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Emily W. Kane

Professor of Sociology

Pettengill Hall, Room 269 | Pettengill Hall, Room 269

ekane@bates.edu | 207-786-6192

childhood studies, community-based research, gender and childhood, gender and parenting, gender and sexuality in the U.S., higher education and the public good, poverty and social policy, public sociology, publicly-engaged scholarship, race and class in the U.S., scholarship on community-engaged pedagogy, sociology of family, sociology of gender

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

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

Daniel Riera-Crichton

Betty Doran Stangle Professor of Applied Economics

Pettengill Hall, Room 273

drieracr@bates.edu | 207-786-6084

fiscal multipliers, fiscal policy, international capital flows, international finance, international relative prices, international reserves, open macroeconomics

Lisa Landoe Hedrick

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

Hedge Hall, Room 211

lhedrick@bates.edu | 207-786-6479

Katalin Vecsey

Senior Lecturer in Theater

Schaeffer Theatre, Room 303

kvecsey@bates.edu | 207-786-6378

contemporary theater and productions in Hungary; Poland; Czech Republic; Slovakia, post-1989 central European drama and productions, vocal health and pedagogy, voice abuse prevention, voice and speech training for actors, voice and speech training for professional voice users

Anita S. Charles

Senior Lecturer in Education and Director of Secondary Teacher Education

Pettengill Hall, Room 308

acharles@bates.edu | 207-786-8349

adolescent literacy, comparative education, public education reform, special education, teacher education

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

Lucy C. Britt

Assistant Professor of Politics

Pettengill Hall, Room 167

lbritt3@bates.edu | 207-786-6457

African American Political Thought, Feminist Political Theory and Pop Culture, Memorials and Memory, political theory, Race and Politics, Race and Whiteness in U.S.

Susan A. Dewsnap

Lecturer in Art and Visual Culture

Olin Arts Center, Room 319

sdewsnap@bates.edu | 207-786-6151

color theory, creation of ceramic art works with drawn and painted surfaces for exhibition, exhibition planning and negotiation, glaze chemistry testing and development, high and low fire technology using gas and electric kilns, ornamentation and pattern, studio practice, utilitarian ceramics, wheel throwing and hand building technologies