LANCASTER, Pa.-Four faculty member have been promoted to full professor by the Board of Trustees at Franklin & Marshall College.
Misty Bastian, Anthropology, Annalisa Crannell, Mathematics, Bennett Helm, Philosophy, and Carmen Tisnado, Spanish, will be promoted from associate to full professor, effective July 1, 2007. Bastian joined the Franklin & Marshall faculty in 1995. She earned her bachelor's (1983) from The College, University of Chicago, and a master's (1985) and Ph.D. (1992) in anthropology also from the University of Chicago. At Franklin & Marshall, she served as the chair of the Department of Anthropology from 2003-06. She is the author of the forthcoming "The World as Marketplace" and "A Tale of Two Visionaries: Father Edeh, Sister Kate and Visions of the Everyday in Southeastern Nigeria." She has also reviewed numerous publications and written more than 20 peer-reviewed articles and chapters. Bastian has been honored as a post-doctoral American Fellow by the Association of American University Women Educational Foundation, and as a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard, and in 2004, was honored with the College's Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. She specializes in symbolic anthropology; gender theory and practice; new economic anthropology, including studies of capitalism; political economy, nationalist practice and the ethnography of recent technologies; anthropology of religious practice; the study of popular culture and popular consciousness; and local vs. global modernities. Crannell joined the Franklin & Marshall faculty in 1992. She earned her bachelor's degree from Bryn Mawr College in1986, and her Ph.D. in mathematics from Brown University in 1992. At Franklin & Marshall, she has served as chair of the Department of Mathematics (2001-04) and as Faculty Don of South Benjamin Franklin House (2005-present). She is the author of numerous pedagogical publications, including "Writing Projects for Mathematics Courses: Crushed Clowns, Cars, and Coffee to Go." and has also published extensively in the area of mathematics and art. Her mathematics research focuses on dynamical systems and her most recent publication in this field is "Shifts of Finite Type and Fibonacci Harps." Crannell was recently elected to the Board of Governors of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) as a sectional governor. She will represent the Eastern Pennsylvania-Delaware Section for three years (2007-10). In addition, she was honored with an award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics by The Mathematical Association of America, Eastern Pennsylvania-Delaware Section, at its recent meeting. Helm joined the Franklin & Marshall faculty in 1995. He earned his bachelor's degree from Carleton College in 1988 and his maser's (1992) and Ph.D. (1994) in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh. Helm served as chair of the Department of Philosophy from 2003-05 and as Chair of the Scientific and Philosophical Studies of Mind from 2006-07. He was also a member of the Life Sciences and Philosophy Building Steering Committee. Helm's areas of specialization include philosophy of mind, moral psychology and autonomy. He is the author of the forthcoming "Love, Friendship and the Self: The Emotional and Interpersonal Grounds of Autonomy" and "Emotion and Reason," as well as numerous papers. He is the recipient of several fellowships and awards, including an NEH fellowship (2005-06) and an NSF grant (2001-04). Tisnado joined the Franklin & Marshall faculty in 1996. She earned her bachelor's degree in psychology from Universidad Católica del Peru in 1978, her Diploma TEFL Courses from Christ Church College in 1983, and her master's (1988) and Ph.D. (1994) in Spanish from The Catholic University of America. Tisnado is the author of numerous publications, including the forthcoming "La ambigüedad en los cuentos de Teresa Porzecanski" and "El cuerpo femenino y el concepto de belleza en dos cuentos de Carmen Naranjo." She has also submitted a manuscript to the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies titled "Al Final de la Calle: Lima, Ciudad de M." -30- |
