Affiliates for the 2022-2023 Academic Year
Syon Bhanot
Associate Professor
Economics
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Areas of Interest: Behavioral Economics, Public Economics, Experimental Economics, Public Policy

Timothy Burke
Professor
Department Chair, History (co-chair)
History
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- Profile
- Easily Distracted: Culture, Politics, Academia, and Other Shiny Objects
- Aydelotte Foundation
Interests: Africa, cultural studies

Bethany Formica Bender
Lecturer
Dance
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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
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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
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Areas of Research: Applied mathematics, mathematical neuroscience

David Harrison
Professor
On Leave - Academic Year
Linguistics
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Nick Kaplinsky
Professor
Division Chair, Natural Sciences & Engineering
Biology
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Research: Molecular genetics of plant abiotic stress response

Ayse Kaya
Professor
Program Coordinator, Global Studies
On Leave - Academic Year
Political Science
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Benjamin Ridgway
Assistant Professor
Modern Languages & Literatures-Chinese
Asian Studies
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Kathryn Riley ’10
Assistant Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry
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Research interests: nanomaterial surface properties and interactions with biomolecules

Sunka Simon
Professor
Department Chair, Film & Media Studies
Modern Languages & Literatures-German
Film & Media Studies
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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.
Hillary Smith
Assistant Professor of Physics
Physics & Astronomy-Physics
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Research Interests: materials physics, energy storage materials, phonon dynamics, scattering

Lee Smithey
Professor
On Leave - Academic Year
Peace & Conflict Studies
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Steve Wang
Professor of Statistics
Mathematics & Statistics-Statistics
Environmental Studies
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Area of research: paleobiology, macroevolution, and statistics.
