At their April meeting, Kenyon’s Board of Trustees considered the recommendations of the Tenure and Promotion Committee. These five members of the College’s faculty have earned appointment without limit and the title of associate professor, effective July 1, 2021.
Piers Brown
Assistant Professor of English
2009 — Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Toronto
2001 — Bachelor of Arts from Simon Fraser University
1992 — Bachelor of Arts from the University of Kent at Canterbury
Piers Brown arrived at Kenyon in 2014, having taught at West Virginia University and the University of York. He teaches courses including ENGL 213: “Texting: Reading Like an English Major” and ENGL 315: “The History of the Book.” Brown is an expert in Renaissance poetry and poetics, theories of metaphor, book history, the history of science, and science fiction and fantasy, and is currently at work on projects such as John Donne’s reception of early modern astronomy, motion and emotion in Shakespeare’s drama, and the reception and circulation of English Renaissance poetry.
Shaun Golding
Assistant Professor of Sociology
2012 — Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin–Madison
2006 — Master of Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison
2001 — Bachelor of Arts from Bowdoin College
Shaun Golding began teaching at Kenyon in 2016, after four years at Bowdoin College, his alma mater. He teaches courses including SOCY 101: “Powers, Energies and Peoples,” SOCY 236: “Popular Culture: Window on Inequality” and SOCY 376: “Social Demography.” In his research, Golding uses mixed methods to examine intersections of inequality and the environment with emphases on North America, natural resource-based economic development and public policy. His current work focuses on the backlash to renewable energy unfolding in the northern New England states. Golding has published articles and book chapters related to community sense of place, public planning, rural gentrification and natural resource-driven migration patterns.
Aaron Reinhard
Associate Professor of Physics
2008 — Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Michigan
2003 — Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from Valparaiso University
2003 — Bachelor of Science from Valparaiso University
Aaron Reinhard joined the Kenyon faculty in 2017. He teaches courses including PHYS 100: “A Certain Slant on Light,” PHYS 355: “Optics” and PHYS 380: “Introduction to Electronics.” Reinhard’s research is in the field of laser cooling and trapping, or using lasers to collect atoms and lower their temperature to a few millionths of a degree above absolute zero. These samples give researchers exquisite control over the quantum states of atoms and have enabled exciting new technologies. The Reinhard lab includes multiple students each year and focuses on the interactions among ultracold, highly excited Rydberg atoms. Their research will help pave the way for a neutral atom quantum computer, or a computer where each “0” or “1” is encoded in the state of an atom, and which operates according to the strange rules of quantum mechanics.
Leslie Wade
Assistant Professor of Physics
2015 — Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
2009 — Bachelor of Science from Bates College
Les Wade is an expert in gravitational wave physics, astrophysics and computational physics. He teaches courses including PHYS 106: “Astronomy: Planets and Moons,” PHYS 240: “Fields and Spacetime” and PHYS 360: “Quantum Mechanics.” Wade is a member of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) Scientific Collaboration, and his research includes searching for gravitational waves from massive black hole binary systems. Encoded within the gravitational waves from these collisions is information about their source that might otherwise have remained a mystery. Wade also works on estimating the source parameters of binary neutron-star systems in an effort to determine the neutron-star equation of state.
Madeline Wade
Assistant Professor of Physics, the Harvey F. Lodish Faculty Development Chair in the Natural Sciences
2015 — Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
2014 — Collegiate Teaching Certificate from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
2009 — Bachelor of Science from Bates College
Madeline Wade is an expert in gravitational wave physics, astrophysics and data analysis. She teaches courses including PHYS 105: “Frontiers of Gravity,” PHYS 270: “Introduction to Computational Physics” and PHYS 350: “Electricity and Magnetism.” Wade is a member of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) Scientific Collaboration and works as a data analyst on the experiment. She works on calibration of the LIGO interferometers, identifies noise transients in LIGO data, and searches for gravitational waves from the inspiral and merger of two massive, compact objects, such as neutron stars and black holes.