{"130511":{"#nid":"130511","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Chairs Named in Ivan Allen College","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFollowing a national search, the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts has selected David Laband, Dina Khapaeva and Richard Utz to chair its schools of Economics, Modern Languages, and Literature, Communication, and Culture (LCC), respectively. The appointments are effective Aug. 1.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELaband currently serves as professor and director of graduate programs for the economics department at Auburn University, where he has focused on building the PhD program and is heading the department\u2019s capital campaign. Previously, he chaired the economics department at Salisbury State University in Maryland.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI am delighted to be joining the faculty of Georgia Tech and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts,\u201d Laband said. \u201cI look forward to working across the university community to enhance the contributions of the School of Economics and help develop an internationally prominent program.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn applied micro-economist, Laband\u2019s research includes substantial work in several of the school\u2019s strategic areas, particularly environmental economics, labor economics and micro-economic analysis. Laband earned a master\u2019s and PhD in economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKhapaeva is currently a researcher at Helsinki Collegium at the University of Helsinki. Khapaeva was the inaugural director for International Relations and Research at the Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, a joint program between St. Petersburg State University and Bard College, Russia\u2019s first \u201cAmerican-style\u201d liberal arts college. She was also the founding director of Smolny Collegium, an institute for advanced studies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKhapaeva anticipates focusing on further development and expansion of the School of Modern Languages\u2019 nine modern language tracks and the internationalization and cultural adaptability of students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe specializes in Russian literature and culture and earned a PhD in history from St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUtz recently completed a four-year term as chair of the Department of English at Western Michigan University. During his career in Europe and the United States, he has served in a wide variety of leadership positions in the areas of graduate study, tenure and promotion, assessment, scholarly communication and strategic planning. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI see my new position in LCC as a unique opportunity to bridge the allegedly sempiternal chasm between science and technology on the one hand and humanistic inquiry on the other,\u201d Utz said. \u201cMy goal as a scholar, teacher and administrator is to further innovate interdisciplinary collaboration among specialists from traditionally separate disciplines, which in my view, is the only promising way to solve the complex social and cultural problems of the future. GT, IAC and LCC\u2019s strategic mission to support such creative collaborative work is what attracted me to join this distinguished institution.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUtz currently serves as president of the International Society for the Study of Medievalism and is an established interdisciplinary scholar of medieval culture and its reception in postmedieval times. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe earned a master\u2019s and a PhD from the University of Regensburg, Germany.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFollowing a national search, the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts has selected David Laband, Dina Khapaeva and Richard Utz to chair its schools of Economics, Modern Languages, and Literature, Communication, and Culture (LCC), respectively. 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