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 a series of brief, new-faculty profiles each week during the semester.

Mary K. McCullough

Associate professor, English/women's studies
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus:19th and 20th century American studies, lesbian studies, ethnic studies, feminist theory, British and Irish women's narratives, British and American popular culture, Anglo-Irish literature and composition.
Previous position: Visiting professor, English and women's studies, Cornell, 1999-2001; associate professor, English/women's studies, Miami University, 1998-1999.
Academic background: B.A., modern literature and society, Brown University, 1983; M.A., Anglo-Irish literature and drama, University College, Dublin, Ireland, 1984; Ph.D. English, University of California-Berkeley, 1992.

Pedro D. Perez

Assistant professor, applied economics and management
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Academic focus: Conducts research within the university's Food Industry Management program. His current research interests are international business management and management of technology and innovation. This spring he will teach the undergraduate Introduction to Business Management course (AEM220).
Previous position: Visiting professor, Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Academic background: B.S., chemical engineering, Universidad Simón Bolívar, (Caracas), 1982; M.S., industrial engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984; MBA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984; Ph.D., management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1999.

Anna Scaglione

Assistant professor, electrical and computer engineering
College: Engineering
Academic focus: Research area lies at the intersection between statistical signal processing and communication theory. Her work is focused on the design of modems for broadband wireless communications, with application to cellular communications and wireless local area networks.
Previous position: Assistant professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, 2000-2001.
Academic background: Laurea degree (magna cum laude), University of Rome, 1995; Ph.D., Redundant-Filterbank Encoding for Digital Communication Systems, University of Rome, 1999.

Kim A. Weeden

Assistant professor, sociology
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Research focuses on social inequality, work and occupations, gender inequality in the labor market and class analysis. She has examined historical shifts in the distribution of men and women into occupations; collective action by occupations and its impact on earnings; and the purported decline in the strength of the association between social class and lifestyles, consumption patterns, political behavior and social attitudes.
Previous position: Assistant professor, University of Chicago, 1999-2001.
Academic background: B.A., sociology and psychology, Williamette University, 1989; and M.A., 1993, and Ph.D., 1999, both in sociology from Stanford University.

November 29, 2001