Faculty Profiles

Research in development economics, with an emphasis on firm behavior in developing economies.

My research focuses on the interface between adult identity development and clinical psychology. I am interested in the ways people make sense of the difficult things that happen to them and how that personal meaning facilitates changes in well-being.   

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.

Art historian working on the art and architecture of the Islamic world and their interweaving with global art history.

Research focuses on Italian language pedagogy and 20th century Italian cultural studies.

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.

On leave as Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i, Hilo. Research and writing focuses on the mass media, public opinion, the presidency, campaigns and elections in the U.S.

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.

Theoretical physicists focused on foundations of general relativity and quantum gravity

Teaches modernism, contemporary American fiction and poetry, ethnic literature, and urban literature and photography.

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.

Specialist in initial-boundary value problems for nonlinear partial differential equations.

Web programmer and educator; co-founder of the Women's Coding Collective.

Archaeologist engaged in the study of Mediterranean exchange in the Late Bronze Age, conducting fieldwork in Greece.

Expert in nineteenth and early twentieth century American literature;  Shakespeare; and modernism in the arts.

Comparative animal physiologist; focused on the role of ion channels in tolerating low oxygen; teaching physiology, introductory biology.

Physics laboratory instructor; interested in electric power, lab instrumentation, and old-fashioned string theory.

Professor of linguistics; research interests include artificial language learning and acquisition of phonology.

Primary research in the field of 16th- and 17th-century Dutch and Flemish painting, with specialized work on Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rubens, and Rembrandt.

Art historian focusing on cross-cultural connections in the ancient Mediterranean

Teaching focuses on conversational and written Hebrew.

Research on positive scalar curvature and rigidity of manifolds, noncommutative geometry, tools of surgery theory

Research on design and use of digital tools for learning, technologies for learning in public spaces, equity issues as they relate to learning technologies and technology-driven pedagogy, and the intersection of community, cognition, and computation.

Interested in Chinese language pedagogy and second language acquisition.

Poet and critic.

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.

Engaged in research on Asian American visual histories in photography, film, and popular culture.

Expert on Caribbean literature and Caribbean intellectual history.

Examining the localization and interactions of membrane proteins implicated in human health and disease primarily via fluorescence microscopy.