New blood: 38 new faculty members this fall

Olivier Asselin (Art History) has degrees from the Université d'Ottawa, the Université de Montréal and the Université de Paris VIII, where he did his doctorate on Marcel Deschamps. He has taught at Université d'Ottawa for 10 years, and has made several films (La liberté d'une statue, Le siège de l'âme).

Josée Audet (Management) has an MBA from McGill and a PhD in entrepreneurship from Université Laval.

Aimé Avolonto (Études françaises) is an expert on syntax, morphology, and the teaching and learning of French as a second language in a multi-media environment.

Ingrid Bachman (Studio Arts) has been an LTA and is once again coordinator of the Fibres area. She just returned from three years as visiting artist and lecturer at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she has done an MA in art history, theory and criticism.

Harjeet Bhabra (Finance) is a specialist in capital markets, corporate financing decisions, and investments. He obtained his PhD in 1995 from the University of Missouri (Columbia), and earlier degrees in management and naval architecture in India.

Pascale Biron (Geography) is an expert on rivers. She did her BSc and MSc at the Université de Montréal, and her PhD in hydrology and fluvial geomorphology at the U de M and Leeds. She has done extensive lab work in England, and field work in the Swiss Alps and the Rockies.

Angelo Canty (Mathematics and Statistics) got his PhD from the University of Toronto, and is an expert in computational statistics. He has lectured at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, and was a post-doctoral assistant at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

Ana Capelluto (Theatre) has a long association with Concordia, starting with her BFA and including five years as a Theatre LTA. She even used her Master's in Educational Administration to help the Faculty of Commerce and Administration earn international accreditation in 1996. A theatre designer, she concentrates on issues-based dance theatre projects.

Michel de Champlain (Electrical/Computer Engineering) is an expert in software engineering, object orientation, real-time microkernels, and pattern languages. He has a PhD from the École Polytechnique.

Ramhad Chandra (Marketing) comes to us from New York University. An expert in international marketing and business, his research focuses particularly on consumer products, service firms, franchising and retailing.

Lynda Clarke (Religion) received her PhD from McGill University and comes to us from the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in Shiite Islam, particularly as regards gender issues in Iran.

Marcel DeCoste (English) comes from the University of Regina, with a BA from the University of Toronto, MA from York, and PhD from McGill. He is a specialist in 20th-century American and British literature, philosophy and literary theory, and Renaissance drama and prose.

Richard DeMont will join the Exercise Science Department in January. He comes from the University of Pittsburgh, and specializes in athletic therapy.

Jill Didur (English) comes from York University, where she did her MA and PhD. Her interests are in post-colonial literature and theory, women's writing, feminist theory, critical theory and cultural studies.

Michel Dugas (Psychology) has a recent doctorate from Université Laval, and specializes in the prevention and treatment of anxiety disorders.

Anne Dunlop (Art History) is a Montrealer who has been studying at Queen's, Lyon, the University of British Columbia and the University of Warwick (U.K.), where she earned her PhD. She is interested in gender issues in 14th- and 15th-century art, particularly the Italian Renaissance.

Timothy Gadosy (Chemistry and Biochemistry) is an organic chemist who has been teaching here, and just got his PhD at Concordia.

Monika Gagnon (Communication Studies) got her undergraduate degree here, and went on to an MA from York and a PhD from Simon Fraser University. Fascinated by issues of race, culture and media, she did her thesis on the representation of race in Walt Disney products. She has also been a published art critic since the 1980s.

Neil Gerlach (Sociology and Anthropology) specializes in corporate restructuring, the changing nature of work, the social impact of new technologies and the potential social impact of human genetic engineering.

Vincent Goulet (Mathematics) has a PhD in actuarial science from the University of Lausanne. Since 1994, he has been a teaching assistant and Webmaster at Lausanne's Institute of Actuarial Science.

Kai Lamertz (Management) did a diploma in restaurant management at George Brown College (Toronto), and has since done research on the brewing industry. He has a BComm from the University of British Columbia, and will soon have a doctorate from the University of Toronto in organizational behaviour.

Karen Langshaw (Design Art) studied in Germany, the University of Western Ontario, and is finishing a degree at UQAM. She is interested in the new genre of public art, including site-specific art and art outside the museum setting.

Martin Lefebvre (Cinema) comes to us from eight years' teaching at Université Laval and the University of Alberta. He got his undergraduate degree here, in Cinema, and his advanced degrees in semiotics at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Edward Little (Theatre) has just reorganized a drama program at Mount Alison University. He has a PhD from the University of Toronto, and specializes in community theatre projects as a vehicle for social action and personal growth. He will take over the new specialization in Drama for Human Development.

Michael Longford (Design Art) has studied at York and Rutgers, and has been teaching at the Alberta College of Art and Design and the University of Calgary. He is interested in design and visual culture, and issues of representation.

Pierre Ostiguy (Political Science) has just earned his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley. He specializes in Latin America, comparative politics, political sociology, and issues of identity, culture and class.

Gilles Peelherbe (Chemistry and Biochemistry) is a theoretical physical chemist with a PhD from Wayne State University, in Detroit.

Charles Reiss (Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics) has a PhD in linguistics from Harvard. He has taught there, as well as at Brandeis and McGill, and has been an LTA here for three years. Interested in phonological theory, learnability and acquisition of phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, phonetics, Germanic, Old Icelandic, and Cree, he is now working on computational approaches to language acquisition.

Christian Sigouin (Economics) did his PhD at the University of British Columbia. He specializes in macroeconomics and investment theory.

Stephen Snow (Creative Arts Therapy) has a PhD from New York University. He is in his seventh year here, having spent five years in Theatre, and two in his current post as coordinator of the new graduate program in Drama Therapy. He is also coordinator of the innovative Centre for the Arts in Human Development.

Mohammed Soleymani (Electrical/Computer Engineering) is an expert in communication, particularly by satellite. He acquired his PhD from Concordia.

Peter Stoett (Political Science) has a PhD from Queen's. His current research interests are global environmental politics, wildlife conservation, and international law and human rights.

Leila Sujir (Studio Arts) is especially concerned with video art and video installation.

Marty Thomas (Applied Human Sciences) has a PhD in philosophy from Pennsylvania State University, an MA in environmental studies from York University, and an education degree. She has lectured here in Leisure Studies and has been a trainer and consultant on fitness and recreation, notably to the Ontario and federal governments.

Dogan Tirtiroglu (Finance) is an expert in real estate finance. He obtained his PhD in 1991 from the University of Connecticut.

William Zerges (Biology) attended Cornell and Princeton (PhD 1990), Duke and the University of Geneva. Interested in chloroplast biogenesis, he is working with unicellular algae, creating a model system for studying plant biology.