Faculty


Staff

Nancy Lewandowski

Academic Department Assistant

Associated Faculty

Virginia Anderson, Associate Professor of Theater, Public Health Pathway Coordinator

Virginia Anderson

Associate Professor of Theater, Public Health Pathway Coordinator

The AIDS Epidemic in Theater and Film • Theater History • Musical Theater • Theater and Social Change • Theater for Young Audiences • Dramaturgy • Performance Studies


Catherine Benoit, Professor of Anthropology

Catherine Benoit

Professor of Anthropology

Areas of interest: Haiti, St. Martin, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, European overseas territories, Union of Comoros, Mayotte • Necropolitics, borders, (im)mobilities, maritime cemeteries • Garden and Landscape studies


Sunil Bhatia, Lucy Marsh Haskell '19 Professor of Human Development, Chair of the Department of Human Development

Sunil Bhatia

Lucy Marsh Haskell '19 Professor of Human Development, Chair of the Department of Human Development

Racial, ethnic and migrant identity in global and transnational cultures • Cultural psychology and narrative theory • Ethnography and qualitative methods


MaryAnne Borrelli, Susan Eckert Lynch '62 Professor of Government

MaryAnne Borrelli

Susan Eckert Lynch '62 Professor of Government

United States politics and government • Gender and United States politics • The Presidency • Congress


Ana Lilia Campos Manzo, Associate Professor of Sociology

Ana Lilia Campos Manzo

Associate Professor of Sociology

Law and Society • Critical Childhood • Sociology of Health


Jeffrey Cole, Professor of Anthropology

Jeffrey Cole

Professor of Anthropology

North America and Europe • Food and Agriculture • Migration • Race and Ethnicity • Labor Markets



Karen Gonzalez Rice, Associate Professor of Art History

Karen Gonzalez Rice

Associate Professor of Art History

Contemporary art (1945-present) • Experimental art • Performance studies • Contemporary art and the body • American studies; contemporary art in America • Religion in contemporary art • Trauma studies • Art and ethics


Cherise A. Harris, Associate Professor of Sociology, Director of Africana Studies

Cherise A. Harris

Associate Professor of Sociology, Director of Africana Studies

Race, class and gender • Marriage and the family • Social psychology


Catherine McNicol Stock, Barbara Zaccheo Kohn '72 Professor of History

Catherine McNicol Stock

Barbara Zaccheo Kohn '72 Professor of History

Rural radicalism, domestic terrorism • Social, cultural and political history of the United States, 1877 to present, including the American West • Rural America • The Great Depression and the New Deal


Michelle Neely, Associate Professor of English,, Director of American Studies

Michelle Neely

Associate Professor of English,, Director of American Studies

American literature to 1900 • American Studies • African American Literature • Environmental Humanities • Food Studies • Animal Studies • Feminist Theory



Julie Rivkin, Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of American Studies
, Professor of English

Julie Rivkin

Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of American Studies , Professor of English

American literature • Gender studies and contemporary literature • Literary theory • Henry James


Rosemarie Roberts, Dayton Professor of Dance, Bodies/Embodiment Pathway Coordinator

Rosemarie Roberts

Dayton Professor of Dance, Bodies/Embodiment Pathway Coordinator

Body, knowledge, power and difference • Dance studies • Intersection of arts and social justice in education • Social psychology of performance and dance


Anna Vallye, Associate Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies

Anna Vallye

Associate Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies

(On Sabbatical 2023-2024 Academic Year)

History of 20th century architecture • History of urban planning • Interwar avant-garde art and architecture


Larry Vogel, Brigida Pacchiani Ardenghi Professor of Philosophy

Larry Vogel

Brigida Pacchiani Ardenghi Professor of Philosophy

Ethics • Applied ethics • Phenomenology and existentialism


James Dale Wilson, Professor of Music, Chair of the Music Department

James Dale Wilson

Professor of Music, Chair of the Music Department

Ethnomusicology • Jazz Composition • Guangdong ritual and ritual music • Southeast Chinese perspectives on migration and transnationalism