Faculty

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Austin C. Smith

Associate Professor of Economics

Pettengill Hall, Room 272

asmith13@bates.edu | 207-786-6085

Economics of Education, Health Economics, labor economics

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

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

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

Yunkyoung Garrison

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Pettengill Hall, Room 365

ygarriso@bates.edu | 207-786-6195

Asian American psychology, Clinical Supervision, community engagement, Counseling Psychology, immigrant and refugee mental health, Immigrant Career and Mental Health, Race and Racism, Social Class and Classism, Sociopolitical Deveolpment, the myth of meritocracy, The Myth of Meritocracy, Women of Color

Alexandre E. Dauge-Roth

Professor of French and Francophone Studies

Roger Williams Hall, Room 406

adaugero@bates.edu | 207-786-6281

20th and 21st century French and Francophone, AIDS literature, autobiography and testimony as genre, genocide against the Tutsi, genocide studies, identity politics, literary and cinematic analysis, post-genocide in Rwanda, writing of history

Erin H. Nolan

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Culture

Olin Arts Center, Room 317

enolan@bates.edu | 207-777-6702

Archives, Digital Art History, Global Art Histories, Histories of Photography, Islamic Art, Middle Eastern studies, migration, Modernism, Nineteenth Century, Photographic theory, portraiture, Survey Practices, trans-Mediterranean studies, Transnational 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

Ian Khara Ellasante

Assistant 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

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