Faculty Profiles
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Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern StudiesB.A., Universite Moulay Ismail (Morocco); M.A., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., Binghamton University
I teach Arabic literature and language
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Assistant Professor of EconomicsB.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University
Research in development economics, with an emphasis on firm behavior in developing economies.
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Senior Music Performance Faculty in Vocal JazzB.M., Berklee College of Music; M.M., New England Conservatory of Music
Teaches commercial singing styles and technique, specializing in jazz, blues, pop, and Brazilian music.
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Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities; Professor of SpanishB.A., University of Georgia; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University
Poet, human rights activist, literary critic. Interested in Jewish literature and literature of human rights in the Americas; women writers of Latin America; migration, identity, and ethnicity.
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Senior Music Performance Faculty in Piano; Director, Music Performance ProgramB.M., Kunitachi College of Music (Japan); M.M., D.M.A., New England Conservatory of Music
Pianist, teacher, and performer of piano and chamber music.
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Professor of PsychologyB.A., University of California (Santa Cruz); M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Research in nonverbal communication: the ability to decode nonverbal cues in social interaction; also interested in the psychological analysis of advertising.
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Senior Music Performance Faculty in French HornB.M., New England Conservatory of Music
Boston-based freelance musician; performs regularly with prominent area symphony orchestras as well as chamber groups.
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Assistant Professor of Computer ScienceB.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
I use computational, experimental, and symbolic methods to understand meaning in natural language.
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Lecturer in Computer ScienceB.S., Yale University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
Professor Anderson's teaching interests include web application programming, including databases, web frameworks, and computer graphics. His research interests are similar, but also include artificial intelligence (particularly planning and natural language processing), simulation, system software and system administration.
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Carillon Instructor, Director of Guild of CarillonneursBachelors, Wellesley College; Masters of Music, New England Conservatory
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.
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Senior Lecturer in Theatre StudiesB.A., Williams College
Focused on suiting the word to the action and the action to the word.
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Lecturer in Writing and AnthropologyB.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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Assistant Professor of Political ScienceB.A., University of Oregon; M.Ed., Boston University; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
on sabbatical 2022-2023
Research interests include race & ethnicity, public opinion, immigration, intergroup solidarity, methodology.
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Assistant Professor of SpanishB.S., University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras; Ph.D., Harvard UniversityResearch and teaching interests: early modern Spanish literature, visual culture and Luso-Castilian bilingualism, theories of poetic inspiration, literature in language teaching.
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Professor of ChemistryA.B., Harvard University; Ph.D., Stanford University
I am a physical chemist who uses surface chemistry techniques to study radiation chemistry.
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Associate Professor of PsychologyB.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Kansas
Social psychologist doing research on the dynamics of prejudice and friendship formation.
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Visiting Lecturer in ReligionB.A., Princeton University; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
Scholar of classical and post-classical Islamic intellectual history with special attention to early modern Ottoman philosophical and theological corpus; political Islam in Turkey; Persian and Ottoman/Turkish poetry; religious experience in poetry.
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Lecturer in Engineering; Director of Engineering StudiesB.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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Senior Lecturer in Italian StudiesB.A., Harvard University Extension School; M.A., Tufts University
Research focuses on Italian language pedagogy and 20th century Italian cultural studies.
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Lecturer in SpanishB.A., University of the Balearic Islands, Spain ; M.A., Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
My research and teaching interests focus primarily on semantics, pragmatics, syntax-semantics interfaces, Romance linguistics, dialectal and typological variation, and sociolinguistics.
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Anchor Point Assistant Professor in Computer ScienceB.S., Ain Shams University; M.S., German University in Cairo; Ph.D., Boston University
Interested in resource management within brokered computing environments; specifically the allocation of resources (packing/routing), and its economical aspects.
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Lecturer in the Writing ProgramB.A., Georgetown University; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
My research and teaching explores the relationship between art, literature, and social change, with a focus on the U.S. Left in the 1930s.
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Associate Professor of PhysicsSc.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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Lecturer in NeuroscienceB.A., Wellesley College; Ph.D., University of Michigan
Molecular neuroscientist with an interest in glutamate transporters.
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Professor of ArtB.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University
Art Historian focusing on the art and visual culture of the United States. Interests include the intersection of art and science, ecocriticism, landscape imagery, sentimentalism, and Disney.
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Freedom Project Postdoctoral Fellow in Political ScienceB.A., M.A., Ankara University; Ph.D., State University of New York (Binghamton)
Research interests include political economy, intellectual property, cultural expressions, foreign policy, international organizations, the Middle East, and the Kurdish question.
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Senior Instructor in Biological Sciences LaboratoryB.S., University of New Hampshire; Ph.D., Cornell University
Broad interests in molecular biology that are now focused on engaging students in complex experiments and science writing.
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Assistant Professor of PhysicsB.S., Olin College of Engineering; M.S., Ph. D., Stanford University
Materials scientist developing next-generation solar cells by studying the fundamental properties of novel solution-processed semiconductors.
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Allene Lummis Russell Professor of NeuroscienceB.A., Mount Holyoke College; M.S., Ph.D., Princeton University
Passions for serotonin and adult neurogenesis! Excited about the wonderful neuroscience program at Wellesley College.
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Professor of PhysicsA.B., Princeton University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Laser based studies of new electronic materials.
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Theodora L. and Stanley H. Feldberg Professor of ArtB.A., Hampshire College; M.A., Ph.D., New York University
Art historian specializing in the art and visual culture of the late 19th-, 20th-, and 21st centuries.
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Catherine Mills Davis Professor of MusicB.Mus(Hons), Royal College of Music; M.Mus., King’s College, University of London; Ph.D., University of Chicago
Scholarly interests focus on the music of French composers including Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Delage; the practice of ornament in French music and the visual arts during the early twentieth century; music and aesthetics; music and orientalism/exoticism/colonialism-decolonialism; and Sikh devotional music (Sikh Kirtan)
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Associate Professor of French and Francophone StudiesB.A., Rutgers University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Specializes in French culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a particular focus on the relationship between literary texts and the socio-historical contexts in which they emerged.
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Assistant Professor of Biological SciencesB.A., Williams College ; Ph.D., Stanford University
Studying marine microbes, from the genomic to ecosystem level.
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Senior Music Performance Faculty in Viola and ViolinB.M., M.M., Eastman School of Music
Director, LyricaFest Music Festival; Quartet Program, Longy School; visiting faculty, Eastman School; silver medalist, Henryk Szeryng Prize.
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Senior Music Performance Faculty in FluteB.M., M.M., New England Conservatory of Music
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Frost Professor in Environmental Science; Professor of GeosciencesB.S., M.A., Binghamton University; Ph.D., Brown University
Research interests: GeoHealth, biogeochemistry, environmental geochemistry, research and collaborative project-based learning to support inclusive excellence in STEM education
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Assistant Professor of ArtB.A., Vassar College; M.A., Ph.D., Bryn Mawr
Historian of art and architecture focusing on the medieval Islamic world. Interests include cross-cultural transmission, landscape studies, and digital art history.
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Associate Professor of EnglishB.A., Queens College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Teaches modernism, contemporary American fiction and poetry, ethnic literature, and urban literature and photography.
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Assistant Professor of Computer ScienceB.A., Columbia College Chicago; B.A., Rutgers University-Camden; Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
I love designing algorithms and exploring CS theory applied to e-commerce, fairness in machine learning, democracy, and bioinformatics.
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Lecturer in the Writing ProgramB.A., Dickinson College; M.A., University of Sussex (Brighton, England); Ph.D., University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
Interested in modern and contemporary American literature, the cultural study of science and technology, gender and women's writing, academic and professional writing, and film criticism and theory.
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Lecturer in the Writing ProgramA.B., Harvard College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan
Specialist in twentieth-century British and Irish literature; writer.
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Professor of MathematicsB.S., M.S., Shanghai Jiao Tong University; M.S., Michigan State University; Ph.D., University of Illinois
Specialist in initial-boundary value problems for nonlinear partial differential equations.
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Ralph Emerson and Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of Political ScienceB.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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Visiting Lecturer in PhysicsB.S. University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) ; M.S., University of Virginia; Ph.D., University of Virginia
Observational and Theoretical Astrochemistry, Radio Astronomy
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Professor of Classical StudiesB.A., University of North Carolina; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan
Archaeologist leading an excavation in central Greece, studying cultural interaction and trade in the ancient Mediterranean, pursuing digital technology in teaching and research.
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Marshall I. Goldman Professor of EconomicsB.A., Wellesley College; M.S., London School of Economics; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Researcher on labor and health economics, with a focus on immigration issues and issues surrounding childhood obesity.
ON LEAVE, 2022 -2023
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Mary Jewett Gaiser Professor of EnglishB.A., Tufts University; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Expert in nineteenth and early twentieth century American literature; Shakespeare; and modernism in the arts.
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Instructor in Physical Education, Recreation and AthleticsB.A., San Jose State University; M.A., University of California (Los Angeles)
Dancer by trade. Poet by heart. Yogini by spirit. Multimedia artist by convergence.
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Professor of Political ScienceB.A., Haverford College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
Interested in the political dimensions of human development, especially policies that promote education, employment, health, and dignity in Southern Asia.
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Associate Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic SciencesB.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
Professor of linguistics; research interests include artificial language learning and acquisition of phonology.
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Associate Professor of ChemistryB.S., SUNY (Purchase College); M.S., Ph.D., Yale University
Interested in synthesis of novel anticancer and antiviral agents; teaching introductory chemistry, organic chemistry, and synthetic methods.
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Associate Professor of Africana StudiesB.A., Howard University ; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., Columbia University
Carter Jackson's research focuses on slavery and the abolitionists, violence as a political discourse, historical film, and black women’s history.
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Associate Professor of ArtB.A., Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge); M.A., University of Texas (Austin); Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Art and architectural historian specializing in the ancient Mediterranean.
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Assistant Professor of GeosciencesB.A., Amherst College; M.S., Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Research Interests: I'm a metamorphic petrologist and geochemist interested in metamorphic phase equilibria, chemical kinetics, convergent tectonics, and subduction zone dynamics.
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Senior Lecturer in EnglishB.A., Barnard College; M.A., New York University; Ph.D., City University of New York
Author of two novels and a screenplay. Fields: fiction-writing, screenwriting, postcolonial studies and modern British literature.
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Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Women’s and Gender StudiesB.A., Wellesley College; M.Sc., Imperial College and University College, London; Ph.D., University of California (Davis)
Follows the making and mobilization of scientific knowledge across the biological, environmental, and agricultural sciences, with particular attention to imaginaries of conservation, survival, and hope through the climate crisis.
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Lecturer in MathematicsA.B., Harvard University; M.A., University of Chicago; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Combinatorics of polyhedral complexes, cryptology, comparative genomics.
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Professor of MathematicsB.A., University of California (Berkeley); M.A., Cambridge University (England); Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research on positive scalar curvature and rigidity of manifolds, noncommutative geometry, tools of surgery theory
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Senior Research ScientistB.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Research interests include risky and resilient digital media behaviors within vulnerable peer and family contexts as well as digital citizenship and how to engage youth in (re)defining and monitoring healthy digital media use
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Professor of PsychologyB.A., George Washington University; M.A., University of Texas (Austin); Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Professor of Personality Psychology. Research interests include shyness, self-concept, and identity orientations.
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Senior Lecturer in ChineseB.A., Shanghai Teachers’ University; M.A., University of Iowa
Interested in Chinese language pedagogy and second language acquisition.
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Associate Professor of PsychologyB.A., Rutgers University; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Research explores how culture and family processes influence development and mental health across the lifespan.
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Lorraine C. Wang Professor of EnglishB.A., Amherst College; Ph.D., Harvard University
Poet and critic.
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Knafel Assistant Professor of Social Sciences; Assistant Professor of Political ScienceA.B., Brown University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan
on sabbatical 2022-2023
Studies American politics with an emphasis on race and ethnicity, public opinion, and political psychology
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Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of American StudiesB.A., University of California (Irvine); M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
Specializes in gender and Filipinx history, Asian American Studies, history of U.S. empire, and transnational feminist approaches to the study of beauty and fashion
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Lecturer in the Quantitative Reasoning ProgramB.A., Hendrix College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Irvine)
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Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in ArtB.A., Ithaca College ; MFA., Indiana University (Bloomington)
Painter working with the history, imagination and construction of female-centric communities.
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Professor of EconomicsA.B., Harvard College; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Researcher in the economics of aging and health.
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Senior Coach/Collaborative KeyboardistB.M., Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo); M.M., University of Wisconsin (Madison); Ph.D., New England Conservatory of Music
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Associate Professor of Peace and Justice StudiesB.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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Assistant Professor of Political ScienceB.A., Georgetown University; Ph.D., University of Texas (Austin)
Research interests include the political behavior, mobilization, and transnationalism of Afro-Latin Americans and their descendants.
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Professor of Women’s and Gender StudiesB.A., University of California (Riverside); M.A., University of California (Santa Barbara); Ph.D., University of California (Santa Cruz)
Engaged in research on Asian American visual history and Native American cultural studies including sacred horse cultures.
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Professor of SociologyB.S., Southern Methodist University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
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Professor of Africana StudiesB.A., M.A., Fordham University; Ph.D., Cornell University
Expert on Caribbean literature and Caribbean intellectual history.
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Deffenbaugh de Hoyos Carlson Professor in the Social Sciences; Professor of SociologyB.A., Saint Michael’s College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia
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Knafel Assistant Professor of Natural Sciences; Assistant Professor of Biological SciencesB.S., Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., Rice University
Investigating membranes + membrane protein biology and dynamics in the context of human health
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Professor of French and Francophone StudiesA.B., Bryn Mawr College; M.A., Ph.D., New York University
Specialist of French cultural and intellectual history.
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Lecturer in Computer ScienceB.A., Yale University ; M.A., University of Texas at Austin; M.S., Stanford University ; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
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Lecturer in Geosciences & Environmental StudiesB.A., Williams College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
Research Interests: Earth Surface Processes, Paleoclimate, Ice Sheet History, Sedimentary Provenance Studies
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Visiting Lecturer in Political ScienceB.A. Colorado State University; M.A. Ohio State University (History); M.A., Ph.D. University of Colorado - Boulder (Political Science)
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Associate Professor of PhilosophyB.A., Victoria University; M.A., Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Works on philosophy of literature and moral philosophy, with a focus on personal narration, memoir and meaning in life.
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Lecturer in South Asia StudiesB.A., University of Melbourne (Australia); M.A., Monash University (Australia); M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago
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Assistant Professor of Computer ScienceB.A., Wellesley College ; M.S., Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
I build social systems prototypes and study how people relate to each other through social technologies.
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Assistant Professor of Africana StudiesB.A., Linfield College; M.A., Ph.D., Georgia State University
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Camilla Chandler Frost Professor of Environmental StudiesB.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 of PsychologyB.A., M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Research explores the behavioral and neural markers of psychiatric symptoms in both children and adults.
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Visiting Lecturer in EconomicsB.A., Wesleyan University ; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
I am a social scientist interested in issues of inequality with a focus on education, particularly under-resourced public schools and students from less privileged backgrounds.
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Music Performance Faculty in ViolinB.M. & M.M., New England Conservatory of Music
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Professor of MathematicsB.A., M.A., Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Noncommutative ring theorist, sees mathematics as a central part of a well-rounded liberal arts education.
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PERA Associate Professor of the PracticeB.S., University of Vermont; M.S., University of Tennessee (Knoxville)
Swimming coach, fascinated by psychological aspects of sport performance, sport and positive psychology.
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Senior Instructor in Chemistry LaboratoryB.A., M.S., University of California (Santa Cruz); M.A., Stanford University
Creates and teaches organic and introductory chemistry labs.
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Senior Instructor in Biological Sciences LaboratoryB.Sc., M.Sc., University of Rhode Island
Background in functional and evolutionary morphology of vertebrates (i.e., how vertebrate forms relate to function and evolution); teaches introductory cell and organismal biology and comparative physiology and anatomy of vertebrates.
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Professor of Classical StudiesB.A., Stanford University; M.A., University of California (Santa Barbara); M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Specializes in the literature and culture of Ancient Greece; teaches Greek drama and myth, and the theme of travel in literature.
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Music Performance Faculty in Jazz and Classical TrumpetB.M., Crane School of Music, Music Education, Trumpet Performance; M.M., New England Conservatory of Music, Jazz Studies - Composition
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Professor of ReligionB.A., Stetson University; M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School; Ph.D., Harvard University
Scholar of the history of Christianity and contemporary Catholicism with special attention to the Virgin Mary and to women’s spiritual writings.
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Associate Professor of AnthropologyB.A, Washington University; M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School; A.M., Ph.D., Brown University
Socio-cultural anthropologist whose research centers on the politics of foreign aid, democracy promotion, judicial reform, and conflict in Latin America.
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Michael and Denise Kellen '68 Chair in the Sciences; Professor of ChemistryB.A., Grinnell College; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Uses experiments and computation to study membrane proteins; leads pedagogical development and assessment research; teaches biochemistry, introductory chemistry and courses in computational modeling and public writing.
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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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Class of 1966 Associate Professor of MathematicsB.A., B.S., University of Chicago; Ph.D., University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Research is in geometric mechanics (specifically, nonholonomic mechanics) and in mathematical demography. Presently researching quantum nonholonomic mechanics as well as the applications of the calculus of variations to problems in mathematical demography.