Spotlight Series

  • Photo Anita Charles
    Charles teaches an innovative, interdisciplinary Education course in India through the Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN)
    In mid-April, Anita Charles, Senior Lecturer and Director of Teacher Education, traveled to Pune, India, in order to participate in a unique teaching opportunity through the Government of India’s Ministry of Human Resource Development. Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN – a Hindi word of its own that translates to “knowledge”) is a Higher Education…
  • In her latest work, McGaughey examines the history and meaning of the Japanese aesthetic, Yūgen 幽玄
    Assistant Professor of Asian Studies, Hanna McGaughey’s research interests include gender history, intellectual history, performing arts, and digital humanities. For her latest publication, Hanna has contributed to the Handbook on Performance-Related Concepts in Non-European Languages, with a chapter entitled “Yūgen.” 幽玄 She reaches back to sixth and seventh century China to find the origins of…
  • Photo E. LeFlore
    LeFlore studies lion movements in Botswana to understand the keys to their survival
    Human activities have caused the global decline of large carnivore populations, as habitat loss and land conversion reduce the space available for these species. The situation is especially acute at the edges of protected areas (PAs), where animals like the African lion (Panthera leo) range outside PAs and into human-dominated landscapes. There, they frequently prey…
  • D. Gallant portrait
    Darren Gallant earns his Doctorate
    Darren Gallant, the Associate Dean and Director of the Center for Global Education, completed his Doctorate of Education (Ed.D.) Education Policy, Organization and Leadership program this past fall through the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. As one might imagine, Darren’s concentration was Global Studies in Education and his dissertation was titled, World Language Requirements for Study…
  • Mark Lewis Tizzoni examines early Christian communities in Roman Africa in a new paper
    Mark Lewis Tizzoni, Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies, has co-authored a new paper in The Palgrave Handbook of African Christianity from Apostolic Times to the Present. “Christianity in Roman Africa, I: Communities and Religious Movements,” provides an updated, post-colonial exploration of the development of Christianity in the late antique Maghreb (modern-day Morocco, Tunisia,…

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Bates Faculty in the News: Therí Pickens’ debut poetry collection gains media attention and sparks a busy spring, on and off campus
May 9, 2025

Bates Faculty in the News: Therí Pickens’ debut poetry …

Dana Professor of English and Africana Therí Pickens’ debut poetry collection earns praise in publications like Down East and The Adroit Journal as she shares her work through readings, panels, and an recent campus celebration in Commons.

Joanne Roberts to join Bates as vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty
April 23, 2025

Joanne Roberts to join Bates as vice president for academic a…

Roberts comes to Bates from Yale-NUS College in Singapore, where she has served as president since 2022 and prior to that held multiple leadership roles at the liberal arts college, including executive vice president for academic affairs from 2018 to 2022 and dean of faculty.

Rosanna Ferro, vice president for student affairs at Bates College.
October 9, 2024

Rosanna Ferro to join Bates College as vice president for stu…

“Rosanna Ferro’s extensive background in student affairs, her commitment to fostering inclusive communities, and her passion for higher education will be incredible assets as we continue to strengthen the student experience at Bates,” said Bates President Garry W. Jenkins. Ferro’s appointment is effective Dec. 2, 2024.