Joyce N. Bennett

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Joyce N. Bennett

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Central America, Ethnicity and identity performance, gender and sexuality, language revitalization, migration, social movements

Samuel S. Bird

Assistant Professor of Economics

sbird@bates.edu | 207-755-5966

development economics, econometrics, political economy

Dale E. Chapman

Professor of Music

dchapman@bates.edu | 207-755-5905

20th century American music, African American music, American studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, historical musicology, jazz studies, popular music studies

Michael P. Murray

Charles Franklin Phillips Professor Emeritus of Economics

mmurray@bates.edu

behavioral economics, econometrics, economic development, health threats in developing countries, housing, instrumental variables estimation, inter-temporal preferences, labor economics, military manpower, mobile telephony in Africa, public economics, U.S. social welfare programs, urban economics

Francesco G. Duina

Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology

fduina@bates.edu | 207-786-6319

economic sociology, globalization, international political economy, political sociology, sociology of culture

Meet new faculty in chemistry, religious studies, and rhetori…

New faculty join Bates in chemistry, religious studies, and rhetoric. Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college over the course of the 2025-2026 academic year. Bates News is introducing them in groups over this semester. Part 1 ran in our newsletter of September 25, part 2 went out in our October 3 newsletter and Part 3 appeared in our October 10 newsletter.

Her electric violin at the ready on her right shoulder, Mavy Ho-Le ’26 started to slowly tap her foot on the stage at Olin Arts Center. It was Saturday Oct. 25 and the first strains of Radiohead’s 2016 song “Daydreaming,” were beginning to emerge from Fitter Happier, a Radiohead tribute band based in Portland.