The Taft Professors

  
   David Minda  |  cv
   Magda Peligrad  |  cv
   Barbara Ramusack  |  cv
   Robert Richardson  |  cv
   Armando Romero  |  cv

Taft Emeriti

Patricia Hill Collins  | cv


David Minda

David Minda became Charles Phelps Taft Professor of Mathematics in 1999. Since earning his Ph.D. in 1970 from the University of California San Diego in 1970, his research has focused on geometric function theory, especially the role of hyperbolic geometry in this subject. He has published over 100 articles in research journals and conference proceedings. His research work was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation for over 20 years. Teaching concerns have played an important role in his career and he has received several teaching awards. For the past 15 years he has been actively involved in the department’s highly regarded Master of Arts for Teachers of Secondary Mathematics program. For the past 7 years he and Professor Charles Groetsch have received NSF support to work with area high school mathematics teachers through the Park City Mathematics Institute, a part of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, NJ.
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Magda Peligrad

Magda Peligrad is a professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences whose area of expertise is Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes. Her research deals with dependent structures and covers various aspects of modeling the dependence, maximal inequalities, and limit theorems. Most of the stochastic processes studied are weakly dependent, i.e. processes for which the dependence is diminishing with time. Example of these processes are: classes of Markov processes, Mixing Processes, Martingale like –sequences, time series, shift processes, associate processes and many others. Some of the limit theorems she discovered have immediate applicability to Statistics of dependent data and to Ergodic theory, making her field of research multidisciplinary. The results of her research made the subject of over 50 papers and chapters in various books, and a very large number of lectures in United States and abroad. Her research was rewarded by several National Science Foundation and National Security Agency grants.
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Barbara Ramusack

Barbara N. Ramusack has her M. A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan and teaches modern South Asian history. Three Fulbright Fellowships and grants from the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Charles Phelps Taft Fund, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Smithsonian Institution have supported her research in India and Britain. She has published numerous articles and essays on the princely states of India and on women in India during the late colonial period. Her recent publications are Women in Asia: Restoring Women to History (1999) co-authored with Sharon Sievers, The Princes of India for the New Cambridge History of India (2004), and seven entries on Indian princes and one on Margaret Cousins in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004). Her current research is on maternal and infant health in the princely state of Mysore and the neighboring British province of Madras from 1870 to 1947.
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Robert Richardson

Dr. Robert C. Richardson is a Professor of Philosophy in the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Cincinnati. He earned hs B.A. from the University of Colorado (1971) and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (1977). He has held numerous visiting appointments including Mercator professor of Cognititve Science, University of Osnabruck (2005) and Visiting faculty, Department of Molecular Cell Physiology, Free university of Amsterdam (1993-94). Professor Richardson is the author of Discovering Complexity: Decomposition and Localization as Strategies in Scientific Research (1993) considered a seminal work in the area of philosophy of science and biology and the author of over sixy academic articles in the areas of philosophy of science, cognitive science, philosophy of ecology, history of biology (19th century), philosophy of the mind, and the history of psychology. Professor Richardson has received awards and grant support from the National Science Foundation, National Research Council, National Endowment for the Humanitites, and the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst, Germany and serves on numerous editorial boards for academic journals and presses. In the near three decades of service to the University of Cincinnati, Professor Richardson has served two terms as Head of the Department of Philosophy, Director of Graduate Studies, and as a member of the Charles Phelps Taft Faculty Executive Board as well as Taft standing committees. curriculum vitae

Armando Romero

Armando Romero obtained his Ph.D. (1983) and his M.A. (1981) in Latin American Literature from the University of Pittsburgh. A scholar and a writer, Professor Romero has dedicated his life to the study and practice of literature. Although he has written numerous articles on contemporary Latin American fiction, his field of concentration has been Latin America poetry. His book, Las palabras están en situación, was considered by the Colombian critics to be one of the most important books published in the XX Century on this subject. This book, and the following book, El Nadaismo o la búsqueda de una vanguardia, have been adopted as text books in Colombian universities. As an author, Professor Romero has written poetry, novels and short stories. All of them have been acclaimed by the critics. The academic journal, Hispanic Poetry Review (Texas A&M University), recently published an extensive interview on his work. Also, in the year 2004 he was invited to read his poetry at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Currently, thanks to a Taft Research Competitive Fellowship, Professor Romero is working on an ambitious project that deals with the inner life of contemporary Latin American poetry. The result of this research will be the publication of a book. Furthermore, Professor Romero is working, with the editor Luis F. Macias, from the Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia, on an edition of his collected poems, and he is also researching for a novel dealing with the Afro-Colombian communities in the Pacific Coast of Colombia. curriculum vitae

 

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