Provost’s Sabbatical Series Luncheon
Tuesday, October 23
Chris Chiappari, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Kim Kandl, Associate Professor of Biology
On behalf of Jim May, Provost and Dean of the College, CILA announces the Fall 2007 “Provost’s Sabbatical Series” Luncheon.
The Provost’s Sabbatical Series recognizes the wide range of impressive and fascinating sabbatical projects in which our faculty are engaged. Each semester, the Provost invites two faculty members to give short presentations about their scholarly/professional work in a manner accessible to a general audience. In addition, presenters comment on what they did to plan and prepare for their leaves, and on how they have managed the transition back to the classroom (including ways in which they have integrated their sabbatical work with their teaching). Presenters are chosen to highlight the diversity of sabbatical projects from recent faculty leaves.
During the first part of his year-long sabbatical, Chris Chiappari wrote an article on the immigration debate, an article on Maya religion and the Maya Movement, and a review essay on religion in Latin American to be published in the Fall issue of Latin American Research Review. He spent the second part of the year researching the Pentacostal/Charismatic movement in Guatemala, including five weeks of fieldwork in the highlands of Guatemala and in Guatemala City.
Kim Kandl used her sabbatical to continue her research using yeast as a model organism to study the proteins that make up the cytoskeleton (the cell’s network of support proteins), and how the cytoskeleton interacts with proteins involved in protein synthesis. She divided her time between her St. Olaf lab and a collaborator’s lab at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey. During her time on campus, Kim also worked to develop the new introductory integrated chemistry/biology courses (ChBi 125, 126, and 127) that are being offered for the first time this year.
