By Julia Fennell ’21
New faculty members at CC include:
Anbegwon Atuire, Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Studies
Atuire earned his MFA in English and Ph.D. in ethnic studies from the University of Colorado Boulder. His research lies at the intersection of Africana critical theory, Pan-African social movements, and indigenous Ghanaian Studies.
Celeste Diaz Ferraro, Economics and Business
Diaz Ferraro is a social scientist interested in entrepreneurship and social innovation as a means of fostering more equitable, resilient, and sustainable communities of well-being. She is a qualitative researcher in organization theory and entrepreneurship, with particular interest in the roles of power and agency in shaping the governance and social orientation of emergent fields and ecosystems. Diaz Ferraro focuses her teaching on societal problems and the potential for responsible business to generate solutions to those problems.
Varsha Koushik, Mathematics and Computer Science
Koushik holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in computer science from the University of Colorado Boulder. Koushik won the 3MT Thesis Competition at the University of Colorado Boulder this year, and the Hope Schultz Jozsa Award last year. Koushik was a lead teaching assistant in the university’s computer science department.
Dhanesh Krishnarao, Physics
Krishnarao received his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2020, with a minor in physics. Before starting at CC this fall, he was a National Science Foundation Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at John’s Hopkins University, as well as a block visitor at CC last year.
Maria Sanchez, Political Science
Sanchez holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Minnesota and a B.A. in international relations from Gonzaga University.
Steven Schwartz, Anthropology
Schwartz holds a Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology and an M.A. in social sciences from the University of Chicago, as well as a B.A. in anthropology from the Universidad Central de Venezuela. Schwartz was born and raised in Venezuela.
Leland Tabares, Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Studies
Tabares holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from Pennsylvania State University, as well as a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His book project, “Professionalizing Asian America: Race and Labor in the Twenty-First Century,” examines how the increasing representation of Asian Americans in a range of contemporary industry professions enculturates new meanings of race, belonging, and solidarity.
Additionally, CC welcomes two new Riley Scholars in Residence:
Oscar Ulloa, Spanish and Portuguese
Óscar Ulloa received his Ph.D. from the Hispanic Studies Department at the University of California, Riverside. Ulloa is currently a Post-Doctoral Riley Scholar-in-Residence and visiting instructor in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at Colorado College.
Preston Waltrip, English
Waltrip received his Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Riverside. He holds an M.A. in English from Texas Christian University and a B.A. in English from the University of Dallas.
