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New and Visiting Faculty Members at the Five Colleges 2010-2011

Following is a list of faculty members who are new to the campuses this fall, categorized by area or department.

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Key: AC = Amherst College, HC= Hampshire College, MHC = Mount Holyoke College, SC = Smith College, UM = UMass Amherst

African American Studies

MHC Leigh-Anne Francis, Five College Fellow in African American and African Studies, 2010-2011, State University of New York, Brockport: race and gender in US history, African American women's prison communities in Auburn, NY 1893-1930.

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American Studies

SC Susanne Rohr, Visiting Scholar in American Studies, Fall 2010, Free University of Berlin: late 19th and early 20th century American fiction, the philosophy of C. S. Peirce, the history of fashion, and avant-garde representations of the Holocaust.

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Anthropology

UM Jane Anderson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, 2010-2011 tenure track, University of New South Wales: heritage studies.

UM Rae Gould, Lecturer in Anthropology, 2010-2013, University of Connecticut: cultural anthropology, historical archaeology, ethnohistory, Indigenous/Native American rights and legal issues including NAGPRA and Federal Acknowledgement; Specialization: Post-Contact Native Americans in the Northeast.

UM Thomas Leatherman, Professor of Anthropology, 2010- tenured, University of Massachusetts: bio-cultural anthropology.

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Art and Art History

SC Jeremy Fan Zhang, Freeman/McPherson Post-doctoral Teaching & Curatorial Fellow in Art, 2010-2013, Brown University: East Asian art, art and archaeology of Song, Liao, Jin, and Yuan Dynasties (10th-14th centuries), material culture of China's "Conquest Dynasties"; ethnic interaction and cultural exchange; pictorial narratives of stories and tales.

AC Ramon Rivera-Moret, Visit Artist-in-Residence, Spring 2011, University of Iowa: film and video.

MHC Christine Andrews, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, 2010-2011, Northwestern University: Northern Renaissance Art.

MHC Nancy Friese, Visiting Artist in Art and Art History, 2010-2011, Yale University: printmaking and painting.

MHC Ipek Rohloff Five College Mellon Fellow; Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, 2010-2013, University of Michigan: architecture, design studies, museum studies.

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Asian Studies

MHC Heba Arafah Five College Lecturer in Arabic, 2010-2012, Jordan University of Science & Technology: Arabic language.

MHC Qing Li Visiting Scholar; Visiting Lecturer in Asian Studies, 2010-2011, Northwest Normal University: innovative consciousness and competence in tertiary education.

UM Chiachen Lu Lecturer in Chinese, 2010-2011, National Kaohsiung Normal University: teaching Chinese as a second language, Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese.

UM Alberto Ameal-Perez Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, 2010-2013, University of Houston: Spanish, Spanish Literature.

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Astronomy

AC Fulvio Melia John Woodruff Simpson Lecturer in Astronomy, 2010-2011, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: black holes and the structure of the cosmic space-time.

UM Alexandra Pope Assistant Professor of Astronomy, 2010-2013, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada: Galaxy formation and evolution, submillimetre and infrared galaxies, star formation rates, active galactic nuclei, and spectral energy distributions.

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Molecular Biology

UM Elizabeth Vierling Professor of Molecular Biology, 2011-2014, University of Chicago: cellular engineering, molecular chaperones in cellular stress responses.

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Biology

AC Ethan Graf Assistant Professor of Biology, 2010-2013 tenure track, Washington University: neuroscience, synapse development and function.

MHC Denise Pope Visiting Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, 2010-2011, Duke University: behavioral ecology, sexual selection and animal communication.

MHC Paola Sacchetti Visiting Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, 2010-2011, Wayne State University: cellular and clinical neurobiology, role of nuclear receptors in ventral midbrain development.

UM Thomas Maresca Assistant Professor of Biology, 2010-2013, University of California Berkeley: cellular biology, mitosis.

UM Li-Jun Ma Assistant Professor of Plant, Soil, Insect Science, 2011-2014, State University of New York Syracuse: comparative and functional genomics of filamentous fungi, protein modulization.

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Black Studies

AC John Drabinski Visiting Assistant Professor of Black Studies, 2010-2012, University of Memphis: the francophone world Afro-Caribbean philosophy and cultural theory.

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Chemical Engineering

UM Wei Fan Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, 2010-2013, University of Tokyo: biofuels & sustainable energy technology.

UM Shelly Peyton Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, 2011-2014, University of California Irvine: cellular engineering.

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Chemistry

AC James Hebda Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemistry, 2010-2013, Yale University: protein and macromolecular systems.

AC Cindy Kan Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 2010-2013 tenure track, Stanford University: organic chemistry, natural product synthesis and methodology.

UM Kevin Kittilstved Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 2011-2014, University of Washington Seattle: electronic structure and materials chemistry, advanced inorganic spectroscopy.

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Chinese

MHC Wei Han, Visiting Lecturer in Asian Studies, 2009-2010, MA Beijing Language and Culture University: Modern Chinese grammar, discourse analysis, conversational structure.

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Classics

AC Christopher van den Berg Assistant Professor of Classics, 2010-2012 tenure track, Yale University: Greco-Roman tradition of literary &philosophical dialogue and its European afterlife.

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Cognitive Science

HC Daniel Altshuler Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Language, Mind and Culture, 2010-2012, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ: linguistics, cognitive science.

HC Jonathan Westphal Visiting Professor of Philosophy, 2010-2011, University of London, England: philosophy, logic, epistemology.

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Comparative Literature

SC Peter Stallybrass Ruth and Clarence Kennedy Professor in Renaissance Studies, Fall 2010, Sussex University: history of material texts, literary and cultural theory; material culture.

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Computer Science

UM Aria Haghighi Assistant Professor of Computer Science, 2011-2014, University of California Berkeley: natural language processing, machine learning.

UM Hanna Wallach Assistant Professor of Computer Science, 2010-2013, University of Cambridge, U.K.: social sciences, text research processing.

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Economics

AC Urban Kjulin STINT Fellow in Economics, Fall 2010, Goteborg University: time use, the public sector and welfare.

MHC Steven Schmeiser Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, 2010-2014, University of Minnesota: industrial organization, corporate finance, financial economics.

SC Mohammed Alshagawi Visiting Scholar in Economics, 2010-2011, St. Andrews University: business administration, strategic management; women's entrepreneurship; women in the labor force; Saudi Arabia.

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Electrical & Computer Engineering

UM William Leonard Lecturer in Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2010-2011, University of Massachusetts Amherst: science & technology education.

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Engineering

SC Layla Al-Nasseri Visiting Scholar in Engineering, 2010-2011, University of Technology in Structural Engineering: structural engineering, civil and environmental engineering, uses of engineering in medicine, the role of women in engineering.

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English

AC Alicia Christoff Five College Fellow in English, 2010-2011, New York University: Victorian literature and culture, comparative 19th-century fiction.

AC Amity Gaige Visiting Writer, 2010-2013, University of Iowa: creative writing, fiction, short stories, essays.

AC Ingrid Nelson Assistant Professor of English, 2010-2013 tenure track, Harvard University: medieval English literature, poetry and poetics.

MHC Sara London Visiting Lecturer in English, 2010-2011, University of Iowa: poetry.

MHC Susanna Nazarova Visiting Instructor in English, 2010-2011, University of California, Davis: linguistics, English as a second language.

MHC Karen Osborn Visiting Assistant Professor of English, 2010-2011, University of Arkansas: creative writing and expository/argumentative writing.

MHC Ronaldo Wilson Visiting Assistant Professor of English, 2010-2011, CUNY Graduate Center: 20th century African American poetry.

SC Anthony Giardina Elizabeth Drew Professor, 2010-2011, Fordham University: creative writing.

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Environmental Studies

UM Bethany Bradley Assistant Professor of Environmental Conservation, 2010-2012, Brown University: terrestrial ecosystems, land cover change.

MHC Catherine Corson Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, 2010-2013, University of California, Berkeley: political/social ecology, environmental conservation policy-making, biodiversity program in Madagascar.

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Film Studies

MHC Ken Eisenstein Visiting Instructor in Film Studies, 2010-2012, School of the Art Institute of Chicago: cinema and media studies.

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Finance & Operations Management

UM Traci Hess Associate Professor of Finance and Management Operations, 2010- tenure track, Virginia Tech, Pamplin College of Business: information technology, cyber security, human-computer interaction, technology adoption, enterprise systems.

UM John Wells Associate Professor of Finance and Management Operations, 2010- tenure track, Texas A & M University: management information systems, marketing, telecommunications, human-computer interaction (HCI), electronic commerce.

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French

SC Raphael Blanchier, Ècole Normale Supérieure Lecturer, 2009-2011, Master's degree Université Paris: French Language & Literature, anthropology of dancing in Mongolia.

FSC Carole DeLaitre Ècole Normale Supérieure Lecturer, 2010-2012, Université de Paris IV: 20th century literature, music, cinema, dance.

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Geology

AC William Ouimet, Visiting Assistant Professor, 2009-2011, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Earth Surface Processes and Geomorphology.

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History

AC Edward Melillo, Assistant Professor, fall 2009-, Ph.D. Yale University: Environmental Studies, Global Environmental History, the History of the Pacific World, the History of Globalization.

MHC William Myers, Visiting Associate Professor of History, spring 2010, PhD Yale University: Early modern history, church and state in European life, counter-Reformation Germany.

MHC Sarah Waheed, Visiting Instructor in History, 2009-2010, MA University of Chicago: Modern Muslim identity, modern South Asia, nationalism, colonialism.

SC Joshua Birk, Assistant Professor, 2009-2013, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara: Middle Ages, political history and identity politics across religious boundaries in the Medieval Mediterranean World.

SC Elizabeth Pryor, Assistant Professor, 2009-2013, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara: Nineteenth-century U.S. History, African-American men and women’s resistance to enslavement and racism.

UM Jennifer Fronc, Assistant Professor, 2009-2012, PhD Columbia University: 20th Century US History, Progressive-era social reformers, women's history.

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Italian

SC Antonella Sisto Five College Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow in Italian Language and Literature, 2010-2013, Brown University: Italian cinema and literature, Fascism; history and philosophy of language and ideas; Pier Paolo Pasolini and Italian Marxism; aural and sound Studies; media and cultural studies.

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Judaic/Near Eastern Studies

UM Yishai Neuman Lecturer in Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, 2010-2011, Sorbonne Nouvelle University: Hebrew language, Hebrew linguistics.

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Landscape Architecture

SC Randolph Hester, Neilson Professor, spring 2010, Master's degree Harvard University: Activist Community Design, personal and community values and the landscape, coastal management, community management.

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Languages

HC George Gathigi, Post-doctoral Fellow, 2009-2011, World Languages, (Mellon Language Grant Post-doctoral position).

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Mathematics and Statistics

AC Djordje Milicevic Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, 2010-2011, Princeton University: mathematics in number theory and analysis.

UM Krista Gile Assistant Professor of Statistics, 2010-2013, University of Washington Seattle: statistical methodology, snowball sampling, contact tracing, respondent-driven sampling.

MHC Ji Young Kim Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, 2010-2013, University of Illinois: robust variable selection, clustering for time-course microarray data.

MHC Jung-Jin Lee Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, 2010-2011, University of Illinois: functional/harmonic analysis on groups, p-operator space and its applications.

MHC Matthew Noonan Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, 2010-2011, Cornell University: geometrically motivated PDEs.

MHC Rebecca Torrey Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, 2010-2011, King's College, London: Serre's conjecture over imaginary quadratic fields.

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Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

UM Frank Sup Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, 2010-2013, Vanderbilt University: mechatronics with application to rehabilitation.

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Music & Dance

AC Jason Robinson Assistant Professor of Music, 2010-2013 tenure track, University of California: musicology/ethnomusicology; jazz/popular music history, musicology/ethnomusicology; jazz/popular music history.

MHC Ching-Chun Lai Interim Director of Instrumental Ensembles; Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, 2010-2011, University of Wisconsin, Madison: orchestral conducting, opera performance.

UM Thomas Giampietro Lecturer in Music, 2010-2011, University of Northern Iowa: jazz studies, jazz pedagogy, drummer.

UM Erinn E. Knyt Lecturer in Music, 2010-2011, Stanford University: western art music history, Neo-classicism, Medieval aesthetics, 20th century instrumental music & opera.

UM Felipe Salles Assistant Professor of Music, 2010-2013, Manhattan School of Music: jazz ensembles, saxophone, composing, Brazilian music.

UM Gregory Spiridopoulos Lecturer in Music, 2010-2011, Boston University: teach studio trombone, coach chamber ensembles.

UM Tony Thornton Assistant Professor of Music, 2010-2012, University of Arizona: director of choral ensembles.

UM Gilles Vonsattel Assistant Professor of Music, 2010-2013, Juilliard School of Music: piano, piano performance.

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Natural Science

HC Richard Aronson Visiting Professor of Public Health, 2010-2011, University of Rochester School of Medicine & University of North Carolina School of Public Health in Maternal and Child Health (MCH), respectively: public health, medicine.

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Philosophy

AC Ekaterina Vavova Keiter/Mellon Postdoc Fellow in Philosophy, 2010-2012, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: questions of rational humility.

MHC Krista Thomason Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 2010-2011, University of Illinois: moral philosophy, ethical theory, metaethics.

UM Maya Eddon Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 2010-2013, Rutgers University: metaphysics, metaphysics.

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Physics

AC Ashley Carter Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics, 2010-2011, University of Colorado: biophysics, optics/biophysics and their natural intersection, microscope design.

MHC Alexi Arango Assistant Professor of Physics, 2010-2013, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: electrical engineering and computer science, quantum dot heterojunction photodetector.

UM Maria Kilfoil Assistant Professor of Physics, 2010-2014, Massey University: biophysics, soft matter physics.

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Political Science

AC Jonathan Chow Loewenstein Fellow in Political Science, 2010-2011, University of California: comparative politics, international relations, East Asia.

AC Manuela Picq Loewenstein Fellow in Political Science, 2010-2011, University of Miami: tensions between gender and ethnicity in Latin America.

AC Andrew Poe Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, 2010-2011, University of California: contemporary democratic theory, political emotions.

AC Ralph Thaxton Croxton Lecturer in Political Science, 2010-2011, University of Wisconsin Madison: comparative politics, East Asia: comparative revolutions. comparative democratic movements.

UM Bruce Desmarais Assistant Professor of Political Science, 2010- tenure track, NC at Chapel Hill: computational social science.

UM Shi-Chul Lee Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science, Fall 2010, University of West Virginia: Asian public policy.

UM Alana Tiemessen Visiting Assistant Professor Political Science, 2010-2011, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada: international relations.
MHC Timothy Delaune Visiting Instructor in Politics, 2010-2011, Tufts University: international relations and historical political theory.

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Psychology

AC Saaid Mendoza Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, 2010-2011, New York University: social psychology, intergroup biases in social behavior.

AC Jessica Salvatore Five College Mellon Postdoc Fellow in Psychology, 2010-2013, Princeton University: self and identity, self and identity.

SC Annaliese Beery Assistant Professor of Psychology, 2010-2014, University of California Berkeley: behavioral neuroscience, neuroendicrinology of stress and social behavior.

UM Alexandra Jesse Assistant Professor of Psychology, 2010-2013, University of California Santa Cruz: cognitive psychology, audiovisual language processing, lexical processing, perceptual learning, talker variability, word learning, quantitative modeling, computer-animated talking heads.

UM Jennifer McDermott Assistant Professor of Psychology, 2010-2013, University of Maryland: development, cognitive, and affective neuroscience, emotional regulation and inhibitory control.

UM Luke Remage-Healey Assistant Professor of Psychology, 2010-2013, Cornell University: behavioral neuroscience, neurosteroids.

UM Jeffrey Starns Assistant Professor of Psychology, 2010-2013, Louisiana State University: memory and decision making, statistics and methods.
MHC Eileen Graham Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, 2010-2011, Brandeis University: cognitive ability and performance across the adult lifespan.

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Religion

MHC Lisa Battaglia Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion, 2010-2011, Vanderbilt University: Asian religion, cross cultural exploration of women in Theravada Buddhism.

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Russian

AC Evgeny Dengub Lecturer in Russian, 2010-2011, Bryn Mawr College: second language acquisition, language pedagogy and heritage-language education.

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Social Science

HC Judith Flores Carmona Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Critical Literacies and Pedagogy, 2010-2012, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT: education, sociology, culture, gender studies.

HC Susan Thomson Five College Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Contemporary Politics/Social Forces in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2010-2012, Dalhousie University, Halifax Nova Scotia: African studies, government relations.

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Sociology

UM Ryan Acton Assistant Professor of Sociology, 2010-2013, University of California Irvine: social networks analysis, collection and sampling strategies for web-based data, computational methods for data analysis, survey research methods.

UM Steven Boutcher Assistant Professor of Sociology, 2010-2013, University of California Irvine: sociology of law, social movements, sociology of the professions.

UM Tonja Link Assistant Professor of Sociology, 2010-2011, University. of Georgia: crime and deviance, comparative criminology.

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Spanish & Portuguese

UM Carmela Mattza Lecturer in Spanish, 2010-2011, University of Chicago: Peninsular Spanish literature & culture, Romance languages & literatures.

AC Marie Elena Aldea-Agudo Lecturer in Spanish, 2010-2013, University of Kentucky: Spanish language, Spanish Fascist novels and movies from the early 1940s.

AC Nina Scott Visiting Professor of Spanish, 2010-2011, Stanford University: women’s literature, Mexican poet Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Spanish drama.

MHC Flávia Cunha Visiting Lecturer in Spanish, 2010-2011, Ohio State University: applied Hispanic linguistics.

MHC Elena Frazier Visiting Lecturer in Spanish, 2010-2011, Boston College: applied Hispanic linguistics.

MHC Antonio Illescas Visiting Lecturer in Spanish, 2010-2011, Universidad de Granada: applied Hispanic linguistics.

MHC Molly Monet-Viera Visiting Lecturer in Spanish, 2010-2011, Yale University: Latin American culture and literature, second language acquisition.

MHC Ana Rona Visiting Lecturer in Spanish, 2010-2011, University of Massachusetts: applied Hispanic linguistics, history of language policies during Colonial period in Latin America.

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Theater

UM Matthew Richards Lecturer in Theater, 2010-2011, Yale University School of Drama: lighting & lighting design.

AC Ronald Bashford Assistant Professor of Theater, 2010-2013 tenure track, University of Delaware: theater/directing, process of play direction/ mixed-genre performance creation.

MHC Sarah Conly Guest Artist in Theatre Arts, 2010-2011, Boston University: scenic and costume design.

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Women's Studies

SC Andrea Nicole King Mendenhall Fellow in Study of Women and Gender, 2010-2011, University of California Davis: history, African American history, women's history.

AC Krupa Shandilya Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, 2010-2013 tenure track, Cornell University: postcolonial fiction and film transnational feminism.

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