Faculty Profiles
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Associate Professor of Political ScienceB.A., University of California (Berkeley); M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University
My primary area of research and teaching in political science is international relations, with a focus on American foreign policy.
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Senior Lecturer in JapaneseB.A., Baika Women’s College (Japan); M.A., West Virginia University; Ed.M., Ed.D., Harvard University
Japanese Program co-director, interested in Japanese narratives, Japanese pedagogy, second language acquisition, and psycholinguistics.
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Professor of MathematicsB.A., Brown University; M.S., Yale University; Ph.D., Brown University
Professor Magid has been working recently on timelike submanifolds in various ambient spaces.
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PERA Associate Professor of the PracticeB.S., University of Northern Colorado
Head golf coach and LPGA Class A teaching professional
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Sophia Moses Robison Professor of Jewish Studies and HistoryB.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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Music Performance Faculty in OrganBA, Mount Holyoke College; BM & MM in Organ Performance, New England Conservatory of Music
Organist and Choir Director at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
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Katherine Stone Kaufmann '67 Executive Director of the Wellesley Centers for Women and Professor of Africana StudiesB.A., Spelman College; M.S., Pennsylvania State University; Ph.D., Temple University
Executive Director of the Wellesley Centers for Women; expert on the womanist worldview and activist methodology.
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Elisabeth Luce Moore Professor of Christian Studies; Professor of ReligionB.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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Professor of ReligionB.A., Cambridge University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Program Director for Middle Eastern Studies.
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender StudiesB.A., Oberlin College; M.A., University of Connecticut (Storrs); Ed.D., Harvard University
Studies women and employment, with a focus on working conditions and health and on work-family systems, and studies of child care policy and early care and education.
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Music Performace Faculty in Jazz FluteFlute and Theory, Carnegie Mellon University; B.M. Berklee College of Music
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Professor of FrenchLicence, Maîtrise, Université de Haute Bretagne (Rennes); Ph.D., University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
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Barbara Morris Caspersen Associate Professor of Humanities; Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender StudiesB.A., M.A., New Mexico State University; Ph.D., University of California (San Diego)
Interests include Chicana/Latino literature and culture; and analysis of gender, labor, immigration, sexuality, and representation in cultural production.
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Senior Music Performance Faculty in Clarinet and Classical SaxophoneB.A., M.M.A., New England Conservatory of Music
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Professor of HistoryB.A., Brandeis University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Japanese specialist focusing on Japanese imperialism, nationalism of the Meiji era, and the history of the Imperial Japanese Army.
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Professor of EconomicsB.A., University of Michigan (Ann Arbor); M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Marxist-feminist-anti-racist-ecological economist, specializing in women, gender, feminism, and work, and involved in research about and promotion of the emerging solidarity economy.
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Assistant Professor of Biological SciencesA.B., Harvard University; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Ecologist investigating ecosystem disturbances, including insect and pathogen outbreaks and climate change.
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Assistant Professor of PhilosophyB.A., Yale University; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Researches and teaches the ethics, politics, and aesthetics of cultural heritage, art, and the environment.
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Lecturer in Biological SciencesA.B., Ph.D., Harvard University
Expertise in immunology, molecular cell biology, epigenetics, and biochemistry. Enjoys teaching across the curriculum.
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Senior Music Performance Faculty in VoiceA.B., Princeton University
Soprano (opera/oratorio/concert), voice teacher, Alexander Technique teacher.
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Associate Professor of Biological SciencesB.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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Assistant Professor of AnthropologyB.A., Columbia University; M.A., Ph.D., New York University
Cultural anthropologist of media and South Asia specializing in the ethnography of media production and visual culture in India.
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Visiting Lecturer in PhysicsB.S., Texas Tech University; M.S., Ph.D., Tufts University
I like physics. I like math. I like teaching, and I am interested in methods that optimize the learning of physics.
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Senior Instructor in Chemistry LaboratoryB.S., M.S., Syracuse University
Involved in teaching and developing both introductory and organic chemistry laboratories.
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Senior Instructor in Biological Sciences LaboratoryB.S., Simmons College; M.S., Harvard University
Interested in science education, designing engaging labs, and expanding student science outreach to the community.
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Professor of EconomicsB.A., University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign); M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University
Research in the economics of education, applied econometrics, impact evaluation, and Latin American education and social policy.
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Elizabeth Christy Kopf Professor of ArtB.F.A., M.F.A., University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Visual artist working in a range of graphic media, i.e. prints, drawings, artist books, photomontages, and installations.
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Senior Music Performance Faculty in BassoonB.M.A.S., University of Delaware; M.M., New England Conservatory of Music
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Margaret Clapp ’30 Distinguished Alumna Professor of PhilosophyB.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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Virginia Onderdonk ’29 Professor of PhilosophyB.A., M.A., Tufts University; Ph.D., Princeton University
Main interests: philosophy of mind, moral theory, the history of moral philosophy, especially 18th-century British moral psychology.
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Associate Professor of EconomicsB.A., Amherst College; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Health economist, using the tools of economics to answer questions about health policy.
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Professor of AstronomyB.A., Cornell University; Ph.D., University of Arizona
Involved with youth of all kinds: some of the most distant galaxies, the smallest stars in our Milky Way, and students and kids of my own.
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Director of New England Arts & Architecture Program
Expert in New England art and architecture. Co-directs the architecture program.
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Senior Music Performance Faculty in PercussionB.M., Hartt School of Music; M.M., Yale University; D.M.A., New England Conservatory of Music
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Professor Emerita of ArtB.A., Macalester College; M.A., San Francisco State University
Independent film producer, writer, director and video installation artist who teaches film history and video production.
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Professor Emeritus of PhilosophyB.A., Pomona College; M.S., Columbia University; M.A., New York University; Ph.D., Harvard University
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Professor of Computer ScienceB.Sc., University of Athens (Greece); Ph.D., Dartmouth College
Engaged in research on Web Science, Web Spam and Information Retrieval, Medical s/w, Parallel Computing, Multimedia, and CS Education.
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Professor of EnglishB.A., Johns Hopkins University; M.A., University of California (Los Angeles); M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Literary critic specializing in Victorian and American literature. Children's author.
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Senior Music Performance Faculty in Jazz Saxophone; Director, Wellesley BlueJazzDirector, Wellesley BlueJazz Big Band, and Jazz and World Music Program Director
Jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. Teacher of jazz improvisation, saxophone and ensemble technique, jazz theory and history of jazz.
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Professor of Political Science EmeritaB.A. Radcliffe College, Ph.D. Columbia University
Professor of Political Science Emerita at Wellesley College
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Professor Emerita of FrenchB.A., New York University; M.A., Middlebury College; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Committed to sharing with students the rich heritage of women's writing in France from the Middle Ages to the present.
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Associate Professor of ChemistryB.A., Haverford College; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interested in understanding how proteins aggregate during the development of Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.
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Assistant Professor of GeosciencesB.S., M.S., University of Hannover (Germany); Ph.D., Institute of Technology (Zurich, Switzerland)
Sedimentation of tsunami deposits in Southeast Asia, and surficial geology of varied other environments.
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Edith Stix Wasserman Professor of Asian Studies; Professor of Political ScienceA.B., Smith College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Expert on the U.S.-Korea alliance and comparative social movements in East Asia (democratization, women's movements, migrant workers, human rights); migration and identity politics.
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Frost Professor Emerita in Environmental Science; Professor Emerita of Biological SciencesB.A., Colorado College; M.S., Iowa State University; Ph.D., Dartmouth College
Exploring biodiversity and anthropogenic change in Lake Baikal, Siberia.
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Associate Professor of FrenchB.A., Babes-Bolyai University (Romania), B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Paris III
French Cinema in International Context, Intellectual History, Aesthetic Theory, History of Film Festivals, Media Theory.
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Professor of Theatre Studies and JapaneseB.A., Oberlin College; M.A., University of British Columbia; Ph.D., Columbia University
Interests include Japanese theater, in particular the noh and kyogen, and Japanese classical literature and language.
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Lecturer in ArtB.F.A., Maryland Institute College of Art; M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art
A visual artist interested in the tangibility of materials, the aesthetics and functionality of objects and the performance process of their creation and use.
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Instructor in Chemistry LaboratoryB.S., Marquette University; M.S., Ph.D., Yale University
Teaches organic chemistry lab & biochemistry 222. Researched cancer biology, enzymology, metabolism, and discovery of anti-tumor agents.
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Instructor in Chemistry LaboratoryB.A., Wellesley College; Ph.D., Emory University
Teaches introductory and analytical chemistry laboratories.
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Food/Recycling Intern
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Betty Freyhof Johnson ’44 Professor of Political ScienceB.A., Grinnell College; M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
The politics of globalization and inequality absorb me. I study them using archives, interviews, and direct observation of international development agencies.
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Professor of ArtB.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Specialist in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art.
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Assistant Professor of Computer ScienceM.Eng., Polytechnic University of Tirana (Albania); Ph.D., Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany)
I love data, the Web, and web data. I aim to understand, critique, and transform web-based sociotechnical systems using data & web science.
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Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender StudiesB.A., DePaul University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Los Angeles)
I am an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College where I teach courses on gender, sexuality, race, technology, neoliberalism, and globalization.
