The Project on Public Leadership and Action is co-directed by Laura Grattan, Soo Hong and Jennifer Musto. Faculty participating in the project include:
People
Faculty & Staff
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Associate Professor of Psychology
B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Kansas
Social psychologist doing research on the dynamics of prejudice and friendship formation.
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Professor of Peace and Justice Studies
B.S., Università degli Studi di Firenze; M.A., University of Notre Dame; Ph.D., University of Southern California
Scholar and activist around issues of peace and gender.
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Camilla Chandler Frost Professor of Environmental Studies
B.A., Oberlin College; Ph.D., Harvard University
Focuses on environmental politics, international environmental law, ocean and atmospheric issues, and protection of the global commons.
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Jane Bishop '51 Associate Professor of Political Science
B.A., College of William and Mary; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University
Researches and teaches political theory, with a focus on grassroots organizing and the politics of race, ethnicity, and culture.
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Associate Professor of History
B.A., Beloit College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Historian of race, gender, and culture in 20th century U.S. with focus on African American business and visual culture.
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Associate Professor of History
A.B., Harvard University; M.Phil., Cambridge University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Intellectual and cultural historian of early modern Europe.
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Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Education
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ed.M., Ed.D., Harvard University
Study of educational philosophy and practice, and the knowledge and values we hope to share.
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Class of 1919 – 50th Reunion Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies
B.A., Brandeis University; M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University
Contemporary Reproduction, Families and Social Inequalities, New Family Forms, Feminist Methodologies and Internet Use for Social Learning and Connectivity.
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Professor of Education
B.A., M.T., University of Virginia; Ed.D., Harvard University
Explores school-community relationships in K-12 urban schools with an emphasis on race, immigration, and culture.
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Jean Glasscock Professor of Sociology
B.A., Brandeis University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
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Class of 1949 Chair in Ethics; Professor of American Studies; Dean of Academic Affairs
A.B., Swarthmore College; Ph.D., Harvard University
Qualitative sociologist focusing on race, class, gender, and cultural production.
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Anne Pierce Rogers Professor in American Literature; Professor of English
A.B., Harvard College; Ph.D., Yale University
My research and teaching span two areas, British eighteenth and nineteenth century prose fiction, and Asian American literature.
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Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Sociology
B.A., Brandeis University; M.S., Columbia University; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cultural and intellectual inequality, museums, decentered knowledge production and pedagogy, sociology of art and literature, migration, transnational social protection.
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Katherine Stone Kaufmann '67 Executive Director of the Wellesley Centers for Women and Professor of Africana Studies
B.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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Senior Research Scientist, Wellesley Centers for Women; Adjunct Associate Professor Emerita of Women’s and Gender Studies
B.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, as well as child care policy and early care and education.
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Associate Professor of Philosophy
B.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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Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies
B.A., DePaul University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Los Angeles)
Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Director of the Knapp Social Science Center (KSSC), and Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Anti-Carceral Co+Laboratory
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Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas; Professor of Sociology
A.B., M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
A feminist qualitative sociologist interested in finance, development and globalization in India, the U.S. and South Africa.
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Gordon P. Lang and Althea P. Lang ‘26 Professor of Biological Sciences
M.S., Ph.D., University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Evolutionary biologist with interest in conservation genetics.
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Professor of Environmental Studies
B.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.
