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Salute to Faculty 2009
Each April the Clark community comes together to celebrate the scholarly publications and creative projects authored by Clark faculty over the previous year. Read about the recent work of Clark faculty.
Meet our new tenure-track faculty: 2009-2010
Mark Davidson, assistant professor in the Graduate School of Geography, will begin at Clark in January 2010. Davidson is an urban geographer whose research interests include gentrification, urban policy, metropolitan politics and social justice. He most recently served as a research fellow at the Urban Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.
Shu (Susan) Feng, assistant professor in Clark’s Graduate School of Management (GSOM). Feng’s research focuses on risk management, derivatives, asset pricing, and investments. Feng received her Ph.D. in economics with a concentration in finance and econometrics from Boston University. She was a teaching fellow for functional and strategic finance at Harvard Business School this past spring.
Esther L. Jones, assistant professor in the English Department. Jones specializes in the study of black women writers in the Americas, with a focus on the intersections of race, gender, class, and nationality and the theorization of difference. She served as a visiting assistant professor in the Departments of Women’s Studies and English at Emory University, and most recently served as the first postdoctoral fellow with the Race and Difference Initiative at the university’s Institute for Critical International Studies.
Gideon Maschler, assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. Maschler has held visiting scholarships and assistant professorships in a number of institutions, including the Max Planck Institute in Bonn and the University of Toronto. His specialty is complex differential geometry, a field that has connections with theoretical Physics. His efforts center on the search for a distinguished shape of a given space.
Ravi K. Perry, assistant professor in the Government Department. Perry recently served as a teaching assistant at Brown University and as a visiting instructor at Wheaton College. His teaching interests include African-American politics, urban and local politics, race and representation, American politics and public policy and contemporary political theory (modern political thought, liberalism and its critics, Black political thought, and critical race theory).
Ravi Sharma, associate professor in the Philosophy Department. Sharma is a specialist in ancient Greek philosophy. He previously served as a visiting assistant professor at Haverford College, and as an assistant professor at California State University, Long Beach.
Toby Sisson, assistant professor of studio art in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts. Sisson worked as bartender for 30 years before realizing her dream to become an artist and educator. She received her MFA from the University of Minnesota, with a focus on drawing and painting, public and environmental art, and teaching. Sisson recently served as the graduate student instructor of record and taught painting and drawing courses at the University of Minnesota.
Johanna Ray Vollhardt, assistant professor in the Frances L. Hiatt School of Psychology. Her research focuses on victim consciousness, prosocial behavior, and social activism among members of previously victimized groups. Vollhardt previously served as an academic consultant to Radio La Benevolencija, a reconciliation radio program in Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. In addition to her appointment in the Psychology Department, Vollhardt will be affiliated with Clark’s Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program.