Newly minted emeriti
This spring’s faculty retirees include: African-art specialist Lisa Aronson joined Skidmore’s faculty in 1984, with a Wayne State BA and an Indiana Univer - sity PhD. She taught art history courses covering African textiles and colonial trade, gender and visual culture, Native American art, Mesoamerican and South American art, and more. Her extensive museum work and scholarship included a 1997–98 fellowship at the Smithson- ian’s National Museum of African Art, studies of modern African art and pho- tography, and curat- ing the Tang Muse- um’s show Environ- ment and Object: Re- cent African Art. She has published her re- search widely, and she is the past presi- dent of the Textile Society of America. Una Bray, a CUNY grad with a PhD from the Poly- technic In stitute of New York, taught mathematics at Skid- more since 1985. She oversaw the design of Skidmore’s quantita- tive reasoning re- quirement. Along
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with a wide spectrum of math courses, she taught in Skidmore’s Liberal Studies program, especially in mathematical modeling of disease, epidemics, math his- tory, and food history. She also taught in the UWW program at Comstock prison, until it ended in 1993. Her publications ranged from “New York’s Milk Culture” to “The History of Negative 1” to “Locavores and the Slow Food Movement.” She was active on a range of campus governance committees, and she consulted on math teaching for local schools. Joanne Devine has been on Skid-
more’s English faculty since 1982. With a Trinity College BA and a Michigan State PhD focused on reading acquisition, she
taught socio- and psycholinguistics, lan- guage and gender, and other courses. She also taught courses on US and interna- tional mass-media communications and culture, organized a symposium on media and society, and served as the first co-director of Skidmore’s media and film studies major, which began in 2014. She has published her research in journals such as Studies in Second Language Acquisi- tion and International Journal of Technology, Knowledge, and Society.
UNA BRAY HUGH FOLEY PATY RUBIO PIERRE VON KAENEL
Hugh Foley taught at Union College before joining Skidmore in 1993. A St. John Fisher grad, he holds a PhD in ex- perimental psychology from SUNY-Stony Brook. He taught courses from “Psychol- ogy in the Courtroom” and “Perception and Reality” to experimental methodolo- gy and statistics. His engagement and mentoring of students in perception, cog- nition, and memory research was funded by National Science Foundation grants, many of them in partnership with his wife and colleague Mary Ann Foley. Among his publications, he wrote chap- ters for the Encyclopedia of Research Meth- ods in the Social Sciences and coauthored the textbook Sensation and Perception.
Tom Lewis joined the English faculty in 1968, just before finishing his PhD from Columbia University; his BA came from the University of New Brunswick in Canada. He taught courses from grammar to classical lit, from the modern British novel to documentary filmmaking. As a researcher, writer, and producer for sever- al award-winning films, he worked with Ken Burns and others on Divided High- ways: The Interstates and American Life, Empire of the Air: The Men who Made Radio, The Shakers: Hands to Work and Hearts to God, and Brooklyn Bridge. In 2005 he published The Hudson: A History, and in 2013 an up- dated edition of his Divided Highways. His book and film proj- ects were supported by National Endow- ment for the Human- ties and other grants. In 1999 he was named Skidmore’s Quadracci Professor of Social Responsibility. Spanish professor Paty Rubio came to Skidmore in 1983. She earned a PhD at the University of Alberta
in Canada and an undergraduate degree at the Catholic University of Valparaiso in Chile. She taught Spanish language as well as Spanish American literature and women’s studies. She also taught Liberal Studies and first-year seminars with titles like “Cities of Dreadful Delight: The Latin American Urban Experience,” and she co-led a travel seminar to Argentina and Chile called “Over the Andes and Toward the Sea.” She wrote or edited several books of literary criticism, studies of His- panic women authors, and annotated bibliographies. Always active in faculty governance and campus life, she served as associate dean of the faculty for per- sonnel and diversity.
SPRING 2015 SCOPE 11
EMMA DODGE HANSON ‘93
GARY GOLD
PHIL SCALIA
MARK MCCARTY
GARY GOLD
ERIC JENKS ’08
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