HSA Faculty and Staff
Department Chair: Ken Fandell
Advising Coordinator: Vivien Hamilton
Faculty
William Alves
Professor of MusicDMA, University of Southern Californiaalves@hmc.edu
Music composition; computer music; alternate tuning systems; gamelan music; abstract computer animation.
Isabel Balseiro
Professor of Comparative LiteratureAlexander and Adelaide Hixon Professor of HumanitiesPhD, New York UniversityParsons 1282909.607.2661isabel_balseiro@hmc.edu
Contemporary writers and film makers of Africa and South America; cultural and race studies; film and postcolonial literature.
Kathleen Burns
Hixon-Riggs Early Career Fellow in Science and Technology StudiesPhD, Duke University
The intersections of the environmental humanities and transatlantic literature from the mid-nineteenth century to present, with emphases in science and visual/media studies.
David Cubek
Associate Professor of MusicJoint music facultyDMus, Northwestern University
Conducting symphonic and operatic repertoire; research on alternative modes of orchestral training and music as an interdisciplinary art form.
Ambereen Dadabhoy
Associate Professor of LiteraturePhD, Claremont Graduate UniversityParsons 1284909.607.7346ambereen_dadabhoy@hmc.edu
Early modern English literature; Shakespeare; postcolonial theory; East-West encounter.
Marianne De Laet
Professor of Anthropology and Science, Technology, and SocietyPhD, University of Utrecht, Netherlandsdelaet@hmc.edu
Social studies of science; cultural anthropology; technology
and culture; video game culture; practices of knowledge-making; collaboration and management in big science.
Erika Dyson
Associate Professor of Religious StudiesWillard W. Keith Jr. Fellow in the HumanitiesPhD, Columbia UniversityParsons 1266909.607.0856erika_dyson@hmc.edu
Religion and science; intersections between social-change activism and religion; American religious history; and church and state.
Kenneth Fandell
Professor of ArtMichael G. and C. Jane Wilson Chair in Arts and HumanitiesMFA, University of Illinois at ChicagoParsons 1257ken_fandell@hmc.edu
Interdisciplinary arts.
Alfred Flores
Assistant Professor of Asian American StudiesPhD, University of California, Los AngelesParsons 1253909.627.0453alflores@g.hmc.edu
Pacific Islander history, Asian American history, labor, militarization, race, settler colonialism.
Anup Gampa
Assistant Professor of PsychologyPhD, University of Virginia
Social psychology of social movements, racism, capitalism and wealth inequality.
Jeffrey D. Groves
Louisa and Robert Miller Professor of HumanitiesPhD, Claremont Graduate SchoolParsons 1284909.607.7346groves@hmc.edu
Nineteenth-century American literature; history of the book; Shakespeare.
Vivien Hamilton
Associate Professor of the History of SciencePhD, University of TorontoParsons 1278909.607.7997vivien_hamilton@hmc.edu
History of physics; history of medicine; gender and science; disciplinary cultures in science.
Charles Kamm
Associate Professor of MusicJoint music facultyDMA, Yale University
Concert choir; chamber choir; music history.
Rachel Mayeri
Professor of Media StudiesMFA, University of California, San DiegoParsons 1277909.607.0461rachel_mayeri@hmc.edu
Experimental documentary production; motion graphics and animation; history of special effects; genetics and society; ecology and art; history of science and art.
Salvador Plascencia
Advising CoordinatorAssociate Professor of Creative WritingMFA, Syracuse UniversityParsons 1259909.621.8022splascencia@hmc.edu
Creative writing; The novel as print technology.
David K. Seitz
Assistant Professor of Cultural GeographyPhD, University of TorontoParsons 1255909.621.8022dseitz@g.hmc.edu
Geographies of citizenship; feminist, critical race and queer theories; affect.
Paul Steinberg
Professor of Political Science and Environmental PolicyMalcolm Lewis Chair of Sustainability and SocietyPhD, University of California, Santa CruzParsons 1280909.607.3840paul_steinberg@hmc.edu
International and comparative environmental politics; policy analysis; sustainable development; biodiversity; political science research methods.
Darryl Wright
Professor of PhilosophyPhD, University of MichiganParsons 1268909.607.4478darryl_wright@hmc.edu
History of ethics; moral and political philosophy.
Emeritus Faculty
Emeriti faculty are retired faculty members who have been awarded special status by the College in recognition of their service.
Hal S. Barron
Professor of History EmeritusLouisa and Robert Miller Professor of HumanitiesPhD, University of Pennsylvania
U.S. social history; history of rural America; immigration and ethnicity
Gary R. Evans
Professor of Economics EmeritusPhD, University of California, Riverside
Financial institutions; small business development; enterprise and entrepreneurship.
Staff
Deborah Laird
Administrative CoordinatorParsons 1263909.621.8022deborah_laird@hmc.edu
Julia Hong
Arts Directorjlhong@g.hmc.edu