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Lisa R. Gilson

Assistant Professor of Politics

Pettengill Hall, Room 173

lgilson@bates.edu | 207-786-8215

American political thought, contemporary political theory, democratic theory, history of political thought, literature and politics, political theory, Social Movements

Wesley B. Chaney

Associate Professor of History

Pettengill Hall, Room 117

wchaney@bates.edu | 207-786-6492

Dylan J. Freas

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Bonney Science Center, Room 381

dfreas@bates.edu | 207-777-6703

biodegradable polymers, catalysis, chemical synthesis, materials science, organic chemistry, photochemistry, polymer chemistry

Geneva Laurita

Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Bonney Science Center, Room 385

glaurita@bates.edu | 207-786-6295

Inorganic Chemistry, materials chemistry, neutron scattering, pair distribution function analysis, solid state chemistry, x-ray diffraction

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

Stephen M. Engel

Professor of Politics and Associate Dean of the Faculty

Pettengill Hall, Room 178

sengel@bates.edu | 207-786-8209

American political development, archival research, citizenship theory, civil rights, civil rights, civil rights law, gender, institutional development, interview-based studies, judicial development, judicial politics, LGBT politics, political sociology, post-war civil rights mobilization, progressive era politics, qualitative methods, race, sexuality, social movements, U.S. constitutional law, U.S. politics

Sandra H. Goff

Associate Professor of Economics

Pettengill Hall,

sgoff@bates.edu | 207-786-6056

behavioral economics, charitable giving, environmental and natural resource economics, experimental economics, prosocial behavior

Zen T. Kuriyama

Assistant Professor of Music

Olin Arts Center, Room 258

zkuriyama@bates.edu | 207-786-6418

choral music, classical voice, conducting, English musical nationalism, Gerald Finzi, historical musicology, Jewishness and antisemitism in nineteenth and twentieth-century European musical culture, music theory, performance studies, sacred music

Lisa Landoe Hedrick

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

Hedge Hall, Room 211

lhedrick@bates.edu | 207-786-6479

Samuel S. Bird

Assistant Professor of Economics

Pettengill Hall, Room 271

sbird@bates.edu | 207-755-5966

development economics, econometrics, political economy