Faculty

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Ian Khara Ellasante

Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies

Pettengill Hall, Room 211

iellasan@bates.edu | 207-786-6132

African American cultural studies, Black feminisms, Community-Engaged learning, cultural studies, Decolonizing methodologies, feminist theory, gender and sexuality, Indigenous studies, LGBTQ2+ Youth and Young Adults, North American Indigenous feminisms, North American Indigenous literatures, Peoplehood matrix, race and ethnicity, reproductive justice, Reproductive justice, Settler colonialism, transgender studies

Alison Melnick

Associate Professor of Religious Studies

Hedge Hall, Room 207

amelnick@bates.edu | 207-786-6318

18th Century Tibetan History, Asian religious history, Chinese borderland religions, Gender and Authority in Tibet, gender and religion, Hagiography in Asian contexts, Privilege studies, Religion and Gender in Asia, Religions of China, Religions of South Asia, Tibetan religion, Tibetan religion and history

Catherine C. Saunders

Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana

Hathorn Hall, Room 301

csaunders@bates.edu

20th and 21st century African American Literature, African American literature and cultural studies, Black British Literature, Black Critical Theory, Black interiority, Caribbean literature, Toni Morrison

Joyce N. Bennett

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Pettengill Hall, Room 157

jbennett2@bates.edu | 207-786-8207

Central America, Ethnicity and identity performance, gender and sexuality, language revitalization, migration, social movements

David R. Cummiskey

Professor of Philosophy

Hedge Hall, Room 306

dcummisk@bates.edu | 207-786-6286

biomedical ethics, Buddhist moral and political philosophy, clinical medical ethics, intercultural bioethics, intercultural ethics, Kantian ethics and consequentialism, moral philosophy, political philosophy, rawls and political liberalism

Marcelle M. Medford

Associate Professor of Sociology

Pettengill Hall, Room 261 | Pettengill Hall, Room 261

mmedford@bates.edu | 207-786-6099

Black Caribbean immigrants in the US, Black sociology, Ethnography, immigrant racialization, Qualitative Methods, sociology of immigration, urban immigration, urban sociology

Erin H. Nolan

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Culture

Olin Arts Center, Room 317

enolan@bates.edu | 207-777-6702

Archives, Digital Art History, Global Art Histories, Histories of Photography, Islamic Art, Middle Eastern studies, migration, Modernism, Nineteenth Century, Photographic theory, portraiture, Survey Practices, trans-Mediterranean studies, Transnational Studies

Jamie A. Haverkamp

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies

Hedge Hall, Room 111

jhaverkamp@bates.edu | 207-786-8268

Chicanx and Latinx studies, climate change studies, environmental anthropology, environmental justice/climate justice, feminist studies, Indigenous studies, political ecology, postcolonial studies, science and technology studies

Patrick W. Otim

Associate Professor of History

Pettengill Hall, Room 111

potim@bates.edu | 207-786-8377

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