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: Fridays 2:00pm-3:30pm 

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Personal site

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

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Timothy Burke

Professor

On Leave - Fall

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8115
  2. Trotter Hall 206
  3. Office Hours: On leave Fall 2025

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Eight by Seven

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.

Links

  1. Profile
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Vince Formica

Associate Professor

Department Chair, Biology

Biology

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8621
  2. Singer Hall 405

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Website
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Sibelan Forrester

Susan W. Lippincott Professor of Modern and Classical Languages

Modern Languages & Literatures-Russian

Comparative Literature

Interpretation Theory

Contact

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

Links

  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

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Joshua Goldwyn

Associate Professor of Mathematics

Mathematics & Statistics-Mathematics

Contact

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

Links

  1. Website

Areas of Research: Applied mathematics, mathematical neuroscience

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Christopher Green

Visiting Assistant Professor

Environmental Studies

Art History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-3339
  2. Parrish Hall W221

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Website
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David Harrison

Professor

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5785
  2. Pearson Hall 7

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Website
  3. Google Scholar
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Nick Kaplinsky

Isaac H. Clothier, Jr. Professor of Biology

On Leave - Spring

Biology

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8039
  2. Singer Hall 402
  3. 423

Links

  1. Website

Research: Molecular genetics of plant abiotic stress response

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Ayse Kaya

Professor

Department Chair, Political Science

Program Coordinator, Global Studies

Political Science

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8471
  2. Trotter Hall 311
  3. Office Hours: Tuesdays/Thursdays 11:15AM-12:15PM Please book an appointment using Google calendar

Links

  1. Website
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Shailen Mishra

Visiting Assistant Professor

Writing Associates

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5641

Links

  1. Profile
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Benjamin Ridgway

On Leave

Modern Languages & Literatures-Chinese

Asian Studies

Contact

  1. Kohlberg Hall

Links

  1. Profile
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Kathryn Riley ’10

(she-her-hers-herself)

Associate Professor

On Leave - Academic Year

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7369
  2. Science Center 284
  3. Science Center 295
  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

Environmental Studies

Black Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8156
  2. Lang Performing Arts Center 206
  3. Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday, 11:30-noon or so, and other times by appointment.  To make an appointment, email me. Can meet in person or on Zoom.
     

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Website
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Sunka Simon

Henry C. and Charlotte Turner Professor

On Leave - Academic Year

Modern Languages & Literatures-German

Film & Media Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7354
  2. Martin Hall 106
  3. Office Hours: by appointment

Links

  1. Profile
  2. 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.

 

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Hillary Smith

Associate Professor of Physics

Physics & Astronomy-Physics

Contact

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

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Website

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

Hilary Smith

Lee Smithey

(he-him-his-himself)

Professor

Peace & Conflict Studies

Contact

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

Links

  1. Profile
Professor Lee Smithey

Tracey Stewart

Assistant Professor

On Leave - Academic Year

Music

Contact

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

Links

  1. Profile
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K. Elizabeth Stevens

Associate Professor

Division Chair, Arts and Humanities

Theater

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-6889
  2. Lang Performing Arts Center 308

Links

  1. Profile
  2. CV and Resume
  3. Website
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Steve Wang

(he-him-his-himself)

Professor of Statistics

On Leave - Academic Year

Mathematics & Statistics-Statistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5769

Links

  1. Website

Area of research: paleobiology, macroevolution, and statistics.

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