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Amy Bradfield Douglass

Whitehouse Professor of Psychology

Pettengill Hall, Room 372

adouglas@bates.edu | 207-786-6182

eyewitness testimony, interviewing eyewitness, jury decision-making, memory, social influence, social psychology

Rebecca Herzig

Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies

Pettengill Hall, Room 209

rherzig@bates.edu | 207-786-6335

digital cultures, gender and sexuality in STEM, higher education, interdisciplinary research methods, material culture, race and racism in STEM, science and technology studies, social studies of medicine, transnational feminisms, US social and cultural history

Frances R. Bell

Visiting Assistant Professor of History

Pettengill Hall, Room 115

fbell@bates.edu | 207-786-6095

Africana Studies, Age of Revolutions, Atlantic History, History and the Archive, Migration Studies, Slavery Studies

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

Myronn E. Hardy

Assistant Professor of English

Hathorn Hall, Room 308

mhardy@bates.edu | 207-786-6256

Contemporary American Poetry, creative writing, Lyric Essay, North Africa, poetry, Poetry in Translation, visual culture

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

Peter H. Casares

Lecturer in Physical Education

Merrill Gymnasium,

pcasares@bates.edu | 207-786-8264

Wesley B. Chaney

Associate Professor of History

Pettengill Hall, Room 117

wchaney@bates.edu | 207-786-6492

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

Jennifer A. Hamilton

Professor of Anthropology

Pettengill Hall, Room 155

jhamilto@bates.edu | 207-786-6080