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Senior Lecturer in Writing and Anthropology
B.A., Wilfred Laurier University (Waterloo, ON); M.A., Ph.D., McMaster University (Hamilton, ON)
Research focuses on experimental ethnography, anthropology of exchange, Iceland, Micronesia and the Faroe Islands, as well as island cultural ecology and ghost towns.
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Lecturer in Engineering; Director of Engineering Studies
B.S., M.S., Ph.D, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Researches engineering education and the development of consumer-oriented technologies that can benefit under-served populations worldwide.
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Associate Professor of Physics
Sc.B., Brown University; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
Experimental particle astrophysics including dark matter detection and precision tests of gravity with lunar laser ranging (lab website).
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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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Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and Professor Emeritus of English
B.A., University of California (Riverside); A.M., Harvard University
An award-winning poet, Bidart won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize, 2018 National Book Award and was previously a finalist for both awards.
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Ralph Emerson and Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of Political Science
B.A., University of Minnesota (Minneapolis); M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Research focuses on the role of courts, rights, and litigation in public policy and politics.
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Senior Lecturer Emerita in Spanish
M.A.T. School for International Training/World Learning; Ph.D., University of Florida
Engaged in research on teaching and learning processes. Specializes in Spanish language and culture courses. Teaches courses on diversity in education and classroom interaction.
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Professor Emeritus of Physics
B.A., Yale University; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Engaged in laser spectroscopy, physics applied to biological systems, curricular development across disciplines, outreach to young learners and the public.
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Associate Professor of Philosophy
B.A., M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., Princeton University
Works on ancient Greek philosophy, with emphasis on ancient ethics and moral psychology.
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Betty Freyhof Johnson '44 Professor of Political Science; Paula Phillips Bernstein ’58 Faculty Director of the Albright Institute for Global Affairs
A.B., University of Chicago; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
Researching issues of international security with a specific focus on legitimacy, rising powers, and territorial conflict.
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Associate Professor of German Studies
A.B., M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Focuses on gender, identity, and subjectivity in German film, literature, and culture; teaches at all levels of German curriculum; research on independent films made in Austria in the 1930s and on Weimar cinema.
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Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
B.A., Rutgers University; M.S., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Synthetic Organic Chemistry; Design of New Tuberculosis Antimicrobials; Near-Infrared Spectroscopy
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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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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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Artistic Director Emerita of the Wellesley College Theatre
B.A., Mundelein College
Engaged in teaching and directing, original works, new scripts and classics. I am involved in the professional future of students.
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Jean Glasscock Professor of Sociology
B.A., Brandeis University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
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Professor Emerita of Political Science
B.A., Barnard College; M.A., Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., Columbia University
Research and teaching focuses on elections, politics, and the media.
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Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Sociology
B.A., Brandeis University; M.S., Columbia University; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Sophia Moses Robison Professor Emerita of Jewish Studies and History
B.A., Skidmore College; M.A., Ph.D., Brandeis University
Director of Jewish Studies, research in Jewish and European history, founding member of Digital Heritage Mapping and Diarna project.
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Elisabeth Luce Moore Professor of Christian Studies; Professor of Religion
B.A., Dickinson College; Ph.D., Harvard University
Academic historian and public interpreter of religion in America during the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Early National periods.
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Professor of Biological Sciences
B.Sc., Ph.D., University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada)
Studies the organization of animal societies, insect communication, and the evolution of cooperation, using the honey bee as a model.
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Margaret Clapp ’30 Distinguished Alumna Professor of Philosophy
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Professor of metaphysics, philosophy of language and law; also teaches logic and various seminars.
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Professor of Italian Studies
Laurea in Lettere, Universitˆ degli studi di Torino (Italy); M.A., Ph. D., Brown University
Teaches Italian language and literature, literary theory, and writing; works as a translator.
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Professor of French and Francophone Studies
B.A., Reed College; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Engaged in studying French poetry in its relation to contemporary French, philosophy, aesthetics, and intellectual history.
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Anne Pierce Rogers Professor Emeritus of American Literature; Professor Emeritus 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 Sociology
B.A., Mississippi College; M.A., University of Memphis; Ph.D., University of Virginia
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Senior Lecturer in English
B.A., M.A., University of Utah; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Teaching focuses on creative writing, mainly fiction and travel writing.
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Professor of Biological Sciences
A.B., Bowdoin College; Ph.D., Duke University
Evolutionary development (Evo-devo); Developmental genetics; Insect physiology
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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.
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Lewis Atterbury Stimson Professor in Mathematics
A.B., Harvard University; M.S., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Research specialty in graph theory and partially ordered sets, teaches across the mathematics curriculum, outreach to K-12 teachers.
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Associate Professor of Computer Science
S.B., M.S., Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Programs and programming languages are at the heart of both my teaching and research.
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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 climate change, the clean energy transition, and public lands management.
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Associate Professor of Economics and Writing
B.S.F.S., Georgetown University; Ph.D., Stanford University
Development economist with interest in Africa and labor markets; interest in economics pedagogy and active learning; writing across the curriculum
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Professor of Cinema and Media Studies
Laurea in Lettere Moderne, University of Genova; Ph.D., University of Oregon
Professor of cinema and media studies doing research on Surrealism, the Neo-Baroque, and the cinema of Raúl Ruiz, and teaching film history and European cinema.
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Professor of Mathematics
B.A., Boston University; M.A., Ph.D., Brown University
Research in algebraic topology, specifically calculus of functors and its applications to embeddings, including knots and links.
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Associate Professor of Philosophy
B.A., McGill University; Ph.D., Harvard University
Researches at the intersection of philosophy of language and cognitive science, focusing especially on figurative language.
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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.
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Senior Lecturer Emerita in the Writing Program
B.A., University of Illinois (Urbana); M.A., University of Iowa; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
Interests: language, writing, media, film. How students learn to write; how writing differs across settings; electronic discourse.
