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Faculty
Members Named Chaired Professors
Five Smith faculty members were
named to chaired professorships this year. They are Deborah
Haas-Wilson, economics; Marsha Kine Pruett, social work; Neal
Salisbury, history; Sharon Seelig, English language and literature;
and Carol Zaleski, religion.
Deborah Haas-Wilson,
the Marilyn Carlson Nelson ’61 Professor of Economics
Haas-Wilson joined the Department of Economics in 1984 after
earning her doctoral degree in economics at the University
of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the economics
of health care. Most recently, Haas-Wilson has been writing
about the restructuring of the health care system and its
implications for competition and antitrust policy. Her findings
have appeared in numerous journals and books, including Managed
Care and Monopoly Power: The Antitrust Challenge (Harvard
University Press 2003) and Uncertain Times: Kenneth Arrow
and the Changing Economics of Health Care (Duke University
Press 2003). In addition, Haas-Wilson frequently lends her
expertise in economics to other capacities, serving on several
advisory boards and as a consultant for the Federal Trade
Commission, the California Department of Corporations, the
Massachusetts Attorney General's Office and numerous private
organizations.
Marsha Kline Pruett,
the Maconda Brown O’Connor ’85 Professor
Pruett, a new member of the School for Social Work faculty
as of September, is an expert on preventive interventions
for families experiencing divorce and child custody issues.
After completing social work studies at the University of
Pennsylvania, Pruett received her clinical psychology degree
from the University of California, Berkeley, and a law degree
from Yale University. Before coming to Smith, Pruett served
on the faculty of the Yale University School of Medicine with
a joint appointment at the Yale Child Study Center. She has
received government and foundation grants totaling about $4.5
million for research projects, and her findings have appeared
in numerous scientific journals. Pruett co-authored the book
Your Divorce Advisor: A Lawyer and a Psychologist Guide
You Through the Legal and Emotional Landscape of Divorce.
She is currently working on a new parenting book.
Neal Salisbury, the Barbara
Richmond 1940 Professor in the Social Sciences
Salisbury joined the Department of History in 1973 after receiving
his doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles.
His research concerns American Indian history, especially
focusing on New England and colonial history. He serves on
doctoral examination and dissertation committees in several
departments at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Brandeis
University and Yale University. As a researcher, Salisbury
has received fellowships from the Smithsonian Institution,
the Center for the History of the American Indian, Charles
Warren Center for Studies in American History, the National
Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council for
Learned Societies. Additionally, Salisbury has served as president
and an executive council member for the American Society of
Ethnohistory, and has worked as a consultant for the British
Broadcasting Company, the Native American Rights Fund and
numerous other organizations.
Sharon Cadman Seelig,
Roe/Straut Professor in the Humanities
Seelig, who earned her master’s and doctoral degrees
from Columbia University, joined Smith’s Department
of English language and literature in 1980 after serving for
10 years on the English department faculty of Mount Holyoke
College. Seelig has held Woodrow Wilson, Fulbright, National
Endowment for the Humanities, and Newberry Library Fellowships.
Her research and teaching focuses on 17th-century English
poetry and prose, Milton, and Shakespeare. Her books include
The Shadow of Eternity: Belief and Structure in Herbert,
Vaughan, and Traherne; Generating Texts: The Progeny
of Seventeenth-Century Prose; and most recently, Autobiography
and Gender in Early Modern Literature: Reading Women's Lives,
1600-1680. Since 1990, she has served on the editorial
board of English Literary Renaissance.
Carol Zaleski, Chair
in World Religions
Zaleski joined the Department of Religion and Biblical literature
in 1989 after receiving her doctorate from Harvard University.
Her research focuses on afterlife beliefs, prayer and spiritual
disciplines. Her books include Otherworld Journeys, The
Book of Heaven and the forthcoming Book of Hell,
and she has contributed articles on heaven, hell and
purgatory in world religions to the forthcoming revised edition
of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Her current projects
include a book about monasticism and a collaborative effort
with her husband Philip Zaleski on writers C. S. Lewis, J.
R. R. Tolkien and their associates. The couple recently co-authored
a book titled Prayer: A History. Carol Zaleski currently
serves as an editor for Second Spring: A Journal of Faith
& Culture and The Christian Century. She
is a member of the Board of Advisors for the Centre for Faith
and Culture in Oxford. In 2003 and again in 2005, she won
the Associated Church Press Award of Excellence.
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