Faculty Profiles

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  • T. Kaye Peterman

    Susan M. Hallowell and Ruby Frances Howe Farwell Professor of Biological Sciences
    B.S., Texas A & M University; Ph.D., Duke University

    Plant cell biologist who uses molecular genetics, biochemistry and confocal microscopy to study how plant cells grow and divide.

  • James Michael Petterson

    Professor of French
    B.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.

  • Caitlin Pickul

    Instructor in Physical Education, Recreation and Athletics
    B.S., Providence College; M.B.A., Loyola University Chicago

    Assistant soccer coach; assistant director of strength and conditioning.

  • Elizabeth Pierce

    Visiting Lecturer
    B.A. (Honors) Williams College, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Columbia University

    Glacial processes, the sedimentary record, and the paleoclimate of the Earth’s polar regions

  • Jessica Polito

    Lecturer in the Quantitative Reasoning Program
    B.A., Harvard University; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
  • Anjali Prabhu

    Associate Professor of French
    B.A., Jawaharlal Nehru University (India); M.A., Purdue University; Ph.D., Duke University

    Works in postcolonial studies, Francophone studies, cultural theory (especially French theory), cinema studies, African studies.

  • Ruth Anna Putnam

    Professor Emerita of Philosophy
    B.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. 

  • Jennie E. Pyers

    Associate Professor of Psychology
    B.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.

  • Ginny Quinan

    Instructor in Neuroscience Laboratory
    B.A., Regis College

    Instructs laboratories at the 100 and 200 levels and shares an enthusiasm for hands-on learning in neuroscience.

  • Ryan Alexander Quintana

    Assistant Professor of History
    B.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.

  • William W. Quivers

    Associate Professor of Physics
    B.S., Morehouse College; S.M., Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Theoretist interested in laser spectroscopy, effects of collisions on coherent processes in atoms, issues of race in science and medicine.

  • Mala Radhakrishnan

    Assistant Professor of Chemistry
    A.B., Harvard University; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Interested in computational biophysical chemistry, analysis/design of drugs and other biological molecules, and creatively teaching chemistry.

  • Smitha Radhakrishnan

    Assistant Professor of Sociology
    A.B., M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)

    Interested in globalization, gender, and nationalism; and in interdisciplinary, interactive learning in the classroom.

  • Yasmine Ramadan

    Yasmine Ramadan

    Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Middle Eastern Studies
    B.A., M.A., American University (Cairo); M.A., M.Phil., Columbia University

    Research focuses on modern and contemporary Arabic literature, comparative literature, post colonialism, and spatial theory.

  • Carlos Ramos

    Professor of Spanish
    Licenciatura, Universidad Central de Barcelona; M.A., Emerson College; Ph.D., Boston University

    Teaching and research focused on 19th, 20th and 21st century Spanish peninsular literature and cultural history.

  • Valerie Ramseyer

    Associate Professor of History
    A.B., Smith College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago

    Medieval historian of southern Italy and the Mediterranean, with special interest in t he relationship between Christian, Muslim, and Jewish communities.

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