History of Art chair will be house professor at newest W. Campus residence
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Shirley Samuels, professor of English and chair of the History of Art Department at Cornell University, has been appointed dean and house professor at the new Flora Rose House on the university's West Campus. Her term as dean and house professor is from July 1, 2009, to June 30, 2012.
"I am delighted that Shirley Samuels has accepted the position of dean and professor at the Flora Rose House," said Cornell President David Skorton. "Her scholarship and dedication to Cornell students will be a major asset to the West Campus Residential Initiative."
Samuels teaches courses in American Studies, English, feminist studies, gender and sexuality, and visual studies. Her research and teaching focus on relations among art, literature and politics. She has written numerous books, including "Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War" (Oxford University Press, 2004) and "Romances of the Republic: Women, the Family and Violence in the Literature of the Early American Nation" (Oxford University Press, 1996).
The Flora Rose House is the fifth and final residence constructed for Cornell's innovative West Campus Residential Initiative. This initiative has created an undergraduate living and learning housing environment that is designed to encourage interaction between faculty and students. Each of the five residences, which include the Alice Cook, Hans Bethe, Carl Becker, William Keeton and Flora Rose houses, has a live-in faculty dean/house professor, who serves as a mentor, along with 30 house-fellow faculty who are associated with each of the houses.
Flora Rose House was completed in September 2008 and will open to students in August 2009. It is named after a noted faculty member who worked with Martha Van Rensselaer to create a new department that eventually became Cornell's College of Home Economics and later, Cornell's College of Human Ecology.
For more information about the West Campus Residential Initiative, visit:
http://westcampushousesystem.cornell.edu.
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