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Jamie A. Haverkamp

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies

jhaverkamp@bates.edu | 207-786-8268

Chicanx and Latinx studies, climate change studies, environmental anthropology, environmental justice/climate justice, feminist studies, Indigenous studies, political ecology, postcolonial studies, science and technology studies

Ian Khara Ellasante

Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies

African American cultural studies, Black feminisms, Community-Engaged learning, cultural studies, Decolonizing methodologies, feminist theory, gender and sexuality, Indigenous studies, LGBTQ2+ Youth and Young Adults, North American Indigenous feminisms, North American Indigenous literatures, Peoplehood matrix, race and ethnicity, reproductive justice, Reproductive justice, Settler colonialism, transgender studies

Joyce N. Bennett

Associate Professor of Anthropology

jbennett2@bates.edu | 207-786-8207

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

Jennifer A. Hamilton

Professor of Anthropology

jhamilto@bates.edu | 207-786-6080

Kamal A. Kariem

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

kkariem@bates.edu | 207-786-6082

Sonja K. Pieck

Clark A. Griffith Professor of Environmental Studies

spieck@bates.edu | 207-786-8206

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

Stephanie M. Pridgeon

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies

spridgeo@bates.edu | 207-786-8352

20th and 21st century Latin American literature and film, cultural studies, documentary, feminist theory, gender and sexuality, Jewish studies, Latin America, literary theory, Marxist theory, memory studies, political culture, race and ethnicity, testimony

Karen Melvin

Thomas Hedley Reynolds Professor of History

kmelvin@bates.edu | 207-786-8208

charity and religion, colonial Mexico, early modern Catholic world, early modern history, history, history of religion, Latin American history, urban history

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

David R. George Jr.

Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies

dgeorge@bates.edu | 207-786-8347

19th and 20th century Iberian literatures and cultures, Asian studies, European studies, film and TV literary adaptations, Global Hispanophone Studies, Hispano-Asian studies, Iberian studies, Japanese studies, media studies, nineteenth-century studies, realist novel, travel narrative, travel writing

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