Introducing New Members of the Faculty

To help introduce to the Cornell community the new members of the university's faculty the Cornell Chronicle is publishing brief new-faculty profiles through December.

Hesford

Jordan

Mize

Prince

Puchner

James Hesford

Assistant professor of accounting
College: School of Hotel Administration
Academic focus: Hesford's primary areas of interest are in cost accounting, managerial control systems and information systems. His research has focused on competitive intelligence, cost management and knowledge creation, and it has been published in Accounting, Organizations and Society and in various book chapters.
Previous positions: Assistant professor, John M. Olin School of Business, Washington University-St. Louis, 1998-2004. Prior to entering academia, Hesford was a marketing manager in the semiconductor industry and held engineering positions in the consumer electronics and broadcasting industries.
Academic background: MBA, University of Notre Dame, 1993; Ph.D., business administration, University of Southern California, 1998.
Last book read: The Complete Free Bsd by Greg Lehey.

Kurt R. Jordan

Assistant professor, anthropology and American Indian studies
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: American Indian archaeology, especially 18th-century Iroquois; colonialism and cultural entanglement; political economy; shell bead wampum.
Previous position: Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell.
Academic background: B.A., anthropology and government, Cornell, 1988; Ph.D., anthropology (archaeology), Columbia University, 2002.
Last book read: Blood Politics by Circe Sturm.

Ronald L. Mize

Assistant professor, development sociology and Latino studies
College: Joint appointment, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and College of Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Mize examines historical origins of racial and class oppression of Mexicans living in the United States. He studies the race and ethnic relations, community sociology, political economy and social theory affecting this community. He is teaching Comparative U.S. Racial and Ethnic Relations this semester, and he will teach the course Latinos, Law and Identity in the spring.
Previous positions: Assistant professor (joint appointment) at the University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, Ind., 2001-04, and principal investigator, California State University at San Marcos, 2000-04.
Academic background: B.S., journalism, University of Colorado-Boulder, 1991; M.A., sociology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 1994; Ph.D., sociology and rural sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000.
Last books read: Sometimes I'm Bombaloo by Rachel Vail (read with his son); Loser by Jerry Spinelli (read with his daughter); and he recently finished all five volumes of the Harry Potter series, by J.K. Rowling, with his family.

Jeffrey Prince

Assistant professor, applied economics and management
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Academic focus: Prince's research interests are in the areas of industrial organization and applied microeconomics, focusing on high-technology industries such as personal computers and the Internet. His current research centers on the diffusion of durable information technology products. Research interests also include firm strategy and industry structure in high-tech industries.
Academic background: B.S., mathematics and statistics, and B.A., economics, Miami University, 1998; M.A., economics, 2000, and Ph.D., economics, 2004, both from Northwestern University.
Last books read: Getting It Right by Robert Barro; and for casual reading, The Mind of God by Paul Davies.

Hans Martin Puchner

Associate professor, English
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Modern drama and theater history; 20th-century literature; genres of political and philosophical writing; performance studies.
Previous position: Assistant professor of English and comparative literature, 1998-2004, Columbia University.
Academic background: Certificate, Università di Bologna, 1993; B.A. (equiv.), Konstanz University, 1992; M.A. University of California-Santa Barbara, 1994; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1998.
Last book read: Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama by Hans Martin Puchner.

November 11, 2004