New Faculty Members Join the College of Arts and Sciences
Dr. David Geronimo Truc-Thanh Embrick
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Dr. David Geronimo Truc-Thanh Embrick joined Loyola's Department of Sociology after completing his doctoral degree at Texas A&M University. Embrick's areas of expertise are race and ethnic relations, racial attitudes, and diversity in the workplace. In his dissertation, Embrick studied the discrepancies between corporations' public views and statements on diversity and their implementation of diversity as a policy; he found that corporate managers are using diversity as a mantra while they maintain highly racially inequitable environments. Dr. Embrick has already published articles in a number of journals including the Journal of Intergroup Relations, Race and Society, Research in Political Sociology, and Sociological Forum. Embrick is active in the American Sociological Association, and is also a member of the Association of Black Sociologists, Sociologists Without Borders, and Sociologists for Women in Society.
Dr. Duke Han
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Dr. Duke Han earned his BS degree and neuroscience certificate from Duke University, and his doctorate from the University of Massachusetts in Boston. He received his formal clinical neuropsychology training through the Brigham Behavioral
Neurology Group of Brigham and Women's Hospital, and his neuroimaging research training through the Schizophrenia Research Project of Harvard Medical School's department of psychiatry. Dr. Han recently completed a clinical neuropsychology internship and an NIH-funded neuroimaging research postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California San Diego. He has published papers on the neuroscience of schizophrenia, brain imaging factors related to Alzheimer's disease, and executive functioning in children. In 2006, he received the Nelson Butters Award for best postdoctoral research presentation from the International Neuropsychological Society.
Dr. Rick Holz
Chairperson for the Department of Chemistry
Holz graduated from Bemidji State University in 1984 with a BS degree in Chemistry. He received an MS degree in Chemistry in 1986 from the University of Minnesota-Duluth and a PhD in Chemistry from The Pennsylvania State University in 1989. He was a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Research Fellow, and achieved the rank of Professor at Utah State University. Holz has given more than 75 invited lectures at universities and professional meetings both in the U.S. and around the world, and has received more than 3.7 million dollars in grant money for research projects ranging from biological chemistry to nanotechnology. He has been married to his wife Ania for nearly three years and has two lovely daughters, two-year old Emilia, and one-year old Marika. He enjoys playing with his daughters, fishing, wood-working, cooking, and sports of all kinds.
Dr. Richard Matland
Helen Houlahan Rigali Professor of Political Science 
Dr. Richard Matland received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Michigan in 1991. Prior to his appointment at Loyola University Chicago in Fall 2006, Matland held positions at the University of Bergen and the University of Trondheim in Norway, and the University of Houston in Houston, Texas. Dr. Matland's work crosses several fields including public policy, comparative politics, and American politics. His research includes studying the effect of electoral systems on women's representation in legislatures, as well as school choice programs in the United States, policy implementation, and theories of distributive justice. Matland has published articles in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Social Science Quarterly, and the Canadian Journal of Political Science, as well as many other journals and books. A native of Wisconsin, Dr. Matland is looking forward to seeing the seasons change in Chicago, and hopes he has not forgotten how to survive cold winters after 15 years in Texas!
Full listing of new CAS faculty, 2006-2007
ANTHROPOLOGY
PENGLASE, BEN
BIOLOGY
KANZOK, STEFAN
SCHROETER, ERIC
SURGES, BREE
CHEMISTRY
HOLZ, RICHARD
MAY, DONALD
NALEWAY, CONRAD
TARASOV, EUGENE
CLASSICAL STUDIES
JOHNSON, AARON
COMMUNICATION
LIEBLICH, JULIA
SORG, CHRISTOPHER
ENGLISH
BOYLE, TERENCE
FENTON, ELIZABETH
HISTORY
LEE, CALINDA
NEWMAN, SCOTT
SUSZKO, MAREK
MATH & STATS
KROP, ELLIOT
MC CALLUM, MATTHEW
WALSH, MOLLY
WIDENER, CHARLES
MODERN LANGUAGES & LITS
KNIGHT, ALRICK
NATURAL SCIENCE
EAMES, JAMES
PHILOSOPHY
HARRINGTON, JAMES
PREISS, JOSHUA
REHG, S.J., WILLIAM
POLITICAL SCIENCE
MATLAND, RICHARD
PSYCHOLOGY
HAN, DUKE
SOTO, TOMAS
SOCIOLOGY
EMBRICK, DAVID
WEDAM, ELFRIEDE
THEATRE
APPLEBAUM, SUSAN
BERKHOUT, BJORN (MUSIC)
KANG, HAYSUN (MUSIC)
KEENAN, LEE
THEOLOGY
FRE, YOHANNES GHEBREMEDHIN
LUPIERI, EDMONDO (CODY CHAIR)
MC CARTHY, S.J., MICHAEL