Biographies of the Nominees
Tenure Committee
2007-2008
Division I
Larry Hedges.
Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics since 2005. Ph.D., Stanford University, 1980. Stella M. Rowley Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago, 2005; Stella M. Rowley Professor, University of Chicago (Departments of Education, Psychology, Sociology, The Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies), 1994-2005; Assistant Professor to Professor, University of Chicago, 1980-1993. Member of the National Academy of Education and Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Psychological Association. Recipient of the Ingram Olkin Award for lifetime contributions to Research Synthesis Methods; the Frederick Mosteller Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research Synthesis, 2005; the Palmer O. Johnson Award, 2002; the Harold E. Mitzel Award for Meritorious Contribution to Education Through Research, 2002; and the Review of Research Reward (American Educational Research Association), 1997. Associate Editor, American Journal of Sociology, 2003-2005; Journal of Educational Statistics, 1983-1994; and Psychological Bulletin, 1986-1989. Editorial board of the Psychological Bulletin, 2002-2004; Psychological Method, 1995-2000; Review of Educational Research, 1996-2001.
Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier.
Professor of Chemistry since 1988. Associate Director Science and Technology Center for Superconductivity 1989-2000; Associate Professor of Chemistry 1984-1988; Exxon Research and Engineering Company; Corporate Research - Science Laboratories, Senior Staff Chemist 1978-1984; Ph.D., Iowa State University 1978; Samoa College–United States Peace Corps, Instructor 1971-1974; National Science Council of Taiwan Lecturer (1991); Dow Professor of Chemistry (1992-1994); AAAS Fellow, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1993); JSPS Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (1997); Natural Science Foundation of China Lecturer (1999); National Science Foundation Creativity Extension Award (2000-2002); Institut Universitaire de France Professor (2003); Chemistry Week in China Lecturer (2004); Associate Editor, Inorganic Chemistry (1993-present); Editorial Boards of Solid State Sciences, Solid State Chemistry, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Chemistry of Materials, Expert Analyst for CHEMtracts; Organizer and Chairman of Numerous American Chemical Society (ACS) Symposia on Synthesis and Processing of Advanced Solid State Materials, Solid State Chemistry of Heterogeneous Oxide Catalysis, Including New Microporous, Environmental Chemistry, Perovskite Materials, Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Oxidation Catalysis, Chairman-elect of the ACS Solid State Subdivision of the Division of Inorganic Chemistry (1987-88), Chairman (1988-89); Member, Search Committee for Editor of New ACS Journal in Materials Chemistry; Inorganic Exam Committee, ACS Division of Chemical Education's Examination Institute (1989); Vice-Chair of the Gordon Conference on Solid State Chemistry (1994) and Chair of First European Gordon Conference on Solid State Chemistry (1995); Member (1995-1996) and Chair (1996-1998) of the Intense Pulsed Neutron Source (IPNS) Program Advisory Committee, Argonne National Laboratory; Invited visitor and speaker at international research institutions and conferences (UK, China, France, Germany, Japan, Canada, India); Served on numerous WCAS and NU Committees and NSF, DOE, and other external scientific panels.
John F. Marko.
Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology, and Professor of Physics and Astronomy. BS Physics 1984 University of Alberta; PhD Physics 1989 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago James Franck Institute 1989-1991. Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University Lab of Atomic and Solid State Physics 1991-1994. Mayer Fellow, Rockefeller University, Center for Studies in Physics and Biology 1994-1996. Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago 1996-2000; Associate Professor 2000-2005; Professor 2005-2006. Professor, Northwestern University, 2006. Fellow, American Physical Society, 2006. Associate Editor, Physical Review E, 2003-present. Research area: single-molecule studies of DNA-protein interactions, biophysical studies of chromosome organization.
Division II
William P. Rogerson.
Professor of Economics. B.A., University of Alberta, 1976; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1980; Assistant Professor of Economics, Stanford, 1980-1984; Associate Professor of Economics, Northwestern, 1984-1990; Professor of Economics, Northwestern, 1990-present; Chair of Department of Economics, 1996-1998; Chief Economist, Federal Communications Commission, 1998-99 (while on leave from Northwestern); Member of Northwestern's Program Review Committee, 2000-03, Chair of Northwestern's Program Review Committee, 2002-03; Director of Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences Program (MMSS), 2000-present; Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society, 1999; Member of Editorial Board, Review of Accounting Studies, 1993-2003; Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Industrial Economics, 1995-1998; Member of Editorial Board, Defense and Peace Economics, 1991-1998; Editor, Defense and Peace Economics, 1995-1998. Co-Editor, Economic Inquiry, 2007-present.
Wendi Gardner.
Associate Professor of Psychology, joined Northwestern in 1996. B.A. Florida Atlantic University (1992), M.A. Ohio State (1994), Ph.D. Ohio State (1996). Assistant Professor (1996), Associate Professor (2002). Research and teaching in social psychology, particularly the centrality of social inclusion to the self. Funding from NSF, NIMH, Fetzer Institute. 2006 International Society for Self and Identity Early Career Award. WCAS Distinguished Teaching Award (2004). Director of Undergraduate Studies, WCAS Curricular Policies Committee, TGS Dissertation Year Fellowship Committee. mentor for high school students attending IMSA: Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy .
Division III
Betsy Erkkila.
Henry Sanborn Noyes Professor of Literature (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley). Research interests: American literary and cultural studies, with a particular interest in American poetry, comparative American cultures, race and gender studies, and cultural and political theory. Recipient of fellowships by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the American Council for Learned Societies, and the Fulbright Foundation. Author of Mixed Bloods and Other American Crosses: Essays on American Literature and Culture; The Wicked Sisters: Women Poets, Literary History, and Discord; Whitman the Political Poet; and Walt Whitman Among the French: Poet and Myth, as well as essays and articles on American literature and culture, including "Franklin and the Revolutionary Body" (English Literary History); "Phillis Wheatley and the Black American Revolution" (A Mixed Race: Ethnicity in Early America); "Revolutionary Women" (Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature); "The Poetics of Whiteness: Poe and the Racial Imaginary" (Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race); "Emily Dickinson and Class" (American Literary History); "Whitman and the Homosexual Republic" (Walt Whitman Centennial Essays); and "Ethnicity, Literary Theory, and the Grounds of Resistance" (American Quarterly). Co-editor (with Jay Grossman) of Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies, and editor of a new Riverside edition of Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Writings. Currently working on a study of American revolutionary writing.
Michal Ginsburg.
Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Ph.D. Yale. Research interests include the nineteenth-century novel, especially in France, England, and the US; Israeli fiction; critical theory, psychoanalysis, and narrative theory. Author of Flaubert Writing: A Study in Narrative Strategies (Stanford University Press, 1986), Economies of Change: Form and Transformation in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Stanford UP, 1996), Shattered Vessels: Memory, Identity, and Creation in the Work of David Shahar (with Moshe Ron; SUNY Press, 2004; Hebrew version Hakibbutz Hameuhad, 2004), and editor of Approaches to Teaching Balzac's Old Goriot (MLA, 2000). Currently working on a comparative book project dealing with nineteenth century narratives that center around a portrait. Recent publications include: "The Prose of the World" (with Lorri Nandrea), in The Novel, ed. Franco Moretti (Princeton UP, 2006), vol. II; "Narratologie / amatologie: L'art d'aimer et la logique du récit chez Stendhal," L'année stendhalienne, 4 (2005); "House and Home in Dombey and Son," Dickens Studies Annual, vol. 36 (2005); "Dickens and the Scene of Recognition," Partial Answers, 3 (2005). Forthcoming essays include "Hugo, Dickens, and the 'Social Question'," to appear in Approaches to Teaching Dickens's Bleak House; "Madame Bovary à Jérusalem," to appear in Europe. Recently delivered lectures at the Colloque Flaubert, écrivain at Cerisy-la-Salle and the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference. Recently also co-organized a conference on "Urbanism, Urbanity, and the 19th century Novel" at the University of California Santa Cruz. Past Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin; former director of Northwestern's Program in Comparative Literature and Theory and former chair of the Department of French and Italian. Founder and past co-director of the French Interdisciplinary Group (FIG).
Scott Durham.
Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature. Main interests: 20th-century literature, film, and theory, with particular emphasis on Foucault and Deleuze, as well as the Marxist critical tradition. Author of Phantom Communities: The Simulacrum and the Limits of Postmodernism (Stanford University Press) and editor of a Yale French Studies issue on Jean Genet. Currently completing a book with the working title The Archive and the Monad: Deleuze and the Resistance to Postmodernism. Other publications include various articles in October, Paragraph, Sites, Yale French Studies, L'Esprit Créateur, and Science-Fiction Studies. Also currently engaged in a collaborative project with filmmaker Jeffrey Skoller, The Promise of Happiness. Invited lectures at such institutions as the University of California, Berkeley, Le Collège International de Philosophie, and Cornell. Jean Gimbel Lane Humanities Professor (1998-99).
Biographies of the Nominees
Promotion Committee
2007-2008
Division I
No vacancies.
Division II
Gregory Ward.
Professor of Linguistics. BA in Linguistics and Comparative Literature, 1978, University of California, Berkeley; PhD in Linguistics, 1985, University of Pennsylvania. At Northwestern since 1986; tenured in 1991, promoted in 1997; Department Chair 1999-2004. Served on numerous WCAS and University Committees. Main research areas: discourse, with specific interests in pragmatic theory, information structure, intonation, and reference/anaphora. Author (with Betty Birner) of Information Status and Noncanonical Word Order in English (John Benjamins, 1998). Editor (with Betty Birner) of Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Neo-Gricean Studies in Pragmatics and Semantics in Honor of Laurence R. Horn (John Benjamins, 2006) and editor (with Laurence R. Horn) of Handbook of Pragmatics (Blackwell, 2004). Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Studies in Palo Alto (2004-05). Co-PI on an NIH grant from 1991-1996 and on an NSF grant (2003-2007) to study intonational meaning. Taught at four Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Linguistic Institutes (1993, 1997, 2003, 2007), served as a member of the LSA Executive Committee (1997-99), and was Secretary-Treasurer of the LSA from 2004-2007.
Charles Camic.
John Evans Professor of Sociology, received his B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh and his M.A. and Ph.D. from The University of Chicago. Prior to joining the Northwestern faculty, he was Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His specialty fields are classical and contemporary sociological theory, the history of the social sciences, and the sociology of science. Recent publications include “On Edge: Sociology during the Great Depression and the New Deal” (2007) and Max Weber’s Economy and Society (co-edited with Philip Gorski and David Trubek) (2005). Current projects: the earlyintellectual career of Thorstein Veblen; knowledge-making practices in the social sciences and the humanities.
Division III
No candidates available at the present time.