Faculty Profiles
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Mary Jewett Gaiser Professor of EnglishB.A., Tufts University; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Expert in nineteenth and early twentieth century American literature; Shakespeare; and modernism in the arts.
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Instructor in Physical Education, Recreation and AthleticsB.A., San Jose State University; M.A., University of California (Los Angeles)
Dancer by trade. Poet by heart. Yogini by spirit. Multimedia artist by convergence.
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Professor of Political ScienceB.A., Haverford College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
Interested in the political dimensions of human development, especially policies that promote education, employment, health, and dignity in Southern Asia.
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Associate Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic SciencesB.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
Professor of linguistics; research interests include artificial language learning and acquisition of phonology.
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Visiting Lecturer in French and Francophone StudiesB.A., University of California (Berkeley); M.A., American University of Paris; Ph.D., Yale University
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Associate Professor of ChemistryB.S., SUNY (Purchase College); M.S., Ph.D., Yale University
Interested in synthesis of novel anticancer and antiviral agents; teaching introductory chemistry, organic chemistry, and synthetic methods.
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Michael and Denise Kellen '68 Associate Professor of Africana StudiesB.A., Howard University ; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University
Carter Jackson's research focuses on slavery and the abolitionists, violence as a political discourse, historical film, and black women’s history.
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Associate Professor of ArtB.A., Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge); M.A., University of Texas (Austin); Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Art and architectural historian specializing in the ancient Mediterranean.
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Assistant Professor of GeosciencesB.A., Amherst College; M.S., Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Research Interests: I'm a metamorphic petrologist and geochemist interested in metamorphic phase equilibria, chemical kinetics, convergent tectonics, and subduction zone dynamics.
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Senior Lecturer in EnglishB.A., Barnard College; M.A., New York University; Ph.D., City University of New York
Author of two novels and a screenplay. Fields: fiction-writing, screenwriting, postcolonial studies and modern British literature.
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Lecturer in MathematicsA.B., Harvard University; M.A., University of Chicago; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Combinatorics of polyhedral complexes, cryptology, comparative genomics.
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Professor of MathematicsB.A., University of California (Berkeley); M.A., Cambridge University (England); Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research on positive scalar curvature and rigidity of manifolds, noncommutative geometry, tools of surgery theory
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Senior Research Scientist; Visiting Lecturer in EducationB.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Research interests include risky and resilient digital media behaviors within vulnerable peer and family contexts as well as digital citizenship and how to engage youth in (re)defining and monitoring healthy digital media use.
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Professor of PsychologyB.A., George Washington University; M.A., University of Texas (Austin); Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Professor of Personality Psychology. Research interests include shyness, self-concept, and identity orientations.
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Senior Lecturer in ChineseB.A., Shanghai Teachers’ University; M.A., University of Iowa
Interested in Chinese language pedagogy and second language acquisition.
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Associate Professor of PsychologyB.A., Rutgers University; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Research explores how culture and family processes influence development and mental health across the lifespan.
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Lorraine C. Wang Professor of EnglishB.A., Amherst College; Ph.D., Harvard University
Poet and critic.
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Knafel Assistant Professor of Social Sciences; Assistant Professor of Political ScienceA.B., Brown University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan
Studies American politics with an emphasis on race and ethnicity, public opinion, and political psychology
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Associate Professor of American StudiesB.A., University of California (Irvine); M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
Specializes in gender and Filipinx history, Asian American Studies, history of U.S. empire, and transnational feminist approaches to the study of beauty and fashion
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Lecturer in the Quantitative Reasoning ProgramB.A., Hendrix College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Irvine)
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Visiting Lecturer in ArtB.A., Ithaca College ; MFA., Indiana University (Bloomington)
Painter working with the history, imagination and construction of female-centric communities.
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William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of EconomicsA.B., Harvard College; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Researcher in the economics of aging and health.
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Lecturer in Music; Senior Coach/Collaborative KeyboardistB.M., Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo); M.M., University of Wisconsin (Madison); Ph.D., New England Conservatory of Music
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Professor of Peace and Justice StudiesB.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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Assistant Professor of Political ScienceB.A., Georgetown University; Ph.D., University of Texas (Austin)
Research interests include the group identity, political behavior and transnationalism of Afro-Latin Americans and their descendants.
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Professor of Women’s and Gender StudiesB.A., University of California (Riverside); M.A., University of California (Santa Barbara); Ph.D., University of California (Santa Cruz)
Engaged in research on Asian American visual history, the New American West, and Native American horse cultures.
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Professor of Africana StudiesB.A., M.A., Fordham University; Ph.D., Cornell University
Expert on Caribbean literature and Caribbean intellectual history.
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Deffenbaugh de Hoyos Carlson Professor in the Social Sciences; Professor of SociologyB.A., Saint Michael’s College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia
