First-Year Seminars Faculty & Staff
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Katrina Karkazis
Professor of Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies and Elizabeth W. Bruss Reader; Chair of First Year Seminar (On Leave 7/1/2024 - 6/30/2025)
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Morgan Hall Room 111
Contributing Faculty
Carol Y. Bailey
Professor of Black Studies
@amherst.eduWendy H. Bergoffen
Senior Lecturer in American Studies
@amherst.eduSara J. Brenneis
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Spanish
@amherst.eduMonika Brodnicka
Visiting Assistant Professor of French and Religion
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Chapin Hall Room 111
Douglas Culhane
Senior Lecturer in Art and the History of Art
@amherst.eduAndrew C. Dole
Professor of Religion; Chair of Religion
@amherst.eduLawrence R. Douglas
James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought
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@amherst.eduThomas L. Dumm
William H. Hastie '25 Professor of Political Science
@amherst.eduLorne Falk
Lecturer in Political Science
@amherst.eduAlexander George
Rachel and Michael Deutch Professor of Philosophy
@amherst.eduDeborah B. Gewertz
G. Henry Whitcomb 1874 Professor of Anthropology
@amherst.eduAmelie E. Hastie
Nancy and Douglas D. Abbey '71 Professor of English in Film and Media Studies
@amherst.eduRobert T. Hayashi
Professor of American Studies
@amherst.eduCatherine V. Infante
Associate Professor of Spanish; Chair of Spanish
@amherst.eduRachel A. Levin
Senior Lecturer in Biology & Environmental Studies
@amherst.eduPeter T. Lobdell
Senior Resident Artist in the Department of Theater and Dance; Emeritus
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Rick A. Lopez
Anson D. Morse 1871 Professor of History and Professor of Environmental Studies
@amherst.eduTrent E. Maxey
Professor of Asian Languages and Civilizations and History
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@amherst.eduJill S. Miller
Professor of Biology and Thomas F. Pick Reader in Environmental Studies
@amherst.eduKlara Moricz
Henry S. Poler '59 Presidential Teaching Professor of Music
@amherst.eduYael R. Rice
Associate Professor of Art & the History of Art and of Asian Languages and Civilizations; Chair of Architectural Studies
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@amherst.eduAustin D. Sarat
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science
@amherst.eduLeah C. Schmalzbauer
Clarence Francis 1910 Professor in the Social Sciences; Faculty Athletics Representative; Chair of American Studies
@amherst.eduNishiten Shah
Professor of Philosophy
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@amherst.eduTimothy J. Van Compernolle
Professor of Asian Languages and Civilizations; Chair of Asian Languages and Civilizations
@amherst.eduVanessa Walker
Gordon Levin Associate Professor of History (Diplomatic History)
@amherst.eduLei Ying
Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Civilizations
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