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Rebecca Herzig

Charles A Dana Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies

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

Marina Filipovic

Visiting Lecturer in Russian

mfilipov@bates.edu | 207-786-8348

20th century Russian literature, gender, post-Yugoslav cinemas, Russian avant-garde, Russian Film, Russian media, socialist realism, Soviet cinema, Soviet history of science, Stalinism, technology, Yugoslav cinema

Wesley B. Chaney

Associate Professor of History

wchaney@bates.edu | 207-786-6492

Keiko Konoeda

Lecturer in Japanese

kkonoeda@bates.edu | 207-786-6405

applied linguistics, critical media literacy, language pedagogy, project-based language teaching, technology and media in language teaching

Anelise H. Shrout

Associate Professor of Digital and Computational Studies

ashrout@bates.edu | 207-786-6483

Cliometrics, critical race theory, Data, death, Digital and Computational Studies, Digital Humanities, Disasters, Famine, Gender and Technology, gender studies, history, immigration, Ireland, Philanthropy

Patrick W. Otim

Associate Professor of History

potim@bates.edu | 207-786-8377

Melinda A. Plastas

Senior Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality Studies

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

Lauren M. Ashwell

Professor of Philosophy

lashwell@bates.edu | 207-786-6306

desire, dispositional properties, epistemology, fashion and feminism, feminist philosophy, introspective knowledge, metaphysics, objectification, semantics of gendered slurs

Mark L. Tizzoni

Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies

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

Wesley C. Gillis

Assistant Professor of Physics

wgillis@bates.edu | 207-755-5983