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Department Chair: Darryl Wright
Advising Coordinator: Paul Steinberg

Faculty: William Alves | Isabel Balseiro | Hal S. Barron | David Cubek | Ambereen Dadabhoy
Marianne De Laet | Erika Dyson | Gary R. Evans | Kenneth Fandell | Jeffrey D. Groves
Vivien Hamilton | Charles Kamm | Debra Mashek | Rachel Mayeri | Paul Steinberg
Lisa M. Sullivan | Chang Tan | Darryl Wright

Emeritus Faculty: Tad Beckman | Michael D. Lamkin | Richard G. Olson

	William Alves Associate Professor of Music D.M.A., University of Southern California Music composition • computer music • alternate tuning systems • gamelan music • abstract computer animation
	Isabel Balseiro Professor of Comparative Literature Alexander and Adelaide Hixon Professor of Humanities Ph.D., New York University Contemporary writers and film makers of Africa and South America • cultural and race studies • film and postcolonial literature
	Hal S. Barron Professor of History Louisa and Robert Miller Professor of Humanities Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania U.S. social history • history of rural America • immigration and ethnicity
	David Cubek Assistant Professor of Music Joint music faculty D.Mus., Northwestern University Conducting symphonic and operatic repertoire • research on alternative modes of orchestral training and music as an interdisciplinary art form
	Ambereen Dadabhoy Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature Ph.D. Claremont Graduate University Early modern English literature • Shakespeare • postcolonial theory • East-West encounter
	Marianne De Laet Associate Professor of Anthropology and Science, Technology, and Society Ph.D., University of Utrecht, Netherlands Social studies of science • cultural anthropology • technology and culture • video game culture • practices of knowledge-making • collaboration and management in big science
	Erika Dyson Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Ph.D., Columbia University Religion and science • intersections between social-change activism and religion • American religious history • and church and state
	Gary R. Evans Professor of Economics Ruth and Harvey Berry Professor of Entrepreneurial Leadership Ph.D., University of California, Riverside Financial institutions • small business development • enterprise and entrepreneurship
	Kenneth Fandell Associate Professor of Art MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago Interdisciplinary Arts
	Jeffrey D. Groves Professor of Literature Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School Nineteenth-century American literature • history of the book • Shakespeare
	Vivien Hamilton Assistant Professor of the History of Science Ph.D., University of Toronto (expected December 2011) History of physics • history of medicine • gender and science • diciplinary cultures in science
	Charles Kamm Associate Professor of Music Joint music faculty D.M.A., Yale University Concert choir • chamber choir • music history
	Debra Mashek Associate Professor of Psychology Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook Close relationships • psychology of gender • psychology of incarceration
	Rachel Mayeri Associate Professor of Media Studies M.F.A., University of California, San Diego Experimental documentary production • motion graphics and animation • history of special effects • genetics and society • ecology and art • history of science and art
	Paul Steinberg Associate Professor of Political Science and Environmental Policy Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz International and comparative environmental politics • policy analysis • sustainable development • biodiversity • political science research methods
	Lisa M. Sullivan Professor of Economics Ph.D., University of Toronto Comparative history of work • medieval and early American economic history • economics of higher education
	Chang Tan Assistant Professor of Chinese Language and Culture Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin Contemporary Chinese art and visual culture • modernity and modernism in Asia • representation of urban space in art and literature
	Darryl Wright Department Chair Professor of Philosophy Ph.D., University of Michigan History of ethics • moral and political philosophy

Emeritus Faculty

	Tad Beckman Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
	Michael D. Lamkin Professor of Music Ph. D., University of Iowa Joint music faculty Central European music and history 1750-1950 • intersections of European cultures

Richard Olson

Richard G. Olson
Professor of History
Willard W. Keith Jr. Fellow in the Humanities
Ph.D., Harvard University
History of science • gender issues in science • science and religion • U.S. science policy