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Faculty

The faculty is arranged alphabetically. In parentheses are listed colleges and universities from which earned degrees have been received.

Eric G. Aaron, Ph.D. (Cornell), 2018-
Associate Professor of Computer Science

Hideko Abe, Ph.D. (Shikoku Christian [Japan], Arizona State), 1993-1995; 2006-
Professor of East Asian Studies

Christopher Abplanalp, M.A. (St. Lawrence, Connecticut College), 2018-
Faculty Head Coach

Ayo Adeniran, Ph.D. (University of Ibadan [Nigeria], Texas A&M) 2021-
Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Syed Tariq Ahmad,  M.A. ’23, Ph.D. (Aligarh Muslim [India], PGIMER, Chandigarh [India], Notre Dame), 2009-
Professor of Biology and Dr. Charles C. and Pamela W. Leighton Research Fellow

Naser Al Madi, Ph.D. (Kent State University), 2020-
Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Asita Albert, M.S.L.I.S. (University of Maine, Drexel), 2020-
Faculty Librarian: Technical Services and Metadata

Dean Allbritton, Ph.D. (Valdosta State, Syracuse, Stony Brook), 2011-
Associate Professor of Spanish; Director, Center for the Arts and Humanities, 2021-

Terren M. Allen, B.A. (University of Maine), 2018-
Faculty Head Coach

Ana Almeyda-Cohen, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), 2020-
Assistant Professor of Spanish

Marta E. Ameri, Ph.D. (Bryn Mawr, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University), 2014-
Associate Professor of Art

David R. Angelini, Ph.D. (St. Mary’s of Maryland, Indiana), 2012-
Associate Professor of Biology

Shaukat Ansari, Ph.D. (University of Toronto, York University), 2024-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Government

Martha Arterberry, M.A. ’07, Ph.D. (Pomona, Minnesota), 2006-
Clara C. Piper Professor of Psychology

Chris Myers Asch, (Duke University, University of North Carolina), 2015-
Visiting Instructor of African-American Studies

Robert Augustine, Ph.D. (SUNY Binghamton, Massachusetts at Amherst), 2022-
Assistant Professor of Biology

T. Ben Baker, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, Brown University), 2023-
Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Allison Barner, Ph.D. (Chicago, Oregon State), 2019-
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Biology

James C. Barrett, Ph.D. (California at Santa Cruz, Cornell), 2000-
Associate Professor of Classics

Alison Bates, Ph.D. (University of Delaware), 2020-
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies

Jordan Bazak, Ph.D. (University of Pittsburgh), 2023-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics

Justin M. Becknell, Ph.D. (Minnesota), 2017-
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies

Jared R. Beers ’01, B.A. (Colby), 2006-
Faculty Head Coach

James Behuniak Jr., M.A. ’20, Ph.D. (Southern Maine, Hawaii at Manoa), 2006-
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Philosophy

Max Bender, Ph.D. (Connecticut College, University of Pittsburgh), 2021-
Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Seth Benjamin, B.A. (University of Southern Maine), 2024-
Faculty Head Coach

Sandra Bernal Heredia, Ph.D. (Texas, Austin), 2018-
Assistant Professor of Spanish

Jake Bernhardt, B.S. (University of Maryland), 2024-
Faculty Head Coach

Kimberly A. Besio, M.A. ’10, Ph.D. (Hawaii at Manoa, California at Berkeley), 1992-
Oak Professor of East Asian Studies

Catherine L. Besteman, M.A. ’05, Ph.D. (Amherst, Arizona), 1993-
Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology

Catherine R. Bevier, M.A. ’17, Ph.D. (Indiana, Connecticut), 1999-
Oak Professor of Biology

Chandra D. Bhimull, Ph.D. (Kenyon, Michigan), 2008-
The Audrey Wade Hittinger Katz and Sheldon Toby Katz Associate Professor for Distinguished Teaching in Anthropology and African-American Studies

Adrian Blevins, M.A. ’19, M.F.A. (Virginia Intermont, Hollins, Warren Wilson), 2004-
Professor of English (Creative Writing)

Robert T. Bluhm Jr., M.A. ’03, Ph.D. (New York University, Princeton, Columbia, Rockefeller), 1990-
Sunrise Professor of Physics

Lola Bollo-Panadero, Ph.D. (Seville [Spain], Michigan State), 2008-
Associate Professor of Spanish

Bradley R. Borthwick, M.F.A. (Guelph [Canada], Cornell), 2013-
Associate Professor of Art

Max Bowman, M.L.I.S. (University of Maine, University of North Carolina), 2019-
Faculty Librarian: Associate Director and Head of Public Services

Sarah Braunstein, M.F.A., (Mount Holyoke, Iowa Writers’ Workshop), 2016-
Associate Professor of English (Creative Writing)

Andrea Breau ‘03, M.A. (Colby, Ohio State University), 2022- 
Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Kelly Brignac, Ph.D. (Millsaps, Vanderbilt, Harvard), 2021-
Assistant Professor of History

Emma Brodeur, Ph.D. (Syracuse University, University of Massachusetts), 2024-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies

Luke Brooks-Shesler, Ph.D. (George Mason University, The College of William and Mary), 2018-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology

AB Brown, Ph.D. (Muhlenberg, Northwestern), 2019
Assistant Professor of Performance, Theater, and Dance

Denise A. Bruesewitz, Ph.D. (Winona State, Notre Dame), 2012-
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies

Audrey Brunetaux, Ph.D. (Poitiers [France], Michigan State), 2008-
Associate Professor of French

Michael R. Buccigrossi, Ph.D. (Columbia), 2017-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology

Thomas K. Burton, B.A. (Hamilton), 1999-
Faculty Head Coach; Associate Director of Athletics, 2002-

William Christopher Burwick, Ph.D. (University of Minnesota, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of Washington, Pitzer College), 2024-
Visiting Assistant Professor of German

Gail Carlson, Ph.D. (St. Olaf, Wisconsin at Madison), 2004-
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies

Tizoc Chavez, Ph.D. (California State University, Stanislaus, Vanderbilt), 2021-
Visiting Assistant Professor of History

Caitlin Cleaver ’06, Ph.D. (Colby, University of Maine), 2023-
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies

Tahiya Chowdhury, Ph.D. (Rutgers, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology), 2023-
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Jennifer Coane, M.A. ’24, Ph.D. (Illinois State, Washington [St. Louis]), 2008-
Professor of Psychology

Daniel H. Cohen ’75, M.A. ’00, Ph.D. (Colby, Indiana), 1983-
Professor of Philosophy

Lauren Cohen Fisher ’13, M.A. (Colby, Tel Aviv University), 2021-
Lecturer in Jewish Studies

Charles Conover, M.A. ’04, Ph.D. (Middlebury, Virginia), 1990-
William A. Rogers Professor of Physics

Rebecca R. Conry, Ph.D. (Eastern Washington, Washington), 2000-
Associate Professor of Chemistry

Megan L. Cook, Ph.D. (Michigan, New York University, Pennsylvania), 2013-
Associate Professor of English

John W. Cosgrove, M.Ed. (Maine), 2018-
Faculty Head Coach

Christina Cota, Ph.D. (Skidmore, Cornell), 2019
Assistant Professor of Biology

Tracey A. Cote, M.S. (Northern Michigan, Wyoming), 1998-
Faculty Head Coach; Associate Director of Athletics 2008-

Matthew Cumbie, M.F.A (Texas Lutheran University, Texas State University, Texas Woman’s University), 2021-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Performance, Theater, and Dance

Gregory Cumpstone, M.A. (Southern Connecticut State University), 2024-
Faculty Head Coach

David M. Cusano Jr., M.A. (Maine), 2015-
Faculty Head Coach

Lauren Dattilo, Ph.D. (University of South Carolina), 2021-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology

Guilain P. Denoeux, M.A. ’03, Ph.D. (Grenoble [France], Georgetown, Princeton), 1990-
Professor of Government

Evan Dethier, Ph.D. (Williams, Dartmouth), 2024-
Assistant Professor of Geology

Inga Kim Diederich, Ph.D. (University of Chicago, Harvard, University of California, San Diego), 2021-
Assistant Professor of History

Valérie M. Dionne, M.A. ’23, Ph.D. (Montreal [Canada], Princeton), 2007-
Professor of French and Italian

Stephanie Dodson, Ph.D. (Massachusetts at Amherst, Brown), 2022-
Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Kathryn B. Donahue, M.S. (Bowdoin, Simmons), 2015-
Faculty Librarian: Associate Director and Head of Special Collections and Archives/College Archivist

Sonya Donaldson, Ph.D. (CUNY, University of Virginia), 2022-
Assistant Professor of African-American Studies

Michael R. Donihue ’79, M.A. ’07, Ph.D. (Colby, Michigan), 1989-
Herbert E. Wadsworth Professor of Economics; Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Associate Dean of Faculty, 2008-2010

Stacy Doore, Ph.D. (University of Maine), 2020-
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Linwood C. Downs ’83, M.A. (Colby, Columbia, Maine), 2003-
Assistant Professor of Economics

Greg T. Drozd, Ph.D. (Carnegie Mellon), 2017-
Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Sarah E. Duff, Ph.D. (Stellenbosch [South Africa], Birkbeck [England]), 2017-
Assistant Professor of History

Tasha L. Dunn, Ph.D. (Tulane, Tennessee at Knoxville), 2014-
Associate Professor of Geology

Kathrin Ellieroth, Ph.D. (Indiana University), 2020-
Assistant Professor of Economics

Alicia E. Ellis, Ph.D. (Amherst, Yale), 2016-
Associate Professor of German

Nadia R. El-Shaarawi, Ph.D. (McMaster [Canada], Oxford [UK], Case Western Reserve), 2015-
Associate Professor of Global Studies

Bevin L. Engman, M.A. ’11, M.F.A. (William and Mary, Portland School of Art, Pennsylvania), 1996-
Professor of Art

Elisabeth McCorkle Fairfield, M.F.A. (Smith, Massachusetts at Amherst), 2001-
Distinguished Senior Lecturer in Writing

Flavien Falantin, Ph.D. (Indiana University), 2020-
Assistant Professor of French

Ben W. Fallaw, M.A. ’14, Ph.D. (North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chicago), 2000-
Professor of Latin American Studies

Yang I. Fan, Ph.D. (Washington, Seattle) 2018-
The Todger Anderson Assistant Professor in Investing and Behavioral Economics

Philip Jun Fang, Ph.D. (Northwestern), 2021-
Assistant Professor of Sociology

Nicole Ferrari, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania, Duke, University of Delaware, Middlebury), 2024-
Visiting Assistant Professor of French

Vivian Ferrillo, Ph.D. (Indiana University), 2024-
Assistant Professor of Government

David W. Findlay, M.A. ’99, Ph.D. (Acadia [Canada], Purdue), 1985-
Pugh Family Professor of Economics

Anna Forsman, Ph.D. (Cornell University, Illinois State University, The College of William and Mary), 2023-
Assistant Professor of Biology

Rebecca Frank, Ph.D. (University of Virginia, St. Olaf), 2022-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics

Patrice M. Franko, M.A. ’00, Ph.D. (Bucknell, Notre Dame), 1986-
Grossman Professor of Economics

David M. Freidenreich, Ph.D. (Brandeis, Columbia), 2008-
Pulver Family Professor of Jewish Studies

Tamar Friedmann, Ph.D. (Princeton), 2019
Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Laura S. Fugikawa, Ph.D. (Southern California), 2018-
Assistant Professor of American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Yuri Lily Funahashi, D.M.A. (Wisconsin at Madison, California at Los Angeles, Julliard), 2009-
Associate Professor of Music

Amanda Gallinat, Ph.D. (Carleton, Boston University), 2022-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies

Ghada Gherwash, Ph.D. (Appalachian State, Purdue), 2019-
Assistant Professor of Writing

Mary Ellis Gibson, Ph.D. (North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chicago), 2016-
Arthur Jeremiah Roberts Professor of English

Erin A. Giffin, Ph.D. (California at San Diego), 2018-
Assistant Professor of Economics

Karen J. Gillum ’76, M.L.S. (Colby, Oxford, Oklahoma, South Carolina), 2009-
Faculty Librarian: Collections

Melissa J. Glenn,  M.A. ’21, Ph.D. (Memorial [Canada], Concordia [Canada]), 2007-
Professor of Psychology, Associate Provost for Academic Programs, 2021-

Juan Carlos Gonzalez, Ph.D. (University of California, NSSR, Xavier), 2024-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Fernando Q. Gouvea, M.A. ’01, Ph.D. (Sao Paulo [Brazil], Harvard), 1991-
Carter Professor of Mathematics

Gary M. Green, M.A. ’22, M.F.A.  (SUNY Empire State, Bard), 2007-
Professor of Art

David A. Greene, M.A. ’14, Ed.D. (Hamilton, Harvard), 2014-
President; Professor of Social Sciences

Neil L. Gross, M.A. ’15, Ph.D. (California at Berkeley, Wisconsin at Madison), 2015-
Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology

Samara R. Gunter, Ph.D. (Chicago, Michigan), 2008-
Associate Professor of Economics

Moon Ha, Ph.D. (New York University, University of Illinois), 2024-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music

Britt Halvorson, Ph.D. (University of Michigan, Albion College), 2015-
Associate Professor of Anthropology

Aaron R. Hanlon, Ph.D. (Bucknell, Dartmouth, Oxford [UK]), 2015-
Associate Professor of English

Lynn Hannum, Ph.D. (Bates, Yale), 2001-
Associate Professor of Biology and Charles C. and Pamela W. Leighton Research Fellow

Daniel E. Harkett, Ph.D. (Edinburgh [UK], Brown), 2016-
Associate Professor of Art

Eric P. Harlow, B.A. (Colby-Sawyer), 2020-
Faculty Head Coach

Allen Harper, Ph.D. (University of Rhode Island, City University of New York), 2021-
Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Chenel Harris-Smith, M.A. (Kent State, Rider University), 2019-
Faculty Head Coach

Melissa Heide, Ph.D. (University of Texas, University of Virginia), 2023-
Visiting Assistant Professor of English

Karen L. Henning, M.A. (Maryland, Adelphi), 2007-
Faculty Head Coach

Jorge Hernández-Lasa, M.E., M.A.  (University of Burgos [Spain], Hankuk University of Foreign Studies [South Korea]), 2023-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish

Elizabeth Hill, Ph.D. (Midwestern State, Gonzaga, Memorial University of Newfoundland), 2022-
Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Natalie Hill, MLIS (Drexel University, University of Texas), 2023-
Scholarly Communications Librarian

Joseph Hoisington, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania, University of Illinois), 2024-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics

M. Adam Howard, M.A. ’16, Ed.D. (Berea, Harvard, Cincinnati), 2003-2004, 2008-
Charles A. Dana Professor of Education

Timothy P. Hubbard, M.A .’24, Ph.D. (New Hampshire, Iowa), 2012-
Professor of Economics

Derek Huffman, Ph.D. (California at Irvine), 2020-
Assistant Professor of Psychology

Rachel M. Isaacs, M.A. (Wellesley, Jewish Theological Seminary), 2011-
Dorothy “Bibby” Alfond Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies

Nicolas Jacobs, Ph.D. (University of Virginia), 2019-
Assistant Professor of Government

Danae Jacobson, Ph.D. (Westmont College, Regent College, Notre Dame), 2019-
Assistant Professor of History

Vijayanta Jain, Ph.D. (University of Maine), 2024-
Visiting Instructor of Computer Science

Linshan Jiang, Ph.D. (University of California, Tsinghua University, Beijing Sport University), 2024-
Visiting Assistant Professor of History

Lindsay Johnson, M.A.E. (Durham University, Elmhurst), 2021-
Faculty Head Coach

Russell R. Johnson, M.A. ’14, Ph.D. (Colorado College, Washington State), 1996-
Professor of Biology; Associate Provost for Academic Programs, 2017-21; Senior Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, 2021-

Steven M. Karceski, M.A. (University of Washington, North Park University), 2024-
Postdoctoral Fellow in Public Policy

Rio Katayama, Ph.D. (Waseda University, Indiana University-Bloomington, University of Southern California, Indiana University), 2024-
Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies

Jeffrey L. Katz, M.A. ’15, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania, Harvard), 2002-
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Chemistry

Christel D. Kesler, Ph.D. (California at Berkeley), 2017-
Associate Professor of Sociology

Elizabeth Ketner, Ph.D. (Georgia, Vermont, Minnesota), 2012-2013, Spring 2014-
Senior Lecturer in Writing

Se Young Kim, Ph.D. (Konkuk University, Ohio, Iowa), 2019-
Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies

D. Whitney King, M.A. ’02, Ph.D. (St. Lawrence, Rhode Island), 1989-
Dr. Frank and Theodora Miselis Professor of Chemistry

Thomas E. Klepach, Ph.D. (University of Notre Dame, Eastern Michigan University), 2012-
Lecturer of Science, Technology, and Society

Ann Marie Kloppenberg, M.F.A. (Middlebury, Ohio State), 2010-
Associate Professor of Performance, Theater, and Dance

Bess G. Koffman, Ph.D. (Maine, Orono), 2017-
Associate Professor of Geology

Dalibor Kocevski, Ph.D. (Michigan, Hawaii at Manoa), 2014-
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Arne Koch, Ph.D. (Kenyon, Pennsylvania State, North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 2007-
Associate Professor of German; Dean for Global Engagement, 2017-2020

Nazli Konya, Ph.D. (Bogazici University [Turkey], Cornell), 2021-
Assistant Professor of Government

Kara Kugelmeyer, M.L.I.S., (Amherst, Syracuse), 2016-
Faculty Librarian: Data Services 

Daniel R. LaFave, Ph.D. (Boston College, Duke), 2012-
Associate Professor of Economics

Isaac Lage, Ph.D. (Harvard University, New York University), 2023-
Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Allison E. Lancaster, M.S. (Thomas College, Providence College), 2023-
Faculty Head Coach

Oliver W. Layton, Ph.D. (Boston), 2018-
Associate Professor of Computer Science

Carrie A. LeVan, Ph.D. (California at Los Angeles), 2017-
The Montgoris Assistant Professor of Government

Matthew R. LeVan, M.L.I.S. (California at Los Angeles), 2017-
Faculty Librarian: Digital Archives

Robert B. Lester, Ph.D. (Montana, Notre Dame), 2015-
Associate Professor of Economics

Ying Li, Ph.D. (Hubei University of Technology [China], New Hampshire), 2015-
Associate Professor of Computer Science

Amanda Lilleston, M.F.A., (Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Colorado College), 2017-
Assistant Professor of Art

Samuel Lin, Ph.D. (Michigan State University, National Chiao Tung University), 2024-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Zoe Shan Lin, Ph.D., (University of California, Peking University [China], Beijing Normal University [China]), 2023-
Assistant Professor of History

Benjamin D. Lisle, Ph.D. (Carleton, Virginia, Texas at Austin), 2011-
Assistant Professor of American Studies

Pei Pei Liu, Ed.D. (Swarthmore, Michigan, Harvard), 2022-
Assistant Professor of Education

Leo Livshits, M.A. ’08, Ph.D. (Waterloo [Canada], Toronto [Canada]), 1994-
Professor of Mathematics

Nicole Lofaro, Ph.D. (University of Florida, William Paterson University), 2024-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology

Blaise J. MacDonald, B.A. (Rochester Institute of Technology), 2012-
Faculty Head Coach

Lindsey R. Madison, Ph.D. (Northwestern), 2018-
Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Daniel Mahoney, M.F.A. (University of Massachusetts), 2022-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing

Andrew Marshall, M.S. (University of Maine), 2009-
Visiting Instructor of Biology

Joshua P. Martin, Ph.D. (Ohio State, Arizona), 2016-
Assistant Professor of Biology

José Martínez, Ph.D. (National University of Colombia, University of Missouri, UT Austin), 2021-
Assistant Professor of Music

Benedicte Mauguiere, M.A. ’09, Ph.D. (d’Angers [France], Paris-Sorbonne [France]), 2009-
Professor of French

Dámaris Mayans, Ph.D. (Florida, Gainesville), 2018-
Assistant Professor of Spanish

Lindsay R. Mayka, Ph.D. (Carleton, Berkeley), 2013-
Associate Professor of Government

Damon W. Mayrl, Ph.D. (California at Berkeley), 2017-
Associate Professor of Sociology

Jonathan H. McCoy, Ph.D. (Haverford, Maryland, Cornell), 2009-
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Thomas McElmurry, Ph.D. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), 2020- 
Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics

Margaret T. McFadden, M.A. ’15, Ph.D. (Wells, Duke, Yale), 1996-
Professor of American Studies; Associate Provost and Dean of Faculty for Curricular Planning, 2016-2017; Provost and Dean of Faculty, 2017-

Grace McGowan, M.A. (Boston University, University of Oxford), 2024-
Visiting Assistant Professor of English

Elizabeth McGrath, Ph.D. (Vassar, Hawaii at Honolulu), 2012-
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Michael C. McGuire ’89, M.L.S. (Colby, Syracuse), 2000-
Faculty Librarian: Electronic Resources

Karena A. McKinney, Ph.D. (California at Irvine), 2017-
Associate Professor of Chemistry

Carolyn Megan, M.F.A. (Vermont College), 2018-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing

M. Suzanne Menair, Ph.D., (Antioch, Virginia), 2016-
Lecturer of Anthropology

Jennifer M. Meredith, Ph.D. (Washington), 2018-
Assistant Professor of Economics

Jesse D. Meredith, Ph.D. (City College of New York, Washington), 2018-
Visiting Assistant Professor of History; Director of the Integrated Studies Program

Barbara Merson, Ph.D. (Lesley University), 2018-
Visiting Instructor of Jewish Studies

Julie T. Millard, M.A. ’04, Ph.D. (Amherst, Brown), 1991-
The Dr. Gerald and Myra Dorros Professor of Chemistry

Kassandra Miller, Ph.D. (University of Chicago, Princeton), 2020-
Assistant Professor of Classics

Melissa Miller, Ph.D. (Texas at Austin, Wisconsin at Madison), 2022-
Assistant Professor of Russian

Tiffany Miller, Ph.D. (University of Kansas), 2020-
Assistant Professor of Spanish

Luis Millones, M.A. ’12, Ph.D. (Pontificia Católica [Peru], Stanford), 1998-
The Allen Family Professor of Latin American Literature

Mary Elizabeth Mills, M.A. ’07, Ph.D. (Western Ontario [Canada], California at Berkeley), 1992-
Charles A. Dana Professor of Anthropology

Lydia Moland, M.A. ’20, Ph.D. (Boston University), 2008-
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Philosophy

Elena I. Monastireva-Ansdell, Ph.D. (Piatigorsk State Institute of Foreign Languages [Russia], Iowa, Indiana), 2009-
Associate Professor of Russian

Christopher M. Moore, Ph.D. (Nevada at Reno), 2017-
Assistant Professor of Biology

Anne Elizabeth Moore, 2025,
Visiting Instructor, Jennifer Jarling Forese Writer in Residence

Andrew Moos, B.A. (New York University),  2023-
Postdoctoral Fellow in Writing

Lackson Daniel Mudenda, Ph.D. (Colorado State University, Umeå University [Sweden], Copperbelt University [Zambia], University of Zambia), 2023-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics

Erin Murphy, M.A. (North Carolina State, Texas at Austin), 2014-
Instructor of Cinema Studies

Changningphaabi Namoijam, Ph.D. (Christ University [India], Indian Institute of Technology, Texas A&M), 2022-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Sanval Nasim ’08, Ph.D. (Colby, California at Riverside), 2022-
Assistant Professor of Economics

Lindsey Nelson, M.B.A. (Thomas College), 2018-
Faculty Member without Rank: Registrar

Mouhamedoul Amine Niang, Ph.D. (Gaston Berger [Senegal], East Tennessee State, Wisconsin at Madison), 2009-
Associate Professor of French

Xi Ning, Ph.D. (University of North Carolina, Central South University [China], Changsha University of Science and Technology [China]), 2023-
Assistant Professor of Statistics

Suegene Noh, Ph.D. (Connecticut), 2017-
Associate Professor of Biology

Kristen M. Nolting, Ph.D. (University of Evansville, Michigan State, University of Connecticut), 2024-
Assistant Professor of Biology

Ana Noriega, M.L.I.S. (CUNY, New School), 2014-
Faculty Librarian: Assistant Director for Collections Management

Laura Nüffer, Ph.D. (Bryn Mawr, University of Pennsylvania), 2019-
Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies

Steven R. Nuss, Ph.D. (Wisconsin at Madison, CUNY), February 1996-
Associate Professor of Music

Philip Nyhus, M.A. ’20, Ph.D. (St. Olaf, Wisconsin at Madison), 1999-2001; 2004-
Elizabeth and Lee Ainslee Professor of Environmental Studies

Liam O’Brien, M.A. ’20, Ph.D. (Colorado School of Mines, Harvard), 2003-
Professor of Statistics

Kerill N. O’Neill, M.A. ’19, Ph.D. (Trinity [Dublin, Ireland], Cornell), 1992-
Julian D. Taylor Professor of Classics; Director, Center for the Arts and Humanities, 2013-2021

Alejandra Ortiz, Ph.D. (Wellesley, MIT), 2019-
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies

Stephanie Owen, Ph.D. (University of Michigan) 2021-
Assistant Professor of Economics

Bonnie Paige, M.L.I.S. (University of British Columbia), 2017-
Faculty Librarian: Research and Development

Adrianna M. Paliyenko, M.A. ’04, Ph.D. (Boston University, North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 1989-
The Arnold Bernhard Professor of Arts and Humanities

Ronald F. Peck, Ph.D. (Linfield, Wisconsin), 2012-
Associate Professor of Biology

Keith R. Peterson, Ph.D. (Kent State, Louisiana State, DePaul), 2008-
Associate Professor of Philosophy

Jack Petok, Ph.D. (Rice University, Stanford University), 2024-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Quynh Pham, Ph.D. (Vassar, University of Minnesota), 2024-
Assistant Professor of Global Studies

Sherry Pineau Brown, Ph.D. (University of Maine, University of Denver), 2023-
Lecturer in Education/Coordinator of Teacher Education

Samantha Plasencia, Ph.D. (University of Illinois), 2020-
Assistant Professor of English

Veronique B. Plesch, M.A. ’08, Ph.D. (Swiss Maturite Federale [Switzerland], Geneva [Switzerland], Princeton), 1994-
Professor of Art

James Porter ’95, Ph.D. (Colby, Cornell), 2022-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Nichole Price, Ph.D. (University of California, Connecticut College), 2015-
Professor of Environmental Studies

Matthew T. Proto, Ed.D., (Yale, Wesleyan, North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 2015-
Faculty Member without Rank: Senior Vice President 

Darylyne M. Provost Cyr, M.L.S. (Trinity, Maryland at College Park), 2007-
Faculty Librarian: Assistant Director for Digital Initiatives

Farah Qureshi, Ph.D. (Warwick, Oxford, California at Irvine), 2022-
Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Tarja Raag, Ph.D. (Skidmore, Indiana), 1995-
Associate Professor of Psychology

Hector Ramos Flores, Ph.D. (Rollins College, University of Minnesota), 2019-
Assistant Professor of Spanish

Evan D. Randles, Ph.D. (Cornell), 2017-
Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Maple J. Razsa, M.A .’24, Ph.D. (Vassar, Harvard), 2007-
Professor of Global Studies

Adam J. Reeb, M.S. (US Sports Academy, St. Louis), 2018-
Faculty Head Coach

Erin Reeves, M.S. (Fairfield University), 2022-
Faculty Head Coach

Joseph R. Reisert, M.A. ’19, Ph.D. (Princeton, Harvard), 1997-
Professor of Government and Christian A. Johnson Professor of Integrative Liberal Learning

Erin N. Rhodes (Earlham, Southern Connecticut State), 2014-
Faculty Librarian: Archives Education 

Kevin P. Rice ’96, Ph.D. (Colby, Wisconsin at Madison), 2005-
Associate Professor of Chemistry

Christopher Richards, Ph.D. (New York University, Bard), 2024-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art

Gianluca Rizzo, Ph.D. (Bologna [Italy], California at Los Angeles), 2013-
Paul D. and Marilyn Paganucci Associate Professor of Italian Language and Literature

Kenneth A. Rodman, M.A. ’98, Ph.D. (Brandeis, MIT), 1989-
William R. Cotter Distinguished Teaching Professor of Government

Veronica Romero ’09, Ph.D. (Colby, University of Cincinnati), 2019-
Assistant Professor of Psychology

Garry Rosenblum, M.L.I.S. (University of California-Los Angeles), 2024-
Faculty Librarian: Visual and Interdisciplinary Arts

Onnesha Roychoudhuri, M.F.A. (San Francisco State University, Bard College), 2023-
Assistant Professor of English (Creative Writing)

Elizabeth H. Sagaser, Ph.D. (Brown, Brandeis), 1994-
Associate Professor of English

Laura Saltz, Ph.D. (Chicago, Yale), 2001-
Associate Professor of American Studies

Benjamin Scharadin, Ph.D. (Franklin and Marshall, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Pennsylvania State University), 2019
Assistant Professor of Economics

Raffael M. Scheck, M.A. ’06, Ph.D. (Kantonsschule Wettingen [Switzerland], Zurich [Switzerland], Brandeis), 1994-
The John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History

Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Ph.D. (Yale, Minnesota), 2022-
Associate Professor of English

James Carl Scott, Ph.D. (Macalester, California at Berkeley), 2009-
Associate Professor of Statistics

Ekaterina Seregina, Ph.D. (National Research University Higher School of Economics [Russia], University of California, Riverside), 2021-
Douglas Assistant Professor of Economics and Finance

Elizabeth Seto, Ph.D. (Texas A&M), 2017-
Assistant Professor of Psychology

Mohammad Shabangu, Ph.D. (Rhodes University [South Africa], Stellenbosch University [South Africa]), 2019-
Assistant Professor of English

Gwyneth Shanks, Ph.D. (Macalester, New York University, California at Los Angeles), 2019-
Assistant Professor of Performance, Theater, and Dance

Daniel M. Shea, M.A. ’12, Ph.D. (West Florida, SUNY at Oswego, SUNY at Albany), 2012-
Director of Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement 2012-2017; Professor of Government

Tanya R. Sheehan, M.A. ’19, Ph.D. (Georgetown, Brown), 2013-
Ellerton M. and Edith K. Jette Professor of Art 

Erin S. Sheets, Ph.D. (Duke, Colorado at Boulder), 2010-
Associate Professor of Psychology

Stacey Sheriff, Ph.D. (Dartmouth, Penn State), 2019-
Associate Professor and Director of Writing

J.C. Sibara, Ph.D. (Swarthmore, Southern California), 2014-
Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Nikky-Guninder K. Singh, M.A. ’99, Ph.D. (Wellesley, Pennsylvania, Temple), 1986-
Crawford Family Professor of Religion

James R. Siodla, Ph.D. (California State at Chico, California at Irvine), 2013-
Associate Professor of Economics

Kevin Smith, J.D., M.L.I.S. (Capital University, Kent State, Yale, Hamilton), 2022-
Michael and Eugenia Wormser Director of the Colby Libraries

Henry Snow, B.A. (Brandeis University), 2023-
Visiting Assistant Professor of History

Michael Solomon, Ph.D. (Georgia, Alabama), 2022-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics

Kerry Sonia, Ph.D. (Brown University), 2020-
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

Christopher J. Soto, M.A. ’22, Ph.D. (Harvard, California at Berkeley), January 2009-
Professor of Psychology

Debra A. Spark, M.A. ’03, M.F.A.1 (Yale, Iowa), 1995-
Zacamy Professor of English 

Emmalouise St. Amand, Ph.D. (Ithaca College, University of Miami, Eastman School of Music), 2024-
Assistant Professor of Music

Stewart M. Stokes, M.A. (Massachusetts at Amherst, Trinity), 2000-
Faculty Head Coach

Damien B. Strahorn ’02, B.A. (Colby), 2011-
Faculty Head Coach

Katherine M. Stubbs, Ph.D. (Swarthmore, Duke), 1996-
Associate Professor of English

Walter A. Sullivan, Ph.D. (Concord, Virginia Tech, Wyoming), 2007-
The Whipple-Coddington Associate Professor of Geology

Takahiro Suzuki, M.F.A. (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University of Virginia), 2023-
Assistant Professor of Art

Dyani Johns Taff, Ph.D. (Skidmore, University of California, Davis), 2021-
Assistant Professor of English

Yiqi “Annie” Tang, M.A. (North Carolina State University, Davidson College), 2023-
Assistant Professor of Statistics

Duncan A. Tate, M.A. ’06, Ph.D. (Oxford [England]), 1992-
Professor of Physics

Winifred L. Tate, M.A .’24, Ph.D. (Wesleyan, New York University), 2008-
Professor of Anthropology

James Taylor, Ph.D. (Harvard), 2021-
Assistant Professor of Classics

Larissa J. Taylor, M.A. ’05, Ph.D. (Harvard, Brown), 1994-
Professor of History

Scott A. Taylor, M.A. ’22, Ph.D. (Gordon, Pennsylvania State, California at Santa Barbara), 2008-2009, 2010-
Professor of Mathematics

Stephanie R. Taylor, M.A .’24, Ph.D. (Gordon, California at Santa Barbara), 2008-
Professor of Computer Science

Dasan M. Thamattoor, M.A. ’12, Ph.D. (Government Arts and Science [India], Karnatak [India], Princeton), 1999-
Warren Merrill Professor in Chemistry and Natural History

Elaine S. Thielstrom,  M.L.I.S. (Washington, San Jose State), 2013-
Faculty Librarian: Performing and Narrative Arts

Sonja M. Thomas, Ph.D. (Minnesota, New York University, Rutgers), 2012-
Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Yee Mon Thu, Ph.D. (Grinnell, Vanderbilt), 2022-
Assistant Professor of Biology

James C. Thurston, M.F.A. (Ohio Wesleyan, Northwestern), 1988-
Associate Professor of Performance, Theater, and Dance

Andrea R. Tilden, Ph.D. (Alma, Oklahoma), 1999-
Leslie Brainerd Arey Associate Professor of Biosciences

John P. Turner, Ph.D. (Furman, Michigan at Ann Arbor), 2006-
Associate Professor of History

Anna Tybinko, Ph.D. (Earlham College, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Duke University), 2024-
Assistant Professor of Spanish

Holley H. Tyng, B.A. (Providence College), 2017-
Faculty Head Coach

Joshua D. Urich, Ph.D. (University of Texas at Austin, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Northwestern), 2023-
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

Arnout H.C. van der Meer, Ph.D. (SUNY at Albany), 2014-
Associate Professor of History

Johanna van Oers, Ph.D. (Leiden, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam [Netherlands]), 2017-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology

Toni Veneri, Ph.D. (University of North Carolina, University of Trieste), 2024-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian

Andreas Waldkirch, M.A. ’18, Ph.D. (Tuebingen [Germany], Boston College), 2005-
Mitchell Family Professor of Economics

Christopher Walker, Ph.D., J.D. (California at Santa Barbara, Columbia), 2020-
Assistant Professor of English

Chaoran Wang, Ph.D. (Nanjing Normal University [China], Indiana University Bloomington), 2021-
Multilingual Writing Specialist and Assistant Professor of Writing

Fang Wang, Ph.D. (Wuhan [China], Hubei [China], Minnesota), 2016-
Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies

Robert S. Weisbrot, M.A. ’90, Ph.D. (Brandeis, Harvard), 1980-
Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Teaching Professor of History

Ankeney Weitz, M.A. ’12, Ph.D. (Cornell, Kansas), 1998-
Ziskind Professor of East Asian Studies and Art

Bess Welden, M.F.A. (National Theater Conservatory), 2019-
Lecturer of Performance, Theater, and Dance

Ashton Wesner, Ph.D. (Pomona College, University of California, Berkeley), 2021-
Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Society

Arisa A. White, M.F.A. (Massachusetts, Amherst), 2018-
Associate Professor of English (Creative Writing)

Bretton Jessica White, Ph.D. (Amherst, Pennsylvania State, Wisconsin at Madison), 2011-
Associate Professor of Spanish

Jerzy A. Wieczorek, Ph.D. (Portland State, Oregon, Carnegie Mellon), 2018-
Professor of Statistics

Hannen Wolfe, Ph.D. (Bennington, California at Santa Barbara), 2019-
Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Jesse J. Woods, B.A. (Wheaton), 2019-
Faculty Head Coach

David Wright, Ph.D. (Rutgers University, University of Arizona, College of the Holy Cross), 2024-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics

Steven James Wurtzler, Ph.D. (Wisconsin at Madison, Iowa, Columbia), 2010-
Associate Professor of Cinema Studies

Gloria Xiong, Ph.D. (Mount Holyoke, Cornell), 2024-
Assistant Professor of Government

Yaojue Xu, Ph.D., (University of California-Riverside), 2023-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics

Jennifer A. Yoder, M.A. ’11, Ph.D. (Akron, Maryland), 1996-
Robert E. Diamond Professor of Government and Global Studies

Lauren Yoshizawa, E.D. (Swarthmore, Stanford, Harvard), 2020-
Assistant Professor of Education

Nora E. Youngs, Ph.D. (Smith, Nebraska at Lincoln), 2016-
Associate Professor of Mathematics

Javier Zapata Claveria, Ph.D. (University of Minnesota, Universidad Complutense [Spain]), 2023-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish

Natalie K. Zelensky, Ph.D. (Northwestern), 2012-
Associate Professor of Music

Hong Zhang, M.A. ’23, Ph.D. (Huazhong Normal [China], Wuhan [China], Columbia), 1995-1999, 2000-
Professor of East Asian Studies