Etin Anwar
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies (2006)

Ph.D., SUNY Binghamton University
M.A., McGill University
B.A., State Institute for Islamic Studies

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Telephone: 3712
Office: 208 Demarest

Cerri Banks
Dean of William Smith College and Assistant Professor of Education (2005)



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Telephone: 3143
Office: 103A Merritt

Biman Basu
Associate Professor of English (1998)

Ph.D., University of Minnesota at Minneapolis
M.A., North Carolina State University at Raleigh
B.A., Jadavpur Univeristy

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Telephone: 3367
Office: 112 Demarest

Betty Bayer
Professor of Women's Studies (1992)

Ph.D., Carleton University
M.A., Carleton University
B.A., Carleton University

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Telephone: 3460
Office: 210 Demarest

Sheila K. Bennett
Professor of Sociology and Asian Languages and Cultures (1990)

Ph.D., North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A., Wellesley

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Telephone: 3145
Office: 208 Stern Hall

Lara C.W. Blanchard
Associate Professor of Art (2001)

Ph.D., Art History, University of Michigan
M.A., Art History, University of Michigan
B.A., Art History and Mathematics, College of William & Mary

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Telephone: 3893
Office: 208 Houghton House

Judith-Maria Buechler
Emerita Professor of Anthropology (1974)

Ph.D., McGill
M.A., Columbia
B.A., Barnard

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Rocco L. Capraro
Associate Dean, Hobart
Assistant Professor of History (1984)

Ph.D., Washington University
M.A., Washington University
B.A. Colgate

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Telephone: 3300
Office: Smith Hall

Elena Ciletti
Professor of Art (1973)

Ph.D., University of Chicago
M.A., University of Chicago
B.A., Pennsylvania State University

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Telephone: 3485
Office: 207 Houghton House

Melanie Conroy-Goldman
Associate Professor of English (2002)

M.F.A., Oregon
B.A., Columbia (summa cum laude)

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Telephone: 3374
Office: 111 Demarest

Anna Creadick
Assistant Professor of English (2001)

Ph.D., English/American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2002
M.A., American Studies, Boston College, 1994
B.S., English and Education, Appalachian State University, 1991

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Telephone: 3871
Office: 113 Demarest

Donna Davenport
Professor of Dance/Associate Dean of Faculty (1990)

Ed.D., Dance Education, Temple University
M.Ed., Dance Education, Temple University
B.F.A., Dance, University of Massachusetts
B.A., Psychology, University of Massachusetts

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Telephone: 3760
Office: Coxe Hall

Jodi Dean
Professor of Political Science. (1993)

Ph.D., Columbia
M.A., Columbia
B.A., Princeton

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Telephone: 3425
Office: 116 Stern Hall

Iva E. Deutchman
Professor of Political Science (1987)

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
B.A., Hofstra University

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Telephone: 3429
Office: 114 Stern Hall

Richard Dillon
Professor of Anthropology (1976)

Ph.D., Pennsylvania
B.A., California, Berkeley

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Telephone: 3447
Office: 211 Stern Hall

Laurence Erussard
Associate Professor of English (2003)

Ph.D. University of Murcia, 2001
M.A., SUNY New Paltz, 1992
B.A., SUNY New Paltz, 1988

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Telephone: 3363
Office: 109 Demarest

Marie-France Etienne
Professor of French and Francophone Studies (1979)

Ph.D., Rochester
M.A., Rochester
Certificate d’Etudes Littéraires Générales, Aix en Provence
B.A., Aix

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Telephone: 3792
Office: 301 Smith Hall

May Farnsworth
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Hispanic Studies (2007)

Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
M.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
B.A., Evergreen State College

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Telephone: 3785
Office: 306 Smith Hall

Maureen Flynn
Professor of History (1992)

Ph.D., Wisconsin at Madison
M.A., Wisconsin at Madison
B.A., Wisconsin at Madison

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Telephone: 3582
Office: 205 Henry House

Laura Free
Assistant Professor of History (2005)

Ph.D., Cornell University
M.A., Cornell University
M.A., Binghamton University
B.A., Grinnell College

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Telephone: 3554
Office: 109 Henry House

Catherine Gallouet
Professor of French and Francophone Studies (1986)

Ph.D., Rutgers University
M.A., Rutgers University
B.A., Hope, cum laude
Bacalauréat, with honors, Académie de Grenoble

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Telephone: 3795
Office: 310 Smith Hall

Mary Gerhart
Professor of Religious Studies Emerita (1972)

Ph.D. Religion and Literature, University of Chicago
M.A. Theology and Literature, University of Chicago
M.A. English, University of Missouri
B.A. English and Mathematics, College of St. Teresa

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Telephone: 3372

Christopher E. Gunn
Professor of Economics (1978)

Ph.D., Cornell
M.B.A., Cornell
Lic., Louvain
B.S., Cornell

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Telephone: 3416
Office: 319 Stern Hall

Jack D. Harris
Professor of Sociology (1974)

Ph.D., Pennsylvania
M.A., Pennsylvania
B.A., Tulane

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Telephone: 3439
Office: 215 Stern Hall

Susan Henking
Professor of Religious Studies (1988)

Ph.D., University of Chicago
M.A., University of Chicago
B.A., Duke University

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Telephone: 3889
Office: 205 Demarest

Leah Himmelhoch
Assistant Professor of Classics (2003)

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1997
M.A., University of Texas at Austin, 1990
B.A., Yale University, 1988

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Telephone: 3907
Office: 311 Smith Hall

Marilyn Jimenez
Associate Professor of African Studies (1984)

Ph.D., Columbia
M. Phil., Columbia
M.A., Columbia
B.A., Barnard

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Telephone: 3791
Office: 120 Stern Hall

Cedric Johnson
Associate Professor of Political Science (2001)

Ph.D., Government and Politics, University of Maryland-College Park
M.A., Government and Politics, University of Maryland-College Park
M.A., Black Studies, The Ohio State University
B.A., Political Science, Southern University-Baton Rouge


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Telephone: 3434
Office: 119 Stern Hall

George Joseph
Professor of French and Francophone Studies (1986)

Ph.D., Indiana
M.A., Indiana
B.A., Oberlin Certificat des literatures d'Afrique et de Madagascar from the University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar, in Senegal

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Telephone: 3794
Office: 216 Smith Hall

Jennie Lightweis-Goff
Assistant Professor of Women (2009)

Ph.D., English, University of Rochester, 2009
Certificate in Gender and Women's Studies, 2009
Certificate in African and African American Studies, 2009
M.A., English, University of Rochester, 2007
Certificate, Cornell School of Criticism and Theory, 2006
M.A., Literature, Clemson University, 2003
B.A., English, University of South Carolina, 2001

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Telephone: 3911
Office: DM 205

Elisabeth Lyon
Associate Professor of English (1988)

Ph.D., California at Berkeley
M.A., New York
B.A., California at Berkeley

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Telephone: 3357
Office: 105 Demarest

Brenda Maiale
Assistant Professor of Anthropology (2006)

Ph.D., Cornell University, 2008
M.A., Cornell University, 2002
A.B., Vassar College, 1998

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Telephone: 3443
Office: 218 Stern Hall

Patricia Mathews
Professor of Art (2007)



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Telephone: 3048
Office: 106 Houghton House

Susanne E. McNally    Chair
Professor of History (1972)

Ph.D., SUNY Binghamton
M.A., Claremont
B.A., Douglass

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Telephone: 3585
Office: 201 Henry House

Renee Monson
Associate Professor of Sociology (1998)

Ph.D., Wisconsin at Madison
M.A., Minnesota
B.A., Oberlin

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Telephone: 3426
Office: 220 Stern Hall

Paul Passavant
Associate Professor of Political Science (1997)

Ph.D., Wisconsin at Madison
M.A., Wisconsin at Madison
B.A., Michigan

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Telephone: 3431
Office: 118 Stern Hall

Eric Patterson
Associate Professor of English and American Studies (1976)

Ph.D. Yale
M.Phil. Yale
M.A. Yale
A.B. Amherst summa cum laude

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Telephone: 3356
Office: 104 Demarest

Thelma Pinto
Assistant Professor (2003)

Ph.D., Vrije Universiteit, 1988

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Telephone: 3187
Office: 308 Smith Hall

Alison Redick
Assistant Professor of Women's Studies (2005)

Ph.D. American Studies, distinction, New York University, 2004
Dissertation: "American History XY: The Medical Treatment of Intersex, 1916-1955."
B.A. Art History, Oberlin College, High Honors

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Telephone: 3373
Office: 204 Demarest

Craig Rimmerman
Professor of Public Policy and Political Science (1986)

Ph.D., Ohio State
M.A., Ohio State
B.A., Miami

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Telephone: 3435
Office: 308 Stern Hall

Mary Salibrici
Associate Dean of the First-Year Seminar Program/Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric (2000)

Ph.D., Syracuse University
M.A., John Carroll
B.A., Mercyhurst College

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Telephone: 3462
Office: 29A Coxe Hall

Richard Salter
Associate Professor of Religious Studies (1998)

Ph.D., University of Chicago
M.A., University of Chicago
B.A., Hobart College

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Telephone: 3370
Office: 207 Demarest

Michael Tinkler
Associate Professor of Art (1999)

Ph.D., Emory University
B.A., Rice University

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Telephone: 3489
Office: 211 Houghton House

Cadence Whittier
Associate Professor of Dance (2000)

B.F.A., Ballet: Teaching and Performance, University of Utah
M.F.A., Ballet: Teaching and Choreography, University of Utah
CLMA, Certification in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis, Integrated Movement Studies


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Telephone: 3949
Office: Trinity 311

Cynthia J. Williams
Professor of Dance/William R. Kenan Jr. Professor (1986)

B.F.A. (Dance), University of Utah
B.S. (Psychology), University of Utah
M.F.A. (Dance), Connecticut College

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Telephone: 3495
Office: 200 Winn Seeley Gymnasium

Jinghao Zhou
Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures (2001)

Ph.D., Baylor University
M.Div., Union Theological Seminary
M.A., Wuhan University
B.A., Nanjing University

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Telephone: 3926
Office: 222 Stern Hall