NEW FACULTY
The latest talent on campus: Introducing four new members of the university's faculty
Avery August
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Professor, immunology, and chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology
College: Veterinary Medicine
Academic focus: Regulation of signal transduction and immune cell activation and the development of lung immune responses.
Previous positions: Distinguished Professor of Immunology, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences and director of the Center for Molecular Immunology and Infectious Disease at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, 1999-2010.
Academic background: B.S., medical technology, California State University at Los Angeles, 1987; Ph.D., immunology, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, 1994.
Last book read: "The Great Unraveling" by Paul Krugman.
In his own time: Husband and father of three daughters; drum and bass music, foreign films, pickup soccer and "looking forward to visiting the many restaurants and cultural attractions that Ithaca has to offer."
Margo Crawford
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Professor, English
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Aesthetic responses to historical trauma; the role of literature and visual culture in social movements; 20th- and 21st-century African-American literature; and race and gender theory.
Previous positions: Associate professor, African-American studies, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2008-09; assistant professor of English, Indiana University, 2003-08; assistant professor of English, Vassar College, 2001-03.
Academic background: B.A., English, Swarthmore College, 1991; M.A., English, Yale University, 1993; Ph.D., American studies, Yale University, 2000.
Last book read: "Push" by Sapphire.
In her own time: Enjoying music, travel, dance and visual art.
Chad Lewis
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Assistant professor, chemistry and chemical biology
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Total synthesis of rare natural products, method development for new bond disconnections and emulation of nature's enzymes and reactivity.
Previous position: Postdoctoral associate, Scripps Research Institute, 2008-10.
Academic background: B.Sc., University of Alberta, Canada, 2002; Ph.D., Yale University, 2008.
Last book read: "Essays" by Plutarch.
In his own time: Enjoying time with family.
Sarah Murray
Sarah Murray
Assistant professor, linguistics
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Formal semantics and pragmatics, dynamic semantics, philosophy of language and cognitive science, fieldwork, Cheyenne and other understudied languages.
Previous positions: Mellon dissertation fellow, Rutgers University, 2009-10; teaching assistant, Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University, 2008-09.
Academic background: B.A., linguistics and philosophy, Wayne State University, 2003; M.A., linguistics, Wayne State University, 2004; Ph.D., linguistics, Rutgers University, 2010.
Last book read: "Simply Separate People" by Lynn Crawford.
In her own time: Vegetarian cooking, photography, gardening and watching movies.