The following are among the new faculty members at the University. Others will be introduced periodically in this space.
Thomas Rodebaugh, Ph.D., joins the Department of Psychology in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in 2003 through the Anxiety and Psychotherapy Lab. He studies anxiety disorders, particularly social phobia, as well as psychotherapy outcome and process. His research focuses on improving the assessment and treatment of anxiety, as well as increasing understanding of the factors that maintain and reduce anxiety.
Irit Kleiman, Ph.D., joins the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor of French. She earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2003. During her graduate studies, Kleiman studied at the Ecole des Chartes in Paris and received a “Bourse Chateaubriand” dissertation grant from the French government. Her primary research interests concern the writing of history during the later Middle Ages. Kleiman’s dissertation, “Traitor, Author, Text: Four Late Medieval Narratives of Betrayal,” examined the role played by treason law on the emergence of the memoire as a literary genre. Before coming to Washington University, she taught at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.