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MMW Faculty Roster for 2004-2005


  • Peter Atterton, Lecturer, UCSD. Ph.D., University of Essex, England. Professional interests: ethics, modern European philosophy of politics, law, and literature; modernism to postmodernism. atterton@ucsd.edu (Teaching MMW 4 and MMW 5)
  • Shawn Bender, Visiting Lecturer, Dept. of Anthropology, UCSD. Ph.D., UCSD. Professional interests: Japanese language and culture, the culture and practice of Taiko. sbender@weber.ucsd.edu (Teaching MMW 4)
  • Frank Biess, Assistant Professor of History, UCSD. Ph.D., Brown University. Professional interests: German and modern European history. fbeiss@ucsd.edu Teaching MMW 6)
  • Suzanne Cahill, Associate Adjunct Professor of History, UCSD. Ph.D., University of Chicago. Professional interests: medieval China, the Tao, Taoist saints, women in medieval China. secjbm34@aol.com (Teaching MMW 2)
  • Steven Cassedy, Professor of Literature, Director of MMW, Assoc. Dean of Graduate Studies, UCSD. Ph.D., Princeton University. Professional interests: slavic and comparative literature, Russian literature, other Western European literatures, Western intellectual history, Russian-Jewish and American-Jewish cultural history. scassedy@ucsd.edu (Teaching MMW 5)
  • Stanley Chodorow, Professor of History Emeritus, UCSD. Ph.D., University of Chicago. Professional interests: medieval history, legal and constitutional history, political theory, the history of politics 1050-1300. schodorow@ucsd.edu (Teaching MMW 3 and MMW 4)
  • Richard S. Cohen, Asst. Professor of South Asian Religious Literatures, UCSD. Ph.D., University of Michigan. Professional interests: Buddhism, religiosity in south Asia, theory in the study of religion. rscohen@ucsd.edu (Teaching MMW 2)
  • Page DuBois, Professor of Literature, UCSD. Ph.D., UC Berkeley. Professional interests: classics and comparative literature, Greek, feminis theory and psychoanalysis, cultural studies. pdubois@ucsd.edu (Teaching MMW 2)
  • Ivan Evans, Professor of Sociology, UCSD. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. Professional interests: change in modern South Africa, race and ethnicity, political sociology, urban studies, social movements, the sociology of intellectuals, sociological analyses of modernity and post-modernity. ievans@weber.ucsd.edu (Teaching MMW 6)
  • David K. Jordan, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Anthropology, UCSD. Ph.D., University of Chicago. Professional interests: cultural anthropology, religion, psychological anthropology, sociolinguistics, interlinguistics, instructional technology; Taiwan, East Asia. dkjordan@ucsd.edu (Teaching MMW 1)
  • Richard Madsen, Professor of Sociology, UCSD. Ph.D., Harvard University. comparative sociology of morality, religion, and politics in Chinese culture. rmadsen@weber.ucsd.edu (Teaching MMW 6)
  • Douglas McGetchin, Asst. Director, MMW, UCSD. Ph.D., UCSD. Professional interests: cultural interactions between Europe and Asia during the 19th and 20th centuries. dmcgetchin@ucsd.edu (Teaching MMW 6)
  • Shawna Overton, Lecturer in Religious Studies, UCSD. Ph.D., UCSD. Professional interests: origins of biblical monotheism, gender in the ancient world, goddess worship in the ancient world and biblical Israel, the intersections of myth, history, and archaeology in the ancient Near East, the religions of ancient Israel, and the relationship between religion and magic. sdolansk@ucsd.edu Teaching MMW 2 and MMW 3)
  • Patrick Patterson, Lecturer, UCSD. J.D., University of Virginia; Ph.D., University of Michigan. Professional interests: modern Balkan, East European, and Central European history; nationalism and ethnic identity; the history of everyday life, consumer culture, advertising, and marketing; the history of tourism, travel, and leisure; church-state relations and the relationships among religion, politics, and law. patrickpatterson@ucsd.edu (Teaching MMW 4 and MMW 5)
  • Janet Smarr, Professor of Theatre and Italian Studies, UCSD. Ph.D., Princeton University. Professional interests: comparative literature, Italian literature, relations between Renaissance literature and Latin classics, continental women writers of the 16th century, literary theory, varieties of historical criticism, new technologies and the teaching of literature. jsmarr@ucsd.edu (Teaching MMW 3)
  • Laura Zucconi, Lecturer in History, UCSD. M.A., University of Connecticut; Ph.D. expected 2005, UCSD. Professional interests: the intersection between religion and medicine, religion and body theory/identity, religion and ethnic identity pertaining to territorial boundaries. lzucconi@ucsd.edu (Teaching MMW 3)

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