Faculty Profiles
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David Ward
Professor of Italian StudiesB.A., University of East Anglia (England); M.A., Ph.D., Cornell UniversityItalian antifascist culture; 21st century Italian mystery writers; contemporary Italian narrative; postmodern narrative; narrative theory
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Lauri L. Wardell
Senior Instructor in Physics LaboratoryB.S., Fort Lewis College; M.S., University of KentuckyTeacher of basic physics principles, with interests in intercultural relations; liaison for Watson Fellowship; returned Peace Corps volunteer.
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Kera Washington
Senior Music Performance Faculty in African Diasporic Drumming and Director of YanvalouB.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Wesleyan University; Ph.D. Candidate, Tufts UniversityFocused on Yanvalou Drumming and Dance Ensemble, and African Diasporic drumming.
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Lois Wasserspring
Senior Lecturer in Political ScienceB.A., Cornell University; M.A., Princeton UniversityFascinated by the richness and complexity of Latin American culture and politics.
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Wesley Andres Watters
Assistant Professor of AstronomyB.S., M.S., Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPlanetary scientist who studies the planet Mars while teaching courses about the geology and climates of rocky and icy worlds.
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Catherine Wearing
Associate Professor of PhilosophyB.A., McGill University; Ph.D., Harvard UniversityResearches at the intersection of philosophy of language and cognitive science, focusing especially on figurative language.
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Dorothy Webb
PERA Associate Professor of the PracticeB.A., University of the Pacific; M.A., Brown UniversityDirect NCAA Division III intercollegiate volleyball program and teach skills and fitness courses in the Physical Education Department.
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Andrew C. Webb
Professor of Biological SciencesB.S., Ph.D., University of Southampton (England)Developing bionanotechnology anti-cancer reagents, biotech patent litigation expert.
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Kristen Weeks
Director of Student Well-Being and Sports MedicineB.S. Westfield State College; M.S. University of Massachusetts (Amherst); C.A.G.S., Ph.D., Simmons College"The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire and how you handle injury along the way."
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Akila Weerapana
Associate Professor of EconomicsB.A., Oberlin College; A.M., Ph.D., Stanford UniversityInterested in macroeconomics, particularly international economics, the economics of conflict, and monetary economics.
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Adam Weiner
Associate Professor of RussianB.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (Madison)Teaches Russian language and literature; at Wellesley since 1994.
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Francine Weiss
Visiting LecturerB.A., Wellesley College; Ph.D., Boston UniversityWellesley alumna; art historian specializing in the history of photography, American art, and visual culture of the 20th century.
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Rita Wen
Chinese Language AssistantB.A., Asia University; Teacher Training Program, Portland State UniversityInterested in Chinese language pedagogy and teaching Chinese as second language.
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Ellen B. Widmer
Mayling Soong Professor of Chinese Studies; Professor of East Asian StudiesB.A. Wellesley College; M.A., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard UniversityI study traditional Chinese fiction, history of Chinese women's writing, history of the book in China, and missionaries to East Asia.
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Michael Wiest
Assistant Professor of NeuroscienceB.A., Dartmouth College; M.S., Ph.D., Michigan State UniversityMission: to determine the distributed neural correlates of perception.
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Howard Wilcox
Professor of Mathematics, EmeritusAB Hamilton College, Ph.D. University of RochesterRetired from Wellesley in 2007 after 37 years of teaching mathematics.
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Jeremy B. Wilmer
Assistant Professor of PsychologyB.A., Williams College; Ph.D., Harvard UniversityResearch focuses on using individual differences to isolate functional organization, biology/development, and utility of visual function in humans.
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Paul M. Wink
Class of 1949 Professor in Ethics; Professor of PsychologyB.A., M.A., University of Melbourne; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)Psychology Department chair; research interests include adult development; positive psychology; religion and spirituality; altruism; narcissism; wisdom; cross-cultural conceptions of the self.
