2011-12 Faculty Senate Members > Liberal Arts
Leah Wilds
Term Expires: May 2013
Phone: (775) 682-7773
Website: website
Email: wilds@unr.edu
Brief Bio: Leah Wilds is an Associate Professor in the Political Science Department. She has served as Department Chair and Faculty Senate Chair. She is now President of the Nevada Faculty Alliance. She received a BA in English Literature from the University of Georgia. She received her MA and Ph.D. from Colorado State University. Her areas of expertise include Public Policy, Western Water Policy, and Environmental Politics. Her latest book, Water Politics in Northern Nevada: A Century of Experience, is being published by the University of Nevada Press in August 2010.
Marji Vecchio
Term Expires: May 2014
Phone: (775) 784-6658
Website: website
Email: mvecchio@unr.edu
Brief Bio: Marjorie Vecchio, PhD, is the Director and Curator of Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno. She also teaches MFA and BFA Seminars as well as Gallery Management and Curatorial Practice. Marji moved to work at UNR from Brooklyn, NY in 2006 with twelve years of experience as a teacher, artist, curator, and gallery president between Chicago and NYC. Since 1999, she has curated 35 exhibitions, curated over 230 artists, published 13 scholars, philosophers,writers and poets in 22 catalogs, and has written 20 catalogs essays. She has degrees from Mount Holyoke College (BA), The School of the Art Institute ofChicago (BFA), Bard College (MFA), and European Graduate School (PhD, Magna Cum Laude). In 2009 she was the inaugural Scholar-in-Residence at Columbus State University, Georgia for her 2012 forthcoming book, The Films of Claire Denis: Intimacy on the Border (IB Tauris, London).
Isabelle Favre
Term Expires: May 2012
Phone: (775) 682-8903
Website: website
Email: favre@unr.edu
Brief Bio:Isabelle Favre teaches French in the Foreign Languages and Literatures department since 1997. She published two books in her specialty La différance francophone (University Press of the South) and De la Guyane à la diaspora africaine: écrits du silence (Karthala).
Louis Niebur
Term Expires: May 2012
Phone: (775) 784-6145
Website: website
Email: lniebur@unr.edu
Brief Bio: Louis Niebur is the Music Department Chair and an Associate Professor in Musicology. His research primarily concerns avant-garde and popular music of the post-war era, focusing on musics that bridget the categories of high and low culture in society through media technology.