Bates College is a national leader in delivering an exceptional liberal arts education to a diverse and talented community of students. Our faculty are consequential and accomplished scholars and artists producing transformative educational experiences that help shape the world. A Bates education balances building broad knowledge across distinct modes of inquiry with a depth of understanding within a specific field of study.
Our goal is to create an environment that fosters the collaborative and respectful development of critical and independent thinking and learning – skills necessary for meaningful contributions to ongoing and sustainable development of humanity. These web pages offer a portal to Bates’ academic world.
In Francesco Duina’s latest collection, The Social Acceptance of Inequality: On the Logics of a More Unequal World (Oxford 2025), co-edited with Luca Storti, contributors ask why people across the world accept economic inequalities.
