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Smith Professors Named to Chair PositionsFive Smith College professors have been named to chair positions. They are C. John Burk, Elsie Damon Simonds Professor of Biological Sciences; John Davis, Priscilla Paine Van der Poel Associate Professor of Art History; Howard Nenner, Roe/Straut Professor of History; and Steven A. Williams, Gates Professor of Biological Sciences. In addition, Daniel Horowitz has been named Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Professor in American Studies. The chair is a rotating chair, and Horowitz will hold it from July 1, 1997, through June 30, 2000. Burk received an A.B. from Miami University in Ohio and a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A prolific writer about his research, Burk is also the author of Celebrating a Century: The Botanic Garden of Smith College, published in 1995. He has been a member of the Smith faculty since 1961. Davis received his A.B. from Cornell University and his M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. A member of the Smith faculty since 1992, he is the author of The Landscape for Belief: Encountering the Holy Land in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture, which was selected for the CHOICE list of Outstanding Academic Books for 1996. He is also co-author of Collections of the National Gallery of Art: American Paintings of the Nineteen-Century. A member of the Smith faculty since 1968, Nenner received his B.A. from Queens College, his L.L.B. from Columbia University Law School, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Among his publications are "Sovereignty and the Succession in 1688-89" in The World of William and Mary: Anglo-Dutch Perspectives on the Revolution of 1688-89 (1996); By Colour of Law: Legal Culture and Constitutional Politics in England, 1660-1689 (1977); and The Right to be King: The Succession to the Crown of England, 1603-1714 (1995). During the past year, Nenner has served as the director of a major self-study project that Smith undertook as part of the preparation for its 10-year reaccreditation, which takes place this month. A member of the Smith faculty since 1982, Williams holds a B.S. degree in physiological psychology, an M.S. degree in genetics, and a Ph.D. degree in molecular genetics from the University of California at Davis. He has written extensively on his research in molecular biology, particularly on filarial parasites, and has presented papers on his research at numerous conferences in the U.S. and abroad. A member of the Smith College faculty since 1989, Horowitz holds a B.A. degree from Yale College and a Ph. D. degree from Harvard University. He is the author of The Morality of Spending: Attitudes Toward the Consumer Society in America, 1875-1940 (1985); Vance Packard and American Social Criticism (1994); and Suburban Life in the 1950s: Selections from Vance Packard's Status Seekers (1995). Before coming to Smith, Horowitz was the Nathaniel Wright Stephenson Professor of History and Biography at Scripps College. |
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