QUICK LINKS Today's News News releases ISU homepage NEWS RELEASE 06-19-02 Contacts: Dawn Bratsch-Prince, Foreign Languages and Literatures, (515) 294-8736 Dave Gieseke, Liberal Arts and Sciences, (515) 294-7742 Steve Sullivan, News Service, (515) 294-3720 BRATSCH-PRINCE NAMED CHAIR OF ISU FOREIGN LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT AMES, Iowa -- Dawn Bratsch-Prince, professor of Spanish, has been named chair of Iowa State University's department of foreign languages and literatures effective July 1, 2002. A member of the Iowa State faculty since 1990, Bratsch-Prince served as the department's assistant chair from 1997-2000. Bratsch-Prince's research focuses on prose writing and women's writing in medieval Spain. She earned bachelor's and master's degrees in Spanish from New York University, and a Ph.D. in romance philology from the University of California at Berkeley. Bratsch-Prince succeeds Madeleine Henry, who recently completed a five-year term as department chair. -30- Ames, Iowa 50011, (515) 294-4111 Published by: University Relations, online@iastate.edu Copyright © 1995-2002, Iowa State University of Science and Technology. All rights reserved.