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Seulgie Lim

Assistant Professor of Politics

Pettengill Hall, Room 176

slim@bates.edu | 207-786-6131

African feminisms, Gender and politics, Gender in Africa, Gender quotas, Human Rights, International politics, International relations, Islam and Politics, Senegal, Sub-Saharan African politics, Women's rights

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

Kirk D. Read

Professor of French and Francophone Studies

Roger Williams Hall, Room 405

kread@bates.edu | 207-786-6280

early modern French literature (1500-1700), early modern medicine and midwifery, femininity, French renaissance poetry, gender, intersexuality, literary analysis, masculinity, medical and anthropological readings of literature, sex and sexuality, women writers

Janice R. Levi

Visiting Assistant Professor of History

Pettengill Hall, Room 111

jlevi@bates.edu | 207-753-6985

African History, Africana Studies, Ethnicity and Race Studies, Historical Transmission, Jewish History, memory studies, Migration Studies, Religious Studies

Patrick W. Otim

Associate Professor of History

Pettengill Hall, Room 111

potim@bates.edu | 207-786-8377

Myronn E. Hardy

Assistant Professor of English

Hathorn Hall, Room 308

mhardy@bates.edu | 207-786-6256

Contemporary American Poetry, creative writing, Lyric Essay, North Africa, poetry, Poetry in Translation, visual culture

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

Samuel S. Bird

Assistant Professor of Economics

Pettengill Hall, Room 271

sbird@bates.edu | 207-755-5966

development economics, econometrics, political economy

Emily W. Kane

Professor of Sociology

Pettengill Hall, Room 269 | Pettengill Hall, Room 269

ekane@bates.edu | 207-786-6192

childhood studies, community-based research, gender and childhood, gender and parenting, gender and sexuality in the U.S., higher education and the public good, poverty and social policy, public sociology, publicly-engaged scholarship, race and class in the U.S., scholarship on community-engaged pedagogy, sociology of family, sociology of gender

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