University Scholars 2001-02

The University Scholars Program Advisory Board

The following people are affiliated with the University Scholars Program as advisors. Our advisory board comprises Duke faculty and members of the Durham and Chapel Hill communities.

	Professor David Brady, Director of the Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communication Systems, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Professor Brady's research focuses on photonic systems for sensing, data storage, and communications. He leads the DISP group www.disp.duke.edu which builds interferometric and coherence sensors for 3D microscopy, infrared tomography and free space communications and sensor networks for interactive multimedia. At the Fitzpatrick Center, Brady focuses on undergraduate and graduate education in photonics, with a particular emphasis on optics as an information science and optics education as a bridge between physical and digital systems.
	Professor Rachael Brady, Research Scientist, Visualization Analysis Lab. Visualization applies the algorithms of computer graphics with the fields of perception and representation to communicate digital information visually. Visualization is used for presentations, art creation, data analysis, model validation, illustration, data exploration, entertainment, and cognitive studies.
	Professor Doriane Coleman, School of Law. Before coming to Duke, Professor Coleman divided her time between her academic and professional endeavors, and her career as a professional athlete. Coleman joined the Duke Faculty in 1996, and is teaching Torts, Children and the Law, Family Law, Genetics and the Law, and International Sports Law, the latter of which draws upon her extensive practical experience in this rapidly-expanding field. Her other curricular interests include constitutional law and legal pluralism or multiculturalism. Her recent scholarship touches upon these interests, focusing on the ways in which multiculturalism has and is affected by the law, including particularly those aspects of the law that implicate women¨s and children¨s interests.
	Professor miriam cooke, Asian and African Languages and Literature. "Professor of modern Arabic literature and culture, I have travelled and researched in Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco and Syria. My first book dealt with the writings of one of Egypt's leading intellectuals of the twentieth centruy, Yahya Haqqi. Subsequently, my interests turned to the writings of women, especially those that deal with issues of war and gender in the postcolonial Arab world. My forthcoming book, Women Claim Islam, analyzes the discourse of Islamic feminists."
	Cathy N. Davidson, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Co-Founder and Director of HASTAC; Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English. Professor Davidson is a scholar of American literature and American culture whose research interests include the history of technology and the relationship between technological change, social formations, and aesthetics. She has also written a memoir about living in Japan during the 1980s and 1990s and a book about postindustrialism.
	Professor Daniel J. Gauthier, Department of Physics. Professor Gauthier is interested in the behavior of lasers on the quantum scale, controlling chaos in lasers, and controlling chaos in the heart. He also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering.
	Professor Jehanne Gheith, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature and Women's Studies Program. Professor Gheith's research interests include Russian women's writing, particularly mid-19th century prose; feminist work in cross-cultural perspective; and women's autobiographical narratives. Currently, she iswriting a book based on her interviews with people who survived the Soviet labor camps (in which 8-20 million people died). She is focusing on questions of public memorialization, cross-cultural theories of trauma, and questions of silence and memory.
	Professor Guven Guzeldere, Department of Philosophy. Professor Guzeldere joined the Duke faculty in 1997. He has published articles in philosophy of mind, history and philosophy of psychology, and artificial intelligence. His major areas of interest include philosophy of mind, history and philosophy of psychology and neuroscience, cognitive science, and foundations of computation and artificial intelligence.
	Professor Karla F.C. Holloway, William Rand Kenan Professor of English. Professor Holloway's interests in cultural studies focus on the intersections between linguistics and literature with specific focus on black diaspora women writers. Her research and teaching interests focus on African American cultural studies, biocultural studies, ethics and law. She is the author of five books, most recently, Passed On: African-American Mourning Stories -- a cultural and historic look at bereavement, death, dying, and burial in twentieth century African America.
	Professor Margaret Humphreys, Department of History and Department of Medicine. Dr. Humphreys, a medical doctor as well as an historian, focuses on the history of medicine and public health, with special emphasis on the United States. She is now studying the fate of malaria in the United States. Her historical research and courses explore the intersections of disease, race, religion, science and culture.
	Professor Satendra Khanna, Department of Asian and African Languages and Literatures. Satti Khanna interprets the lives and works of contemporary Indian writers to an international audience through a series of documentary films and translations. His recent work includes a translation of Vinod Kumar Shukla's Naukar ki Kameez (The Servant's Shirt, Penguin India, 1999), an anthology of short fiction, His Daily Bread (Har Anand, 2000) and the series Literary Postcard on the Doordarshan national network in India. At present, he is engaged in a translation of G. M. Muktibodh's fiction and a documentary about tailors.
	Bruce B. Lawrence, Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Emeritus Professor of Religion. Professor Lawrence specializes in Asian intellectual, cultural and social history, with particular emphasis on the Muslim communities of the South Asian subcontinent (Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh). He has also written widely about the digital impact on all humanistic inquiry, and is part of an Perkins Library-sponsored effort to transform undergraduate pedagogy as it applies to Muslim networks and Islamic civilization.
	Anne-Maria Makhulu, Department of Cultural Anthropology Anne-Maria Makhulu is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies at Duke University. Her research interests cover: Africa and more specifically South Africa, cities, space, globalization, political economy, occult economies, neoliberalism, Marxism, anthropology of finance, as well as questions of aesthetics, including the literature and cinema of South Africa. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled "The Geography of Freedom: Revolution and the South African City."
	Mark Olson, Director of New Media & Information Technologies / Associate Director of Operations, John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies. His research and teaching focus on new media technologies, with a particular interest in medical imaging technologies and reproductive health.
	Professor Richard J. Powell, John Spenser Bassett Professor of Art History and the former chair of Duke's Department of Art and Art History. Professor Powell's research and teaching interests lie in the areas of American Art, African American Art, and theories of race and representation in the African diaspora. Professor Powell is also interested in the media arts and conceptualizations of the "folk" in world art and culture. He recently published Black Art: A Cultural History and has published articles and essays on topics ranging from Primitivism to Post-Modernism. His other books include The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism, and Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson.
	Professor William "Monty" Reichert, Professor of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Reichert's research interests include biosensors, protein mediated cell adhesion, and wound healing. In general, my research concerns the behavior of proteins and cells at surfaces. These phenomena are central to many aspects of biology and medicine, for example thrombus formation, inflammation, complement activation, immune recognition, wound healing, cell-cell recognition, and cell adhesion to artificial and natural substrates. Proteins and cells at surfaces are also important in many technological applications, such as separation and purification systems, biorecognition-based diagnostics, indwelling sensors, tissue engineering, and soon-to-be realized biologically integrated devices. More specifically, I have focused on protein adsorption, protein-ligand binding, and protein-mediated cellular adhesion at artificial surfaces from the perspective of developing new diagnostics and improving biomaterials.
	Molly Renda, Designer. Molly is an award-winning designer who has worked on publications for Duke University Press, including the acclaimed The Physician's Art: Representations of Art and Medicine. Molly also designed the University Scholars Program's brochures and bookmarks. She lives and works in Durham.
	Professor Jim Siedow, Department of Botany and Vice Provost of Research. Professor Siedow's research interest is plant biochemistry. His research has involved the study of oxidative processes in higher plants with an emphasis on those related to plant respiration. A long-term project in his laboratory has involved characterizing the structural and regulatory features of the unusual cyanide-resistant oxidase found in all plant mitochondria. A second, long-term collaboration with a group at North Carolina State University led to elucidation of the molecular mode of action of a toxin associated with the fungus responsible for Southern Corn Leaf Blight. The former Program Director of the Cellular Biochemistry Program at the National Science Foundation, he is currently an Associate Editor of Plant Molecular Biology and on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Current Opinion in Plant Biology and Genome Biology.
	Rob Sikorski, (M.A., J.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison) is Executive Director of the Center for International Studies at the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Affairs. His publications include the three-volume edited work Prayer In Public Schools and the Constitution, 1961-1992 (1993).
	Ms. Anne Sjostrom, Assistant Director, Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Before coming to Duke in 1995, Anne worked on an archaeological dig in Cyprus and as a ropes course director by the Chesapeake Bay. Her work now focuses on bringing international students to Duke, and includes annual trips to Europe, South America, and the Middle East.
	Professor Joshua E. Socolar, Department of Physics. Professor Socolar is interested in the origins of spatial order in condensed matter and dynamical systems and the physical properties associated with ordered states. His current research interests include t he spatial distribution of stresses granular materials (e.g. bins of sand, coal, pills, or grain) and jamming phenomena; elf-organization and function of complex dynamical networks, especially genetic regulatory networks; controlling chaos, or understanding feedback mechanisms that can stabilize otherwise unstable ordered behavior in chaotic dynamical systems. He has also worked extensively on the physics of quasicrystals -- materials with quasiperiodic atomic structures akin to the Penrose tilings -- and on spatial structure in self-organized critical systems.
	Professor Dalene Stangl, Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences. Professor Stangl is Associate Director and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Institute. Her work focuses on statistics education, Bayesian methods of statistical analysis, and statistics in medicine and health policy. She has coedited two books, "Bayesian Biostatistics," and "Meta-Analysis in Medicine and Health Policy." She is executive editor of Chance magazine.
	Darrell Stover, Program Director, St. Joseph's Historic Foundation/Hayti Heritage Center, Durham, NC. He directed The Spoken Word Performance Poetry Ensemble in DC from 1988-1996 and edited its anthology, "BAD BEATS SACRED RHYTHMS." He has appeared in Gargoyle, Drumbeat,Wordwrights , the Washington Post and the anthology, "FAST TALK FULL VOLUME." His poetry can be heard on the acid jazz releases, "ACOUSTIC SOULFUL BEBOP BOOMS' and "INNER CITY BOOMS." He co-hosted the nationally-broadcast Storylines Southeast, a radio/library examination and discussion of southern literature funded by the American Library Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He writes under a strong influence of jazz, blues and science fiction to maintain the links to the everpresent past for a hopeful future.
	Professor and Associate Dean Barbara Turner, School of Nursing. Dr. Turner received her graduate degrees in hospital administration and perinatal nursing. Her doctorate is from the University of California, San Francisco. Following her retirement from the Army Nurse Corps, she assumed the position of Associate Dean and Director of the Center for Nursing Research at Duke. She is also the Division Chief for the pediatric and acute care majors. Dr. Turner's research interests focus on the effect of nursing intervention on critically ill newborns, including exogenous surfactant administration, endotracheal suctioning, high frequency ventilators and airway management.
	Professor Priscilla Wald, Department of English. Professor Wald's current scholarly research involves the cultural, rhetorical and ethical dimension of scientific hypotheses and discoveries, especially as they are presented in the specialty and popular press (from Science to The New York Times) and in popular fiction and non-fiction (from the film Outbreak to Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague). Her manuscript-in-progress evolved out of her ongoing interest in questions of assimilation and immigration. Beginning with an investigation of the phenomenon dubbed by medical historian Alan Kraut "medical nativism," she became interested in the use of disease to express anxiety about strangers and, as she discovered, to configure not only threats to communities, but also communities themselves. The project is now a book-length study of the medical concept of the human carrier, from "Typhoid Mary" to contemporary accounts of genetic carriers. She is fascinated by how fictional and non-fictional (e.g. journalistic, medical, sociological) stories about healthy human vectors of disease (contagious, infectious, genetic) register and promote changes in the way people understand the spatial and social relations that constitute human being and social relations.
	Professor Maurice Wallace, Department of English. In addition to his teaching, Professor Wallace is an ordained minister. He works on black masculinity and sexuality in nineteenth and twentieth century literature and culture. Author of Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men's Literature and Culture, 1775-1995, his recent teachings and writings have turned to literature and visual culture, with particular and sustained emphases on autobiography, realism, photographic representation, and the visual technologies of race, gender, and difference. Presently, he is at work on two books: the first is a critical meditation on race, vocation, and exile in the life of James Baldwin; the second is a study on photography, masculinity and the African American Civil War soldier. Wallace's essays have appeared in American Literary History and Journal of African American History and four critical anthologies.
	Ken Wissoker, Editor-in-Chief, Duke University Press. Ken Wissoker has been involved in the publishing industry since 1979, and has been Editor-in-Chief at Duke UP since 1997. His areas of editorial expertise include Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Post-Colonial Theory, Lesbian and Gay Studies, Construction of Race, Gender and National Identity, Literary Criticism, Film, and Popular Music. He has also published on questions of interdisciplinary writing and publishing, and speaks regularly at universities throughout the U.S.
	Professor Robert Wolpert, Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences. Professor Wolpert builds computer-resident mathematical models for complex systems, and invent and program numerical algorithms for making inference from the models. Originally trained as a mathematician specializing in probability theory and stochastic processes, he was drawn to statistics by the interplay between theoretical and applied research. Through all of his statistical interests (theoretical, applied, and methodological) runs the unifying theme of the Likelihood Principle, a constant aid in the search for sensible methods of inference in complex statistical problems where commonly-used methods seem unsuitable. He has a special interest in developing statistical methods for application to problems in Environmental Science, where traditional methods often fail. Recent examples include the development of nonexchangeable hierarchical Bayesian models for synthesizing evidence about the health effects of environmental pollutants, in several separate applications, and the use of high-dimensional Bayesian models to reflect uncertainty in mechanistic environmental simulation models, in another.