The following are among the new faculty members at the University. Others will be introduced periodically in this space.
Jessica Rosenfeld, Ph.D., joins the Department of English in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor. She recently earned a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, with a dissertation titled “The Ethics of Courtly Love: Narrative Transformations in the Later Middle Ages.” She earned a B.A. from the University of Puget Sound in 1997. Her research and teaching interests include courtly poetry, moral philosophy, psychoanalytic theory and gender studies.
Nancy Reynolds, Ph.D., joins the Department of History in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor. She earned a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2003, an M.A. from Stanford in 1995, and an A.B. from Harvard University in 1989. She specializes in the social, cultural and economic history of the modern Middle East and women’s history, and her research explores the history of commerce, commodities, and cosmopolitanism in Egypt in the first half of the 20th century.
Martin Kennedy joins the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor of composition. He earned a D.M.A. from the Juilliard School and his M.M. and B.M. from Indiana University. He has received several prestigious composition honors, including five ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, a BMI Student Composer Award and several publishing contract with Theodore Presser Company. His music has been performed by the American Composers Orchestra, the Bloomington Camerata Orchestra, the Polish National Chamber Orchestra of Slupsk, the Haddonfield Symphony and the Shenandoah Symphony Orchestra, among others.
Anne Margaret Baxley, Ph.D., joins the Department of Philosophy in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor, coming from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, where she has had an appointment since 2001. Baxley earned a B.A. in philosophy from Wellesley College in 1997 and a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego, in 2000. She was a Fellow of the National Humanities Center in 2003-04. Her area of specialization is Kant’s ethical theory. Having published a number of articles in that area, she is currently at work on a book titled Kant’s Theory of Virtue: The Value of Autocracy.