Faculty Profiles

Teaches commercial singing styles and technique, specializing in jazz, blues, pop, and Brazilian music.

Pianist, teacher, and performer of piano and chamber music.

Boston-based freelance musician; performs regularly with prominent area symphony orchestras as well as chamber groups.

A microbiologist, now retired from teaching in the classroom, but continuing research on cyanobacterial biochemistry with undergraduate colleagues.

Having taught piano and music theory at Stonehill College for 9 years, she now teaches carillon at Wellesley College, where she acts as advisor to the 25-member student Guild of Carillonneurs.  She also serves as organist at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Sharon.

Focused on suiting the word to the action and the action to the word.

Retired from teaching, but continues work on book history, focusing on Italian Renaissance manuscripts and early printed books.

Research interests have included modern American history, the history of freedom of speech since the framing of the Bill of Rights, the history of the American legal profession, American Jewish history, and the history of Israel from its biblical foundation to the present.

Social psychologist doing research on similarity and diversity in friendship networks and the justification of prejudice.

Researches engineering education and the development of consumer-oriented technologies that can benefit under-served populations worldwide.

Experimental particle astrophysics including dark matter detection and precision tests of gravity with lunar laser ranging (lab website).

Molecular neuroscientist with an interest in glutamate transporters.

Sports Medicine Outreach project; engaged in predictive injury study; director, Employee Wellness Program.

Wellesley alumna; research explores the relations between art and science, and the place of sentimentalism in American art.

Engaged in integration and promotion of fitness and sports, critical components for lifelong learning and well-being.

Laser based studies of new electronic materials.

Head varsity squash coach and instructor of racket sports, primarily squash and badminton.

Specializes in early modern literature and culture, with a focus on theatrical works and institutions, and their connection to 17th- and 18th -century developments in political power.

Director, LyricaFest Music Festival; Quartet Program, Longy School; visiting faculty, Eastman School; silver medalist, Henryk Szeryng Prize.

Research interests: biogeochemistry, environmental geochemistry, and medical geology.

Composer of concert music; historian of early modern music, especially music during the Cold War in relation to other arts.

Retired from teaching in 2005 and from research several years later. Currently pursuing an interest in equine photography.

Specialist in twentieth-century British and Irish literature; writer.

Vertebrate paleontologist with interests at the interface of morphology, evolution, and development.

Research focuses on the role of courts, rights, and litigation in public policy and politics.

Researcher on labor and health economics, with a focus on immigration issues and issues surrounding childhood obesity.

Dancer by trade. Poet by heart. Yogini by spirit. Multimedia artist by convergence.

Focused on the political dimensions of human development, based on comparative and quantitative studies within Southern Asia. 

On leave Fall 2016.

Interests include women leaders, social influence, gender differences in interaction and influence, and reactions to victimization.

Interested in synthesis of novel anticancer and antiviral agents; teaching introductory chemistry, organic chemistry, and synthetic methods.

Professor Case passed away on July 15, 2016, after 34 years of teaching at Wellesley. His research was concerned with the causes and effects of boom and bust cycles in real estate; co-developed Case-Shiller Index, a leading measure of home pricing trends.

Author of two novels and a screenplay. Fields: fiction-writing, screenwriting, postcolonial studies and modern British literature.

Combinatorics of polyhedral complexes, cryptology, comparative genomics.

Professor of Personality Psychology. Research interests include shyness, self-concept, and identity orientations. 

Research explores how culture and family processes influence development and mental health across the lifespan.

 Studies American politics with an emphasis on public opinion, race and ethnicity, and political psychology

Retired from teaching in 2000, but continues to be active in the field of Chinese history.

Physical/Inorganic chemist, doing quantum chemistry and applications of computers in chemical education.

Classical and flamenco guitarist and lutenist; teacher and performer, developing instructional materials for the study of classical guitar.

Professor Emerita of the history of philosophy, particularly Plato and Aristotle and feminist theory.

Research in the sociology of education with a particular interest in academic and social engagement of college students.

Lesley S. Curtis is a scholar of postcolonialism and gender, with a special focus on Haiti, France, and abolitionism.

Engaged in research on teaching and learning processes.  Specializes in Spanish language and culture courses.  Teaches courses on diversity in education and classroom interaction.

Specialist of French cultural and intellectual history.