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Faculty & Staff

Program Coordinator and Staff

Sibelan Forrester

Professor of Russian, Russian Section Head, Coordinator for Interpretation Theory

Contact

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

Bertha Saldierna

Administrative Assistant II

Interdisciplinary Programs Office

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7674
  2. Trotter Hall 107
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Debbie Sloman

Administrative Assistant in Classics, Interdisciplinary Programs

Classics

Interdisciplinary Programs

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8165
  2. Trotter Hall 110 Classics
  3. Trotter Hall 107 Interdisciplinary Programs
Debbie Sloman

Program Committee

Farid Azfar

Associate Professor

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5765
  2. Trotter 212
  3. Office Hours:

    Fridays, 12 - 3 pm

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Interests: Early Modern Europe, urban, sexuality

Professor Azfar selfie in the city.

Osman Balkan

Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-3546
  2. Trotter Hall 312
  3. Office Hours:

    Thursdays, 9 - 11 am or by appointment.  

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  2. Website
  3. Curriculum Vitae
Osman Balkan

Jean-Vincent Blanchard

Professor of French

Associate Dean of the Faculty for Academic Programs

French and Francophone Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8159
  2. Kohlberg 313
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  2. Website

Timothy Burke

Professor

Co-Director of the Aydelotte Foundation

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8115
  2. Trotter 206
  3. Parrish W201
  4. Office Hours:

    Thursdays, 10-12 & 1-3

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

Interests: Africa, cultural studies

Professor Timothy J. Burke

Rachel Sagner Buurma

Director, Aydelotte Foundation

Associate Professor, English

Aydelotte Foundation

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8666
  2. Lang Performing Arts Center 302
  3. Parrish W201
  4. Office Hours:

    Tuesday 12-2 and by appointment. Email me for online meeting room link. 

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  2. rachelsagnerbuurma.org

Grace Ledbetter

Professor of Classics and Philosophy, Chair of Classics, Director of the Honors Program

Classics and Philosophy

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8372
  2. Trotter 112
  3. Office Hours:

    M, T, Th, F 12:00-1:00 pm and by appointment

    Please email gledbet1@swarthmore.edu for zoom link

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Interests: Plato, Ancient Philosophy, Greek poetry

Grace Ledbetter

Tamsin Lorraine

Professor of Philosophy

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8423
  2. Beardsley 211A
  3. Office Hours:

     via Zoom. Check my Google calendar for an appointment.

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Interests: Phenemonology, Existentialism, Post-Structrualism, Feminist Theory

Professor Tamsin Lorraine

Rosaria Munson

J. Archer and Helen C. Turner Professor

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8370
  2. Trotter 113
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Interests: Greek historiography, narratology, Greek politics, ethnography, the Ancient Near East
Rosaria Munson

Maya Nadkarni

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Sociology & Anthropology

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8111
  2. Kohlberg 244
  3. Office Hours:

    Tuesdays 1:45- 3:45pm, by appointment

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Patricia Reilly

Associate Professor of Art History

On leave Spring 2021

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-3730
  2. Beardsley 205
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Patricia Reilly

Olivia Sabee

Assistant Professor of Dance

Dance

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8237
  2. LPAC 006
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Eric Song

Associate Professor and Chair

English Literature

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6223
  2. Lang Performing Arts Center 204
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Mark Wallace

Professor of Religion

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7829
  2. Pearson 216
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  2. CV
  3. Wikipedia
Mark Wallace headshot

Patricia White

Professor and Chair

Film and Media Studies

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8148
  2. Kohlberg 111A
  3. Office Hours:

    Fall 2020  M 9-11, Th 2-4 and by appointment

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  2. Website
Patricia White