Faculty Profiles
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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.
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Ginny Quinan
Instructor in Neuroscience LaboratoryB.A., Regis CollegeInstructs laboratories at the 100 and 200 levels and shares an enthusiasm for hands-on learning in neuroscience.
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Ryan Alexander Quintana
Assistant Professor of HistoryB.A., University of Tennessee (Knoxville); M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (Madison)Historian of race, slavery, space, and the state in the late colonial and early national eras.
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William W. Quivers
Associate Professor of PhysicsB.S., Morehouse College; S.M., Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyTheoretist interested in laser spectroscopy, effects of collisions on coherent processes in atoms, issues of race in science and medicine.
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Mala Radhakrishnan
Assistant Professor of ChemistryA.B., Harvard University; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInterested in computational biophysical chemistry, analysis/design of drugs and other biological molecules, and creatively teaching chemistry.
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Smitha Radhakrishnan
Assistant Professor of SociologyA.B., M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)Interested in globalization, gender, and nationalism; and in interdisciplinary, interactive learning in the classroom.
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Yasmine Ramadan
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Middle Eastern StudiesB.A., M.A., American University (Cairo); M.A., M.Phil., Columbia UniversityResearch focuses on modern and contemporary Arabic literature, comparative literature, post colonialism, and spatial theory.
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Carlos Ramos
Professor of SpanishLicenciatura, Universidad Central de Barcelona; M.A., Emerson College; Ph.D., Boston UniversityTeaching and research focused on 19th, 20th and 21st century Spanish peninsular literature and cultural history.
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Valerie Ramseyer
Associate Professor of HistoryA.B., Smith College; M.A., Ph.D., University of ChicagoMedieval historian of southern Italy and the Mediterranean, with special interest in t he relationship between Christian, Muslim, and Jewish communities.
