2008-09

Ashutosh Varshney: Professor of Political Science
New Faculty 2008-09

Ashutosh Varshney
Professor of Political Science

Varshney is one of the premier American scholars on South Asian politics and conflict. A Guggenheim fellow and Carnegie scholar, he served on former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan’s Millennium Task Force on Poverty.
READ MORE December 4, 2008
Rose McDermott: Professor of Political Science
New Faculty 2008-09

Rose McDermott
Professor of Political Science

Political scientist Rose McDermott focuses on focuses the impact of physical and psychological impairments on a leader’s foreign policy decisions and international relations.
READ MORE September 25, 2008
Margot Jackson: Assistant Professor of Sociology
New Faculty 2008-09

Margot Jackson
Assistant Professor of Sociology

A 2002 Brown graduate in community health, Jackson examines the causes and consequences of health disparities among children and the role that health plays in generating social inequality and ultimately determining one’s adult social status.
READ MORE September 19, 2008
Michael Frank: Assistant Professor Psychology and Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
New Faculty 2008-09

Michael Frank
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences

Michael Frank uses computer models and human subjects to study decision-making and cognitive function.
READ MORE September 8, 2008
Eric Loucks: Assistant Professor of Community Health
New Faculty 2008-09

Eric Loucks
Assistant Professor of Community Health

Eric Loucks, a specialist in cardiovascular physiology, investigates the physiological and social determinants of cardiovascular disease. He will join the Brown faculty from McGill University in Montreal in January 2009.
READ MORE September 3, 2008
Leigh Hochberg: Associate Professor of Engineering
New Faculty 2008-09

Leigh Hochberg
Associate Professor of Engineering

Leigh Hochberg  graduated from Brown with honors in neuroscience. (He was also a fencer, a percussionist and a pianist in a jazz combo.)
READ MORE September 3, 2008
John Steele: Professor of Egyptology and the Ancient Western World
New Faculty 2008-09

John Steele
Professor of Egyptology and the Ancient Western World

John Steele, a specialist in ancient astronomy and predictive science, intends to continue one of Brown’s strong, unique scholarly traditions, from Otto Neugebauer to David Pingree.
READ MORE September 3, 2008
New Faculty 2008-09
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Stefan Hoderlein
Associate Professor of Economics

Trained in Germany and the London School of Economics, Stefan Hoderlein was a visiting professor at Brown last fall.
READ MORE September 3, 2008
New Faculty 2008-09
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Don Operario
Associate Professor of Community Health

Don Operario and colleagues study children orphaned by AIDS: “We have reason to believe that the [problems we’ve observed] actually begin prior to the experience of parental death, when their parents are still alive.”
READ MORE September 2, 2008
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Elizabeth Triche
Assistant Professor of Community Health

Epidemiologist Elizabeth Triche comes to Brown from Yale’s Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology. Her research interests range widely, but she focuses on women’s and children’s health.
READ MORE September 2, 2008
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