Lawrence University Faculty Promoted, Granted Tenure Appointments

APPLETON, WIS. -- Four Lawrence University faculty members -- Janet Anthony, Karen Carr, Catherine Kautsky and Carol Lawton -- have been promoted to the rank of full professor by the college's Board of Trustees.

In addition, Jeffrey Collett and Nancy Wall have been promoted to the rank of associate professor and granted tenured appointments.

Anthony joined the Lawrence Conservatory of Music faculty in 1984. A cellist, she has performed throughout the United States, Europe and at the National Conservatory in Buenos Aires, Argentina and is heard frequently on Wisconsin Public Radio. During three years of study in Europe, she toured with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and the Austrian Radio Orchestra and performed as solo cellist for the Bach Society Orchestra.

Principal cellist of the Green Bay Symphony, she holds degrees from the University of Arizona and the State University of New York-Stony Brook.

Carr joined Lawrence's religious studies department in 1987 and was promoted to associate professor in 1993. A specialist on 19th and 20th-century religious thought and the philosophy of religion, she received Lawrence's Outstanding Young Teacher Award in 1989. Her second book, "The Sense of Anti-Rationalism: The Religious Thought of Zhuangzi and Kierkegaard," which she co-authored with a University of Michigan professor, was published last fall.

She earned her bachelor's degree at Oberlin College and her Ph.D. in religious studies at Stanford University.

Kautsky, a pianist, joined the Lawrence Conservatory of Music in 1987. She has performed throughout the United States and abroad, including Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, Jordan Hall in Boston, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., as well as at the Aspen, Tanglewood and Grand Teton summer music festivals. In 1994, she won the Association Amicale d'Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris Prize of the French Piano Institute.

Kautsky earned a bachelor's degree at the New England Conservatory, the master's degree from Juilliard School and a doctoral degree in performance from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Lawton joined the Lawrence art department as an instructor in 1980 and was promoted to associate professor in 1986. A specialist in Greek and Roman art, she has spent more than two years on three separate occasions as a research fellow at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.

Her book, "Attic Document Reliefs of the Classical and Hellenistic Periods," was published by Oxford University Press in 1995. She has been the recipient of research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the J. Paul Getty Trust and serves as curator of Lawrence's Ottilia Buerger Collection of ancient and Byzantine coins. She holds degrees in art history from Vassar College, the University of Pittsburgh and Princeton University.

Collett, a physicist specializing in phase transitions of liquid crystals and complex fluids, joined the Lawrence faculty in 1995. His current research focuses on changes in the structure of liquid crystals under varying temperatures and has been supported by grants from Research Corporation and the Exxon Education Foundation.

Prior to joining the Lawrence faculty, Collett taught at St. Norbert College and St. Cloud State University. He also spent 10 years as a researcher at IBM. He earned his bachelor's degree in physics at St. Olaf College and his Ph.D. at Harvard University.

Wall is a developmental neurobiologist specializing in craniofacial development -- the tissue of the face, neck and throat. Her research interests center on embryonic development and the genes that are activated or repressed in the process of cellular differentiation and formation of body structure. She's been the recipient of several research grants from the National Science Foundation.

A member of the Lawrence faculty since 1995, Wall came to Lawrence after completing a post-doctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University, where she held a National Institutes of Health Training Grant in cancer research. She earned her bachelor's degree in biology at Presbyterian College and her doctorate in cell biology at Vanderbilt.