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Introduction
In 2008-09 and 2009-10 the Faculty of Arts and Sciences undertook a
review of faculty governance, spearheaded by the Executive Committee
of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (ECFAS) and carried out by the
Academic Review Committee (ARC). In Spring 2010 the recommendations
of the ARC review were shared with the entire Faculty of Arts and
Sciences. Fruitful consultations between ECFAS, ARC, Department
Chairs, Administration, and Faculty informed the entire process. A
subsequent vote of the entire Faculty was held to amend the Stated
Rules of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and thereby implement one
of the recommendations of the review: to replace the form of faculty
governance exercised by ECFAS with a new proposed system, to be
structured by the formation of a new faculty committee to be called
the Policy and Planning Committee. The proposed amendment to the
Stated Rules passed in April 2010. (The Stated Rules can be found at
the link on the left.)
Details about PPC membership and September 2010 election
In this inaugural year the Policy and Planning Committee (PPC)
membership will be established in September. ECFAS proposed and it
was agreed that in this first year, the election from the nominated
slate will yield three members (one from each division) rather than
six; for continuity and in recognition of the important work by
ECFAS, three inaugural members of the PPC (one from each division)
will be chosen by and from the 2009-10 ECFAS membership. The three
PPC members chosen by and from the Chairs will be announced
following an election to take place the first week of the
semester. Candidates for election to the PPC from the nominated
slate are listed below. Details about voting, as well as the names
of the three PPC members chosen by and from the 2009-10 ECFAS
membership, will be announced in a forthcoming letter from Nicholas
B. Dirks, Executive Vice President for Arts and Sciences and Dean of
the Faculty.
CANDIDATES in the SOCIAL SCIENCES: |
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Peter
Bearman has been at Columbia since 1999. He was the founding
director of ISERP and served in that capacity until 2008. He was chair of the
Sociology department and for one year served as chair of the Statistics
department. He served on ARC for 4 years and was ARC chair for one
year. Bearman serves on the executive committee of the Global Health
Research Center of Central Asia (which he cofounded), the European Institute,
and is an external adviser to the Department of Epidemiology. He co-directs
the Mellon Interdisciplinary Graduate training Program, The Robert Wood
Johnson Health and Society Program, and the Oral History MA program. He is
currently the director of the Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences.
He has supervised 16 PhD students in sociology and is the recipient of the
Graduate Student Teaching Award in the department of Sociology. He works on
the autism epidemic, large scale collective violence, and in problems in
analytical sociology. |
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Pamela Smith, Professor, History
Department, came to Columbia in 2005 and teaches early modern European
history and history of science. She is
the author of books on alchemy, artisans, and the making of knowledge, most
recently, The Body of the Artisan: Art
and Experience in the Scientific Revolution (2004) and Making
Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400-1800 (with Benjamin Schmidt, 2008). Her present research reconstructs
the vernacular knowledge of early modern European metalworkers. At Columbia, she served on ECFAS from
2006-9, as Director of Graduate Studies in the History Department, and as
co-Chair of the University Seminar for History and Philosophy of Science,
among other university activities. At
present, she serves on the Space Planning Committee for Manhattanville and
its subcommittee on classroom use and scheduling. |
CANDIDATES in the HUMANITIES: |
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Teodolinda Barolini is Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the
American Philosophical Society, and the Medieval Academy of America. She was fifteenth President of the Dante
Society of America (1997-2003). After
receiving her Ph.D. from Columbia in 1978, Barolini taught at the University
of California at Berkeley and New York University before returning to Columbia
University in 1992 as Chair of the Department of Italian, serving in that
capacity until 2004. She has served on
numerous Committees, including ECFAS, which she chaired in 1995-1996, TRAC,
and ARC, which she chaired in 2000-2001 and 2009-2010.
She is the author of Dante?s Poets (Princeton, 1984; Italian trans., Bollati Boringhieri, 1993; winner of
the Marraro Prize of the Modern Language Association and the John Nicholas
Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy), The Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing Dante (Princeton, 1992; Italian trans., Feltrinelli,
2003), and Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture (Fordham, 2006; Italian trans. Bompiani,
forthcoming; winner of the Premio Flaiano, 2007). The first volume of her
commentary to Dante?s lyrics, Rime giovanili e della "Vita Nuova", was published by Rizzoli in 2009. |
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Farah Griffin is a professor in the English
Department. She has a B.A. from Harvard (1985) and a Ph.D. from Yale (1992).
Professor Griffin's major fields of interest are American and African
American literature, music, history and politics. The recipient of numerous
honors and awards for her teaching and scholarship, in 2006-2007 Professor
Griffin was a fellow at the New York Public Library Cullman Center for
Scholars and Writers. She is the author of Who Set You Flowin?: The African American Migration Narrative (Oxford, 1995), If You Can?t Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday (Free Press, 2001) and Clawing
At the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz
Collaboration Ever (Thomas Dunne, 2008). She is also the editor of Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Letters from Addie Brown and Rebecca Primus (Knopf, 1999) co-editor, with Cheryl Fish, of Stranger in the Village: Two
Centuries of African American Travel Writing (Beacon, 1998) and co-editor
with Brent Edwards and Robert O'Meally of Uptown Conversations: The
New Jazz Studies (Columbia University
Press, 2004). |
CANDIDATES in
the NATURAL SCIENCES: |
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Ann McDermott is the Esther
Breslow Professor of Biological Chemistry at Columbia University. She
has a B.S. in Chemistry from Harvey Mudd College, and a Ph.D. in Chemistry
from U. C. Berkeley, where she was involved in studies of the photosynthetic
reaction centers of green plants. She carried out postgraduate work at MIT
with Dr. Robert Griffin studying Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, and at the
Tropical Medicine Institute of the ULB in Brussels, Belgium, studying drug
development, and she has been on the faculty of Columbia University since
1991. Her research at Columbia University concerns understanding the
remarkable ability of naturally occurring proteins to catalyze chemical
reactions; she studies the structure and inherent flexibility of these
proteins using magnetic resonance methods. On the basis of her research, she
is the recipient of the Pure Award in Chemistry (1996) and the Eastern
Analytic Symposium Award for Achievement in Magnetic Resonance (2005), and
she is an elected member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
and the National Academy of Sciences. She
recently served as Associate Vice President for Academic Advising and Science
Initiatives in the Arts and Sciences. She teaches in both the graduate biophysics program and the
undergraduate chemistry program. |
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Jacqueline
van Gorkom is an astronomer and has been a member of the faculty at Columbia since 1988. Her main scientific interest is in the
structure and evolution of galaxies and more specifically in the role of gas
in galaxy evolution. She has over the years looked at Columbia's governance
from different angles, as chair of the department of astronomy (7 years), as
chair of the committee on science instruction (5 years) and as member and chair of the academic review committee
(4 years) and of course as faculty member for 23 years. She also served for
some time on the COI of the School of General Studies and took part in some
activities of the Diversity Initiative at Columbia. She would be excited to be part of what
could possibly be a turning point in faculty governance. |
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