Program Faculty
María Acosta Cruz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Spanish
Tel: 1-508-793-7677
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Michael Addis, Ph.D.
Professor, Hiatt School of Psychology
Men’s mental health, masculinity, help-seeking behavior, lay theories of psychopathology and treatment
Tel: 1-508-793-7266
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Margarete Arndt, D.B.A.
Professor of Management
Tel: 1-508-793-7668
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Kiran Asher, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of IDCE
Associate Professor of International Development and Social Change
Culture and power, political economy, gender studies, politics of biodiversity conservation, Latin American studies
Tel: 1-508-421-3823
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Belén Atienza, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Tel: (508) 793-7256
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Parminder Bhachu, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
Urban anthropology, immigration, diaspora cultures, nationalism, cultural identities and global processes, new capitalism and markets
Tel: 1-508-793-7599
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Sarah Buie, M.F.A.
Professor of Graphic Design
Director of the Alice Coonley Higgins School of Humanities; Museum exhibition design; graphic design; sacred space; sacred Asian architecture
Tel: 1-508-793-7560
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Michael Butler, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Government
Comparative foreign policy, international organizations, the politics of the European Union, political violence and terrorism, and international relations theory
Tel: 1-508-793-7186
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Marcia Butzel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Screen Studies
Adjunct Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature
Director, Screen Studies Program
International cinema, film criticism and theory, relationships between film and the other arts
Tel: 1-508-793-7235
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Carol D'Lugo, Ph.D.
Professor of Spanish
Tel: 1-508-793-7494
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Judith DeCew, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy; Chair, Department of Philosophy
Chair of Philosophy; Director, Ethics and Public Policy concentration, Theoretical and applied ethics, philosophy of law, social and political philosophy
Tel: 1-508-793-7326
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Gino DiIorio, M.F.A.
Associate Professor of Theater
Adjunct Associate Professor of English
Director, Theater Arts Program
Program Director for Theater Arts, Acting in film and theater; writing plays and screenplays
Tel: 1-508-793-7456
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Jody Emel, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Graduate School of Geography
Resource/environmental geography, animal geographies, and feminist/social theory
Tel: 508-793-7317
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Patricia Ewick, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
Research methods, gender, law, deviance
Tel: 1-508-793-7529
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Rachel Falmagne, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Modes of reasoning, personal epistemology and social location. Thought and societal discourses of knowledge. Feminist perspectives on mind, self, identity and development. Gender, self and thought. Psychology and society.
Tel: 1-508-793-7262
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Odile Ferly, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of French
Tel: 5-508-793-7723
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William Fisher, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, International Development, Community, and Environment Department
Director of IDCE; Professor of International Development and Social Change
Anthropology, social movements, resettlement, ethnicity, political economy, South Asia
Tel: 1-508-421-3765
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Ellen Foley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of International Development, Community and Environment
Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change
Anthropology of development, gender, Islam, knowledge systems, medical anthropology and West Africa
Tel: 1-508-793-3815
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Beth Gale, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of French
Tel: 1-508-421-3781
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SunHee Kim Gertz, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Director, Leir Center in Luxembourg
Director of Graduate Studies; Western European literature of the late Middle Ages; semiotics and rhetorical theory
Tel: 1-508-793-7126
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Abbie Goldberg, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Gender, family, and work; contextual influences on development and mental health (e.g., gender, sexual orientation, social class); gay and lesbian families; risk/resilience in adolescents
Tel: 508-793-7289
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Janette T. Greenwood, Ph.D.
Professor of History
Director of the History Graduate Program; American social history, African-American history, and history of the South
Tel: 1-508-793-7286
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Betsy P. Huang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Ethnic and racial identities in twentieth-century American literature; science fiction
Tel: 508-793-7145
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Fern Johnson, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Sociolinguistics, with a special emphasis on gender, race, and ethnicity in discourse
Tel: 1-508-793-7142
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Lisa Kasmer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Eighteenth and nineteenth-century British literature
Tel: 508-793-8593
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Sharon Krefetz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Government
Director of Urban Development and Social Change Concentration; U.S. urban politics, suburban politics, women and politics
Tel: 1-508-793-7300
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Thomas Kuehne, Ph.D.
Professor of History; Strassler Family Chair in the Study of Holocaust History
Modern German and European History, including Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, Racism, Gender and War
Tel: 1-508-793-7523
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Nina Kushner, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
Early modern European social and cultural history, the history of women and gender, and the history of sexuality
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Deborah Martin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Geography
Urban, social, political geography, law and geography, qualitative methods, social movements
Tel: 508-793-7104
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Amy Richter, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History; Chair, Department of History
Chair, History Department; U.S. women's history; U.S. urban history
Tel: 1-508-793-7216
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Heather L. Roberts, Ph.D.
Writing and literature, literacy, school-university partnerships, collaborative currculum development, school reform
Tel: 1-508-793-7146
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Dianne Rocheleau, Ph.D.
Professor of Geography
Political ecology, gender, forestry/agriculture/land use
Tel: 508-793-7176
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Paul Ropp, Ph.D.
Professor of History
The Andrea B. and Peter D. Klein '64 Distinguished Professor
Director of Asian Studies Concentration: Chinese social and intellectual history
Tel: 1-508-793-7213
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Robert Ross, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
Director, International Studies Stream
Director of the International Studies Stream; Urban studies, political sociology, political economy, social policy
Tel: 1-508-793-7376
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Laurie Ross, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of IDCE
Assistant Professor of Community Development and Planning
Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Community Development and Planning
Social justice youth development, community based participatory research
Tel: 1-508-793-7642
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Srinivasan Sitaraman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Government
United Nations and international law, international political economy, and international relations
Tel: 1-508-793-7684
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Valerie Sperling, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Government
Post-Soviet and East European politics, comparative politics, social movement and collective action, women’s studies
Tel: 1-508-793-7679
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Shelly Tenenbaum, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
Adjunct Professor of Jewish Studies
Coordinator of Undergraduate Activities, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies ; Jewish studies, race/ethnicity, social stratification, gender, comparative genocide
Tel: 1-508-793-7241
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Robert D. Tobin, Ph.D.
Professor; Henry J. Leir Chair in Foreign Languages and Cultures
Professor of German
Henry J. Leir Chair in Foreign Languages and Cultures
Tel: 1-508-793-7353
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Alice Valentine, M.A.
Instructor in Japanese
Virginia Mason Vaughan, Ph.D.
Professor of English
(on sabbatical Fall 2009)
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Kristen Williams, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Government; Chair of the Faculty
Co-Chair of Women's Studies; International relations theory, arms control and international security, nationalism and ethnic politics, U.S. foreign policy
Tel: 1-508-793-7446
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Kristina Wilson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Art History
Program Director for Art History; Nineteenth and twentieth century painting, modern design and architecture, and the history of photography
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Research Faculty
Cynthia Enloe, Ph.D.
IDCE Research Professor
The interactions of feminism, women, militarized culture, war, politics and globalized economics in countries such as Japan, Iraq, the US, Britain, the Philippines, Canada, Chile and Turkey
Susan Hanson, Ph.D.
Research Professor of Geography;
Urban/social/economic geography, feminist geography
Tel: 508-793-7323
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Barbara Thomas-Slayter, Ph.D.
IDCE Research Professor
IDCE Research Professor
Local institutions, women and public policy, peasant-state relations, gender issues, non-governmental organizations
Tel: 1-508-793-7454
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Emeriti Faculty
Serena S. Hilsinger, Ph.D.