Faculty Profiles

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  • Alexia Sontag

    Professor of Mathematics
    B.A., Pacific Lutheran University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Minnesota (Minneapolis)

    Professor Sontag taught Mathematics at Wellesley from 1975-2010.

  • Francesca Southerden

    Assistant Professor of Italian Studies
    B.A., University of Oxford (Somerville College); M.St., D.Phil., University of Oxford (Hertford College)

    Specializing in Italian medieval and early modern literature, especially Dante and Petrarch.

  • Tessa Spillane

    Tessa Spillane

    PERA Associate Professor of the Practice
    B.A., Mount Holyoke College; M.S., Smith College

    Varsity crew coach and director of intramural rowing programs; instructor in sailing and canoeing.

  • Glenn Stark

    Professor of Physics
    B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)

    Molecular spectroscopist, focused on systems in atmospheric and astrophysical research.

  • Jane E. Starkman

    Music Instructor in Baroque Violin
    B.M., M.M., New England Conservatory of Music

    Professor of Music

  • Raymond James Starr

    Theodora Stone Sutton Professor of Classics; Professor of Classical Studies
    B.A., University of Michigan (Ann Arbor); M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

    Focuses on Roman literature and culture; law; the sociology of Roman literature and education; political communication; media studies; and Augustus.

  • Filomina Chioma Steady

    Professor of Africana Studies
    B.A., Smith College; M.A., Boston University; B.Litt., D.Phil., Oxford University

    Studies of global gender systems and hierarchies; Africa and African Diaspora; social and environmental justice; international consulting.

  • Edward Stettner

    Ralph Emerson and Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of Political Science, Emeritus
    B.A. Brown University, M.A. Princeton University, Ph.D. Princeton University

    Taught political theory courses at Wellesley. Main research field is American Political Thought.

  • Suzanne E. Stumpf

    Senior Music Performance Faculty in Flute, Baroque Flute, and Chamber Music
    B.A., Wellesley College

    Specialist in chamber music; performer on modern and historical flutes; fosters study of repertoire within context of history/culture.

  • Yui Suzuki

    Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
    A.B., Bowdoin College; Ph.D., Duke University

    Evolutionary development (Evo-devo); Developmental genetics; Insect physiology

  • Joe Swingle

    Joseph Swingle

    Lecturer in Sociology
    B.A., Carleton College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University

    Studies quantitative sociological data on the American family.

  • Andre Switala

    Visiting Lecturer in Economics
    A.M., Ph.D., Brown University

    Visiting Lecturer in Economics.  General research interest is Macroeconomics and in specific Economic Growth.

  • Jill Ann Syverson-Stork

    Senior Lecturer in Spanish
    B.A., Smith College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
  • Olga Talroze

    Coach/accompanist
    B.M., M.M, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
  • Qiuyan Tang

    Lecturer in Chinese
    B.A., Nanjing Normal University; M.A., Fudan University

    Engaged in teaching Chinese language; interested in theory and methods of teaching Chinese as a foreign language; Taoist philosophy.

  • Jenny Chui-Chun Tang

    Senior Music Performance Faculty in Piano and Keyboard Skills; Assistant Director, Wellesley Chamber Music Society
    B.M., M.M., New England Conservatory of Music

    Assistant Director of the Chamber Music Society

  • Jonathan Tannenhauser

    Lecturer in Mathematics
    A.B., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)

    Background in theoretical particle physics, focusing on a conjectured equivalence between certain quantum field theories and certain string theories.

  • Corrine Taylor

    Senior Lecturer in the Quantitative Reasoning Program ; Director, Quantitative Reasoning Program
    B.A., College of William and Mary; M.S., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (Madison)

    Leading efforts to improve quantitative reasoning, teaching QR and economics of education, and providing professional development for secondary school teachers.

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