New Faculty - Katherine K. Herberger College of Fine Arts

Susan Beiner
Assistant Professor, School of Art

Professor Beiner received her M.F.A. from the University of Michigan . She has served on the faculties of California State University, San Bernardino and the College of Creative Studies, in Detroit, MI. Ms. Beiner has exhibited both nationally and internationally and has received several awards and residencies. Her ceramic work has been exhibited at The Mint Museum of Craft and Design, NC; Holter Museum of Art, MT; Princessehof Keramiekmuseum, Netherlands; Wustum Museum of Fine Art, WI; San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts, CA; and numerous galleries and universities around the country. She was awarded The Independence Foundation Artist Grant (2005) while attending a residency program at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, PA. Ms. Beiner has been an artist in residence at the International Ceramic Center, Denmark, The Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, and the Kohler Co., Arts/Industry program. She has been published in several books and periodicals including, Sexpots, by Paul Mathieu, The Ceramic Surface, by Matthais Ostermann, The Artful Teapot, by Garth Clark, Color and Fire; Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics 1950-2000 by Jo Lauria, Ceramics: Art and Perception, and Kerameiki Techni Magazines to name a few. Her work is included in The Long Beach Museum of Art, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Arizona State University Art Museum Ceramics Research Center, National Museum of Ceramics in Leeuwarden , Netherlands, Yixing Ceramics Museum, China, and other permanent and private collections.

Rachel Bowditch
Assistant Professor, School of Theatre and Film

Professor Bowditch is a doctoral candidate in performance studies at New York University with a research emphasis on experimental/avant-garde performance, theories of directing, ritual, and movement pedagogy. She received her M.A. in performance studies from NYU and a B.A. in theatre with a concentration in directing from Skidmore College . Ms. Bowditch has a unique international background. Living in Asia and Europe during her formative years has deeply connected her to a theater far removed from American Realism. Her theatre training includes the British American Drama Academy (BADA), Dell Arte Players Company, Ecole de Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France, Suzuki and Viewpoints with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company, and Rasaboxes training with Richard Schechner and East Coast Artists. She has also worked and trained with Julie Taymor, Elizabeth Lecompte (Wooster Group), Phil Soltanoff (MadDog) and Anna Deavere Smith. She is the artistic director and founder of Vessel, a site-specific physical theatre company based in New York City. Selected directing credits at HERE Performance Art Café, NYC include, A Woman¹s Place, City of Bells: An Adaptation of the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg, Mastaba, at the American Living Room Festival 2000, and Arcana at the Ontological-Hysteric Downstairs Series 2002. Ms. Bowditch also directs Vessels ongoing interactive site-specific urban performance Transfix which has been seen at the New York International Independent Film/Video Festival at Madison Square Garden, New York City; GenArt Summer Arts Festival, the New York International Fringe Al Fresco at Central Park and Grand Central, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The Kitchen, the HOWL Festival 2004, the UnConvention 2004, and Performance Studies International #11 at Brown University. She is an artistic associate of Schechner's East Coast Artists and the Education Associate of RoseLee Goldberg's Performa. Ms. Bowditch is conducting research on rasaboxes emotional actor training and has worked with leading psychologist Paul Ekman (author of Emotions Revealed ) in a study of facial expressions and emotions. She was featured in his National Geographic article March 2005, "Playing with Emotions." She has presented her work at numerous conferences including Performance Studies International (Singapore and Brown University), International School Theatre Association (Graded International School, Sao Paulo, Brazil), and the Conference of Ritual, Festival, and Celebration (Willamette University ).

Professor Campana's research interests include verbal and non-verbal communication, vision, attention, and move me nt, all viewed from the perspective of cognitive psychology. Her graduate work was conducted at the University of Rochester , where she will soon receive a joint Ph.D. in brain & cognitive sciences and computer science. She holds a B.S. in psychology and a B.S. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an M. A. in brain and cognitive sciences from the University of Rochester .

C.A. (Crystal) Griffith
Associate Professor, School of Theater and Film

Professor Griffith was raised in Washington, D.C., and graduated from Stanford University (B.A.) and University of California, Santa Barbara (M.F.A). Ms. Griffith's credits include Juice (1992), award-winning PBS and BBC documentaries such as A Litany For Survival: The Life & Work of Audre Lorde (cinematographer), Branford Marsalis: The Music Tells You (camera operator), Depeche Mode 101, Eyes on the Prize I & II , and music videos including Tracy Chapman, Public Enemy, and The Rolling Stones. She was awarded a 2004 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Media Arts, the Panavision/Kodak University Outreach Program Grant and the Vision in Color Award of the New England Film/Video Festival. Ms. Griffith also received a grant from Digital Media's Avid Feature Film Camp for her film, Del Otro Lado (The Other Side). Shot on location in Mexico City and screened extensively at U.S. and international film festivals, Griffith directed, co-edited and co-produced this Spanish language, independent feature in 1999. With H.L.T. Quan, she is co-directing The Angela Davis Project, a documentary on women of color cultural workers. C.A. Griffith's publications appear in Filming Difference (forthcoming), Black Feminist Cultural Criticism: Classic Readings, Black Women Film and Video Artists , Herotica 4, The Wild Good, the journals Meridians, Signs and Calyx. Ms. Griffith joins Arizona State University 's new Film Program from Columbia College Chicago (2000-06), Smith College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1997-00).

Hilary Harp
Assistant Professor, School of Art

Professor Harp received her M.F.A. in sculpture from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA. She has exhibited work in a range of scales and materials at many galleries and institutions including the Gale Gates Gallery, The Sculpture Center, White Columns and Esso Gallery in New York City, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art in Wilmington, Delaware, The Philadelphia Art Alliance and the Samuel Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia. She was the recipient of a Pew Fellowship in the Arts and has been artist in residence at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA and the Kohler Center for Arts and Industry in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Her collaborative projects with Suzie Silver have been exhibited widely, including at Pittsburgh Filmmakers Gallery, Pittsburgh, and Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco. Their single channel video, The Happiest Day, has screened internationally, including the 2004 Stuttgarter Flimwinter, in Stuttgart, Germany; ENTERmultimediale 2, Prague, Czech Republic; Biennale Internazionale di Ferrara, Ferrara , Italy; Angle: The First International Short Film and Video Festival. Xiamen, China; and Arcipelago,13th International Festival of Short Films and New Images, Rome, Italy. In 2005 Ms. Harp received a Creative Heights grant from the Heinz Foundation for a year-long residency at the Pittsburgh Glass Center; the resulting exhibition is on display at the PGC until January 8, 2007.

James G. Hudson
Professor of Practice, School of Music and Director of Athletic Bands

Dr. Hudson serves as Director of Athletic Bands and is in his first year as a member of the music faculty at the Arizona State University. He served for three years as Director of Athletic Bands at the University of Kansas and for eleven years as Director of Bands at Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University). While at the University of Kansas, he directed the University of Kansas Marching Jayhawks, the Volleyball and Basketball Bands, Kentucky University Jazz Ensemble II, and the University Band. He also served as coordinator of the Midwest Music Camps. While at Southwest Texas State University, the Pride of the Hillcountry Marching Band performed internationally in Switzerland, Italy, France, and Ireland, and nationally at the 1999 Bands of America Grand National Championships. The band also performed extensively in Texas for the University Interscholastic League and Bands of America. In 1995, the “Pride” was selected to appear on the Video Express production “Best of the College Bands.” His public school teaching experience includes one year at Harmony Community Schools in Farmington, IA, and nine years at Oskaloosa Community Schools in Oskaloosa, IA. While at Oskaloosa his band received many honors and distinctions including 4 Bands of America Summer National Class A Championships, performances at the Fiesta Bowl National Pageant of Bands and Parade, 1990 State 3-A Jazz Champions, and 1990 Iowa Bandmasters Honor Jazz Band. Mr. Hudson received a bachelor's of music education degree from Northeast Missouri State University (now Truman State University) and a master's of music in wind band conducting from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His professional affiliations include CBDNA, Kappa Kappa Psi, Tau Beta Sigma, Phi Mu Alpha, Phi Beta Mu, MENC, Texas Music Educators, Texas Bandmasters, Kansas Music Educators, Kansas Bandmasters, Missouri Music Educators, Missouri Bandmasters, and Iowa Bandmasters. He is a very active adjudicator, drill designer and clinician, and has adjudicated for Bands of America, the University Interscholastic League ( Texas ), the Kentucky Music Educators Association, the Kansas Music Educators Association, the Oklahoma Bandmasters Association, the Iowa high School Music Association, and the Iowa Jazz Championships, Inc., as well as many university sponsored festivals and contests.

Kwang-Wu Kim
Dean, Katherine K. Herberger College of Fine Arts

Dr. Kim served as president of the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 2001-2006. The Longy School of Music, unlike more traditional conservatories, commits itself to preparing musicians to make a difference in the world. His prior experience includes artistic and administrative director positions with El Paso Pro-Musica and the El Paso Chamber Music Festival, which he co-founded. He has held teaching positions with the Longy School of Music, the University of Texas at El Paso, the Peabody Institute and Dickinson College. Dean Kim holds a doctor of musical arts degree from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor's degree in philosophy, magna cum laude, from Yale University. Dr. Kim's other professional activities include guest faculty and speaking engagements at Stanford University and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, juror and panelist positions with the International Piano Competition for Young Musicians in the Netherlands, the National Association of Schools of Music, the New England Conservatory, the Boston Conservatory, and the Boston Arts Academy. A student of legendary pianist Leon Fleisher, Dean Kim gave his debut at New York 's Metropolitan Museum of Art and was presented at the Marlboro Music Festival by then Artistic Director Rudolf Serkin. Since that time, he has continued to perform around the world as orchestral soloist, recitalist and chamber musician.

Amelia Malagamba-Ansótegui
Assistant Professor, School of Art and Southwest Borderlands scholar

Dr. Malagamba-Ansótegui's scholarly work is centered in Chicana/o, Latina/o and border art and cultures with a transnational and multidisciplinary approach. Dr. Malagamba-Ansótegui's research addresses a variety of topics including Latina/o visual arts and culture, border art and Mexican photography. Her curatorial work includes exhibitions in El Museo de la Estampa in Mexico City, Austin Museum of Art, and Centro Cultural Tijuana among other art venues. This year she curated an exhibition for the Snite Museum, at the University of Notre Dame, that will travel to other venues in the U.S. and Mexico. The exhibition, Caras Vemos, Corazones no Sabemos, explores how Mexican migration is investigated by U.S. and Mexican artists. She produced the catalog for the exhibition. Her scholarly work has been published in Mexico, the United States, and Germany.

Albie Micklich
Associate Professor, School of Music

Dr. Micklich was on the faculty of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, the University of Missouri-Columbia, Michigan State University , and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, prior to joining Arizona State University. Dr. Micklich received his doctor of music from Michigan State University, master of music from The Juilliard School, and bachelor of science from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he studied with Barrick Stees, David Carroll and David Borst, respectively. He was principal bassoon with the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra, bassoonist with the Ocotillo Trio, and has performed with the St. Louis Symphony, the Lansing Symphony Orchestra, the West Virginia Symphony, the Johnstown Symphony, and the Juilliard Orchestra. An active member in the International Double Reed Society (IDRS), Dr. Micklich presented recitals at the 2006 conference at Ball State University and at the 2004 conference in Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Micklich has given recitals throughout Europe, Bermuda and the United States, and has presented master classes at numerous universities. He has presented lecture-recitals at the 2003 IDRS Conference at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and at the 2001 IDRS Conference at the University of West Virginia. An active chamber musician, Dr. Micklich performed at the International Clarinet Association conference in Tokyo, Japan, and the College Music Society conferences in Madrid, Spain, and Quebec City, Canada. As a member of the Moran Quintet (2001-2006), one of the most active and visible quintets in the Midwest, Dr. Micklich recorded Wind Chamber Music of Theodor Blumer, Vol. 2 which was released by Crystal Records in January of 2004, and an upcoming CD Wind Chamber Music of Theodor Blumer, Vol. 3 to be released in January of 2007. As a member of the Missouri Quintet, he recorded the world premiere recordings of David Maslanka's Woodwind Quintet #3 and Music for Dr. Who for bassoon and piano on Albany Records. Dr. Micklich can also be heard on the CD recording Roger Daltry - A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who with such artists as The Who, The Chieftains, David Sandborn and Sinead O'Connor. He has contributed on three PBS specials; Willa Cather: The Road is All , The Monkey Trials (winner of a 2003 George Foster Peabody Award) and Distant Melodies, Postcards for Europe (1993), the CD-ROM The Juilliard Music Adventure and has performed with such artists as Kathleen Battle, Pierre Boulez, Kurt Masur, Leonard Slatkin, David Sanborn, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and The Canadian Brass.

William Partlan
Associate Professor, Department of Theatre and Film

Professor Partlan earned an M.F.A. in directing from the University of Minnesota on a Bush Foundation Fellowship. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College and the National Theatre Institute. Professionally, he has directed well-known talents Angela Bassett, Roy Dotrice, Charles (Roc) Dutton, Delroy Lindo, Mary McDonnell, Frances McDormand, Howard Rollins, and John Turturro in off-Broadway, regional and international premieres over the last twenty-five years. Known for his work with new plays and playwrights like Alan Ball and John Patrick Shanley, he has directed forty-four plays at the O'Neill Center's National Playwrights Conference including premieres of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Fences . He directed All God's Dangers, starring Cleavon Little, off-Broadway and for PBS' American Playhouse. His American-premiere production of Hugh Whitemore's The Best of Friends was produced off-Broadway by Michael Douglas. He has directed regionally at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Alabama Shakespeare, Alliance Theatre, The Empty Space, Florida Stage, Jewish Repertory, Milwaukee Repertory, New Mexico Repertory, Philadelphia Festival Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Trinity Repertory, Virginia Stage, and Yale Repertory Theatre. Mr. Partlan was, for nine years, the Artistic Director of the Cricket Theatre in Minneapolis. His current production, Triple Espresso, has played in 35 American cities and in Canada, Ireland, England, Belgium and Germany . He has directed for National Public Radio's Earplay series and has served as an on-site reporter for the National Endowment for the Arts and as Jury Chairman for the 2000 Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre.

Forrest Solis
Assistant Professor, School of Art

Professor Solis is a figure painter, and received a B.F.A from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2001, and a M.F.A from Indiana University in 2003. While studying at Indiana University, she received the prestigious Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship. Upon graduating, Ms. Solis accepted a position as assistant professor of art at DePauw University in Indiana. Ms. Solis has exhibited regionally and nationally, including California , Louisiana , and New York. The importance of the human figure has remained consistent throughout her career. Her thematic source material is varied, and incorporates elements of Sigmund Freud's uncanny, along with ideas drawn from Jacques Lacan, Carl Jung, Mikhail Bakhtin, and the South American literature of magical and grotesque realism. Mirroring the absurdity of contemporary logic, Ms. Solis strives to represent a quintessentially modern sense of instability in her work by creating images that are disorienting, visually confusing, and that evoke a sense of being grounded in reality without being quite real.

Michael Switzer
Professor, School of Theatre & Film

Professor Switzer is a native of Connecticut, where he was raised by his father, a Yale professor, and his mother, an author and journalist. As a child actor, he appeared onstage in Yale Drama School productions as well as on local New York television. Mr. Switzer went on to attend American University, in Washington, D.C., where he helped start their film program. After receiving his B.A. in Communications, he worked for the Library of Congress' AFI Film Preservation program. He then became first a cameraman and later a director, working on numerous political campaigns and children's educational television in Washington, D.C. and around the country. Clients included the Smithsonian Institute, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Information Agency, and Public Broadcasting Service. During this time, Mr. Switzer received two Emmys for his camerawork and one Emmy nomination for directing. Arriving in Los Angeles in 1979, Mr. Switzer spent a year attending the American Film Institute. His first network assignment, an episode of M*A*S*H, was followed by assignments of over 35 one-hour shows, including Hill Street Blues, Fame, Equal Justice, Riptide , Beauty and The Beast , Gabriel's Fire, Quantum Leap, Rags to Riches, JAG, That's Life, Philly, Peacemakers and NYPD Blue. Mr. Switzer's first TV movie was NITTI: The Informer, for ABC in 1988. Since then, he has directed 30 more network movies, including: What Love Sees; Unlikely Angel; the Hallmark Hall of Fame Fallen Angel for CBS; Fergie & Andrew: Behind the Palace Doors for NBC; Past the Bleachers ; Summer Dreams: The Story of the Beach Boys; Unwed Father for ABC, Three Days for the ABC Family channel; and the upcoming Ordinary Miracles and Annie's Point for the Hallmark Channel. Mr. Switzer also directed the NBC miniseries, Final Justice, starring Patty Duke, Martin Sheen and Charles Dutton, as well as two pilots, Dakota's Way for ABC and Revealing Evidence for NBC. The stars he has worked with are a diverse group, including Bernadette Peters, Gena Rowlands, Gary Sinise, Richard Thomas, Stanley Tucci, Kelly McGillis, Ken Olin, Patricia Wettig, Dolly Parton, Brian Austin Green, Melissa Gilbert, Lindsey Wagner, Linda Lavin, LeeAnn Rimes, Richard Chamberlin, James Earl Jones, Michael Gross, Richard Dean Anderson, Richard Crenna, Peter Horton, William Devane, Reba McEntire, Katey Sagal, Della Reese, Anabeth Gish, Betty White, Brooke Shields and Kristin Davis.

Catherine Saucier
Assistant Professor, Department of Music and Affiliate Faculty of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Dr. Saucier holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in music history from the University of Chicago and a B.M. in cello performance from Indiana University. Dr. Saucier specializes in medieval and Renaissance sacred music and city culture in the Low Countries, and has conducted extensive archival and liturgical research in Liège, Belgium, supported by grants from the Quebec government, the Medieval Academy of America, and the University of Chicago. She has published an article on late medieval liturgical practice at the cathedral of Liège in La cathédrale gothique Saint-Lambert à Liège: une église et son contexte. Actes du colloque international de l'Université de Liège, 16-18 avril 2002, edited by Benoit Van den Bossche (Liège: Eraul, 2004), and has presented her work at conferences of the American Musicological Society, the International Musicological Society, the Med/Ren Society, the Renaissance Society of America, and the Medieval Institute. Dr. Saucier's current research projects include an analysis and interpretation of the motets of Johannes Brassart, and a book-length study of the promotion of saints and cities through liturgical music, ritual, and hagiographic texts in the Low Countries and surrounding areas. She has taught previously at Duke University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Oklahoma.