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 each week during the semester.

Timothy Campbell

Assistant professor, Romance studies
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Modern Italian studies; fascism and technology; media studies and systems theory; radio art, war memoirs and trash Italian police films of the 1970s.
Previous position: Teacher of English at the Institute of Business Management, Bologna Italy, 1996-97.
Academic background: B.S., foreign service, Georgetown University, 1984; M.A., Italian, Columbia University, 1991; Ph.D., comparative literature, Columbia University, October 2000.

Patricia Cassano

Assistant professor, nutritional sciences
College: Division of Nutritional Sciences
Academic focus: Her research program focuses on the nutritional epidemiology of chronic diseases. One current area of specialization is the influence of nutrition, particularly antioxidants, on lung health, including both chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma risk.
Previous position: Senior research associate, nutritional sciences, Cornell.
Academic background: B.A., biological sciences, Mount Holyoke College, 1976; M.P.H., epidemiology, School of Public Health, Columbia University, 1980; Ph.D., School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, 1987.

Margaret M. Kroma

Assistant professor, education
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Academic focus: Her research examines the process of specialized farmer knowledge and how that knowledge affects the farm's management practices and agricultural productivity. Participating with farmers domestically and internationally, she is looking at how to integrate that information into extension practice.
Previous position: Research associate, North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, Iowa State University, 1999-2000.
Academic background: B.Sc., agricultural education, Njala University College, University of Sierra Leone; M.Sc., agricultural extension, University of Sierra Leone; and Ph.D., rural sociology, Iowa State University.

Dennis Reynolds

Assistant professor, food and beverage management
College: Hotel Administration
Academic focus: Current research and teaching interests include contract food-service management, human resource management in the food-service industry, group process and leadership.
Previous position: Adjunct instructor, food and beverage management, School of Hotel Administration, Cornell, 1998-2000; vice president and general manager of operations, Nutrition Management Services, retirement community division, Kimberton, Pa., 1995-96.
Academic background: B.S. hotel, restaurant and institutional management, Golden State University, 1990; and M.P.S., 1992, and Ph.D., 2000, both from the School of Hotel Administration, Cornell.

Eric Tagliacozzo

Assistant professor, history
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: History of Southeast Asia; history of frontiers and smuggling; and history of maritime trade.
Previous position: Postdoctoral fellow, University of British Columbia, 1999-2000.
Academic background: B.A., history, Haverford College, 1989; M.A., history, 1993, M. Phil, 1995, and Ph.D., 1999, all from Yale University.
Collaborations: Southeast Asia Program.

October 12, 2000