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Alison Melnick

Associate Professor of Religious Studies

amelnick@bates.edu | 207-786-6318

18th Century Tibetan History, Asian religious history, Chinese borderland religions, Gender and Authority in Tibet, gender and religion, Hagiography in Asian contexts, Privilege studies, Religion and Gender in Asia, Religions of China, Religions of South Asia, Tibetan religion, Tibetan religion and history

Wesley B. Chaney

Associate Professor of History

wchaney@bates.edu | 207-786-6492

Patrick W. Otim

Associate Professor of History

potim@bates.edu | 207-786-8377

Emily W. Kane

Professor of Sociology

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

Seulgie Lim

Assistant Professor of Politics

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

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

Erica Rand

Professor of Art and Visual Culture and Gender and Sexuality Studies

erand@bates.edu | 207-753-6960

anti-racism, culture- and theory-making in unexalted contexts, feminist/queer/trans sports and movement studies, pleasures, politics and practices of teaching, queer and trans migration studies, resources, sexualities, trans and queer studies, visual and popular culture studies, writing

Hanna S. McGaughey

Assistant Professor of Japanese Language and Asian Studies

hmcgaughey@bates.edu | 207-786-6287

gender studies, Japanese studies, Muromachi performing arts, Noh theater, perfomring arts, premodern studies, Zeami

Kirk D. Read

Professor of French and Francophone Studies

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

Cynthia M. Baker

Professor of Religious Studies

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