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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

Wesley B. Chaney

Associate Professor of History

Pettengill Hall, Room 117

wchaney@bates.edu | 207-786-6492

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

Laurie O'Higgins

Euterpe B. Dukakis Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies

Pettengill Hall,

dohiggin@bates.edu

18th century Irish history, classical reception, Greek literature, Greek religion, Greek religion, Homer, women in classical antiquity

Seulgie Lim

Assistant Professor of Politics

Pettengill Hall, Room 176

slim@bates.edu | 207-786-6131

African feminisms, Gender and politics, Gender in Africa, Gender quotas, Human Rights, International politics, International relations, Islam and Politics, Senegal, Sub-Saharan African politics, Women's rights

Colleen T. O'Loughlin

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Bonney Science Center, Room 313

coloughl@bates.edu | 207-786-6390

Jakub J. Kazecki

Associate Professor of German

Roger Williams Hall, Room 231 | Roger Williams Hall, Room 231

jkazecki@bates.edu | 207-753-6984

20th century German literature and film, discourses of masculinity in German literature, film studies, German film after 1945, German studies, humor, images of German-Polish relationships in literature film and visual arts, laughter and comedy in literature film and visual arts, laughter and comedy's relation to violence, literature in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933), media

Margaret Maurer-Fazio

Betty Doran Stangle Professor Emerita of Applied Economics

mmaurer@bates.edu

Correspondence (resume) audit studies of Chinese firms' hiring decisions, economic well being of China’s ethnic minorities, Gender wage differentials in China, Labor force participation in China, labor market developments in China, Rates of return to investments in education in China, Transitions from work to retirement in China

Carolina González Valencia

Associate Professor of Art and Visual Culture

Olin Arts Center, Room 318

cgonzale@bates.edu | 207-786-6453

Trian Nguyen

Associate Professor of Art and Visual Culture

Olin Arts Center, Room 314

tnguyen@bates.edu | 207-786-6338

Asian art history, Daoist ceremonial paintings, East Asian ceramic, Thich Quang Duc’s self-immolation and his impact, Vietnamese Buddhist sculpture

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