MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — Three members of the Middlebury College faculty have been promoted from assistant professor to the rank of associate professor without limit of tenure: James Calvin Davis, from the religion department; Anne Kelly Knowles, from the department of geography; and Antonia Losano, from the English and American literatures department.
The board of trustees, at its meeting on December 7, accepted the recommendations of President Ronald D. Liebowitz and the board’s educational affairs committee in promoting the three faculty members. Their promotions take effect July 1, 2007.
James Calvin Davis (religion) received his B.S. from Dickinson College, a master’s in Divinity from the Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, and his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia. His areas of specialization include Christian ethics, especially Reformed theology and ethics); English and American Puritan thought; American religion, especially in the 17th and 18th centuries; religion and American politics; and bioethics. Davis joined the Middlebury faculty in 2001. He has published numerous articles and essays, and his book, The Moral Theology of Roger Williams: Christian Conviction and Public Ethics, was published in 2004 by the Westminster John Knox Press. Two other books are in the works: Good Faith Reasons: Religion and America’s Debate over Moral Values; and On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger Williams.
Anne Kelly Knowles (geography) joined the Middlebury faculty in 2002. She received her B.A. in English from Duke University, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her areas of interest, academically, include historical geography; historical GIS (applying GIS and other geospatial methods to historical research and teaching); cultural landscapes; labor and technology in the 19th century; and the Welsh diaspora. In addition to many articles and book chapters, she has edited the books Placing History: How GIS Is Changing Historical Scholarship (ESRI Press, publication expected in the fall of 2007), and Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History (ESRI Press, 2002). Another book project under way is Hard as Iron: The Struggle to Modernize the American Iron Industry (under contract, University of Chicago Press).
Antonia Losano (English & American literatures), earned her B.A. in English and Classical Studies from Boston University, a master’s degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a master’s and a Ph.D. in English Literature from Cornell University. Her academic areas of interest include Victorian literature and culture; rhetoric and composition; English Romanticism; gender studies; literary theory; cultural studies; and interdisciplinary approaches to literature. She has published numerous articles, book chapters and reviews. The Ohio State University Press expects to publish her book, The Erotics of the Aesthetic: Gender and the Scene of Painting in Victorian Literature, in 2007. Losano joined the Middlebury faculty in 1999.