Faculty

Justin Armstrong
Lecturer in Writing and Anthropology
B.A., Wilfred Laurier University (Waterloo, ON); M.A., Ph.D., McMaster University (Hamilton, ON)

Research focuses on ethnographic methods, globalization, depopulation of the North American High Plains, writing, islands and ghost towns.
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Amy Banzaert
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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James Battat
Assistant 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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Barbara R. Beatty
Professor 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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Frank L. Bidart
Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities; Professor of English
B.A., University of California (Riverside); A.M., Harvard University

An award-winning poet, Bidart was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
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Tom Burke
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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Bryan E. Burns
Associate Professor of Classical Studies
B.A., University of North Carolina; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan

Archaeologist engaged in the study of Mediterranean exchange in the Late Bronze Age, conducting fieldwork in Greece.
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Veronica Darer
Senior Lecturer 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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Theodore W. Ducas
Professor 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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Roxanne Euben
Ralph Emerson and Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of Political Science
B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

Comparative political theorist, specializes in interactions between Islamic and Euro-American political thought.

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Corinne A. Gartner
Assistant 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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Stacie Goddard
Jane Bishop '51 Associate Professor of Political Science
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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Anjeana K. Hans
Associate Professor of German
A.B., M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University

Focuses on gender, identity, and subjectivity in Germany; teaches at all levels of German curriculum; research on horror films from the 1920s.
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Michael J. Hearn
Professor 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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Rosanna Hertz
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 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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Soo Hong
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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Nora Hussey
Director, Wellesley College Theatre; Director, Theatre Studies Program
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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Jonathan B. Imber
Jean Glasscock Professor of Sociology
B.A., Brandeis University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Medicine, its historical and religious dimensions; edit journal on social thought and social policy. Focus on American society.
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Marion R. Just
Professor 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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Peggy Levitt
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

Studies international migration, transnational studies, development, religion, globalization, global arts and culture.
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Frances Malino
Sophia Moses Robison Professor 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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Stephen Anthony Marini
Elisabeth Luce Moore Professor of Christian Studies; Professor of Religion
B.A., Dickinson College; Ph.D., Harvard University

Academic and public interpreter of religion in American history in the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Early National periods.
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Heather Rose Mattila
Associate 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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Mary Kate McGowan
Luella LaMer Professor of Women's Studies; 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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Sergio Parussa
Associate 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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James Michael Petterson
Professor of French
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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Lawrence A. Rosenwald
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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Markella B. Rutherford
Associate Professor of Sociology
B.A., Mississippi College; M.A., University of Memphis; Ph.D., University of Virginia

Cultural sociology with research interests in childhood, family, emotions, social inequality, & consumer culture.
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Marilyn Sides
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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Yui Suzuki
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
A.B., Bowdoin College; Ph.D., Duke University

Evolutionary development (Evo-devo); Developmental genetics; Insect physiology
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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.
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Ann Trenk
Professor of 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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Franklyn A. Turbak
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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James Morton Turner
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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Ann Velenchik
Associate Professor of Economics; Dean of Academic Affairs
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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Maurizio S. Viano
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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Ismar Volić
Theresa Mall Mullarkey Associate 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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Catherine Wearing
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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Adele Wolfson
Nan Walsh Schow ’54 and Howard B. Schow Professor in the Physical and Natural Sciences; Professor 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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Winifred Jane Wood
Senior Lecturer 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.
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