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Melinda A. Plastas

Senior Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality Studies

Pettengill Hall, Room 213 | Pettengill Hall, Room 213

mplastas@bates.edu | 207-786-8313

20th century U.S. social movements, African American history, American studies, black feminism, critical race theory, cultural studies, gender studies, health justice, history of commodities, peace studies, Social Movements, tobacco in history and culture, women and gender studies

William J. Wallace

Visiting Lecturer in Education

wwallace@bates.edu

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

Patrick W. Otim

Associate Professor of History

Pettengill Hall, Room 111

potim@bates.edu | 207-786-8377

Anne D. Williams

Professor Emerita of Economics

31 Frye Street, Room 203a

awilliam@bates.edu | 207-786-6046

jigsaw puzzle history, population, toy industry

Charles I. Nero

Benjamin E. Mays '20 Distinguished Prof of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies

Pettigrew Hall, Room 303 | Pettigrew Hall, Room 303

cnero@bates.edu | 207-786-6415

African American literary studies, African-American studies, American studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, film studies, LGBTQ issues in film and literature, literary and rhetorical criticism, popular culture studies, queer theory and studies, race and Hollywood film

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

Marcus C. Bruce

Charles A. Dana Professor of Religious Studies

mbruce@bates.edu

African American culture, African Americans in France, African-American studies, American cultural studies, American religious history, American religious studies, cultural studies

Christopher F. Petrella Ph.D.

Visiting Lecturer

cpetrell@bates.edu

African Diaspora Studies, African-American studies, American cultural studies, American studies, Black Panther Party, black power, blackness, critical theory, cultural studies, race, race and science, racism, radical pedagogy, white nationalism, white supremacy, whiteness

David R. George Jr.

Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies

Roger Williams Hall, Room 305 | Roger Williams Hall, Room 305

dgeorge@bates.edu | 207-786-8347

19th and 20th century Iberian literatures and cultures, Asian studies, European studies, film and TV literary adaptations, Global Hispanophone Studies, Hispano-Asian studies, Iberian studies, Japanese studies, media studies, nineteenth-century studies, realist novel, travel narrative, travel writing

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