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Lisa Maurizio

Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies

Pettengill Hall, Room 206

lmaurizi@bates.edu | 207-786-8391

Archaic and classical Greek religion, Greek and Roman history and religion, Greek and Roman mythology and literature, mythology, oral poetry, oral studies and gender studies, women’s history

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

Henry J. Walker

Senior Lecturer in Classical and Medieval Studies

Pettengill Hall, Room 204

hwalker@bates.edu | 207-786-8320

ancient languages and literatures, ancient myth and society, how literature and myth reflect social and religious institutions in ancient Greece and India

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

Beverly J. Johnson

Charles A. Dana Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences

Carnegie Science Hall, Room 214

bjohnso3@bates.edu | 207-786-6062

archives of sea level rise, biogeochemical cycling in Maine lakes and nearshore environments over a variety of time scales, carbon storage and sequestration in salt marshes, environmental and stable isotope geochemistry, mechanisms of salt marsh formation

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

Liana J. Brent

Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies

Pettengill Hall, Room 208

lbrent@bates.edu | 207-753-6922

Funerary Archaeology, Latin Inscriptions, Roman Burial Practices, Roman Slavery, Roman Society and Culture

April L. Horton

Wagener Family Professor of Equity and Inclusion in STEM

Carnegie Science Hall, Room 410

ahorton@bates.edu | 207-786-6389

developmental biology, evolution, gene regulatory networks, genetics, genomics, marine and freshwater sponges, symbiosis

Kalin T. McDannell

Visiting Assistant Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences

Carnegie Science Hall, Room 223

kmcdannell@bates.edu | 207-777-6707

geochronology, mineralogy, plate tectonics, solid earth, thermochronology

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