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

Timothy Burke
Professor
Co-Director of the Aydelotte Foundation
History
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- Profile
- Easily Distracted: Culture, Politics, Academia, and Other Shiny Objects
- Aydelotte Foundation
Interests: Africa, cultural studies


James Fenelon
Lang Visiting Professor for Issues of Social Change
Professor of Sociology
Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility
Sociology and Anthropology
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Bethany Formica Bender
Lecturer
Music & Dance
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Contemporary Modern Dance

Sibelan Forrester
Professor of Russian, Russian Section Head
Coordinator of Interpretation Theory
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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

K. David Harrison
Professor
On leave Fall 2022 and Spring 2023
Linguistics
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Nick Kaplinsky
Professor
(on leave F'21-S'22)
Plant Molecular Genetics
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Research: Molecular genetics of plant abiotic stress response

Ayse Kaya
Professor of Political Science
Program Coordinator for Global Studies
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Madalina Meirosu
Visiting Assistant Professor
Modern Languages & Literatures
Gender & Sexuality Studies
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Madalina Meirosu specializes in comparative approaches to nineteenth-century political and social thought in German literature. She also has expertise in contemporary migration literature, the Medical Humanities, and Women and Gender Studies. Her current research project explores the political undertones of nineteenth-century literature featuring artificial humanoids.

Shailen Mishra
Visiting Assistant Professor
Interim Multilingual Writing Specialist
Writing Associates Program
English Literature
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Kathryn Riley
Assistant Professor
Analytical Chemistry
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Research interests: nanomaterial surface properties and interactions with biomolecules

Sunka Simon
Professor
Chair, Film & Media Studies
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Sunka Simon's research focuses on the intersections of gender, race, and place in postwar German popular culture. She is the author of the book Mail-Orders: The Fiction of Letters in Postmodern Culture (2002) and eighteen scholarly articles on German literature, film and popular German culture. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled Euro-Eyes: Regionalism and Globalization in German TV Formats.
Hillary Smith
Assistant Professor of Physics
Physics & Astronomy
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Research Interests: materials physics, energy storage materials, phonon dynamics, scattering

Lee Smithey
Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Sociology
Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies
Pronouns: He/Him
Peace & Conflict Studies
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K. Elizabeth Stevens
Associate Professor and Chair
Theater
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Steve Wang
Professor
Mathematics and Statistics
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Area of research: paleobiology, macroevolution, and statistics.
