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Newest faculty, newest scholarship 24 new faces
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Newest faculty, newest scholarship

Last fall, Skidmore welcomed 24 newcomers into its teaching faculty. They sifted into 12 departments across the curriculum, bringing fresh outlooks and distinctive research specialties—for example:

• Women’s negotiations with Confucian family ethics in pre-1949 China —Catherine Chia-Lan Chang, visiting assistant professor, history

• Manhood, commerce, and government in La Crosse, Wisc., 1840–1900 —Eric Morser, assistant professor, history

• Women with callings: Mary Baker Eddy, Aimee Semple McPherson, Jemima Wil­kinson, and Ann Lee —Joel Tibbetts, lecturer, religion

• Art production by ancient Maya muralists in Guatemala —Heather Hurst ’97, assistant professor, anthropology (2004 MacArthur Fellow)

• Forgiveness therapy, secular and religious, for college students wronged by a romantic partner —Mark Rye, associate professor, psychology

• Evidence of hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, and El Niño in a tropical stalagmite —Amy Frappier, assistant professor, geosciences (Lubin Family Professor for Women in Science)

• The culture of Sentimentality in the life and writings of Ludwig Tieck, “king of Romanticism” —Karin Hamm-Ehsani, visiting assistant professor, German