University at Buffalo - The State University of New York

Published: December 1, 2005

Name: Christian Flaugh
School: College of Arts and Sciences
Department: Romance Languages and Literatures
Academic Title: Assistant Professor
Academic Degrees: B.A., English literature, Hope College; M.A., French, Middlebury College (School in France); Ph.D., French literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Areas of Special Interest: Francophone literature, particularly Caribbean, North African and Québecois (especially Québecois migrant literature); studies of the body and normality (disability studies, freak culture); theater (performance and literary analysis)
I co-founded and perform in a French-language educational theater troupe, le Théâtre de la Chandelle Verte. We tour college campuses and other venues to perform and conduct student-centered workshops. This year, we are touring a collection of Eugène Ionesco's work, the best-known of which is "La leçon" ("The Lesson"). Consult http://www.chandelleverte.com for more information.

Name: Robert H. Keefe
School: Social Work
Department: Social Work
Academic Title: Associate Professor
Academic Degrees: B.A., Ithaca College; MSSA, Case Western Reserve University; Ph.D., University at Albany
Areas of Special Interest: Health and mental health care access and disparities and social work education
My current projects include work on the impact of racial and ethnic disparities in access to health care, primarily in the areas of HIV, obesity and diabetes.

Name: Marieme S. Lo
School: College of Arts and Sciences
Department: Women's Studies
Academic Title: Assistant Professor
Academic Degrees: Licence, Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne; M.A., University of Dakar; M.S. and Ph.D., Cornell University; Postdoctorate, University of Oxford
Areas of Special Interest: Gender; development planning and policies; disaster, post-conflict reconstruction and human security; education and human development; microfinance, the informal economy and the gendered dimensions of poverty and inequality; gender, food security and environmental justice
I am working on a manuscript that critically analyzes the social significance of female entrepreneurship in household welfare and decision-making, and the impact of women's assets in intergenerational social mobility. Critical to this analysis is to uncover intersectional subordination, finance equity gap and the socio-economic, political and cultural structures within which women entrepreneurs assert agency and construct identities in the increasingly globalized and contested socio-economic spaces in Africa.

Name: Peihong Zhang
School: College of Arts and Sciences
Department: Physics
Academic Title: Assistant Professor
Academic Degrees: Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Areas of Special Interest: Understanding and predicting materials properties from first principles, with emphases on nanostructured and other novel materials, computational materials design and development of new theoretical and computational techniques
My current projects involve work on electronic and structural properties of novel nanostructured materials and electron-phonon coupling in covalent metals.