Jean Robinson
E104 Sex, Technology and Power

Jean Robinson just returned from France a year in where she researched abortion policy, visited AIDS information offices, drank wine, and ate lots of good French pastry. Her research has been on family and women's policies in China, Poland, and France. She teaches in Political Science and is also the newly appointed Dean for Women's Affairs.



Bronislava Volková
E103 What is the feeling Behind Text?

Bronislava Volková (see also Bronislava Volek) was born in 1946 in Czechoslovakia. She grew up in Prague where she studied Slavic and Spanish linguistics and literature and received her Ph.D. at Charles University, Prague in 1970 in Slavic and General Linguistics. In 1974, she left Czechoslovakia for political reasons. After a two year stay in West Germany, where she taught at the University of Cologne and Marburg, she emigrated to the United States, where she taught at Harvard and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. She is currently a Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, as well as a Director of a large Czech Program and an Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature.

Martha Crouch
E105 Biology of Food








Marc Muskavitch
E105 Parasites, Pestilence, and People








Allan MacDonald
E105 Breaking the Cosmic Code

As a young person growing up in Notia, I was astonished to learn that a small number of subtle notions and a little bit of careful algebra could together faithfully represent much of the world of experience. Providing a common explanation for the the locomotion of lobster dories and heavenly bodies was, for me, a triumph of human civilization. The ability of physical theory to organize and predict phenomena in the natural world has for years, and still continues, to entertain me as I have spent my life participating in the further development of this branch of knowledge. I have lived in Bloomington with my wife and my two children, both IU students, for more than ten years. We all enjoy the idiosyncratic charm of this unusual town where free thinking traditions from all over the country and the world are grounded and renewed by midwestern solidity. From eclectic Ryder films at Bear's place which are somehow enhanced by an abysmal projection system, to hurried lunches at Siam House, to operas at the MAC, it has been fun. However, we still spend as much time as we can in Nova Scotia. There it is still possible on early summer mornings to watch the sun rise over Cape Breton Island and turn the water of St. George's Bay into a golden backdrop for a dory sliding silently between lobster traps. The sun and the dory obey the laws of physics. I obey my heart.

Katherine Beckett
E103 Gender and Violence

Professor Beckett received her Ph.D. in sociology. Her research focuses on the political and cultural dimensions of crime-related issues. This research has been the basis of several articles, including an analysis of the impact of state officials on media depictions of the drug issue, published in the Journal of Research in Political Sociology, and examinations of the role of state officials in raising public concern about crime and drugs and the changing nature of media discussions of child sexual abuse, both published in Social Problems. This research is also the foundation of her forthcoming book, Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics, to be published by Oxford University Press. Her current research projects focus on the resurgence of biological theories of crime and on the political-economic conditions that underlie the expansion of the social control apparatus. Professor Beckett teaches courses on criminological theory, drugs and society, and social control in theory and practice.

Emanual Mickel
E103 A Question of Love

I was born in a small town in Illinois, twenty miles from Chicago. My great-great grandmother founded Missouri University and my mother always said that the family produced preachers and professors.  My own inclination was to play professional sports with the thought that once my glory as a professional athlete had been attained, I might well retire to the classroom.  Last year my thoughts of a golf career were finally put to rest at the fortieth reunion of my high school class where I was cajoled by my former team members to accept a challenge.  I need say no more.

Wendy Gamber
E104 Gender and Sexuality in American History

I received my bachelor and master degrees in History from the University of California at Davis and my PhD in the History of American Civilization from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Once bicoastal, I am now happily Midwestern. I enjoy traveling (especially on research trips to the Boston area), gardening, and (when I can find the time) long walks. My research interests concern women and gender in the nineteenth-century United States. I am currently writing a book called "Houses, Not Homes" on boardinghouses in early nineteenth-century America.