Our Faculty
"Teachers, mentors, friends"—that's the way generations of Kenyon students sum up the role that their professors have played in their lives. The faculty is Kenyon's greatest strength: nearly 200 accomplished scholars whose top priority is to help students thrive.
Professors work closely with students, in and out of the classroom and lab. Kenyon's student-faculty ratio of 10:1 means that close contact is inevitable. Teaching is the top priority here. Our faculty members are authors, artists, and researchers, immersed in scholarly and creative projects. But they are classroom teachers first and foremost, committed to making stimulating opportunities available to students.
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| Eliza Ablovatski | Associate Professor of History |
| Joseph A. Adler | Professor of Asian Studies |
| Galina An | Assistant Professor of Economics |
| Nuh Aydin | Associate Professor of Mathematics |
| Jianhua Bai | Professor of Chinese |
| Rachael Ball | Visiting Instructor of History |
| K. Read Baldwin | Assistant Professor of Studio Art |
| Michael Barich | Assistant Professor of Classics |
| Fred E. Baumann | Professor of Political Science |
| Robert E. Bennett | Professor Emeritus of Classics |
| Jean Blacker | Professor of French |
| Sarah Blick | Associate Professor of Art History |
| Erica Boeckeler | Assistant Professor of English |
| Jeffrey A. Bowman | Associate Professor of History |
| Carl T. Brehm | Professor Emeritus of Economics |
| Julie A. Brodie | Associate Professor of Dance |
| Christopher Brown | Visiting Instructor of American Studies |
| Theodore E. Buehrer | James D. and Cornelia W. Ireland Associate Professor of Music |
| Mindelyn R Buford | Marilyn Yarbrough Dissertation Teaching Fellow |
| Timothy Brelinski | Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics |
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| Pamela G. Camerra-Rowe | Associate Professor of Political Science |
| Christopher Camfield | Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics |
| James P. Carson | Associate Professor of English |
| Hyun Jai "Demian" Cho | Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics |
| Jennifer S. Clarvoe | Professor of English |
| Jay R. Corrigan | Associate Professor of Economics |
| Mary Jane Cowles | Professor of French |
| Balinda J. Craig-Quijada | Associate Professor of Dance |
| Scott D. Cummings | Associate Professor of Chemistry |
| Melissa Dabakis | Professor of Art History |
| Adele S. Davidson | Charles P. McIlvaine Professor of English |
| Miriam M. Dean-Otting | Professor of Religious Studies |
| Juan E. DePascuale | Associate Professor of Philosophy |
| Simone Dubrovic | Assistant Professor of Italian |
| Ruth W. Dunnell | James P. Storer Professor of Asian History |
| Eugene J. Dwyer | Professor of Art History |
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| Ennis Edmonds | Associate Professor of Religious Studies |
| Kathryn L. Edwards | Professor of Biology |
| D. Rose Elder | Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies |
| Katherine L. Elkins | Associate Professor of Humanities |
| John M. Elliott | Professor of Political Science |
| Kirk R. Emmert | Harry M. Clor Professor of Political Science |
| Abbie Erler | Assistant Professor of Political Science |
| Claudia J. Esslinger | Professor of Art |
| Michael Evans | Professor Emeritus of History and Humanities |
| Allan Fenigstein | Professor of Psychology |
| M. Siobhan Fennessy | Professor of Biology |
| Laurie A. Finke | Professor of Women's and Gender Studies |
| Jack Finefrock | Visiting Instructor of Asian Studies |
| Monica B. Fullerton | Visiting Instructor of Art History |
| Ivonne M. Garcia | Assistant Professor of English |
| Simon Porfirio Garcia | Assistant Professor of Chemistry |
| Martin J. Garhart | Professor Emeritus of Art |
| Monica Garoiu | Visiting Assistant Professor of French |
| Paul Gebhardt | Assistant Professor of German |
| Yutan D. Y. L. Getzler | Assistant Professor of Chemistry |
| John T. (Tom) Giblin | Assistant Professor of Physics |
| Christopher M. Gillen | Associate Professor of Biology |
| Kathy M. Gillen | Assistant Professor of Biology |
| Robin Gordon | Visiting Assistant Professor of Drama |
| Martine Kei Green | Marilyn Yarbrough Dissertation Teaching Fellow |
| Thomas B. Greenslade Jr. | Professor Emeritus of Physics |
| Mortimer M. Guiney | Professor of French |
| Barry L. Gunderson | Professor of Art |
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| Marcella M. Hackbardt | Associate Professor of Art |
| Carolin Hahnemann | Associate Professor of Classics |
| Bruce L. Hardy | Associate Professor of Anthropology |
| Brian Harnetty | Visiting Instructor of Music |
| David E. Harrington | Robert J. Himmelright Professor of Economics |
| Bradley A. Hartlaub | Professor of Mathematics |
| Daniel Hartnett | Assistant Professor of Spanish |
| Thomas B. Hawks | Visiting Assistant Professor of English |
| Kevin Hawthorne | Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities |
| Katherine M. Hedeen | Associate Professor of Spanish |
| Sarah Jane Heidt | Assistant Professor of English |
| E. Raymond Heithaus | Philip and Sheila Jordan Professor of Environmental Science and Biology |
| Patricia A. Heithaus | Instructor of Biology |
| Sheryl Hemkin | Associate Professor of Chemistry |
| Dane O. Heuchemer | Associate Professor of Music |
| Karen A. Hicks | Associate Professor of Biology |
| John E. Hofferberth | Harvey F. Lodish Faculty Development Professor of Natural Sciences and Assistant Professor of Chemistry |
| Kristin M. Hofferberth | Visiting Instructor of Chemistry |
| Eric Holdener | Assistant Professor of Physics and Scientific Computing |
| Judy A. Holdener | John B, McCoy-Banc One Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor of Mathematics |
| Nikole Hotchkiss | Visiting Assistant Professor of Legal Studies |
| Mo Hunsen | Associate Professor of Chemistry |
| Lewis Hyde | Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing |
| Steven Hyland, Jr. | Visiting Instructor of History |
| John Idoine | Professor Emeritus of Physics |
| Haruhiko Itagaki | Professor of Biology |
| Mari Iwai | Japanese Teaching Fellow |
| Pamela K. Jensen | Professor of Political Science |
| Jennifer Lynn Johnson | Assistant Professor of Sociology |
| Brian Jones | Associate Professor of Mathematics |
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| Selin Kalaycioglu | Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics |
| Thomas Karako | Postdoctoral Fellow for the Center for the Study of American Democracy |
| James P. Keeler | Professor of Economics |
| James S. Keller | Associate Professor of Chemistry |
| Andrew Kerkhoff | Assistant Professor of Biology and Mathematics |
| Nurten Kilic-Schubel | Assistant Professor of History |
| Bruce L. Kinzer | Professor of History |
| William F. Klein | Professor of English |
| Joseph L. Klesner | Professor of Political Science |
| P. F. Kluge | Writer in Residence |
| Jan Kmetko | Assistant Professor of Physics |
| Marla Kohlman | Associate Professor of Sociology |
| Zoë Sophia Kontes | Assistant Professor of Classics |
| Dana B. Krieg | Associate Professor of Psychology |
| Kathy J. Krynski | Robert J. Himmelright Professor of Economics |
| Travis Landry | Assistant Professor of Spanish |
| Deborah Laycock | Associate Professor of English |
| Jade Laymon | Visiting Instructor of Dance |
| David M. Leibowitz | Assistant Professor of Political Science |
| Karen Leibowitz | Visiting Assistant Professor of IPHS |
| Lisa Leibowitz | Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science |
| Perry Lentz | Professor Emeritus of English |
| Michael Levine | Samuel B. Cummings Jr. Professor of Psychology |
| Joshua C. Levithan | Assistant Professor of Humanities |
| Rebecca Lloyd | Instructor of Philosophy |
| Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky | Professor of English |
| Benjamin R. Locke | Robert A. Oden, Jr. Professor of Music |
| Irene López | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
| David Lynn | Professor of English |
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| John J. Macionis | Prentice Hall Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Sociology |
| Wendy A. MacLeod | James Michael Playwright-in-Residence and Professor of Drama |
| Matthew Maguire | Associate Professor of History and Humanities |
| Victoria Malawey | Assistant Professor of Music |
| Ellen S. Mankoff | Instructor of English |
| Theodore O. Mason | Professor of English |
| Jesse E. Matz | Associate Professor of English |
| Robert A. Mauck | Associate Professor of Biology |
| Janet E. McAdams | Robert P. Hubbard Professor of Poetry and Associate Professor of English |
| George E. McCarthy | Professor of Sociology |
| Cara McDaniel | Assistant Professor of Economics |
| Hewlet G. McFarlane | Associate Professor of Psychology |
| Alex R. McKeown | Associate Professor of Political Science |
| Kimberly McMullen | John Crowe Ransom Professor of English |
| Glenn M. McNair | Associate Professor of History |
| William R. Melick | Bruce L. Gensemer Professor of Economics |
| Maria Emma Mendonça | Assistant Professor of Asian Music and Culture |
| Linda Metzler | Professor of Spanish |
| Robert Mezey | Visiting Richard B. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing (spring) |
| Paula Millin | Associate Professor of Psychology |
| Robert S. Milnikel | Associate Professor of Mathematics |
| Michelle S. Mood | Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science |
| Sarah K. Murnen | Professor of Psychology |
| Kimmarie A. Murphy | Assistant Professor of Anthropology |
| Andrew J. Niemiec | Associate Professor of Psychology |
| Thomas Nightingale | Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy |
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| Natalia L. Olshanskaya | Associate Professor of Russian |
| Jennifer Olson | Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology |
| Sam Pack | Assistant Professor of Anthropology |
| Tabitha W. Payne | Associate Professor of Psychology |
| Frank Peiris | Associate Professor of Physics |
| Wade H. Powell | Associate Professor of Biology |
| Kora Radella | Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance |
| Sadika Ramahi | Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic |
| Leo W. Riegert Jr. | Assistant Professor of German |
| Andrew Reinert | Associate Professor of Drama |
| Royal W. Rhodes | Donald L. Rogan Professor of Religious Studies |
| P. Lyn Richards | Associate Professor of Italian |
| Joel F. Richeimer | Associate Professor of Philosophy |
| Victor R. Rodríguez-Núñez | Associate Professor of Spanish |
| Donald Rogan | Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies |
| Karl Rogers | Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance |
| Clara Roman-Odio | Professor of Spanish |
| David M. Rowe | Associate Professor of Political Science |
| Peter Rutkoff | Professor of American Studies |
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| Howard Sacks | Professor of Sociology |
| Reginald L. Sanders | Associate Professor of Music |
| Sonalini Sapra | Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in International Studies |
| Amber Dawn Scaife | Assistant Professor of Classics |
| Jené Schoenfeld | Assistant Professor of English |
| Kai P. Schoenhals | Professor Emeritus of History |
| Edward M. Schortman | J. Kenneth Smail Professor of Anthropology |
| Vernon J. Schubel | NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor of Religious Studies |
| Benjamin W. Schumacher | Professor of Physics |
| Carol S. Schumacher | Professor of Mathematics |
| William B. Scott | Professor of History |
| Adam C. Serfass | Associate Professor of Classics |
| Ellen Sheffield | Visiting Instructor of Art |
| Timothy B. Shutt | Professor of Humanities |
| Marta J. Sierra | Associate Professor of Spanish |
| Wendy F. Singer | Roy T. Wortman Distinguished Professor of History |
| Joan L. Slonczewski | Professor of Biology |
| Jennifer McMahon Smith | Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology |
| Judy R. Smith | Professor of English |
| Linda Smolak | Professor Emerita of Psychology |
| Marie Snipes | Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics |
| Karen F. Snouffer | Associate Professor of Art |
| Tim Spiekerman | Associate Professor of Political Science and Humanities |
| William Suarez-Potts | Assistant Professor of History |
| David N. Suggs | Professor of Anthropology |
| Timothy S. Sullivan | Professor of Physics |
| Anna Xiao Dong Sun | Assistant Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies |
| Chengjuan Sun | Assistant Professor of Chinese |
| Susmita Sundaram | Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian |
| Mary A. Suydam | Assistant Professor of Religious Studies |
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| Jonathan E. Tazewell | Associate Professor of Drama |
| Jan E. Thomas | Associate Professor of Sociology |
| Hideo Tomita | Professor of Japanese |
| Jaret Treber | Assistant Professor of Economics |
| Richard J. Trethewey | Professor Emeritus of Economics |
| Patricia A. Urban | J. Kenneth Smail Professor of Anthropology |
| Kristen Van Ausdall | Associate Professor of Art History |
| Stephen E. Van Holde | Associate Professor of Political Science |
| Ben Viccellio | Visiting Assistant Professor of Drama |
| Patricia Vigderman | Assistant Professor of English |
| Stephen Carl Volz | Assistant Professor of History |
| Clifford Weber | Professor Emeritus of Classics |
| Andrea White | Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology |
| Dennis Wiegman | Visiting Instructor of Chemistry |
| Jon Williams | Professor Emeritus of Psychology |
| Rebecca Wolf | Assistant Professor of Drama |
| Roy T. Wortman | Professor Emeritus of History |
| Yang Xiao | Associate Professor of Philosophy |