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Associated Five College Graduate Faculty

 

Lorna M. Peterson, Five College Coordinator, B.A., Buffalo, 1961; Ph.D., Yale, 1973.


Amherst College

Elizabeth J. Aries, Professor of Psychology, B.A., Michigan, 1969; M.A., Harvard, 1971; Ph.D., 1973.

Hadley P. Arkes, Professor of Political Science, B.A., Illinois, 1962; Ph.D., Chicago, 1967.

Lawrence Alan Babb, Professor of Anthropology and Asian Languages and Civilizations, B.A., Michigan, 1963; M.A., Rochester, 1965; Ph.D., 1969.

Amrita Basu, Professor of Political Science and Women’s and Gender Studies, B.A., Cornell, 1975; Ph.D., Columbia, 1984.

Robert J. Bezucha, Professor of History, B.A., Lawrence University, 1962; M.A., Michigan, 1963; Ph.D., 1968.

Ute Brandes, Professor of German, B.A., New Hampshire, 1972; M.A., 1974; Ph.D., Harvard, 1982.

Mavis C. Campbell, Emeritus Professor of History, B.S., University of London, 1958; M.S., 1960; Ph.D., 1971.

John T. Cheney, Professor of Geology, B.A., Montana, 1970; M.A., 1972; Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1975.

Fredric L. Cheyette, Emeritus Professor of History, A.B., Princeton, 1953; M.A., Harvard, 1954; Ph.D., 1959.

Howell D. Chickering, Jr., Professor of English, B.A., Dartmouth College, 1959; Ph.D., Indiana, 1965.

Francis G. Couvares, Professor of History and American Studies, B.A., Pittsburgh, 1969; M.A., Michigan, 1973; Ph.D., 1980.

David A. Cox, Professor of Mathematics, B.A., Rice University, 1970; Ph.D., Princeton, 1975.

Peter D. Crowley, Professor of Geology, B.Sc., McGill University, 1979; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985.

Jan E. Dizard, Professor of Sociology, B.A., Minnesota, 1962; M.A., Chicago, 1964; Ph.D., 1967.

Thomas L. Dumm, Professor of Political Science, B.A., Pennsylvania State, 1976; M.A., 1978; Ph.D., Cornell, 1984.

Richard D. Fink, Professor of Chemistry, A.B., Harvard, 1958; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1962.

Alexander George, Professor of Philosophy, B.A., Columbia College, 1979; M.A., Harvard, 1983; Ph.D., 1986.

Stephen A. George, Professor of Biology (Neuroscience), B.S., University of British Columbia, 1964; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1970.

David E. Hansen, Professor of Chemistry, Sc.B., Brown, 1979; Ph.D., Harvard, 1986.

Tekla A. Harms, Professor of Geology, A.B., Bryn Mawr, 1977; M.Sc., Queen’s University, 1982; Ph.D., Arizona, 1986.

Robert C. Hilborn, Professor of Physics, B.A., Lehigh, 1966; M.A., Harvard, 1967; Ph.D., 1971.

Jerome L. Himmelstein, Professor of Sociology, B.A., Columbia, 1970; M.A., California at Berkeley, 1972; Ph.D., 1979.

Margaret R. Hunt, Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies, A.B., Radcliffe, 1976; M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School, 1978; Ph.D., New York University, 1986.

Larry B. Hunter, Professor of Physics, B.A., Columbia, 1974; M.A., California at Berkeley, 1978; Ph.D., 1981.

Nassar Hussain, Assistant Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, B.A. Yale, 1988; M.S., California at Berkeley, 1990; Ph.D., 1995.

Kannan Jagannathan, Professor of Physics, B.Sc., Loyola, 1973; M.Sc., Indian Institute of Technology, 1975; M.A., Rochester, 1977; Ph.D., 1980.

Thomas R. Kearns, Professor of Philosophy and Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought,  A.B., Illinois, 1959; LL.B., California at Berkeley, 1962; M.A., 1964; Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1968.

Ronald A. Lembo, Professor of Sociology, B.A., Massachusetts at Boston, 1974; M.A., California at Santa Barbara, 1980; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 1989.

Anna M. Martini, Associate Professor of Geology, B.A., Colgate, 1986; M.S., Syracuse, 1992; Ph.D., Michigan, 1997.

Barry F. O’Connell, Professor of English, B.A., Harvard College, 1966; M.A., Harvard University, 1972; Ph.D., 1976.

Rose R. Olver, Professor of Psychology and Women’s and Gender Studies, B.A., Swarthmore, 1958; Ph.D., Radcliffe, 1962.

Andrew C. Parker, Professor of English, B.A., Princeton, 1975; M.A., 1977; Ph.D., Chicago, 1987.

Dale E. Peterson, Professor of English and Russian, B.A., Harvard, 1963; M.A., Yale, 1965; Ph.D., 1971.

Dominic Louis Poccia, Professor of Biology, B.S., Union College, 1967; A.M., 1968; Ph.D., Harvard, 1971.

David I. Ratner, Professor of Biology, B.S., Yale; M.S., 1968; Ph.D., Harvard, 1975.

Christian Rogowski, Professor of German, B.A., Mannheim, 1980; M.A., London, 1981; Ph.D., Harvard, 1988.

John W. Servos, Professor of History, A.B., Columbia, 1972; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1979.

Ilan Stavans, Professor of Spanish, B.A., Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, 1984; M.A., Columbia, 1988; M.Phil., 1989; Ph.D., 1990.

Kevin M. Sweeney, Professor of History and American Studies, B.A., Williams, 1972; M.A., Yale, 1973; Ph.D., 1986.

Jane A. Taubman, Professor of Russian, B.A., Radcliffe, 1964; M.A., Yale, 1968; Ph.D., 1972.

Wako Tawa, Professor of Asian Languages and Civilizations, B.A., New York at Buffalo, 1971; M.A., International Christian University, 1975; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State, 1986.

Ethan J. Temeles, Associate Professor of Biology, A.B., Cornell, 1978; M.Sc., Louisiana State, 1980; Ph.D., California at Davis, 1987.

Ronald S. Tiersky, Professor of Political Science, B.A., Illinois, 1966; M.A., 1971; Ph.D., Columbia, 1972.

Robert C. Townsend, Professor of English, B.A., Princeton, 1957; M.A., Cambridge, 1959; Ph.D., Harvard, 1962.

Jonathan M. Vogel, Professor of Philosophy, B.A., Yale, 1976; Ph.D., 1986.

Patrick Williamson, Professor of Biology, B.A., Beloit College, 1970; M.A., Harvard, 1971; Ph.D., 1974.

Wendy Woodson, Professor of Theater and Dance, B.A., George Washington, 1969; M.A., 1976.

Arthur Guy Zajonc, Professor of Physics, B.S.E., Michigan, 1971; M.S., 1973; Ph.D., 1976.


Hampshire College

Dulasiri Amarasiriwardena, Professor of Chemistry, B.Sc., Ceylon, 1975; M.Phil., Sri Lanka, 1978; Ph.D., North Carolina State, 1987.

Carollee Bengelsdorf, Professor of Politics, B.A., Cornell, 1966; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985.

Merle Bruno, Professor of Biology, B.S., Syracuse, 1960; M.A., Harvard, 1963; Ph.D., 1971.

Margaret Cerullo, Professor of Sociology and Feminist Studies, B.A., Pennsylvania, 1970; M.A., Brandeis, 1977.

Raymond P. Coppinger, Emeritus Professor of Biology, B.A., Boston, 1959; M.A., Massachusetts, 1964; Ph.D., 1968.

Charlene D’Avanzo, Professor of Ecology, B.A., Skidmore, 1969; Ph.D., Boston University, 1975.

Mark Feinstein, Professor of Linguistics, B.A., Queens College, 1969; Ph.D., City University of New York, 1977.

Leonard B. Glick, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, B.S., Maryland, 1949; M.D., 1953; Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1963.

Alan H. Goodman, Professor of Biological Anthropology, B.S., Massachusetts, 1973; M.A., 1979; Ph.D., 1984.

Frank Holmquist, Professor of Politics, B.A., Lawrence, 1963; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana, 1975.

Sura Levine, Professor of Art History, A.B., Michigan, 1977; M.A., Chicago, 1982; Ph.D., 1996.

Maria de Lourdes Mattei, Associate Professor of Psychology, B.S., Puerto Rico, 1974; M.S., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1978; Ph.D., 1983.

Sandra Matthews, Associate Professor of Film/Photography, B.A., Radcliffe, 1973; M.F.A., SUNY at Buffalo, 1976.

Abraham Ravett, Professor of Film/Photography, B.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art, 1975; B.A., Brooklyn, 1976; M.F.A., Syracuse, 1978.

Mitziko Sawada, Emeritus Visiting Associate Professor of History and Dean of Multicultural Affairs, B.A., Reed, 1951; M.A., New York University, 1978; Ph.D., 1985.

Jutta G. Sperling, Associate Professor of History, M.A., Göttingen, 1987; Ph.D., Stanford, 1995.

Neil Stillings, Professor of Psychology, B.A., Amherst, 1966; Ph.D., Stanford, 1971.

James Wald, Associate Professor of History, B.A., Wisconsin, 1978; M.A., Princeton, 1981; Ph.D., 1997.

Frederick Weaver, Emeritus Professor of History and Economics, B.A., California, 1961; Ph.D., Cornell, 1968.

Barbara Yngvesson, Professor of Anthropology, A.B., Barnard, 1962; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 1970.


Mount Holyoke College

Sarah J. Bacon, Associate Professor of Biology, A.B., Mount Holyoke, 1987; Ph.D., Chicago, 1996.

Debbora Battaglia, Professor of Anthropology, B.A., California at Santa Barbara, 1972; M.Lit., Cambridge University, England, 1975; Ph.D., 1981.

G. Lee Bowie, Professor of Philosophy, A.B., Yale, 1965; Ph.D., Stanford, 1971.

Sheila Ewing Browne, Bertha Phillips Rodger Professor of Chemistry, B.S., Tennessee, 1971; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 1974.

Joan E. Cocks, Professor of Politics, A.B., Wisconsin, 1969; A.M., 1971; Ph.D., Massachusetts, 1980.

Carolyn Penney Collette, Professor of English Language and Literature on the Alumnae Foundation, A.B., Mount Holyoke College, 1967; M.A., Massachusetts, 1968; Ph.D., 1971.

Jane Freeman Crosthwaite, Professor of Religion, A.B., Wake Forest, 1959; A.M., Duke, 1962; Ph.D., 1972.

Sean M. Decatur, Marilyn Dawson Sarles, M.D., Professor of Life Sciences and Professor of Chemistry, B.A., Swarthmore, 1990; Ph.D., Stanford, 1995.

Tom R. Dennis, Professor of Astronomy, A.B., Michigan, 1963; A.M., 1964; A.M., Princeton, 1966; Ph.D., 1970.

Paul Anthony Dobosh, Professor of Computer Science, B.S., Carnegie Mellon, 1965; M.S., 1967; Ph.D., 1969.

Joseph J. Ellis, Professor of History on the Ford Foundation, B.A., William and Mary, 1965; M.A., M.Phil., Yale, 1969; Ph.D., 1969.

Vincent A. Ferraro, Ruth Lawson Professor of Political Science, B.A., Dartmouth, 1971; M.I.A., Columbia, 1973; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976.

Rachel Fink, Professor of Biological Sciences, B.A., Cornell, 1978; Ph.D., Duke, 1984.

Holly E. Hanson, Associate Professor of History, B.A., Wisconsin, 1978; M.A., Florida, 1991; Ph.D., 1997.

Jeremy King, Associate Professor of History, B.A., Yale, 1985; M.A., Columbia, 1988; M.Phil., 1990; Ph.D., 1998.

Andrew Lass, Professor of Anthropology, A.M., Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 1993; Ph.D., Massachusetts, 1982.

Jonathan Lipman, Felicia Gressitt Bock Professor of Asian Studies and Professor of History, B.A., Harvard, 1969; M.A., Stanford, 1972; Ph.D., 1981.

Frederick J. McGinness, Professor of History, B.A., Detroit, 1966; M.A., California at Berkeley, 1976; Ph.D., 1982.

Mark Allan Schulte McMenamin, Professor of Geology, B.S., Stanford, 1979; Ph.D., California at Santa Barbara, 1984.

Will Millard, Professor of Psychology and Education, A.B., Knox College, 1968; A.M., McGill, 1972; A.M., Hollins College, 1974; Ph.D., Massachusetts, 1979.

Lynda Morgan, Associate Professor of History, B.S., Western Carolina, 1975; M.A., 1978; Ph.D., Virginia, 1986.

Lynn M. Morgan, Professor of Anthropology, B.A., Columbia, 1980; M.A., California at Berkeley, 1982; Ph.D., 1987.

Naoko Nemoto, Associate Professor of Japanese, B.A., West Virginia, 1984; M.A., Ohio State, 1987; Ph.D., Connecticut, 1993.

Howard Nicholson, Kennedy-Schelkunoff Professor of Physics, A.B., Hamilton, 1966; B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1966; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1971.

Donal Bartholomew O’Shea, Elizabeth T. Kennan Professor of Mathematics, A.B., Harvard, 1974; M.Sc., Queen’s University at Kingston, 1977; Ph.D., 1981.

Eva A. Paus, Professor of Economics, B.A., Pittsburgh, 1976; M.A., 1978; Ph.D., 1983.

Indira V. Peterson, David B. Truman Professor of Asian Studies, B.A., Ruia College, Bombay University, 1971; M.A., Harvard, 1974; Ph.D., 1976.

Harriet Pollatsek, Julia and Sarah Ann Adams Professor of Science, A.B., Michigan, 1963; A.M., 1964; Ph.D., 1967.

Patricia G. Ramsey, Professor of Psychology and Education, B.A., Middlebury College, 1967; M.A., San Francisco State, 1973; Ed.D., Massachusetts, 1978.

Carole Straw, Professor of History, A.B., California at Berkeley, 1971; Ph.D., 1979.

Thomas E. Wartenberg, Professor of Philosophy, B.A., Amherst College, 1971; M.A., Stanford, 1973; Ph.D., Pittsburgh, 1977.

Alan Werner, Professor of Geology, B.S., Grand Valley State University, Michigan, 1979; M.S., Southern Illinois, 1982; Ph.D., Colorado, 1988.

Lucas B. Wilson, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Economics, B.A., Morehouse, 1981; M.A., Columbia, 1986; Ph.D., Massachusetts, 1996.

Craig T. Woodard, Professor of Biological Sciences, B.S., Bates, 1986; M.S., Yale, 1988; M. Phil., 1988; Ph.D., 1992.


Smith College

Martha A. Ackelsberg, Professor of Government and Women’s Studies, B.A., Radcliffe College, 1968; M.A., Princeton, 1970; Ph.D., 1976.

Margaret Anderson, Professor of Biological Sciences, B.A., Augustana College, 1963; Ph.D., Stanford, 1967.

Robert T. Averitt, Professor Emeritus of Economics, B.A., North Texas State College, 1951; M.A., Texas, 1957; Ph.D., 1961.

Maria N. Banerjee, Professor of Russian Language and Literature, Baccalaureat d’etudes secondaires, University of Paris, 1955; M.A., Montreal, 1957; Ph.D., Harvard, 1962.

Donald C. Baumer, Professor of Government, B.A., Ohio, 1972; M.A., 1976; Ph.D., Ohio State, 1977.

Giovanna Bellesia, Professor in Italian Language and Literature, Ph.D., North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1985.

Ernest J. Benz, Associate Professor of History, B.A., Toronto, 1976; M.A., 1977; Ph.D., 1988.

Leonard Berkman, Anne Hesseltine Hoyt Professor of Theatre, B.A., Columbia, 1960; M.F.A., Yale, 1963; D.F.A., 1970.

John B. Brady, Mary Elizabeth Moses Professor of Geology, A.B., Harvard, 1970; M.S., California at Los Angeles, 1972; Ph.D., Harvard, 1975.

H. Robert Burger, Achilles Professor of Geology, B.S., Yale, 1962; A.M., Indiana, 1964; Ph.D., 1966.

James J. Callahan, Professor of Mathematics, B.A., Marist College, 1962; Ph.D., New York University, 1967.

Floyd D. Cheung, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature and American Studies Program, B.A., Whittier, 1992; M.A., Tulane, 1993; Ph.D., 1999.

John M. Connolly, Professor of Philosophy, B.A., Fordham, 1965; B.A., (M.A.), Oxford, 1967; Ph.D., Harvard, 1971.

Charles Cutler, Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Portuguese, B.A., Williams College, 1960; M.A., Michigan, 1962; Ph.D., 1971.

Thomas S. Derr, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Religion and Biblical Literature, A.B., Harvard, 1953; B.D., Union Theological Seminary, 1956; Ph.D., Columbia, 1972.

Jill G. de Villiers, Professor of Philosophy and Sophia and Austin Smith Professor of Psychology, B.Sc., Reading University, England, 1969; Ph.D., Harvard, 1974.

Peter A. de Villiers, Sophia and Austin Smith Professor of Psychology, B.A., Rhodes University, South Africa, 1966; B.A., Oxford, 1970; Ph.D., Harvard, 1974.

Suzan Edwards, Professor of Astronomy, B.A., Dartmouth College, 1973; M.S., Hawaii, 1975; Ph.D., 1980.

Richard Fantasia, Professor of Sociology, B.S., Upsala College, 1975; M.S., SUNY at Buffalo, 1978; Ph.D., Massachusetts, 1982.

Jay L. Garfield, Doris Silbert Professor of Philosophy, A.B., Oberlin, 1975; M.A., Pittsburgh, 1976; Ph.D., 1986.

Paula J. Giddings, Professor of Afro-American Studies, B.A., Howard, 1969.

Myron Glazer, Barbara Richmond Professor Emeritus in the Social Sciences, B.A., City College of New York, 1956; M.A., Rutgers, 1961; M.A., Princeton, 1963; Ph.D., 1965.

Jennifer M. Guglielmo, Assistant Professor of History, B.A., Wisconsin at Madison, 1990; M.A., New Mexico, 1995; Ph.D., Minnesota, 2003.

Adam C. Hall, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, B.A., Cambridge, England, 1986; M.A., 1989; Ph.D., London, 1993.

Daniel Horowitz, Mary Huggins Gamble Professor of American Studies and Associate Member of History, B.A., Yale, 1960; Ph.D., Harvard, 1967.

Ellen W. Kaplan, Professor in Theater, B.A., New York at Binghamton, 1975; M.F.A., North Carolina at Greensboro, 1983.

Kimberly T. Kono, Assistant Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, B.A., California at Berkeley, 1991; M.A., 1996; Ph.D., 2001.

Reyes Lazaro, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, B.A., Universidad de Deusto, 1977; M.A., Massachusetts, 1984; Ph.D., 1994.

Thomas S. Litwin, Adjunct Professor of Biological Sciences, B.A., Hartwick College, 1974; Ph.D., Cornell.

James D. Lowenthal, Associate Professor of Astronomy, B.S., Yale, 1986; Ph.D., Arizona, 1991.

Robert B. Merritt, Professor of Biological Sciences, B.A., Kansas, 1964; Ph.D., 1970.

Gwendolyn Mink, Charles N. Clark Professor of Women’s Studies, B.A., California at Berkeley, 1974; Ph.D., Cornell, 1982.

Richard F. Olivo, Professor of Biological Sciences, A.B., Columbia, 1963; A.M., Harvard, 1965; Ph.D., 1969.

Douglas Lane Patey, Sophia Smith Professor of English Language and Literature, A.B., Hamilton College, 1972; M.A., Virginia, 1973; M.A., 1977; Ph.D., 1979.

Paulette Peckol, Louise C. Harrington Professor of Biological Sciences, B.A., Wittenberg University, 1975; Ph.D., Duke, 1980.

Peter B. Pufall, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, B.A., St. Benedict’s, 1962; M.A., Catholic, 1964; Ph.D., 1966.

Philip D. Reid, Louise C. Harrington Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences, B.S., Eastern Michigan, 1962; M.A., Missouri, 1964; Ph.D., Massachusetts, 1970.

Nola Reinhardt, Professor of Economics, A.B., Connecticut, 1968; M.A., California at Berkeley, 1979; Ph.D., 1981.

Donald B. Reutener, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Psychology, B.A., Oberlin, 1960; M.A., Ohio State, 1967; Ph.D., 1969.

Thomas H. Rohlich, Professor of Japanese, B.A., Wisconsin, 1971; M.A., 1975; Ph.D., 1979.

Peter I. Rose, Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Anthropology, A.B., Syracuse, 1954; M.A., Cornell, 1957; Ph.D., 1959.

Alan N. Rudnitsky, Professor of Education and Child Study, B.S., Drexler, 1970; M.Ed., Massachusetts, 1971; Ph.D., Cornell, 1976.

Stylianos P. Scordilis, Professor of Biological Sciences, B.A., Princeton, 1969; Ph.D., State University of New York, 1975.

Malcolm B.E. Smith, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, B.A., Virginia Military Institute, 1961; Ph.D., Cornell, 1969.

Elizabeth V. Spelman, Barbara Richmond 1940 Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy, B.A., Wellesley, 1966; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1974.

Ileana Streinu, Professor of Computer Science, B.S., Bucharest, Romania, 1977; M.S., 1977; Ph.D., Rutgers, 1994.

Stephen G. Tilley, Myra A. Sampson Professor of Biological Sciences, B.S., Ohio State, 1965; M.S., Michigan, 1967; Ph.D., 1970.

Hans R. Vaget, Helen and Laura Shedd Professor Emeritus of German and Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, M.A., University of Tübingen, 1964; Ph.D., Columbia, 1969.

Doreen A. Weinberger, Associate Professor of Physics, B.A., Mount Holyoke, 1975; M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978; Ph.D., Arizona, 1984.

Gregory W. White, Professor of Government, A.B., Lafayette College, 1983; M.A., Delaware, 1986; Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1993.

Christine A. White-Ziegler, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, B.A., Virginia, 1986; Ph.D., Utah, 1993.

Nancy E. Whittier, Professor of Sociology, B.A., Ohio State, 1986; M.A., 1988; Ph.D., 1992.

Steven A. Williams, Gates Professor of Biological Sciences, B.A., California at Davis, 1974; M.S., Ph.D.

Dennis T. Yasutomo, Professor of Government, B.A., San Francisco State, 1968; M.A., Columbia, 1971; M.Phil., 1975; Ph.D., 1981.

Andrew Zimbalist, Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics, B.A., Wisconsin, 1969; M.A., Harvard, 1972; Ph.D., 1974.