Faculty Profiles
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Associate Professor of PsychologyB.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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Senior Lecturer in Engineering; Director of Engineering StudiesB.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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Visiting Lecturer in Biological SciencesB.S., University of Chicago; PhD., Stanford University School of Medicine
Excited by interdisciplinary studies, course and curriculum design, teaching, and mentorship.
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Senior Lecturer in Italian StudiesB.A., Harvard University Extension School; M.A., Tufts University
Research focuses on Italian language pedagogy and 20th century Italian cultural studies.
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Lecturer in SpanishB.A., University of the Balearic Islands, Spain ; M.A., Ph.D., University of Texas (Austin)
My research and teaching interests focus primarily on semantics, pragmatics, syntax-semantics interfaces, Romance linguistics, dialectal and typological variation, and sociolinguistics.
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Anchor Point Assistant Professor in Computer ScienceB.S., Ain Shams University; M.S., German University in Cairo; Ph.D., Boston University
My broad research interests are in mechanism and algorithm design for dynamic distributed systems, including crowd networks, mobile ad-hoc networks, and transport networks. See my personal website: https://cs.wellesley.edu/~cbassem/
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Lecturer in the Writing ProgramB.A., Georgetown University; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
My research and teaching explores the literature and art of social movements, migration and immigration, historical memory, and public history.
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Associate Professor of PhysicsSc.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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Senior Lecturer in NeuroscienceB.A., Wellesley College; Ph.D., University of Michigan
Molecular neuroscientist with an interest in glutamate transporters.
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Visiting Lecturer in Political SciencePh.D., Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
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Professor of ArtB.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University
Art Historian focusing on the art and visual culture of the United States. Interests include the intersection of art and science, ecocriticism, landscape imagery, sentimentalism, and Disney.
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Senior Instructor in Biological Sciences LaboratoryB.S., University of New Hampshire; Ph.D., Cornell University
Broad interests in molecular biology that are now focused on engaging students in complex experiments and science writing.
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Knafel Assistant Professor of Natural Sciences; Assistant Professor of PhysicsB.S., Olin College of Engineering; M.S., Ph. D., Stanford University
Materials scientist developing next-generation solar cells by studying the fundamental properties of novel solution-processed semiconductors.
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Theodora L. and Stanley H. Feldberg Professor of ArtB.A., Hampshire College; M.A., Ph.D., New York University
Art historian specializing in the art and visual culture of the late 19th-, 20th-, and 21st centuries.
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Catherine Mills Davis Professor of MusicB.Mus(Hons), Royal College of Music; M.Mus., King’s College, University of London; Ph.D., University of Chicago
Scholarly interests focus on the music of French composers including Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Delage; the practice of ornament in French music and the visual arts during the early twentieth century; music and aesthetics; music and orientalism/exoticism/colonialism-decolonialism; and Sikh devotional music (Sikh Kirtan)
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Professor of French and Francophone StudiesB.A., Rutgers University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Specializes in French culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a particular focus on the relationship between literary texts and the socio-historical contexts in which they emerged.
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Assistant Professor of Biological SciencesB.A., Williams College ; Ph.D., Stanford University
Studying marine microbes, from the genomic to ecosystem level.
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Biedenharn Distinguished Visiting Associate Professor of ChemistryB.Sc., University of Cape Coast; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
A bioorganist chemist interested in modulating biological systems with chemical entities; Organic and Introductory Chemistry teacher
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Senior Music Performance Faculty in Viola and ViolinB.M., M.M., Eastman School of Music
Director, LyricaFest Music Festival; Quartet Program, Longy School; visiting faculty, Eastman School; silver medalist, Henryk Szeryng Prize.
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Senior Music Performance Faculty in FluteB.M., M.M., New England Conservatory of Music
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Professor of GeosciencesB.S., M.A., Binghamton University; Ph.D., Brown University
Research interests: GeoHealth, biogeochemistry, environmental geochemistry, research and collaborative project-based learning to support inclusive excellence in STEM education
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Assistant Professor of ArtB.A., Vassar College; M.A., Ph.D., Bryn Mawr
Historian of art and architecture focusing on the medieval Islamic world. Interests include cross-cultural transmission, landscape studies, and digital art history.
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Instructor in Psychology LaboratoryB.A., SUNY Geneseo; M.S., Miami University; M.A., Ph.D., University at Buffalo
Social psychologist with research interests that include romantic relationships, prejudice, and sport psychology.
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Associate Professor of EnglishB.A., Queens College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Teaches modernism, contemporary American fiction and poetry, ethnic literature, and urban literature and photography.
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Assistant Professor of Computer ScienceB.A., Columbia College Chicago; B.A., Rutgers University-Camden; Ph.D., University of Maryland (College Park)
I love designing algorithms and exploring CS theory applied to e-commerce, fairness in machine learning, democracy, and bioinformatics.
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Senior Lecturer in the Writing ProgramB.A., Dickinson College; M.A., University of Sussex (Brighton, England); Ph.D., University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
Interested in modern and contemporary American literature, the cultural study of science and technology, gender and women's writing, academic and professional writing, and film criticism and theory.
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Senior Lecturer in the Writing ProgramA.B., Harvard College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan
Specialist in twentieth-century British and Irish literature; writer.
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Professor of MathematicsB.S., M.S., Shanghai Jiao Tong University; M.S., Michigan State University; Ph.D., University of Illinois
Specialist in initial-boundary value problems for nonlinear partial differential equations.
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Ralph Emerson and Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of Political ScienceB.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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Professor of Classical StudiesB.A., University of North Carolina; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan
Archaeologist leading an excavation in central Greece, studying cultural interaction and trade in the ancient Mediterranean, pursuing digital technology in teaching and research.
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Marshall I. Goldman Professor of EconomicsB.A., Wellesley College; M.S., London School of Economics; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Researcher on labor and health economics, with a focus on immigration issues and issues surrounding childhood obesity.
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Visiting Lecturer in French and Francophone StudiesB.A., University of Chicago; Maîtrise, Université de Paris IV – Sorbonne; D.E.A., Université de Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle; Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Specialist of French medieval and contemporary literature. Interested in multimodal communication, visual media, and women’s writing.
