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Pomona College Professors Appointed to Endowed Chairs
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Four Pomona College professors, Kim B. Bruce, Elizabeth H.
Crighton. Frances K. Pohl and Miguel Tinker Salas, have been
named to endowed chairs in recognition of their
contributions to the classroom and the College. The honors
were approved by the Pomona College Board of Trustees at
their quarterly meeting in May and became effective July 1,
2005.
“These faculty members, have each contributed in varied and
profound ways to the life of the college through their
teaching, scholarship, and academic leadership,” noted
Pomona President David. W. Oxtoby. “With their appointments
to endowed chairs, we are celebrating their role in our
community and honoring their accomplishments.”
Kim Bruce, who joined Pomona this summer, has been named to
the Reuben C. and Eleanor Winslow Memorial Professorship. He
will teach Introduction to Computer Science, Algorithms,
Seminar in Computer Science and the Senior Seminar.
A member of the Pomona Class of 1970, Bruce comes to Pomona
from Williams College where he was the Frederick Latimer
Wells Professor of Computer Science. In February 2005, his
outstanding contributions to computer science education were
recognized by the International Association for Computing
Machinery Special Interest Group in Computer Science
Education (ACM SIGCSE).
Bruce is the author of two books, Java: An Eventful
Approach (with A. Danyluk and T. Murtagh, 2005) and
Foundations of Object-Oriented Languages: Types and
Semantics (2002), and numerous articles in professional
journals. His research interests include semantics and the
design of programming languages, computer science education,
theory of computation and mathematical language. He has
received grants from the National Science Foundation, Mellon
Foundation and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
The Winslow chair was established in 1975 by Myron M.
Winslow as a memorial to his mother and father. It has been
held previously by Elmer Tolsted and Paul Yale.
Elizabeth C. Crighton, a five-time recipient of Pomona’s Wig
Distinguished Professor Award for Excellence in Teaching,
has been named the William A. Johnson Professor of Politics.
A member of the faculty since 1975, she teaches Comparative
Politics; Comparative Politics of Europe; Gender and
Politics; Senior Seminar in Comparative Politics and a
freshman seminar Blood and Belonging.
Outside the classroom, Crighton focuses her research on
comparative ethnic politics with an emphasis on Northern
Ireland, South Africa and Israel-Palestine, and conflict
reduction and peacemaking in divided societies. Her articles
have appeared in the professional journals Perspectives
on Politics, Women and Politics, Social
Justice, and Comparative Politics.
Her 2002 article, with M. Ebert, "RU 486 and Abortion
Practices in Europe: From Legalization to Access," won the
Western Political Science Association’s Betty Nesvold Award
for the best paper in women and politics presented at the
group’s annual meeting. Her work has also been recognized
with grants from the Institute for European Studies, the
Ford Foundation, and the John Randolph and Dora Haynes
Foundation.
Crighton received her B.A. degree from Randolph-Macon
Woman’s College and her Ph.D. from the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill.
The Johnson Professorship was established in 1959 through
gifts from the American Pipe Company and friends of William
Johnson, through the direction of Pomona College's Board of
Trustees. Johnson served as the head of American Pipe
Company and as a trustee of the College from 1949-56. The
Johnson chair was previously awarded to visiting professors
in political science (formerly government).
Frances K. Pohl has been awarded the Dr. Mary Ann Vanderzyl
Reynolds Professorship in the Humanities. A member of the
faculty since 1985, Pohl is a professor of art history and
has served as a coordinator of the Media Studies Program.
She teaches From Colony to Nation State: Social History of
North American Art; Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism;
A Social History of North American Art; Topics in North
American Art; and Women, Art, and Ideology.
Pohl is the author of the groundbreaking text Framing
America: A Social History of American Art (Thames and
Hudson, 2002) as well as two books and several essays on
American artist Ben Shahn. Her work has been supported by
the Smithsonian Institution and Pomona College research
grants. She earned her B.A. and M.A. degrees from the
University of British Columbia, and her Ph.D., from the
University of California, Los Angeles.
The Vanderzyl Reynolds chair was established in 2000 during
the Campaign for Pomona College by a gift from Mr. and Mrs.
John Vanderzyl to honor their daughter, Dr. Mary Ann
Vanderzyl Reynolds '56. Steven C. Young, professor of
English, held the chair until his retirement.
Miguel Tinker Salas, a member of the faculty since 1993, has
been awarded the Arango Professorship in Latin American
History. A professor of history and Chicano studies, he
teaches Latin America Before Independence (Colonial Latin
America), Latin America Since Independence, Social and
Economic History of South America, Identity and Culture in
Latin America, The Mexico-United States Border, and Social
Movements in Mexico.
The author of Under the Shadow of the Eagles, The
Border and the Transformation of Sonora During the
Porfiriato (1997), Tinker Salas has focused much of his
recent research on Venezuela, its politics, the country’s
oil culture and the relationship between the U.S. and
Venezuela. He recently served as a guest editor of the
two-volume Latin American Perspectives (2005) and
authored or co-authored chapters in Work, Protest and
Identity in Twentieth Century Latin America (2003) and
Estudios y otras Prácticas Intelectuales Latinoamericanas
en Cultura y Poder (2002). His articles have appeared in
a number of English and Spanish language professional
journals. Tinker Salas earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D.
degrees from the University of California, San Diego. |
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