Faculty Profiles
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Anne Pierce Rogers Professor of American Literature; Professor of EnglishB.A., M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University
Americanist, translator, performer (music, theater), verse-writer, pacifist.
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Norma Wilentz Hess Professor of EconomicsA.B., Princeton University; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Public finance theorist interested in the role of government in taxation and insurance markets.
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Lecturer in Education; Director, Elementary Education ProgramB.A., Sarah Lawrence College; MS. Ed. Bank Street College of Education, Ed.D., Harvard University
Research on teacher education, urban education, teacher and youth participatory action research, and the unity of theory and practice in education.
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Director of the Book Studies Program; Lecturer in ArtA.B., Bryn Mawr College; M.F.A., University of Alabama; Ph.D. Simmons College
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Lecturer in Music; Co-Director, Wellesley Chamber Music Society; Music Performance Faculty in CelloB.M., Eastman School; M.M., University of Akron; D.M.A., SUNY (Stony Brook)
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Associate Professor of SociologyB.A., Mississippi College; M.A., University of Memphis; Ph.D., University of Virginia
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Assistant Professor of Political ScienceM.A., University of Edinburgh; M.Sc., London School of Economics; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University
International political economy with a focus on global governance, the politics of international finance and central banking
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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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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 University
Specializing in modern Chinese literature and intellectual history, science fiction, youth culture, posthuman theories, and the Neo-Baroque aesthetics
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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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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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Visiting Lecturer in SpanishB.A., M.A., The University of Massachusetts Amherst
Extensive experience teaching Spanish, ESL, and Applied Linguistics at the secondary and post secondary level in the U.S., Argentina, and Colombia.
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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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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 climate change, the clean energy transition, and public lands management.
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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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Visiting Lecturer in Political ScienceB.A., Tsinghua University (China); M.A., Peking University (China); M.A., Boston College
Research and Teaching Interests
International Relation Theory; International Security; Chinese Foreign Policy; U.S.-China Relations; Social Statistics; Research Methods
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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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