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2014-2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Continuing Faculty


2013-14

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(as of August 1, 2013)

 

(tenured/tenure-track appointments) 

Peter J. Ahrensdorf, James Sprunt Professor of Political Science and Humanities (1989, 2003)
B.A. (Yale), Ph.D. (University of Chicago)  

 

 
Daniel W. Aldridge III, Professor of History (2000, 2012)
B.A. (Michigan State), J.D. (Northwestern University Law School), Ph.D. (Emory)  

 

 
**Ruth L. Ault, Nancy and Erwin Maddrey Professor of Psychology (1979, 1989)
B.A. (Pomona), M.A., Ph.D. (UCLA)  

 

 
Ben Baker, Professor of Economics (1997, 2006)
B.A. (Wofford), M.A. (University of South Carolina, Columbia)  

 

 
Hágit Barkai, Assistant Professor of Art (2011, 2011)
B.A. (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), M.F.A. (Pennsylvania State)  

 

 
Robin Bruce Barnes, Professor of History (1980, 1994)
B.A. (Colby), M.A., Ph.D. (Virginia)  

 

 
Cole Barton, C. Louise Nelson Professor of Psychology (1983, 1994)
B.A., M.S., Ph.D. (Utah)  

 

 
Ruth Freitag Beeston, Professor of Chemistry (1984, 1998)
B.S. (Bucknell), Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill)  

 

 
*Mario J. Belloni, Professor of Physics (1998, 2012)
B.A. (University of California, Berkeley), M.A., Ph.D. (University of Connecticut)  

 

 
**Jonathon P. Berkey, James B. Duke Professor in International Studies and Professor of History and Humanities (1993, 2004)
B.A. (Williams), M.A., Ph.D. (Princeton)  

 

 
Karen Kabat Bernd, Associate Professor of Biology (1998, 2004)
B.A. (Franklin and Marshall), M.A., Ph.D. (Princeton)  

 

 
Irl C. Bivens, Professor of Mathematics (1982, 1992)
A.B. (Pfeiffer), Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill)  

 

 
David N. Blauch, Professor of Chemistry (1993, 2006)
B.S. (Lebanon Valley College), Ph.D. (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena)  

 

 
Alison Bory, Assistant Professor of Dance (2010, 2012) 
B.A. (Mt. Holyoke), M.A. (University of Surrey, Guildford), M.F.A., Ph.D. (University of California, Riverside)  

 

 
Mauro Botelho, Associate Professor of Music (1990, 1996)
B.M., M.M. (University of Cincinnati), Ph.D. (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)  

 

 
Laurian R. Bowles, Assistant Professor of Anthropology (2013, 2013)
B.A. (Pennsylvania State), M.A. (University of London), M.A., Ph.D. (Temple)  

 

 
Daniel M. Boye, Professor of Physics (1989, 2001)
B.S. (Emory & Henry), Ph.D. (University of Georgia, Athens)  

 

 
+Patricio E. Boyer, Assistant Professor of Spanish (2011, 2011)
B.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. (Yale)  

 

 
+Graham D. Bullock, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Environmental Studies (2011, 2011)
A.B. (Princeton), M.A. (Harvard), Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley)  

 

 
Laurence S. Cain, Richardson Professor of Physics (1989, 2001)
B.S. (Wake Forest), M.S., Ph.D. (Virginia)  

 

 
A. Malcolm Campbell, Professor of Biology (1994, 2007)
B.S. (Davidson), Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins)  

 

 
Shireen E. Campbell, Professor of English (1993, 2008)
B.A. (Florida Atlantic), M.A., Ph.D. (Tulane)  

 

 
Felix Alvin Carroll, Jr., Joseph R. Morton Professor of Chemistry (1972, 1986)
B.S. (UNC Chapel Hill), Ph.D. (California Institute of Technology)  

 

 
Verna M. Case, Associate Dean for Teaching, Learning, and Research and Beverly F. Dolan Professor of Biology (1974, 1991)
B.S., M.S., Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State)  

 

 
Timothy P. Chartier, Associate Professor of Mathematics (2003, 2009)
B.S., M.S. (Western Michigan), Ph.D. (University of Colorado, Boulder)  

 

 
Keyne A. Cheshire, Associate Professor of Classics (2002, 2008)
B.A. (Carleton), M.A., Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill)  

 

 
Helen Cho, Associate Professor of Anthropology (2002, 2008)
B.A., B.S. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), M.A., Ph.D. (University of Missouri, Columbia)  

 

 
Wolfgang Christian, Herman Brown Professor of Physics (1983, 1993)
B.S., Ph.D. (North Carolina State)  

 

 
Suzanne W. Churchill, Professor of English (1996, 2010)
B.A. (Middlebury), M.A., Ph.D. (Princeton)  

 

 
Ann Marie Costa, Professor of Theatre (1994, 2004)
B.F.A. (Boston Conservatory of Music), M.F.A. (University of Pittsburgh)  

 

 
Russell Crandall, Associate Professor of Political Science (2000, 2006)
B.A. (Bowdoin), M.A., Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins)  

 

 
Stephen L. Davis, Professor of Mathematics (1981, 1996)
B.A. (Lindenwood), Ph.D. (Rutgers)  

 

 
+Scott D. Denham, Charles A. Dana Professor of German (1990, 2004)
B.A. (University of Chicago), A.M., Ph.D. (Harvard)  

 

 
**Vivien E. Dietz, Professor of History and Humanities (1990, 2012)
A.B. (Harvard), M.A., Ph.D. (Princeton)  

 

 
Michael Edwin Dorcas, Professor of Biology (1998, 2011)
B.S., M.S. (University of Texas at Arlington), Ph.D. (Idaho State)  

 

 
**Amanda Ewington, Associate Professor of Russian (2002, 2008)
B.A. (Barnard), M.A., Ph.D. (University of Chicago)  

 

 
Caroline Beşchea Fache, Associate Professor of French (2007, 2013)
DEUG et Licence, Maîtrise (Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille 3), M.A., Ph.D. (Indiana)  

 

 
Maria Fackler, Associate Professor of English (2007, 2013)
B.A. (Duke), M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. (Yale)  

 

 
**Nancy J. Fairley, Professor of Anthropology (1993, 2003)
B.A. (CUNY), Ph.D. (SUNY at Stony Brook)  

 

 
Dylan B. Fitz, Assistant Professor of Economics (2013, 2013)
A.B. (Princeton), M.A., Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison)  

 

 
Brenda A. Flanagan, Edward M. Armfield Sr. Professor of English (1996, 1996)
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)  

 

 
Mark C. Foley, Associate Professor of Economics (2000, 2006)
B.S. (William and Mary), M.A., Ph.D. (Yale)  

 

 
W. Trent Foley, Professor of Religion (1984, 1997)
B.A. (Kalamazoo), M.Div. (McCormick Theological Seminary), M.A., Ph.D. (Chicago)  

 

 
Ann M. Fox, Professor of English (1999, 2013)
B.S., B.A. (SUNY at Buffalo), M.A., Ph.D. (Indiana University, Bloomington)  
   
Joseph Tate Gardner, Jr. Professor of Theatre (1974, 1990)
A.B. (Davidson), M.A., Ph.D. (Florida State)  

 

 
*Richard R. Gay, Professor of Education (1999, 2012)
B.A., M.A. (University of Richmond), Ph.D. (UNC Greensboro)  

 

 
Timothy H. Gfroerer, Professor of Physics (1999, 2011)
B.S. (University of the South), M.S. (Georgia Institute of Technology), Ph.D. (Dartmouth)  

 

 
*Gail McMurray Gibson, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and Humanities (1983, 1992)
B.A., M.A. (Duke), Ph.D. (Virginia)  

 

 
Irwin Stuart Goldstein, Professor of Philosophy (1983, 1998)
B.A. (Carleton University), M.Litt. (Bristol), Ph.D. (Edinburgh)  

 

 
Melissa Marie González, Assistant Professor of Spanish (2010, 2010)
B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. (Columbia University)  

 

 
Jessica J. Good, L.R. King Assistant Professor of Psychology (2011, 2011)
B.A. (Washington and Lee), M.S., Ph.D. (Rutgers)  

 

 
Shyam Gouri Suresh, Assistant Professor of Economics (2010, 2010)
B.S. (Trinity College), M.S., Ph.D. (University of Texas at Austin)  

 

 
Sharon L. Green, Associate Professor of Theatre (1999, 2006)
B.A. (University of Rochester), M.A. (University of Toronto), Ph.D. (CUNY)  

 

 
Gillian S. Gremmels, Leland M. Park Director of the Davidson College Library (2007, 2007)
B.A. (Wartburg), M.L.S. (University of Maryland, College Park)  

 

 
Meghan E. Griffith, Associate Professor of Philosophy (2005, 2009)
B.A. (Bucknell), Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)  

 

 
+Michael J. Guasco, Associate Professor of History (2001, 2007)
B.A. (University of Portland), M.A. (Villanova), Ph.D. (College of William and Mary)  

 

 
Karen Gwen Hales, Professor of Biology (2000, 2013)
B.A. (Swarthmore), Ph.D. (Stanford)  

 

 
Cindy DeForest Hauser, Associate Professor of Chemistry (2002, 2009)
B.S. (Washington and Lee), M.S. (UNC Wilmington), Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill)  

 

 
Pamela C. Hay, Associate Professor of Biology (1985, 1991)
B.A. (Hendrix), M.S. (University of Arkansas), Ph.D. (North Carolina State)  

 

 
Burkhard J. Henke, E. Craig Wall, Jr. Distinguished Teaching Professor in Humanities and Professor of German (1993, 2006)
Zwischenprüfung (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität), M.A. (University of California, Santa Barbara), Ph.D. (University of California, Irvine)  

 

 
Peter Neal Hess, Gail M. and Ernest G. Doe Professor of Economics (1980, 1993)
B.A. (Bowdoin), Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill)  

 

 
Laurie J. Heyer, Professor of Mathematics (2000, 2013)
B.S., M.S. (University of Texas at Arlington), Ph.D. (University of Colorado, Boulder)  

 

 
*Ann M. Ingram, Melissa and Todd Thomson Professor of Environmental Studies and Professor of English

(1994, 2008)

B.A. (Stanford), M.A. (Monterey Institute of International Studies), M.A., Ph.D. (Emory)  

 

 
Randall M. Ingram, Professor of English (1995, 2008)
A.B. (Davidson), Ph.D. (Emory)  

 

 
Everett Frank Jacobus, Jr., Professor of French (1971, 1988)
B.A. (Duke), Ph.D. (Cornell)  

 

 
Bradley G. Johnson, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies (2011, 2011)
B.A. (Hope), M.S. (Idaho State), Ph.D. (UNC Charlotte)  

 

 
**Rebecca Joubin, Malcolm O. Partin Assistant Professor of Arabic (2009, 2009)
B.A. (College of William and Mary), M.A. (Georgetown), Ph.D. (Columbia University)  

 

 
Gayle H. Kaufman, Professor of Sociology (1999, 2012)
B.S., M.S. (Cornell ), Ph.D. (Brown)  

 

 
Tara Keith, Associate Professor of Music (2003, 2010)
B.A. (Franklin and Marshall), M.M. (Pennsylvania State), D.M.A. (University of South Carolina, Columbia)  

 

 
John E. Kello, Professor of Psychology (1974, 1991)
B.S. (Old Dominion), M.A., Ph.D. (Duke)  

 

 
Hilton Kelly, Associate Professor of Education (2007, 2013)
B.A. (UNC Charlotte), M.S., Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)  

 

 
••Kyra A. Kietrys, Associate Professor of Spanish (2001, 2009)
B.A. (Wellesley), M.A. (Middlebury), Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania)  

 

 
Peter M. Krentz, W. R. Grey Professor of Classics and History (1979, 1993)
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Yale)  

 

 
**Carole Ann Kruger, Associate Professor of French (1987, 1994)
A.B., A.M. (UNC Greensboro), Ph.D. (Duke)  

 

 
Vikram Kumar, Professor of Economics (1986, 2004)
B.A. (St. Stephen’s College), M.A. (Delhi School), Ph.D. (Vanderbilt)  

 

 
Zoran Kuzmanovich, Professor of English (1988, 2002)
B.A., M.A. (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison)  

 

 
William David Lawing, J. Estes Millner Professor of Music (1976, 1994)
A.B. (Davidson), M.M., D.M.A. (Cleveland Institute of Music)  

 

 
Neil Lerner, Professor of Music (1997, 2010)
B.A. (Transylvania), A.M., Ph.D. (Duke)  

 

 
Cynthia Lynn Lewis, Charles A. Dana Professor of English (1980, 1993)
B.A. (Ohio State), Ph.D. (Harvard)  

 

 
Diana Leyva, Nancy Akers and J. Mason Wallace Assistant Professor of Psychology (2013, 2013)
B.A. (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia), M.A., Ph.D. (Clark University)  

 

 
Larry L. Ligo, Professor of Art History (1970, 1988)
A.B. (Muskingum), B.D. (Princeton Seminary), Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill)  

 

 
Barbara Mary Lom, Professor of Biology (2000, 2013)
B.A. (Lawrence), Ph.D. (Northwestern University Institute for Neuroscience)  

 

 
Eriberto P. Lozada, Jr., Professor of Anthropology (2002, 2013)
A.B., A.M., Ph.D. (Harvard)  

 

 
B. Andrew Lustig, Holmes Rolston III Professor of Religion and Science (2005, 2005)
B.A. (University of San Francisco), M.A. (Princeton), Ph.D. (University of Virginia)  

 

 
+William K. Mahony, Charles A. Dana Professor of Religion (1982, 1996)
A.B. (Williams), M.Div. (Yale), Ph.D. (Chicago)  

 

 
Maria Magdalena Maiz-Peña, William H. Williamson Professor of Spanish (1992, 2006)
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Arizona State)  

 

 
Jane E. Mangan, Associate Professor of History (2004, 2008)
B.A. (Vassar), M.A., Ph.D. (Duke)  

 

 
Gerardo Marti, Associate Professor of Sociology (2004, 2010)
B.A. (Pepperdine), M.A., Ph.D. (University of Southern California)  

 

 
David W. Martin, Professor of Economics (1984, 1997)
B.A. (DePauw), M.S., Ph.D. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)  

 

 
Amanda R. Martinez, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Sociology, and Education (2012, 2012) 
B.A. (St. Mary’s), M.A. (University of Houston), Ph.D. (Texas A&M)  

 

 
Margaret R. McCarthy, Professor of German (1995, 2009)
B.A. (Connecticut College), M.A., Ph.D. (University of Rochester)  

 

 
Mark R. McCulloh, Professor of German (1982, 1996)
A.B. (Alabama), M.A., Ph.D. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)  

 

 
Sean D. McKeever, Associate Professor of Philosophy (2005, 2010)
B.A. (Wesleyan), M.A., Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill)  

 

 
Sally G. McMillen, Mary Reynolds Babcock Professor of History (1988, 1998)
B.A. (Wellesley), M.L.S. (Pratt Institute), M.A. (UNC Charlotte), Ph.D. (Duke)  

 

 
••**Kenneth J. Menkhaus, Professor of Political Science (1991, 2004)
B.A. (Xavier), M.A., Ph.D. (University of South Carolina, Columbia)  

 

 
Paul B. Miller, Associate Professor of English (1999, 2005)
B.A. (College of Wooster), M.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Ohio State)  

 

 
Elizabeth M. Mills, Professor of English (1985, 1999)
B.A., M.A. (University of Texas at El Paso), Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill)  

 

 
+Donna K. Molinek, Professor of Mathematics (1992, 2008)
B.S. (University of Alaska, Anchorage), M.S. (Northern Arizona), Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill)  

 

 
Michael J. Mossinghoff, Professor of Mathematics (2002, 2013)
B.S. (Texas A&M), M.S. (Stanford), Ph.D. (University of Texas at Austin)  

 

 
Kristi S. Multhaup, Professor of Psychology (1996, 2009)
B.A. (Gustavus Adolphus College), M.A., Ph.D. (Princeton)  

 

 
Margaret P. Munger, Professor of Psychology (1994, 2007)
B.A. (University of Chicago), M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. (Columbia University)  

 

 
Jeffrey Myers, Assistant Professor of Chemistry         (2008, 2008)
B.S. (Ohio State), Ph.D. (Texas A&M)  

 

 
Richard D. Neidinger, Professor of Mathematics (1984, 1997)
B.A. (Trinity), M.A., Ph.D. (University of Texas at Austin)  

 

 
Randy F. Nelson, Virginia Lasater Irvin Professor of English (1977, 1988)
B.A., M.A. (North Carolina State), M.A., Ph.D. (Princeton)  

 

 
+Jeanne M. Neumann, Professor of Classics (1994, 2008)
B.A. (Union College), M.A. (Indiana), A.M., Ph.D. (Harvard)  

 

 
William Rodger Nutt, James G. Martin Professor of Chemistry (1971, 1985)
A.B. (Ohio Wesleyan), M.A., Ph.D. (Duke)  

 

 
Andrew J. O’Geen, MacArthur Assistant Professor of Political Science (2011, 2011)
B.A. (University of Kentucky), M.A. (Georgia State), Ph.D. (Stony Brook University)  

 

 
Louis L. Ortmayer, Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science (1977, 1989)
B.A. (Yale), M.A., Ph.D. (Denver)  

 

 
Douglas F. Ottati, Craig Family Distinguished Professor in Reformed Theology and Justice Ministry (2007, 2007)
A.B. (University of Pennsylvania), M.A., Ph.D. (University of Chicago)  

 

 
Christopher J. Paradise, Associate Professor of Biology (2000, 2006)
B.S. (SUNY at Albany), M.A. (SUNY at Binghamton), Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State)  

 

 
Saeyoung Park, Assistant Professor of History (2011, 2011)
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins)  

 

 
Alan Michael Parker, Douglas C. Houchens Professor of English (1998, 2007)
B.A. (Washington University), M.F.A. (Columbia University School of the Arts)  

 

 
Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, Associate Professor of History (2007, 2011)
Zwischenprüfung (University Tübigen), M.A., Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill)  

 

 
*Luis H. Peña, Professor of Spanish (1987, 1997)
B.A. (Universidad de Monterrey), M.A., Ph.D. (Arizona State)  

 

 
Patricia A. Peroni, Professor of Biology (1992, 2007)
B.A. (SUNY College at Plattsburgh), M.L.S. (SUNY at Albany), M.S. (Bucknell), Ph.D. (Duke)  

 

 
Karl A. Plank, James W. Cannon Professor of Religion (1982, 1995)
B.A. (Hanover), M.Div., M.A., Ph.D. (Vanderbilt)  

 

 
**Lynn M. Poland, Associate Professor of Religion and Humanities (1990, 1991)
A.B. (Bates), M.A., Ph.D. (University of Chicago)  

 

 
Jeremiah Lee Putnam, Paul B. Freeland Professor of Biology (1973, 1988)
B.S., M.S., Ph.D. (Texas A & M)  

 

 
Carol Everhart Quillen, President of the College and Professor of History (2011, 2011)
A.B. (University of Chicago), Ph.D. (Princeton)  

 

 
Raghuram Ramanujan, Assistant Professor of Mathematics (2012, 2013)
B.S. (Purdue), Ph.D. (Cornell)  

 

 
Julio J. Ramirez, R. Stuart Dickson Professor of Psychology (1986, 1995)
B.S. (Fairfield), M.A., Ph.D. (Clark)  

 

 
Wendy E. Raymond, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty, and Professor of Biology (2013, 2013)
A.B. (Cornell), Ph.D. (Harvard)  

 

 
Shelley Rigger, Brown Professor of Political Science (1993, 2006)
A.B. (Princeton), Ph.D. (Harvard)  

 

 
William M. Ringle, Professor of Anthropology (1986, 1998)
B.A. (Johns Hopkins), M.A., Ph.D. (Tulane)  

 

 
David M. Robb, Professor of Philosophy (1999, 2010)
B.A. (Stanford University), M.A., Ph.D. (Cornell)  

 

 
*Susan L. Roberts, Associate Professor of Political Science (1993, 1994)
B.A. (Wake Forest), M.A., Ph.D. (University of Notre Dame)  

 

 
+Clark G. Ross, Frontis W. Johnston Professor of Economics, and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty Emeritus (1979, 1990)
B.A. (University of Pennsylvania), Ph.D. (Boston College)  

 

 
**Robert D. Ruth, Associate Professor of Sociology (1971, 1980)
A.B. (SUNY at Buffalo), M.A., Ph.D. (Duke)  

 

 
C. Mathews Samson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology (2006, 2012) 
B.S. (Louisiana State), M.Div. (Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary), M.A. (Louisiana State), Ph.D. (SUNY at Albany)  

 

 
Samuel Sánchez y Sánchez, Associate Professor of Spanish (2004, 2010)
B.A. (University of Huelva, Spain), M.A., Ph.D. (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)  

 

 
Sophia D. Sarafova, Associate Professor of Biology (2006, 2012)
B.S. (Swarthmore), M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. (Columbia University)  

 

 
Cort Savage, Professor of Art (1992, 2007)
B.A. (Indiana), M.F.A. (Syracuse)  

 

 
Patrick Joel Sellers, Associate Dean for Curriculum and Professor of Political Science (2000, 2009)
B.A. (Davidson), M.A., Ph.D. (Duke)  

 

 
Nina E. Serebrennikov, Professor of Art (1987, 2001)
B.A. (George Washington University), M.S.L.S., M.A., Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill)  

 

 
Thomas C. Shandley, Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students (1994, 1994)
B.A. (Simpson College), M.A. (Bowling Green State University), Ph.D. (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)  

 

 
Ping Shao, Associate Professor of Chinese (2002, 2009)
B.A. (Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Languages), M.A. (Illinois State), Ph.D. (Washington University)  

 

 
Brian J. Shaw, Professor of Political Science (1982, 1996)
B.A. (SUNY at Stony Brook), M.A., Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill)  

 

 
Vivian Shen, Associate Professor of Chinese (1998, 2004)
B.A. (Shandong University), M.A., Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles)  

 

 
Catherine Slawy-Sutton, Professor of French (1985, 1999)
Licence d’anglais, Maitrise d’anglais (University of Nice), M.A., Ph.D. (Indiana)  

 

 
C. Shaw Smith, Jr., Professor of Art History and Humanities (1986, 2000)
A.B., M.A., Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill)  

 

 
Fred H. Smith, Professor of Economics (2000, 2013)
B.A. (Kenyon), M.A. (University of Delaware), Ph.D. (Vanderbilt)  

 

 
Kevin G. Smith, Assistant Professor of Biology (2013, 2013)
B.A. (Colby), M.Z.S. (Auburn), Ph.D. (University of Tennessee)  
(Spring Semester)  

 

 
Mark A. Smith, Professor of Psychology (1998, 2011)
B.A. (Lenoir-Rhyne), Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill)  

 

 
Harlow Gregory Snyder, Professor of Religion (2000, 2011)
B.S. (Seattle Pacific), M.S. (Columbia University), M.Div., S.T.M., Ph.D. (Yale)  

 

 
Nicole L. Snyder, Assistant Professor of Chemistry (2012, 2012)
B.S. (Westminster), Ph.D. (University of Connecticut)  

 

 
Alica S. Sparling, Assistant Professor of Economics (2010, 2011)
B.A. (Guilford), Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill)  

 

 
Mark T. Stanback. Professor of Biology (1995, 2009)
B.S. (Davidson), Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley)  

 

 
Tyler Starr, Assistant Professor of Art (2012, 2012)
B.F.A. (University of Connecticut), M.F.A. (University of Minnesota), Ph.D. (Tokyo University of the Arts)  

 

 
Jennifer E. Stasack, Professor of Music (1991, 2007)
B.M., M.M. (University of Hawaii-Manoa), D.M.A. (University of Cincinnati)  

 

 
Lance Keith Stell, Samuel E. and Mary W. Thatcher Professor of Philosophy (1976, 1985)
B.A. (Hope), M.A., Ph.D. (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)  

 

 
Erland P. Stevens, Professor of Chemistry (1998, 2011)
B.S. (Duke), Ph.D. (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)  

 

 
Durwin R. Striplin, Professor of Chemistry (1996, 2010)
B.S. (Eastern New Mexico), Ph.D. (Washington State)  

 

 
Paul H. Studtmann, Associate Professor of Philosophy (2004, 2009)
B.A., M.A. (University of Iowa), Ph.D. (University of Colorado)  

 

 
Mark Sutch, Assistant Professor of Theatre (2006, 2008)
B.A. (Iowa State), M.F.A. (Rhode Island College)  

 

 
Homer Bates Sutton, Professor of French (1980, 1995)
A.B. (Davidson), M.A., Ph.D. (Indiana)  

 

 
+Jessica K. Taft, Assistant Professor of Sociology (2009, 2009)
B.A. (Macalester), M.A., Ph.D. (University of California, Santa Barbara)  

 

 
Patricia A. Tilburg, Associate Professor of History (2003, 2009)
B.A. (The College of New Jersey), M.A., Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles)  

 

 
Scott Tonidandel, Wayne M. and Carolyn A. Watson Associate Professor of Psychology (2002, 2008)
B.A. (Davidson), M.A., Ph.D. (Rice)  

 

 
Darian M. Totten, Assistant Professor of Classics (2012, 2012) 
B.A. (University of Chicago), Ph.D. (Stanford)  

 

 
Michael K. Toumazou, Professor of Classics (1987, 2000)
A.B. (Franklin and Marshall), M.A. (Loyola University of Chicago), M.A., Ph.D. (Bryn Mawr)  

 

 
Mary S. Vásquez, Joel O. Conarroe Professor of Spanish (1996, 1996)
B.A. (Florida State), M.A., Ph.D. (University of Washington)  

 

 
Onita M. Vaz-Hooper, Associate Professor of English (2005, 2011)
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (University of Southern California)  

 

 
••John Wertheimer, Professor of History (1993, 2006)
B.A. (Oberlin), M.A., Ph.D. (Princeton)  
   
David R. Wessner, Professor of Biology (1998, 2011)
A.B. (Franklin and Marshall), Ph.D. (Harvard)  

 

 
Angela L. Willis, Associate Professor of Spanish (2002, 2009)
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (University of Texas at Austin)  

 

 
Anne Blue Wills, Associate Professor of Religion (2003, 2009)
B.A. (Davidson), M.Div. (Yale), Ph.D. (Duke)  

 

 
Carl R. Yerger, Assistant Professor of Mathematics (2010, 2010)
B.A. (Harvey Mudd College), Ph.D. (Georgia Institute of Technology)  

 

 
John Nicholas Yukich, Associate Professor of Physics (1998, 2004)
B.A. (Kenyon), Ph.D. (University of Virginia)  

 

 
Syed Rizwan Zamir, Assistant Professor of Religion (2010, 2012)
B.A. (University of Punjab, Pakistan), B.A. (James Madison), Ph.D. (University of Virginia)  

 


The first date shown in parentheses is that of the original academic-year appointment to the faculty and the second is that of appointment to current faculty rank.
 

 

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On Leave Fall Semester 2013-14

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On Leave Spring Semester 2013-14

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On Leave 2013-14

 

Study Abroad Year Program: France

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Study Abroad Semester Program: Classics, India, Madrid, Peru, or Shanghai