Faculty Profiles
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Associate Professor of EconomicsB.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research in the economics of discrimination and the economics of crime.
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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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Program Coordinator; Gallery Director; Visiting LecturerB.F.A., University of Michigan (Ann Arbor); M.F.A., School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University
Artist working as department coordinator, gallery director, and instructor in drawing during summer session.
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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 French and Francophone StudiesB.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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Visiting Lecturer in MathematicsB.S., Villanova University ; Ph.D., University of Virginia
A mathematician interested in arithmetic geometry and Galois theory, especially branched Galois covers of curves over fields of arithmetic interest.
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Lecturer in the Quantitative Reasoning ProgramB.A., Harvard University; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
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Lecturer in PsychologyB.A., Wellesley College ; M.A., Ph.D., Tufts University
An applied developmental psychologist whose teaching and research emphasize the application of developmental theory to optimize positive and healthy developmental outcomes across diverse populations.
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Margaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Comparative Literary StudiesB.A., Jawaharlal Nehru University (India); M.A., Purdue University; Ph.D., Duke University
Theories dealing with race and inequity, colonial and postcolonial studies, the global eighteenth century, African studies, French and Francophone studies, cinema studies, Indian Ocean and Caribbean studies.
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Instructor in Astronomy Laboratory and Observatory ManagerB.A., State University of New York, College at Geneseo; Ph.D. Rochester Institute of Technology
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Professor of PsychologyB.A., Smith College; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Research interests include the relationship between language and cognition, bilingualism, the psycholinguistics of sign languages, and the role of iconicity in language.
