New faculty

Introducing New Members of the Faculty

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

Baptist

Chang

Keich

Moehler

Edward E. Baptist

Assistant professor, history
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: The 19th-century United States, especially the U.S. South; slavery in the United States and in the New World generally (especially in the Caribbean); political culture; gender and racial identity.
Previous position: Assistant professor, University of Miami.
Academic background: B.S.F.S., School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, 1992; Ph.D., history, University of Pennsylvania, 1997.
Last book read: Academic: James K. Polk, Slavemaster President by William Dusinberre; nonacademic: I Put A Spell on You, by Nina Simone.

Charles Chang

Assistant professor, finance
College: School of Hotel Administration
Academic focus: Teaching interests are in investment management, international corporate markets and corporate finance. Research interests are in the fields of market microstructure and behavioral finance. His recent work includes papers, seminars and conference presentations on information asymmetry, equity research relevance and information leaks in emerging markets.
Previous positions: Doctoral candidate, University of California-Berkeley, Haas School of Business, and lecturer, finance, San Francisco State University, College of Business, 2001-03.
Academic background: B.S., finance, and B.S., electrical engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School and School of Engineering and Applied Science, 1998; Ph.D., finance, University of California-Berkeley, Haas School of Business, 2003.
Last book read: The Analects of Confucius.

Uri Keich

Assistant professor, computing and information science
College: Tri-Institutional Research Program
Academic focus: Bioinformatics, including motif finding (searching for repeated patterns in DNA sequences), similarity searches (comparing two genomes to find similar regions) and statistical significance of alignments of biosequences.
Previous position: Project scientist, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California-San Diego.
Academic background: B.S., computer science and mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1987; M.S., mathematics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 1991; Ph.D., mathematics, Courant Institute, New York University, 1996.
Last book read: Spot Bakes a Cake, by Eric Hill.

Devra Coren Moehler

Assistant professor, government
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Comparative politics; political participation and its consequences; democratization; constitution-making; law and development; political economy of development; and African politics.
Previous position: Doctoral student, University of Michigan.
Academic background: B.A., development studies, University of California-Berkeley, 1995; Ph.D., political science, University of Michigan, 2003.
Last book read: Re-read Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck.

November 6, 2003