{"id":4998,"date":"2022-09-02T13:25:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T17:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/?page_id=4998"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:55:08","slug":"home-page-2022-09","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Homepage"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<form class=\"profile-search\" method=\"get\" id=\"fac-profile-searchform\" action=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/\">\n\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" id=\"_fpsearch-nonce\" name=\"_fpsearch-nonce\" value=\"ffe25d8c5f\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wp_http_referer\" value=\"\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4998\" \/>\n\t\t<h1>Faculty Search<\/h1>\n\t\t<label class=\"screen-reader-text\" for=\"fp-search-main-input\">Search for:<\/label>\n\t\t<input type=\"text\" placeholder=\"Enter name, field, or subject area\" name=\"s\" autocomplete=\"off\" id=\"fp-search-main-input\" \/> \n\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"faculty-profile-search\" value=\"1\" \/> \n\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Search\">\n\t<\/form>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Meet Our Faculty<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Explore a daily rotation of Bates faculty. Three professors are featured at a time, with a new selection every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<section class=\"featured-faculty faculty-grid\">\t<a class=\"featured-expert featured-expert-card \" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/liana-brent\/\">\n\t\t<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"311\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Photo of Liana Brent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2023\/08\/240822_Classical_Medieval_Studies_Hat_0078-e1756225190708-311x300.webp\" class=\"profile-image wp-image-7475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2023\/08\/240822_Classical_Medieval_Studies_Hat_0078-e1756225190708-311x300.webp 311w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2023\/08\/240822_Classical_Medieval_Studies_Hat_0078-e1756225190708-900x867.webp 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2023\/08\/240822_Classical_Medieval_Studies_Hat_0078-e1756225190708-768x740.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2023\/08\/240822_Classical_Medieval_Studies_Hat_0078-e1756225190708-652x628.jpg 652w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2023\/08\/240822_Classical_Medieval_Studies_Hat_0078-e1756225190708-200x193.webp 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2023\/08\/240822_Classical_Medieval_Studies_Hat_0078-e1756225190708.webp 1228w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><\/figure>\n\t\t<h3 class=\"profile-name\">Liana Brent<\/h3>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title\">Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies<\/p>\n\t<\/a>\t<a class=\"featured-expert featured-expert-card \" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/sonja-k-pieck\/\">\n\t\t<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"308\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Photo of Sonja K. Pieck\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2015\/08\/240926_Sonja_Pieck_Portrait_0032-308x300.webp\" class=\"profile-image wp-image-6592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2015\/08\/240926_Sonja_Pieck_Portrait_0032-308x300.webp 308w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2015\/08\/240926_Sonja_Pieck_Portrait_0032-900x876.webp 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2015\/08\/240926_Sonja_Pieck_Portrait_0032-768x747.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2015\/08\/240926_Sonja_Pieck_Portrait_0032-645x628.jpg 645w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2015\/08\/240926_Sonja_Pieck_Portrait_0032-1536x1494.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2015\/08\/240926_Sonja_Pieck_Portrait_0032-200x195.webp 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2015\/08\/240926_Sonja_Pieck_Portrait_0032.webp 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/><\/figure>\n\t\t<h3 class=\"profile-name\">Sonja K. Pieck<\/h3>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title\">Clark A. Griffith Professor of Environmental Studies<\/p>\n\t<\/a>\t<a class=\"featured-expert featured-expert-card \" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/zen-t-kuriyama\/\">\n\t\t<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Photo of Zen T. Kuriyama\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2024\/08\/IMG_8837ab6x6-300x300.webp\" class=\"profile-image wp-image-6176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2024\/08\/IMG_8837ab6x6-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2024\/08\/IMG_8837ab6x6-900x900.webp 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2024\/08\/IMG_8837ab6x6-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2024\/08\/IMG_8837ab6x6-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2024\/08\/IMG_8837ab6x6-628x628.jpg 628w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2024\/08\/IMG_8837ab6x6-1536x1536.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2024\/08\/IMG_8837ab6x6-200x200.webp 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2024\/08\/IMG_8837ab6x6.webp 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\t\t<h3 class=\"profile-name\">Zen T. Kuriyama<\/h3>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title\">Assistant Professor of Music<\/p>\n\t<\/a><\/section>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:70px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Faculty in the News<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<section class=\"faculty-spotlights-container\">\n\t<div class=\"faculty-spotlights\" data-autochange=\"4\">\n\t\t<label href=# for=spotlight-0>Joyce N. Bennett<\/label>\n\t\t<input type='radio' id='spotlight-0' name='spotlight' value='0'  checked='checked'>\n\t\t<div class='_story'>\n\t\t\t<div class='_text-section' id='spotlight-0-content'>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2026\/01\/250605_Portraits_1045-1-1.webp\" alt=\"attached photo\">\n\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"_story-date\">Winter <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"_story-title\">Joyce Bennett featured in EL PA\u00cdS<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"_story-text\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Associate Professor of Anthropology <strong>Joyce Bennett<\/strong> was quoted extensively in <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/planeta-futuro\/2025-12-22\/las-bordadoras-mayas-reclaman-derechos-para-sus-huipiles-apropiados-por-grandes-marcas.html\">an <em>EL PA\u00cdS<\/em> story<\/a> Dec. 22 about Maya weavers fighting back against the appropriation of their ancestral designs by global manufacturers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOne woman told me she could still feel her mother\u2019s hands over hers when she wove,\u201d Bennett told <em>EL PA\u00cdS<\/em> reporter Ana Rodr\u00edguez \u00c1lvarez. \u201cThat is the spirituality behind the textile.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bennett, who chairs the Anthropology department, has done extensive research on Maya women in Guatemala, tracking their attempts to protect their traditional weavings through intellectual property rights. The National Women\u2019s Weaving Movement of Guatemala has been pushing back on the way national and international manufacturers, often fast fashion brands, have reproduced traditional designs without recognizing their creators or paying them for their designs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGlobal fashion wants inspiration,\u201d Bennett told <em>EL PA\u00cdS<\/em>.&nbsp; \u201cBut what it often does is extraction. They take designs that have been collectively protected for centuries and register them as their own. It is a silent but devastating violence.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<label href=# for=spotlight-1>Stephanie Kelley-Romano<\/label>\n\t\t<input type='radio' id='spotlight-1' name='spotlight' value='1' >\n\t\t<div class='_story'>\n\t\t\t<div class='_text-section' id='spotlight-1-content'>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2015\/08\/WEB_kelley-romano-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"attached photo\">\n\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"_story-date\">Fall <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"_story-title\">Stephanie Kelley-Romano talks teaching conspiracy rhetoric on Chronicle of Higher Education podcast<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"_story-text\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stephanie Kelley-Romano, professor of rhetoric, film and screen studies, was featured on <em>The<\/em> <em>Chronicle of Higher Education\u2019s <\/em>podcast <em>College Matters, <\/em>a<em> <\/em>series that examines \u201chow higher education pushes students to wrestle with big ideas.\u201d Kelley-Romano\u2019s popular course, \u201cConspiracy Rhetoric: Power, Politics and Popular Culture,\u201d was highlighted in the podcast episode \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/podcast\/college-matters-from-the-chronicle\/course-catalog-decoding-and-fighting-conspiracy-theories\">Course Catalog: Decoding \u2014 and Fighting \u2014 Conspiracy Theories<\/a>\u201d as one of\u00a0 \u201cthe most intriguing and popular courses on the nation\u2019s college campuses.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u201cConspiracy Rhetoric,\u201d which Kelley-Romano is teaching again this fall, focuses on the ways that rhetoric \u2014 the art of effective (and often persuasive) communication \u2014&nbsp; shapes conspiracy theories. Kelley-Romano explains that \u201cwhen students understand how things function rhetorically, then they can see and create rhetorical campaigns.\u201d She told the <em>Chronicle<\/em> that the course often helps students understand that \u201cwhen more people have more rights and more support, the entire society does better.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<label href=# for=spotlight-2>Carolina Gonz\u00e1lez Valencia<\/label>\n\t\t<input type='radio' id='spotlight-2' name='spotlight' value='2' >\n\t\t<div class='_story'>\n\t\t\t<div class='_text-section' id='spotlight-2-content'>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-24-at-11.06.02-AM.webp\" alt=\"attached photo\">\n\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"_story-date\">Fall <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"_story-title\">Carolina Gonz\u00e1lez Valencia\u2019s film funding success highlighted in &#8216;Deadline&#8217;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"_story-text\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">News of Associate Professor of Art and Visual Culture&nbsp;<strong>Carolina Gonz\u00e1lez Valencia<\/strong>\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundance.org\/blogs\/2025-sundance-institute-documentary-fund-grantees-revealed\/\">Sundance Documentary Fund<\/a>&nbsp;grant of $50,000 to finish her film&nbsp;<em>How to Clean a House in Ten Easy Steps&nbsp;<\/em>was covered in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/09\/sundance-documentary-fund-grantees-2025-unveiled-1236552337\/\"><em>Deadline<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em>The Sundance Institute funded 32 projects this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In August,&nbsp;<em>Deadline<\/em>&nbsp;covered Gonzalez Valencia\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/08\/points-north-institute-2025-artists-programs-1236499818\/\">Points North Fellowship<\/a>, which supports filmmakers in developing their pitches, and invites them to present their works in progress to a panel of funders and distributors at Camden International Film Festival. The film, which is being shot in the U.S., Colombia, and Mexico, is a \u201chybrid documentary\u201d in which a domestic worker and her filmmaker daughter co-create the fictional character of a writer to uncover the slippage between truth and fantasy. It tells a story about immigration, labor, dreams, and the power of fiction to spark emancipation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<label href=# for=spotlight-3>Francesco G. Duina<\/label>\n\t\t<input type='radio' id='spotlight-3' name='spotlight' value='3' >\n\t\t<div class='_story'>\n\t\t\t<div class='_text-section' id='spotlight-3-content'>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2025\/12\/251104_Francesco_Duina_Class_1216-900x600.webp\" alt=\"attached photo\">\n\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"_story-date\">Fall <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"_story-title\">Francesco Duina, professor of sociology, was featured on\u00a0Maine Calling\u00a0on December 2.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"_story-text\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Francesco Duina<\/strong>, professor of sociology, was featured on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mainepublic.org\/show\/maine-calling\/2025-12-02\/economic-inequality\">Maine Calling<\/a>\u00a0on December 2. Duina\u2019s new book\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2025\/11\/13\/the-logics-of-acceptance-francesco-duina-in-conversation-about-his-new-book-and-the-sociology-of-economic-inequality\/\">The Social Acceptance of Inequality: On the Logics of a More Unequal World<\/a>\u00a0analyzes the ways in which people think about economic inequality\u2014and the reasoning that leads many to accept the disparities around us. Co-edited with Luca Storti, an associate professor of economic sociology at the University of Turin, Italy, Duina\u2019s collection includes voices from across the globe contributing their perspectives on why we justify and accept economic inequality.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<label href=# for=spotlight-4>Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic<\/label>\n\t\t<input type='radio' id='spotlight-4' name='spotlight' value='4' >\n\t\t<div class='_story'>\n\t\t\t<div class='_text-section' id='spotlight-4-content'>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2026\/01\/Aleks-Diamond-Stanic-900x600.webp\" alt=\"attached photo\">\n\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"_story-date\">Winter <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"_story-title\">Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic talks &#8220;Winter light&#8221; with Maine Calling<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"_story-text\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Associate Professor of Physics and Chair of Physics and Astronomy, Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic was a guest\u00a0 on <em>Maine Calling<\/em> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mainepublic.org\/show\/maine-calling\/2025-12-19\/winter-light\">a show on \u201cWinter Light\u201d<\/a> on Dec. 19, 2025 in advance of the winter solstice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diamond-Stanic, whose research focuses on the evolution of galaxies and the growth of supermassive black holes through cosmic time, was joined on panel by Sarah Tuttle, host and producer of Maine Public Classical and Jessica Miller, host of Weekend Edition and radio operations announcer for Maine Public.\u00a0His job? Explaining the science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But he also spoke on the way the approaching solstice is celebrated in his native Serbian culture. He described Slava as a way to celebrate something that we are all experiencing but do not have control over. \u201cComing together in moments of otherwise darkness to bring light is really human [tendency],\u201d Diamond-Stanic says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-right is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-89b4c9e9 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-garnet-button with-arrow with-arrow\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/category\/faculty-in-the-news\/\">More Headlines<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Inside the Classroom<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Explore six randomly selected courses from this academic year \u2014 refreshed with every page reload.<\/p>\n\n\n<aside class=\"course-teaser-wrap\">\n\t<div class=\"course-teasers _columns-3\" style=\"--displayColumns:3;\">\t<div class=\"course-teaser-course\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Photo of Wesley C. Gillis\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2022\/08\/250919_Wesley_Gillis_Portrait_0021-e1772137980840-400x300.webp\" class=\"profile-image wp-image-7869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2022\/08\/250919_Wesley_Gillis_Portrait_0021-e1772137980840-400x300.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2022\/08\/250919_Wesley_Gillis_Portrait_0021-e1772137980840-900x676.webp 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2022\/08\/250919_Wesley_Gillis_Portrait_0021-e1772137980840-768x577.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2022\/08\/250919_Wesley_Gillis_Portrait_0021-e1772137980840-836x628.jpg 836w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2022\/08\/250919_Wesley_Gillis_Portrait_0021-e1772137980840-1536x1154.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2022\/08\/250919_Wesley_Gillis_Portrait_0021-e1772137980840-200x150.webp 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2022\/08\/250919_Wesley_Gillis_Portrait_0021-e1772137980840.webp 1702w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>\n\t\t<h5 class=\"course-title\" title=\"PHYS107\">Introductory Physics of Living Systems I\/Lab<\/h5>\n\t\t<p class=\"course-meta course-term\">Fall Semester 2026<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"course-meta course-faculty\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"_label\">Taught by<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/wesley-c-gillis\/\">Wesley C. Gillis<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"course-description\">An introduction to physics designed for students majoring in life sciences and\/or interested in pre-health studies. Topics include geometrical optics, Newtonian mechanics, acoustics, fluids and thermal physics. Class meetings integrate group-based laboratory investigations, simulations and problem solving. Not open to students who have earned credit for PHYS 109.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\t<div class=\"course-teaser-course\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo of Luc Bonhomme\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wp-content\/plugins\/bates-faculty-profiles\/public-assets\/noimage.png\" class=\"profile-image wp-image-0\" \/>\n\t\t<h5 class=\"course-title\" title=\"FRE250\">Power and Resistance through Writing<\/h5>\n\t\t<p class=\"course-meta course-term\">Fall Semester 2026<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"course-meta course-faculty\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"_label\">Taught by<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/luc-bonhomme\/\">Luc Bonhomme<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"course-description\">A study of French and Francophone cultural production, mainly literary, across time and various genres. The course does not attempt comprehensive, encyclopedic knowledge of a textural canon, but rather a thematic approach that focuses on key works and important authors and creators from the French-speaking world. Power and resistance provides a capacious lens through which students consider issues relevant to the history of France and its reach into the cultural life of its former colonies and beyond. Gender and race are foremost among the course\u2019s defining influences. Students become acquainted with iconic moments and texts from the Francophone world as well as those that have been traditionally underprivileged or unrecognized. This course may be repeated for credit with permission of the instructor. Prerequisite(s): FRE 207, 208, or 235.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\t<div class=\"course-teaser-course\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo of Emily A. Culbreath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wp-content\/plugins\/bates-faculty-profiles\/public-assets\/noimage.png\" class=\"profile-image wp-image-0\" \/>\n\t\t<h5 class=\"course-title\" title=\"DANC240\">Embodied Anatomy and Kinesthetics<\/h5>\n\t\t<p class=\"course-meta course-term\">Fall Semester 2026<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"course-meta course-faculty\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"_label\">Taught by<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/emily-a-culbreath\/\">Emily A. Culbreath<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"course-description\">This course develops an understanding of foundational human anatomy and kinesthetics as applied to bodies in motion. Topics include an introductory study of anatomy; the mechanics of movement; sustainable approaches to functional training and injury prevention in creative and athletic movement modalities. Recommended background: previous dance or movement training. Open to first-year students.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\t<div class=\"course-teaser-course\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo of Edward A. Szeman\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wp-content\/plugins\/bates-faculty-profiles\/public-assets\/noimage.png\" class=\"profile-image wp-image-0\" \/>\n\t\t<h5 class=\"course-title\" title=\"FYS595\">Game\/System: Exploring Systems Thinking through Board Games<\/h5>\n\t\t<p class=\"course-meta course-term\">Fall Semester 2026<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"course-meta course-faculty\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"_label\">Taught by<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/edward-a-szeman\/\">Edward A. Szeman<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"course-description\">Humans are surrounded by complex and interconnected systems, visible and invisible, created intentionally and emerging incidentally as byproducts of the ways we think, organize, and construct our societies. These systems include governments, schools, economies, organizations, built infrastructure, the natural world, and more. In this seminar, students will explore Systems Thinking, a critical approach that can help us to understand systems and the vexing challenges they pose. Students will apply concepts like feedback loops, networks, holism, emergence, and the influence of mental models by deconstructing and analyzing historical and contemporary board games. Through play and critical analysis of game systems, students will build a foundation in Systems Thinking approaches, which they will then apply to real-world systems, asking and answering the questions: How do systems arise? Who do they benefit? How do they become entrenched? And how can we fix them?<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\t<div class=\"course-teaser-course\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo of Jason Scheideman\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wp-content\/plugins\/bates-faculty-profiles\/public-assets\/noimage.png\" class=\"profile-image wp-image-0\" \/>\n\t\t<h5 class=\"course-title\" title=\"PLTC336\">Explaining Wartime Violence<\/h5>\n\t\t<p class=\"course-meta course-term\">Fall Semester 2026<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"course-meta course-faculty\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"_label\">Taught by<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/jason-scheideman\/\">Jason Scheideman<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"course-description\">Genocide, torture, civilian killing, mass rape: Why do people do such terrible things to each other? Are these acts senseless, or do they have their own chilling logic? Are they the work of crazed ideologues or ordinary people? Each topic contains more puzzles: Why have democracies developed a particular style of torture? Why are civilians targeted in some wars but not others? Finally, how optimistic should we be? Should we despair, or are there sound reasons to believe that wartime conduct has improved?  Can such behavior be prevented, and if so, how? Recommended background: one social science course.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\t<div class=\"course-teaser-course\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Photo of Erica Rand\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2015\/08\/black-skates-cropped-small-169x300.jpg\" class=\"profile-image wp-image-1020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2015\/08\/black-skates-cropped-small-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2015\/08\/black-skates-cropped-small-506x900.jpg 506w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2015\/08\/black-skates-cropped-small-112x200.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2015\/08\/black-skates-cropped-small.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/>\n\t\t<h5 class=\"course-title\" title=\"GSS457\">Senior Thesis<\/h5>\n\t\t<p class=\"course-meta course-term\">Fall Semester 2026<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"course-meta course-faculty\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"_label\">Taught by<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/erica-rand\/\">Erica Rand<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"course-description\">The research and writing of an extended essay or report, or the completion of a creative project, under the supervision of a faculty member. Majors normally register for GSS 458 in the winter semester. 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Jenkins<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/a>\t<a class=\"_story\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2026\/06\/24\/so-sweet-2026-green-grant-awardees-tap-funds-for-bates-made-maple-syrup\/\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/174\/files\/2026\/06\/220422_Campus_0027-400x267.webp\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/174\/files\/2026\/06\/220422_Campus_0027-400x267.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/174\/files\/2026\/06\/220422_Campus_0027-900x600.webp 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/174\/files\/2026\/06\/220422_Campus_0027-942x628.jpg 942w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/174\/files\/2026\/06\/220422_Campus_0027-1536x1024.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/174\/files\/2026\/06\/220422_Campus_0027-200x133.webp 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/174\/files\/2026\/06\/220422_Campus_0027.webp 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>\n\t\t<div class=\"_text-section\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"_story-date\">Jun 24, 2026<\/p>\n\t\t\t<h3 class=\"_story-title\">So sweet: 2026 Green Grant awardees tap funds for Bates-made maple syrup<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"_faculty-link-list\">Featuring: <span class=\"_faculty-tag\">Michael Rocque<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/a>\t<a class=\"_story\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/2026\/06\/23\/tristan-koepke-receives-funding-from-the-maine-humanities-council-clone\/\">\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"_text-section\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"_story-date\">Jun 23, 2026<\/p>\n\t\t\t<h3 class=\"_story-title\">Dylan Freas receives funding from the American Chemical Society<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"_faculty-link-list\">Featuring: <span class=\"_faculty-tag\">Dylan J. 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