New faculty members

Introducing New Members of the Faculty

To help introduce to the Cornell community the new members of the university's faculty -- almost 60 new tenured or tenure-track faculty members have joined Cornell since July 1, 1999 -- the Cornell Chronicle will publish brief, new-faculty profiles each week for the rest of the semester.

Mary Pat Brady

Assistant professor, English
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Brady's teachings have included courses in Chicana/o studies, race, and gender, world literature, women's studies and general American literature. She has a forthcoming book on Chicana literature and space, and her next project is on the relation between the border and narcotics laws since the end of the 19th century.
Previous position: Assistant professor at Indiana University.
Academic degrees: B.A. English, Arizona State University, 1984; M.A. English, University of California-Los Angeles, 1993; and Ph.D. English, UCLA, 1996.

Elizabeth Deloughrey

Assistant professor, English
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Deloughrey's work spans both Caribbean and Pacific literature and literary theory, including Maori writing.
Previous position: Ph.D. spring of 1999, University of Maryland-College Park.
Academic background: B.A. English, Boston College, 1989; M.A., women's studies, University of York, England, 1993; Fulbright scholar and D.Phil, women's studies, University of Waikato, 1998-99.

Shimon Edelman

Professor, psychology
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Edelman's main research interests are in the fields of human and machine cognition, particularly for visual recognition and natural-language processing. He is the author, most recently, of Representation and Recognition in Vision (May 1999).
Previous position: Professor, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex (Brighton, UK).
Academic background: B.Sc. electronic engineering, Israel Institute of Technology, (Haifa, Israel) 1978; M.Sc. computer science,Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel) 1985; Ph.D. computer science, Weizmann Institute of Science, 1988.

Scott P. Johnson

Assistant professor, psychology
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Johnson's research interests are in the fields of visual perception and visual development; cognitive development, especially in infancy; computational models of developmental processes; and the nativist/empiricist debate as it pertains to early cognitive and perceptual skills. Among his current research projects are studies of the role of attention in young infants' object perception and the effects of waist-to-hip ratio and body motion on adults' ratings of attractiveness.
Previous position: Assistant professor, psychology, Texas A&M University.
Academic background: B.S., psychology, Arizona State University, 1985; M.A., developmental psychology, Arizona State University, 1988; Ph.D. developmental psychology, Arizona State University, 1992; postdoctoral fellow, Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, 1992-94.

Reginald Shepherd

Professor, English
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Creative writing; modern poetry and poetics; and lesbian and gay literary studies. Shepherd has published three books of poetry, Wrong (1999), Angel Interrupted (1996) and Some Are Drowning (1994). He also has a forthcoming chapbook titled This History of the Body. Dozens of his poems have been published in various journals and anthologies.
Previous position: Assistant professor, Northern Illinois University.
Academic background: B.A. literature, Bennington College, 1988; M.F.A. creative writing, Brown University, 1991; M.F.A. creative writing, University of Iowa, 1993.

Daniel W.C. Quan

Associate professor, real estate finance
College: School of Hotel Administration
Academic focus: Quan's research is in housing transactions data; structural models of general partnership compensation; market overreaction in the REIT market; pricing limited partnerships in the secondary market; mortgage default risk; and a structural model of commercial mortage default.
Previous position: Chief mortgage economist, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System's Division of Research and Statistics, Washington, D.C.
Academic background: B.Sc. agricultural economics, University of British Columbia, 1979; M.Sc agricultural economics, University of British Columbia, 1983; Ph.D./M.Phil. econometrics and mathematical economics, London School of Economics, 1985; Ph.D. business administration, University of California-Berkeley, 1990.

September 9, 1999