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Janice R. Levi

Visiting Assistant Professor of History

Pettengill Hall, Room 111

jlevi@bates.edu | 207-753-6985

African History, Africana Studies, Ethnicity and Race Studies, Historical Transmission, Jewish History, memory studies, Migration Studies, Religious Studies

Stephanie M. Pridgeon

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies

Roger Williams Hall, Room 309

spridgeo@bates.edu | 207-786-8352

20th and 21st century Latin American literature and film, cultural studies, documentary, feminist theory, gender and sexuality, Jewish studies, Latin America, literary theory, Marxist theory, memory studies, political culture, race and ethnicity, testimony

Jonathan R. Cohen

Visiting Professor of Philosophy

jcohen4@bates.edu

Cynthia M. Baker

Professor of Religious Studies

Hedge Hall, Room 203 | Hedge Hall, Room 203

cbaker@bates.edu | 207-786-6308

early Christian studies, early Rabbinic Judaism, feminist and queer theory, gender and religion, gender and religion in the late ancient Mediterranean and Middle East, historiography of religion, Jewish studies, material culture and historiography of Jews and Judaism, New Testament, The Bible

Krista M. Aronson

Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean of the Faculty

Pettengill Hall, Room 378

karonson@bates.edu | 207-786-6088

psychology, psychometric assessment

Zen T. Kuriyama

Assistant Professor of Music

Olin Arts Center, Room 258

zkuriyama@bates.edu | 207-786-6418

choral music, classical voice, conducting, English musical nationalism, Gerald Finzi, historical musicology, Jewishness and antisemitism in nineteenth and twentieth-century European musical culture, music theory, performance studies, sacred music

Joseph M. Hall Jr.

Associate Professor of History

Pettengill Hall, Room 113

jhall2@bates.edu | 207-786-6462

environmental history, Native American history, North American history before 1840, U.S. history

Wesley B. Chaney

Associate Professor of History

Pettengill Hall, Room 117

wchaney@bates.edu | 207-786-6492

Patrick W. Otim

Associate Professor of History

Pettengill Hall, Room 111

potim@bates.edu | 207-786-8377

Mark L. Tizzoni

Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies

Pettengill Hall, Room 202

mtizzoni@bates.edu

cultural and intellectual history, Early Middle Ages, ethnicity, history, history of identity, late antiquity, Late Latin, Latin language, Latin poetry, medieval studies, post-Roman world, premodern African history, premodern Iberia, premodern North Africa, race and ethnicity

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