Tenure and promotions announced for three 鎊飪腦瞳faculty members
鎊飪腦瞳 is pleased to announce three members of the faculty were granted tenure and promotion to associate professor at the February 2024 meeting of the 鎊飪腦瞳 Board of Trustees.
Mauricio Castro joined the 鎊飪腦瞳 faculty in 2019 as an assistant professor of history. His areas of professional expertise include Latino studies and political and urban history. He received a Kirk Award in 2023, recognizing outstanding teaching. In 2024, Castro published Only A Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformation of Miami with the University of Pennsylvania Press. He was written for the Washington Post and Time. Castro received his bachelors degree from Vassar College and earned masters and doctoral degrees from Purdue University.
Peter Haffner joined the 鎊飪腦瞳faculty in 2019 and served as an assistant professor of art history. His interdisciplinary arts-based research centers on the work of Haitian artists and the complex global cultural dynamics in which it is produced, exhibited and circulated. Haffner was previously a Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Museum of African Art. He received his bachelors degree from Bard College and completed his doctorate degree at UCLA.
Christina Garcia 05 joined the 鎊飪腦瞳faculty in 2018 as assistant professor of biology and biochemistry and molecular biology. Her areas of professional expertise include genetic and epigenetic regulation of development in plant and animal model systems. Garcia also conducts pedagogical research integrating novel molecular biotechnology techniques into course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) for students. Before coming to Centre, she was a postdoctoral teaching scholar in the biotechnology program at North Carolina State University and a postdoctoral researcher at Baylor College of Medicine in the department of nutrition. Garcia received her bachelors degree from 鎊飪腦瞳and completed her doctorate at Vanderbilt University.
