Faculty Profiles

Mount Holyoke's 200 faculty members are innovative teachers dedicated to their students, and also active scholars, research scientists, and creative artists passionate about their disciplines.

A full list of Mount Holyoke faculty is provided in the course catalogue, in addition to the faculty profiles below.

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Martha A. Ackmann, Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies

Siraj Dean Ahmed, Assistant Professor of English

Nigel Alderman, Assistant Professor of English

Connie Allen, Dean of the Classes of 2006 & 2007; Lecturer in Chemistry

David M. Allen, Senior Lecturer in Physical Education

Douglas J. Amy, Professor of Politics

Bruce M. Arnold, Associate Professor of Classics

Roger Babb, Professor of Theatre Arts

Sarah J. Bacon, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Lisa A. Ballesteros, Associate Professor of Computer Science

Susan R. Barry, Professor of Biological Sciences

Virginia Bastable, Mathematics Lecturer; Director, SummerMath for Teachers

Debbora Battaglia, Professor of Anthropology

Thelma Belmonte-Alcantara, Lecturer in Spanish

Christopher Benfey, Mellon Professor of English

Peter Berek, Professor of English

Bettina Bergmann, Helene Phillips Herzig '49 Professor of Art History

Katherine Binder, Associate Professor of Psychology

Robin Blaetz, Associate Professor of Film Studies; Chair of Film Studies

Allen Bonde, Professor of Music

Lee Bowie, Dean of the College; Professor of Philosophy

Lois A. Brown, Associate Professor of English; Director, Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts

Sheila Ewing Browne, Bertha Phillips Rodger Professor of Chemistry

Frank W. Brownlow, Gwen and Allen Smith Professor of English

Jill L. Bubier, Marjorie Fisher Associate Professor of Environmental Studies

Nancy B. Campbell, Professor of Art

Lenore Reilly Carlisle, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Education

Calvin Chen, Assistant Professor of Politics

Wei Chen, Associate Professor of Chemistry

Claudia Chierichini, Assistant Professor of Italian

Jens Christiansen, Professor of Economics

George W. Cobb, Robert L. Rooke Professor of Mathematics and Statistics

Joan Cocks, Professor of Politics

Joseph D. Cohen, Dean of Studies; Class of 1929 Dr. Virginia Apgar Professor of Psychology

James Coleman, Professor of Dance

Carolyn P. Collette, Professor of English Language and Literature on the Alumnae Foundation

W. Donald Cotter, Associate Professor of Chemistry

Joanne V. Creighton, President of the College; Professor of English

Jane F. Crosthwaite, Professor of Religion

Sharon Crow, Professor Emeritus of Physical Education and Athletics

Edwina J. Cruise, Professor of Russian on the Alumnae Foundation

Justin Crumbaugh, Assistant Professor of Spanish

Daniel J. Czitrom, Professor of History

Giuliana P. Davidoff, Professor of Mathematics

Gabriele Wittig Davis, Professor of German Studies

Michael Davis, Professor of Art

Paula Debnar, Associate Professor of Classics

Corinne M. Demas, Professor of English

Tom R. Dennis, Professor of Astronomy

Francis J. DeToma, Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences

Francine M. Deutsch, Professor of Psychology and Education

Joyce Devlin, Professor of Theatre Arts

Paul A. Dobosh, Professor of Computer Science

Amber Douglas, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Education

Steven R. Dunn, Professor of Geology

Alan H. Durfee, Professor of Mathematics on the John Stewart Kennedy Foundation

M. Darby Dyar, Associate Professor of Astronomy

Zetta Elliott, Visiting Assistant Professor of African American and African Studies

Joseph Ellis, Professor of History on the Ford Foundation

Claude L. Fennema Jr., Professor of Computer Science

Vincent A. Ferraro, Ruth Lawson Professor of Politics

Lawrence Fine, Irene Kaplan Leiwant Professor of Jewish Studies

Rachel D. Fink, Professor of Biological Sciences

Charles Flachs, Associate Professor of Dance

Rose Marie Flachs, Associate Professor of Dance

John O. Fox, Visiting Associate Professor of Complex Organizations

Amy Frary '90, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Ombretta Frau, Assistant Professor of Italian

Terese Freedman, Professor of Dance

Jeanne Friedman, Senior Lecturer in Physical Education and Athletics

Satyananda J. Gabriel, Professor of Economics

Samba Gadjigo, Professor of French

R. Harold Garrett-Goodyear, Professor of History

Elissa D. Gelfand, Dorothy Rooke McCulloch Professor of French

Janice Anne Gifford, Professor of Statistics

Penny T. Gill, Dean of the College; Mary Lyon Professor of Humanities; Professor of Politics

Gary B. Gillis, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Leah Blatt Glasser, Dean of First-Year Studies; Lecturer in English

Maria Alexandra Gomez, Associate Professor of Chemistry

John T. Grayson, Professor of Religion on the Alumnae Foundation

Peter J. Gruber, Christianna Smith Professor of Biological Sciences

Sue Ellen F. Gruber, Christianna Smith Professor of Biological Sciences

Lowell W. Gudmundson, Professor of Latin American Studies and History

Christian Gundermann, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Gender Studies

Rie Hachiyanagi, Associate Professor of Art

Darren G. Hamilton, Associate Professor of Chemistry

Holly E. Hanson, Associate Professor of History

James Harold, Associate Professor of Philosophy

James Hartley, Professor of Economics; Director of First Year Seminars

Sohail Hashmi, Associate Professor of International Relations on the Alumnae Foundation

Eugene D. Hill, Professor of English

Nancy Holden-Avard, Senior Lecturer in French

Karen Hollis, Professor of Psychology and Education

Martha F. Hoopes, Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

Gail A. Hornstein, Professor of Psychology and Education

Lilian M. Hsu, Elizabeth Page Greenawalt Professor of Biochemistry

Janice A. Hudgings, Associate Professor of Physics

Julie Inness, Associate Professor of Philosophy

Vanessa James, Professor of Theatre Arts; Chair, Department of Theatre Arts

Mohammed Jiyad, Five College Senior Lecturer in Arabic

Peter T. Jones, Lecturer and Accompanist in Dance

Stephen F. Jones, Professor of Russian Studies

Girma Kebbede, Professor of Geography

Shahrukh Rafi Khan, Visiting Professor of Economics

Kavita Khory, Professor of Politics

Jeremy King, Associate Professor of History

Jeffrey A. Knight, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Linda Laderach, Professor of Music

Mark E. Landon, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics

Andrew Lass, Professor of Anthropology

Sandra M. Lawrence, Associate Professor of Psychology and Education; Director, Secondary and Middle School Teacher Preparation Programs

Carole Lee, Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Christina Lee, Senior Lecturer in Physical Education

Catherine LeGouis, Professor of French

John W. Lemly, Professor of English

Barbara Lerner, Associate Professor of Computer Science

Jonathan Lipman, Felicia Gressitt Bock Professor of Asian Studies and Professor of History

Louise Litterick, Professor of Music

Ward A. Lopes, Mount Holyoke Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics

Michelle J. Markley, Associate Professor of Geology

Roberto Márquez, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Amy E. Martin, Assistant Professor of English

Angelo Mazzocco, Professor Emeritus of Italian and Spanish

Frederick J. McGinness, Professor of History

Matthew McKeever, Associate Professor of Sociology

Jillian McLeod, Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Mark McMenamin, Professor of Geology

Catharine Melhorn, Professor Emeritus of Music

Will J. Millard, Professor of Psychology and Education

Marion G. Miller, Professor of Art

Thomas Millette, Associate Professor of Geography

Rogelio Miñana, Associate Professor of Spanish

Samuel Mitchell, Associate Professor of Philosophy

Richard Moran, Professor of Sociology

Lynda Morgan, Associate Professor of History

Lynn Morgan, Mary E. Woolley Professor of Anthropology

Charlene Morrow, Codirector, SummerMath; Lecturer in Psychology and Education

James Morrow, Codirector, SummerMath; Lecturer in Mathematics

Dorothy E. Mosby, Associate Professor of Spanish

Fred Moseley, Professor of Economics

Susanne Mrozik, Associate Professor of Religion

Naoko Nemoto, Associate Professor of Asian Studies

Megan Elizabeth Núñez, Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Olabode Omojola, Five College Assistant Professor of Music

Donal B. O'Shea, Dean of Faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs; Elizabeth T. Kennan Professor of Mathematics and Statistics

Becky Wai-Ling Packard, Associate Professor of Psychology and Education

Eva Paus, Professor of Economics; Carol Hoffman Collins Director of the McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives

Michael Penn, Associate Professor of Religion

Jenny Perlin, Five College Visiting Artist in Film Studies

Ellen Perrella, Senior Lecturer in Physical Education and Athletics

Indira Peterson, David B. Truman Professor of Asian Studies; Five College Fortieth Anniversary Professor

Mark A. Peterson, Professor of Physics and Mathematics on the Alumnae Foundation

Harriet Pollatsek, Julia and Sarah Ann Adams Professor of Mathematics

Laurie Priest, Senior Lecturer of Physical Education; Director of Athletics

Christopher H. Pyle, Class of 1926 Professor of Politics

William H. Quillian, Professor of English on the Emma B. Kennedy Foundation

Stan P. Rachootin, Professor of Biological Sciences

Patricia G. Ramsey, Professor of Psychology and Education

John Rapoport, Professor Emeritus of Economics

Karen Remmler, Professor of German Studies

Mary Renda, Associate Professor of History and Gender Studies

Christopher Rivers, Professor of French

Margaret Robinson, Professor of Mathematics

Michael Robinson, Professor of Economics

Sami Rollins, Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Nieves Romero-Díaz, Associate Professor of Spanish

Joshua Hotaka Roth, Associate Professor of Anthropology

David W. Sanford, Associate Professor of Music

Aldo Santiago, Senior Lecturer in Physical Education and Athletics

Lauret Savoy, Professor of Geology

Larry D. Schipull, Professor of Music

Patricia Higino Schneider, Assistant Professor of Economics

Robert M. Schwartz, E. Nevius Rodman Professor of History

Peter J. Scotto, Associate Professor of Russian

Susan Downing, Senior Lecturer in Russian

Robert B. Shaw, Professor of English

Robert B. Shilkret, Norma Cutts DaFoe Professor of Psychology

Jessica Sidman, Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Ajay J. Sinha, Professor of Art

Joseph Smith, Associate Professor of Art

Preston H. Smith II, Associate Professor of Politics

Susan Smith, Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences

Melinda Kessler Spratlan, Professor of Music

Paul Staiti, Professor of Fine Arts on the Alumnae Foundation

Gary Steigerwalt, Professor of Music

Walter E. Stewart, Professor of Politics

Sharon Stranford, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Carole E. Straw, Professor of History

Geoffrey S. Sumi, Associate Professor of Classics

Sarah Sutherland, Associate Dean of Faculty; Lecturer in English

C. Sean Sutton, Professor of Physics

Margaret L. Switten, Professor Emeritus of French

Eleanor R. Townsley, Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies

Kenneth H. Tucker Jr., Professor of Sociology

Nicole C. Vaget, Reverend Joseph Paradis Professor of French

Araceli Valle, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Education

Patricia VandenBerg, Executive Director of Communications and Strategic Initiatives; Adjunct Lecturer in Theatre Arts

Donna Van Handle, Senior Lecturer in German Studies; Dean of International Students

John L. Varriano, Idella Plimpton Kendall Professor of Art

Ying Wang, Associate Professor of Asian Studies

Thomas E. Wartenberg, Professor of Philosophy

Robert J. Weaver, Kennedy-Schelkunoff Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science

Donald Weber, Lucia, Ruth, and Elizabeth MacGregor Professor of English

Alan Werner, Professor of Geology

Jon Western, Five College Associate Professor of International Relations

Andrea Whitcomb, Senior Lecturer in Physical Education

Lucas Wilson, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Economics

Craig Woodard, Professor of Biological Sciences; Associate Dean of the Faculty for Science

Tadanori Yamashita, Professor Emeritus of Religion

Elizabeth Young, Professor of English and Gender Studies