Faculty Profiles
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Instructor in Computer Science LaboratoryB.A., Wellesley College; M.S., Ph.D., Cornell University
Interested in the intersection of computer science, mathematics, and human decision making, as well as improving science education and communication
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Visiting Lecturer in AnthropologyB.A., Drew University; M.A., M.Phil., Georgia State University; M.A., University of Illinois (Chicago)
Anthropological Bioarchaeologist informed through Feminist and Queer theory examines the lived experiences leading up to ritual sacrifice in the Ancient Andes
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Associate Professor of Political ScienceB.A., Lafayette College; J.D., Emory University; Ph.D., University of Chicago
Professor of American politics and constitutional law. Research focuses on the U.S. justice system.
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Associate Professor of MathematicsB.S., Davidson College; M.S., Ph.D., Stanford University
Mathematician interested in studying absolute Galois groups of fields through their cohomological invariants.
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Assistant Professor of Biological SciencesA.B., Bowdoin College ; Ph.D., University of California (Santa Barbara)
Marine ecologist seeking to understand past, present, and future changes to marine ecosystems and the human communities that rely on them.
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Music Instructor in VoiceB.A., BM., University of Michigan, School of Music; M.M., University of Cincinnati, College - Conservatory of Music
Classical singer and voice teacher. I work with my students to develop a strong vocal technique that allows a healthy and free expression of their natural voice and also emphasize strengthening musicianship and communicating a clear dramatic point of view with every performance.
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Associate Professor of SpanishB.A., University of the South; M.A., Ph.D, University of Kentucky
Research and teaching center on 20th and 21st century Latin American literature and cinema.
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Gordon P. Lang and Althea P. Lang ‘26 Professor of Biological SciencesM.S., Ph.D., University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Evolutionary biologist with interest in conservation genetics.
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Professor of Computer ScienceB.A., Academic College of Tel-Aviv; M.S., Ph.D., Tufts University
Explores new human-computer interaction techniques that provide seamless interfaces between people, computers, and the physical world.
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Senior Music Performance Faculty in PianoB.Mus., Peabody Institute of Music; M.Mus., Yale University School of Music; D.Mus., Indiana University School of Music (Bloomington)
Founding member of the Triple Helix Piano Trio
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Associate Professor of EconomicsA.B., Brown University; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
Conducts research on economic development, including questions related to education, health, and savings behavior.
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Professor of EnglishA.B., Princeton University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
Studies and teaches American poetry and film, focusing particularly on contemporary poetry and classic Hollywood cinema.
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Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental StudiesB.A., University of California (Berkeley); M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
I am an environmental historian studying race, settler colonialism, and the environmental sciences in the twentieth-century Pacific and American West.
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Professor of ReligionB.A., M.A., Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (India); M.Div., Ph.D., Harvard University
Interests include arts in religious/cultural history of South Asia; the divine and the human feminine in Hindu traditions; Gandhian thought and practices; the self and the other in South Asian philosophical traditions and history.
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Associate Professor of Economics; Director, Knapp Social Science CenterB.A., Wellesley College; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research in behavioral and experimental economics, with emphasis on labor market outcomes; information, belief formation, and learning; and culture and institutions.
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Professor of EconomicsB.A., M.P.P., University of Michigan; Ph.D., Princeton University
Research interests include macroeconomics, economic growth, technology, and economic measurement.
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Senior Lecturer in EnglishB.A., M.A., University of Utah; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Teaching focuses on creative writing, mainly fiction and travel writing.
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Instructor in Physical Education, Recreation and AthleticsB.A., William Paterson College
Passionate about creating life balance through yoga, dance, Pilates, meditation, and humor.
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Laboratory Specialist
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Professor of EconomicsB.A., Haverford College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Acting Director of the Quantitative Reasoning Program
Interests in microeconomics, advanced and intermediate theory, applied game theory, and experimental economics.
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Marion Butler McLean Associate Professor in the History of Ideas; Associate Professor of HistoryB.A., Lewis & Clark College; Ph.D., New York University
Historian of modern Europe and the world.
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Visiting Lecturer in KoreanB.A., M.A, Ph.D., Yonsei University
Focused on Korean linguistics, language teaching, learner corpus, and dictionary.
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Professor of ChineseB.A., Shandong University; M.A., Fudan University; Ph.D., Columbia UniversitySpecialized in modern Chinese literature and intellectual history, film studies, science fiction, and youth culture
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PERA Professor of the PracticeB.A., Mount Holyoke College; M.S., Smith College
Varsity crew coach and director of intramural rowing programs; instructor in sailing and canoeing.
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Associate Professor of ChemistryB.S., Ph.D, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research on inorganic environmental chemistry, especially gas tracers and climate change. Teaching includes inorganic, introductory, and aquatic chemistry.
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Professor of PhysicsB.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Molecular spectroscopist, focused on systems in atmospheric and astrophysical research.
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Senior Music Performance Faculty in Baroque ViolinB.M., M.M., New England Conservatory of Music
Professor of Music
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Theodora Stone Sutton Professor of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies; Professor of Classical StudiesB.A., University of Michigan (Ann Arbor); M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Focuses on Roman literature and culture; law; the sociology of Roman literature and education; political communication; media studies; and Augustus.
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Visiting Lecturer in the Writing ProgramB.A., M.A., University of Utah ; Ph.D., Brown University
My research interests include nineteenth-century British literature and science, narrative theory, and feminist theory.
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Associate Professor of Biological SciencesA.B., Bowdoin College; Ph.D., Duke University
Evolutionary development (Evo-devo); Developmental genetics; Insect physiology
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Senior Lecturer in SociologyB.A., Carleton College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
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Senior Coach/Collaborative KeyboardistB.M., M.M, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
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Senior Music Performance Faculty in Piano and Keyboard Skills; Co-Director, Wellesley Chamber Music SocietyB.M., M.M., New England Conservatory of Music
Assistant Director of the Chamber Music Society
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Lecturer in ChineseB.A., Nanjing Normal University; M.A., Fudan University
Specialized in teaching Chinese as a foreign language; also a translator of literary fiction from English to Chinese.
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Lecturer in MathematicsA.B., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Background in theoretical particle physics, focusing on a conjectured equivalence between certain quantum field theories and certain string theories.
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Freedom Project Postdoctoral FellowB.A., Istanbul University (Turkey); M.A., Ph.D., Loyola University (Chicago)
Interested in the sociology of religion, human rights, political sociology, globalization, Islamic socio-political thought, and Islam/Muslims in the West.
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Assistant Professor of ChemistryB.S., University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) ; Ph.D, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interested in protein engineering, optical sensors, Parkinson’s disease, brain injury, teaching introductory chemistry and biochemistry.
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Music Instructor in Voice
My students will experience a holistic approach to singing, rooted in sound pedagogy, artistic passion, and above all, compassion.
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Dorothy and Charles Jenkins, Jr. Distinguished Professor of NeuroscienceB.A., Northwestern University; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
Research areas include neuroendocrinology, estrogen and progestin action, brain and behavior.
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Associate Professor of PsychologyB.A., Bates College; M.A., Ph.D., Michigan State University
Licensed clinical psychologist investigating risk and resilience factors that protect against developmental psychopathology in childhood and adolescence.
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Senior Music Performance Faculty in CelloB.M., Oberlin Conservatory; M.M., Juilliard School
In addition to her work in the Music Dept. at Wellesley, Rebecca is currently a member of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra and has performed with Opera Boston, the Chamber Orchestra of Boston, The Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Cantata Singers.
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Chung Family Professor in Data and Computational Science; Professor of Computer ScienceB.A., Amherst College; M.S., Ph.D., University of Washington
Professor of computational biology and computer science.
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Senior Lecturer in JapaneseB.A., Kansai University (Osaka); Ed.M., Ph.D., Boston University
Co-director of Japanese Program; study abroad advisor in Japan; applied linguist.
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Theatre Production ManagerM.F.A., Purchase College (State University of New York)
Theatre production lecturer, production manager, and professional set designer.
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Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone StudiesD.U.T., Institut Universitaire de Technologie, (Brest); M.A., State University of New York (Stony Brook); Ph.D., University of California (Santa Barbara)
A specialist of the 19th-century French novel; interests include the French novel, pedagogy, cultural studies, and the autobiography.
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Lewis Atterbury Stimson Professor in MathematicsA.B., Harvard University; M.S., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Research specialty in graph theory and partially ordered sets, teaches across the mathematics curriculum, outreach to K-12 teachers.
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Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Slavic Studies; Professor of HistoryB.A., University of Rochester; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Historian of Russia, current research on Russian historical memory of the Soviet past.
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Associate Professor of Computer ScienceS.B., M.S., Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Programs and programming languages are at the heart of both my teaching and research.
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Professor of Environmental StudiesB.S., Washington and Lee University; A.M., Brown University; Ph.D., Princeton University
Researcher on the recent history of U.S. environmental politics and policy, including public lands, climate change, and science and technology.
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Senior Lecturer in EducationB.A., Clark University; M.Ed., Framingham State College
Experienced educator with interests in children's literature, literacy learning, fostering communities of learners, and special education.
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Hess Fellow and Visiting Lecturer in Computer ScienceB.A., University of California (Santa Cruz); M.F.A. School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University
Transdisciplinary collaboration via making, fabrication, digitizing the physical world, and physicalizing the digital world
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Instructor in Physical Education, Recreation and AthleticsB.A., Emerson College
From Ballet to Broadway with slippers worn through, it’s now time to teach the dance to the disciplined and the new.
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Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender StudiesB.A., University of Florida; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Irvine)
Explores issues of race and gender across broad scientific and biomedical fields including post-genomics/epigenetics, evidence-based medicine, chronic illness, reproduction, health disparities, global health, and human/nonhuman microbiome.
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Professor of AnthropologyB.A., B.S., Emory University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan
Engaged in questions on the evolution of biological variation and its connections to culture through the fossil record.
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Visiting Lecturer in EducationB.A., Haverford College; Ed.D., Ed.M., Harvard Graduate School of Education
Explores the working lives and identities of community based youth workers and the experiences of adolescents in out-of-school time activities.
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Professor of SpanishA.B., Columbia University; A.M., University of Virginia; Ph.D., Harvard University
Spanish literature, hagiography, gender issues, study-abroad theory and practice.
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Associate Professor of Economics and WritingB.S.F.S., Georgetown University; Ph.D., Stanford University
Development economist with interest in Africa and labor markets; interest in economics pedagogy and active learning; writing across the curriculum
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Instructor in Chemistry LaboratoryB.A., Boston College; Ph.D., University of California (Irvine)
Cultivates excitement for chemistry and brings concepts from class to life in the teaching laboratory.
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Director of Recreation / PERA Associate Professor of the PracticeB.S., Wagner College M.S., Boston College
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Senior Lecturer in ChemistryB.S., University of Illinois (Urbana); Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Enjoys teaching across the curriculum, from first-year students to graduating seniors.
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Professor of MathematicsB.A., Boston University; M.A., Ph.D., Brown University
Research in algebraic topology, specifically calculus of functors and its applications to embeddings, including knots and links.
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Associate Professor of English; Faculty Director, Pforzheimer Learning and Teaching CenterB.A., Wellesley College; M.Phil, Oxford University (St. John's College); Ph.D., Harvard University
Interests include Renaissance literature, book history, and the history and theory of literary genre.
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Instructor in Geosciences LaboratoryB.A., Wellesley College; M.S., University of Massachusetts
Teaches geosciences labs; Committed to giving students an appreciation for earth processes and an understanding of their impacts.
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Associate Professor of PhilosophyB.A., University of Toronto; M.A., Ph.D., University of Western Ontario
Researches and teaches topics in early modern philosophy, with a focus on theories of human freedom and philosophical method in both rationalist and empiricist traditions.
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Vistiting Lecturer in AnthropologyB.A., University of Wisconsin (Madison); M.A., Ph.D., Brandeis University
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Professor of MathematicsB.A., University of Wisconsin (Madison); M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Professor Wang's research interest is analysis and she teaches in the areas of multivariable calculus and analysis
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Associate Professor of MathematicsB.S., Beijing Normal University; M.S., Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Statistician specializing in topics of U-statistics, nonparametric kernel density estimation, risk estimation, variance estimation, cross-validation, resampling schemes, and extrapolation/interpolation methods.
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Professor of Italian StudiesB.A., University of East Anglia (England); M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University
Pier Paolo Pasolini; Carlo Levi; Piero Gobetti; Italian antifascist culture; 21st century Italian mystery writers; contemporary Italian narrative; postmodern narrative; narrative theory
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Senior Music Performance Faculty in African Diasporic Drumming and Director of YanvalouB.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Wesleyan University
Focused on Yanvalou Drumming and Dance Ensemble, and African Diasporic drumming.
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Kresa Family Assistant Professor of NeuroscienceB.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Pepperdine University; Ph.D., Brandeis University
Research utilizes fruit flies and 'virtual-reality' flight simulators to investigate the neuronal mechanisms that permit the multi-sensory integration required to produce contextually appropriate behavior.
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Associate Professor of AstronomyB.S., M.S., Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Planetary scientist who studies the planet Mars while teaching courses about the geology and climates of rocky and icy worlds.
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Associate Professor of PhilosophyB.A., McGill University; Ph.D., Harvard University
Researches at the intersection of philosophy of language and cognitive science, focusing especially on figurative language.
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PERA Professor of the PracticeB.A., University of the Pacific; M.A., Brown University
Direct NCAA Division III intercollegiate volleyball program and teach skills and fitness courses in the Physical Education Department.
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Associate Professor of EconomicsB.A., Oberlin College; A.M., Ph.D., Stanford University
Interested in macroeconomics, particularly international economics, the economics of conflict, and monetary economics.
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Professor of RussianB.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Teaches Russian language and literature; at Wellesley since 1994.
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Visiting Lecturer in PhysicsB.A., Middlebury College; M.S., Ph.D., Tufts University
I am interested in high energy particle physics, cosmology, and best practices in physics education.
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Associate Professor of EnglishB.A., Yale University; M.A., Ph.D. Duke University
Researches and teaches late medieval English literature, the history of race, religious and cultural conflict in the Middle Ages, and the modern literary and political uses of medievalism.
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Mayling Soong Professor of Chinese Studies; Professor of East Asian StudiesB.A. Wellesley College; M.A., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
I study traditional Chinese fiction, history of Chinese women's writing, history of the book in China, and missionaries to East Asia.
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Associate Professor of NeuroscienceB.A., Dartmouth College; M.S., Ph.D., Michigan State University
Mission: to determine the distributed neural correlates of perception.
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Associate Professor of PsychologyB.A., Williams College; Ph.D., Harvard University
My research probes how individuals think and see differently to illuminate principles of mind and brain and to inform applied work.
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Nellie Zuckerman Cohen & Anne Cohen Heller Professor in Health Sciences; Professor of PsychologyB.A., M.A., University of Melbourne; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Research interests include adult development; positive psychology; religion and spirituality; altruism; narcissism; wisdom; cross-cultural conceptions of the self.
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Assistant Professor in Computer ScienceB.A., Williams College; M.S., Ph.D., University of Washington
My research develops tools for analyzing software to check critical safety properties and find or prevent bugs.
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Lecturer in ChemistryB.A., Indiana University ; Ph.D., University of California (San Diego)
Creating engaging and active classroom for introductory and organic chemistry courses.
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Senior Music Performance Faculty in Jazz Violin and Viola; Director of Wellesley BlueJazz CombosB.A., Earlham College; M.A., University of Chicago
Jazz violinist and bandleader, teach jazz violin and viola improvisation, BlueJazz Combo Program Director and Coach
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Senior Lecturer in ChineseB.A., Nanjing University; M.A., Clark University
Interests include language teaching methodology, cross-cultural communication, Chinese pedagogical grammar, and language and culture.
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Professor of Japanese; Director, The Suzy Newhouse Center for the HumanitiesB.A., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., Columbia University
Focused on Japanese literature, how female writers refashion the category of "girlhood" in postwar fiction, manga, and memoir.
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Lecturer in Arabic LanguageB.A., M.A., University of Michigan
Teacher of Arabic language; aligns Arabic teaching pedagogy with current research in second language acquisition.
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