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Erica Rand

Professor of Art and Visual Culture and Gender and Sexuality Studies

Pettengill Hall, Room 215 | Pettengill Hall, Room 215

erand@bates.edu | 207-753-6960

anti-racism, culture- and theory-making in unexalted contexts, feminist/queer/trans sports and movement studies, pleasures, politics and practices of teaching, queer and trans migration studies, resources, sexualities, trans and queer studies, visual and popular culture studies, writing

Pavel Bacovsky

Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics

Pettengill Hall, Room 171

pbacovsky@bates.edu | 207-755-5964

American politics, comparative politics, Leisure activities and politics, New technologies in politics, political psychology, Youth political behavior

Peter J. Steenstra

Lecturer in Physical Education

Alumni Gymnasium,

psteenst@bates.edu | 207-786-6363

Michael Sargent

Associate Professor of Psychology

Pettengill Hall, Room 373

msargent@bates.edu | 207-786-6277

implicit social cognition, intergroup cognition, political psychology, political psychology, social cognition, social psychology

Martin Kruse

Associate Professor of Biology and Neuroscience

Bonney Science Center, Room 285 | Bonney Science Center, Room 285

mkruse@bates.edu | 207-755-5932

biochemistry, cell biology, computational neuroscience, electrophysiology, molecular biology, neuroscience

Marcus C. Bruce

Charles A. Dana Professor of Religious Studies

mbruce@bates.edu

African American culture, African Americans in France, African-American studies, American cultural studies, American religious history, American religious studies, cultural studies

Melinda A. Plastas

Senior Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality Studies

Pettengill Hall, Room 213 | Pettengill Hall, Room 213

mplastas@bates.edu | 207-786-8313

20th century U.S. social movements, African American history, American studies, black feminism, critical race theory, cultural studies, gender studies, health justice, history of commodities, peace studies, Social Movements, tobacco in history and culture, women and gender studies

Christopher F. Petrella Ph.D.

Visiting Lecturer

cpetrell@bates.edu

African Diaspora Studies, African-American studies, American cultural studies, American studies, Black Panther Party, black power, blackness, critical theory, cultural studies, race, race and science, racism, radical pedagogy, white nationalism, white supremacy, whiteness

David R. George Jr.

Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies

Roger Williams Hall, Room 305 | Roger Williams Hall, Room 305

dgeorge@bates.edu | 207-786-8347

19th and 20th century Iberian literatures and cultures, Asian studies, European studies, film and TV literary adaptations, Global Hispanophone Studies, Hispano-Asian studies, Iberian studies, Japanese studies, media studies, nineteenth-century studies, realist novel, travel narrative, travel writing

Benoit Y. Vallee

Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latinx Studies

Roger Williams Hall, Room 304

bvallee@bates.edu | 207-786-6322

(trans)nationalism, Afro-Latin America, Blackness, Caribbean studies, Dominican Republic, Dominicans in Hip-Hop, Immigrant and Diaspora studies, Latin American Cultural Studies, Latinx Studies, New York Afro-Latina/o/x and Latina/o/x, New York Hip-Hop history, Quisqueya-Hispaniola, race and ethnicity, urban anthropology

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