FACULTY RESOURCES > FALL 2002 FIPSE FELLOWS

Alice Pascal-Escher
Theatre and Dance Department


Barbara Haley
Theatre and Dance Department
Barbara Hayley is Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Theatre and Dance at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Ms. Hayley holds an MFA degree from New York University Tisch School of the Arts. She has been a member of the Tulane University faculty since 1985. In Louisiana, Ms. Hayley has directed New Orleans Dance, a modern dance repertory company, for fourteen years. With New Orleans Dance and the New Orleans Ballet Association Dance Institute, Ms. Hayley directed community based residencies titled "Children Dancing for Children" for Thomas A. Edison and Martin Luther King schools in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, "In Motion" residencies with public schools in St. Bernard, St. Charles and Orleans parishes, and lecture-demonstrations titled "Dancing in Space, Shape, Time and Motion" for Young Audiences and NOPS. Other community partnerships include the NORD/NOBA Center for Dance Step-Up and Footbridge programs and New Orleans Arts Connection programs. New Orleans Dance and Ms. Hayley have received numerous dance company grants and awards from the state of Louisiana and the city of New Orleans, including the 1999 Mayor's Arts Award. Through an International Fulbright Senior Scholar Award in 1997-1998, Ms. Hayley choreographed and taught dance in Russia, where her work was presented in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, and Yaroslavl, Russia.

Amy Koritz
English Department
Amy Koritz is Associate Professor of English, with expertise in 20th century literature and culture. Her teaching and research interests are broadly interdiscplinary, ranging from dance and performance studies to the culture of economics and work and urban studies. Her first book, Gendering Bodies/Performing Art: Dance and Literature in Early Twentieth-Century British Culture( Michigan 1995), led to her election to the Board of Directors of the Society of Dance History Scholars. Professor Koritz has also engaged in sustained collaboration with economists, published two co-authored essays on the relationship between economists, publishing two co-authored essays on the relationship between economic theory and culture. She was founding Director of the First-Year Experience Program and the Urban Village Living Learning Community at Tulane. The intent of both projects was to further the engagement of Tulane undergraduates in the New Orleans community as an integral part of their education. In keeping with this commitment, for the past three years all of her courses have included service learning components.

Jimmy Huck
Latin American Studies
James D. Huck, Jr., is Assistant Director and Graduate Advisor in the Stone Center for Latin American Studies. He is also a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department. Jimmy earned a BS in Foreign Service with a Certificate in Latin American Studies (1990) from Georgetown University, and both his MA (1993) and his Ph.D. (1997) in Latin American Studies from Tulane. Before rejoining the Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane in January of 2001, he served as the founding Director of the Johnson Center for Latin American Studies at Albright College in Reading, PA (1998-2000). His responsibilities at the Stone Center include teaching core undergraduate Latin American Studies courses, advising graduate students, and monitoring and coordinating the Latin American Studies curriculum at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. His research interests include Mexican diplomatic history, contemporary Mexican foreign policy, and Interamerican Relations.

Joan Bennett
Ecology, Evolution, Organismal Biology Deparment
Joan W. Bennett is a Professor Cell and Molecular Biology at Tulane University. Her scientific interests focus on the genetics of filamentous fungi. The work in her laboratory concerns the biosynthesis of mycotoxins and the biodegradation of munitions. Joan also enjoys participating in professional societies. She is a past president of the American Society for Microbiology and of the Society of Industrial Microbiology. She is Editor-in- Chief of Mycologia, the journal of the Mycological Society for American, and co-editor in Chief of Advances in Applied Microbiology. Her teaching interests, however, encompass a number of topics outside of microbiology. In addition to Genetics, she teaches the Biology of Human Reproduction and Biomedical Ethics. She is the mother of three grown sons, a long time jogger, an avid reader, and a passionate collector of mushroom kitsch. Someday she hopes to write a cookbook on "Food Fermentations: Microbiology for the Kitchen."