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Clarisa Pérez-Armendáriz

Professor of Politics

cperezar@bates.edu

comparative politics, Immigrant and Diaspora studies, immigrant/diaspora-home country political and economic engagement, immigration and democracy, immigration and economic development, Latin American Politics, Mexico, Political violence

Elena G. Maker Castro

Assistant Professor of Psychology

emakercastro@bates.edu | 207-786-6307

Adolescent Development, Critical consciousness, Emerging Adulthood, School contexts, Sociopolitical Development, Youth wellbeing

Krista M. Aronson

Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean of the Faculty

karonson@bates.edu | 207-786-6088

psychology, psychometric assessment

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

Temitope A. Noah

Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana

tnoah@bates.edu | 207-786-6436

Helen C. Boucher

Professor of Psychology

hboucher@bates.edu | 207-786-6395

cross-cultural differences in self-related processes (US vs. East Asia comparisons), cultural psychology, ego depletion model, meaning in life, meaning maintenance model, money priming, naive dialecticism, positive psychology, psychology of social class, self-concept, self-esteem, self-regulation, social psychology, terror management theory

Lillian R. Nayder

Charles A. Dana Professor of English

lnayder@bates.edu | 207-786-6315

biography, Charles Dickens, Dickens studies, life writing, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Victorian authorship, Victorian fiction, Victorian gender studies, Wilkie Collins

Scotty Farley

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

sfarley@bates.edu | 207-755-5920

chemical biology, lipid biochemistry, lipid metabolism, organic synthesis, virology

Erin H. Nolan

Visiting Assistant Professor of 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

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