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

Timothy Burke
Professor
History
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Interests: Africa, cultural studies


Bethany Formica Bender
Lecturer
Dance
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Contemporary Modern Dance, Choreography

Sibelan Forrester
Susan W. Lippincott Professor of Modern and Classical Languages
Program Coordinator, Comparative Literature; Interpretation Theory
Section Head, Russian
Modern Languages & Literatures-Russian
Comparative Literature
Interpretation Theory
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Interests: Russian and East European women writers; gender and sexuality in language and literature; Modernism; literary and scholarly translation and translation theory

Joshua Goldwyn
Associate Professor of Mathematics
On Leave - Academic Year
Mathematics & Statistics-Mathematics
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Areas of Research: Applied mathematics, mathematical neuroscience

Christopher Green
Visiting Assistant Professor
Environmental Studies
Art History
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Nick Kaplinsky
Isaac H. Clothier, Jr. Professor of Biology
Natural Sciences & Engineering
Biology
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Research: Molecular genetics of plant abiotic stress response

Ayse Kaya
Professor
Department Chair, Political Science
Program Coordinator, Global Studies
Political Science
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Benjamin Ridgway
Assistant Professor
Chinese
On Leave - Spring
Modern Languages & Literatures-Chinese
Asian Studies
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Kathryn Riley ’10
Associate Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry
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Research interests: nanomaterial surface properties and interactions with biomolecules

Peter Schmidt
William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor
English Literature
Environmental Studies
Black Studies
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Sunka Simon
Henry C. and Charlotte Turner Professor
Department Chair, Film & Media Studies; Modern Languages & Literatures
Section Head, German Studies
Modern Languages & Literatures-German
Film & Media Studies
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Sunka Simon is the author of German Crime Dramas from Network Television to Netflix (2023) and Mail-Orders: The Fiction of Letters in Postmodern Culture (2002), co-editor of Globally Networked Teaching in the Humanities (2015) and numerous articles on German literature, film, television, and popular music.

Hillary Smith
Associate Professor of Physics
On Leave - Academic Year
Physics & Astronomy-Physics
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Research Interests: materials physics, energy storage materials, phonon dynamics, scattering



Elizabeth Stevens
Associate Professor
Department Chair, Theater
Theater
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Steve Wang
Professor of Statistics
Department Chair, Mathematics & Statistics
Mathematics & Statistics-Statistics
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Area of research: paleobiology, macroevolution, and statistics.
