SPRING 2001

Faculty News

Robert Jackall has been named Gaudino Professor for the next several years. In that capacity, he will organize talks and other activities for students interested in the quality of intellectual life at Williams. His most recent book, Image Makers, which he co-authored with Janice Hirota, recently received a favorable review in the Public Relations Quarterly.

Peter Just's study of dispute settlement in Indonesia, Dou Donggo Justice, was published this year by Rowman & Littlefield.

Jim Nolan's new book, Reinventing Justice: The American Drug Court Movement, was just published by Princeton University Press.

David B. Edwards, Professor of Anthropology, has launched a program to organize and assess an extraordinary archive of video materials collected by Afghan videographers during that nation's long struggle with the Soviet Union. Several Afghans will be working with Edwards this summer in Williamstown, and together they hope to produce CD ROMs and other multimedia products that will make this documentary history available to a wider audience.

Professor Antonia Foias has begun her fourth field season of excavations and research at Motul de San José, a Classic Maya site in the Peten rain forest of Guatemala. Several Williams students will be joining her this summer. We hope to have a short streaming-video documentary about her exciting research up and running in the ANSO website by late summer 2001.

Jean Bacon, Assistant Professor of Sociology, continues to develop her local research projects on issues of poverty, work, and family welfare in the North Berkshires. Some of the information that she has developed so far can be viewed at the website of the North Berkshire Community Profile Project.

Michael Brown was awarded an NEH Fellowship for his project "Protecting Native Heritage: Prospects and Dilemmas." He will complete his project next year as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.