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Wesley B. Chaney

Associate Professor of History

Pettengill Hall, Room 117

wchaney@bates.edu | 207-786-6492

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

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

Rebecca Herzig

Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies

Pettengill Hall, Room 209

rherzig@bates.edu | 207-786-6335

digital cultures, gender and sexuality in STEM, higher education, interdisciplinary research methods, material culture, race and racism in STEM, science and technology studies, social studies of medicine, transnational feminisms, US social and cultural history

Andrew P. Allsup

Visiting Lecturer in Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies

Hedge Hall, Room G05

aallsup@bates.edu

Sammi Rippetoe

Visiting Assistant Prof of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies & Dir of Debate

Pettigrew Hall, Room 306

srippetoe@bates.edu | 207-786-6475

Jonathan J. Cavallero

Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies

Pettigrew Hall, Room 307

jcavalle@bates.edu | 207-755-5937

Bollywood, film and television studies, film festivals, issues of diversity equity and inclusion in pedagogy, issues of race and ethnicity in film and television, Italian Americans and media, media aesthetics, media authorship, U.S. cultural history

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

Meredith L. Greer

Professor of Mathematics

Hathorn Hall, Room 205 | Hathorn Hall, Room 205

mgreer@bates.edu | 207-786-6283

applied mathematics, mathematical biology, mathematical ecology, mathematical epidemiology

Sawyer F. Sylvester Jr.

Professor Emeritus of Sociology

ssylvest@bates.edu

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