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 through December.

Gendler

Lasser

Meyler

Place

Seth

Tamar Szabo Gendler

Associate professor, philosophy; co-director, Program in Cognitive Studies
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Issues in epistemology, philosophical psychology, metaphysics and aesthetics. She currently is working on a cluster of problems surrounding the relation between imagination and belief, including issues about the nature of imagination, fictional emotions, self-deception and truth in fiction.
Previous position: Assistant, then associate professor of philosophy, Syracuse University, 1997-2003.
Academic background: B.A., mathematics and philosophy, Yale University, 1987; Ph.D., philosophy, Harvard University, 1996.
Last book read: Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee.

Mitchel de S.-O.l'E. Lasser

Professor of law
College: Cornell Law School
Academic focus: His teaching and writing are in the areas of comparative law, law of the European Union, comparative constitutional law and jurisprudence. He has published articles in the Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, American Journal of Comparative Law and Archives de philosophie du droit. His monograph book, Judicial Deliberations: A Comparative Analysis of Judicial Transparency and Legitimacy, will be published this October by Oxford University Press. At the Law School, Lasser is teaching The Law of the European Union, Comparative Law -- The Civil Law Tradition, and Comparative Constitutional Law. As a Fulbright Scholar in France in 1993-94, he researched the French civil judicial system. He has been a visiting faculty member at the University of Paris-I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and the universities of Lausanne and Geneva. He held the distinguished visiting chair at the European University Institute in Florence.
Previous position: Samuel D. Thurman Professor of Law, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah.
Academic background: B.A. (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), Yale University, 1986; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1989; M.A., French literature, 1990, and Ph.D., comparative literature, 1995, Yale University.
Last book read: Spin State by Chris Moriarty.

Bernadette Meyler

Assistant professor of law
College: Cornell Law School
Academic focus: Meyler's research focuses primarily on the intersections between both domestic and comparative constitutional law and the common law, as well as law and literature, and the philosophy of law. At the Law School, she is teaching Constitutional Law and the History of the Common Law in England and America. Her recent publications include articles in the Georgetown Immigration Law Review, Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Diacritics and Theory and Event. She was symposium editor of the Stanford Law Review and editor of the Stanford Journal of International Law. She clerked for the Hon. Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit.
Academic background: A.B., Harvard College, 1995; M.A., English, University of California-Irvine, 1997; J.D., Stanford Law School, 2003.
Last book read: Precarious Life by Judith Butler.

Ned Place

Assistant professor, endocrinology and reproductive biology
College: Veterinary Medicine
Academic focus: Female reproductive aging, sexual differentiation and development, natural models of female virilization
Previous position: Postdoctoral fellow, Spotted Hyena Project, University of California-Berkeley, 2000-04.
Academic background: B.S., State University of New York-Albany, 1982; M.D., University of Rochester, 1987; Ph.D., zoology, University of Washington, 2000.
Last book read: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken.

Suman Seth

Assistant professor, science and technology studies
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: The history of the physical sciences in the 19th and 20th centuries; gender and science; and science, colonialism and nationalism.
Previous position: Visiting scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, 2003-04.
Academic background: B.S., University of Sydney, 1996; Ph.D., history of science, Princeton University, 2003.
Last book read: Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain.

October 28, 2004