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Endowed
Professorships |
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The Arango Professorship in
Latin American History, 2004 |
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The R. Stanton Avery
Professorships, 1994 |
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The David J. Baldwin
Professorship in Music, 1958 |
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The Henry Kirke White Bent
Professorship in Biology, 1915 |
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The Frank P. Brackett
Professorship in Astronomy, 1914 |
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The Commander Lingurn H.
Burkhead Professorship in Mathematics, 1980 |
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The Minnie B. Cairns Memorial
Professorship in Geology, 1971 |
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The Carnegie Professorship in
Chemistry, 1920 |
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The Warren Finney Day
Professorship in History, 1914 |
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The Robert C. Denison
Professorship in Philosophy, 1924 |
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The Charles and Henrietta
Johnson Detoy Professorship in American Government, 1976 |
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The John P. and Magdalena R.
Dexter Professorship in Botany, 1960 |
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The John P. and Magdalena R.
Dexter Professorship in Music, 1972 |
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The Roy Edward Disney Professorship in Creative Writing, 2001 |
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The Arthur M. Dole and Fanny M.
Dole Professorship in English, 1961 |
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The Joseph N. Fiske
Professorship in Mathematics, 1903 |
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The Yale B. and Lucille D.
Griffith Professorship in Modern Languages, 1993 |
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The Edwin F. and Margaret Hahn
Professorship in the Social Sciences, 1990 |
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The Willard George Halstead
Professorship in Biology, 1915 |
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The Martha N. Hathaway
Professorship and Dean of Women Fund, 1925 |
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The William Atwood Hilton
Professorship in Biology, 1967 |
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The Viola Horton Professorship
in Art History, 1976 |
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The James Irvine Foundation
Professorship in Economics, 1975 |
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The Frank S. Jennings
Professorship in English, 1936 |
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The William A. Johnson Memorial
Professorship in Government, 1959 |
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The Fletcher Jones Professorship
in Economics, 1980 |
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The W. M. Keck Distinguished
Service Professorships, 1985 |
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The Fred Krinsky Professorship
in Jewish Studies, 2000 |
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The Henry G. Lee Professorship
in English, 2004 |
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The E. Wilson Lyon Professorship
in the Humanities, 1969 |
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The Nancy M. Lyon Professorship
in Biblical History and Literature ,1909 |
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The Philip C. and Gertrude L.
McConnell Professorship in Human Relations, 1980 |
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The John Knox McLean
Professorship in Religion and Religious Studies, 1932 |
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The Loren Barton Babcock Miller
Professorship in Fine Arts, 1975 |
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The John Sutton Miner
Professorship in History, 1966 |
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The George E. and Nancy O. Moss
Professorship in Economics, 2000 |
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The Roscoe Moss
Professorship, 2006 |
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The Seeley W. Mudd Professorship
in Physics, 1925 |
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The Edwin Clarence Norton
Professorship in Classics, 1910 |
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The Everett S.
Olive Professorship, 2006 |
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The Osler-Loucks
Professorship in Science, 1981 |
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The Pacific Basin Institute
Presidency Fund, 1999 |
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The Edgar E. and Elizabeth S.
Pankey Professorship in Media Studies, 2001 |
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The Stephen M. Pauley M.D.
Endowed Professorship in Environmental Studies, 2000 |
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The Morris B. and Gladys S.
Pendleton Professorship in Economics, 1985 |
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The Sarah Rempel and Herbert S.
Rempel Directorship of the Pomona College Museum of Art,
2003 |
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The Sarah Rempel and Herbert S.
Rempel Professorship in Neuroscience, 2003 |
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The Dr. Mary Ann Vanderzyl
Reynolds Professorship in the Humanities, 2000 |
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The William Polk Russell
Professorship in Mathematics, 1982 |
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The Blanche and Frank R. Seaver
Professorship in Science, 1969 |
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The Henry E. Sheffield
Professorship in History, 1970 |
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The Edwin Sexton and Edna
Patrick Smith Professorship in Modern European Languages,
1961 |
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The Elden Smith Professorship in
Economics, 1966 |
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The H. Russell Smith
Professorship in International Relations, 1984 |
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The Henry Snyder Professorship
in Sociology, 1927 |
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The Phebe Estelle Spalding
Professorship in English, 1910 |
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The Peter W. Stanley
Professorship in Linguistics and Philosophy, 2003 |
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The Stedman-Sumner Professorship
in Economics, 1911 |
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The Richard Steele Professorship
in the Social Sciences, 1997 |
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The Harry S. and Madge Rice
Thatcher Professorship in Music, 1969 |
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The Harry S. and Madge Rice
Thatcher Professorship in Psychology, 1978 |
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The George Erving Thompson
Memorial Professorship in Government, 1979 |
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The Reuben C. and Eleanor
Winslow Memorial Professorship in Computer Science, 1975 |
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Professorship Holders |

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Jay David Atlas
Peter W. Stanley Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy
A.B., Amherst College
Ph.D., Princeton University
Expertise Areas: Cognitive Science; Linguistics;
Logic; Philosophy; Philosophy of Language; Philosophy of
Mind; Pragmatics of Language
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William P.
Banks
Edwin F. and Margaret Hahn Professor of Psychology
B.A., St. John's College
M.A., Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University
Expertise Areas: Attention; Psychology; Cognition;
Implicit Memory; Models of Memory; genocide and the problem
of evil; consciousness and cognition
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David W. Becker
John P. and Magdalena R. Dexter Professor of Botany and
Associate Professor of Biology
B.A., Oberlin College
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin
Expertise Areas: Plant Physiology; Photosynthesis;
Plant Biology; Environmental Stresses on Plants and their
Responses
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Eleanor P. Brown
James Irvine Foundation Professor of Economics
B.A., Pomona College
M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Expertise Areas: Economics; Federal Tax Policy;
Not-for-Profit Organizations; Personal Philanthropy; The
Market for Volunteer Labor; Charitable giving
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Kim B. Bruce
Reuben C. and Eleanor Winslow Memorial Professor of
Computer Science
B.A., Pomona College
M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Expertise Areas: Computer Science Education;
Programming Languages; Semantics and Pragmatics of Natural
Languages
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Everett L. Bull, Jr.
Osler-Loucks Professor of Science and Professor of
Computer Science
B.A., Pomona College
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Expertise Areas: Theory of Computation, Applications
of Logic to Computer Science; Computer Security
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John Raymond Buriel
Harry S. and Madge Rice Thatcher Professor of Psychology
and Professor of Chicano Studies
B.A., Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
Expertise Areas: Children Who Translate for Their
Parents; Multicultural Education; Chicano Psychology;
Cultural Psychology; Immigration and Sociocultural Change;
Latino Parents and Child Care
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Deborah Burke
W. M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and Professor
of Psychology
B.A., Barnard College
Ph.D., Columbia University
Expertise Areas: Aging and Cognition; Language and
Memory; Psychology (language and memory); Word Finding
Failures (tip of the tongue)
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Cecilia Conrad
Stedman-Sumner Professor of Economics
A.B., Wellesley College
A.M., Ph.D., Stanford University
Expertise Areas: Economics; Minority Women;
Distribution of Income; Science and Technology Labor Market;
Race and Economic Status; Local public expenditures; Urban
Economics
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Elizabeth H. Crighton
William A. Johnson Professor of Government and Professor
of Politics
B.A., Randolph-Macon Woman's College
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Expertise Areas: Comparative Gender Politics;
Comparative Ethnic Conflict and peacemaking; comparative
European politics
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N. Ann Davis
Philip C. and Gertrude L. McConnell Professor of Human Relations and Professor of
Philosophy
B.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Expertise Areas: Bioethics; Ethics; Evil; Morality;
Abortion Debate
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Oona
Eisenstadt
Fred Krinsky Professor in Jewish Studies and Assistant
Professor of Religious Studies
B.A., Ph.D., McMaster University
Expertise Areas: Contemporary continental philosophy;
Modern Jewish philosophy; Judaism and political theory;
children's literature
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David Elliott
H. Russell Smith Professor of International Relations and
Professor of Politics
B.A., Yale University
Ph.D., Cornell University
Expertise Areas: U.S. Foreign Policy; Vietnam War;
Asian Security Issues
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Judson
J. Emerick
Loren Barton Babcock Miller Professor of Fine Arts and
Professor of Art History
B.A., Hope College
M.A., University of Michigan
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Expertise Areas: Late Antique and Early Medieval art;
Hellenistic and Ancient Roman Imperial art; art and liturgy;
the history of art history
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Stephen A. Erickson
E. Wilson Lyon Professor of the Humanities and Professor
of Philosophy
B.A., St. Olaf College
M.A., Ph.D., Yale University
Expertise Areas: Heidegger; Philosophy; European
Thought; Crises in Contemporary Value Systems; The Future of
Human Spirituality
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Thomas E. Flaherty
The John P. and Magdalena R. Dexter Professor of Music
B.A., Brandeis University
M.A., M.M., State University of New York, Stony Brook
D.M.A., University of Southern California
Expertise Areas: Electronic Music; 20th Century Music
History and Theory
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Erica Flapan
Commander Lingurn H. Burkhead Professor of Mathematics
B.A., Hamilton College
M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Expertise Areas: Embedded Graphs; Knot Theory;
Topological Chemistry; Topology; 3-manifolds
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Leo J. Flynn
George Erving Thompson Memorial Professor of Government
and Professor of Politics
B.A., San Jose State University
M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Expertise Areas: Democracy; Criminal Justice; Media
and Politics; Legal Issues; American Politics; The U.S.
Constitution
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Lorn
S. Foster
Charles and Henrietta Johnson Detoy Professor of American
Government and Professor of Politics
B.A., California State University, Los Angeles
A.M., Ph.D., University of Illinois
Expertise Areas: Campaigns and Elections; Civil
Rights; Race and Power; Public Policy; Urban Politics;
American National Government; the Voting Rights Act
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Jennifer Friedlander
Edgar E. and Elizabeth S. Pankey Professor of Media
Studies and Assistant Professor of Art and Art History
B.A., Binghamton University
M.A. and Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Expertise Areas: Contemporary Art Controversies;
Cultural Studies; Film Theory; Psychoanalytic Theory |

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George L. Gorse
Viola Horton Professor of Art History
A.B., The Johns Hopkins University
M.A., Ph.D., Brown University
Expertise Areas: Art; History of Cities; Italian
Renaissance Art and Architecture; Italian Baroque Art and
Architecture; Medieval Art History; History of Cities,
Palaces, Villas and Gardens; History of Genoa |

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Sandy Grabiner
Joseph N. Fiske Professor of Mathematics
B.A., Rice University
Ph.D., Harvard University
Expertise Areas: Pure Mathematics, especially
functional analysis; Pure Mathematics, especially Analysis
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Fred
J. Grieman
Roscoe Moss Professor of Chemistry
B.A., University of California, Irvine
M.S., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Expertise Areas: Chemistry; Molecular Ion
Spectroscopy; Free-Jet Expansion Spectroscopy; Laser
Spectroscopy
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Jill S. Grigsby
Richard Steele Professor of Social Sciences and Professor
of Sociology
Sc.B., Brown University
Ph.D., Princeton University
Expertise Areas: Aging; Population; Family |

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Richard W. Hazlett
Stephen M. Pauley M.D. Professor of Environmental
Studies and Professor of Geology
B.A., Occidental College
A.M., Dartmouth College
Ph.D., University of Southern California
Expertise Areas: Geology; Mineralogy; Petrology;
Volcanoes
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Laura L. Mays Hoopes
Halstead-Bent Professor of Biology
A.B., Goucher College
Ph.D., Yale University
L.H.D, Goucher College
Expertise Areas: Gene Regulation; Molecular biology
of aging
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Kathleen Stewart Howe
Sarah Rempel and Herbert S. Rempel Director of the
Pomona College Museum of Art and Professor of Art History
B.S., Michigan State University
M.A., Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Expertise Areas: Art; Museums and Culture; History of
Graphic Arts; Photography and Visual Representation; History
of Photography and Printmaking; Photography and the Politics
of Visual Representation
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Jerry Irish
John Knox McLean Professor of Religion and Religious
Studies
B.A., Cornell University
B.D., Southern Methodist
University
Ph.D., Yale University
Expertise Areas: Religious Ethics; Feminist Theology;
God
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Karl G. Johnson
Sarah Rempel and Herbert S. Rempel Professor of
Neuroscience and Assistant Professor of Biology
B.A., Grinnell College
M.S., University of California, San Diego
Ph.D., Cambridge University
Expertise Areas: Biology; Molecular Biology;
Developmental Neurobiology; Developmental Biology; Axon
Guidance |

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Michael K. Kuehlwein
George E. and Nancy O. Moss Professor of Economics
B.A., Swarthmore College
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Expertise Areas: Altruism; Bequest Motive; Saving;
Estate Taxes; Gift Taxes; Consumer Spending
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James
D. Likens
Morris B. and Gladys S. Pendleton Professor of Economics
B.A., M.B.A., University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Expertise Areas: Credit Unions; Financial Services
Industry
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Michael D. McGaha
Yale B. and Lucille D. Griffith Professor of Modern
Languages
B.A., University of Dallas
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin
Expertise Areas: Cervantes; Spanish; Kabbalah;
Mysticism; Sephardic History and Literature; Medieval;
Renaissance; Theater
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Richard D. McKirahan, Jr.
Edwin Clarence Norton Professor of Classics, Professor of
Philosophy
A.B., University of California, Berkeley
B.A., M.A., University of Oxford
Ph.D., Harvard University
Expertise Areas: Ancient Greece; Greek Gods; Greek
Literature; Greek Language; Ancient Philosophy
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Catalin D. Mitescu
Seeley W. Mudd Professor of Physics
B.Eng., McGill University
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Expertise Areas: Computational and Statistical
Physics; Critical Phenomena; Electrical Network Analysis;
Fluid Dynamics; Fractal Networks; Thermodynamics; Properties
of Randomly Disordered Systems; Eastern Orthodox Church and
Faith
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Hans
C. Palmer
W. M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and Professor
of Economics
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Expertise Areas: Economics; Long-term Care; Care for
the Elderly; Comparative Economics
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William J. Peterson
Harry S. and Madge Rice Thatcher Professor of Music and
College Organist
B.M., B.A., Oberlin College
M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Expertise Areas: Nationalism and Music; Organ;
History of Western Music; History of French Music
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Frances K. Pohl
Dr. Mary Ann Vanderzyl Reynolds Professor of Humanities
and Professor of Art History
B.A., M.A., University of British Columbia
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Expertise Areas: Art and Politics; American Art;
Feminism
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Claudia Rankine
The Henry G. Lee Professor of English
B.A., Williams College
M.F.A., Columbia University
Expertise Areas: Creative Writing; Poetry |

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Arden
Reed
Arthur M. and Fanny M. Dole Professor of English
B.A., Wesleyan University
M.A., Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University
Expertise Areas: Image/Text Relations; Modernism;
Contemporary Art; English Romantic Literature; 19th-Century
French Culture |

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Gary N. Smith
Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics
B.A., Harvey Mudd College
Ph.D., Yale University
Expertise Areas: Economics; Statistics; Financial
Markets
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Frederick Sontag
Robert C. Denison Professor of Philosophy
B.A., Stanford University
M.A., Ph.D., Yale University
LL.D., College of Idaho
Expertise Areas: Existentialism; Metaphysics;
Philosophy of Religion; Philosophical Theology
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Bruce R. Telzer
Blanche and Frank R. Seaver Professor of Science and
Professor of Biology
B.A., State University of New York, Buffalo
M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Expertise Areas: Cell Biology; Intracellular
Motility; Biochemistry of Microtubules and Molecular Motors;
Mechanisms of Mitosis
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Miguel Tinker Salas
Arango Professor of Latin American History and Professor
of History and Chicano/a Studies
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Expertise Areas: Contemporary Venezuela; Oil,
Politics and Culture in Venezuela; Contemporary Mexican
Politics; Mexico in the 19th and 20th Centuries; Latin
American History; Chicanos/as and Latinos in the United
States; Chicano/a History; Latin American Immigration and
the Diaspora; Contemporary
Mexican Politics, Elections 2006 |
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Helena M. Wall
Warren Finney Day Professor of History and Director of
the Hart Institute for American History
B.A., Brandeis University
A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
Expertise Areas: Colonial and Revolutionary America;
American Social History; Early Modern European history
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David Foster Wallace
Roy Edward Disney Professor of Creative Writing
and Professor of English
A.B., Amherst College
M.F.A., University of Arizona
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Kenneth B. Wolf
John Sutton Miner Professor of History
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University
Expertise Areas: Christian Views of Islam; Medieval
Spain; Saints and the Idea of Sanctity
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Frank C. Wykoff
Elden Smith Professor of Economics
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Expertise Areas: Economics; Capital Measurement;
Econometrics; Macroeconomics
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Samuel
Hideo Yamashita
Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History
B.A., Macalester College
M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan
Expertise Areas: Asia; Confucianism; History;
Intellectual History; Japan; Japanese history; The Pacific
War; Traditional and modern Asian history
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