Faculty Profiles
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Betty Freyhof Johnson ’44 Professor Emeritus of Political ScienceB.A., Carleton College; Ph.D., Harvard University
Researcher on food and agricultural policy, with a focus on farming technologies and poverty in the developing world.
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Assistant Professor of EconomicsB.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research in the field of law and economics as well as topics in political economy, with particular interest in racial discrimination and inequality.
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Professor of Italian StudiesLaurea in Lettere, Universitˆ degli studi di Torino (Italy); M.A., Ph. D., Brown University
Teaches Italian language and literature, literary theory, and writing; works as a translator.
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Jack and Sandra Polk Guthman '65 Director, Quantitative Analysis Institute; Lecturer in Quantitative Reasoning and MathematicsA.B., A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
Statistician specializing in causal inference; creating the Quantitative Analysis Institute, to expand the role of statistics at Wellesley.
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Class of 1949 Professor in Ethics; Professor of EnglishA.B., Harvard College; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University
Tim Peltason teaches and writes about nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American literature and about Shakespeare.
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Susan M. Hallowell and Ruby Frances Howe Farwell Professor of Biological SciencesB.S., Texas A & M University; Ph.D., Duke University
Plant cell biologist who uses molecular genetics, biochemistry and confocal microscopy to study how plant cells grow and divide.
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Professor of FrenchB.A., Reed College; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Engaged in studying French poetry in its relation to contemporary French, philosophy, aesthetics, and intellectual history.
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Lecturer in the Quantitative Reasoning ProgramB.A., Harvard University; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
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Professor of FrenchB.A., Jawaharlal Nehru University (India); M.A., Purdue University; Ph.D., Duke University
Works in postcolonial studies, Francophone studies, cultural theory (especially French theory), cinema studies, African studies.
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Professor Emerita of PhilosophyB.Sc. U.C.L.A., Ph.D. U.C.L.A.
As an undergraduate Chemistry major, she fell in love with Philosophy of Science and later turned to other areas of Philosophy.
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Associate Professor of PsychologyB.A., Smith College; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Research interests include the relationship between language and cognition, bilingualism, and the psycholinguistics of sign languages.
