ENVS Faculty Affiliates

Affiliates for the 2022-2023 Academic Year

Syon Bhanot

Associate Professor

Economics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8369
  2. Kohlberg Hall 206
  3. Office Hours: Mondays 2:00pm-3:00pm on Zoom https://swarthmore.zoom.us/j/6452998583 Fridays 1:00pm-2:00pm (Kohl 330)

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Personal site

Areas of Interest: Behavioral Economics, Public Economics, Experimental Economics, Public Policy 

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Timothy Burke

Professor

Department Chair, History (co-chair)

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8115
  2. Trotter Hall 206
  3. Office Hours: Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., 2-4 p.m.

Links

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

Interests: Africa, cultural studies

Professor Timothy J. Burke

Paloma Checa-Gismero

Assistant Professor

On Leave

Art History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5671
  2. Beardsley Hall 203
  3. Office Hours: Mondays & Wednesdays 4-5pm and by appointment.

Links

  1. Profile
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Vince Formica

Associate Professor

Department Chair, Biology

Biology

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8621
  2. Maxine Frank Singer '52 Hall 405

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Website
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Bethany Formica Bender

(she-her-hers-herself)

Lecturer

Dance

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6164
  2. Eugene M. and Theresa Lang Performing Arts Center 9
  3. Office Hours: By appointment

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Website

Contemporary Modern Dance, Choreography

Bethany Formica

Sibelan Forrester

Susan W. Lippincott Professor of Modern and Classical Languages

Program Coordinator, Comparative Literature (Interim)

Section Head, Russian

Modern Languages & Literatures-Russian

Comparative Literature

Interpretation Theory

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8162
  2. Kohlberg Hall 340

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Homepage

Interests: Russian and East European women writers; gender and sexuality in language and literature; Modernism; literary and scholarly translation and translation theory

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Joshua Goldwyn

Associate Professor

On Leave - Academic Year

Mathematics & Statistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6059

Links

  1. Website

Areas of Research: Applied mathematics, mathematical neuroscience

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Christopher Green

Visiting Assistant Professor

Art History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-3339
  2. Beardsley Hall 204

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Website
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History Chris Green headshot

David Harrison

Professor

On Leave - Fall

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5785
  2. Pearson Hall 102

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Website
  3. Google Scholar
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Nick Kaplinsky

Isaac H. Clothier, Jr. Professor of Biology

Natural Sciences & Engineering

Biology

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8039
  2. Maxine Frank Singer '52 Hall 402
  3. Maxine Frank Singer '52 Hall 423

Links

  1. Website

Research: Molecular genetics of plant abiotic stress response

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Ayse Kaya

Professor

Department Chair, Political Science

Program Coordinator, Global Studies

Political Science

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8471
  2. Trotter Hall 311

Links

  1. Website
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Shailen Mishra

Visiting Assistant Professor

Writing Associates

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5641

Links

  1. Profile

 

 

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Benjamin Ridgway

Assistant Professor

Section Head, Chinese

Modern Languages & Literatures-Chinese

Asian Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7675
  2. Kohlberg Hall 305

Links

  1. Profile
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Kathryn Riley ’10

Associate Professor

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7369
  2. Science Center 284
  3. Science Center 295
  1. Profile
  2. Research Lab

Research interests: nanomaterial surface properties and interactions with biomolecules

Kathryn Riley

Peter Schmidt

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor

English Literature

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8156
  2. Eugene M. and Theresa Lang Performing Arts Center 206
  3. Office Hours: Tues and Thurs 11:15 to 12:00 
    and by appointment.
    (in person or via Zoom)

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Website
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Sunka Simon

Professor

Department Chair, Film & Media Studies

Modern Languages & Literatures-German

Film & Media Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7354
  2. Kohlberg Hall 312
  3. Office Hours: Mondays 3:00pm-4:00pm and by appt.

Links

  1. Website

Sunka Simon is the author of German Crime Dramas from Network Television to Netflix (2023) and Mail-Orders: The Fiction of Letters in Postmodern Culture (2002), co-editor of Globally Networked Teaching in the Humanities (2015) and numerous articles on German literature, film, television, and popular music.

 

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Hillary Smith

Associate Professor of Physics

Physics & Astronomy-Physics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5521
  2. Science Center 121

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Website

Research Interests: materials physics, energy storage materials, phonon dynamics, scattering

Hilary Smith

Lee Smithey

(he-him-his-himself)

Professor

On Leave - Academic Year

Peace & Conflict Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-2064
  2. Parrish Hall
  3. Office Hours: By appointment

Links

  1. Profile
Professor Lee Smithey

Tracey Stewart

Assistant Professor

Music

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6266
  2. Lang Music Building 411

Links

  1. Profile
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Elizabeth Stevens

Associate Professor

Department Chair, Theater

Theater

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-6889
  2. Eugene M. and Theresa Lang Performing Arts Center 308

Links

  1. Profile
  2. CV and Resume
  3. Website
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Steve Wang

(he-him-his-himself)

Professor of Statistics

Department Chair, Mathematics & Statistics

Mathematics & Statistics-Statistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5769
  2. Science Center 159

Links

  1. Website

Area of research: paleobiology, macroevolution, and statistics.

Steve C Wang