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Nathan C. Faries

Associate Professor of Asian Studies

Roger Williams Hall, Room 204 | Roger Williams Hall, Room 204

nfaries@bates.edu | 207-755-5984

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

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

Christine M. Martinez

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies

Hedge Hall, Room 111

cmartinez@bates.edu | 207-753-6934

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

Laura C. Balladur

Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies

Roger Williams Hall, Room 409

lballadu@bates.edu | 207-786-8318

18th century French literature and science, cultural theory, dance practice and philosophy, Democratic Republic of Congo, ecology of bodies in movement, French Cinema, representations of imagination, science and critical theory, semiotics of dance, Translation Studies

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

Carolina González Valencia

Associate Professor of Art and Visual Culture

Olin Arts Center, Room 318

cgonzale@bates.edu | 207-786-6453

Patricia S. Buck

Associate Professor of Education

Pettengill Hall, Room 302

pbuck@bates.edu | 207-786-6282

anthropology of education, cultural change, cultural production theory, education in humanitarian aid policy, ethnographic approaches to education, forced migration and education, foundational studies in education, gender identity formation, narrating lives in school, post colonial studies in education

Megan R. Boomer

Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Culture

Olin Arts Center, Room 314

mboomer@bates.edu | 207-786-6258