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Henry L. Bart
Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology Department
Henry L. Bart, Jr. is Associate Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology at Tulane University and Director and Curator of Fishes of the Tulane Museum of Natural History. He is also Editor of Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany and Occasional Papers Tulane University Museum of Natural History. A native of New Orleans, Bart earned his B.S. (1979) and M.S. (1981) from the University of New Orleans, and a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Oklahoma (1985). He held faculty positions at the University of Illinois and Auburn University prior to joining the faculty at Tulane University in 1992. His area of research specialization is ecology and systematics of fishes. He is presently researching organismal and community responses to environmental degradation and contamination, and the special role specimens and data from natural history collections can play in understanding these responses. A major emphasis of this research is biotic changes in large rivers, including the lower Mississippi River. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and active in a number of other professional societies. His courses at Tulane include Ichthyology, Vertebrate Morphology, and Stream Ecology. He developed (and taught for two years) the Mississippi River Basin Colloquium and now serves on a faculty advisory committee for the Mississippi River Living and Learning Village.

Elizabeth Burns Gamard
School of Architecture
Elizabeth Burns Gamard studied art and design at Cranbrook Academy and the University of Michigan before receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts cum laude from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1981. In 1984, Professor Gamard received her Master of Architecture degree from Yale University. While engaged in various forms of professional practice, she has taught at several institutions of higher learning, including the Universities of Cincinnati and Florida, the Central European University in Prague and Rice University, and has been the recipient of several major teaching and research awards. Since 1986, Professor Gamard has lectured and published widely on topics pertaining to Central European literature, art, and architecture, with specific expertise in the history and theories on nineteenth- and twentieth-century German art and architecture. In May of 2000, her book, Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau: The Cathedral of Erotic Misery, was published by Princeton Architectural Press. Currently, Professor Gamard is an Associate Professor and the Associate Dean of Architecture at Tulane University. She is married to the architect Paul Hampton Gamard and has a six-year old daughter, Sarah Campbell Burns Gamard.

Gayle Murchison
Music Department
Gayle Murchison, Ph.D. is assistant professor of historical musicology and teaching courses in European art music and American music in the Newcomb Department of Music. Murchison specializes in Twentieth century, American, and African American musics. She has published articles and presented research on William Grant Still, Aaron Copland, Mary Lou Williams, Edmund Thornton Jenkins, and Revella Hughes. Presently, Murchison is developing courses in American vernacular music and African American music and aesthetics. She completed her Ph.D. at Yale University and also studied composition at the Hartt School. Murchison's musical compositions have been performed in Connecticut, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and New Orleans.

Brian Potter
Political Science Department
Brian Potter has been an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tulane University since 1999. His fields of interest include international relations, environmental politics and Latin American development. Potter has written several articles on environmental politics and is finishing a book explaining the varied success of countries in sustainable fisheries management. Additionally at Tulane, he as co-organized seminars in Latin American political economy and worked with the Neo-Tropical Ecology Institute.

Carol Michael McReese
English Department
Carol McMichael Reese is an art historian who teaches in the School of Architecture at Tulane University, New Orleans, where she also directs the Global Village Living/Learning Community for Tulane. At Tulane she teaches courses on architecture and urban history and theory, focusing particularly on the Amercas. From 1996-1998, she was the Director of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, a program of the MAK, Austrian Museum of Applied Art, Vienna. At the MAK Center, her exhibitions included the work of Diana Thater, Martin Kippenberger, and Gordon Matta Clark. She has taught at the University of California in San Diego and Los Angeles, the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles, and the University of Maryland in College Park. She lectures internationally and publishes widely on art, architecture, and urbanism of the twentieth century. She was co-curator of the exhibition "Buenos Aires 1910, Memories of the World to Come," which was installed in 1999 at the Abasto in Buenos Aires, and traveled to the World Bank in Washington, D.C., and the World Financial Center in New York. Her current research includes studies of nineteenth and twentieth-century Latin American architecture and urbanism and the history of public housing in the United States.

John Patton
Communication Department