Faculty Profiles
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Lecturer in French and Francophone StudiesM.A., Ph.D., Boston University
Academic focus includes authorship, textual strategies, and the fashioning of subjectivity. Passionate about teaching and her commitment to students.
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Associate Professor of PhilosophyB.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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Professor of ReligionA.B., Princeton University; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University
Interests include the Jewish and Christian communities of the Roman Empire, women in the Biblical world, and the history of Jerusalem.
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Professor of HistoryB.A., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., Yale University
Historian of China/Inner Asia; research on intersection of empire and ethnicity in the 1700s, and on the links between business, state-building, and inequality in the 20th century.
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Instructor in Physical Education, Recreation and AthleticsB.S., Northeastern University
Educates and empowers others to optimal health by sharing passion for and expertise in exercise with yoga, Pilates, coaching, training.
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Instructor in Geosciences LaboratoryB.A., Smith College; M.S., University of Miami
Focused on stable isotope geochemistry and physical geology.
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Professor of Classical StudiesB.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Interests include gender, sexuality, and the erotics of place and time in the ancient world, as well as using Classics to foster interdisciplinary discussion.
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Professor of PsychologyA.B., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Developmental psychologist studying relationships, real and imagined, with a focus on young children's imaginary companions.
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Associate Professor of NeuroscienceB.Sc., M.Sc., Leiden University; Ph.D., Utrecht (The Netherlands)
Investigates the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying animal behavior, using songbirds as a model system to study learning and memory.
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Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Political Science; Paula Phillips Bernstein ’58 Faculty Director of the Albright Institute for Global AffairsA.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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Assistant Professor of MusicB.A., University of California (Los Angeles); M.A., University of California (San Diego); Ph.D., University of California (Los Angeles)
Ethnomusicologist and popular music scholar of Brazil, Latin America, and Luso-Africa; Jazz and the African Diaspora; Audiovisual Media; global music industry
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Associate Professor of EnglishB.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., Pennsylvania State University; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University
Queer literary studies, including representations of HIV/AIDS; transatlantic Modernism, including the Harlem Renaissance; and the 20C Novel.
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Associate Professor of JapaneseB.A., Westmont College; M.A., Columbia University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Focused on Japanese language, literature, and culture.
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Assistant Professor of Biological SciencesB.S., Rhodes College; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Cell biologist using fission yeast to study regulatory mechanisms of conserved, essential cellular processes.
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Evelyn Barry Director of the Choral Program; Lecturer in MusicB.A., Sonoma State College; M.M., D.M.A., University of Southern California
Conductor of Choral Program, including Choir, Chamber Singers, and Choral Scholars.
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Associate Professor of HistoryB.A., Yale University; Ph.D., Harvard University
Historian of early American and Native American history, English colonialism and cultural encounters, environmental history, and violence in American history.
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Jane Bishop '51 Associate Professor of Political ScienceB.A., College of William and Mary; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University
Researches and teaches political theory, with a focus on grassroots organizing and the politics of race, ethnicity, and culture.
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Associate Professor of ArtB.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Delaware
Art historian examining African and African American identities, music, the body, and feminism in 20th century and contemporary art.
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Associate Professor of HistoryB.A., Beloit College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Historian of race, gender, and culture in 20th century U.S. with focus on African American business and visual culture.
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Associate Professor of Environmental StudiesB.A., Wesleyan University; Ph.D., University of California (Santa Cruz)
Ecologist focusing on invasive plant population dynamics and environmental influences.
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Associate Professor of HistoryA.B., Harvard University; M.Phil., Cambridge University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Intellectual and cultural historian of early modern Europe.
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Professor of French and Francophone StudiesB.A., Cornell University; D.E.A., Ecole Normale Superieure & Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales; J.D., Ph.D., New York University
Specialist of contemporary French society. Interested in the media, gender and sexuality in France and the European Union.
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Visiting Lecturer in Women's and Gender StudiesB.A. Northeastern Illinois University, M.A. The University of Wisconsin, Madison PhD Arizona State University
Gender and Migration/Gender, Race, Poverty/Transnational Feminism/Intersectionality Theory
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Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media StudiesB.A., College of William & Mary; M.A., New York University; Ph.D. UC Berkeley
Media History and Theory, Cinema History and Theory, Digital Technology, Visual Culture, Virtual Reality (VR), Technological Subjectivity.
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Associate Professor of SpanishB.A., Middlebury College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
Specializes in gender, race, and philosophy of language in colonial Latin American literature and visual culture; digital humanities and blended learning; history of clothing and of food; cultural exchanges between Eastern Europe and Latin America.
