New Faculty and Staff Members at USM’s
L-A College
Dr. Zark VanZandt, dean of the University of Southern Maine’s
Lewiston-Auburn College (LAC) has announced the following
faculty and staff appointments:
Christy
Hammer, Ph.D., has been appointed associate professor
of social and behavioral sciences. Dr. Hammer, who resides
in Scarborough, earned her doctoral degree in sociology
from the University of New Hampshire. Her major area of
specialization was in sociology of education. Prior to
coming to LAC, Hammer served as associate professor of
education and director of secondary education at Rivier
College in Nashua, New Hampshire. She has also worked
as a consultant in social studies and in minority affairs/civil
rights for the NH Department of Education. Dr. Hammer
is teaching sociology and deviance and social control,
and is also working with teacher education students in
a course on how to teach social studies at the elementary
and middle school level.
Hsin-Yi
Lu, Ph.D., has been appointed assistant professor
of social and behavioral sciences. Dr. Lu was awarded
a baccalaureate degree in zoology from the National Taiwan
University and her MA in anthropology from the National
Tsing Hua University, both in Taiwan. She earned her doctorate
in anthropology from the University of Washington. Lu
has taught previously at Franklin Pierce College and Keene
State College in New Hampshire, and also at the Fu Jen
Catholic University in Taiwan. Her areas of specialization
include globalization and localization, and place and
community. Her first book, The Politics of Locality: Making
a Nation of Communities in Taiwan, was published last
year. At LAC Dr. Lu is teaching courses in anthropology
and globalization. She resides in Bowdoinham.
Kim
Chamberland has been appointed as a science lab
technician. She recently graduated with high honors from
LAC with a baccalaureate degree in natural and applied
sciences and a concentration in biology of health and
illness. While a student she served as a lab and research
assistant and worked with faculty in conducting research
on water quality and levels of genetic damage in fish
in the Androscoggin River. Chamberland, who lives in Auburn,
was honored last May with the College’s Distinguished
Student Award.
