Lawrence Today magazine, Fall 2004
Eilene Hoft-March and Judith Sarnecki, members of the Lawrence University
French department, have been promoted to the rank of full professor, and
geologist Jeffrey Clark and music educator
Brigetta Miller, ’89, have been promoted to associate professor and
granted tenured appointments by the Board of Trustees.
Hoft-March
joined the Lawrence faculty in 1988. A specialist in modern French novels and
autobiographies, her scholarship also includes literature about
children and the Holocaust. In addition to the French
department, Hoft-March
also teaches courses for the gender studies major.
She was a recipient of Lawrence’s Outstanding
Young Teacher Award in
1991 and received the Freshman
Studies Teaching Award in 1997. She earned her
Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
A
member of the Lawrence faculty since 1985, Sarnecki’s research interests
focus on 20th-century French cinema and literature, women authors, and gender
issues. She served
as editor of and a contributor to the recently published book, Subversive
Subjects: Reading Marguerite Yourcenar, a collection of essays on the
acclaimed French novelist. In 1996, Sarnecki founded Lawrence’s Francophone
Seminar in Dakar, Senegal, a
ten-week study-abroad program on Western African culture.
She earned
her doctorate in French from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Clark, a fluvial geomorphologist specializing in the study of how human activity
alters the characteristics of rivers, joined the Lawrence geology
department in 1998. He has conducted more than a dozen research trips
to Puerto Rico, where he has worked with the International
Institute of Tropical Forestry,
and he currently is involved with on-going student research on the impact
on Apple Creek on Appleton’s
north side as the area shifts from agricultural use to residential development.
He was cited in 2001 with Lawrence’s Outstanding Young Teacher Award.
Clark earned his Ph.D. from John Hopkins University.
Miller returned to her alma mater in
1996 as a member of the Conservatory of Music faculty. A flutist by training,
she is the conservatory’s
director of music education, specializing
in music methodology for early childhood. A member of the Stockbridge-Munsee
tribe,
Miller is in the process of completing a book of Native American lullabies
that have been shared generationally through oral tradition but never written
in standard musical notation. She earned a graduate degree in music education
with a Kodály
emphasis from Silver Lake College.