Faculty Profiles
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Professor of English; Faculty Director, Pforzheimer Learning and Teaching CenterB.A., Wellesley College; M.Phil, Oxford University (St. John's College); Ph.D., Harvard University
Interests include Renaissance literature, book history, and the history and theory of literary genre.
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Senior Instructor in Geosciences LaboratoryB.A., Wellesley College; M.S., University of Massachusetts
Teaches geosciences labs; Committed to giving students an appreciation for earth processes and an understanding of their impacts.
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Associate Professor of Philosophy; Co-Director, The Suzy Newhouse Center for the HumanitiesB.A., University of Toronto; M.A., Ph.D., University of Western Ontario
Researches and teaches topics in early modern philosophy, with a focus on theories of human freedom and philosophical method, and in the ethics of digital technology.
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Lecturer in AnthropologyB.A., University of Wisconsin (Madison); M.A., Ph.D., Brandeis University
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Associate Professor of MathematicsB.S., Beijing Normal University; M.S., Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Statistician specializing in topics of U-statistics, nonparametric kernel density estimation, risk estimation, variance estimation, cross-validation, resampling schemes, and extrapolation/interpolation methods.
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Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in JapaneseB.A., Columbia University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
I specialize in modern Japanese literature and film, with additional areas of expertise in comparative literature, global modernism, translation studies, media theory, and sensory history.
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Visiting Lecturer in PsychologyB.A., New York University; M.S., Tufts University, Ph.D., Tufts University
Cognitive Scientist and Linguist interested in pragmatics, the cognitive basis of communication, turn-taking in conversation and predictive language comprehension.
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Senior Music Performance Faculty in African Diasporic Drumming and Director of YanvalouB.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Wesleyan University
Focused on Yanvalou Drumming and Dance Ensemble, and African Diasporic drumming.
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Kresa Family Assistant Professor of NeuroscienceB.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Pepperdine University; Ph.D., Brandeis University
Research utilizes fruit flies & 'virtual-reality' flight simulators to investigate the neuronal mechanisms that permit the multi-sensory integration required to produce contextually appropriate behavior.
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Postdoctoral Fellow in PhilosophyB.A. Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Primarily interested in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and philosophy of race.
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Whitehead Associate Professor of Critical Thought; Associate Professor of AstronomyB.S., M.S., Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Planetary scientist who studies impact cratering and landscape evolution, while teaching courses about the geology and climates of rocky and icy worlds.
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Instructor in Chemistry LaboratoryB.A., Mount Holyoke College ; Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Fosters an inclusive and enthusiastic learning environment in the introductory and physical chemistry labs
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Associate Professor of PhilosophyB.A., McGill University; Ph.D., Harvard University
Researches at the intersection of philosophy of language and cognitive science, focusing especially on figurative language.
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PERA Professor of the PracticeB.A., University of the Pacific; M.A., Brown University
Direct NCAA Division III intercollegiate volleyball program and teach skills and fitness courses in the Physical Education Department.
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Professor of EconomicsB.A., Oberlin College; A.M., Ph.D., Stanford University
Interested in the economics of higher education, international economics, the economics of conflict, and monetary economics.
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Professor of RussianB.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Interests include Nabokov, Dostoevsky, literary theory, and the ideological repercussions of Russian fiction.
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Music Instructor in GuzhengB.A., Central Conservatory of Music; M.M., The New England Conservatory of Music
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Lecturer in PhysicsB.A., Middlebury College; M.S., Ph.D., Tufts University
I am interested in high energy particle physics, cosmology, and best practices in physics education.
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Associate Professor of EnglishB.A., Yale University; M.A., Ph.D. Duke University
Researches and teaches late medieval English literature, the history of race, religious and cultural conflict in the Middle Ages, and the modern literary and political uses of medievalism.
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Mayling Soong Professor of Chinese Studies; Professor of East Asian StudiesB.A. Wellesley College; M.A., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
I study traditional Chinese fiction, history of Chinese women's writing, history of the book in China, and missionaries to East Asia.
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Associate Professor of NeuroscienceB.A., Dartmouth College; M.S., Ph.D., Michigan State University
Mission: to determine the distributed neural substrate of perception.
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Associate Professor of PsychologyB.A., Williams College; Ph.D., Harvard University
My research probes the individual human mind and establishes and disseminates best-practices in visual data communication.
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Nellie Zuckerman Cohen & Anne Cohen Heller Professor in Health Sciences; Professor of PsychologyB.A., M.A., University of Melbourne; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Research interests include adult development; positive psychology; religion and spirituality; altruism; narcissism; wisdom; cross-cultural conceptions of the self.
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Lecturer in ChemistryB.A., Indiana University ; Ph.D., University of California (San Diego)
Creating engaging and active classroom for introductory and organic chemistry courses.
