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Mark L. Tizzoni

Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies

Pettengill Hall, Room 202

mtizzoni@bates.edu

cultural and intellectual history, Early Middle Ages, ethnicity, history, history of identity, late antiquity, Late Latin, Latin language, Latin poetry, medieval studies, post-Roman world, premodern African history, premodern Iberia, premodern North Africa, race and ethnicity

Nathan C. Faries

Associate Professor of Asian Studies

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

nfaries@bates.edu | 207-755-5984

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

Kirk D. Read

Professor of French and Francophone Studies

Roger Williams Hall, Room 405

kread@bates.edu | 207-786-6280

early modern French literature (1500-1700), early modern medicine and midwifery, femininity, French renaissance poetry, gender, intersexuality, literary analysis, masculinity, medical and anthropological readings of literature, sex and sexuality, women writers

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

Baltasar Fra-Molinero

Professor of Hispanic Studies

Pettengill Hall, Room 217 | Pettengill Hall, Room 217 | Pettengill Hall, Room 217

bframoli@bates.edu | 207-786-6050

Cervantes, Global Hispanophone Studies, literature and culture of Equatorial Guinea, Literatures of the African Diaspora in Spanish, race and religion in early modern Spain and Spanish America, Spanish, Spanish and Spanish American Renaissance and Baroque studies, Spanish baroque theater

Lisa Landoe Hedrick

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

Hedge Hall, Room 211

lhedrick@bates.edu | 207-786-6479

David R. Cummiskey

Professor of Philosophy

Hedge Hall, Room 306

dcummisk@bates.edu | 207-786-6286

biomedical ethics, Buddhist moral and political philosophy, clinical medical ethics, intercultural bioethics, intercultural ethics, Kantian ethics and consequentialism, moral philosophy, political philosophy, rawls and political liberalism

Zhenzhen Lu

Assistant Professor of Chinese

Roger Williams Hall, Room 205 | Roger Williams Hall, Room 205

zlu2@bates.edu | 207-786-6406

chinese language pedagogy, late imperial China, literature and history, manuscript studies, material culture, popular culture, vernacular literatures of East Asia

Patrick W. Otim

Associate Professor of History

Pettengill Hall, Room 111

potim@bates.edu | 207-786-8377