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.

Banerjee

Fetcho

Logevall

Martin

Paterson

Anindita Banerjee

Assistant professor, comparative literature
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Literatures of Russia, Eurasia and South Asia.
Previous position: Assistant professor, University of Oregon, 2001-03.
Academic background: B.A., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1991; M.A., Slavic languages and literatures, University of California-Los Angeles, 1996; Ph.D., Russian studies, UCLA, 2000.
Last book read: When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro.

Joseph R. Fetcho

Professor, neurobiology and behavior
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Neural circuits responsible for the production of movements.
Previous position: Professor of neurobiology and behavior, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Academic background: B.S., biology, Lehigh University, 1979; Ph.D., biological sciences, University of Michigan, 1985.
Last book read: The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes.

Fredrik Logevall

Professor, history
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: U.S. foreign policy, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, presidential decision-making in foreign affairs.
Previous position: Associate professor, University of California-Santa Barbara, 1992-2004.
Academic background: B.A., political science, Simon Fraser University, 1986; Ph.D., history, Yale University, 1993.
Last book read: The Cave by José Saramago.

Sherry Martin

Assistant professor, government and feminist, gender and sexuality studies.
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Comparative politics, Japanese politics, political attitudes and behavior, electoral politics, gender and politics, political socialization.
Previous position: Postdoctoral associate, Cornell, vice provost's Office for Faculty Diversity, 2002-04.
Academic background: A.B., politics, Princeton University, 1993; Ph.D., political science, University of Michigan, 2002.
Last book read: Shadow Shoguns by Jacob Schlesinger.

Lorraine Paterson

Assistant professor, Asian studies
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Southeast Asian literature and cultural history with particular focus on Vietnam and Cambodia, as well as Chinese intellectual influence on Southeast Asia.
Previous position: Luce Predoctoral Fellow in Southeast Asian Studies, Australian National University.
Academic background: B.A., comparative literature, Brigham Young University, 1991; M.A., Asian studies, Cornell, 1996; Ph.D, history, Yale University, 2004.
Last book read: Children of Kali: Through India in Search of Bandits, the Thug Cult and the British Raj by Kevin Rushby.

September 16, 2004