Gilbert Joseph, authority on Mexico,
is named Farnam Professor of History

Gilbert M. Joseph, an authority on Mexican history and the U.S. presence in Latin America, has been named the Farnam Professor of History by vote of the Yale Corporation.

Joseph, who earned three Yale degrees, joined the Yale faculty in 1993 after teaching for 15 years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has focused his research and teaching on modern Mexico, comparative revolutionary movements, U.S.-Latin American relations, and the history of rural crime and protest, among other topics.

His books include "Revolution from Without: Yucatán, Mexico and the United States, 1880-1924," "Rediscovering the Past at Mexico's Periphery" and "Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval: Elite Politics and Rural Insurgency in Yucatán." He is currenlty completing "When Still Waters Crest with Blood: Strategies of Protest and Survival in the Latin American Countryside" in collaboration with his wife, Yale anthropologist Patricia Pessar. His edited volumes include "Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico," "Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations" and "Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico since 1940."

Joseph is currently serving as chair of the Council on Latin American Studies (part of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies), a post he also held from 1993 to 1996. Three years ago, he was named director of the Mellon Fellowship Program in Latin American History, which was funded by a multi-year grant to enhance doctoral training of Latin Americanists at Yale. He is also codirector of a joint YCIAS/Smithsonian Institution program, funded by a grant from the Hewlett Foundation, to promote scholarly and public policy research on Mexico. Joseph has served on a number of University committees and is currently a member of the advisory council of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.

After graduating from Colgate University, Joseph earned his M.A. in 1972, M.Phil. in 1974 and Ph.D. in 1978 -- all from Yale. While at the University of North Carolina, he won the Tanner Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching. His numerous other honors include the Sturgis Leavitt Prize of the Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies, which he won twice for the best article on a Latin American subject. He has been awarded visiting fellowships at the National Humanities Center, the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Institute for Advanced Study. Joseph currently serves as editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review.

Shyam Sunder, noted economist,
is appointed the James L. Frank Professor

Shyam Sunder, who last spring accepted an appointment at the Yale School of Management (Yale SOM), has been named the James L. Frank Professor of Accounting, Economics and Finance by vote of the Yale Corporation.

Professor Shyam Sunder is a leading experimental economist and accounting theorist. His research contributions include financial reporting, statistical theory of valuation, economic theory of accounting and organizations, dissemination of information in security markets, design of electronic markets, experimental exploration of learning and expectations in monetary economies, minimal rationality economics, and Japanese business and accounting. He is the author of "Theory of Accounting and Control" and is coauthor of "Experimental Methods: A Primer for Economists." He has also edited several volumes, including "Japan: Why It Works, Why It Doesn't"
and developed computer-based Caplab learning systems for corporate finance and investments.

Sunder attended the I.R. Institute of Engineering in Jamalpur, India, for his undergraduate work. He earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, where he had taught since 1988 as the Richard M. Cyert Professor of Management and Economics. Also a former faculty member at the University of Chicago and the University of Minnesota, Sunder has held visiting professorships at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, the Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration at the University of Kobe, Japan, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, the California Institute of Technology, and the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, India. He was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the National Research Council in Taiwan in 1992.

Sunder's research and writing in his field have garnered him several honors, including the Manuscript Award from the American Accounting Association; the Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award from the American Institute of CPAs and American Accounting Association; the Alpha Kappa Psi Foundation National Accounting Award; and an International Cooperation Fellowship from the Japanese Ministry of Education.

The SOM economist is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Accounting Research, Indian Accounting Review, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, and Experimental Economics. He is a former associate editor of the Journal of Accounting Research and The Accounting Review.

Kristiina Vogt, expert on forests,
is named Musser Professor of Forest Ecology

Kristiina A. Vogt has been appointed the Margaret K. Musser Professor of Forest Ecology at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (F&ES) by vote of the Yale Corporation.

In the 12 years since she first came to Yale, Vogt has concentrated her research in the areas of ecosystem ecology and management, ecosystem biodiversity, forest productivity, plant development, and environmental interactions and global ecology in the context of socio-economic concerns, among others. She is the author of "Ecosystem Management: Balancing Science with Management" and of the forthcoming "Forest Certification: Roots, Issues, Challenges and Benefits."

Vogt has gained international recognition for her expertise on forests. In 1997, at the invitation of Vice President Al Gore and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, she was invited to become a member of the Forest Working Group on the Analysis of the Health of the Forest Ecosystems in the United States. She also was named a member of a U.S. Department of Agriculture panel on soils and soil biology and of an Environmental Protection Agency committee assigned with the evaluation of a quality assurance project plan to protect forest ecosystems. For the National Research Council, she was a member of a scientific group that examined the sustainability of old-growth forest, owls and people in the Pacific Northwest.

She is a member of the IUCN The World Conservation Union on Ecosystem Management and has reviewed proposals for numerous U.S. and foreign agencies, including the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy.

Vogt is equally respected as a teacher. In both 1989 and 1990, she was commended by students at the F&ES for exceptional advising and teaching. From 1988 to 1993, she served as director of the school's Program in Belowland Ecology. She served as director of undergraduate studies in 1991-92 and was director of the F&ES doctoral studies program from 1993 to 1997. Since 1992, she has been director of ecosystem studies at F&ES. She has held numerous committee appointments for F&ES and Yale College, including membership on the executive committee for the undergraduate program Studies in the Environment.

Vogt earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Texas in El Paso and received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. She taught at the College of Forest Resources at the University of Washington in Seattle for 11 years before joining the Yale faculty in 1987. She became a tenured associate professor in 1990 and was appointed a full professor in 1995.

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