Emeriti Profiles
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Mary Allen
Jean Glasscock Professor Emerita of Biological SciencesDepartment:Faculty emeritaB.S., M.S., University of Wisconsin (Madison); Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)A microbiologist, now retired from teaching in the classroom, but continuing research on cyanobacterial biochemistry with undergraduate colleagues.
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Lilian Armstrong
Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Art, EmeritaDepartment:Faculty emeritaB.A. Wellesley College, M.A. Radcliffe College, Ph.D. Columbia UniversityRetired from teaching, but continues work on book history, focusing on Italian Renaissance manuscripts and early printed books.
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Jerold Auerbach
Professor Emeritus of HistoryDepartment:HistoryB.A., Oberlin College; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia UniversityResearch interests have included modern American history, the history of freedom of speech since the framing of the Bill of Rights, the history of the American legal profession, American Jewish history, and the history of Israel from its biblical foundation to the present.
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Beverly A. Blazar
Associate Professor of Biological ScienceDepartment:Faculty emeritaB.A. Brown University; M.A. Harvard University; Ph. D. Brown UniversityRetired professor whose research and expertise was focused on immunology.
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Judy Brown
Professor of Physics EmeritaDepartment:Faculty emeritaB.A. Rice University; Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley; Postdoctoral Research at Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de SaclayRetired from teaching in 2005 and from research several years later. Currently pursuing an interest in equine photography.
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Karl Case
Professor Emeritus of EconomicsDepartment:Faculty emeritusB.A., Miami University; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard UniversityResearch is concerned with the causes and effects of boom and bust cycles in real estate; co-developed Case-Shiller Index, a leading measure of home pricing trends.
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Paul A. Cohen
Professor Emeritus of HistoryDepartment:HistoryCornell University, B.A. University of Chicago, M.A., Ph.D. Harvard UniversityRetired from teaching in 2000, but continues to be active in the field of Chinese history.
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Marshall Goldman
Professor Emeritus of EconomicsDepartment:Faculty emeritusB.S., Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Ph D in Economics, Harvard UniversityStudies economic and political developments in Russia, especially the energy sector and how it affects Vladimir Putin.
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Mary Lefkowitz
Professor Emerita of Classical StudiesDepartment:Faculty emeritaB.A., Wellesley College; A.M., Ph.D., Radcliffe College; L.H.D., Trinity College; Ph.D. (hon.), University of Patras; L.H.D., Grinnell CollegeRetired from teaching in 2005, but continues to work on scholarly projects and give the occasional lecture.
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Ruth Anna Putnam
Professor Emerita of PhilosophyDepartment:Faculty emeritaB.Sc. U.C.L.A., Ph.D. U.C.L.A.As an undergraduate Chemistry major, she fell in love with Philosophy of Science and later turned to other areas of Philosophy.
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Wilbur C. Rich
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Political Science, emeritusDepartment:Faculty emeritusB.S.Tuskegee Institute, Ph.D. University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignRetired from teaching, but just released a new book entitled, The Post-Racial Society Is Here: Recognition, Critics and the Nation-State.
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Alexia Sontag
Professor of Mathematics, EmeritusDepartment:Faculty emeritaB.A., Pacific Lutheran University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Minnesota (Minneapolis)Professor Sontag taught Mathematics at Wellesley from 1975-2010.
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Edward Stettner
Ralph Emerson and Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of Political Science, EmeritusDepartment:Faculty emeritusB.A. Brown University, M.A. Princeton University, Ph.D. Princeton UniversityTaught political theory courses at Wellesley. Main research field is American Political Thought.
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Meg Thompson
Professor Emerita of GeosciencesDepartment:Faculty emeritaB.A., Smith College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard UniversityRetired from teaching at Wellesley, now pursuing full-time research with collaborators at Ohio State University, MIT, and Tufts. Outreach to students and adults.
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Margaret E. Ward
Professor of German, EmeritaDepartment:Faculty emeritaB.A., Wilson College; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University (Bloomington); D. Litt., h.c. (honorary Doctor of Humane Letters), Lasell CollegeRetired from Wellesley in 2010 after 39 years. Helped establish Women’s and Gender Studies program.
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Dorothea "Dot" Widmayer
Professor of Biology EmeritaDepartment:Faculty emeritaB.A., M.A., Wellesley College; Ph.D., Indiana University, BloomingtonRetired from Wellesley in 1996 after 35 years teaching Introductory Biology and Genetics. Previously taught at Simmons College for two years.
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Howard Wilcox
Professor of Mathematics, EmeritusDepartment:Faculty emeritusAB Hamilton College, Ph.D. University of RochesterRetired from Wellesley in 2007 after 37 years of teaching mathematics.
