Faculty Profiles

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  • Michael Jeffries portrait

    Michael Jeffries

    Knafel Assistant Professor of Social Sciences; Assistant Professor of American Studies
    A.B., Swarthmore College; Ph.D., Harvard University

    Qualitative sociologist with emphasis on race, gender, politics, identity, and popular culture.

  • Laura Jeppesen

    Senior Music Performance Faculty in Viola da Gamba
    B.A., Wheaton College; M.M., Yale University

    Specialist in early music string playing. Plays repertory from the medieval, Renaissance & baroque eras with internationally-known ensembles.

  • Jeannine Johnson

    Lecturer in the Writing Program
    B.A., Haverford College; Ph.D., Yale University

    Teaches writing courses, serves coordinator of the writing tutors, and writes and lectures about poetry, aesthetics, and rhetoric.

  • Jenny Olivia Johnson

    Assistant Professor of Music
    B.A., Barnard College; M.M., Manhattan School of Music; Ph.D., New York University

    Composer of amplified opera, scholar of music, trauma, and synaesthesia.

  • Doug Johnson

    Senior Music Performance Faculty in Jazz Piano
    B.M., Michigan State University; M.M., New England Conservatory of Music

    Doug is an Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music.

  • Kristina Niovi Jones

    Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences; Director, Wellesley College Botanic Gardens
    B.S., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of California

    Ecologist with a dual Wellesley role: Director of the Botanic Gardens and faculty member in Biology and Environmental Studies.

  • Bill Joseph

    William A. Joseph

    Professor of Political Science
    B.A., Cornell University; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University

    Bill Joseph's major area of research interest is contemporary Chinese politics and ideology, particularly the radicalism of Mao Zedong and its impact on China's political and economic development.

  • Joseph Joyce

    Joseph P. Joyce

    Professor of Economics
    B.S.F.S., Georgetown University; M.A., Ph.D., Boston University

    Research deals with financial globalization, IMF; teaches courses in macroeconomics; faculty director, Albright Institute

  • Marion R. Just

    William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science
    B.A., Barnard College; M.A., Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., Columbia University

    Research and teaching focuses on elections, politics, and the media.