Faculty and Staff

Hilary Binda, Program Director, Senior Lecturer
John LiBassi, Program Administrator
Katherine Blake, Staff Assistant
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Anthropology
Amahl Bishara, Associate Professor Media, human rights, the state, the Middle East, journalism, democracy, the politics of place, knowledge production, expressivity
Sarah Pinto, Chair, Associate Professor Medical anthropology, gender, mental health, reproduction, cultures of biomedicine, kinship, global feminism, history of the body. Geographical focus on India
Rosalind Shaw, Associate Professor Violence, memory, and futurity; the anthropology of post-conflict; children and youth; transitional justice; West Africa; Sierra Leone
Sarah Luna, Assistant Professor Sex work, migration, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, borders, Mexico, United States
Zarin Machanda, Assistant Professor Biological Anthropology, primatology, chimpanzee behavioral ecology, primate life history and development, the evolution of social relationships, the ecology of male-female relationships
Thomas Abowd, Lecturer in American Studies, Anthropology, and Arabic Studies Colonialism and decolonization; race and racial politics; gender and sexuality; Arab and Muslim Americans; policing and urban protest
Art and Art History
Adriana Zavala, Associate Professor Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art, Art of Mexico, and Gender and Women's Studies
Jeremy Melius, Assistant Professor Modern art and art writing, critical theory and aesthetics, historiography, histories of sexuality
Biology
Susan Ernst, Professor Developmental Biology
Child Study and Human Development
Ellen Pinderhughes, Professor Families and children in challenging circumstances: Parenting and family functioning among diverse families, ethnic-racial socialization processes, cultural and contextual influences and child and youth outcomes; adoption and foster care
Jayanthi Mistry, Associate Professor Cultural perspectives on child development; Development of multiple identities and navigating multiple cultural worlds, with a focus on ethnic minority, immigrant, and under-represented communities; Interpretive methods in the study of children and families; Facilitating change in educational practice through teacher-research & collaboration
Julie Dobrow, Senior Lecturer Children and media, ethnicity/gender and media, adolescents and media use
Community Health
Jennifer Allen, Sc.D., MPH, MSN, RN Associate Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine Professor and Chair, Department of Community Health
Drama and Dance
Barbara Wallace Grossman, Professor Theatre History, Dramatic Literature and Criticism, Directing, Voice and Speech
Laurence Senelick, Fletcher Professor of Oratory Dramatic Literature and Theory, Theatre and Film History
Jennifer Burton, Professor of the Practice (part-time) Filmmaking and Film Studies
Kareem Khubchandani, Mellon Bridge Assistant Professor Performance Studies, Queer Studies, and Southeast Asian Studies
Noe Montez, Assistant Professor, Director of Graduate Studies Theatre History, Dramatic Literature and Criticism, Directing
Monica White Ndounou, Associate Professor Theatre History, Dramatic Literature and Criticism, Acting
Education
Shameka Powell, Assistant Professor Educational Studies and Literacy
Michelle Holliday-Stocking, Lecturer Educational Studies
Erin Seaton, Lecturer Learning and Development
English
Lee Edelman, Fletcher Professor of English Literature Literary theory, film studies, modern poetry
Judith Haber, Professor Early Modern Literature and Culture
Joseph Litvak, Professor; Department Chair Nineteenth-century British Literature, Literary Theory, Jewish Cultural Studies
Linda Bamber, Professor (On Leave Spring 2017) Women and Literature, Shakespeare
Sonia Hofkosh, Associate Professor British romantic Literature
Modhumita Roy, Associate Professor, Director of First-Year Writing Program World Literature in English
Ronna Johnson, Lecturer American Literature Twentieth Century; Second Wave Feminism and Literature; Beat Generation Writing
History
Virginia Drachman, Arthur Stern, Jr. Professorship in American History Modern America, Women in the U.S., Medicine and Society in the U.S.
Alisha Rankin, Associate Professor Early Modern Europe
Man Xu, Assistant Professor Chinese History
International Literary and Cultural Studies
Vida Johnson, Professor (on leave Spring '17) Russian Program; Twentieth Century, Film, Women Writers
Susan Napier, Professor Japanese Program; Japanese Literature, Popular Culture, Anime
Christiane Zehl Romero, Professor German Program; Twentieth Century, Women Writers, Film, Advanced Language
Alexandra Chreiteh (Shraytekh), Mellon Bridge Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies Arabic Studies
Judaic Studies
Gloria Ascher, Associate Professor, Co-Director of Judaic Studies German Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Sephardic Studies, Ladino Language and Literature, Scandinavian Literature, Judaic Studies
Math
Moon Duchin, Associate Professor Geometry of groups and surfaces
Music
Stephan Pennington, Associate Professor Popular Music and Jazz of the United States/Europe, African American Music, Critical Musicology, Queer and Transgender Studies, and the Performance of Musical Identity with special attention to race, class, gender, and sexuality
Melinda Latour, Assistant Professor
Philosophy
Nancy Bauer, Professor & Dean (on leave AY 16/17) Feminism, existentialism and phenomenology, ordinary language philosophy, philosophy and film
Political Science
Richard C. Eichenberg, Associate Professor International Relations, Foreign Policy, Political Behavior
Elizabeth Remick, Associate Professor Comparative Politics, East Asia
Pearl T. Robinson, Associate Professor Comparative Politics, Africa, African-American Politics
Psychology
Jessica Remedios, Assistant Professor Social Cognition
Religion
Jennifer Eyl, Assistant Professor Early Christianity, Ancient Mediterranean religions, gender & sexuality in antiquity, theory of religion
Peggy Hutaff, Senior Lecturer Christian Studies
Romance Languages
Isabelle Naginski, Professor, Co-Director of International Literary & Visual Studies Program 19th-century French prose, Franco-Russian literary relations, women writers
Nina Gerassi-Navarro, Associate Professor, Director of Latin American Studies Latin American literature and culture
Laura Baffoni-Licata, Senior Lecturer/Coordinator of Italian Studies Italian literature and culture
Claire Schub, Senior Lecturer 19th- and 20th-century French literature
Amy Millay, Lecturer Spanish language and literature
Sociology
Freeden Blume Oeur, Assistant Professor Gender and Masculinity, Education, Youth, Sociological and Feminist Theory
Jill Weinberg, Assistant Professor Crime, Law, Deviance; Sports; the Body; Research Methods
Visual and Critical Studies
Hilary Binda, Senior Lecturer / Director WGSS / Director Tufts U. Prison Initiative at Tisch College (TUPIT) Gender/Sexuality Studies, Literature of Confinement, Literary Theory and Visual Culture Studies, Modern Poetry/Poetics, Early Modern British Literature incl. Shakespeare

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