The department welcomes three visiting faculty members in the Fall of 1999.

Carolyn Hsu, visiting assistant professor of sociology, graduated from Yale in 1991 and is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, San Diego. Her dissertation, which is based on ethnographic fieldwork in the People's Republic of China, focuses on the effects of China's market socialist reforms on ordinary people's lives. In addition to teaching Introduction to Sociology, Prof. Hsu will offer courses on globalization, community & culture, and contemporary China.

Gilliane Monnier (right) and her husband Gilbert Tostevin (left) will be sharing teaching duties in Anthropology during 1999-2000. Monnier received her B.A. from Penn and is a doctoral candidate there as well. Tostevin did double duty at Harvard, from which he received a bachelor's degree and expects to receive his doctorate. Both are archaeologists with special expertise in the European Paleolithic. They will be offering courses in archaeology, cultural contact, material culture, and human evolution. Monnier's course, ANTH 253 Neanderthals: Gods or Monsters?, will be a totally new departure for the department, which has rarely offered courses on human evolution and never one taught by a specialist.