Faculty Profiles
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Rachid Aadnani
Lecturer in Middle Eastern StudiesB.A., Universite Moulay Ismail (Morocco); M.A., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., Binghamton UniversityTeacher of Arabic language and literature.
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Ama Baafra Abeberese
Assistant Professor of EconomicsB.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia UniversityResearch in development economics, with an emphasis on firm behavior in developing economies.
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Kris Adams
Senior Music Performance Faculty in Vocal JazzB.M., Berklee College of Music; M.M., New England Conservatory of MusicTeaches commercial singing styles and technique, specializing in jazz, blues, pop, and Brazilian music.
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Marjorie Agosin
Luella LaMer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies; Professor of SpanishB.A., University of Georgia; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana UniversityPoet, human rights activist, literary critic. Interested in Jewish literature and literature of human rights in the Americas; women writers of Latin America; migration, identity, and ethnicity.
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Eliko Akahori
Music Performance Faculty in Piano; Coach/AccompanistB.M., Kunitachi College of Music (Japan); M.M., D.M.A., New England Conservatory of MusicPianist, teacher, and performer of piano and chamber music.
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Robin M. Akert
Professor of PsychologyB.A., University of California (Santa Cruz); M.A., Ph.D., Princeton UniversityResearch in nonverbal communication: the ability to decode nonverbal cues in social interaction; also interested in the psychological analysis of advertising.
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Fred Aldrich
Music Performance Faculty in French HornB.M., New England Conservatory of MusicBoston-based freelance musician; performs regularly with prominent area symphony orchestras as well as chamber groups.
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Mary Allen
Jean Glasscock Professor Emerita of Biological SciencesB.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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Sarah M. Allen
Assistant Professor of ChineseA.B., Harvard College; M.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D., Harvard UniversityWorks on medieval Chinese literature and culture, with a focus on tales written in classical Chinese.
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Scott D. Anderson
Lecturer in Computer ScienceB.S., Yale University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts (Amherst) -
Diego Arciniegas
Senior Lecturer in Theatre StudiesB.A., Williams CollegeFocused on suiting the word to the action and the action to the word.
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Justin Armstrong
Visiting Lecturer in the Writing ProgramB.A., Wilfred Laurier University (Waterloo, ON); M.A., Ph.D., McMaster University (Hamilton, ON)Research focuses on ethnography, globalization, depopulation of the North American High Plains, writing, and interdisciplinarity.
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Lilian Armstrong
Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Art, 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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Chris R. Arumainayagam
Professor of ChemistryA.B., Harvard University; Ph.D., Stanford UniversityI am a physical chemist who uses surface chemistry techniques to study radiation chemistry.
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Jerold Auerbach
Professor Emeritus of 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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Nancy Baden
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Angela Bahns
Assistant Professor of PsychologyB.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., University of KansasSocial psychologist doing research on similarity and diversity in friendship networks and the justification of prejudice.
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Lamia Balafrej
Assistant Professor of ArtB.A., M.A., Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) and University of Paris; Ph.D., University of ProvenceArt historian working on the art and architecture of the Islamic world and their interweaving with global art history.
