Faculty Profiles

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Oluyinka Akinjiola, Assistant Professor of Dance

Dance Department
Division of the Arts

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Diego Alonso, Professor of Spanish and Humanities

Spanish Department
Division of Literature and Languages

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Spanish Department webpage

Greg Anderson, Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Computer Science Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

Greg Anderson works at the intersection of programming languages and machine learning, focusing on techniques for improving the safety and robustness of deep learning systems. Greg is especially interested in neurosymbolic learning, a field of research based on blending deep neural networks with traditional, structured programs to get the best aspects of both worlds. In addition, he also works on algorithms for verifying neural networks directly as well as synthesizing traditional programs. Prior to joining the faculty at Reed, Greg earned a B.S. in Computer Engineering and Mathematics from the University of Virginia and a Ph. D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

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Kristen G. Anderson, Professor of Psychology

Psychology Department
Division of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics

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Derek A. Applewhite, Professor of Biology

Biology Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Mark Beck, Professor of Physics

Physics Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

Mark Beck is primarily an experimentalist, but is also interested in theoretical questions in quantum optics and quantum information science. He is particularly interested in exploring ways to extract as much information as possible from quantum systems, typically photons. He has developed a number of undergraduate teaching laboratories that explore fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics, and these are described in his book, Quantum Mechanics: Theory and Experiment . Mark received his BS (1985) and PhD (1992) in Optics from the University of Rochester. He did post-doctoral research at the University of Oregon and taught for two years at Reed in the mid-90’s. He spent 22 teaching physics at Whitman College before rejoining the Reed Faculty in 2018.

Kara Becker, Professor of Linguistics

Linguistics Department
Division of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics

Kara Becker is Professor of Linguistics at Reed College. Kara is a sociolinguist, a variationist, and a dialectologist, whose scholarship concerns regional and social varieties of American English. Kara received a B.A. in Linguistics and an M.A. in Educational Linguistics from Stanford University, and Ph.D. in Linguistics from New York University. She joined the Reed faculty in 2010, and teaches courses on language and society, including Dialects of English, Contact Languages, Language, Sex, Gender and Sexuality, and African American English. Kara talks often to the media about linguistic diversity in the U.S., most commonly about the New York City dialect, but also about West Coast dialects (Portland Monthly article). More information on Kara’s research interests, teaching, and media presence can be found on her website.

Evgenii Bershtein, Professor of Russian

Russian Department
Division of Literature and Languages

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Erica Blum, Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Computer Science Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

Erica Blum is a cybersecurity researcher and cryptographer. She is especially interested in using cryptography to design systems of many devices that are provably secure even when some devices are faulty. This type of challenge appears in many different contexts across computer science, including multiparty computation , where a group of parties want to jointly compute some output while keeping their individual inputs private, and Byzantine consensus , where a set of devices need to agree on an output despite faulty devices or poor network connections. Before coming to Reed, Erica received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Haverford College and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland.

Miriam Bowring, Margret Geselbracht Associate Professor of Chemistry

Chemistry Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

I am excited to be at Reed, where I teach general and inorganic chemistry courses, and run a research laboratory. In the lab, we aim to untangle the fundamental mechanisms that make catalysts work, using approaches from across inorganic, organic, physical, and synthetic chemistry. We have a special focus on protons, the smallest nuclei, and determining what they can do that heavier nuclei cannot. We are also looking for ways to put heavy metal contaminants to good use. The mechanisms we uncover may lead to better catalysts for synthesis and fuels. Before my arrival at Reed, I studied proton-coupled electron transfer (postdoctoral work at Yale University and the University of Washington) and organometallic catalysis (Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley; B.S. at Yale University), and I taught high school chemistry. My favorite thing to chase after, besides a chemical reaction mechanism, is a frisbee.

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Betsey Brada, Associate Professor of Anthropology

Anthropology Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

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Kate Bredeson, Professor of Theatre

Theatre Department
Division of the Arts

Kate Bredeson (she/her) is a theatre historian, translator, director, and dramaturg. Her project as a scholar is to research, write about, and practice the ways in which theatre can be a tool for radical activism and protest. Her books, Occupying the Stage: The Theater of May '68 (2018; finalist, George Freedley Award) and The Inheritor (2024), her translation with student Thalia Wolff of the Théâtre de l'Aquarium's 1968 play, are both published by Northwestern University Press. Kate’s research has been supported by fellowships including a Fulbright; grants from the Mellon and Killam Foundations, and the NEH; and residencies at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France; Tao House in Danville, California; Caldera in Sisters, Oregon; the Maison Dora Maar in Ménerbes, France; and the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, Italy. Kate regularly presents at national and international conferences, and has published essays in journals and books including PAJ, Theatre Journal, TDR, Theater, and Postdramatic Theatre and Form (Bloomsbury, 2019) and The Sixties, Center Stage: Mainstream and Popular Performances in a Turbulent Decade (Michigan, 2017). The relationship between theatre and society is also the focus of her teaching. At Reed, Kate teaches classes including Theatre History I, II, and III; Gender and Theatre; Playwriting; Directing; and Junior Seminar; she frequently directs stage productions featuring students. Kate is a professional dramaturg, and a two-time winner of major prizes from the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. In Portland, she works as dramaturg with choreographer Tahni Holt. Before coming to Reed in 2009, Kate was the Resident Dramaturg at the Court Theatre in Chicago and Lecturer at the University of Chicago. Kate holds an MFA and a doctorate in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama.

Michael P. Breen, Professor of History and Humanities

History Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

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History Department webpage

Megan Bruun, Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology

Psychology Department
Division of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics

I am a social psychologist who studies ways to reduce prejudice. I am currently empirically testing interventions to reduce prejudice with a special focus on unintentional bias and anti-transgender prejudice. I use laboratory research to inform interventions, focusing on understanding the mechanisms leading to prejudiced attitudes and behaviors and examining perceptions of marginalized groups. I apply my research to my teaching and aim to create an environment of empowerment, community, trust, challenge, and engagement in all of my courses. My teaching style involves active facilitation and guided collaborative teaching in relationship and community with my students. I support them as they think critically for themselves. During my doctoral studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison I was recognized as a Teaching Mentor where I taught other graduate students how to teach.

Mark Burford, R.P. Wollenberg Professor of Music

Music Department
Division of the Arts

Mark Burford is R.P. Wollenberg Professor of Music at Reed and chair of the American Studies program. His research and teaching focus on twentieth-century popular music in the United States, with particular focus on African American music after World War II, and late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Austro-German concert music. His scholarship has appeared several journals and other edited collections, including the article “Sam Cooke as Pop Album Artist—A Reinvention in Three Songs,” which received the Society for American Music’s 2012 Irving Lowens Award for the outstanding article on American music. He is the author of Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field (Oxford University Press, 2019) and editor of The Mahalia Jackson Reader. He arrived at Reed in 2007.

Naomi Caffee, Associate Professor of Russian

Russian Department
Division of Literature and Languages

My research focuses on issues of postcolonial identity and transnational connectivity in the works of writers and culture workers from Central Asia, the Caucasus, Siberia, and the Circumpolar North. I have a BA in Russian from Grinnell College (2004) and an MA (2008) and PhD (2013) in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA. Prior to my arrival at Reed in 2018, I taught at Santa Monica College, UCLA, and the University of Arizona. My research has been published in Russian Language Journal, Russian Literature, Journal of Central Eurasian Studies, and Experiment: a Journal of Russian Culture , as well as in the edited volumes Picturing Russian Empire (2023), Russia in Asia: Interactions, Imaginations, and Realities (2020) and The Heritage of Soviet Oriental Studies (2011). My collaborative projects include “Beyond Caricature,” a digital archive of early 20th century political caricature from the South Caucasus, and “Russophone Voices,” a public humanities collective that brings together authors, scholars, and readers for conversations on contemporary Russophone literature. I am a co-editor of Tulips in Bloom, a forthcoming anthology of Central Asian literature in English translation. At Reed I teach Humanities 110, all levels of the Russian language, and Russian literature from the Medieval period to the present. I also teach courses on interdisciplinary and comparative topics, including “Nuclear Literatures,” “Multicultural Russia,” and an upcoming course on Indigenous film and literature of the Arctic.

Gonzalo Campillo-Alvarado, Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Chemistry Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Felipe Carrera, Assistant Professor of Economics

Economics Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

Felipe Carrera is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Reed College, where he teaches industrial organization, economic history, and econometrics. His research examines questions in industrial organization and applied microeconomics using historical settings. His current work explores the long-term effects on education, crime, and mortality of large-scale displacements of slums during the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, and the interaction between entry and productivity during the Chilean nitrate cartels before World War I. His research has been supported by grants from the California Center of Population Research and the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate Research. Felipe received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2020. More information on Felipe’s research interests and teaching can be found on his website.

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Kara Cerveny, Ronald A. Laing Professor of Biology

Biology Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Kelly Chacón, Arthur F. Scott Associate Professor of Chemistry

Chemistry Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Jeremy Coate '92, Visiting Associate Professor of Biology

Biology Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

I am broadly interested in genome evolution, and my research focuses primarily on how plant genomes respond to whole genome multiplication (polyploidy). I explore this general question using polyploids that have arisen naturally as well as those generated in the lab using antimitotic agents (synthetic polyploids). In my current research, I use single cell sequencing methods to explore how genes duplicated by polyploidy specialize by partitioning their functions among different cell types. I earned my BA in Biology from Reed (’92) and a PhD in Plant Cell and Molecular Biology from Cornell (2010). At Reed, I teach courses in genetics and bioinformatics.

Kris Cohen, Jane Neuberger Goodsell Professor of Art History and Humanities

Art Department
Division of the Arts

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Art Department webpage

Jennifer Henderlong Corpus, Professor of Psychology

Psychology Department
Division of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics

Jennifer Henderlong Corpus is a professor of developmental psychology. Her research focuses on the factors that underlie children’s motivation to learn. She studies the tension and synergy between intrinsic and extrinsic forms of motivation as well as the strategies parents and teachers use to affect children’s motivation. Her courses in developmental psychology focus on the individual in social context and the reciprocal nature of socialization. She also teaches a course in educational psychology that focuses on motivation in educational contexts, which is informed by her scholarly work on achievement motivation. Jennifer earned her B.A. in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1995 before attending Stanford University, where she obtained her Ph.D. in 2000. She has been teaching at Reed since 2001, and in 2014 was named Oregon Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Psychology Department webpage

Erin Cottle Hunt, Assistant Professor of Economics

Economics Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

Erin Cottle Hunt joined the Economics Department at Reed College in 2023. Her research interests include macroeconomics, public finance, and life-cycle economics. She is an applied theorist and uses analytical and quantitative models to answer questions about social security, pensions, saving, and the macroeconomy. She teaches macroeconomic and computational economics courses at Reed College. Prior to working at Reed, Erin was an assistant professor of economics at Lafayette College in Easton Pennsylvania. She completed a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Oregon in 2018, a M.A. in Political Science at Utah State University in 2011, and B.A.s in Economics and Political Science at Utah State in 2009.

Alison Crocker, A.A. Knowlton Professor of Physics

Physics Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

Alison Crocker is an astrophysicist whose research focuses on the physics of star formation in nearby galaxies. She works on connecting what we know about the gas in galaxies (the precursor to star formation) to what we know about the stars that actually form. Her most recent paper documents how the ultraviolet light from young stars interacts with their surroundings. Alison majored in physics and mathematics at Dartmouth College before attending the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. She earned her DPhil in astrophysics from Oxford and completed two postdoctoral positions at the University of Massachusetts and the University of Toledo before joining the physics faculty at Reed in the fall of 2014. In addition to teaching an astrophysics course, Alison teaches courses across the physics major and runs a weekly open astronomy/astrophysics discussion group.

Troy Cross, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities

Philosophy Department
Division of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics

Troy Cross (PhD 2004, Rutgers) works on, broadly speaking, questions of knowledge and reality. In addition to those core areas of philosophy (epistemology and metaphysics), he has recently taught courses on the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of mind, and the nature of color. Before coming to Reed in 2010, he held positions at Yale and at Merton College, Oxford.

Yan Cui, Visiting Assistant Professor of Statistics

Mathematics and Statistics Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

Yan Cui is a visiting Assistant Professor in the Mathematics and Statistics Department. She earned her Ph.D. in December 2020 from Jilin University in China, and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto and University of Alberta before joining Reed College. Yan’s research primarily focuses on time series analysis with recent work dedicated to the statistical inference for functional time series. Additionally, she is also interested in developing privacy mechanisms for time series data.

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Mariela Daby, Professor of Political Science

Political Science Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

Mariela Daby studies the incentives that contribute to the persistence of clientelism in consolidated democracies in Latin America. She is also interested in questions of political participation, voter turnout, and gender and development in new democracies. Her work has been published in the Journal of Comparative Politics, Latin American Research Review, Social Networks, Latin American Politics and Society, Nueva Sociedad, and Women's Policy Journal of Harvard.

Justas Dainauskas, Assistant Professor of Economics

Economics Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

I specialise in International Economics and Macroeconomics. My current research focuses on how global value chains, exchange rates, and expectations propagate sectoral, aggregate, or spatial disturbances and impact output, inflation, and trade flows. At Reed, I teach International Trade, International Macroeconomics, and Financial Economics. Before joining Reed in August 2024, I worked as a Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science and as a PhD Trainee at the European Central Bank. I obtained my PhD in Economics at the University of York in 2019.

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Pietro D'Amelio, Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology

Biology Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

I am an animal behaviorist fascinated by the study of social interactions, especially when they involve vocal communication. I use birds as a model system not only because they evolved incredible behaviors, charming colors and phenomenal adaptations, but also because birds are chiefly diurnal and rely mainly on sight and vocalizations for mediating social interactions, which together with their vocal learning capabilities, allow several parallelisms with human behavior. I put a lot of research effort in ensuring precise individual behavioral quantification with an eye on new technologies and reproducible practices. Prior to joining the faculty at Reed to teach animal behavior and provide students with hands on field and lab research experiences, I held postdoc positions at the Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology (CEFE) in Montpellier (France), at the FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology in Cape Town (South Africa), at Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence (MPIBI) in Munich (Germany), and at the center for National Research (IRSA-CNR) in Milan (Italy) and received my PhD from the department of behavioral neurobiology at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology (MPIO) located near Munich (Germany).

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Thomas Dannenhoffer-Lafage, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Chemistry Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Zajj Daugherty, Associate Professor of Mathematics

Mathematics and Statistics Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

My research is in combinatorial representation theory — a specialty of modern algebra that uses tools from both linear algebra and discrete mathematics to study algebraic structures. My favorite algebras can be drawn as sets of diagrams like braids or graphs, and encode special families of functions arising in physics, knot theory, voting theory, and elsewhere. I hold degrees all in mathematics — a B.S. (2005) from Harvey Mudd College, and an M.A. (2008) and Ph.D. (2010) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. After postdoctoral work at St. Olaf College, Dartmouth College, the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), and the University of Melbourne, and a faculty position at the City College of New York, I have just joined the math department here at Reed in 2022.

Ann T. Delehanty, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of French and Humanities

French Department
Division of Literature and Languages

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Jay M. Dickson, Professor of English and Humanities

English Department
Division of Literature and Languages

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Tarık Nejat Dinç, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Anthropology Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

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Jacqueline K. Dirks '82, Cornelia Marvin Pierce Professor of History and Humanities

History Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

Professor Dirks was educated at Reed College and Yale University. She is a veteran teacher of undergraduate U.S. history. She has taught classes on U.S. cultural and political history, the history of western consumer culture, U.S. women's history, the history of the nineteenth-century family, and twentieth-century gender and sexuality. Professor Dirks also participates in Reed’s American Studies colloquium. Her current research project is tentatively titled Giving Women Credit and focuses on twentieth-century American women's claims to citizenship rights based on their economic roles as consumers, wage earners and heads of household. She recently contributed a review essay to the Oregon Historical Quarterly's special issue to mark the state centenary of woman suffrage: "The Straight State of Oregon: Notes Toward Queering the History of the Past Century."

Alexei Ditter, Professor of Chinese

Chinese Department
Division of Literature and Languages

Alexei Ditter ( 迪磊 ) obtained his B.A. from the University of Minnesota and his PhD from Princeton University. His research explores interactions between social and textual practices in medieval Chinese literature, focusing in particular on questions of place, genre, and memory. He is co-editor (with Jessey J.C. Choo and Sarah M. Allen) of Tales from Tang Dynasty China (Hackett, 2017) and has published articles and book chapters on diverse aspects of medieval Chinese literary culture . He is currently writing a monograph that examines how genres influence the construction of the past in medieval China and co-editing, with Jessey J.C. Choo, an anthology of translations of medieval Chinese entombed epitaphs. Since 2015, with the ongoing support of the Tang Research Foundation, he has co-organized the annual workshop series “ New Frontiers in the Study of Medieval China .” Professor Ditter joined the Reed faculty in 2006. In addition to lecturing and leading conferences in the Chinese Humanities, he teaches courses on medieval and late imperial Chinese literature and on modern and classical Chinese language.

Nathan Drapela, Visiting Assistant Professor of German

German Department
Division of Literature and Languages

Nathan Drapela joined the Reed faculty as a Visiting Assistant Professor of German in 2024 after receiving a Ph.D. in from the Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies and a B.A. in Philosophy from Western Washington University. His current research focuses on the cultural and literary history of walking in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as a locus for understanding modern upheavals in temporality, self-narration, and human-environment relationships. Nathan’s research and teaching interests include narrative theory, environmental humanities, and science and technology studies, as well as all levels of German-language instruction.

Elizabeth Drumm, John and Elizabeth Yeon Professor of Spanish and Humanities

Spanish Department
Division of Literature and Languages

Elizabeth Drumm is the John and Elizabeth Yeon Professor of Spanish and Humanities. She joined the Reed faculty in 1995 after receiving a BA from the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago. She teaches Spanish language courses, literature courses on 19th- and 20th-century Peninsular Spanish literature and a course on Don Quixote and narrative theory. She also teaches Reed’s interdisciplinary Humanities course on the ancient Mediterranean. Her current research focuses on memory and representation in Spanish modernism and, in particular, Ramón del Valle-Inclán's "aesthetics of memory." She has published articles on Valle-Inclán, Antonio Buero Vallejo, Ignacio Amestoy and Fernando Arrabal and is the author of Painting on Stage: Visual Art in Twentieth-Century Spanish Theater, a book that explores the relationship between theatrical language and visual images.

Catherine Ming T'ien Duffly, Associate Professor of Theatre

Theatre Department
Division of the Arts

Catherine (Kate) Ming T'ien Duffly is a scholar-director and community-engaged theatre artist with a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to her position as Assistant Professor of Theatre at Reed, Kate taught at UC Berkeley and California College of Arts. Her teaching and research interests include acting, directing, socially engaged and community-based theatre, 20th and 21st century American theatre, race theory and performance and feminist performance. Kate's writing has appeared in Theatre Journal, Theatre Annual, and TDR. She has collaborated on projects with Cornerstone Theater, Touchable Stories, Lunatique Fantastique, Wise Fool Community Arts, and Bread and Puppet Theatre. Kate currently sits on the board of Portland's August Wilson Red Door Project, an organization which seeks to change the racial ecology of Portland through the arts.

Daniel Duford, Visiting Professor of Art

Art Department
Division of the Arts

For 20 years, Daniel Duford has woven visual narratives — stories that flow through large paintings, graphic novels, installations and figurative sculpture. His work is born from the mythic and political history of North America.He is a 2010 Hallie Ford Fellow and 2019 Guggenheim Fellow. His most recent work John Brown’s Vision on the Scaffold is a further meditation on American history. The paintings, drawings, and essays promiscuously move from deep tree time to future visions. The watercolor portraits were sharpened during a 2018 residency at MacDowell. The exhibition John Brown’s Vision on the Scaffold was shown in 2020 at The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU and The Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland, Oregon. The catalog includes an essay by poet Cyrus Cassells. His curatorial projects include the 2012 exhibition Fighting Men: Leon Golub, Jack Kirby, Peter Voulkos (2012) at the Hoffman Gallery at Lewis and Clark College and An Earth Song, A Body Song: Figures with Landscapes. Works from the Permanent Collection (2020) at Orange County Museum of Art. He holds a BFA from the University of New Mexico.

Michael Faletra, Professor of English and Humanities

English Department
Division of Literature and Languages

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Maria Fantinato G. Siqueira , Visiting Assistant Professor of Music

Music Department
Division of the Arts

Maria Fantinato G. Siqueira is Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Reed College. They are an interdisciplinary scholar of sound and music, focusing on how struggles for land and territory permeate everyday life and shape modes of listening, sounding, and storytelling in the Brazilian Amazon. As a scholar and educator, Maria is interested in the multiple ways people engage with their environments and how knowledge travels from one listening, sounding, and singing experience to another. Maria holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Columbia University, as well as an M.A. in Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Before coming to Reed, she was a Postdoctoral Associate in Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Her work has been published in The World of Music journal, the Brazilian Urban Anthropology journal Ponto Urbe, and others. In the 2024-2025 academic year, they will be teaching classes on sound, music, and climate change; the cultural study of music; sensorial imaginaries of the Amazon; musical ethnography; and feminist approaches to popular music.

Samuel Fey, Associate Professor of Biology

Biology Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

Sam earned a BA in Biology from Hamilton College, a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Dartmouth College, and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University before joining the Reed Biology faculty for the fall of 2017. Sam teaches teaches Ecology (BIO 301, a laboratory and lecture course), a seminar in Global Change Ecology (BIO 431), and an Ecology and Evolution Module in Topics in Biology (BIO 101), and he mentors senior thesis projects (Bio 471) and semester-long independent studies (BIO 481). His research focuses on how population and community dynamics respond to, and are shaped by, environmental variation. Sam’s research is supported by the National Science Foundation and aims to enhance predictions for how freshwater ecosystems will respond to ongoing environmental change.

James D. Fix, Richard E. Crandall Professor of Computer Science

Computer Science Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

Professor Fix received his B.S. in mathematics and computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1992, and his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Washington in 2002. His main interests are in the design and analysis of algorithms and in the theory of computation. Fix's work seeks to adapt ideas from theoretical approaches to their practical implementation. His past work, for example, considered the impact of cache performance on algorithm design. More recently, he has investigated the parallel implementation of algorithms and data structures that support graph search and large text indexing, and also formal methods for reasoning about concurrent and distributed computation.

Victoria Fortuna, Associate Professor of Dance

Dance Department
Division of the Arts

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Jake Fraser, Associate Professor of German and Humanities

German Department
Division of Literature and Languages

Jake Fraser joined the Reed faculty in 2018 and is Associate Professor of German and Humanities. He received a BA in Economics from UNC-Chapel Hill (2010) and a PhD in Germanic Studies from the University of Chicago (2018). He specializes in late 18^th- and early 20^th-century German literature and philosophy, with emphases in philosophies of time and history and histories of science and technology. At Reed, he teaches courses on 20^th-century German thought and literature, psychoanalysis, and media studies. He has published on figures and topics ranging from Heinrich von Kleist and early modern print media to Franz Kafka and technologies of bureaucracy. He is currently completing a book-length study of theories and technologies of “retroactivity” [Ger: Nachträglichkeit] from the 18^thto 20^thcenturies. Future projects include a study of the metaphorics of the Book of Nature in the late 18^thcentury and a media history of latency and delay.

Chemistry Department webpage

Ariadna García-Bryce, Professor of Spanish and Humanities

Spanish Department
Division of Literature and Languages

Ariadna García-Bryce earned her BA from Yale University in 1989, majoring in Comparative Literature; she earned her PhD in Spanish Literature from Princeton University in 1997. She works on early modern Spanish literature and culture and has published in peer-reviewed journals on a variety of topics: the relationship between drama, religion, and visual culture; rhetoric, poetics and the construction of social authority; the appropriation of Baroque poetics in twentieth-century Latin America; conceptions of the body and gender construction. Her book, Transcending Textuality: Quevedo and Political Authority in the Age of Print (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011), examines the connection between political prose and court spectacle in the context of incipient bureaucratization. At Reed, aside from courses in her area of expertise, she teaches Humanities 110, “Introduction to Humanities: Greece and the Ancient Mediterranean”, and Humanities 210, “Early Modern Europe.”

Katja Garloff, Professor of German and Humanities

German Department
Division of Literature and Languages

Katja Garloff joined the Reed Faculty in 1997 after receiving an M.A. from the University of Hamburg and a Ph.D. in German Literature from the University of Chicago. She is the author of Words from Abroad: Trauma and Displacement in Postwar German Jewish Writers (Wayne State University Press, 2005), Mixed Feelings: Tropes of Love in German Jewish Culture (Cornell University Press, 2016), and Making German Jewish Literature Anew: Authorship, Memory, and Place (Indiana University Press, 2022), as well as the co-editor of German Jewish Literature after 1990 (Camden House, 2018). In recent years, she has won grants from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). She serves on the editorial boards of Humanities, of Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies, and of The Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook. At Reed, she offers courses on modern German literature, German Jewish culture, and film and media studies, and she also teaches in Humanities 220.

David T. Garrett, Richard F. Scholz Professor of History and Humanities

History Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

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Daniel Gerrity, Professor of Chemistry

Chemistry Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Thomas Lamb Eliot Professor of Religion and Humanities

Religion Department
Division of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics

Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Professor of Religion & Humanities, joined Reed College in 2002 after completing his doctoral studies in the committee on the study of religion at Harvard University. An internationally recognized scholar in Islam in America and the Middle East, he was named a Carnegie Scholar for his book A History of Islam in America and a Guggenheim Fellow for his current book project on the mosque in Islamic history. He also served as one of five national scholars who developed the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association Muslim Journeys Bookshelf.

Valeria González, Assistant Professor of Psychology

Psychology Department
Division of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics

I am a behavioral neuroscientist with a broad interest in how animals make decisions. I received a B.S. in psychology from University of Chile in Santiago, Chile; and a Ph.D. in basic psychology from University of Minho in Braga, Portugal. After graduation, I spent some time in sunny southern California working as a postdoc in Dr. Blaisdell and Dr. Izquierdo lab at UCLA. My research focuses on understanding the fundamentals and common mechanisms of 'rational' or 'irrational' behaviors. Taking advantage of the intersection of my training in psychology, ecology and neuroscience, I applied a multilevel approach to study the brain and behavior across species. At Reed, I investigate how decisions are made involving risk and information-seeking, and how the use of alcohol affects decision-making (for more information, visit my lab website ). My courses include PSY 201 Methods in psychology: Brain & Behavior, PSY 333 Behavioral Neuroscience, PSY 218 Neuroscience & Ethics, and PSY 338 Psychopharmacology

Lynne Gratz, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Studies

Chemistry Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Marat Grinberg, Professor of Russian and Humanities

Russian Department
Division of Literature and Languages

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Adam Groce, Associate Professor of Computer Science

Computer Science Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

Adam Groce is a cryptographer whose work focuses on database privacy. The goal of this field is to allow large databases of private information (e.g., medical records) to be used by researchers interested in advancing our understanding of the world while at the same time protecting the individuals whose information the databases contain. He is also involved in efforts to apply game-theoretic concepts to cryptography, treating adversaries as self-interested agents with particular goals. Apart from his research in cryptography, he is interested in all aspects of theoretical computer science, as well as in cybersecurity policy questions. Adam holds bachelors degrees in mathematics and political science from MIT and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland. He joined Reed as a visitor in 2014.

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Chauncey Diego Francisco Handy, Assistant Professor of Religion and Humanities

Religion Department
Division of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics

As a Chicano scholar of the Hebrew Bible, Chauncey’s teaching and research focus on the intersection of race/racialization, theories of ethnicity, Latinx theorization of identity, and the reception history of the Hebrew Bible (for example his Bible, Race, and Empire course at Reed). He earned his Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary, an M.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an M.Div. from Duke Divinity School and his B.A. from Seattle Pacific University. He is working on turning his dissertation Mestizo Poetics of Belonging: Deuteronomy’s Construction of Israelite Ethnicity into a published book. In this project, he considers the nature of ethnicity as presented in the text of Deuteronomy through the lens of Gloria Anzaldúa’s articulation of mestizaje (racial-ethnic intermixture). His argument emphasizes the value of socially located approaches to scholarly inquiry into the Hebrew Bible—noting how a Chicana theorist’s analysis of belonging elucidates the nature of Israelite ethnicity in the 5th century BCE. He has an upcoming contribution on violence in the book of Joshua to a volume titled “ The Bible and Violence” with Bloomsbury T&T Clark. Prior to coming to Reed, Chauncey taught courses at Princeton Theological Seminary, Duke Divinity School, and Georgetown University.

Denise Hare, Dr. Lester B. Lave Professor of Economics

Economics Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

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Juniper Harrower, Assistant Professor of Art

Art Department
Division of the Arts

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Jennifer Heath, Professor of Physics

Physics Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Mark Hinchliff '81, Professor of Philosophy

Philosophy Department
Division of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics

PhD, Princeton, 1988. Joined the faculty in 1991. His interests are in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language. He teaches these subjects regularly, and has written on them for journals and collections. He is currently doing work in the philosophy of time, specifically on the nature and reality of tense.

Pauline Ho, Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology

Psychology Department
Division of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics

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Hugh Hochman, Professor of French and Humanities

French Department
Division of Literature and Languages

Hugh Hochman joined the Reed College faculty in 1999 and is Professor of French and Humanities. He received his BA in Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 1990, and his PhD in French from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999. He teaches French language courses, courses in 20th-century French poetry and prose, and Humanities 220, Reed’s interdisciplinary modern European humanities course. His research focuses on 20th-century French poets, and he is especially interested in the relationship of language to material reality and in the ways in which the interpretive gestures demanded by literary texts are related to ethical questions of human action. He has published articles on Yves Bonnefoy, Guillevic, Paul Eluard, Robert Desnos, Jacques Réda, and most recently, Francis Ponge and the ethical goals of a poetics of the nonhuman.

Kevin J. Holmes, Associate Professor of Psychology

Psychology Department
Division of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics

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Paul Hovda, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities

Philosophy Department
Division of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics

Paul Hovda's research interests include metaphysics and philosophical logic. He is particularly interested in formally rigorous theories that bear on metaphysical topics, such as mereology. He received his B.A. with majors in Mathematics and in Philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from UCLA.

Physics Department webpage

Joshua Howe, Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies

History Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

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Alice Hu, Assistant Professor of Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Humanities

Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies Department
Division of Literature and Languages

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Lucas Illing, David W. Brauer Professor of Physics

Physics Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Sara Jaffe, Visiting Associate Professor of Creative Writing

English Department
Division of Literature and Languages

Sara Jaffe has been a returning visiting faculty member at Reed since 2014. Her fiction, nonfiction and multi-genre workshops give students the tools to develop their writing not only on the page but as a tool to situate themselves in relation to others, their communities, and the world at large. Sara teaches introductory workshops as well as special topics workshops focused on queer writing, writing the contemporary moment, and practices around being a working writer in the world. In her own work, Sara mines small moments of becoming and unbecoming around gender, queerness, friendship, "coming of age," and parenthood, and also frequently draws on her experience as a musician to explore questions of performance and cultural production. Sara Jaffe is the author of Dryland (Tin House Books). Her short fiction has been published in Joyland , Fence , BOMB , Catapult , The Offing , and elsewhere. Her essays and criticism about literature and music have recently appeared in Hanif Abdurraqib's 68 to 05 project and in Third Man Records' Maggot Brain . Sara is currently working on Hurricane Envy, a collection of short stories, and I'm My Own Grandpa, a novel.

Nicole James, Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Chemistry Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Greg Jensen, Assistant Professor of Psychology

Psychology Department
Division of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics

Prior to graduate school at Columbia University (earning my Ph.D. in 2014), I spent a decade in Reed's psychology department, first as an undergraduate, and subsequently managing Allen Neuringer's lab. These formative years taught me the value of studying psychological processes using a comparative approach, with both human and animal experiments providing their own pieces of the puzzle. Since obtaining my doctorate, the focus of my research has been the fundamental mechanisms of abstract thinking and cognitive representation. When we perform logical comparisons and make intuitive inferences, we engage heuristics that we share with other species and that predate the evolution of language. I am also an enthusiastic advocate for statistical methodology. Thanks to advances in both theory and in the computational tools available, there has been an explosion of possibilities in both the experimental designs we can undertake and the precise psychological theories we can formulate.

Jing Jiang, Professor of Chinese and Humanities

Chinese Department
Division of Literature and Languages

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Joan Naviyuk Kane, Associate Professor of Creative Writing

English Department
Division of Literature and Languages

Joan Naviyuk Kane received her A.B. in English and American Language and Literature from Harvard University, and her M.F.A. in Writing from Columbia University. Professor Kane is Inupiaq with family from Ugiuvak (King Island) and Qawiaraq (Mary’s Igloo). Kane is the author of several collections of poetry and prose: The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife , Hyperboreal, The Straits, Milk Black Carbon, Sublingual, A Few Lines in the Manifest, Another Bright Departure, Dark Traffic, and Ex Machina . Dark Traffic was a finalist for the 2023 Kingsley Tufts poetry award. A Guggenheim Fellow, Radcliffe Fellow, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation’s National Artist Fellow, Mellon Practitioner Fellow, and Whiting Award recipient, she’s recently been selected as a 2023-2026 Fulbright Specialist and the recipient of the 2023 Paul Engle Prize from the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature . Forthcoming in 2024 is her edited anthology, Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic, as well as an essay collection, Passing Through Danger. Her poetry and essays have recently appeared in The Hopkins Review , The Yale Review , The Slowdown , Poetry , Poetry Daily , and elsewhere. Prior to her arrival at Reed, she held faculty appointments in the departments of English at Harvard, Tufts, and UMass Boston, and in the graduate creative writing program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She has also served as a lecturer in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism and Diaspora at Tufts University, teaching courses in Native American and Indigenous Studies. At Scripps College, she was the 2021 Mary Routt Endowed Chair of Creative Writing and Journalism.

Keith Karoly, Laurens N. Ruben Professor of Biology

Biology Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Dana E. Katz, Joshua C. Taylor Professor of Art History and Humanities

Art Department
Division of the Arts

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Sameer ud Dowla Khan, Professor of Linguistics

Linguistics Department
Division of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics

Sameer joined the Linguistics Department at Reed College in 2012. His research interests lie in phonetics and phonology, areas that cover the physical attributes of speech sounds, the complex patterns they form, and the abstract representations they embody in our mental grammars. His publications focus on intonation, voice quality, and reduplication, with a particular interest in the languages of South Asia and Mesoamerica. Every year, he teaches phonetics, phonology, and half of the introductory course on formal linguistics. In selected years, he also teaches advanced courses on intonation, laboratory phonology, phonological knowledge, field methods, and South Asian languages. He serves as the director of the Lab of Linguistics, where faculty and students conduct research on diverse languages and their varieties.

Nathalia King, David Eddings Professor of English and Humanities

English Department
Division of Literature and Languages

Educated in France, Germany and the US, Nathalia King holds a French baccalaureat, studied at the University of Freiburg, has a B.A. in Comparative Literature from UMass/Amherst and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University. She has taught at Reed since 1987 and has been the recipient of Fulbright and Mellon grants. Her research focuses on the transitions between oral and literate cultures (in classical and modernist literature); text-image relations; and comparative accounts of consciousness in philosophy, psychology, and literature. Her courses include: Intro to Theory; Literary Theory; Description and Narration; the Literary Imagination and the Working Hand; and Theories of Mind: Representations of Consciousness.

Marina Knittel, Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Computer Science Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

I study the theory of graph algorithms. This can take a broad range of forms: from solving computationally intensive problems on massive datasets, to evaluating fairness in machine learning, and designing market mechanisms for hiring. My work intersects with various other disciplines, including economics and biology, and I strive to further explore interdisciplinary collaboration as the scope of computational problems continues to expand beyond the expertise of computer scientists themselves. This translates to my teaching, where I introduce the foundations of algorithms and encourage students to draw from other coursework to critically evaluate their real impact. My position at Reed begins in Spring 2025. Previously, I obtained my BS in math and computer science from Harvey Mudd College in 2018 and my PhD from the University of Maryland in 2023. I am currently a postdoc at UC San Diego in the interim.

Shohei Kobayashi, Assistant Professor of Music

Music Department
Division of the Arts

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Lyudmila Korobenko, Associate Professor of Mathematics

Mathematics and Statistics Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

I work in the area of Real Analysis, more precisely, degenerate elliptic PDEs. I study properties of solutions to such equations and associated metric measure spaces. It turns out that metric spaces associated to some infinitely degenerate operators are not geometrically doubling, and there is not much theory available for such spaces yet. I received my Masters degree from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and a PhD from the University of Calgary in Canada. I received an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship, which I took at McMaster University, and then I had a one year postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania before joining Reed in 2016.

Chris Koski, Daniel B. Greenberg Professor of Political Science and Environmental Studies

Political Science Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

Chris was an assistant professor at James Madison University from 2007-2011 and has been at Reed since Fall 2011. His research interests include many aspects of the policy process, with a particular theoretical focus on policy design and implementation. Substantively, Chris has focused on environmental policy, homeland security policy, and the politics of state budgeting. Chris currently teaches introduction to public policy, state and local politics and policy, and environmental politics and policy. Chris' classes are also a part of the environmental studies (ES) program at Reed. He can be found talking politics and policy anywhere, but particularly where there is pinball, bowling, barbeque, and good fishing.

Theatre Department webpage

Christian Kroll, Associate Professor of Spanish and Humanities

Spanish Department
Division of Literature and Languages

I hold a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish) from the University of Michigan (2012) and joined Reed in August 2014. I also hold a master’s degree in urban planning and studies from Michigan, and was a practitioner architect before turning to academia. My area of specialization is 20th and 21st century Latin American literature and culture with an emphasis on contemporary Central America, Mexico and Peru. My research interests include critical, spatial and political theory, state violence and the languages of resistance, and the relation between culture, politics and the production of space, all of which I strive to incorporate in my teaching. I am currently at work on a book-length project on the languages and spaces of (counter)insurgency in Latin America.

Peter Ksander, Professor of Theatre

Theatre Department
Division of the Arts

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Thomas Landvatter, Associate Professor of Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Humanities

Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies Department
Division of Literature and Languages

Tom earned a BA in History and a BA in Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies from Penn State University in 2006, and a PhD in 2013 from the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology (IPCAA) at the University of Michigan. His teaching and research interests center on archaeology and history of the Hellenistic Eastern Mediterranean, in particular Cyprus and Ptolemaic Egypt (323-30 BCE). Tom’s research, which has been supported by the National Science Foundation and a Fulbright award, focuses on the archaeology of death and burial, identity, and the archaeology of imperialism, with a particular interest in cross-cultural interaction and its effect on material culture. He is a field archaeologist, and is currently co-director of the Pyla-Kousopetria Archaeological Project’s (PKAP) excavations at the site of Vigla, Cyprus. The project includes an archaeological field school, which Reed students have participated in since 2018.

Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies Department webpage

Benjamin Lazier, Professor of History and Humanities

History Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

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Laura Arnold Leibman, Kenan Professor of English and Humanities

English Department
Division of Literature and Languages

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Mónica López Lerma, Associate Professor of Spanish and Humanities

Spanish Department
Division of Literature and Languages

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Morgan James Luker, Associate Professor of Music

Music Department
Division of the Arts

Morgan James Luker is Associate Professor of Music at Reed College. An ethnomusicologist, Morgan's scholarly work focuses on the cultural politics of Latin American music, with special emphasis on contemporary tango music in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His first book on this topic is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. Morgan received a B.A. in Music History from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a M.A. and Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Columbia University. He joined the Reed faculty in 2010, and teaches a wide variety of courses on world music and culture, including the Cultural Study of Music, Music and Politics, Latin American Popular Music, and Musical Ethnography, among many others. Morgan is also the director of Tango For Musicians at Reed College, an intensive summer music program that brings musicians from around the world to Reed to study tango.

Chenxi Luo, Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Humanities

History Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

Chenxi Luo is a historian of late imperial China, specializing in slavery and law, migration and diaspora, gender and sexuality, and ethnicity and borderland. She is working on her first book project, which investigates the institution of slavery in a moving empire. In particular, this research examines how geographical movement transformed social relationships between masters and slaves during the Qing period, China’s last dynasty. Her intellectual inquiry extends to the history of Asian Americans. She creates a public-facing StoryMap project on Asian immigrants in St. Louis. Chenxi received her Ph.D. degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 2024. At Reed, she teaches courses on the histories of sexuality and of slavery in East Asia and will also teach Humanities 110.

Charlene Makley, Elizabeth C. Ducey Professor of Anthropology

Anthropology Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

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Carla Mann '81, Judy Massee Professor of Dance

Dance Department
Division of the Arts

Professor Carla Mann has been a member of the dance faculty since 1995, teaching beginning through advanced levels of contemporary technique, choreography, improvisation, dance cultural studies and special projects. Her choreographic work includes dance for stage, alternative sites, installation and video. Mann has performed with Oslund+Co/Dance, tEEth, Bonnie Merrill and Minh Tran & Company among others. Mann was awarded a 2015 Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship and was recently profiled in Stance on Dance. During her 2015-16 sabbatical, Mann will serve as Associate Artistic Director of Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre/Northwest and undertake a new choreographic commission for the Northwest Dance Project.

Lucía Martínez Valdivia, Associate Professor of English and Humanities

English Department
Division of Literature and Languages

Lucía Martínez Valdivia (Reed 2014-, PhD University of Pennsylvania 2014, MA Columbia University 2007, BMus Florida State University 2005) is an associate professor of English and Humanities at Reed College, and works primarily in early modern poetry and poetics. Lucía specializes in histories of poetic forms and has published extensively on early modern English lyric and prosody, with particular focus on short-form lines and the interplay of poetic form, music, and religion. Her current project explores the relationship between reading poetry and audiation, or the mind’s ear. Lucía teaches various poetry-focused courses in the English department, and in Hum 211/212.

Liz Matsushita, Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Humanities

History Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

Liz Matsushita is a historian of modern North Africa and the Middle East, with a special interest in race and ethnicity, colonialism, nationalism, anticolonial resistance, knowledge production, and music. Her book project examines the history of music and musicology in colonial Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, and the ways in which music served as a political idiom that shaped French and Maghrebi understandings of race and power. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Music from U.C. Davis and received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2021. At Reed, she will teach courses on Middle Eastern music, the history of the Sahara, and anticolonial movements in North Africa, and also will teach in Humanities 110.

Alicia McGhee, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Chemistry Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

Alicia McGhee is an organic chemist who studies reaction development and chemical education. In the laboratory setting, she is particularly interested in the development of safer chemical reagents and implementing processes that reduce the use of toxic compounds and/or the generation of chemical waste. In the classroom, she is interested in implementing active learning strategies and incorporating societal themes such as social justice, the life cycle of chemicals in the environment, and information literacy. She teaches introductory and advanced organic chemistry. Before Reed, she studied organic chemistry methodology, organometallic catalysis, and natural products synthesis at the University of East Anglia (M.S.) and the University of Washington (Ph.D.).

Charles McGuffey, Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Computer Science Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

Charles McGuffey works on computer systems and algorithm design, attempting to improve both the theory and practice of computer systems by looking at the interaction between hardware and software. His work looks to gain practical insight into understudied and emerging aspects of computer design to improve resulting performance. In addition to research, Charles is happy to talk about new or different ways of thinking about computer science or how to apply it. Charles joined Reed in the fall of 2021, upon the completion of his Ph.D. in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. He also holds bachelors degrees in both computer engineering and computer science from Clarkson University.

Jay L. Mellies, Amgen-Perlmutter Professor of Biology

Biology Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Tamara Metz, Professor of Political Science and Humanities

Political Science Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

Tamara Metz's fields of interests include history of political thought, liberalism and its critics, feminist, democratic and critical theory, American political thought and theories of freedom. Her current research includes: care in diverse, liberal democracies. In Untying the Knot: Marriage, the State and the Case for Their Divorce (Princeton University Press, 2010), she explores the history of liberal treatment of the relationship between marriage and the state, and concludes that marriage should be disestablished. Metz is the co-editor of Justice, Politics, and the Family (Paradigm Press, 2014). Her work also appears in Just Marriage (Oxford, 2004), Contemporary Political Theory (2007), Politics & Gender (2010) and The Nation (2013). In addition to her work in political theory, she has a special interest in pedagogical issues especially those pertaining to thesis advising.

David Meyer, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Mathematics and Statistics Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

David studies modern algebra, particularly representations of finite-dimensional algebras. His recent research focuses on representations of incidence algebras and their connections to topological data analysis. David completed his PhD in 2015 at the University of Iowa, and then went to the University of Missouri for a postdoc. Since then, he has held visiting positions at Smith College and Colgate University.

Jan Mieszkowski, Reginald F. Arragon Professor of German and Humanities

German Department
Division of Literature and Languages

Jan Mieszkowski is a specialist in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European literature and philosophy. At Reed, he teaches courses in German and Comparative Literature and has been part of both the Ancient and Modern Humanities staffs. He regularly offers seminars in poetry and poetics, the methods of literary analysis, and continental philosophy. Jan is the author of Labors of Imagination: Aesthetics and Political Economy from Kant to Althusser (Fordham University Press, 2006), Watching War (Stanford University Press, 2012), and Crises of the Sentence (University of Chicago Press, 2019). His recent articles explore a variety of topics in philosophy, literary and critical theory, and media studies. A recipient of National Endowment of the Humanities and Mellon fellowships, he is on the editorial board of Postmodern Culture. Jan is currently writing a book about the poetics of botany.

Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies Department webpage

Ellen Millender, Omar and Althea Hoskins Professor of Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Humanities

Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies Department
Division of Literature and Languages

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Mary Ashburn Miller, Professor of History and Humanities

History Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

Mary Ashburn Miller is a historian of modern Europe with a specialization in eighteenth and nineteenth-century France. She is the author of A Natural History of Revolution: Violence and Nature in the French Revolutionary Imagination (2011), and her current research is on the return of emigrants and refugees to France after the French Revolution. Her teaching interests include the history of war and violence, European travel and colonization, and the history of science; recent courses include Europe and North Africa in the Long Nineteenth Century and War & Peace in Europe, 1700-1914. She also teaches in Reed’s Humanities program. A native of Lexington, Kentucky, Mary received her B.A. from the University of Virginia, and her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. She joined Reed’s faculty in 2008.

Peter Miller, Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Humanities

English Department
Division of Literature and Languages

Peter Miller is a scholar of English-language poetry from Romanticism to the present, with particular interests in sound and rhythm, music, and media studies. At Reed, he teaches Hum 110, Engl 211 (Intro to Poetry), and Eng 366 (Remixing the Canon). His first book, Poetry, Sound, and the Matter of Prosody, 1800-2000 , is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. A second book project studies a group of contemporary anglophone poets who have reimagined canonical western texts within global and postcolonial frameworks. A chapter from this project—on the British-Nigerian poet Patience Agbabi’s 2014 remix of Chaucer—recently appeared in English Literary History . Other essays have appeared or are forthcoming in PMLA , Studies in English Literature , Modern Language Quarterly , and Modern Philology . Peter holds a bachelor’s degree in English and cello performance from Goshen College and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia.

Margot Minardi, Professor of History and Humanities

History Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

Margot Minardi is a historian of the early American republic, with particular interests in reform movements, historical memory, slavery and freedom, and nationalism and colonialism. Her current research concerns American peace reformers in the nineteenth century. She is the author of Making Slavery History: Abolitionism and the Politics of Memory in Massachusetts, which won a first book prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. In 2011-2012, she was an MHS-NEH Long-Term Research Fellow at the Massachusetts Historical Society. At Reed, she offers courses on race, African American history, American social reform, antebellum U.S. history, and the American Revolution, and she also teaches in the college’s first-year interdisciplinary course, Humanities 110. Minardi came to Reed in 2007 after completing a Ph.D. at Harvard University.

Candace Mixon, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion

Religion Department
Division of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics

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Akihiko Miyoshi, Professor of Art

Art Department
Division of the Arts

Akihiko Miyoshi has been exploring the intersection between art and technology most frequently dealing with issues surrounding photographic representation. His works often reveal the conventions of perception and representation through tensions created by the use of computers and traditional photographic techniques. Miyoshi received a MFA in photography in 2005 from the Rochester Institute of Technology after taking a leave of absence as a PhD student in computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University to pursue art. His work has been exhibited widely including Portland, New York, Los Angeles, Rochester, Pittsburgh, and Toronto. He was named the International Award Winner of Fellowship 12 at The Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh PA and the finalist for the Betty Bowen Award in 2012 and Aperture Portfolio Prize in 2013. Miyoshi received a Hallie Ford Fellowship in 2012.

Alexander Moll, Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Mathematics and Statistics Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

Alexander Moll is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics. His research and teaching focus on probability theory and mathematical analysis. After earning a B.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from M.I.T., he taught courses in perturbation theory and stochastic processes while pursuing scholarly work in integrable probability, non-linear dispersive waves, soliton quantization, and semi-classical analysis. Before joining the Reed faculty in Fall 2022, he was a CARMIN post-doc at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, a post-doc in Stochastic Analysis at the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, an NSF post-doc in the RTG in Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory at Northeastern University, and the first Robert T. Seeley Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Luc Monnin, Professor of French

French Department
Division of Literature and Languages

Luc Monnin joined the Reed College faculty in 2004. Educated in Switzerland, he received his BA in French Literature from the University of Geneva, then he came to the United States to work on his PhD (Johns Hopkins, 2004). He has published on Sarraute, Rousseau, Montaigne, Fontenelle, Condillac and 18th-century language theory. He teaches courses on Early Modern Literature and Culture, The Novel, and Literary Theory, often with a focus on visual arts.

Alexander H. Montgomery, Professor of Political Science

Political Science Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

Alexander H. Montgomery has published articles on dismantling proliferation networks and on the effects of social networks of international organizations on interstate conflict. His research interests include political organizations, social networks, weapons of mass disruption and destruction, social studies of technology, and interstate social relations. Most recently, he has been a Residential Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; prior to that he was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow in Nuclear Security with a placement in the US Office of the Secretary of Defense (Policy) working for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction. His portfolio included writing a new Department of Defense Strategy for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Fathimath Musthaq, Assistant Professor of Political Science

Political Science Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

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Radhika Natarajan, Associate Professor of History and Humanities

History Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

Radhika Natarajan is associate professor of history and humanities. Her current book project investigates the welfare state origins of multiculturalism in Britain. In addition to her historical scholarship, Radhika also writes for wider audiences—adults and children. She received her BA in History from Yale University, and her MA and PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley. She joined the Reed faculty in 2014, and her courses investigate race and migration in British imperial history. More information on Radhika’s scholarship and teaching can be found on her website .

Lexi Neame, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science

Political Science Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

My research and teaching interests are in the history of political thought, contemporary democratic and feminist theory, and the politics of science, technology and the environment (particularly statistics and statecraft, climate science, and contemporary data politics). My book manuscript (tentatively called Common Knowledge) is occasioned by the crisis of authoritative knowledge in democratic societies. Drawing on the thought of Hannah Arendt as well as interdisciplinary literature on democracy and expertise, new communication technologies, and digital publics, it explores how scientific and technical knowledge translates, circulates and becomes contested in the public realm. I also lead an interdisciplinary research project called Arendt on Earth: From the Archimedean Point to the Anthropocene ( www.arendtonearth.com), funded by Humanities Without Walls and the Mellon Foundation. I received my PhD from Northwestern and taught at Stanford before coming to Reed. This year I will teach The Human Condition, Democracy and Data, and Introduction to Political Theory. The central aim of my teaching is to hone students’ ability to read, think and write rigorously, critically, generously and—not least—passionately.

Economics Department webpage

Noelwah R. Netusil, Stanley H. Cohn Professor of Economics

Economics Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

Noelwah R. Netusil is the Stanley H. Cohn Professor of Economics. Her research has explored the effect of urban environmental conditions, such as water quality, proximity to open spaces, vegetation, and green infrastructure, on property sale prices. Her current research investigates the willingness-to-pay for flood insurance and flood insurance literacy. She is also collaborating with researchers from the UK, Netherlands, and China to study the future of blue-green infrastructure. Her classes include environmental and natural resources economics, economics of the public sector, and law and economics. Dr. Netusil is an Associate Editor at Landscape and Urban Policy and on is on the editorial board of Land Economics.

Yoli Ngandali, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Anthropology Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

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Nigel Nicholson, Walter Mintz Professor of Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Humanities

Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies Department
Division of Literature and Languages

Nigel Nicholson is the Walter Mintz Professor of Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Humanities. He has been at Reed since 1995, and received his B.A. from Oxford University and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches Greek and Latin language, literature and culture classes, as well as Hum 110, the first-year Humanities class on the Ancient Mediterranean, Mexico and the Harlem Renaissance. His research focuses on Greek athletics and politics, lyric poetry, elite display, medicine, and Sicily and southern Italy. He is the author of three books: Aristocracy and Athletics in Archaic and Classical Greece (Cambridge University Press, 2005); The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West: Epinician, Oral Tradition and the Deinomenid Empire (Oxford University Press, 2015); and, jointly with Dr. Nathan Selden of Oregon Health and Sciences University, The Rhetoric of Medicine: Contemporary Lessons from Ancient Greece (Oxford University Press, 2019). He also edited a special issue of the "Paedagogus" section of Classical World 108 (2015) on teaching literary theory to graduates and undergraduates in Classics. He is currently working on two more books for Oxford University Press, one a study of Greek athletics through the statues and poetry used to commemorate victors, and one a volume on Sicily from the Paleolithic period to the Middle Ages, edited jointly with colleagues from the University of British Columbia and the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He was named Oregon Professor of the Year in 2005 and served for seven years as Reed’s Dean of the Faculty, 2013-2020.

Department webpage

Lindsey K. Novak, Assistant Professor of Economics

Economics Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

Lindsey Novak's research and teaching interests are at the intersection of international economic development, health, and gender. Her research examines how social norms impact economic outcomes and how economic conditions shape those norms. Her topics of expertise are female genital cutting, polygamy, intimate partner violence, and food consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa. Lindsey received her PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota in 2017. Before starting her PhD, she worked at The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) in New Delhi, India. She obtained her master's degree in International Economics from The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland and her bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics from Texas A&M University. Before coming to Reed she was an Assistant Professor at Colby College.

Dean of the Faculty webpage

Kathryn C. Oleson, Dean of the Faculty and Patricia and Clifford Lunneborg Professor of Psychology

Psychology Department
Division of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics

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Geraldine Ondrizek, Professor of Art

Art Department
Division of the Arts

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Kyle Ormsby, Associate Professor of Mathematics

Mathematics and Statistics Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Angélica M. Osorno, Associate Professor of Mathematics

Mathematics and Statistics Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

Angélica M. Osorno is an associate professor of mathematics. She does research in algebraic topology, with a particular interest in higher category theory and its connections with higher K-theory and infinite loop space theory. She received a B.Sc. in Mathematics from MIT in 2005, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics, also from MIT, in 2010. She joined the Reed faculty in 2013. She was the invited faculty speaker at the Underrepresented Students in Topology and Algebra Research Symposium in April 2015.

Michael Pearce, Assistant Professor of Statistics

Mathematics and Statistics Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

Michael Pearce is a Bayesian statistician interested in developing and applying methods for problems in the social sciences. His recent work focuses on statistical preference analysis, specifically the estimation of heterogeneous preference ideologies within a population based on complex preference data. Applications of his work include voting, preference surveys, and academic peer review. He is additionally interested in statistical demography, with published work on probabilistic forecasting of human longevity. During his graduate studies, Michael worked as an applied statistician at Boeing. He earned a B.A. in mathematics from St. Olaf College and a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Washington before joining Reed in 2023.

Matt Pearson '92, Professor of Linguistics

Linguistics Department
Division of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics

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Psychology Department webpage

Michael Pitts, Professor of Psychology

Psychology Department
Division of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics

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Jamie Pommersheim, Katharine Piggott Professor of Mathematics

Mathematics and Statistics Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

Jamie Pommersheim, Katharine Piggott Professor of Mathematics, joined the Reed faculty in 2004. He held post-doctoral positions at the Institute for Advanced Study, M.I.T., and U.C. Berkeley, and served on the mathematics faculty at New Mexico State University and Pomona College. Pommersheim has published research papers in a wide variety of areas, including algebraic geometry, number theory, and topology. Much of his recent work centers around quantum computation, specifically quantum learning algorithms. For many years, Pommersheim has taught talented high-school students at Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth (CTY), as well as the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics (HCSSiM). His 2010 number theory text, co-written with Tim Marks and Erica Flapan, provides a rigorous yet leisurely-paced introduction to the subject.

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Hannah Prather, Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology

Biology Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Kritish Rajbhandari '12, Assistant Professor of English and Humanities

English Department
Division of Literature and Languages

My research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of South Asian and African literature, Indian Ocean cultures, postcolonial theory, and critical ocean studies. My publications can be found in Research in African Literatures, Comparative Literature, and The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. I am currently working on a book project examining how contemporary novels from South Asia and Eastern Africa reimagine the stories of cross-cultural encounter, migration, and exchange in the Indian Ocean. Engaging with critical ocean studies and oceanic humanities, it raises aesthetic and epistemological questions about the representation of sea and history in Indian Ocean literature. It is based on my PhD dissertation which was awarded the American Comparative Literature Association’s (ACLA) Charles Bernheimer Prize for the best dissertation in Comparative Literature in 2020. I also translate poetry from my mother tongue Nepal Bhasa to English. My translation of the Newar poet Durgalal Shrestha's collection of children's poetry is forthcoming in a bilingual edition from Safu publications in Kathmandu . In addition to courses in the English Department, I also teach in Reed's year-long interdisciplinary course, Humanities 110, and courses in the Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies (CRES) program.

Suzy C. P. Renn, Associate Dean of the Faculty and Roger M. Perlmutter Professor of Biology

Biology Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Anna Ritz, Associate Professor of Biology

Biology Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

In a nutshell, I use computer science to solve biological problems. I joined the Biology Department in the Fall of 2015 after studying how cells respond to external signals as a postdoctoral researcher at Virginia Tech. Before that, I received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Brown University, where I was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and taught a computational thinking class for humanities majors, and I received my B.A. from Carleton College. My research explores different ways to model biological systems using computers, concentrating on the ways diseases such as cancer affect these systems. I am excited to present students with computational methods to use in their biology study and research — my lab is filled with computers! I hope my teaching promotes interdisciplinary learning in a way that attracts a wide array of students, including those typically under-represented in the field.

Marcus Robinson '13, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Mathematics and Statistics Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

Marcus Robinson does research in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. His recent work has focused on computing a certain algebraic invariant called a uniform bound on symbolic powers. In addition to his research, he has contributed to the development of the computer algebra software Macaulay2. Marcus received his BA from Reed College in 2013 and recently completed work on his PhD at the University of Utah.

Peter Rock, Professor of Creative Writing

English Department
Division of Literature and Languages

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Jon Rork, George Hay Professor of Economics

Economics Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

Jon Rork joined Reed College in 2010, having previously been on the faculty at the University of New Hampshire, Vassar College and Georgia State University. Rork studies a variety of issues in state and local public finance. His current research interests are in the realm of state taxation, interjurisdictional competition, and the economic determinants of interstate migration, especially as it pertains to the elderly. At Reed, Rork teaches courses in microeconomic theory, game theory, public finance, urban economics and behavioral economics.

Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies Department webpage

Sonia Sabnis, Professor of Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Humanities

Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies Department
Division of Literature and Languages

Sonia Sabnis has taught at Reed College since 2006. She received her BA from Columbia University (1998) before completing an MA (2000) and Ph.D. (2006) at University of California, Berkeley. She is broadly interested in imperial literature, Greek and Latin, but her primary research specialty is the African Roman author Apuleius. Her published research includes studies of slavery and literature, figurative katabasis, and reception in different contexts in the twentieth and twenty-first century, including contemporary Algerian novels, mid-century horror, and poetry in English. She has held research fellowships at Vassar College, Wellesley College, and the W. E. B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts. She will be Professor-in-Charge at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome in 2024-25. Professor Sabnis currently volunteers time as a mentor through the Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus (AAACC) and as a tour guide at the Portland Japanese Garden.

Vasiliy Safin '07, Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology

Psychology Department
Division of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics

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Jennifer Sakai, Visiting Associate Professor of Art History and Humanities

Art Department
Division of the Arts

Jenny Sakai is an art historian specializing in early modern (approximately 15th-18th centuries) art. She was trained as a historian of northern European art, and her current teaching and research focus on early modern art in the context of colonialism and imperialism. She is interested in what happens to artistic form, content, style, and function when works of art cross temporal, cultural, political, ideological, or theological boundaries. She completed her BA and PhD in the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley, and she is the recipient of a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship and a Samuel H. Kress Institutional Fellowship. Jenny has published in the Journal of Art Historiography, and her article on the 17th-century Dutch inventor, cityscape painter, and fire captain Jan van der Heyden, will be published in a forthcoming issue of the interdisciplinary journal Word & Image.

Sarah Schaack, Howard Vollum Professor of Biology

Biology Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Margaret Scharle, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities

Philosophy Department
Division of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics

Margaret Scharle (PhD 2005, UCLA) works in ancient philosophy, with special interest in Aristotelian natural philosophy. Her papers have appeared in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy , Phronesis, and Apeiron, Theory and Practice in Aristotle's Natural Philosophy , and Aristotle's Physics, A Critical Guide . Her most recent translation and essay is published in Aristotle’s Generation and Corruption II (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Her works in progress include an entry on physics for the new Oxford History of the Classical Greek World and a 24-lecture series, Philosophy in the Ancient World, produced by The Great Courses in video and audio formats. She enjoys collaborative research with students, with whom she has presented co-authored papers at professional conferences, including the American Philosophy Association and the Society of Ancient Greek Philosophy meetings.

Kristin Scheible, Professor of Religion and Humanities

Religion Department
Division of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics

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Alexander Schielke, Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology

Psychology Department
Division of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics

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Marc Schneiberg, John C. Pock Professor of Sociology

Sociology Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

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Sociology Department website

Darrell Schroeter '95, Professor of Physics

Physics Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Paul Silverstein, Professor of Anthropology

Anthropology Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

Paul A. Silverstein is a cultural anthropologist of North Africa and the North African diaspora. He holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago and has been at Reed since 2000. He is author of Postcolonial France: Race, Islam and the Future of the Republic (Pluto, 2018) and Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation (Indiana, 2004), and co-editor (with Ussama Makdisi) of Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa (Indiana, 2006) and (with Jane Goodman) of Bourdieu in Algeria: Colonial Politics, Ethnographic Practices, Theoretical Developments (Nebraska, 2009). He is completing an ethnography on Amazigh/Berber ethno-politics, historical consciousness, and development in southeastern Morocco, and has been pursuing new research on the history and politics of immigrant labor in the coal mines of post-war Europe. He chairs the board of directors of the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP).

José Miguel Simões, Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology

Biology Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Irina Simova, Visiting Assistant Professor of German

German Department
Division of Literature and Languages

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Peter J. Steinberger, Robert H. and Blanche Day Ellis Professor of Political Science and Humanities

Political Science Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

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Shivani Sud, Assistant Professor of Art History and Humanities

Art Department
Division of the Arts

Shivani Sud received her PhD in the History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley in 2022. Her current book project Jaipur and the World: Painting, Print, and Photography, ca. 1780-1920 examines painting at the regional kingdoms of Rajasthan in relation to global eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art worlds. In the past, Shivani has published essays on colonial photography in the Getty Research Journal , SmartHistory, and the British Library’s Asian and African Studies blog. Her research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council's International Dissertation Research Fellowship, the Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship, the American Institute of Indian Studies' Fellowship, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Fellowship. Shivani’s teaching situates South Asian art within a global world, with courses on environmental histories, materialities, colonial visual cultures, photography, Indian cinema, museum histories, and methodologies for a global art history.

Barbara Tetenbaum, Visiting Professor of Art

Art Department
Division of the Arts

Barbara Tetenbaum is returning for her fourth year as a Visiting Professor in Studio Art. Barb is a visual artist interested in the act of reading. She uses books, print, installation, and animation to explore this topic. She founded her artist book imprint, Triangular Press in 1979, and produces one to two book projects each year. Barb is the recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships, career and project awards from the Oregon Arts Commission, Ford Family Foundation, Oregon Community Foundation and the Regional Arts and Culture Council (Portland area). Barb led the Book + Print Dept. at Oregon College of Art and Craft for 25 years before the college closed in 2019. She holds a B.S. in Fine Art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Sarah Wagner-McCoy, Associate Professor of English and Humanities

English Department
Division of Literature and Languages

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Leonard Wainstein, Assistant Professor of Statistics

Mathematics and Statistics Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

Leonard Wainstein studies statistics and causal inference, and their applications. His methods research focuses on weighting, sensitivity analysis, and clustered data. His applied work has largely been in education — most recently studying the relationships between 12th math course — taking and student outcomes, and between Ethnic Studies course-taking and student outcomes in Los Angeles. Leonard earned his B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania, and his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He also did a half-year postdoc at UCLA for the Department of Public Policy. Prior to teaching at Reed, he loved being a teacher’s assistant (TA) at UCLA, including being the TA coordinator and co-teaching the UCLA Statistics department’s TA training course in his third year of graduate school.

Simone Waller, Assistant Professor of English and Humanities

English Department
Division of Literature and Languages

Simone Waller is an early modernist specializing in English drama and prose. Her work centers on the intersection of literature and politics during the Reformation and is particularly attuned to historical questions of access to and involvement in public speech. Her current book project explores the proliferation of voices in sixteenth-century printed dialogues and performed drama, arguing that creative interactions between old and new means of communication in the press and theater established a mandate for political representation across the social spectrum. An article drawn from this project has been published in The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. New work under development focuses on the interplay between bodies, books, and the natural world as vehicles for communication in early drama. Simone received her PhD in 2019 from Northwestern University. At Reed, she teaches courses on Shakespeare and his contemporary dramatists, as well as Humanities 110.

Michelle H. Wang, Associate Professor of Art History and Humanities

Art Department
Division of the Arts

Michelle H. Wang specializes in art and archaeology of tenth century BCE to third century CE China, with an emphasis on early notational systems. Her research interests include artisanal practice, history of technology, excavated texts, and mortuary culture. Her current book project examines the extant corpus of early Chinese maps and their multifunctionality. Two other projects are underway: one on excavated covenants from the fifth century BCE and another on Han dynasty tomb murals. Michelle received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley (2014).

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Kjersten Bunker Whittington, Professor of Sociology

Sociology Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

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Poets as Readers in Nineteenth-Century France
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Ethics of Care in Documentary Filmmaking since 1968
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Catherine Witt, Professor of French

French Department
Division of Literature and Languages

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Barbie Wu, Assistant Professor of Theatre

Theatre Department
Division of the Arts

Barbie Wu is an actor and educator with a MFA in acting from Southern Methodist University. Wu’s scholarly interests are focused around contemporary plays written by playwrights from the BIPoC and LGBTQIA communities, and her classes on acting and directing will highlight this material. Wu is a resident artist at Artists Repertory Theatre and was featured as the titular role in The Chinese Lady by Lloyd Suh and originated the role of Dr. May Zhou in the world premiere of Magellanica by local playwright E.M. Lewis. Alongside her colleagues, she always strives to foster a compassionate and collaborative education environment for future theatre makers.

Bora Yoon, Assistant Professor of Music

Music Department
Division of the Arts

Bora Yoon is an Assistant Professor of Music Composition at Reed College. A Korean-American composer, vocalist, and sound artist, Bora’s musical practice focuses on the intersection of classical forms of music and hybrid expressions of time-based new music and evolving technologies. Classically trained in voice, violin, and piano — her research and teaching interests include Music Composition, Electroacoustic Music, Songwriting, Sound Art, Embodied Performance, Music for Dance, Film, and Theater, Spatial Audio, and Immersive Performance with New Media. Her music has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, WIRE magazine, Apple TV+’s Pachinko , NPR, TED, and the National Endowment for the Arts podcast. She joins the Reed faculty in 2023.

Xue Zhang, Assistant Professor of History

History Department
Division of History and Social Sciences

Xue Zhang is a historian of early modern China, specializing in cartography, science and technology, borderlands, and bureaucratic practices. Her peer-reviewed works have been published in The Journal of Chinese History and Isis: A Journal of the History of Science. She is currently working on her first book, which combines the approaches of political history, intellectual history, and history of science to explain Qing China’s counterintuitive policy shift in Xinjiang — the empire’s Muslim borderland in Inner Asia — in the late nineteenth century. Her second project looks at low-ranking clerks in the Qing central government. Although at the bottom of the imperial bureaucracy, they were the ones who directed the flow of information. She received her a Ph.D. degree from Princeton in 2020 and joined Reed in 2022. At Reed, she teaches courses on the history of China and China’s interactions with other parts of the world. She also contributes to the Chinese Humanities.

Erik Zornik, Professor of Biology

Biology Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

Erik is a neuroscientist with a broad interest in understanding how brains generate behaviors. He studied cell and molecular biology at the University of Michigan (BS '97), trained in neurobiology as a graduate student at Columbia University (PhD '06) and was a postdoc at Boston University and the University of Utah. His research primarily investigates how neurons and neural circuits generate vocal behaviors of the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis. Much of his research employs electrical recordings of vocal neurons. Since arriving at Reed in 2012, he has also been collaborating with Reed students to use molecular tools to identify genes that are critical for the production, development and evolution of frog vocalizations. Erik's courses focus on understanding how neurons work, and how nervous systems control physiologically critical functions such sensory processing, movement, and metabolism.