Faculty Profiles
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Donald E. Elmore
Associate Professor of ChemistryB.A., Grinnell College; Ph.D., California Institute of TechnologyUses experiments and computation to study membrane proteins; teaches biochemistry, introductory chemistry and courses in computational modeling.
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Alla L. Epsteyn
Senior Lecturer in RussianM.A., Moscow University; Ph.D., Academy of Sciences Institute of World History (Russia)Teaches Russian language; Wintersession in Moscow Program Director; at Wellesley since 1998.
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Roxanne Euben
Ralph Emerson and Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of Political ScienceB.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton UniversityComparative political theorist, specializes in interactions between Islamic and Western thought; secretary of American Political Science Association.
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Elizabeth Falconi
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in AnthropologyB.A., New York University; M.A., Ph.D., University of MichiganLinguistic anthropologist focusing on Mexico & the U.S., migration & transborder communities, citizenship, indigeneity, language & social inequality, narrative, and language ideologies, planning, and shift & revitalization.
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Oscar E. Fernandez
Assistant Professor of MathematicsB.A., B.S., University of Chicago; Ph.D., University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)Research is in geometric mechanics and specifically in Nonholonomic Mechanics. Presently researching Hamiltonian-like properties of some special types of nonholonomic systems.
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Daniel Fetter
Assistant Professor of EconomicsB.A., Wesleyan University; M.Sc., London School of Economics and Political Science; Ph.D., Harvard University -
Paul Fisher
Associate Professor of American StudiesA.B., Harvard College; B.A., M.A., Trinity College (Cambridge); M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale UniversityInterdisciplinary scholar with focus on American literature; biographer of the James family; historian of the Belle Époque.
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Charles B. Fisk
Phyllis Henderson Carey Professor of MusicA.B., Harvard College; M.M.A., D.M.A., Yale University School of MusicEngaged in thinking and writing about the repertoire I perform as a pianist, and psychological and philosophical issues in music.
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Nolan T. Flynn
Associate Professor of ChemistryB.A., St. Olaf College; Ph.D., University of IllinoisInterests include nanoscience and biomaterials for environmental and medical applications; teaching in analytical chemistry and nanoscience.
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Claire Fontijn
Professor of MusicB.A., Oberlin College; Certificate, The Royal Conservatory of The Hague; M.A., Ph.D., Duke UniversityInterests include early music in general, Western Europe 1000-1750, music composed by women such as Fanny Hensel and St. Hildegard.
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Richard G. French
Louise Sherwood McDowell and Sarah Frances Whiting Professor of Astrophysics; Professor of Astronomy; Dean of Academic AffairsB.A., M.S., Ph.D., Cornell UniversityPlanetary astronomer, fascinated by planetary rings and atmospheres, committed to teaching science, and a devotee of all the liberal arts.
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Alice T. Friedman
Grace Slack McNeil Professor of American Art; Professor of ArtA.B., Radcliffe College; M.Phil., University of London; Ph.D., Harvard UniversityInterested in building an interdisciplinary, feminist approach to architecture through research, teaching, and public education.
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Gesa Frömming
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in GermanM.A., University of Göttingen; Ph.D., Vanderbilt UniversityProfessor Frömming's special interests include 20th-century German literature, the arts of the European Avantgarde and eighteenth-century studies.
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Gale Fuller
Senior Music Performance Faculty in VoiceB.M., Peabody Conservatory of Music; M.M., New England Conservatory of MusicDedicated to the sublime art and pursuit of beautiful singing.
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Charlene Galarneau
Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender StudiesB.A., University of Massachusetts; M.A.R., Iliff School of Theology; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard UniversityInterests: health and health care both public and global and the ethics and policy thereof, and feminist and religiously-based approaches to justice.
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Marie-Cécile Ganne-Schiermeier
Visiting Lecturer in FrenchM.A., Ph.D., Boston UniversityAcademic focus includes authorship, textual strategies, and the fashioning of subjectivity. Passionate about teaching and her commitment to students.
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Corinne A. Gartner
Assistant Professor of PhilosophyB.A., M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., Princeton UniversityWorks on ancient Greek philosophy, with emphasis on ancient ethics and moral psychology.
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Elena Gascón-Vera
Professor of SpanishLicenciatura, University of Madrid; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale UniversityResearches topics from Spanish medieval and Golden Age literature and feminist studies, to Spanish postmodernism and Spanish and Mexican cinema; an educator who intends to teach a higher spiritual and ethical attitude toward life.
