Williams College Announces Appointment of New Tenure Track Assistant Professors

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Williams College has announced the appointment of the following assistant professors to tenure track positions: Shannon L Bryant, assistant professor of physical education. Bryant received her B.A. in organizational behavior and management from Brown University in 1994 and her Master of Sports Science in sports coaching from the United States Sports Academy in 2005. She has coached ice hockey at Hamilton College and with the Seattle Junior Hockey Association. Erica R. Edwards, assistant professor of African American studies. Edwards received her B.A. in English and Spanish from Spelman College in 1999 and her Ph.D. in literature in 2006. Her teaching interests include, among others, African American literature, contemporary Black popular culture, and critical theories of race and gender. Her doctoral dissertation is titled "Contesting Charisma: Political Leadership in Contemporary African American culture." Richard P. Eibach, assistant professor of psychology. Eibach received his B.A. in 1997 and his Ph.D. from Cornell in 2003. Before coming to Williams, he served as an assistant professor at Yale University, teaching courses on social psychology, political psychology, social judgment, and the history of social psychology. His research has been published in a number of professional journals, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Inquiry, and Behavioral Brain Research. Lisa A. Gilbert, assistant professor of marine science and geosciences at Williams-Mystic. Gilbert received her A.B. in earth sciences from Dartmouth College in 1997 and her Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of Washington in 2004. Since 2002, she has been a marine scientist at Mystic Seaport. Amie A. Hane, assistant professor of psychology. Hane received her B.A. from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, in 1996 and her Ph.D. in applied developmental psychology from the University of Maryland Graduate School in 2002. Before coming to Williams, she served as a research assistant professor at the Institute for Child Study and assistant professor at the University of Maryland. Brent A. Heeringa, assistant professor of computer science. Heeringa received his B.A. in computer science and mathematics from the University of Minnesota in 1999 and his Ph.D. in computer science from University of Massachusetts in 2004. He has taught previously at Williams and the University of Massachusetts. His research has appeared in a number of peer reviewed publications and published colloquium proceedings. Robyn Marasco, assistant professor of political science. Marasco received her B.A. in government and philosophy from Smith College in 1999 and her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley in 2006. She won the Berkeley Continuing Students Fellowship in 2005. Her doctoral dissertation is titled "Critique on the Heights of Despair: Politics, Philosophy, and the Persistence of Hope." Morgan McGuire, assistant professor of computer science. McGuire received his B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT in 2000 and his Ph.D. in computer science from Brown University in 2006. His doctoral dissertation was titled "Computational Videography with a Single-Axis, Multi-Parameter Lens Camera." Steven E. Nafziger, assistant professor of economics. Nafziger received his B.A. in economics and history from Northwestern University in 2000 and his M.Phil. in economics from Yale University in 2003. He received an advanced research fellowship from the U.S. Department of State in 2004. His dissertation was titled "Communal Institutions, Resource Allocation, and Economic Growth in Russia, 1861-1905." Stephane P.R. Robolin, assistant professor of African-American studies. Robolin received his B.A. in English and philosophy from Tulane University in 1998 and his Ph.D. in English from Duke University in 2005. He has taught at Rutgers and Wake Forest universities. In 2004, he was awarded a Ford Foundation Summer Seminar Fellowship. His doctoral dissertation was titled "You Are Now in Fairyland: Remapping Resistance in South African and African American Literatures." Omar Sangare, assistant professor of theatre. Sangare received his M.F.A. in acting from the Theatre Academy in Warsaw, Poland in 1993 and has studied at the British-American Drama Academy. He has won a variety of acting awards, including the Shakespeare's Stars Award in 2002 and the Best in Acting Award in 1997. Sangare's most recent work is a Polish production of Othello which he directed and starred as Othello. Tanseli Savaser, assistant professor of economics. Savaser received her B.A. in economics at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey in 2000 and her Ph.D. at Brandeis University in 2006. At Brandeis, she won the 2005 Teaching Award as an Adjunct Instructor. Her doctoral dissertation is titled "Macro News and Large Exchange-Rate Movements: Through the Lens of Market Microstructure." Dorothy J. Wang, assistant professor of American studies. Wang received her B.A. in public policy from Duke University in 1985, her M.P.A. in international affairs from Princeton University in 1987, her M.A. in writing from John Hopkins University in 1993, and her Ph.D. in English literature from the University of California at Berkeley in 1998. Before coming to Williams, she taught in the English and Asian-American studies departments at Northwestern University. Her dissertation was on "Necessary Figures: Metaphor, Irony, and Parody in the Poetry of Li-Young Lee, Marilyn Chink, and John Yau." Amanda Wilcox, assistant professor of classics. Wilcox received her B.A. in classics from Reed College in 1996 and her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002. Before coming to Williams, she was an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, teaching courses on Rome, Latin poetry, history, prose, and oratory. Her doctoral dissertation was titled "The Epistolary Habit: Representation, Participation, and Exchange among the Roman Elite."

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Williamstown Planners Seek Input from Airbnb Proprietors

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
05:39AM / Thursday, November 14, 2024

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Planning Board on Tuesday discussed ways to reach out to residents who use their homes for short-term rentals as the body prepares to bring a bylaw regulating the practice to May's annual town meeting.

Short-term rentals – referred to as Airbnbs in the vernacular — have been a topic of conversation for the board for years. At one point, it was close to finalizing a bylaw proposal a couple of years ago but instead asked the Select Board to take up the project, as any such regulation would not be specific to a given zoning district but applicable to the town as a whole.

The Select Board effectively took no action after studying the question, leaving the planners to take it up again at the start of their 2024-25 cycle.

The board has a draft bylaw that would restrict short-term rentals of a primary dwelling unit to 90 days in a calendar year in the residential districts if approved by two-thirds of town meeting members. The rule, as drafted, would carve out exceptions: allowing unlimited rentals of a primary dwelling if the owner lives on the property in an accessory dwelling unit; allowing unlimited rentals of an individual bedroom in a home where the owner is residing; and allowing unlimited short-term rentals of ADUs if the owner lives in the primary residence.

What the board members want is feedback from residents who already rent their homes on services like Airbnb or Vrbo.

"Do people feel like the feedback we've gotten has been representative of different points of view," Chair Peter Beck asked his colleagues at Tuesday's meeting.

"In the current cycle, we haven't gotten any feedback," Kenneth Kuttner said.

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