Faculty and Staff

Program Coordinator and Staff

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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Carina Yervasi

Associate Professor

Executive Director, Global Engagement

Modern Languages & Literatures-French & Francophone Studies

Global Engagement Office

Global Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8167
  2. Kohlberg Hall 309
  3. Scott Arboretum (Cunningham House)
  4. Office Hours: In person and/or virtual. Please schedule in advance. Tuesday: 2-4pm., Thursday: 9-11am. The link for T/TH is here.  Fridays: Virtual Only, 12pm-3pm. Here's the link for Fridays.

Links

  1. Profile
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Shashwat Dhar

Visiting Assistant Professor

Global Studies

Contact

  1. Trotter Hall 106
  2. Office Hours: Wednesdays 3:00-5:00 p.m.

Links

  1. Profile
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Kelly Gomez Zimmer

(she-her-hers-herself)

Administrative Coordinator

Interdisciplinary Programs

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5048
  2. Trotter Hall 107

Links

  1. Profile
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Deb Sloman

(she-her-hers-herself)

Administrative Assistant II, Classics; Administrative Assistant II, Asian Studies; Administrative Support, Classics

Classics

Interdisciplinary Programs

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8165
  2. Trotter Hall 110
  3. Trotter Hall 107
Deb Sloman

Program Committee

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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Farha Ghannam

Professor of Anthropology

On Leave - Academic Year

Sociology & Anthropology-Anthropology

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8104
  2. Kohlberg Hall 240

Links

  1. Profile

On sabbatical 2025-26

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Steven Hopkins

Mari S. Michener Professor of Religion and Asian Studies

On Leave - Fall

Religion

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8035
  2. Pearson Hall 209

Links

  1. Profile
Steven Hopkins at Collioure

Jose-Luis Machado

Associate Professor

Biology

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8562
  2. Singer Hall 401
  3. Singer Hall 424

Links

  1. Profile

Research: Invasive species and plant physiological ecology of temperate and tropical ecosystems

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Maria Pia Olivero

Associate Professor

On Leave - Academic Year

Economics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7331
  2. Kohlberg Hall 208
  3. Office Hours: Thursdays 12:30pm-4:30pm 

Links

  1. Personal site

Areas of interest: Macroeconomics, International Finance, Credit Markets, Latin American Economies.

Maria Pia Olivero

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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Tristan Smith

Associate Professor of Physics

On Leave - Fall

Physics & Astronomy-Physics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8259
  2. Science Center 127A

Links

  1. Website

Research interests: Early universe cosmology; tests of modified theories of gravity; analysis of the cosmic microwave background

Tristan Smith, Professor

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