Faculty Profiles
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James R. Besancon
Associate Professor of GeosciencesB.S., Yale University; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyContinuing study of physical model and salt content of campus water, ICP-OES analysis of water; X-ray diffraction of complex mixtures.
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Gurminder Kaur Bhogal
Assistant Professor of MusicB.Mus., Royal College; M.Mus., King’s College; Ph.D., University of ChicagoInterested in the practice of ornament in French music and the visual arts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Frank L. Bidart
Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities; Professor of EnglishB.A., University of California (Riverside); A.M., Harvard UniversityAn award-winning poet, Bidart was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
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Héléne Bilis
Assistant Professor of FrenchB.A., Rutgers University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)Specializes in early modern literature and culture, with a focus on theater and poetics, and how they intersect with royal discourses on power.
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Molly Thomasy Blasing
Visiting Lecturer in RussianB.A., Harvard University; M.A., University of Wisconsin (Madison)Research interests include 19th and 20th century Russian poetry, and contemporary Russian theater and political performance.
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Beverly A. Blazar
Associate Professor of Biological ScienceB.A. Brown University; M.A. Harvard University; Ph. D. Brown UniversityRetired professor whose research and expertise was focused on immunology.
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Laura Bossert-King
Senior Music Performance Faculty in Viola and ViolinB.M., M.M., Eastman School of MusicDirector, LyricaFest Music Festival; Quartet Program, Longy School; visiting faculty, Eastman School; silver medalist, Henryk Szeryng Prize.
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H. Kim Bottomly
PresidentH. Kim Bottomly, Wellesley’s 13th president, is the first scientist to lead the College and the first president inaugurated in the 21st century.
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Kathleen Boyd
Music Performance Faculty in FluteB.M., M.M., New England Conservatory of Music -
Daniel J. Brabander
Associate Professor of GeosciencesB.S., M.A., Binghamton University; Ph.D., Brown UniversityResearch interests: biogeochemistry, environmental geochemistry, and medical geology.
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Sheila P. Brachfeld-Child
Senior Lecturer in Psychology; Director, Medical Professions AdvisingB.A., Tufts University; M.A., Boston University; Ph.D., Brandeis UniversityInterested in peer interactions in adolescence with a focus on social aggression, especially the representation of social aggression on television and in the movies. Teaches Adolescence and Introduction to Psychology. Has been Director of Medical Professions Advising since 1998.
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Kaća Bradonjić
Visiting Lecturer in PhysicsB.S., Northeastern University; M.A., Boston UniversityTheoretical work in general theory of relativity.
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Martin Alan Brody
Catherine Mills Davis Professor of MusicB.A., Amherst College; M.M., D.M.A., Yale University School of MusicComposer of concert music; historian of early modern music, especially music during the Cold War in relation to other arts.
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Kathleen Brogan
Associate Professor of EnglishB.A., Queens College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale UniversityTeaches modernism, contemporary American fiction and poetry, ethnic literature, and urban literature and photography.
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Judy Brown
Professor of Physics EmeritaB.A. Rice University; Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley; Postdoctoral Research at Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de SaclayRetired from teaching in 2005 and from research several years later. Currently pursuing an interest in equine photography.
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Anne Brubaker
Visiting Lecturer in the Writing ProgramB.A., Dickinson College; M.A., University of Sussex (Brighton, England)Interested in modern and contemporary American literature, the cultural study of science and technology, gender and women's writing, academic and professional writing, and film criticism and theory.
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Charles Bu
Professor of MathematicsB.S., M.S., Shanghai Jiao Tong University; M.S., Michigan State University; Ph.D., University of IllinoisProfessor Bu's work focuses on boundary value problems for important evolution equations.
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Emily Buchholtz
Gordon P. Lang and Althea P. Lang ’26 Professor of Biological SciencesB.A., College of Wooster; M.A., University of Wisconsin; Ph.D., George Washington UniversityVertebrate paleontologist with interests at the interface of morphology, evolution, and development.
