Introducing New Members of the Faculty

To help introduce to the Cornell community the new members of the university's faculty, the Cornell Chronicle will be publishing a series of brief, new-faculty profiles each week during the semester.

Angela A. Gonzales

Assistant professor, rural sociology
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Academic focus: Studies racial and ethnic identity formation and transformation in the United States, federal Indian law and policy, indigenous intellectual and cultural property rights, and indigenous social justice and sovereignty movements. She will be teaching Indigenous People and Globalization this fall and Social Movements next spring.
Previous position: Assistant professor, Department of American Indian Studies, San Francisco State University.
Academic background: B.A., sociology, University of California-Riverside, 1990; M.A., education, Harvard University, 1994; M.A., sociology, Harvard, 1997; Ph.D., sociology, Harvard, 2001.

D. Tyler McQuade

Assistant professor, chemistry and chemical biology
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Building on tools acquired through small-molecule synthesis, the McQuade group endeavors to create well-defined polymeric and molecular-based assemblies that mimic the complexity and function of biological materials, from enzymes to organs. As initial steps towards building materials that rival biology's complexity, they draw upon organic chemistry (both physical and synthetic organic), molecular biology and materials science to create new methods for the synthesis of complex polymers and functional materials.
Previous position: National Institutes of Health postdoctoral research fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998-2001.
Academic background: B.S., chemistry, B.S., biology, University of California-Irvine, 1993; Ph.D., chemistry, University of Wisconsin, 1998.

Scott A. Snell

Professor, human resource studies
College: Industrial and Labor Relations
Academic focus: Strategic human resource management; the architecture of human resources; the development and utilization of intellectual capital; and the impact of advanced technology on human resources.
Previous position: Professor, Department of Management and Organization, Mary Jean and Frank P. Smeal College of Business Administration, Pennsylvania State University; research director, Institute for the Study of Organizational Effectiveness, 1993-99.
Academic background: B.A., psychology, Miami University (Ohio), 1981; MBA, management, Michigan State University, 1985; Ph.D., business administration, Michigan State, 1988.

Ding Xiang Warner

Assistant professor, Asian studies
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Literature and literary thoughts from the Han through the Song dynasties, early and medieval Chinese history, and textual transmission and reception in traditional China.
Previous position: Visiting assistant professor of Chinese, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Academic background: B.A. English, Beijing Languages Institute, China, 1983; M.A., comparative literature, University of Washington, 1988; Ph.D., Chinese language and literature, University of Washington, 1996.

October 11, 2001