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Andrea Louise Campbell joined the MIT faculty this fall as Associate Professor of Political Science. Campbell studies American politics, political behavior, public opinion, political inequality, and social policy, with a particular focus on the interplay between political institutions and the political behavior and attitudes of mass publics. Her book, How Policies Make Citizens: Senior Political Activism and the American Welfare State (Princeton University Press, 2003), bridges the political behavior and historical institutionalist literatures to argue that democratic participation and public policy powerfully reinforce each other. Campbell's work has also been published in the American Political Science Review, Political Behavior, Studies in American Political Development, and Comparative Political Studies. Campbell received the BA from Harvard University magna cum laude in 1988, and the MA and PhD in Political Science from The University of California, Berkeley, in 1994 and 2000. In 200103, Professor Campbell was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy at Yale University. Campbell was formerly Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University. Beth Coleman joined the MIT faculty this spring as Assistant Professor in Comparative Media Studies and the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies. Her fields of research include new media, contemporary aesthetics, electronic music, critical theory and literature, and race theory. Her scholarly and literary writings have been published by the British Pavilion for the Venice Bienale, 2003; Broadway/Random House; Gagosian Gallery; Sammlung Goetz Collection; and New York University Press, as well as in journals including Artforum, Artbyte, and Nka: Journal for African Art. Under the name M. Singe, Coleman is co-founder of the SoundLab Cultural Alchemy project, established in 1995. Her artwork has been exhibited internationally at venues including the P.S.1 Museum of Contemporary Art, Mirror's Edge exhibition, ARC/Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology List Gallery. She has been working internationally as a sound artist since 1997. Coleman received the BA from Yale University in 1991, and the PhD in comparative literature from New York University in 2004. Coleman is a 200304 Rockefeller New Media Fellow and a 2004 Ford Foundation fellow. Before arriving at MIT she was a 2004 artist-in-residence at the Waag Society for Old and New Media, Amsterdam, where she completed the art and architectural installation, Music Box. She is currently working on a monograph entitled Difference Engines: Race as Technology. Amy Finkelstein joined the MIT faculty this fall as Assistant Professor of Economics. She is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. For the past three years, Finkelstein has been a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Finkelstein received the BA summa cum laude in Government from Harvard University in 1995, the MPhil in Economics from Oxford University in 1997, and the PhD in Economics from MIT in 2001. From 1997 to 1998 she worked as a Staff Economist for the Council of Economic Advisers. Finkelstein's research focuses on two main areas: market failures and government intervention in insurance markets, and the impact of public policy on the health care sector, particularly on the development and diffusion of medical technology. Her current projects include examinations of the impact of the introduction of Medicare on health spending, technology adoption, health outcomes, and consumption smoothing; understanding the supply and demand for long-term care insurance; and estimating the costs of adverse selection in insurance markets. Her research is funded by the National Institute of Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. David Jones joined the MIT faculty this fall as the Leo Marx Career Development Assistant Professor of the History and Culture of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society. He became interested in history of science while at Harvard College, graduating with High Honors in 1993. He then studied both medicine and history of science at Harvard University, receiving his PhD and MD in 2001. From 2001 through 2005 he completed his training in psychiatry at McLean Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. At MIT, Jones will direct the Center for the Study of Diversity in Science, Technology, and Medicine. He also will continue to work as a psychiatrist, in the Psychiatric Emergency Services at Cambridge Hospital. Jones's research has explored a number of areas in the history of medicine. His principal research has explored how physicians, researchers, and social scientists explain health disparities that exist between populations. He uses a series of case studies from American Indian history to demonstrate the ways in which social, economic, and political pressures shaped explanatory systems. He has also completed projects on the history of medical research, especially the use of humans as research subjects. His current research explores the history of pharmacogenetics: the attempt to use genetic testing to customize medication regimens to individual patients. Jones hopes that understanding this history will help guide contemporary debates in health policy. His research is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation. Thomas Levenson joined the MIT faculty last spring as Associate Professor in the Program on Writing and Humanistic Studies. This fall he is serving as acting director of the Graduate Program on Science Writing. Prior to coming to MIT, Levenson spent more that two decades as a journalist, a science writer, and a documentary film producer, director, and writer. He has won an AAAS prize, a New York chapter Emmy, and a Peabody Award (shared) for his science television work. He received the AB magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1980. Levenson's work includes books and feature documentaries covering a variety of topics in science, engineering and the history of science. His books include Ice Time: Climate, Science, and Life on Earth; Measure for Measure: A Musical History of Science; and Einstein in Berlin. Television documentaries include Origins: Back to the Beginning (NOVA); Building Big: Domes (PBS); and Einstein Revealed (NOVA). He has written for publications ranging from The Atlantic Monthly to The Washington Post. He is currently at work on a book on Isaac Newton's tenure at the Royal Mint. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the Sloan Foundation, among others. Agustín Rayo joined the MIT faculty in 2005 as Associate Professor of Philosophy, after spending four years as an Arché Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews and a year as an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego. He received the PhD from MIT in 2001, and the BA from the National University of Mexico in 1996. Rayo works mainly in the philosophy of logic, mathematics, and language. Within the philosophy of logic, he's focused on philosophical problems and applications pertaining to higher-order resources and unrestricted quantification. Within the philosophy of math, he's done work on logicism, neo-logicism, and mathematical realism. Within the philosophy of language, he's focused mostly on vagueness. Stephen Ryan joined the MIT faculty this fall as Assistant Professor in Economics. Ryan received BA degrees in Economics and Chemistry from Virginia Technical Institute in 1999, and the PhD in Economics from Duke University in May of 2005. Ryan's dissertation examined the intersection of environmental policy and industrial organization. Using two decades of data on the US Portland cement industry, he measured the welfare costs of the 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act. In a related paper, he explored firm incentives to enter, exit, and invest when pollution permits are introduced as instruments to control emissions. Current projects include revealed-preference approaches to estimating discrete choice problems, and empirical testing of the rationality assumptions underlying economic models. |
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