Summer 2007

Whasc is taking a break for the summer. When we return to weekly updates in September, the department will have returned to its traditional home in Stevenson College (retrofitted, refurbished and upgraded) . We will be welcoming 9 new students to the graduate program and two new visiting faculty colleagues—Shai Cohen (currently completing his PhD dissertation at Umass Amherst) and James Isaacs (currently completing his PhD dissertation at UC Santa Cruz). All is not entirely quiet for the summer. Pete Alrenga will defend his doctoral dissertation on August 10th, as will James Isaacs on August 13th.

Meanwhile, the two new positions that the department plans to fill in the coming academic year have been advertised, and we welcome back our colleagues Junko Ito and Armin Mester, who will be returning in early July from a year-long sabbatical in Japan .