FACULTY RESOURCES > SPRING 2001 FIPSE FELLOWS

Gaurav Desai
Gaurav Desai is an Assistant Professor of English with a joint appointment in the Program of African and African Diaspora Studies. A graduate of Northwestern University, Gaurav did his Phd at Duke and joined the Tulane faculty in 1996. He is the author of a forthcoming book in African Studies entitled Subject to Colonialism : African Self-fashioning and the Colonial Library and is currently researching a book of essays on colonial and postcolonial African literature. In March 2000, Gaurav hosted the annual conference of the Society for the study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States which brought to Tulane over 300 scholars from around the world. An active and enthusiastic participant in undergraduate education, Gaurav is currently affiliated with the Urban Village at Tulane.

David Jeffrey
David Jeffrey is a new assistant professor in political science. Prof. Jeffrey comes to Tulane University from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he completed his doctoral studies in February 2000 by submitting the dissertation titled, ³Citizenship, Exclusion, and Political Organizations: Political Responses to Immigrant Policy.² His areas of concentration are political economy, European politics, and American politics. Currently, (Spring 2001), he is teaching British Politics in the 20th Century (POLS 301-01) and Political Identities in Europe (POLS 301-02).

Anne McCall
Anne McCall is an Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian, where she has taught since coming to Tulane ten years ago. She is also serving as the current director of the Women's Studies Program. Her research and teaching in French focus on nineteenth-century French literature, life-writing, and culture, while her teaching responsibilities in Women's Studies include the Introduction and Feminist Theories. While at Tulane University, Professor McCall has participated in several initiatives to improve the academic experience of undergraduate students. In addition to teaching in the Freshman Writing Program and the First Year Explorations Program, she is a co-director of the Intensive Newcomb Program, a co-curricular women's leadership program that includes a minor in Women's studies. Prof. McCall hopes that by integrating service learning into the curriculum for the Introduction to Women's Studies, she can increase her students' knowledge of women's experiences, provide them with another way of learning, and deepen their understanding of education as a community commitment

Sara Singleton
Sara Singleton is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science who began teaching at Tulane in 1996. She teaches courses in environmental politics, American government, social and political movements, and politics and inequality. Her book, Constructing Cooperation: The Evolution of Institutions of Comanagement, concerns state/tribal contestation/cooperation in the management of Pacific Northwest Salmon fishing. She is currently doing research on collaborative environmental policy making around the world.

Molly Abel Travis
Molly Abel Travis, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of English at Tulane, is a scholar in the fields of twentieth-century British and American literature and culture, feminist theory, information technologies, and curriculum reform. She has received a Mellon and two NEH fellowships and was a participant in a group project funded by the Ford Foundation to reform the Women's Studies curriculum at Tulane. She is the recipient of several teaching awards including the Liberal Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Teaching Award of 1999. Professor Travis has occupied numerous leadership roles in Tulane's recent efforts to focus on learning and teaching, to reform the curriculum and prepare teachers, and to devise a strategic plan for the undergraduate experience. She chaired the Tulane Task Force on Teaching (1996-97). She served on the committee to develop the cross-disciplinary freshman writing seminar (1996) and to evaluate the freshman seminar pilot program (1998-99), and conducted a development workshop (Summer 1998) for arts and sciences faculty on how to teach writing in their content areas. She was a member of the steering committee of the Academic Center for Learning, Research, and Technology (1997). She chaired the Strategic Planning Committee on the Undergraduate Experience at Tulane (1998-99); the committee's report became the foundation of the undergraduate initiatives in the university's 36-Month Action Plan, which is the first stage of the ten year strategic plan. Professor Travis is a member of the newly formed Undergraduate Education Council, which will enable and support the objectives of the strategic plan. She (along with Professor Molly Rothenberg) received a grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents in 1999 to construct a computer and multi-media laboratory to instruct faculty and graduate students in writing technologies and in the production of web-based course materials. She is a member of the recently established Service Learning Committee. Professor Travis is currently involved in two outreach projects to engage Tulane in partnerships with New Orleans schools: with Newman School (K-12) in the National Humanities Center Teacher Leadership Development Program to plan and construct professional development seminars on a humanities topic; and in a grant project with McMain School (7-12) to help teachers use technology to enhance their teaching in the arts and humanities.

Deborah McGrady
Upon receiving her Ph.D. in French Medieval Literature from University of California, Santa Barbara (1997), Deborah McGrady was the first recipient of the Medieval Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship at Western Michigan University (1997-99), which funded research on using technology to teach medieval studies. She has published with Oxford University Press on her experience teaching a web-based course on "Heroes and villlains in the Middle Ages" at Western.

She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of French & Italian and Head of Lower-Level Language Teaching & Technology at Tulane. Her research activities include a book-length study entitled Rebellious Readers: Controlling Audience in Late Medieval Literature, a collection of essays on Christine de Pizan to be published by Routledge in 2002, and an edition of Les Epitres de l'Amant Vert by Jean Lemaire de Belges, to be published by Champion.