The Project on Public Leadership and Action is co-directed by Laura Grattan and Michael Jeffries. Faculty participating in the project include:
People
Faculty & Staff
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Associate Professor of Psychology
B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Kansas
Social psychologist doing research on similarity and diversity in friendship networks and the justification of prejudice.
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Professor Emerita of Education
A.B., Radcliffe College; Ed.M., Ed.D., Harvard University
Historian of education and of childhood, teacher education, and education reform; preschool policy and advocacy
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Associate Professor of Classical Studies
B.A., University of North Carolina; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan
Archaeologist directing excavations in central Greece, studying cultural interaction and trade in the ancient Mediterranean, pursuing digital technology in teaching and research.
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Associate Professor of Peace and Justice Studies
B.S., Università degli Studi di Firenze; M.A., University of Notre Dame; Ph.D., University of Southern California
Scholar and activist around issues of peace and gender.
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Professor of Sociology
B.S., Southern Methodist University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
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Camilla Chandler Frost Professor of Environmental Studies
B.A., Oberlin College; Ph.D., Harvard University
Focuses on environmental politics, international environmental law, ocean and atmospheric issues, and protection of the global commons.
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Associate Professor Emerita of Women’s and Gender Studies
B.A., University of Massachusetts; M.A.R., Iliff School of Theology; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
Ethics of US health care, health policy, and public health with emphases on gender, race, and class; bioethics; theories of justice; global health.
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Jane Bishop '51 Associate Professor of Political Science
B.A., College of William and Mary; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University
Researches and teaches political theory, with a focus on grassroots organizing and the politics of race, ethnicity, and culture.
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Knafel Assistant Professor of Social Sciences; Assistant Professor of History
B.A., Beloit College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Historian of race, gender, and culture in 20th century U.S. with focus on African American business and visual culture.
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Wellesley Faculty Assistant Professor of History
A.B., Harvard University; M.Phil., Cambridge University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Intellectual and cultural historian of early modern Europe.
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Senior Lecturer in Education
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ed.M., Ed.D., Harvard University
Study of educational philosophy, policy, and practice, and the social sciences, humanities, and other studies relevant to them.
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Class of 1919 – 50th Reunion Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies
B.A., Brandeis University; M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University
* Researches the complexities of contemporary reproduction and how the intersection of reproductive technology, social media, and the wish for intimacy are expanding our ideas about families.
* Researches families in a changing economy and how social inequality at home and in the workplace shape the experiences of women and men.
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Associate Professor of Education
B.A., M.T., University of Virginia; Ed.D., Harvard University
Explores school-community relationships in K-12 urban schools with an emphasis on race, immigration, and culture.
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Jean Glasscock Professor of Sociology
B.A., Brandeis University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
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Associate Professor of American Studies
A.B., Swarthmore College; Ph.D., Harvard University
Qualitative sociologist focusing on race, class, gender, and cultural production.
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Professor of English
A.B., Harvard College; Ph.D., Yale University
My research and teaching span two areas, British eighteenth and nineteenth century prose fiction, and Asian American literature.
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Luella LaMer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies; Professor of Sociology
B.A., Brandeis University; M.S., Columbia University; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Katherine Stone Kaufmann '67 Executive Director of the Wellesley Centers for Women and Professor of Africana Studies
B.A., Spelman College; M.S., Pennsylvania State University; Ph.D., Temple University
Executive Director of the Wellesley Centers for Women; expert on the womanist worldview and activist methodology.
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies; Senior Research Scientist, Wellesley Centers for Women
B.A., Oberlin College; M.A., University of Connecticut (Storrs); Ed.D., Harvard University
Studies women and employment, with a focus on working conditions and health and on work-family systems, and studies of child care policy and early care and education.
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy
B.A., Yale University; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Researches and teaches the ethics, politics, and aesthetics of cultural heritage, art, and the environment.
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Betty Freyhof Johnson ’44 Professor of Political Science
B.A., Grinnell College; M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
The politics of globalization and inequality absorb me. I study them using archives, interviews, and direct observation of international development agencies.
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Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies
B.A., DePaul University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Los Angeles)
I am an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College where I teach courses on gender, sexuality, race, technology, neoliberalism, and globalization.
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Luella LaMer Associate Professor of Women's Studies; Associate Professor of Sociology
A.B., M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
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Anne Pierce Rogers Professor of American Literature; Professor of English
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University
Americanist, translator, performer (music, theater), verse-writer, pacifist.
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Associate Professor of Political Science
B.A., Lafayette College; J.D., Emory University; Ph.D., University of Chicago
Professor of American politics and constitutional law. Research focuses on the U.S. justice system.
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Professor of Biological Sciences
M.S., Ph.D., University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Evolutionary biologist with interest in conservation genetics.
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Associate Professor of Environmental Studies
B.S., Washington and Lee University; A.M., Brown University; Ph.D., Princeton University
Researcher on the recent history of U.S. environmental politics and policy, including public lands, climate change, and science and technology.
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Nan Walsh Schow ’54 and Howard B. Schow Professor Emerita in the Physical and Natural Sciences; Professor Emerita of Chemistry
B.A., Brandeis University; Ph.D., Columbia University
Biochemistry research on hormone regulation of enzymes; educational research on core concepts in biochemistry, retention of women and minorities in science.
