Faculty Profiles
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Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern StudiesB.A., Universite Moulay Ismail (Morocco); M.A., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., Binghamton University
I teach Arabic literature and language
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Associate Professor of EconomicsB.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University
Research in development economics, with an emphasis on firm behavior in developing economies.
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Senior Music Performance Faculty in Vocal JazzB.M., Berklee College of Music; M.M., New England Conservatory of Music
Teaches commercial singing styles and technique, specializing in jazz, blues, pop, and Brazilian music.
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Assistant Professor of PhysicsB.S. Physics: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S. Music: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph. D. Physics: University of Pennsylvania
My research focuses on the topological and geometric aspects of electronic dynamics in quantum condensed matter theory.
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Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities; Professor of SpanishB.A., University of Georgia; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University
Poet, human rights activist, literary critic. Interested in Jewish literature and literature of human rights in the Americas; women writers of Latin America; migration, identity, and ethnicity.
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Associate Professor of Political ScienceB.A., M.A., Northwestern University; Ph.D., University of Chicago
B.A., M.A., Northwestern University
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research focuses on political economy, international economics and politics.
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Senior Music Performance Faculty in Piano; Director, Music Performance ProgramB.M., Kunitachi College of Music (Japan); M.M., D.M.A., New England Conservatory of Music
Pianist, teacher, and performer of piano and chamber music.
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Professor of PsychologyB.A., University of California (Santa Cruz); M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Research in nonverbal communication: the ability to decode nonverbal cues in social interaction; also interested in the psychological analysis of advertising.
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Senior Music Performance Faculty in French HornB.M., New England Conservatory of Music
Boston-based freelance musician; performs regularly with prominent area symphony orchestras as well as chamber groups.
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Visiting Lecturer in American StudiesPhD, New York University; MA, Pratt Institute; BA, University of Pittsburgh
I study the US prison regime, media history, revolutionary and abolitionist movements, and the history of capitalism.
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Assistant Professor of Computer ScienceB.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
I use computational, experimental, and symbolic methods to understand meaning in natural language.
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Senior Lecturer in Computer ScienceB.S., Yale University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
Professor Anderson's teaching interests include web application programming, including databases, web frameworks, and computer graphics. His research interests are similar, but also include artificial intelligence (particularly planning and natural language processing), simulation, system software and system administration.
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Carillon Instructor, Director of Guild of CarillonneursBachelors, Wellesley College; Masters of Music, New England Conservatory
Having taught piano and music theory at Stonehill College for 9 years, she now teaches carillon at Wellesley College, where she acts as advisor to the 25-member student Guild of Carillonneurs. She also serves as organist at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Sharon.
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Senior Lecturer in Theatre StudiesB.A., Williams College
Focused on suiting the word to the action and the action to the word.
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Senior Lecturer in Writing and AnthropologyB.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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Assistant Professor of Political ScienceB.A., University of Oregon; M.Ed., Boston University; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Research interests include race & ethnicity, public opinion, immigration, intergroup solidarity, methodology.
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Assistant Professor of SpanishB.S., University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras; Ph.D., Harvard UniversityResearch and teaching interests: early modern Spanish literature, visual culture and Luso-Castilian bilingualism, theories of poetic inspiration, literature in language teaching.
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Nancy Harrison Kolodny '64 Professor of ChemistryA.B., Harvard University; Ph.D., Stanford University
I am a physical chemist who uses surface chemistry techniques to study radiation chemistry.
