Associate Professor of Black Studies and History (On Leave 7/1/2022 - 6/30/2023)
I believe that shedding light on the history of racism and white supremacy in the U.S., which I do in my research and teaching, is an important step toward dismantling these forces and working toward racial justice.
Assistant Professor of Geology
I primarily collect and study xenoliths—rocks that come from the deep lithosphere to the surface during volcanic eruptions.
Professor of Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies
I am a cultural anthropologist working at the intersection of science and technology studies, theories of gender and race, social studies of medicine, and bioethics.
Associate Professor of Art, Film and Media Studies (On Leave 7/1/2022 - 6/30/2023)
Students in my classes are not expected to imitate existing cultural forms but to think through their own relationships to media and, by extension, the world around them.
Assistant Professor of Black Studies and Political Science
In one way or another, all of my courses examine the various and conflicting political-philosophical horizons internal to Black Atlantic life in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Assistant Professor of English
I believe it is important for aspiring writers to read books that cannot be found in the traditional literary canon, or on a bestseller or award list if they are to produce art that does more than uphold the status quo.
Assistant Professor of Economics (On Leave 7/1/2022 - 6/30/2023)
I consider my primary goals as a teacher to be helping students to develop strong economic reasoning, recognize the significance of each lesson beyond the classroom and develop a lasting curiosity about economics.
Anson D. Morse 1871 Professor of History and Professor of Environmental Studies; Dean of New Students; Chair of Latinx and Latin Amer Studies; Chair of Latinx and Latin Amer Studies
I urge students to push past the limits of presumptions and pre-conceived categories and, instead, to use historical evidence to figure out for themselves the relationships between particular groups, nations, ethnicities, and environments.
Senior Lecturer in Mathematics
What’s special about Amherst is you’re coming here for a great education, but it’s a small liberal arts school. You should have people care for you inside and outside the classroom.
Professor of Asian Languages and Civilizations and History
Whether I am teaching a survey of pre-modern Japan or a seminar on the history and memory of the Asia-Pacific War, I like to connect the specificity of history to broader, critical conversations.
Assistant Professor of Political Science
I encourage students to approach existing paradigms critically and enter the academic conversation boldly, challenging—as needed—the canon to develop new ideas.
Assistant Professor of Biology
My teaching is informed by my desire to train both future experimentalists and science-literate professionals.
Professor of Psychology
Adopting multiple perspectives trains my students to treat received wisdom with skepticism and to expect that other explanations might be available to the initiated intellectual.