Faculty

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Christine McWayne

Professor
Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study & Human Development
Early childhood education, school success of young children at risk due to poverty, parenting and family-school partnerships in diverse ethnocultural communities, culturally inclusive STEM curriculum, community-based research collaborations.
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Raysa Mederos

Lecturer
Romance Studies
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Alice Mello

Professor of the Practice
Data Analytics
Developing project-based curriculum in data analytics and data science for Public High Schools. Women in STEM. Storytelling with Data. Experiential Learning.
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Deborah Menegotto

Lecturer
Economics
Microeconomics, Industrial Organization, Game Theory
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Patricia Meneses

Visiting Lecturer
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts
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Lilian Mengesha

Fletcher Foundation Assistant Professor of Dramatic Literature
Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
Critical Indigenous Studies, Performance Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
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Carmen Merolla

Senior Lecturer and Italian Language Program Coordinator
Romance Studies
Italian contemporary literature, Italian literature of immigration, Italian cinema and "Second generation" Italian artistic production; Teaching language and culture through film, use of technology, smartphone applications and social media in the language class to foster intercultural competences, interdisciplinary approach to language and culture learning; Inclusive Italian; Creation of cultural immersion study abroad programs.
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Gilbert Metcalf

Professor Emeritus
Economics
Energy and Environmental Policy, Tax Policy, Applied Microeconomics
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Mara Metcalf

Lecturer
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts
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Anne Meyer

Lecturer
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts
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Fernando Michelin

Lecturer
Music
Small Jazz Ensemble
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Klaus Miczek

Moses Hunt Professor of Psychology
Psychology
Psychopharmacology
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Amy Millay

Distinguished Senior Lecturer
Romance Studies
Twentieth-Century Latin American literature; Oral tradition; Testimonial literature; Health in the Spanish-speaking world
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Eric Miller

Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Signal and image processing, tomographic image formation and object characterization, inverse problems, regularization, statistical signal and imaging processing, and computational physical modeling. Applications explored include medical imaging and image analysis, environmental monitoring and remediation, landmine and unexploded ordnance remediation, and automatic target detection and classification.
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Kelsey Miller

Lecturer
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts
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Laurie Miller

Adjunct Professor
Pediatrics
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Jennifer Minnen

Lecturer
English
Expository Writing Victorian Literature and Culture Environmental Humanities Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Peter Minosh

Lecturer
History of Art and Architecture
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Ekaterina Mirkin

Senior Lecturer
Biology
Genetics
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Sergei Mirkin

Professor and White Family Chair in Biology
Biology
Genetics and Molecular Biology
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Jayanthi Mistry

Professor
Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study & Human Development
Theoretical perspectives on the integration of culture and human development; Narratives of identity and place in communities; Navigating multiple cultural worlds, with a focus on ethnic minority, immigrant, and under-represented communities; Interpretive and Narrative Analysis methods in the study of children and families.
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Kerri Modry-Mandell

Senior Lecturer
Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study & Human Development
Pediatric psychology; Developmental Psychopathology; Family Functioning and Adaptation to Pediatric Chronic Illness; Children's Sibling Relationships; Psychological Consultation and Collaboration and Therapeutic Space Design; Grief Support; Pediatric Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Developmental Initiatives
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Noe Montez

Associate Professor and Department Chair of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
Contemporary Theatre and Performance in the Americas, Latinx and Latin American Theatre, Sport as Performance, Critical University Studies, 20th and 21st Century Modernist and Post-Modernist Theatre, Theoretical Approaches to Memory and Commemoration
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Rick Moody

Professor of the Practice
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts
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Neda Moridpour

Professor of the Practice
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts
Art and Civic Engagement, Socially Engaged Art, Social Practice Art, Intersectional Feminism, Art and Collaboration, cycles of violence, migration and displacement, discrimination, LGBTQIA+ rights, Animal rights, Sexual Assault, violence against women
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Margaret Morris

Senior Lecturer
Occupational Therapy
Board Certification in Pediatrics (BCP) 2012-2022, American Occupational Therapy Association Occupational therapy evaluation and intervention in pediatrics, particularly contextual and strengths-based services Pediatrics Evaluation, including strengths-based evaluation, occupation-based evaluation, context & environment Intervention, including models of occupation-based service provision, contextual services, collaboration, strengths-based, least restrictive environment Program development, including systems approaches, strengths-based, mindfulness, social-emotional regulation, physical literacy Teaching and Learning Models of professional development, andragogy, self-regulated learning Project-based learning, technology in teaching and learning, using visual analog scales in course evaluation, concept mapping Online teaching and learning, course design (F2F, hybrid, online)
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Paul Muentener

Associate Professor
Psychology
Conceptual Development, Causal Reasoning, Language & Thought
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Malik Mufti

Professor
Political Science
International Relations, Middle East
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Ng'endo Mukii

Professor of the Practice
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts
Animation and Filmmaking, New Media, Decolonisation
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Jennifer Munson

Lecturer
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts
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Zora Murff

SMFA Endowed Professor of the Practice
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts
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James Murphy

Assistant Professor
Mathematics
Machine learning, harmonic analysis, statistical learning, graph theory, data science, computational mathematics, image processing, signal processing
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Stephen Muscolino

Lecturer
English
Contemporary American Fiction; Postmodern Literature; Media, Communications & International Journalism; Tech Culture & Social Media Studies; Rhetorical Studies & Public Communication
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Isabelle Naginski

Professor Emerita
Romance Studies
19th-Century French Prose; Women Writers; Franco-Russian Literary Relations; Romanticism; Utopian Thought; Feminist Criticism
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Austin Napier

Professor
Physics & Astronomy
Experimental Particle Physics, Electromagnetic Theory, Computational Physics. High Energy Physics: studies of heavy quarks, new particle searches, tests of the Standard Model. Computational Physics: data analysis, simulation, electromagnetism.
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Susan Napier

Goldthwaite Professor of Rhetoric
International Literary and Cultural Studies
History and theory of animation Japanese animation (anime) and comics (manga) Modern Japanese literature Popular culture, especially science fiction and fantasy Contemporary constructions of gender and the body Technology and culture Fan culture Representations of trauma and loss
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Heather S. Nathans

Dean of Academic Affairs and Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion
The School of Arts and Sciences
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Elena Naumova

Professor
Nutrition Epi & Data Science