People

Core Faculty

Karen Remmler, Chair of Critical Social Thought
Professor & Chair of German Studies and Critical Social Thought
Phone: 413-538-3066
Office: 305 Shattuck Hall
Siraj Dean Ahmed (leave/year)
Assistant Professor of English
Phone: 413-538-3238
Office: 142 Reese Psych-Ed Building
Nigel Alderman (leave/year)
Assistant Professor of English
Phone: 413-538-3224
Office: 212 Shattuck Hall
Joan Cocks, Director of Advising (leave/spring)
Professor of Politics
Phone: 413-538-2325
Office: 113 Skinner Hall
Donald Cotter
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Phone: 413-538-2120
Office: G22A Carr Lab
R. Harold Garrett-Goodyear
Professor of History & Chair of Medieval Studies
Phone: 413-538-2451
Office: 209 Skinner Hall
John Grayson
Professor of Religion on the Alumnae Foundation
Phone: 413-538-2290
Office: 201A Skinner Hall
Amy Martin
Assistant Professor of English
Phone: 413-538-2644
Office: 318 Park Street
Constantine Pleshakov
Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies and Critical Social Thought
Phone: 413-538-2649
Kenneth Tucker
Professor of Sociology and Anthropology
Phone: 413-538-2804
Office: 202 Merrill House
Lucas Wilson
Associate Professor of African American Studies and Economics
Phone: 413-538-2751
Office: 14 Skinner Hall

Meet the Department

Lucas Wilson looks at economic and noneconomic conditions that restrict opportunities and inhibit social progress for African Americans.

Kenneth Tucker asks, "What is the nature of the modern western world?" and "What social processes characterize our modern life?"

Nationalism, Marxism, feminism, post-colonial theory, and questions of landscape, place, and the meaning of modern development are central concerns for Joan Cocks.

Harold Garrett-Goodyear's research focuses on notions of justice in history.

Siraj Dean Ahmed investigates how literature, film, and philosophy--European, colonial, and postcolonial--respond to the long history of globalization.