Wesleyan's Newly Tenured Faculty

On March 1, 2008, the Wesleyan University Board of Trustees affirmed the promotion with tenure, effective July 1, 2008, of the following members of the faculty:

Christiaan Hogendorn, Associate Professor of Economics, was appointed as an Assistant Professor of Economics at Wesleyan in 2001. Prior, he was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Public Policy and Management Department at the Wharton School. Christiaan was the recipient of a Sloan Industry Center Fellowship and the Carol A. Baker Memorial Prize for development and recognition of the accomplishments of junior faculty at Wesleyan. He has offered many presentations at both academic and professional conferences, is the author of numerous publications and is active in professional economic journals and societies. Christiaan is the President of the Transportation and Public Utilities group of the Allied Social Science Association.

Christiaan's scholarship focuses on applied microeconomic theory in the field of industrial organization. His course offerings include Microeconomics, Introduction to Economic Theory, Economics of Technology, Regulation and Anti-trust, and Industrial Technology.

He earned his B.A. in economics with highest honors from Swarthmore and his Ph.D. in management science and applied economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Allan Isaac, Associate Professor of English, joined the Wesleyan faculty in 2000 as Assistant Professor of English. Allan previously served as Fulbright Visiting Professor in the Department of Literature at De La Salle University-Taft in the Philippines and as a Visiting Scholar/Affiliated Faculty in Asian/Pacific/American Studies at New York University. He has earned a number of academic honors including a Dean's Fellowship, Henry Mitchell MacCracken Fellowship and the Anaïs Nin Travel and Research Award at New York University. Allan's book, American Tropics, was the winner of the Association for Asian American Studies' 2006 Book Award in Cultural Studies.

Allan's area of specialization is Asian American literature and culture. At Wesleyan, among the courses he has taught are: Asian Diaspora in the Americas, Asian American Literature and Its Discontent, Reading Race and Representation, and American Tropics: Imperial Desires and Postcolonial Realities.

Allan received his B.A. in political theory and literary studies from Williams College and his M.A. and Ph.D. (with distinction) in Comparative Literature from New York University.

Andrea Patalano, Associate Professor of Psychology, became an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Wesleyan in 2002. Her prior academic appointments include Assistant Professor of Psychology at Ohio University and Teaching and Research Assistant at the University of Michigan and Brown University. Andrea was awarded a Department of Psychology Graduate Fellowship at Michigan, a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, a Cognitive Science Award for Distinguished Research at Brown and the Apple Corporation and University of Michigan Instructional Software Award.

Andrea's teaching and research interests lie in the psychology of reasoning and decision making. Courses she has presented include an Introduction to Cognitive Psychology, Psychology of Decision Making, Quantitative Methods in Psychology, and Seminars in Thinking and in Reasoning.

She earned her B.A. with honors in cognitive science at Brown University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of Michigan.

Aradhana (Anu) Sharma, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies, joined the Wesleyan faculty in 2001 as an assistant professor. Prior, Anu was an instructor in the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University. She has also served as a consultant to the Mahila Samakhya Program in India, the Small Sector Development Council of Belize and as coordinator of the Micro-Enterprise Loan and Assistant Program at the Church Avenue Merchants Block Association in New York. She is an active faculty colleague, having been a member of several committees, both in governance and academic areas. Anu was honored with the Littlefield International Graduate Fellowship and a Departmental Fellowship at Stanford, Teaching and Research Assistant Fellowships at Columbia University and was a Milano Scholar at the Eugene Lang College at The New School for Social Research.

Anu's work has focused on ethnographic studies in rural India. Anu has led courses on Gender and Political Economy in the Developing World, Gender in a Transnational Perspective, Anthropology of Globalization, and Critical Perspectives on the State.

She received her B.A. in economics and politics, and feminist studies from The New School for Social Research, an M.I.A. from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from Stanford University.

Gina Ulysse, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies, joined the Wesleyan faculty in 2001 as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African-American Studies. She had served as an Instructor at the Center for African American Studies at the University Michigan and as Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Bates College. Gina has received two Mellon Faculty Development Grants while at Wesleyan and was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and Africa Business Development Corp Fellow at the University of Michigan in addition to having been awarded several other fellowships and research grants.

Gina's research and teaching focus on gender, transnational feminism, political economy, representation, race and class performance, migration, spirituality, and spoken word in the Caribbean, the United States and South Africa. Gina's course offerings have included: Black Feminist Thoughts and Practices, Contemporary Anthropological Theory, Blurred Genres: Feminist Ethnographic Writing, Color in the Caribbean, and Rereading Gendered Agency: Black Women's Experience of Slavery.

Gina earned her B.A. in anthropology and English at Upsala College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Michigan.

Please congratulate these faculty members on this important occasion and express your appreciation to them for their scholarship and teaching, their fine colleagueship and their commitment to the students who attend Wesleyan to receive a very fine liberal arts education.