Faculty Connections

Mount Holyoke's 200 faculty members are innovative teachers dedicated to their students. They're also active scholars, research scientists, and creative artists passionate about their disciplines. Half are women, and a fifth are persons of color. Four-fifths are continuing faculty with a lifelong commitment to the College. Like our students, the Mount Holyoke faculty come from all over the world. They speak 43 languages in addition to English. Last year they published nearly 30 books, wrote more than 150 articles and scientific papers, many with undergraduate coauthors, and received more than 40 major grants, over half for work with students.

They have won numerous national and international awards, including five National Science Foundation early career awards, a MacArthur Fellowship, three Guggenheims, a Pulitzer Prize, the Rome Prize, the National Book Award, and many Fulbrights. They consistently receive research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Social Science Research Council. They have recently received awards from the Mellon, Luce, Ford, Freeman, Woodrow Wilson, and Dreyfus Foundations, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Hewlett-Packard, GE, DuPont, and Research Corporation.