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FACULTY & STAFF NEWS
| New Assistant Professor
of Political Science Craig Thomas Borowiak
specializes in issues of transnational and global democracy,
social movements, and democracy in sub-national domestic and
postcolonial contexts. Borowiak examines the nature and practices
of ethical and political accountability against the background
of globalization. He is co-author of a publication on the discursive
use of gender in eco-feminist and agrarian nationalist movements
in postcolonial India. Borowiak has a bachelor’s degree
in history from Carleton College and is a doctoral candidate
in political theory at Duke University. He recently served as
a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Reed
College. |
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| Current Professor of Mathematics
Lynne Butler is our new Associate Provost.
Butler joined the College as an associate professor in 1991
and has served Haverford in several capacities: She has chaired
the mathematics department, been a member of Academic Council,
served as a representative to the Board of Managers, been a
member of ad hoc search and grant-writing committees, and helped
launch the concentration in Mathematical Economics. Butler received
her bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago and
her Ph.D. in mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and held a postdoctoral appointment at the Institute for Mathematics
and Its Applications. |
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| Faye Sandra Halpern,
our new Associate Director of College Writing and Assistant
Professor of Rhetoric and Composition, comes to us from Harvard
University, where she served as Preceptor in the Expository
Writing Department. She received a Letter of Commendation for
Distinguished Teaching and a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching
from Harvard in 2002-03. At Haverford, Halpern will assist with
the administration of the Writing Program and the Writing Center,
and will teach courses in “Family Matters,” “Satire
and Irony,” and “The Rhetoric of Slavery, Then and
Now.” She has a bachelor’s degree in English and
American language and literature from Harvard and an M.A. and
Ph.D. in English from Brown University. Her research interests
include 19th-century fiction and letters and the relationship
between rhetoric and literature. |
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| Erin Johansen joins
the College as a Major Gifts Officer. Prior to joining Haverford,
Erin was Assistant Director of Development at Moore College
of Art and Design, where she coordinated all aspects of annual
giving, developed donor strategies, organized special events,
provided stewardship for scholarships and prizes, and wrote
grant proposals. Prior to Moore College, Erin worked as an accounting
associate and payroll systems consultant at the Pennsylvania
Ballet. She holds a B.A. in art history, with a minor in management,
from Kent State University and an M.S. in arts administration
from Drexel University. Her thesis was on adult education programs
in a museum setting. |
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| John Lombardi, Senior Writer
in Marketing & Communications, comes to Haverford with extensive
experience as a writer and editor. He has written for New
York magazine, GQ, Spy, Vogue,
and The New York Times Magazine, among many other magazines
and newspapers. He edited the Chestnut Hill Local,
the Miami New Times, and Rolling Stone. He
also edited for the arts department of the International
Herald Tribune. |
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| As Marketing & Communications
Associate, Amy Steinberg will have a variety
of responsibilities and duties, including managing copy flow
through the production cycle, research, tracking budgets and
production schedules, writing for various publications and for
the Web, copy editing, and proofreading. In addition she will
have the opportunity to help develop media pitches.
Amy comes to Haverford from Meyer-Chatfield, a financial
services company based in Jenkintown, where she was assistant
to the president and sales associates. Her duties included
creating business presentations, coordinating travel and meeting
arrangements, and correspondence.
A graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, Amy
holds a bachelor of arts degree in journalism. She participated
in the College Park Scholars Program and received the Citation
and Academic Achievement Award. She was also involved with
The Diamondback, the University of Maryland's daily
newspaper. |
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| Also joining the community will
be Ron Tola, Director of Facilities Management
as of July 1. Ron will have oversight of the operation of all
buildings, grounds, utilities, and other physical facilities
of the College. He brings extensive experience of leadership
in the construction, operation, and maintenance of complex campus
facilities, with five years of service at Old Dominion University
and 20 years at the College of New Jersey. His education includes
an undergraduate degree from Villanova University and a master’s
degree from the College of New Jersey. |
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| James Zoshak '01,
is our new Marketing & Communications Assistant. Prior to
Haverford, James worked as a research biologist at Centocor,
Inc., in Malvern, where he produced assays and support for staff
biologists. James graduated from Haverford with a degree in
biology and a minor in creative writing from Bryn Mawr. He continues
to pursue creative writing. |
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