Chair

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Jennifer Johnson

R. Todd Ruppert Professor of International Studies
Professor of Sociology
Campus
Address
Oden Hall 426
Phone Number
(740) 427-5596

Faculty

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Eliza Ablovatski

Associate Professor of History
Areas of Expertise
Modern Europe, especially Germany and Central/East Central Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; European Jewish and women's history; East European and German film and literature, socialism, war and revolution.
Campus
Address
Seitz House 04
Phone Number
(740) 427-5892

Robert Alexander

Professor of Economics & Environmental Studies
Areas of Expertise
Ecological economics, wildlife economics, environmental policy
Campus
Address
Timberlake House 21
Phone Number
(740) 427-5065

Galina An

Associate Professor of Economics
Campus
Address
Ascension Hall 304
Phone Number
(740) 427-5283

Anna Aydinyan

Associate Professor of Russian
Areas of Expertise
19th– and 20th–century Russian literature; Russian and Soviet film; Russia and Iran.
Campus
Address
Ascension Hall 027
Phone Number
(740) 427-5877

Jianhua Bai

Robert A. Oden Jr. Professor of Chinese
Areas of Expertise
Foreign language pedagogy, linguistics, computer-assisted language instruction.
Campus
Address
Ascension Hall 112
Phone Number
(740) 427-5530

Sarah Blick

Professor of Art History
Areas of Expertise
Medieval art history, Asian art history.
Campus
Address
Gund Gallery 116
Phone Number
(740) 427-4275347
 

Hilary Buxton

Assistant Professor of History
Areas of Expertise
Modern imperial Britain, colonial and global history, postcolonial science studies, race, gender and disability studies
Campus
Address
Seitz House 05
Phone Number
(740) 427-5355

Pierre Dairon

Associate Professor of French
Campus
Address
Ascension Hall 211
Phone Number
(740) 427-5660

Ennis Edmonds

Donald L. Rogan Professor of Religious Studies
Areas of Expertise
African diaspora religions, religion in America, sociology of religion and Caribbean society and culture.
Campus
Address
O'Connor House 204
Phone Number
(740) 427-5726

Kathleen Fernando

Assistant Professor of English
Areas of Expertise
Post-colonial literature(s) and theory, South Asian literature, Canadian diasporic writing.
Campus
Address
Waite House 204
Phone Number
(740) 427-5754

Mort Guiney

Professor of French
Areas of Expertise
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature, comparative literature and cultural studies, French language teaching
Campus
Address
Ascension Hall 106
Phone Number
(740) 427-5803

Khadene Harris

Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Areas of Expertise
Historical archaeology of the African diaspora, material culture, colonialism
Campus
Address
Palme House 2011
Phone Number
(740) 427-5813

Katherine Hedeen

Professor of Spanish
Areas of Expertise
Spanish American Poetry, Literary Translation, Translation Studies
Campus
Address
Ascension Hall 102
Phone Number
(740) 427-5063

Ruth Heindel

Dorothy & Thomas Jegla Assist Prof of Environmental Studies
Areas of Expertise
Polar environmental change, global dust cycle, soil science
Campus
Address
Higley Hall 301
Phone Number
(740) 427-5610

Nurten Kilic-Schubel

Associate Professor of History
Areas of Expertise
Islamic history, history of Central Eurasia, Ottoman history, women and gender in Islamic history.
Campus
Address
Acland House 04
Phone Number
(740) 427-5320

Joseph L. Klesner

Director, Center for the Study of American Democracy
Professor of Political Science
Areas of Expertise
Comparative politics, public opinion, political culture, democratic transitions, authoritarian rule, electoral politics, Mexican and Latin American politics
Campus
Address
Oden Hall 312
Phone Number
(740) 427-5311

Travis Landry

William P. Rice Professor of Spanish & Literature
Areas of Expertise
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Spanish literature, science and literature, theory of the novel, Islam and Spain, world literature.
Campus
Address
Ascension Hall 111
Phone Number
(740) 427-5898

Huachen Li

Assistant Professor of Economics
Areas of Expertise
Macroeconomics, macroeconometrics.
Campus
Address
Ascension Hall 302
Phone Number
(740) 427-5393

Jacqueline McAllister

Associate Professor of Political Science
Areas of Expertise
International relations, human rights, civil wars
Campus
Address
Acland House 02
Phone Number
(740) 427-5977

Maria Mendonca

Associate Professor of Music
Campus
Address
Storer Hall 028
Phone Number
(740) 427-5723

Michelle Mood

Assistant Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies
Areas of Expertise
Chinese politics, Chinese rural development, political economy of development, women in politics, globalization.
Campus
Address
Oden Hall 219
Phone Number
(740) 427-5429

Pashmina Murthy

Associate Professor of English
Areas of Expertise
Postcolonial studies, critical theory, transnational studies.
Campus
Address
Waite House 108
Phone Number
(740) 427-5213

Sam Pack

Professor of Anthropology
Areas of Expertise
Cultural identity formation and contestation, global and local dynamics of mass media, media ethnography, reception studies, indigenous modes of (self-re)presentation, subject-generated imagery, life history, Native North America, Southeast and East Asia.
Campus
Address
Palme House 106
Phone Number
(740) 427-5888

Nancy Powers

Assoc Dir of the Center for the Study of American Democracy
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Areas of Expertise
Immigration, Latin American politics, global poverty
Campus
Address
Oden Hall 313
Phone Number
(740) 427-5313

Patricia Lyn Richards

Associate Professor of Italian
Areas of Expertise
Medieval and Renaissance poetry, Italian cinema.
Campus
Address
Ascension Hall 210
Phone Number
(740) 427-5529

Leo Riegert

Associate Professor of German
Areas of Expertise
Nineteenth-century German-Jewish literature.
 

Victor Rodriguez-Nunez

Professor of Spanish
Areas of Expertise
Creative writing in Spanish, Spanish American poetry and essays, literature of the Cuban Revolution, Latin American film.
Campus
Address
Ascension Hall 011
Phone Number
(740) 427-5064

David Rowe

Professor of Political Science
Campus
Address
Acland House 23
Phone Number
(740) 427-5162

Vernon Schubel

Professor of Religious Studies
Campus
Address
Ascension Hall 001
Phone Number
(740) 427-5801
 

Marta Sierra

Professor of Spanish
Campus
Address
Ascension Hall 310
Phone Number
(740) 427-5409
 

Wendy Singer

Associate Provost
Roy T. Wortman Distinguished Professor of History
Areas of Expertise
History of India and South Asia, Indian politics, globalization and migration, transnational communities.
Campus
Address
Bailey House 203
Phone Number
(740) 427-5324

David Suggs

Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Campus
Address
Palme House 109
Phone Number
(740) 427-5851

Chengjuan Sun

Associate Professor of Chinese
Areas of Expertise
Chinese poetry, women's writing, Qing-dynasty literature
Campus
Address
Ascension Hall 101
Phone Number
(740) 427-5282

Steve Van Holde

Professor of Political Science and International Studies
Campus
Address
Acland 20
Phone Number
(740) 427-5638

Celso Villegas

Associate Professor of Sociology
Areas of Expertise
Sociology of development, comparative and historical methods, social change, political regimes, class formation, the Philippines and Latin America.
Campus
Address
Ralston House 101
Phone Number
(740) 427-5794

Stephen Volz

Associate Professor of History
Areas of Expertise
Africa, colonialism, history of religion
Campus
Address
Seitz House 09
Phone Number
(740) 427-5836

Yan Zhou

Visual Resources Curator, Art History
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History
Areas of Expertise
Modern and contemporary art, Chinese art history
Campus
Address
Gund Gallery 111a
Phone Number
(740) 427-5193
 

Emeriti

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Joseph Adler

Professor Emeritus of Asian Studies and Religious Studies
Areas of Expertise
Chinese religions, Neo-Confucianism
Campus

Ruth Dunnell

Professor Emerita of History
Areas of Expertise
Chinese and inner-Asian history, comparative history of north Asia 11th-14th centuries, Mongol empire.

Linda Metzler

Professor Emerita of Spanish
 

Clara Román-Odio

Professor Emerita of Spanish
Areas of Expertise
Latin America / Latino cultural productions, border studies, transnational feminisms

Edward Schortman

Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Areas of Expertise
Archaeology, Mesoamerica, politics, trade, history of theory.

Pat Urban

J. Kenneth Smail Professor of Anthropology Emerita
Areas of Expertise
Archaeology, Mesoamerica, settlement patterns, ceramics, women in Latin America, ancient and modern Maya cultures.
Campus
Address
Palme House 207
Phone Number
(740) 427-5814

Stacey Moore

Administrative Assistant in the Academic Division
Contact
Phone Number
740-427-5316
Email Address
moore8@kenyon.edu
Location
Seitz House, 10