Two New College of Florida Faculty Given Tenure and Four Promoted to Professor

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April 27, 2011—The New College Board of Trustees approved tenure for two New College faculty: Kim Anderson, assistant professor of art; and Robert Johnson, assistant professor of history, at its meeting on March 5. Provost Charlene Callahan also announced that three veteran faculty members have been recommended for promotion to full professor: Uzi Baram, to professor of anthropology; Don Colladay, to professor of physics; David Harvey, to professor of history; and Karsten Henckell, to professor of mathematics. The promotions will be effective at the beginning of the next academic year on August 7, 2011.

“By conferring tenure, the college acknowledges not only the high quality of work that candidate has completed during the past five years, but confirms a belief that she or he will have a productive career long into the future,” said Callahan. “We are fortunate to have talented teachers and scholars who have worked so hard to become tenured members of our faculty.”

Kim Anderson has been teaching courses in painting and drawing at New College since 2004.  She is a painter whose work examines historical relationships between painting and photography, distilled through discarded homemade vernacular movies and snapshots. Her work has been exhibited regionally and nationally. She holds a B.F.A. from California College of Arts and Crafts and an M.F.A. from University of Florida. Her website is kimandersonpaintings.com.

Bob Johnson is a U.S. historian who specializes in theory, race
relations and the environment.  He holds a B.A. degree from Albion College, an M.A. from University of Montana and a Ph.D. from University of California, Irvine. His current book manuscript, based on an article published in the Journal of American Culture, is An Upthrust into Barbarism: Energy, Trauma, and the Origins of the Modern Self.

In announcing the four promotions, Provost Callahan remarked, “Promotion to full professor is not merely a matter of time spent in rank; it signifies recognition of accomplishments and contributions to the College in the areas of teaching, scholarship and service.”

Uzi Baram has been teaching archaeology and cultural anthropology courses at New College since 1997. As the founding director of the New College Public Archaeology Lab, he has trained students in historic preservation, public outreach and anthropological studies of the recent past. Professor Baram has created local programs in archaeology and heritage studies such as Looking for Angola, which employs the dual disciplines of archaeology and ethnography to reveal a 19th-century maroon community along the Manatee River. Professor Baram has edited and contributed to A Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire: Breaking New Ground (2000), Marketing Heritage: Archaeology and the Consumption of the Past (2004), and Between Art and Artifact: Approaches to Visual Representation in Historical Archaeology (2007) as well as many journal articles and book chapters on historical archaeology, heritage, and the politics of the past. He holds a B.A. from State University of New York at Binghamton and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Don Colladay specializes in quantum mechanics and has been teaching physics at New College since 2000. He has done research on the question of modifications to the equations of basic physics due to as yet undiscovered effects at very small length scales. He holds a B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Indiana University.

David Harvey has been teaching history at New College since 2000. His primary area of interest is the history of modern France and Germany, and he is the author of Constructing Class and Nationality in Alsace, 1830-1945 (2001) and Beyond Enlightenment:  Occultism and Politics in Modern France (2005). In 2010, Harvey won the prestigious Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society (APS), which he used to further his study of French Enlightenment thinkers. He has recently completed the manuscript for his third book, The Mandarin and the Savage:  Race, Progress, and Diversity in French Enlightenment Thought. He holds a B.A. degree from Rice University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University.

Karsten Henckell has been teaching mathematics and computer science at New College since 1986. His interests include artificial intelligence, game programming and environmental studies, and he is a chess master and “3-dan” master of Go. He holds a B.A. degree from the University of Hamburg and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from University of California, Berkeley.