Faculty Profiles
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Robert L. Paarlberg
Betty Freyhof Johnson ’44 Professor of Political ScienceB.A., Carleton College; Ph.D., Harvard UniversityResearcher on food and agricultural policy, with a focus on farming technologies and poverty in the developing world.
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Sergio Parussa
Associate Professor of Italian StudiesLaurea in Lettere, Universitˆ degli studi di Torino (Italy); M.A., Ph. D., Brown UniversityTeaches Italian language and literature, literary theory, and writing; works as a translator.
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Donna A. Patterson
Assistant Professor of Africana StudiesB.A., University of Houston; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana UniversityHistorian with training in Africa and the African Diaspora with interests in health policy, gender, medical professionalization, and entrepreneurship.
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Timothy Walter Hopkins Peltason
Professor of EnglishA.B., Harvard College; M.A., Ph.D., Yale UniversityTim Peltason teaches and writes about nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American literature and about Shakespeare.
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T. Kaye Peterman
Susan M. Hallowell and Ruby Frances Howe Farwell Professor of Biological SciencesB.S., Texas A & M University; Ph.D., Duke UniversityPlant cell biologist who uses molecular genetics, biochemistry and confocal microscopy to study how plant cells grow and divide.
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James Michael Petterson
Professor of FrenchB.A., Reed College; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)Engaged in studying French poetry in its relation to contemporary French, philosophy, aesthetics, and intellectual history.
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Caitlin Pickul
Instructor in Physical Education, Recreation and AthleticsB.S., Providence College; M.B.A., Loyola University ChicagoAssistant soccer coach; assistant director of strength and conditioning.
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Elizabeth Pierce
Visiting LecturerB.A. (Honors) Williams College, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Columbia UniversityGlacial processes, the sedimentary record, and the paleoclimate of the Earth’s polar regions
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Jessica Polito
Lecturer in the Quantitative Reasoning ProgramB.A., Harvard University; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley) -
Anjali Prabhu
Associate Professor of FrenchB.A., Jawaharlal Nehru University (India); M.A., Purdue University; Ph.D., Duke UniversityWorks in postcolonial studies, Francophone studies, cultural theory (especially French theory), cinema studies, African studies.
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Ruth Anna Putnam
Professor Emerita of PhilosophyB.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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Jennie E. Pyers
Associate Professor of PsychologyB.A., Smith College; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)Research interests include the relationship between language and cognition, bilingualism, and the psycholinguistics of sign languages.
