Faculty Profiles
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Assistant Professor of Computer ScienceB.S., University of Oregon; M.S. and Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder
I am an interdisciplinary researcher who studies the design of accessible, assistive, and inclusive technologies.
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Lecturer in French and Francophone StudiesM.A., Ph.D., Boston University
Academic focus includes authorship, textual strategies, and the fashioning of subjectivity. Passionate about teaching and her commitment to students.
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Associate Professor of PhilosophyB.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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Professor of ReligionA.B., Princeton University; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University
Interests include the Jewish and Christian communities of the Roman Empire, women in the Biblical world, and the history of Jerusalem.
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Edith Stix Wasserman Professor in Asian Studies; Professor of HistoryB.A., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., Yale University
Historian of China/Inner Asia; research on intersection of empire and ethnicity in the 1700s, and on the links between business, state-building, and inequality in the 20th century.
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Instructor in Physical Education, Recreation and AthleticsB.S., Northeastern University
Educates and empowers others to optimal health by sharing passion for and expertise in exercise with yoga, Pilates, coaching, training.
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Senior Instructor in Geosciences LaboratoryB.A., Smith College; M.S., University of Miami
Focused on stable isotope geochemistry and physical geology.
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Assistant Professor of EconomicsB.S., Mount St. Mary's University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Applied microeconomist interested in public economics and the economics of risky behaviors.
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Professor of Classical StudiesB.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Interests include gender, sexuality, and the erotics of place and time in the ancient world, as well as using Classics to foster interdisciplinary discussion.
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Professor of Psychology, Department ChairA.B., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Developmental psychologist studying relationships, real and imagined, with a focus on young children's imaginary companions.
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Associate Professor of NeuroscienceB.Sc., M.Sc., Leiden University; Ph.D., Utrecht (The Netherlands)
Investigates the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying animal behavior, using songbirds as a model system to study learning and memory.
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Betty Freyhof Johnson '44 Professor of Political Science; Associate Provost for Wellesley in the WorldA.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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Associate Professor of MusicB.A., University of California (Los Angeles); M.A., University of California (San Diego); Ph.D., University of California (Los Angeles)
Popular music scholar of Brazil and Latin America; Jazz and the African Diaspora; Music in Film and Audiovisual Media; Music Industry; Music and Disability
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Pre-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at Wellesley CollegePh.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University
B.A. in Political Science from SUNY Binghamton, M.Phil. and M.A. in Political Science from Columbia University, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University
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Barbara Morris Caspersen Associate Professor of Humanities; Associate Professor of EnglishB.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., Pennsylvania State University; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University
Queer literary studies, including representations of HIV/AIDS; transatlantic Modernism, including the Harlem Renaissance; and the 20C Novel.
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Associate Professor of JapaneseB.A., Westmont College; M.A., Columbia University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Focused on Japanese language, literature, and culture.
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Associate Professor of Biological SciencesB.S., Rhodes College; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Cell biologist using fission yeast to study regulatory mechanisms of conserved, essential cellular processes.
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Evelyn Barry Director of the Choral Program; Senior Lecturer in MusicB.A., Sonoma State College; M.M., D.M.A., University of Southern California
Conductor of Choral Program, including Choir, Chamber Singers, and Choral Scholars.
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Associate Professor of HistoryB.A., Yale University; Ph.D., Harvard University
Historian of early American and Native American history, English colonialism and cultural encounters, environmental history, and violence in American history.
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Jane Bishop '51 Associate Professor of Political ScienceB.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 ArtB.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Delaware
Art historian examining African and African American identities, music, the body, feminism, and performance art from the 19th to the 21st century.
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Associate Professor of HistoryB.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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Assistant Professor of Computer ScienceB.A., Wellesley College ; M.S., Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
I build social systems prototypes and study how people relate to each other through social technologies.
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Associate Professor of Environmental StudiesB.A., Wesleyan University; Ph.D., University of California (Santa Cruz)
Ecologist focusing on invasive plant population dynamics and environmental influences.
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Senior Research Scientist; Visiting Lecturer in PsychologyPh.D., Boston College
Research interests include adolescent development, with a focus on sexual health and risk-taking and racial and ethnic identity.
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Associate Professor of HistoryA.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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Professor of French and Francophone StudiesB.A., Cornell University; D.E.A., Ecole Normale Superieure & Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales; J.D., Ph.D., New York University
Specialist of contemporary French society. Interested in the media, gender and sexuality in France and the European Union.
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Assistant Professor of Cinema & Media StudiesB.A., College of William & Mary; M.A., New York University; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Media History and Theory, Cinema History and Theory, Digital Technology, Visual Culture, Virtual Reality (VR), Technological Subjectivity.
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Associate Professor of SpanishB.A., Middlebury College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
Specializes in gender, race, and philosophy of language in colonial Latin American literature and visual culture; digital humanities and blended learning; history of clothing and of food; cultural exchanges between Eastern Europe and Latin America.
