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Zhenzhen Lu

Assistant Professor of Chinese

Chinese, Asian Studies

zlu2@bates.edu | 207-786-6406

chinese language pedagogy, late imperial China, literature and history, manuscript studies, material culture, popular culture, vernacular literatures of East Asia

Beverly J. Johnson

Charles A. Dana Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences

Earth and Climate Sciences Chair

bjohnso3@bates.edu | 207-786-6062

archives of sea level rise, biogeochemical cycling in Maine lakes and nearshore environments over a variety of time scales, carbon storage and sequestration in salt marshes, environmental and stable isotope geochemistry, mechanisms of salt marsh formation

Kamal A. Kariem

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Anthropology

kkariem@bates.edu | 207-786-6082

Erin H. Nolan

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Culture

Art and Visual Culture

enolan@bates.edu

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

Myron M. Beasley

Associate Professor of American Studies

American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies

mbeasley@bates.edu | 207-786-6437

Brazil, critical ethnography, cultural studies, cultural studies, curating, curatorial studies, death, digital humanities, food and culture, Francophone, gender and race, Haiti, material culture, performance studies, performance studies, public humanities, visual culture

Robin B. McDowell

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies

Environmental Studies

rmcdowell@bates.edu

Patrick W. Otim

Associate Professor of History

History, Africana

potim@bates.edu | 207-786-8377

Laura C. Balladur

Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies

French and Francophone Studies, European Studies

lballadu@bates.edu | 207-786-8318

18th century French literature and science, cultural theory, dance practice and philosophy, Democratic Republic of Congo, ecology of bodies in movement, French Cinema, representations of imagination, science and critical theory, semiotics of dance, Translation Studies

Nick Balascio

Associate Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences

Earth and Climate Sciences

nbalascio@bates.edu | 207-786-6105

global climate change, paleoclimatology, paleolimnology, sedimentology

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