People

Faculty

Stephen Jones
Professor of Russian Studies & Chair of European Studies
Phone: 413-538-2428
Office: 104 Skinner Hall
Jens Christiansen
Professor of Economics
Phone: 413-538-2750
Office: 112 Skinner Hall
Specialty: Comparative macroeconomic performance of advanced capitalist economies; women and the economy; economics and the environment
Justin Crumbaugh
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Phone: 413-538-2445
Office: Ciruti Center, Room 20
Specialty: Spanish and Basque studies, particularly in relation to cinema, literature, social history, and economic development
Gabriele Wittig Davis
Professor of German Studies
Phone: 413-538-2719
Office: Ciruti Center, Room 33
Ombretta Frau
Assistant Professor of Italian
Phone: 413-538-2581
Office: Ciruti Center, Room 222
Specialty: Luigi Pirandello; modern Italian literature; Italian women writers; history of Italian theater
Penny Gill
Mary Lyon Professor of the Humanities; Professor of Politics
Phone: 413-538-2133
Office: 209 Shattuck
Specialty: The European Union; European politics; political theory
Jeremy King
Associate Professor of History
Phone: 413-538-2749
Office: 306 Skinner Hall
Specialty: Central and Eastern Europe, nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Andrew Lass
Professor of Anthropology
Phone: 413-538-2184
Office: 100 Merrill House
Specialty: Contemporary anthropological theory; the anthropology of history, science, and technology; organizational behavior; symbolic anthropology; Central Europe, specifically the Czech/Slovak Republic
Catherine LeGouis
Professor of French
Phone: 413-538-2628
Office: 224 Ciruti Center
Specialty: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century French and Russian literature
Karen Remmler
Professor of German Studies; Codirector of the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts 2000-2005
Phone: 413-538-3066
Office: 305 Shattuck Hall
Nieves Romero-Díaz
Associate Professor of Spanish
Phone: 413-538-2399
Office: 25 Ciruti Center
Specialty: Spanish Renaissance and Baroque prose literature, in particular the relation between literature and history; women writers
Robert M. Schwartz
E. Nevius Rodman Professor of History
Phone: 413-538-2465
Office: 206 Skinner Hall
Specialty: Environmental history of Europe from the seventeenth century to present; eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France; Victorian England and industrializing Britain
Nicole C. Vaget
Reverend Joseph Paradis Professor of French
Phone: 413-538-2723
Office: 23 Ciruti Center
Specialty: French and Francophone cultural studies; eighteenth-century literature; pedagogical application of technology