Nine faculty members were awarded tenure by the College and will be promoted to associate professor next fall.     Suisheng Zhao (government) is an internationally known scholar on China and is editor of the Journal of Contemporary China, a publication he founded. Zhao joined the faculty in 1993 after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. He has written three books on China and East Asia, including 1997's Power Competition in East Asia: From the Old Chinese World Order to Post-Cold War Regional Multipolarity, which was named Outstanding Academic Book of the year by Choice magazine.     Catherine Lowe Besteman (anthropology) has dedicated the past seven years of research to the violent collapse of the state in Somalia. She has written extensively on Somalia and the effects of its internal conflict, including a book currently under review, titled Disintegration from the Margins: Identity, Inequality and the Nightmare of History in Southern Somalia. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona and has taught at Colby since 1994.     Mark Tappan (education and human development) has focused his research on moral development and is the author or co-author of three books on the subject, including the forthcoming Cultural and Critical Perspectives on Human Development: Implications for Theory, Research and Practice. He earned a doctorate from Harvard in 1987 and joined Colby's faculty in 1991.     Betty Sasaki (Spanish), a Colby faculty member since 1991 and an active member on numerous faculty committees and programs, has written and published on Hispanic literature, multiculturalism and identity politics. Her criticism and analyses of Hispanic texts has resulted in more than a dozen papers at scholarly conferences. She received her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley.     Elizabeth Leonard (history) is a Civil War historian whose research has focused on women and their contributions during the war. Her second and latest book, All the Daring of a Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies, will be published in 1999. She has reviewed several books on the Civil War and presented her research in forums ranging from academic conferences to civic celebrations. A teacher at Colby since 1992, she earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside.      William Klein (psychology) joined the Colby faculty in 1991 soon after receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton. His research has included the study of social comparisons and their influence on risky behavior. He recently applied this research to a study of Colby students regarding alcohol consumption. His articles have appeared in several leading psychology journals.     Kim Besio (East Asian studies) is a prolific writer and presenter on Chinese language and literature. She has contributed a translation of Gao Xingjian's Bus Stop for a recently published anthology of contemporary Chinese plays. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and has taught at Colby since 1992.     Larissa Taylor (history) is a specialist on Reformation France whose research has produced two books and plans for two others. She received the prestigious Herzog August Bibliotek Fellowship in 1997 and an NEH summer stipend to work on a book tentatively titled Images of Mary Magdalene in the Art and Religion of the Late Middle Ages and Reformation. Last year she was named book review editor for Sixteenth Century Journal. A faculty member at Colby since 1994, she earned her Ph.D. at Brown University.     Lyn Mikel Brown (education and human development, women's studies) is a recognized authority in the area of girls' psychological development and education. Her book Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls' Development (co-written with Carol Gilligan) was a 1992 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She was a 1994-95 recipient of a National Academy of Education Spencer Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship. Her new book, Raising Their Voices: The Politics of Girls' Anger, will be published this fall. Prior to coming to Colby in 1991, she earned an Ed.D. at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard Project on Women's Psychology and Girls' Development.