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Pomona
College Welcomes Eight New Faculty Members
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Pomona College, one of the nation’s elite liberal arts
institutions, hired ten new faculty members for the
2004-2005 school year. They are Robert Gaines, Arthur
Horowitz, Nina Karnovsky, Peter Kung, Ian Moyer, Ghassan
Sarkis, Kyla Tompkins, and Meg Worley. Kathleen Stewart
Howe, the Sarah Rempel and Herbert S. Rempel ’23 Director of
the Pomona College Museum of Art and professor of history,
and Patricia Schiaffini, director of Oldenborg Center and
assistant professor of Chinese, were announced earlier in
the fall.
Robert Gaines, an assistant professor of Geology, focuses
his research primarily on what he describes as “the most
dramatic event in the history of multi-cellular life -- the
Cambrian Explosion, when virtually all of the animal groups
explosively appeared from single-celled animals,
approximately 500 million years ago. His most recent article
appeared in Geology, the journal of the Geological Society
of America. In the classroom, he tries to instill in his
students the same curiosity about their world that drew him
to the field. He teaches courses in sediment logy,
paleontology, earth history and global climate change.
Gaines earned his B.A. from the College of William and Mary,
his M.S. from the University of Cincinnati, and his Ph.D.
from the University of California, Riverside. In 2003-04, he
was a visiting professor of geology at Pomona College.
Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance Arthur Horowitz is
teaching World Theatre and Drama from Origins to the 17th
Century, World Theatre: Kabuki to Ibsen, Writing for the
Stage, and the freshman seminar Stages of Conscience. Active
in theatre since his summer camp days, he is particularly
fascinated by theater history and “how the artistic history
of a period is directly related to the era’s general
history.” He is the author of Prospero’s ‘True Preservers’ –
Peter Brook, Yukio Ninagawa, and Giorgio Strehler:
International Post-World War II Directors Approach to
Shakespeare’s ‘’The Tempest’ (2004) and numerous articles.
His current research topics are the medieval Dance of Death
and the contemporary performance history of Henrik Ibsen's
play Peer Gynt. Horowitz earned his B.A. from Hofstra
University and his Ph. D. from the University of California,
Davis. Horowitz came to Pomona College from the California
Institute of the Arts where he was a member of the
performance faculty.
Assistant Professor of Biology Nina J. Karnovsky brings 12
years of field work experience, on a range of species, to
the classroom. As a 2001 Fulbright Fellow, she sailed from
Poland to the Arctic, to study Arctic seabird foraging. Her
current research is focused on how climate change affects
top predators, including changes in diet and reproductive
success. Her articles have appeared in several scientific
journals including the Antarctic Journal of the United
States, Environmental Pollution and the Journal of Deep Sea
Research II. At Pomona, she is teaching Vertebrate Biology,
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and the freshman seminar
Penguins, Polar Bears, People and Politics. Karnovsky earned
her B.A. degree from Wesleyan University, her M.S. from
Montana State University, Bozeman, and her Ph. D. from the
University of California, Irvine. In spring 2003, she served
as a visiting professor of biology in the Claremont Colleges
Joint Sciences Department.
Peter Kung, an assistant professor of philosophy, teaches
Philosophy of Mind and Topics in Epistemology, Metaphysics.
In his research, Kung focuses on modal epistemology,
specifically how people have evidence for what is possible.
He that sensory imagination is the key to knowing what’s
possible and is developing an imagination-based account of
our knowledge of possibility. Kung earned his B.S.E. from
the University of Pennsylvania, his M.A. from Stanford
University and his Ph. D. from New York University, where he
was nominated for the university’s Outstanding Teaching
Award. As a graduate student, he taught Philosophy of the
Mind, Epistemology, History of Modern Philosophy,
Introduction to Philosophy, and Ethics & Society.
Assistant Professor of History and Classics Ian S. Moyer is
teaching Introduction to Classical Greek and history courses
on the ancient Mediterranean and ancient Greece. An expert
in Greek, Roman and Egyptian history and literature, as well
as Greek prose and historiography, he researches the
cultural interactions between the ancient Greek and Egyptian
worlds, using the histories of Egyptian priests. He is
particularly that fascinated by how these historical
interactions have been treated by contemporary scholars. His
published works include “Thessalos of Tralles and Cultural
Exchange” in Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and
Late Antique World, and “Herodotus and an Egyptian Mirage:
The Genealogies of the Theban Priests” in the Journal of
Hellenic Studies. He received both his B.A. and M.A. from
the University of Victoria and his Ph.D. from the University
of Chicago.
Ghassan Sarkis, an assistant professor of mathematics, first
joined the Pomona faculty as a visiting assistant professor
in 2002. A specialist in number theory and formal groups, he
is currently working on the question when is a given p-adic
power series an endomorphism of a formal group. This year,
Sarkis is teaching Abstract Algebra, Linear Algebra,
Calculus III and Cryptography. He earned his B.S. from the
University of Chicago and both his M.A. and Ph. D. from
Brown University, where he received an Outstanding Teaching
Award and was a finalist for the Brown University
Presidential Teaching Award.
Assistant Professor of English and Women’s Studies Kyla
Wazana Tompkins is teaching American Masculinities: The
Novel in the 19th and 20th Centuries; Eating the Other:
Race, Gender and Literary Food Studies; Feminist Community
Engagement: Bridging Theory with Praxis; and a seminar in
Feminist Theory. In her research, she combines her interests
in cultural history, food and literary studies by examining
how food and eating have been used as metaphors for the
negotiation of cultural and racial difference in American
culture since the nineteenth-century; and how writing about
food and eating can be used as a way of talking about
national identity. She earned her B.A. from York University
in Toronto, her M.A. from the University of Toronto and her
Ph.D. from Stanford University.
Meg Worley, an assistant professor of English, is teaching
Introduction to Literary Interpretation, The Bible as
Literature, Medieval Women Writers, and Chaucer's Canterbury
Tales. Fascinated by languages from an early age, she
focuses her research on the translation of medieval
literature and translations of the Bible. One of her most
recent related projects is a book chapter on the role of the
Psalms and individual editions of them in the formation of
English nationhood in the 14th century. She is currently
working on an article about Chaucer and how his reputation
changed from “the great translator” in the Middle Ages to
‘the great author” in more recent times. Worley earned her
B.A. from Emory University and her Ph.D. from Stanford
University, where she served as a lecturer in 2002-2003. She
has also taught at the University of California, Davis
English Department.
Pomona College is one of the nation’s premier liberal arts
institutions, offering a comprehensive program in the arts,
humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Its
hallmarks include small classes, close relationships between
students and faculty, and a range of opportunities for
student research. Visit Pomona College on the web at
www.pomona.edu .
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