Alma mater faculty
Scores of Skidmore employees are graduates, including longtime faculty members like Marc Woodworth ’84 in English and Trish Lyell ’81 in art, as well as newer returners such as:
Caroline Orr D'Abate '93, management and business
Joined Skidmore: 2003
Doctorate: SUNY-Albany
Courses: "Human Resources Management" and "Foundations of Organizational Behavior"
"I study how we construct meaning around the experience of work, the imagery of work in popular-culture media, and workplace behavior such as the social psychology of teams and developmental interactions."
Heather Hurst '97, anthropology
Joined Skidmore: 2009
Doctorate: Yale
MacArthur "genius" grant: 2004
Courses: “"maging and Imagining the Past: Visual Representation in Anthropology" and "Archaeological Field Methods"
"I majored in art and developed a self-determined second major in the archaeology of architecture. My research focuses on ancient Maya murals, from documenting newly discovered murals in illustration to chemically analyzing their pigments to interpreting their iconography."
Andrew Lindner '03, sociology
Joined Skidmore: 2014
Doctorate: Penn State
Courses: "Political Sociology," "Sociology of the Media," "The Sociology of Sport"
"I was active in WSPN, the Skidmore News, and tour-guiding as a student, and one of my scholarly specialties is mass media—studying, for example, how citizen journalism and digital news startups are changing the news available to the public."
Jess Mahatthananchai '09, chemistry
Joined Skidmore: 2015
Doctorate: ETH, Zurich
Courses: "Organic Chemistry" and "Food Chemistry"
"I work on chemical labeling that's useful in metabolic studies and drug discovery. Incorporating deuterium, a commonly used isotope for labeling, is expensive and labor-intensive, but I'm exploring the use of vitamin B1 to make the process much easier."
Rebecca Marzalek-Kelly '02, theater
Joined Skidmore: 2016
Former work: Theatre Communications Group in New York City
"I studied abroad in the Shakespeare program as a student, and I trained with the SITI Company, which has a campus residency every summer. A director, designer, choreographer, and performer, I've also taught hip-hop dance."
Final thought: All of these faculty members were in the Periclean Honors Forum as students—can Skidmore pick 'em or what?
