Skip to main content

Faculty & Staff

Core Faculty and Staff

Sa'ed Atshan ’06

Associate Professor

Department Chair, Peace & Conflict Studies

Peace & Conflict Studies

Sociology & Anthropology

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7365
  2. Parrish Hall W237B
Sa'ed Atshan

Lee Smithey

(he-him-his-himself)

Professor

Peace & Conflict Studies

Contact

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

Mike Wilson Becerril

(he-him-they-them)

Visiting Assistant Professor

Peace & Conflict Studies

Latin American & Latino Studies

Environmental Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-3358
  2. Parrish Hall W225
Photo of Mike Wilson Becerril

Sahr Conway-Lanz

(he-him-his-himself)

Curator, Peace Collection

Libraries-Peace Collection

Peace & Conflict Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8572
  2. McCabe Library 032
Sahr Conway-Lanz

Israa Al-Helli

(she-her-hers-herself)

Administrative Assistant II

Peace & Conflict Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7674
  2. Parrish Hall
  3. Office Hours: Monday-Friday 9 am-5 pm
Photo of Israa Al-Helli

L Fahn-Lai

(they-them-theirs-themselves)

Communications and Creative Consultant

Peace & Conflict Studies

Contact

L Fahn-Lai

Faculty Steering Committe

Nanci Buiza

Associate Professor

On Leave - Spring

Spanish

Latin American & Latino Studies

Peace & Conflict Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8163
  2. Kohlberg Hall 339
  3. Office Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.On Leave Spring 2025.Please make an appointment for office hours here.

Interests: Latin American literature, Central American and Mexican cultural studies, U.S. Latino/a studies, and diasporic and transnational community formations.

Nanci Buiza

Alexandra Gueydan-Turek

(she-her-hers-herself)

Associate Professor

Modern Languages & Literatures-French & Francophone Studies

Peace & Conflict Studies

Comparative Literature

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8309
  2. Kohlberg Hall 311
  3. Office Hours: On leave academic year 2024-2025

Interests: Postcolonial Theory; Francophone Literature of the Maghreb and the Mashreq;  Comics and Graphic Novels in the Arab World; Local Publishing Markets in North Africa; (Neo)colonial representations; Representations of Islam in France.

 

Alexandra Gueydan-Turek

Nina Johnson

(she-her-hers-herself)

Associate Professor of Sociology

Sociology & Anthropology-Sociology

Black Studies

Peace & Conflict Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5773
  2. Kohlberg Hall 247
  3. Office Hours: Wednesdays, 11:00am- 1:00pm
Professor Nina Johnson

Jen Magee

Director, Program Development, Implementation, & Assessment

Lang Center for Civic & Social Responsibility

Peace & Conflict Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7320
  2. Lang Center for Civic & Social Responsibility 204

Dr. Magee provides leadership, implementation, and assessment of key programs of the Center that fund the work of social responsibility, including the Engaged Scholarship Research Grant program for faculty and for students: Lang Opportunity Scholarship Program, Lang Social Impact Fellowship, Pilot Project Grant Program, Project Pericles Fund of Swarthmore College, and Davis Projects for Peace. Office hours by appointment.

Headshot of Jen Magee

Barbara Milewski

Daniel Underhill Professor of Music

Department Chair, Music

Music

Peace & Conflict Studies

First Generation & Low-Income Student Initiatives

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8238
  2. Lang Music Building 402
Barbara Milewski

Emily Paddon Rhoads

Associate Professor

On Leave - Academic Year

Political Science

Peace & Conflict Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8689
  2. Trotter Hall 305
  3. Office Hours: On Leave Fall 2024-Spring 2025
Headshot 2024

Ellen Ross

Howard M. and Charles F. Jenkins Professor of Quakerism & Peace Studies

Religion

Peace & Conflict Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8691
  2. Pearson Hall 215
Professor Ellen Ross photo

Andrew Ward

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor

Psychology

Peace & Conflict Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-6861
  2. Maxine Frank Singer '52 Hall 207

Interests: Social psychology: self-control of emotions, thoughts, and behaviors; bargaining and negotiation; social perception.

Office Hours: By email appointment

Andrew Ward