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Faculty Orientation Program Coordinators 2005-06

Dan Cristol (Associate Professor of Biology) dacris@wm.edu 221-2405

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Laurie Koloski (Associate Professor of History) lskolo@wm.edu 221-3752

Laurie Koloski received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1998. Her teaching interests include modern Europe, communism and stalinism, historiography, and Polish-Jewish relations. She specializes in modern eastern Europe, with a particular focus on the social and cultural history of post-1945 Poland. Her current project explores artists’ experiences of the first decade of communism, and is titled “Painting Krakow Red: Reconfiguring Art, Society, and State in Poland, 1945-1955.”

Jennifer Mellor (Associate Professor of Economics) jmmell@wm.edu 221-2852

Jennifer Mellor received a B.A. in economics from La Salle University in 1991 and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1996. She spent two years at Yale University as a postdoctoral fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholars Program, and joined the faculty of William and Mary in the fall of 1998. Teaching responsibilities include Principles of Microeconomics, Health Economics, Labor Economics, and a graduate seminar in Health Care Policy in the Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy. Professor Mellor's research interests are in the fields of health economics and the economics of aging. She is the co-author of a number of studies on the relationship between income inequality and health status. Current projects include experimental analyses of the relationships between group heterogeneity, trust, and public good provision, and empirical analyses of the effects of social capital (both within the community and the family) on individual outcomes.