New Faculty Members Joining Jepson

Religious studies scholar Peter Kaufman and political scientist Sungmoon Kim will join Jepson's intellectually diverse and energetic faculty this fall.

Kaufman previously taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he specialized in medieval and early modern religious thought. He will join Jepson as the George Matthews and Virginia Brinkley Modlin Chair in Leadership Studies. In the fall Kaufman will teach Foundations of Leadership Studies and a special topics course titled Emperors, Bishops and Martyrs. Kaufman's latest book, published in 2007, is "Incorrectly Political: Augustine and Thomas More."

Kim recently earned his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Maryland. He joins the faculty as assistant professor of leadership studies specializing in international and comparative political and leadership theory. This fall he will teach two sections of Justice and Civil Society.

In addition, Fang Wang, a visiting scholar from China, will be conducting research on organizational leadership with Gill Hickman during the 2008-09 year. She also plans to translate some of Hickman's book, "Leading Organizations," into Chinese.