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Senem Aslan

Professor of Politics

Pettengill Hall, Room 172

saslan@bates.edu | 207-786-6391

comparative politics, ethnic conflict, Middle East politics, Moroccan politics, nationalism, state-building, state-minority relations, symbolic politics, Turkish politics

Özgür Özkan

Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics

Pettengill Hall, Room 172

oozkan@bates.edu | 207-786-6081

Civil-Military Relations, comparative politics, ethnic conflict, international relations, international security, Middle Eastern studies, National Security, NATO-Russia Relations, Political violence, security cooperation

Mayumi Fukushima

Assistant Professor of Politics

Pettengill Hall, Room 169

mfukushima@bates.edu | 207-786-6311

asymmetric security alliances, extended nuclear deterrence, international politics of East Asia, international relations, international security, international security alliances, nuclear deterrence, technology and conflicts

Cynthia M. Baker

Professor of Religious Studies

Hedge Hall, Room 203 | Hedge Hall, Room 203

cbaker@bates.edu | 207-786-6308

early Christian studies, early Rabbinic Judaism, feminist and queer theory, gender and religion, gender and religion in the late ancient Mediterranean and Middle East, historiography of religion, Jewish studies, material culture and historiography of Jews and Judaism, New Testament, The Bible

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

Sarah B. Lynch

Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies

Pettengill Hall, Room 102

slynch2@bates.edu | 207-786-6312

Sylvia A. Federico

Professor of English

Hathorn Hall, Room 312

sfederic@bates.edu | 207-786-6317

Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Latin literature and history, Benedictine manuscript culture, Chaucer, French literary and historical connections to England, Iberian and Italian literary and historical connections to England, late medieval literary London, manuscript studies, medieval studies, Middle English language and culture, Middle English literature

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

Raluca Cernahoschi

Associate Professor of German

Roger Williams Hall, Room 232 | Roger Williams Hall, Room 232

rcernaho@bates.edu | 207-786-6285

contemporary German literature and film, East-Central European literature and film, film adaptation, German literature and culture since the 19th century, German literature and film, intercultural literature and film, literatures and cultures of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, poetry, Romanian-German literature, spatial constructions in literature and film

Sonja K. Pieck

Clark A. Griffith Professor of Environmental Studies

Hedge Hall, Room 113

spieck@bates.edu | 207-786-8206

biodiversity conservation, ecological restoration, environmental history, environmental justice, environmental movements, environmental politics, human geography, international development, political ecology