This fall, CMC welcomed new tenure and tenure-track faculty, two of whom, Jay Conger, the Kravis Research Chair in Leadership Studies, and Arthur Lee, associate professor of mathematics, will start in the spring. Although from vastly different fields of study, they share the same commitments to academic excellence and impassioned teaching:

Gary Hamburg is the first Otho M. Behr Chair in European Intellectual and Cultural History, endowed by John V. Croul '49. A prominent expert on the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, Professor Hamburg received the University of Notre Dame Kaneb Teaching Award. He is a graduate of Stanford University, where he was a Sloan Scholar.

John G. Milton joins the Joint Science department in its 40th anniversary year as the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor in Computational Neuroscience. Dr. Milton joins The Colleges from the University of Chicago, where he was a 15-year member of the neurology faculty. He holds medical and doctorate degrees from McGill University.

Andrew Busch, associate professor of government, joined the faculty of the University of Denver in 1992. He received doctorate and master's degrees in government from the University of Virginia, and is author or coauthor of seven books, including The Front Loading Problem in Presidential Nominations.

Adam Bradley, assistant professor of literature, joins CMC from Dartmouth College, where he was a Thurgood Marshall Dissertation Fellow and lecturer in the department of English. He received doctorate and master's degrees in English and American literature and language from Harvard, where his thesis advisers included Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Gastón Espinosa, assistant professor of religious studies, joins the College from Northwestern University where he was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow. He holds master's degrees from Princeton Seminary and Harvard University and a doctorate the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received the Outstanding Teaching Award in the Humanities and Fine Arts. He has won the Dartmouth College César Chávez Fellowship and Princeton's 100 Positive Men of Color Award. He recently completed the .3 million Hispanic Churches in American Public Life research project, which surveyed the political attitudes of 3,000 Latinos across the United States and Puerto Rico.

Michelle Goeree, assistant professor of economics, has been a visiting assistant professor at Cal Tech, a research fellow at the Economics Network for Competition and Regulation and an assistant economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. She received doctorate and master's degrees in economics from the University of Virginia.

Alex Rajczi, assistant professor of philosophy, has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Clinical Bioethics of the National Institutes of Health. He received his doctorate and master's degrees in philosophy from UCLA, and has taught at Bowdoin College, California State University, Long Beach, and UCLA, where he received the Yost Prize for Teaching Excellence.

Yaron Raviv, assistant professor of economics, received his doctorate from Princeton University, where his thesis adviser was CMC alumnus Orley Ashenfelter '64. He also received master's degrees from Princeton and Hebrew University. Honors include the Princeton Industrial Relations Fellowship and Graduate Summer Research Grant, as well as graduate fellowships from Princeton and Hebrew University.

Cintia Santana, assistant professor of modern languages, Spanish, received doctorate and master's degrees in romance languages and literature from Harvard, and a master's degree in fiction writing from Sarah Lawrence. She has taught at Harvard, as well as in Peru and Spain, and is a six-time recipient of Harvard's Distinction in Teaching recognition.

Diane Thomson, assistant professor of biology, has a doctorate in environmental studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a master's degree from Cambridge University. Honors include the UC Regents Fellowship, Natural Reserves System Grant, and Churchill Foundation Scholarship. She completed a postdoctoral post at UC Davis as part of a program funded by the National Science Foundation.

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