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Senior Lecturer in Writing and Anthropology
B.A., Wilfred Laurier University (Waterloo, ON); M.A., Ph.D., McMaster University (Hamilton, ON)
Research focuses on experimental ethnography, anthropology of exchange, Iceland, Micronesia and the Faroe Islands, as well as island cultural ecology and ghost towns.
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Senior Lecturer in Engineering; Director of Engineering Studies
B.S., M.S., Ph.D, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Researches engineering education and the development of consumer-oriented technologies that can benefit under-served populations worldwide.
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Associate Professor of Physics
Sc.B., Brown University; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
Experimental particle astrophysics including neutrino and dark matter detection; precision tests of gravity with lunar laser ranging (lab website).
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Ralph Emerson and Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of Political Science
B.A., University of Minnesota (Minneapolis); M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Research focuses on the role of courts, rights, and litigation in public policy and politics.
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Associate Professor of Philosophy
B.A., M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., Princeton University
Works on ancient Greek philosophy, with emphasis on ancient ethics and moral psychology.
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Betty Freyhof Johnson '44 Professor of Political Science; Associate Provost for Wellesley in the World
A.B., University of Chicago; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
Researching issues of international security with a specific focus on legitimacy, rising powers, and territorial conflict.
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Professor of German Studies
A.B., M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Focuses on gender, identity, and subjectivity in German film, literature, and culture; teaches at all levels of German curriculum; research on independent films made in Austria in the 1930s and on Weimar cinema.
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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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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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Elisabeth Luce Moore Professor of Christian Studies; Professor of Religion
B.A., Dickinson College; Ph.D., Harvard University
Academic historian and public interpreter of religion in America during the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Early National periods.
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Professor of Biological Sciences
B.Sc., Ph.D., University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada)
Studies the organization of animal societies, insect communication, and the evolution of cooperation, using the honey bee as a model.
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Margaret Clapp ’30 Distinguished Alumna Professor of Philosophy
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Professor of metaphysics, philosophy of language and law; also teaches logic and various seminars.
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Professor of Italian Studies
Laurea 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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Professor Emeritus of French and Francophone Studies
B.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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Associate Professor of Sociology
B.A., Mississippi College; M.A., University of Memphis; Ph.D., University of Virginia
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Senior Lecturer in English
B.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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Dorothy and Charles Jenkins, Jr. Distinguished Chair in Science; Professor of Biological Sciences
A.B., Bowdoin College; Ph.D., Duke University
Evolutionary development (Evo-devo); Developmental genetics; Insect physiology
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Lecturer in Mathematics
A.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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Lewis Atterbury Stimson Professor in Mathematics
A.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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Associate Professor of Computer Science
S.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 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.
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Associate Professor of Economics and Writing
B.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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Professor of Mathematics
B.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 Philosophy
B.A., McGill University; Ph.D., Harvard University
Researches at the intersection of philosophy of language and cognitive science, focusing especially on figurative language.
