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ENVS Faculty Affiliates

Affiliates for the 2022-2023 Academic Year

Syon Bhanot

Associate Professor

Economics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8369
  2. Kohlberg Hall 206
  3. Office Hours:

    Mondays 11:20am-1:00pm

  1. Profile
  2. Personal site

Areas of Interest: Behavioral Economics, Public Economics, Experimental Economics, Public Policy 

Timothy Burke

Professor

Department Chair, History (co-chair)

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8115
  2. Trotter Hall 206
  3. Office Hours:

    Mondays, 2-4 p.m., Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m.,  or by appointment

  1. Profile
  2. Easily Distracted: Culture, Politics, Academia, and Other Shiny Objects
  3. Aydelotte Foundation

Interests: Africa, cultural studies

Professor Timothy J. Burke

Paloma Checa-Gismero

Assistant Professor

Art History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5671
  2. Beardsley Hall 203
  3. Office Hours:

    Mondays & Wednesdays 4-5pm and by appointment.

  1. Profile

Vince Formica

Associate Professor

On Leave - Academic Year

Biology

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8621
  2. Maxine Frank Singer '52 Hall 405
  1. Profile
  2. Website

Bethany Formica Bender

(she-her-hers-herself)

Lecturer

Dance

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6164
  2. Eugene M. and Theresa Lang Performing Arts Center 8
  3. Office Hours:

    By appointment

  1. Profile
  2. Website

Contemporary Modern Dance

Sibelan Forrester

Susan W. Lippincott Professor of Modern and Classical Languages

Program Coordinator, Interpretation Theory

Section Head, Russian

Modern Languages & Literatures-Russian

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8162
  2. Kohlberg Hall 340
  1. Profile
  2. Homepage

Interests: Russian and East European women writers; gender and sexuality in language and literature; Modernism; literary and scholarly translation and translation theory

Joshua Goldwyn

Associate Professor

Mathematics & Statistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6059
  2. Science Center 154
  1. Website

Areas of Research: Applied mathematics, mathematical neuroscience

Christopher Green

Visiting Assistant Professor

Art History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-3339
  2. Beardsley Hall 204
  1. Profile
  2. Website
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History Chris Green headshot

David Harrison

Professor

On Leave - Academic Year

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5785
  2. Pearson Hall 102
  1. Profile
  2. Website
  3. Google Scholar

Nick Kaplinsky

Professor

Division Chair, Natural Sciences & Engineering

Biology

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8039
  2. Maxine Frank Singer '52 Hall 402
  3. Maxine Frank Singer '52 Hall 423
  1. Website

Research: Molecular genetics of plant abiotic stress response

Ayse Kaya

Professor

Program Coordinator, Global Studies

On Leave - Academic Year

Political Science

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8471
  2. Trotter Hall 311
  1. Website

Shailen Mishra

Visiting Assistant Professor

Writing Associates

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5641
  1. Profile

 

 

Benjamin Ridgway

Assistant Professor

Modern Languages & Literatures-Chinese

Asian Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7675
  2. Kohlberg Hall 305
  1. Profile

Kathryn Riley ’10

Assistant Professor

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7369
  2. Science Center 284
  1. Profile
  2. Research Lab

Research interests: nanomaterial surface properties and interactions with biomolecules

Kathryn Riley

Peter Schmidt

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor

English Literature

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8156
  2. Eugene M. and Theresa Lang Performing Arts Center 206
  3. Office Hours:

    Tues and Thurs 11:15 to 12:00 
    and by appointment.
    (in person or via Zoom)

  1. Profile
  2. Website

Sunka Simon

Professor

Department Chair, Film & Media Studies

Modern Languages & Literatures-German

Film & Media Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7354
  2. Kohlberg Hall 312
  3. Office Hours:

    Wednesdays 10:30am-12:00pm and by appt.

  1. Website

Sunka Simon is the author of German Crime Dramas from Network Television to Netflix (2023) and Mail-Orders: The Fiction of Letters in Postmodern Culture (2002), co-editor of Globally Networked Teaching in the Humanities (2015) and numerous articles on German literature, film, television, and popular music.

Professor Sunka Simon

Hillary Smith

Assistant Professor of Physics

Physics & Astronomy-Physics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5521
  2. Science Center 121
  1. Profile
  2. Website

Research Interests: materials physics, energy storage materials, phonon dynamics, scattering

Hilary Smith

Lee Smithey

(he-him-his-himself)

Professor

On Leave - Academic Year

Peace & Conflict Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-2064
  2. Parrish Hall
  3. Office Hours:

    By appointment

  1. Profile
Professor Lee Smithey

Tracey Stewart

Assistant Professor

Music

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6266
  2. Lang Music Building 411
  1. Profile

Elizabeth Stevens

Associate Professor

Theater

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-6889
  2. Eugene M. and Theresa Lang Performing Arts Center 308
  1. Profile
  2. CV and Resume
  3. Website

Suzy Thornton

Assistant Professor

Mathematics & Statistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-6857
  2. Science Center 136
  1. Profile
  2. Website

Steve Wang

(he-him-his-himself)

Professor of Statistics

Mathematics & Statistics-Statistics

Environmental Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5769
  2. Science Center 159
  1. Website

Area of research: paleobiology, macroevolution, and statistics.

Steve C Wang