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Four Carolina faculty members have been appointed as chairs of their
departments effective July 1 for five-year terms.
They are:
* John G. Akin;
* Bard D. Ehrman;
* Vidyadhar Kulkarni; and
* Rachel Rosenfeld.
Akin
Professor of economics, John Akin teaches classes in the economics of
health in developing countries, health economics policy, and public economics
policy.
In that regard, one of his areas of research is the evaluation of data from
eight Chinese provinces to see how the health of specific groups of Chinese
people has been affected by social and economic changes.
He also uses data collected in developing countries to evaluate the behaviors
of adults and their children in seeking health services. One of the types of
questions often evaluated is whether a small fee for certain types of health
care will cause the poor to avoid using important care.
Akin has served as an advisor to international organizations, such as the World
Bank; to governments of developing countries, including Indonesia and Uganda;
and on health sector funding options. He aided in the development of the World
Bank's official policy on health financing, and has testified before the U.S.
Congress on fiscal capacity of local governments.
A book Akin co-authored, The Demand for Primary Health Care in the Third
World, was selected as one of the ten most important health economics books
by the editors of Health Policy and Planning in 1986.
He was selected as plenary speaker at "International Congress of World
Federation of Public Health Associations" in Mexico City in 1987.
He earned his doctoral degree from the University of Michigan.
Ehrman
Professor of religous studies, Bart Ehrman teaches classes in the New
Testament and the History of Early Christianity. He has been the recipient of a
Bowman and Gordon Gray Professorship, awarded for undergraduate teaching; a
Phillip and Ruth Hettlemann Prize; and an Undergraduate Students' Teaching
Award.
The primary focus of his research is the New Testament, the historical Jesus,
and Greek manuscripts.
Ehrman has served as editor, and on the editorial boards, of a number of
publications, among them The New Testament in the Greek Fathers, New
Testament Tools and Studies, and Studies and Documents.
Among his books are The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the
Early Christian Writings, 2nd edition; Jesus: Apocalyptic Prohpet of the
New Millennium; After the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity;
and The New Testament and Other Early Christian Writings: A Reader.
Ehrman has been elected to terms as president and vice president of the
Southeast Region's Society of Biblical Literature, has served on the executive
committee of the Southeast Council for the Study of Religion, and chair of New
Testament Textual Criticism Section of the Society of Biblical Literature,
among many other affiliations. He has been a member of Carolina Speakers Bureau
since 1996.
He received his advanced degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary.
Kulkarni
Vidyadhar G. Kulkarni is the Norman L. Johnson distinguished term
professor in the Department of Operations Research.
Although his is primarily a graduate department, this year Kulkarni has
initiated a joint undergraduate program with the Department of Statistics
called Mathematical Decision Sciences. He teaches Stochastic Models in
Operations Research, Telecommunications Systems, and Supply Chain Management.
He has done work using operations research models to control the congestion in
the Internet, improve the efficiency of inventory systems and supply chains,
compute warranty costs, and improve the performance of large databases.
Kulkarni was issued a patent in 1995 for his Internet traffic congestion
control algorithms.
He counts among his publications 1999's Modeling, Analysis, Design and
Control of Stochastic Systems, and 1995's Modeling and Analysis of
Stochastic Systems, both textbooks.
Kulkarni has volunteered in elementary schools to spark young students'
interest in mathematics; he has served as an editor and referee for various
professional journals; and he has assisted campus organization run more
efficiently by using operations research.
He received his master's and doctoral degrees from Cornell.
Rosenfeld
A professor of sociology and fellow of the Carolina Population Center,
Rosenfeld has been a member of the faculty since 1981. She teaches graduate and
undergraduate courses on social inequality,
the labor force, gender, and statistics.
Her research interests include higher education, early adult work and family
lives in advanced industrialized countries (including comparisons of the former
East and West Germanies), and the contemporary U.S. women's movement.
Rosenfeld is the author of Farm Women: Work, Farm, and Family in the
United States, and co-editor of Reconstructing the Academy.
She was the first recipient of the Katherine Jocher-Belle Boone Beard Award for
distinguished scholarship on gender from the Southern Sociological Society, and
also earned the Sociologists for Women in Society Award for Outstanding
Mentoring. At Carolina, she received the first Department of Sociology graduate
student mentor award.
She has served on many editorial boards, including American Sociological
Review, of which she was deputy editor. Currently she is president-elect of
the Southern Sociological Society, becoming president in 2001.
Rosenfeld received her doctoral degree from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, and has taught at McGill University and the University of
Chicago.
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