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

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

Chair

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: 305 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

Sarah Berry

Visiting Assistant Professor of English (2008)

Ph.D. Syracuse University, 2008
M.A. Syracuse University, 2000
B.S. Cornell University, 1996

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Telephone: 3359
Office: 210 Demarest 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

Claudette Columbus

Professor of English Emeritus (1969)

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
M.A., Columbia
B.A., Bucknell

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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

Associate 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 (2007-2010) (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: 310 Trinity 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

Emeritus 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. Spanish American Literature. 2006.
M.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Spanish American Literature. 2002.
B.A., The Evergreen State College, Olympia Washington. 1996.

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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

Karen Frost-Arnold

Assistant Professor of Philosophy (2009)

Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D., 2008
Wellesley College, B.A. with Honors in Philosophy and Biology, 1999

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Telephone: 4525
Office: 308 Demarest Hall

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, Académié 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: 3347

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

Jessica Hayes-Conroy

Assistant Professor of Women's Studies (2011)

Ph.D. Penn State University, 2009 (Geography and Women's Studies)
M.A. University of Vermont, 2005 (Geography)
B.A. Bryn Mawr College, 2003 (The Growth and Structure of Cities)

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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

Associate 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

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

Charity Lofthouse

Instructor of Music (2011)

Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)
B.M., Oberlin College Conservatory of Music

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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: 203 Houghton House

Susanne E. McNally

Dean of William Smith (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

Carol Oberbrunner

Assistant Professor of Philosophy (1999)

Ph.D., Syracuse
M.A., Michigan
B.A., Swarthmore

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Telephone: 3381
Office: 7 Delancey

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

Scholar in Residence (2003)

Ph.D., Vrije Universiteit, 1988

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Telephone: 3187
Office: 308 Smith Hall

Michele Polak

Assistant Professor of Writing/Rhetoric (2008)

Ph.D., Miami University (2008)
M.A., Ohio University (2001)
B.A., Cleveland State University (1998)


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Telephone: 3181
Office: 205A Smith Hall

Elizabeth Ramey

Assistant Professor of Economics (2009)



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Office: 320 Stern Hall

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: 206C Gulick

Colby Ristow

Assistant Professor of History (2007)

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2008
M.A., Michigan State University, 1998
B.A., Michigan State University, 1996


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Telephone: 3136
Office: 106 Henry House

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

Leah R. Shafer

Assistant Professor (2008)

A.B. Cornell University 1994 M.A. Cornell University 1999 Ph.D. Cornell University 2008

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Telephone: 3951
Office: 307 Demarest Hall

Elizabeth Thornberry

Instructor of History (2011)

Ph.D., Stanford University, 2011
M.St., St. Cross College, Oxford University, 2005
B.A., Harvard College, 2004

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Office: Henry House

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

William T. Waller, Jr.

Professor of Economics (1982)

Ph.D., Economics, University of New Mexico, 1984
M.A., Economics, Western Michigan University, 1979
B.S., Economics, Western Michigan University, 1978

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Telephone: 3433
Office: 320 Stern Hall

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

Lisa Yoshikawa

Assistant Professor of History (2006)

Ph.D., Yale
M.Phil., Yale
M.A., Yale
B.A. Wellesley

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Telephone: 3578
Office: 206 Henry House

Jinghao Zhou

Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures (2001)

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

E-mail link | Personal Bio

Telephone: 3926
Office: 222 Stern Hall