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Myron M. Beasley

Associate Professor of American Studies

Pettengill Hall, Room 223 | Pettengill Hall, Room 223

mbeasley@bates.edu | 207-786-6437

Brazil, critical ethnography, cultural studies, cultural studies, curating, curatorial studies, death, digital humanities, food and culture, Francophone, gender and race, Haiti, material culture, performance studies, performance studies, public humanities, visual culture

Lauren M. Ashwell

Professor of Philosophy

Hedge Hall, Room 305

lashwell@bates.edu | 207-786-6306

desire, dispositional properties, epistemology, fashion and feminism, feminist philosophy, introspective knowledge, metaphysics, objectification, semantics of gendered slurs

Mark B. Okrent

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy

mokrent@bates.edu

20th century continental philosophy, Davidson, early Heidegger, history of philosophy, intentionality, Kant, Merleau-Ponty, metaphysics, metaphysics of mind, philosophy, philosophy of mind, pragmatism

Charles I. Nero

Benjamin E. Mays '20 Distinguished Prof of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies

Pettigrew Hall, Room 303 | Pettigrew Hall, Room 303

cnero@bates.edu | 207-786-6415

African American literary studies, African-American studies, American studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, film studies, LGBTQ issues in film and literature, literary and rhetorical criticism, popular culture studies, queer theory and studies, race and Hollywood film

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

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