Faculty Profiles
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Michael Jeffries
Knafel Assistant Professor of Social Sciences; Assistant Professor of American StudiesA.B., Swarthmore College; Ph.D., Harvard UniversityQualitative sociologist with emphasis on race, gender, politics, identity, and popular culture.
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Steffani Jemison
Visiting Lecturer in Studio Art and Cole Fellowship CoordinatorB.A., Columbia University in the City of New York; M.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of ChicagoVisual artist and writer whose media include acetate, projection, and text.
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Laura Jeppesen
Senior Music Performance Faculty in Viola da GambaB.A., Wheaton College; M.M., Yale UniversityPerformer of early music, in repertoire from the Middle Ages to the 19th century; player of rebec, vielle, viola, and gamba.
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Doug Johnson
Senior Music Performance Faculty in Jazz PianoB.M., Michigan State University; M.M., New England Conservatory of MusicDoug is an Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music.
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Jenny Olivia Johnson
Assistant Professor of MusicB.A., Barnard College; M.M., Manhattan School of Music; Ph.D., New York UniversityComposer of amplified opera, scholar of music, trauma, and synaesthesia.
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Jeannine Johnson
Lecturer in the Writing ProgramB.A., Haverford College; Ph.D., Yale UniversityTeaches writing courses, serves coordinator of the writing tutors, and writes and lectures about poetry, aesthetics, and rhetoric.
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Kristina Niovi Jones
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences; Director, Wellesley College Botanic GardensB.S., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of CaliforniaEcologist with a dual Wellesley role: Director of the Botanic Gardens and faculty member in Biology and Environmental Studies.
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William A. Joseph
Professor of Political ScienceB.A., Cornell University; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford UniversityBill 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.
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Joseph P. Joyce
Professor of EconomicsB.S.F.S., Georgetown University; M.A., Ph.D., Boston UniversityResearch deals with financial globalization, IMF; teaches courses in macroeconomics; faculty director, Albright Institute
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Marion R. Just
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political ScienceB.A., Barnard College; M.A., Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., Columbia UniversityResearch and teaching focuses on elections, politics, and the media.
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Stella Kakavouli
Instructor in Computer Science LaboratoryB.S., National Technical University (Athens, Greece); M.S., Brown UniversityTeaches introduction to computer science for majors and non-majors, as well as data structures.
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Lidwien Kapteijns
Elizabeth Kimball Kendall and Elisabeth Hodder Professor of HistoryB.A., Universiteit van Amsterdam; M.A., University of London; Doctoraal, Ph.D., Universiteit van AmsterdamAfrican historian focusing on Somalia and Sudan; translator of historical and popular culture texts in Arabic and Somali.
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Anastasia Karakasidou
Professor of AnthropologyB.A., College of Wooster; M.A., Brandeis University; M.A., Bryn Mawr College; M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia UniversitySocial anthropologist doing research, writing and teaching on the topics of health, illness and cancer.
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Margaret Keane
Professor of PsychologyA.B., Harvard College; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInterested in exploring the cognitive and neural bases of human memory capacities; teach courses in memory, cognition, and neuropsychology.
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David Kelley
Assistant Professor of ArtB.A., Trinity College; M.F.A., University of California (Irvine)Artist doing work at the intersection of photography, performance, video, and critical studies.
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Megan Kerr
Associate Professor of MathematicsB.A., Wellesley College; Ph.D., University of PennsylvaniaResearch in global Riemannian geometry, especially the interplay of curvature constraints in the context of large symmetry groups.
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Pinar Keskin-Bonatti
Assistant Professor of EconomicsB.A., Bilkent University; M.A., M. Phil., Ph.D., Yale UniversityApplied micro-economist focusing primarily on the environmental challenges facing decision makers in developed and developing countries
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Julia King
PERA Assistant Professor of the PracticeB.A., Bowdoin College; M.A., Trinity CollegeHead field hockey coach, instructor of strength training, and assistant to the intramural program.
