selection and exhibition of foreign language materials in public libraries. At Illinois: Bringing an important international perspective, he will be teaching LIS4501C, "Information Consulting."
Amr Elnashai, professor of earthquake engineering, College of Engineering. Education: BS in civil engineering, Cairo University; MS in concrete structures and PhD, Imperial College, United Kingdom. Research: "Elnashai is outstanding for his contributions to earthquake engineering," said David E. Daniel, dean of the College of Engineering. "He was the academic and administrative leader of an earthquake engineering group at Imperial College, one of the top universities in the United Kingdom. He is equally strong in analytical modeling and experimental methods. His development of seismic design criteria for composite steel and concrete frames and new concepts for repair and strengthening have brought him international recognition." At Illinois: Elnashai will be teaching courses in structural engineering and in his second year will take over as director of the Structural Engineering Laboratory in the department of civil and environmental engineering. He will take over leadership of the research programs in earthquake engineering in the UI Mid-America Earthquake Center.
Margareth Etienne, assistant professor of law, College of Law. Education: AB in history and JD, Yale University. Experience: "At Yale, Etienne was the executive editor of the Yale Law and Policy review and also was an editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism," said Andrew D. Leipold, professor of law and associate dean for academic affairs. "After receiving her JD, she clerked for Judge Diane Motz on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, then worked for a year with the University of Georgia’s Legal Aid Clinic before accepting a position with the Federal Defender in Atlanta. She brings significant experience in the criminal law field to her students and to her research." At Illinois: She will be teaching "Criminal Law" this fall and "Juvenile Justice" in the spring.
Ellen Evans, assistant professor of kinesiology, College of Applied Life Studies. Education: BS in physical education, Western Illinois University; MS in kinesiology, UI. PhD in physiology, University of Georgia. Research: The effects of exercise on body composition and the prevention of chronic diseases in the elderly. Specifically, her research focus centers on postmenopausal women and the potential utility of non-pharmacological approaches (e.g. exercise, phytoestrogens) as an alternative to traditional hormone replacement therapy (HRT). At Illinois: She’ll be teaching Kinesiology 150 and 352: "Bioscientific Foundations of Human Movement" and "Clinical and Applied Exercise Physiology."
Monica Fabiani, associate professor of psychology. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Education: Laurea in psychology, University of Rome; PhD in psychology, UI at Urbana-Champaign. Research: Fabiani is a cognitive neuroscientist who specializes in memory and aging. She uses brain imaging methods to identify functional changes that may occur in the brain in normal aging. She is working with Gabriele Gratton (her husband, another new faculty member in the department of psychology) to develop a method for non-invasive brain imaging based on optical methods. Her hypothesis is that much of age-related diminution of memory functioning results from a deterioration of working memory. There is considerable evidence that these age-related changes in working memory result from changes in frontal lobe functioning. At Illinois: She will be teaching a graduate seminar in the fall and a 300-level course on the psychology of aging in the spring.
Zoran Ivkovich, assistant professor of finance, College of Commerce and Business Administration. Education: BS in computer science, University of Zagreb; MS and PhD in computer and information sciences, University of Delaware; MA in management, MPhil in management and PhD in management (finance), Yale University. Research: Investment management, mutual funds and asset pricing. To date, the bulk of Ivkovich’s research has been the application of empirical analysis to mutual funds. He has co-written two papers published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. He studies mutual fund families (such as Fidelity and Alliance) and has discovered that the overall performance of a family of funds positively impacts fund flows into individual funds in that family, even after correcting for size, age, style and type of fund. At Illinois: Ivkovich will be teaching Finance 361, "Investments," during the fall semester.
Stephen Jaeger, professor of Germanic languages and literature and of comparative literature, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Education: BA, MA and PhD, University of California, Berkeley. Experience: "A highly original and innovative scholar, Professor Jaeger is in the first rank of American medievalists today," wrote Nancy Blake, director of the Program in Comparative Literature. "He has made a significant contribution in Germanic as well as in French literature of the Carolingian period through the High Middle Ages. He has received the prestigious Humbolt Research Prize, the Jacques Barzun Prize for his groundbreaking work ‘The Envy of Angels’ (1995), and is praised as a master pedagogue who conveys to students, not only his competence, but also his concern as a mentor in allowing them to develop their own analytic abilities." At Illinois: He will be directing the new Center for Medieval Studies at the UI and will teach Comparative Literature 141, "Masterpieces of Western Literature," and an interdisciplinary graduate seminar in medieval studies.
Elaine McCoy, director of the Institute of Aviation. Education: BS in English, Spanish and education, Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio; MA in English, Ohio State University; PhD in interpersonal communication, Ohio University. Experience: McCoy is a licensed pilot as well as a flight and ground instructor. Prior to coming to the UI, McCoy was the chair of the department of aviation at Ohio University. Before that appointment, she was the director of the Nebraska Space Grant Consortium, 1992-93; a professor in the Aviation Institute of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1991-93; a professor in the department of aviation at San Jose State University, 1989-91; and professor in the department of aviation at Ohio State, 1984-89. At the university level, McCoy has taught a wide range of courses, including creative writing, the social and cultural history of communication, public speaking, aviation weather, airline management and radio communications.
Audrey Petty, assistant professor of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Education: BA in French, Knox College; MFA in English, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Experience: "Professor Audrey Petty is a creative writer working in both fiction and poetry, as well as in creative nonfiction," said Dennis Baron, the head of the department of English. "Her fiction, together with an interview, were featured in a special issue of the journal Callaloo devoted to ÔEmerging Black Women Artists.Õ" At Illinois: She will teach courses in the writing of fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction and in African-American studies.
Fazal Rizvi, professor of educational policy studies, College of Education. Education: BA in education, University of Canberra, Australia; MA in philosophy and education, University of Manchester, England; PhD in philosophy and education, Kings College, University of London, England. Experience: He has been pro vice chancellor at RMIT University in Melbourne where he directed all of the international activities. He is an internationally known scholar acclaimed for his substantive contributions to questions of globalization of education, race and diversity issues. He has demonstrated achievements in developing programs to expand and enrich international education, research and public service at large universities. At Illinois: His courses will focus on theories of cultural and political globalization and the educational implications of the movement of people across national and cultural boundaries for a variety of purposes, not only for migration but also education. He will teach a variety of courses in the area of international and comparative education.
D. Fairchild Ruggles, associate professor of landscape architecture, College of Fine and Applied Arts. Education: AB in visual and environmental studies, MA and PhD in history of art, University of Pennsylvania. Experience: "Educated as an art and architectural historian, ‘Dede’ Ruggles has become one of the very few internationally recognized scholars of non-Western landscapes and the built environment," said Gary Kesler, associate head of landscape architecture. "Specifically, she has distinguished herself as the foremost scholar of medieval Islamic landscapes in Spain and India. Her award-winning book ‘Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain’ has been internationally reviewed and acclaimed." Research: "She uses a highly interdisciplinary approach to research on the built environment. Her ability to embrace such a variety of disciplines makes her one of the most exciting landscape historians working in the field today." At Illinois: This fall, she will contribute to an undergraduate survey course in landscape architectural history and a graduate-level theories and methods seminar. In the spring, she will teach LA 215, "Buildings, Land and Culture," with a focus on non-Western built environments.
Adriana Umaña-Taylor, assistant professor of human and community development, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. Education: BA in psychology and MA in child development and family relationships, University of Texas at Austin; PhD in human development and family studies, University of Missouri-Columbia. Research: "Adriana Umaña-Taylor’s major area of expertise is ethnic identity formation during adolescence," said Constance H. Shapiro, the head of the department of human and community development. "Her research with Mexican-origin Latino adolescents is especially timely given the demographic shifts in the United States and the increasing number of Latino families. Dr. Umaña-Taylor is particularly interested in understanding how adolescents develop an understanding of the term ‘ethnicity,’ how they negotiate the role that it plays in their lives, and how ethnic identity influences their family relationships." At Illinois: She will be teaching HDFS 310, "Contemporary American Family."
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