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New faculty members

Lawrence Today magazine, Spring 2005


Five new tenure-track faculty members joined the Lawrence faculty for the 2004-05 academic year:

John Paul Ito
Assistant professor of music
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S.; Boston University, M.Mus.; Columbia University, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
Music theory

Brenda R. Jenike
Assistant professor of anthropology
Pomona College, B.A.; University of California, Los Angeles, M.A., Ph.D.
Anthropology of Japan, medical anthropology, cultural gerontology, gender ideology, psychological anthropology

Mark R. Jenike
Associate professor of anthropology
Harvard College, B.A.; University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D.
Behavioral ecology, human biology, nutritional anthropology, human evolution, reproductive ecology, anthropological demography

Andrew Mast
Assistant professor of music
University of Iowa, B.Mus., D.M.A.; University of Minnesota, M.A.
Wind ensemble and band, music education

Robert F. Williams
Assistant professor of education
Purdue University, B.A., B.S.; University of Colorado at Denver, M.A.; University of California, San Diego, M.A., Ph.D.
Cognitive science

In addition, non-tenure-track appointments were announced for: Robert J. Beck, visiting professor of education; Catherine R. Blunk, lecturer in French; Garth Bond, lecturer in English; Zdravka Brunkova, lecturer in government; Patricia Schultz Darling, ’85, instructor in music; Robert Debbaut, visiting assistant professor of music, director of orchestral studies; James O. Dunn, assistant professor of physics; Jack Grassel, lecturer in music; Kathrine Handford, lecturer in music and university organist; Denise Massman, visiting instructor in theatre arts; Masahiko Mutsukawa, lecturer in Japanese; Steve Peplin, lecturer in music; Stephen Perry, lecturer in music; Jamie Ryan, ’98, instructor in music; Rachel Scott, lecturer in religious studies; Renee Ulman, ’94, lecturer in art; Thomas Washatka, lecturer in music.