Faculty

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Ian Khara Ellasante

Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies

Pettengill Hall, Room 211

iellasan@bates.edu | 207-786-6132

African American cultural studies, Black feminisms, Community-Engaged learning, cultural studies, Decolonizing methodologies, feminist theory, gender and sexuality, Indigenous studies, LGBTQ2+ Youth and Young Adults, North American Indigenous feminisms, North American Indigenous literatures, Peoplehood matrix, race and ethnicity, reproductive justice, Reproductive justice, Settler colonialism, transgender studies

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

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

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

Joseph M. Hall Jr.

Associate Professor of History

Pettengill Hall, Room 113

jhall2@bates.edu | 207-786-6462

environmental history, Native American history, North American history before 1840, U.S. history

Francesco G. Duina

Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology

Pettengill Hall, Room 263

fduina@bates.edu | 207-786-6319

economic sociology, globalization, international political economy, political sociology, sociology of culture

Jakub J. Kazecki

Associate Professor of German

Roger Williams Hall, Room 231 | Roger Williams Hall, Room 231

jkazecki@bates.edu | 207-753-6984

20th century German literature and film, discourses of masculinity in German literature, film studies, German film after 1945, German studies, humor, images of German-Polish relationships in literature film and visual arts, laughter and comedy in literature film and visual arts, laughter and comedy's relation to violence, literature in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933), media

Carolina González Valencia

Associate Professor of Art and Visual Culture

Olin Arts Center, Room 318

cgonzale@bates.edu | 207-786-6453

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

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