Chair

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Jennifer Johnson

Professor of Sociology
Areas of Expertise
Social movements, sociology of law, border studies, urban sociology, Mexico.
Campus
Address
Oden Hall 426
Phone Number
(740) 427-5596

Faculty

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Eliza Ablovatski

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
Oden Hall 422
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) 427-4275065

Galina An

Professor of Economics
Campus
Address
Ascension Hall 307
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

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
Oden Hall 327
Phone Number
(740) 427-5355

Pierre Dairon

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

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

Robert Franco

Assistant Professor of History
Areas of Expertise
LGBTQ studies, disability studies, Latin American & Latinx studies
Campus
Address
Oden Hall 319
Phone Number
(740) 427-5090

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

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
Oden Hall 411
Phone Number
(740) 427-5320

Joseph L. Klesner

Professor of Political Science & International Studies
Director, Center for the Study of American Democracy
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

Associate Provost
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
Oden Hall 418
Phone Number
(740) 427-5977

Maria Mendonca

Professor of Music and Anthropology
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, development Nation-States, Asian Politics
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) 427-4275888

Christian Pettersen

Visiting Assist Professor of International Studies & History
Campus
Address
Oden Hall 410
Phone Number
(740) 427-5617

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, democratic theory in comparative perspective, political activism
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 Emeritus 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
Oden Hall 428
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 122
Phone Number
(740) 427-5409
 

Wendy Singer

Special Assistant to the President for Strategic Initiative
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

Chengjuan Sun

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
Oden Hall 417
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
Oden Hall 316
Phone Number
(740) 427-5794

Stephen Volz

Associate Professor of History
Areas of Expertise
Africa, colonialism, history of religion
Campus
Address
Oden Hall 325
Phone Number
(740) 427-5836

Patricia Yu

Assistant Professor of Art History
Areas of Expertise
Arts of Asia, late imperial to contemporary China, cultural heritage
Campus
Address
Gund Gallery 115
Phone Number
(740) 427-5034

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.

Ennis Edmonds

Professor Emeritus 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

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.

David Suggs

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

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

Kimberly Gerhart

Administrative Assistant in the Academic Division
Contact
Phone Number
740-427-5316
Email Address
gerhart1@kenyon.edu
Location
Oden Hall 317