Maria Abate
Assistant Professor of Natural Science
BA (zoology),
University of California, Davis; PhD (biology), Northeastern
University
617 353-7453
mabate@bu.edu
Research interests: marine ecology,
fish biology and evolution, animal behavior Leonard
Andres
Assistant
Professor of Natural Science
BA,
Brown; MS (physiology), Harvard University; PhD (nutritional
biochemistry & physiology), Tufts University
617 358-0306
landres@bu.edu
Research interests: biology,
mammalian physiology, nutritional biochemistry, human neuromuscular
adaptation, human aging and health, respiratory physiology,
exercise physiology, sarcopenia, ergogenic aids
David
Atkinson
Instructor, Social
Science
BA (American Studies), University of
Manchester (UK); MA, PhD cand. (history) Boston University
dca@bu.edu
Research interests: race
and international relations; international history; U.S.
foreign relations; cold war history; history of the modern
British empire
Millard
Baublitz
Associate
Professor of Natural Science
BS
(physics & astronomy), University of Maryland;
PhD (physics), Cornell University
617 358-0312
baublitz@bu.edu
Research interests: foundations
of quantum mechanics, X-ray diffraction, solids at high pressures
Karina
Baum
Assistant
Professor of Natural Science
B.A.
(Biology), University of Buenos Aires; Pd. D. Brandeis University
617 358-0322
karibaum@bu.edu
Research interests: cancer research,
animal models for human diseases, evolution, philosophy and
history of science
Cheryl
Boots
Assistant
Professor of Humanities
BA
(honors English), Mount Union College; MA (higher education
administration), Michigan State University; MA (American & New
England studies), PhD (American and New England studies),
Boston University
617 358-0328
cboots@bu.edu
Research interests: music in
American literature and culture, especially 19th–20th
century; U.S. cultural history, 1800–1940
Michael
Clancy
Assistant
Professor of Natural Science
BS
(zoology), University of Rhode Island; MS, University of Delaware;
PhD (biological sciences), University of Rhode Island
617 353-2908
mfclancy@bu.edu
Research interests: marine ecology,
crustacean biology, fisheries ecology, restoration ecology
Christopher Collumb
Assistant
Professor of Natural Science
BA
(biology), Trinity University; MA (marine science), College
of William and Mary; PhD (marine science), University of Texas
617 358-0317
collumb@bu.edu
Research interests: predator-prey
interactions of fish & copepods, the effects of hazardous
algal blooms on zooplankton survival and reproduction
Jean
Dunlavy
Instructor in
Social Science
BA
(American language and literature and studio art), Wellesley
College; MA (history), Smith College; PhD (history), Boston
University
Research interests: history of American women; immigration
and ethnicity in the United States
Christopher
Fahy
Assistant
Professor of Humanities
BA
(English), Bates College; MA (English), PhD (English), Boston
University
617 353-7263
goodwood@bu.edu
Research interests: 19th-century
American literature, religion and literature
John
Fawell
Associate
Professor of Humanities
BA
(general studies in the humanities), MA (comparative literature),
PhD (comparative literature), University of Chicago; Dipl
A, Universite Paris (France)
617 353-7265
jfawell@bu.edu
Research
interests:
film, Alfred Hitchcock, 19th-century world literature
June
Grasso
Associate Professor of Social Science
BA
(Asian studies), Wellesley College; MA (Asian studies), PhD
(modern China, Japan & international relations), Tufts
University
617 358-0307
jgrasso@bu.edu
Research interests: U.S. - China
policy; modern Chinese history
Lynn
O'Brien D. Hallstein
Assistant
Professor of Rhetoric
B.A.
(Speech Communication), University of Pittsburgh; M.A. (Speech
Communication), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill;
Ph.D. (Communication), Ohio State University
lhalst@bu.edu
Samuel
Hammer
Associate
Professor of Natural Science
BA
(anthropology), Grinnell College; MA (counseling), DePaul
University; MA (biology), San Francisco State University;
PhD (biology), Harvard University
617 358-3208
cladonia@bu.edu
Research interests: science and
nature, botany, history, arts
Regina Hansen
Assistant
Professor of Rhetoric
BA
(English/anthropology), Tufts University; PhD (English/Victorian
studies), Boston College
617 353-2878
rhansen@bu.edu
Research interests: Victorian
literature, children’s fiction, composition studies
Shelley
Hawks
Assistant
Professor of Social Science
BA
(History), Dartmouth College; AM (Regional Studies- East Asia),
Harvard University; Ph.D. (Cultural, political and social
history of the twentieth- century China; Traditional China;
Visual Art), Brown University
617 3253-6107
sdhawks@bu.edu
Research interests: Chinese history
and culture.
Charles
Henebry
Assistant
Professor of Rhetoric
AB
(Science and Literature), Harvard College; MA (Development
of English); PhD (English). New York University
henebry@bu.edu
Research interests: rhetorical practices and visual
culture in the Renaissance
Gregg
S. Jaeger
Assistant
Professor of Natural Science
BS (Mathematics, Philosophy & Physics),
University of Wisconsin; Ph.D. (Physics), Boston University
617 353-2855
jaeger@bu.edu
http://math.bu.edu/people/jaeger/
Research interests: quantum computing,
quantum cryptography, and quantum biophysics
Marcia
Karp
Assistant
Professor of Rhetoric
MA
(literary criticism), PhD (literary history), Boston
University
mskarp@bu.edu
Research interests: prosody;
organization of volumes of poetry; the
history of the book; translation; T. S. Eliot; figuration
and the poems of Ted
Richer
Stephanie
D. Kermes
Assistant
Professor of Social Science
M.A.
(Early Modern & Modern European History), Ludwig Maximilian,
Germany; Ph.D. (Colonial & Early National American History)
skermes@bu.edu
Michael
Kort
Professor
of Social Science
BA
(history), Johns Hopkins University; MA (Russian history),
PhD (Russian, economic & modern European history), New
York University
617 353-2892
mkckektk@bu.edu
Research interests: Soviet Union,
cold war, history of freedom
Kari
Lavalli
Assistant
Professor of Natural Science
BA
( Bio-Mathematics), Wells College; Ph.D. (Marine Biology Studies),
Boston University
617 353-2915
klavalli@bu.edu
Research interests: behavioral
ecology of lobsters, predator-prey interactions, animal behavior,
inquiry-based science education, community involvement in
resource conservation (via The Lobster Conservancy community-based
programs)
Neal
Leavitt
Assistant
Professor of Humanities
BA
(philosophy), Harvard University; MA, PhD (philosophy)
Boston College
leavittn@bu.edu
Research
interests: Transcendentalism, phenomenology, moral
philosophy, environmental ethics
Susan
Lee
Assistant
Professor of Social Science
AB
(American Civilization), Brown University; M. Div (Divinity)
Harvard University; Ph.D. (Sociology), Boston University
617 358-0311
susanlee@bu.edu
Research interests: gender and
development, third world women, family violence, sociology
of women, Cambodia , widows
John
Mackey
Assistant
Professor of Social Science
BA
( History), Dickinson College; MA (History), Boston College;
PhD. (History), Boston College
617 358-0318
jmackey@bu.edu
Research interests: the relationship
between Christian missionary movements, clothing, and the
body in Britain and the British Empire in the nineteenth century;
fashionable dress and childrearing in the nineteenth century.
Michael
Mahon
Associate
Professor of Humanities
BA
(philosophy), MA (philosophy), PhL (philosophy), Saint Louis
University; STM, MDiv, Jesuit School of Theology; PhD (philosophy),
Boston College
617 353-2884
mmahon@bu.edu
Research interests: contemporary
continental philosophy
Nina
Markov
Assistant
Professor of Humanities
BA
(English), Brown University; PdD (English), University of
California (Berkeley)
Research interests: U.S. literature and culture,
class and U.S. literature;women's literature; African-American literature; multi-ethnic
fiction; popular culture; cultural studies; composition.
Kathleen
Martin
Assistant
Professor of Social Science
AB
(Sociology), Dickinson College; MA (Sociology), Ohio State
University; Ph.D. (Comparative History), Brandeis University
617 358-3934
martinkc@bu.edu
Research interests: the social
science of poverty, the relationship between religion and
other social factors, and comparative study of European and
East Asian culture.
Joellen
Masters
Assistant
Professor of Humanities
BA
(English literature), Mount Holyoke College; MA (English literature),
PhD (English literature), Boston University
617 353-2899
joellenm@bu.edu
Research interests: Victorian
literature and culture; modernism; womenâs studies and
film criticism
John
McGrath
Associate
Professor of Social Science
BA
(economics), Harvard University; MA (writing & publishing),
Emerson College; MA (modern European history), PhD (modern
European history), Boston University
617 358-0297
eldraque@bu.edu
Research interests: early modern
Europe, colonial America, political theory
Richard
Oxenberg
Assistant
Professor of Humanities
B.A. (Psychology), Hofstra
University; M.A. (Philosophy), Georgia State University; Ph.D.
(Philosophy), Emory University
oxenberg@bu.edu
Christopher
Pearce
Assistant
Professor of Rhetoric
BA
(Classics and English), Vanderbilt University; MA (English),
The University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D. (English) , The University
of Texas at Austin
cpearce@bu.edu
Research interests: 18th-century
British Literature, Linguistics and Lexicography, Samuel Johnson
Gillian
Pierce
Assistant
Professor of Rhetoric
BA
(French and English History and Literature), Harvard College;
MA, PhD
(Comparative Literature), University of Michigan
gpierce@bu.edu
Research interests: Comparative literature, 18th
century French literature and salons, literary and aesthetic theory, literature
and the visual arts, Agnes Varda
Davida
Pines
Associate
Professor of Rhetoric
BA
(English), Yale University; MA (English & American literature),
New York University; MPhil (English romantic poetry), Oxford
University; PhD (English & American literature),
Brandeis University
617 353-7454
mailto:dpines@bu.edu
Research interests: 20th-century
British and American literature, marriage and the modern novel,
romanticism
Edward
Rafferty
Assistant
Professor of Social Science
BA
(history), Washington University in St. Louis; MA (history),
Brown University; PhD (history), Brown University
617 358-0298
edwardc@bu.edu
Research interests: history of
social science; history of American liberalism; political
history; American intellectual history
Melanie
K. Rathburn
Assistant
Professor of Natural Science
B.Sc. (Biology and Environmental
Sciences), Trent University; M.Sc. (Ecology), University of
Georgia; Ph.D. (Biology), Queen’s University, Canada
rathburn@bu.edu
Polly Rizova
Assistant
Professor of Social Science
B.A. (Economics) Higher Institute of Economics; M.A. (Economics),Economics
Higher Institute of Economics; Diploma, International Statistics
Program Center; M.A. (Organizational and Cross-Cultural Communication),
State University of New York; Ph.D. (Sociology), Boston University
617 358-0303
prizova@bu.edu
Research interests: formal organizations
and social studies of science and technology, management of
technological innovation
John
Regan
Assistant
Professor of Rhetoric
BA
(English), Central Connecticut State University; MA (English),
Southern Connecticut State University, PhD (English), University
of Rhode Island
617 353-6108
jregan@bu.edu
Research interests: American
literature, composition and rhetoric; computers and writing
instruction
Robert Schoch
Associate
Professor of Natural Science
BA
(anthropology), BS (geology), George Washington University;
MS (geology & geophysics), MPhil (geology & geophysics),
PhD (geology & geophysics), Yale University
617 353-2531
schoch@bu.edu
http://www.robertschoch.net/
Research interests: geology,
paleontology, evolution, environmental science, ancient Egypt,
geoarchaeology, prehistoric/ancient cultures around the world
Sally
Sommers Smith
Associate
Professor of Natural Science
BA
(biology), Grinnell College; PhD (anatomy & cellular
biology), Tufts University
617 358-0324
ssommers@bu.edu
Research interests: pulmonary
cell biology, traditional Irish music
Matthew
Stewart
Associate
Professor of Rhetoric
BA
(English), Coe College; HDip (Anglo-Irish literature),Trinity
College; PhD (English), Emory University
617 358-0319
mstewart@bu.edu
Research interests: war literature,
modern literature, Ernest Hemingway
Kevin
Stoehr
Associate
Professor
of Humanities
AB
(philosophy), Bowdoin College; MA (philosophy), PhD (philosophy),
Boston University
617
358-0325
kstoehr@bu.edu
http://people.bu.edu/kstoehr/
Research interests: ethics,
existentialism, film studies,
and philosophy of film
Megan
Sullivan
Associate
Professor of Rhetoric
BA
(English), Albertus Magnus College; MA (English), Southern
Connecticut State University; PhD (British literature), University
of Rhode Island
617 353-7266 msullvan@bu.edu
Research interests: education,
writing, literature, film, women’s studies, Irish studies
Adam
Sweeting
Associate Professor of Humanities
BA
(philosophy), Clark University; MA (American studies), PhD
(American studies), New York University
617 353-4826
sweeting@bu.edu
Research interests: American
literature, architectural history, nature writing
William
Tilchin
Associate
Professor of Social Science
BA
(social science, French, secondary education), MA (history),
Michigan State University; PhD (history), Brown University
617 353-2897
wnt@bu.edu
Research interests: history of
U.S. foreign relations, presidential leadership.
Meg
Tyler
AssistantProfessor
of Humanities
BA
(English), Kenyon College; Ph.D. (Literature), Boston University
617 358-0302
mtyler@bu.edu
Research interests: The History
of Lyric Poetry; 20th C British, Irish and American Poetry;
The Familiar Essay; The Elegy; Seamus Heaney.
Jeffery
Vail
Assistant
Professor of Humanities
BA
(English literature), Washington College; MA (English literature),
University of Delaware; PhD (English literature), University
of Delaware
617 353-2856
jwvail@bu.edu http://people.bu.edu/jwvail/
Research
interests:
British Romantic poetry; 18th-century British literature;
19th-century fiction; modern and post-modern poetry.
Hendrik
van Gorsel
Assistant
Professor of Natural Science
B.S. (Horticulture), Wageningen Agricultural
University; M.Sc. (Horticulture), Wageningen Agricultural
University; Ph.D. (Plant Physiology), University of California,
Davis
rvgorsel@bu.edu
Benjamin
E. Varat
Assistant
Professor of Social Science
B.A. (Biology), Trinity College; M.A.
(History), Boston University; Ph.D. (Modern International
Relations/Modern French History), Boston University
bvarat@bu.edu
Robert
Wexelblatt
Professor
of Humanities
BA
(English), University of Pennsylvania; MA (English & American
literature), University of Michigan; PhD (English and American
literature), Brandeis University
617 353-7264
wex@bu.edu
Research interests: 20th-century
literature, philosophical problems, fiction, poetry, informal
essays
Thomas
Whalen
Associate
Professor of Social Science
BA
(history), Bates College; MA (American history), PhD (American
history), Boston College
617 353-4785
tjw64@bu.edu
Research interests: modern American
politics and culture, American foreign policy and the American
presidency
James
Wilcox
Associate
Professor of HumanitiesBA
(English), University of Rhode Island; MA (English), PhD
(English),
Northern Illinois University
617 358-0314
jiwilcox@bu.edu Ross
Wolin
Assistant
Professor of Rhetoric
BA
(rhetoric & communication), State University of
New York at Albany; MA (speech communication), University
of Illinois
at Chicago; PhD (speech communication), University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
rwolin@bu.edu
Research interests: rhetorical
theory & criticism, 20th-century American literary culture,
persuasion and propaganda, Kenneth Burke’s theories
on language and literature
Aaron
Worth
Assistant
Professor of Rhetoric
BA
(English and theater), Bates College; MA, PhD (English and
American lLiterature), Brandeis University
aworth@brandeis.edu
Research interests: English and American literature
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