Faculty News
ANSO faculty have had a busy year. In the Sociology wing of the department, Bob Jackall seemed to be everywhere: spearheading the college's development of a Williams in New York pilot program, continuing his ambitious Gaudino Forum lecture series on terrorism, and scoring yet another NEH research fellowship for his 2004-2004 sabbatical.
| Meanwhile, Jim Nolan, department chair, was named the next director of the Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford. His recent books continue to be favorably reviewed. If you're interested in sampling his Reinventing Justice: The American Drug Court Movement, Princeton University Press has made the first chapter available in its website |
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Olga Shevchenko (center, above) has published several book chapters this year, including the co-authored essay "From socialist camp to global village? Globalization and the imaginary landscapes of postsocialism," which appears in L. McCann., ed., Russian Transformations (New York: Routledge).
On
the Anthropology side of the hall, David Edwards spent much of Fall
2003 in and around Kabul working on an ethnographic film, which he's
now editing. A description
of his adventures in Afghanistan was published early in 2004 in
the web-based publication Sabawoon Online. His 2002 book Before
Taliban continues to receive rave reviews, including a recent
one by Robert Canfield, who judges
the book to be "terrific," and the "best of the anthropological
craft, written for the most part with clarity, economy and grace."
| Michael Brown's new book Who Owns Native Culture?, published in September 2003, received an encouraging review in the New York Times Book Review and a more guarded one in the Texas Observer. He was on the road giving talks related to the book, and one of these lectures--presented in March 2004 at the Washington University Law School, St. Louis, is available as streaming video (RealPlayer required; Brown's talk begins after a 3-minute introduction by Prof. Steve Gunn. If the video doesn't pop up in Netscape, try IE). For more information on the book and the issues behind it, see Brown's website. |
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Peter Just currently holds the ANSO record for the most (and most exotic) foreign-language translations of his work. His Oxford UP book Cultural and Social Anthropology, co-authored with John Monaghan, has been published in Mandarin, Dutch, and Tamil, among other languages. |
Antonia
Foias is off to Guatemala for Summer 2004 to continue her excavation
at Motul de San Jose. She recently contributed a chapter to the Routledge
book Continuities
and Changes in Maya Archaeology, and a
brief 2003 field report that she submitted to FAMSI (Foundation for
the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies) can be accessed online.
| New Faculty for 2004-2005: The department is pleased to announce that Prof. Kai Erikson (right) , a professor emeritus at Yale and one of the most prominent figures in American sociology, will be joining the department for the fall as a Distinguished Visiting Professor. Also joining us will be Gregory Stanczak, Visiting Asst. Professor of Sociology, who holds a two-year appointment at Williams. Greg received his PhD at USC and spent last year teaching at Pitzer College. |  |
