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 brief, new-faculty profiles through December.

Barseghyan

Buckley

Campos

Cheyfitz

Goodale

Levon Barseghyan

Assistant professor, economics
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Macroeconomics of banking, Japan's economic performance, factors affecting growth of total factor productivity.
Previous position: Ph.D. candidate and research assistant, Northwestern University, 2002-03; research assistant, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 1999-2001.
Academic background: Diploma in mathematics, Yerevan State University, 1995; M.S. in industrial engineering, American University of Armenia, 1996; M.S. in policy economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998; Ph.D. in economics, Northwestern University, 2003.
Latest book read: Nothing is Sacred: Economic Ideas for a New Millennium, by Robert Barro.

Daniel H. Buckley

Assistant professor, crop and soil sciences
College: Agriculture and Life Science
Academic focus: Buckley uses environmental genomics to examine diversity among soil microbes. He is determining how soil diversity affects soil fertility and influences atmospheric chemistry. He wants to learn how genetic and physiological diversity within a group of soil organisms influences microbial metabolism and the environment. This spring he will co-teach "Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Biotechnology," which is a course for undergraduates.
Previous position: Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, 2001-02.
Academic background: B.S., magna cum laude, microbiology, University of Rochester, 1994; Ph.D., microbiology, Michigan State University, 2000.
Last book read: A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole.

Michelle Campos

Assistant professor, Near Eastern studies
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Social history of the modern Middle East, in particular Israel-Palestine and the late Ottoman Empire. Research includes socio-political repercussions in Palestine of the 1908 Young Turk revolution, especially in terms of imperial reform and inter-communal relations (Muslims-Jews-Christians); history of conversion in the Mashriq in a comparative communal framework; and applying network analysis to late Ottoman Palestine.
Previous position: Lecturer at Stanford University, winter 2002-03.
Academic background: B.A., 1993, M.A., 1997, and Ph.D., 2003, all in history from Stanford University.
Last book read: Portrait of a Turkish Family, a memoir from the last days of the Ottoman Empire, by Irfan Orga.

Eric Cheyfitz

Goldwin Smith Professor of English
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: American literatures, particularly American Indian and African-American literatures of the United States; United States federal Indian law; the cultures of United States imperialism; colonial and postcolonial studies; comparative ethnic studies in the Americas; poststructuralist theory; social vision/social action theory and practice; and the corporatization of the modern university.
Previous position: Clara M. Clendenen Term Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania.
Academic background: M.A., creative writing, 1974; and M.A., 1977, and Ph.D., 1979, both in comparative literature, all from Johns Hopkins University.
Last book read: Facing East From Indian Country: A Native History of Early America, by Daniel K. Richter.

Christine Goodale

Assistant professor, ecology and evolutionary biology
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Effects of human activity on forest biogeochemistry, land-use change and forest history, global carbon balance and global warming, and alteration of the global nitrogen cycle.
Previous position: Postdoctoral fellow, Woods Hole Research Center, 2001-03; postdoctoral fellow, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1999-2001.
Academic background: A.B., biology, geography and environmental studies, Dartmouth College, 1992; and M.S., 1995, and Ph.D., 1999, both in natural resources from the University of New Hampshire.
Last book read: Naturalist, by E.O. Wilson.

October 9, 2003