New Faculty
This
article was originally printed in the December 1999 issue of CLASnotes.
Assistant professor of communication sciences and disorders Debbie Moncrieff (right)earned her PhD from the University of Texas at Dallas. Her research focuses on the auditory processing problems of children with dyslexia. Using event-related potentials (ERPs) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques to record brain activity during auditory input, she hopes to develop better diagnostic tools for establishing auditory processing disorders at an earlier age and to identify the subgroups of individuals within disordered populations (dyslexia, ADD/ADHD, hearing impaired, psychosocial disorders) who have specific auditory processing deficits. In her spare time, Moncrieff enjoys cooking, reading, movies, walking her dog and gardening.
Sara Schatz (left), an assistant professor of sociology, received her PhD in December from UCLA, having completed a dissertation entitled "Delayed Transitions to Democracy: The Case of Mexico." Her research focuses on the social bases of democratization, the relationship between political and legal development, and social struggles for citizenship rights. She is currently expanding the comparative focus of her research, building on her forthcoming book, Elites, Masses and the Struggle for Democracy: A Culturalist Approach (Praeger, 2000). In addition, she recently authored an article on Latin American indigenous actors' struggles for juridic rights to political autonomy.
