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Constance Balides
Communications Department
Dr. Constance Balides, an Associate Professor at Tulane University, teaches film in the Department of Communication. Her scholarly work focuses on the silent period of U.S. cinema, especially historical questions about the representation of women in film and theoretical questions about the status of films as historical texts and history writing. She also does work on the relationship between the early and contemporary periods, looking at how economic considerations (Fordism and post-Fordism) affect the cultural meaning of cinema. She holds a B.A. in philosophy from Wesleyan University and an M.A. and Ph.D in English (Modern Studies Program) from the University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee. Before becoming an academic, Professor Balides graduated from Glasgow, Scotland, and was involved in community film projects including film courses for the WEA (Workers Education Association).

Jim Elliot
Sociology Department
Dr. Jim Elliott is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at Tulane University. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and accepted a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before joining the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill joining the Tulane faculty in Fall 1999. Dr. Elliott's research interests are in racial, ethnic and gender inequality and urban development. He recently received a Young Urban Scholars fellowship from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to study immigrant churning and adaptation in New York and Los Angeles. In 2002, he received the Newcomb Alumnae Association's annual Excellence in Teaching Award.

Kevin Fox Gotham
Sociology Department
Kevin Fox Gotham received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in 1997. He specializes in theory, urban sociology, political economy, and comparative/historical sociology. His theoretical interests are in classical and modern theory, critical theory, postmodern theories, and applications of theory. His empirical research focuses on metropolitan development, the causes and consequences of racial residential segregation, and the history of urban planning and federal housing policy. He has published articles on school segregation and desegregation, public housing, anti-expressway movements, mortgage lending and redlining, housing policy, and the FBI. He is the author of Race, Real Estate and Uneven Development: The Kansas City Experience, 1900 - 2000 (SUNY Press, 2002) and editor of Critical Perspectives on Urban Redevelopment (Elsevier Press, 2001). Prof. Gotham is currently exploring the rise and dominance of tourism in New Orleans. He is also investigating the globalization of U.S. real estate industry and the restructuring of the housing finance system over the last few decades. He teaches Urban Sociology, Social Theory, and Urban Policy and Planning.

Garic C. Grisbaum
Cell and Molecular Biology Department
Dr. Garic Grisbaum is the Director of Pre-Medical Education for the Cell and Molecular Biology Department. He also is the Co-Director for the CMB One-year Master of Science Program. Dr. Grisbaum was awarded his Doctor of Medicine from Louisiana State University in 1995 and performed post-medical training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Psychiatry, and research in Pathology prior to joining Tulane University in the Spring of 2001. At Tulane University, he teaches Careers in Medicine, Gross Anatomy, Seminars in Cell and Molecular Biology, and Research/Service Learning.

Denise L. Newman
Psychology Department
Denise L. Newman is a developmental psychopathologist who joined the faculty in the Department of Psychology at Tulane University in 2002. She received her Ph.D. in clinical and developmental psychology from the University of Minnesota and her clinical internship training at the University of Chicago Medical Center, in child and adolescent psychiatry. Before coming to Tulane, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University's Center on Adolescence and was an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia. Her research and teaching interests are in the field of developmental psychopathology where she studies assessment, clinical theory, and mental health practices with American Indian and other ethnic minority children and adolescents. Specifically, she studies the cognitive and emotional components of personality during important transitions in developmental context. She is a recipient of the William T. Grant Foundation Faculty Scholar's Award for longitudinal research on personality development in American Indian adolescents during their transition from middle to high school. She teaches at the undergraduate and graduate levels in psychological science and in the doctoral training program in school psychology, including courses in personality, clinical intervention, psychological assessment, and developmental psychopathology.