Faculty Speaker Program

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dedicated to bringing the best of Smith College to your hometown, the AASC Faculty Speakers Program is one of our most popular outreach programs. It has enabled Smith clubs and groups all over the United States and abroad to engage with outstanding faculty, administrators, alumnae, and students on a broad range of topics in a wide selection of disciplines.

 

 

Questions, ideas, or comments about the Faculty Speaker Program? Contact Annie Croteau, Program Coordinator for Alumnae Engagement, at 800-526-2023, ext. 4 or acroteau@smith.edu.

 

GUIDELINES FOR CLUBS

Some guidelines to keep in mind when you are requesting a speaker:

• Clubs may request one speaker per academic year.
• The minimum attendance required to host a faculty speaker is 25 alumnae and guests.
• Deadline to submit your request: August 31st, for fall event, November 15th for winter or spring event.
• The AASC will assist clubs with finding and confirming faculty speakers. Please contact the Alumnae Association—not the speaker—so arrangements and expenses are accounted for.

 

CLUB RESPONSIBILITIES

• The AASC will contact the faculty with the initial invitation and potential dates. If the faculty agrees, we will put the club event coordinator directly in touch with the faculty member to make final plans.
• All arrangements after initial contact are to be made between the speaker and the club/group. It is the responsibility of the club/group to keep the speaker and the Alumnae Association informed about program plans.
• It is the responsibility of the club to keep the speaker and the Alumnae Association informed about program plans.

 

EXPENSES

• The Alumnae Association provides for round-trip air travel, ground transportation, and overnight accommodations for speakers.
• The Club is responsible for making arrangements and for costs associated with the event, such as food and beverages, venue rental, audio-visual, invitations.

 

PROMOTION

• The local club will promote the event, send out invitations (printed and/or electronic) and take RSVP's. We strongly encourage clubs to contact other clubs and affinity groups in their area in the spirit of collaboration and inclusivity. 
• Please send a copy of the invitation to the AASC.
• The AASC can help send out your invitation by broadcast e-mail and provide a list of alumnae and mailing addresses.

 

EVENT CONFIRMATION WITH SPEAKER

• Send a letter/email to the faculty member confirming their agreement to speak. 
• Communicate event schedule to speaker and send a copy of the invitation. 
• Ask if the speaker requires any audio or visual equipment or a special set-up. 
• Ask how the speaker would like to be introduced and assign a volunteer to formally introduce the speaker to the audience.
• Offer to transport the speaker to/from the airport or hotel to the event venue.
• Send a thank-you letter following the presentation.

 

FEEDBACK

• The Alumnae Association would like to receive feedback on your program. Please feel out the post-event evaluation form after the event, and include a list of attendees.

 

SPEAKER and TOPIC

• The list of faculty speakers interested in participating in this program is available below, and for download (word or pdf)

• Speaker availability varies depending upon prior commitments and other factors. Requests are filled accordingly.

• If you are interested in a speaker or topic not listed, please inquire so that we can help. You can also take a look at academic departments' websites

• To request a speaker please use this speaker request form

 

CAMPAIGN VIDEO

• The club should consider playing the Women for the World campaign video to alumnae present at the Faculty Speaker Event. Here's the link to the video http://www.smith.edu/giving/campaign.php . The digital file can be requested by sending an email to alumclub@smith.edu .

 

Faculty members: If you would like to be listed in our Faculty Speaker Online Brochure or wish to update your current listing, please fill out the Faculty Speaker Form2012-13.
FIND A SPEAKER   Browse by subject   Choose one… Admission Afro-American Studies American Studies Anthropology Art Biological Sciences Botanic Garden Chemistry Comparative Literature Computer Science East Asian Languages and Literatures Economics Education and Child Study Engineering English Language and Literature Environmental Science & Policy Executive Education Exercise and Sport Studies French Studies Geology German Studies Government History Italian Language and Literature Jewish Studies and Comparative Literature Landscape Studies Latin American and Latina/o Studies Libraries Mathematics & Statistics Music Philosophy Physics Psychology Religion / Biblical Literature School of Social Work Sciences Sociology Spanish and Portuguese Theatre Women's Studies   Browse by speaker Choose one… Martha A. Ackelsberg Margaret E. Anderson Martin Antonetti Pau Atela Michael J.F. Barresi Giovanna Bellesia Nalini Bhushan Susan C. Bourque Ann Boutelle John Brady Margaret Bruzelius Robert K. Buchele Mlada Bukovansky H. Robert Burger C. John Burk Ginetta E.B. Candelario John Patrick Coby David Warren Cohen Christine J. Davis Peter A. de Villiers Piotr Decowski Nalini Easwar Rick Fantasia Gary Felder Craig M. Felton Dean Flower Sue J.M. Freeman Randy O. Frost Martine Gantrel Judith Gordon Jonathan Gosnell Christina M. Greer Deborah Haas-Wilson Andrea Hairston Adam Charles Hall Mary F. Hall Maria Estela Harretche Virginia Hayssen Jonathan Hirsh Daniel Horowitz Nicholas Jon Horton Caroline M. Houser Nicholas R. Howe Susannah Howe Jefferson Hunter Carolyn Jacobs Monica Jakuc James H. Johnson Donald Joralemon Joel S. Kaminsky Ellen Kaplan Laura A. Katz Gillian Murray Kendall Jina Kim Sabina Knight Daniel Elihu Kramer Reyes Lázaro Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz Ann Leone Lester K. Little Thomas S. Litwin Christopher B. Loring Maureen Mahoney Iris Newalu Michael Marcotrigiano Alan L. Marvelli Joseph George McVeigh Robert B. Merritt Chester Michalik Naomi Miller Richard H. Millington Suleiman Ali Mourad Katwiwa Mule Howard Allen Nenner Richard F. Olivo William Allan Oram Douglas Lane Patey Philip K. Peake Cornelia Pearsall Paulette Peckol Malgorzata Z. Pfabé Joel Pitchon Tracey A. Putnam Kevin Quashie Charles Eric Reeves Tom Riddell Donald Leonard Robinson Donna Robinson Divine Thomas H. Rohlich Peter Isaac Rose Andy Rotman Marilyn R. Schuster Stylianos P. Scordilis Sharon Seelig Christine M. Shelton Don Siegel Patricia Lyn Skarda Audrey Smith L. David Smith Katherine Taylor Halvorsen Stephen G. Tilley Cathy Weisman Topal Hans R. Vaget Hélène Visentin Jennifer Walters Ellen Doré Watson Paul Wetzel Steven A. Williams William Petrie Wittig Sujane Wu Nanci A. Young Madelaine Zadik Andrew S. Zimbalist Ann Zulawski
Admission
Audrey Smith Dean of Enrollment Admissions and/or financial aid; college selection or future demographics of the college going population; overview of the current Smith student population
Afro-American studies
Andrea Hairston '74 L. Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor of Theatre and professor of Afro-American studies Minstrel Shows from Daddy Rice to Big Momma’s House: American Popular Culture’s Long Running Hits; Realist Historical Novel about Turn of the 20th Century Theatre and Film Artists in Georgia and Chicago
Kevin Quashie Associate Professor of Afro-American studies Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory: (un) Becoming the Subject
American Studies
Daniel Horowitz Mary Huggins Gamble Professor of American Studies Consuming Pleasures: Intellectuals and Popular Culture in the Postwar World
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor Emerita of American Studies When and why did Americans learn to love Provence? How did two weeks in a restored farmhouse come to represent Eden?  Book discussion: Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of “The Yellow Wall-Paper”, by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Richard H. Millington Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Professor of American Studies, professor of English language and literature American Literature, the Liberal Arts College, and the Invention of Leisure
Donald Leonard Robinson Charles N. Clark Professor Emeritus of Government and American Studies Obama's Predicament; Exporting Constitutional Democracy: Why Were Japan and Iraq So Different? What Chance Does Egypt Have?; Town Meeting Democracy: How Did It Develop in New England? Does It Still Work? Would It Work Elsewhere?
Anthropology
Donald Joralemon Professor of anthropology Native South Americans; Shamanism; Medical Anthropology (Ethnomedicine); Medical Ethics
Art
Craig M. Felton Professor of art Will tailor topic to suit audience
Caroline M. Houser Professor emeritus of art New Discoveries: Revisions in the Art of Ancient Greece; Originals, Copies, and Fakes; Did He Strip the Virgin Bare? A Mystery about the Athena Statue in the Parthenon
Chester Michalik Professor emeritus of art Contemporary Urban Japan: A Visual Presentation
Biological Sciences
Margaret E. Anderson Professor of biological sciences Neuroscience Flourishes at Smith College; Preparing for a Career in the Health Profession
Michael J.F. Barresi Assistant professor of biological sciences Stem Cells and Their Amazing "Potential"; Environment and Embryos: Assessing the Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Fish Embryonic Development
C. John Burk Elsie Damon Simonds Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences Victorian Gardens Lost and Found; Evolution in a Landscape: Smith College Botanic Garden; The Botanic Garden: A Peculiar Institution; Audubon's Garden: Botanical Illustration in The Birds of America
Adam Charles Hall Associate professor of biological sciences Molecular Bases of Neurological Disorders; Molecular Bases of General Anesthesia: The Highs and the Lows
Virginia Hayssen Professor of biological sciences Why White Cats are Often Deaf and Other Oddities of Coat Color
Laura A. Katz Elsie Damon Simonds Professor of Biological Sciences The AEMES Program at Smith College: Opening Doors to Women of Promise; Microbes Shake The Tree of Life and Alter Our View on Genome Evolution
Robert B. Merritt Professor of biological sciences Alfred Blakeslee and the Genetics of Taste
Richard F. Olivo Professor of biological sciences and neuroscience (Smith College); associate director, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning (Harvard University) Teaching with the Web: From E-mail to Digital Video; Emotion in the Classroom: Making Connections with Students
Paulette Peckol Louise C. Harrington Professor of Biological Sciences Finding Nemo: Ecology and Conservation of Coral Reef Fish; Hurricanes and Global Warming: Now the Corals Really Are in Hot Water
Stylanos P. Scordilis Professor of biological sciences, special assistant to the president for Ford Hall   Ford Hall Centers and Interdisciplinarity: A New Concept for the Liberal Arts; Exercise and Gender: Are Male and Female Skeletal Muscles the Same?
L. David Smith Professor of biological sciences Biological Invasions, Particularly in Marine Ecosystems
Stephen G. Tilley Myra M. Sampson Professor of Biological Sciences Mountains, Molecules, and Salamanders: Discovering Biological Diversity in the Appalachians
Steven Williams Gates Professor of Biological Sciences Book discussion: Tears of the Cheetah and Other Tales from the Genetic Frontier, by J. O'Brien
Botanic Garden
Michael Marcotrigiano Director of the Botanic Garden, professor of biological sciences Botanic Garden of Smith College: Past, Present, and Future; Shaping Plants That Shape the Landscape; Perceiving a Colored Landscape
Tracey A. Putnam Chief gardener Woody Plant Evaluation for the Home Landscape; Too Much of a Good Thing is Wonderful: Growing Peonies, Roses, and Clematis
Madelaine Zadik Manager of education and outreach, Botanic Garden Botanic Garden of Smith College: Past, Present, and Future; Planting Seeds and Ideas: Education at the Botanic Garden of Smith College; Book discussion – Virginia Woolf: A Botanical Perspective.
Comparative Literature
Margaret Bruzelius Dean of the senior class and second-semester juniors Can Girls Have Adventures? What Does it Mean to be a Hero in Young Adult Fiction; Ursula Le Guin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Philip Pullman
Sabina Knight Associate professor of Chinese and comparative literature What Americans See: Chinese Fiction in Translation; Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction; Changing Responses to Aging in Fiction from China, Taiwan, and Tibet; Book discussion:  Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction,by Sabina Knight
Katwiwa Mule Associate professor of comparative literature, director of African studies Women's Spaces, Women's Visions: Politics, Poetics, and Resistance in African Women's Drama
Computer Science
Nicholas R. Howe Associate professor of computer science Machine Vision: How Computers Can Understand the World Through Images; Handwriting Recognition: From the Bodleian Library through George Washington’s Letters
East Asian Languages and Literatures
Jina Kim Assistant professor of East Asian studies Korea in the 21st  Century: A Return to History?; Representation of North Korea in South Korean Cinema; How Modern were Modern Girls?: Colonialism, Gender, and Consumerism in Early 20th Century East Asia
Sabina Knight Associate professor of Chinese and comparative literature What Americans See: Chinese Fiction in Translation; Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction; Changing Responses to Aging in Fiction from China, Taiwan, and Tibet; Book discussion:  Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction, by Sabina Knight
Thomas H. Rohlich Professor of Japanese Taking the First-Year Seminar Abroad: The Kyoto Interterm Trip
Sujane Wu Assistant professor of Chinese Tea and Food Culture; Chinese Poetry and Painting and their Relationship; Chinese Films and Taiwanese Films
Economics
Robert K. Buchele Professor of economics The Mondragon Cooperatives: A Sabbatical Reseach Report; The Mondragon Cooperatives are a network of approximately 120 worker-owned enterprises employing around 47,000 worker-owners in the Basque region of Spain. They are a Mecca of the cooperative movement and researchers interested in viability of producer cooperatives in a highly competitive globalized capitalist system.
Deborah Haas-Wilson Marilyn Carlson Nelson Professor of Economics The Affordable Care Act: Our Changing Health Care System
Thomas A. Riddell Associate professor of economics  A Year Away From Smith: In Search of the Perfect Image (photographs from a year on sabbatical in the U.K. and elsewhere; Book discussion: Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, by Alexandra Fuller
Andrew S. Zimbalist Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics           Economics of Sports, including College Sports and Title IX; Labor Relations in Sports; Franchise Valuation and Strategies; League Governance; Baseball, Football, Basketball, Nascar, Tennis; Book discussion: Equal Play: Title IX and Social Change; The Bottom Line: Observations and Arguments on the Sports Business; In the Best Interests of Baseball: The Revolutionary Reign of Bud Selig; National Pastime: How Americans Play Baseball and the Rest of the World Plays Soccer; May the Best Team Win: Baseball Economics and Public Policy
Education and Child Study
Sue J. M. Freeman Professor of education and child study, psychologist Women and Leadership; Women and Money; Women’s Transitions
Alan L. Marvelli Professor and Director Emeritus of the Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech The Impact of Cochlear Implants on the Lives of Profoundly Deaf Children and Their Families
Richard F. Olivo Professor of biological sciences and neuroscience (Smith College); associate director, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning (Harvard University) Teaching with the Web: From E-Mail to Digital Video; Emotion in the Classroom: Making Connections with Students
Cathy Weisman Topal Lecturer in visual arts education Children, Clay, and Sculpture: The Power and Potential of Clay in the Classroom; Thinking With a Line: A New Art and Literacy CD-ROM for Early Childhood Educators
Engineering
Susannah Howe Design clinic director Smith Pioneers: The Picker Engineering Program; Engineering Design Clinic: The Capstone Project Experience for Engineering Students
English Language and Literature
Ann Boutelle Senior lecturer of English language and literature, founder of The Poetry Center, Grace Hazard Conkling Poet in Residence Creating a Poetry Center at Smith; Emily Dickinson's Manipulation of Space in Her Poems
Dean Flower Professor of English language and literature Landscape, Ecology, and the Necessity of Poetry; Lolita and Censorship; Inscribing the Oxbow: Local Landscape as Text
Jefferson Hunter Helen and Laura Shedd professor of English language and literature, professor of film studies From Brighton Rock to The Singing Detective: British Crime Films
Gillian Murray Kendall Associate professor of English language and literature The Shakespeare Project; Popular Shakespeare; Queen Elizabeth I and Self-Fashioning
Naomi Miller Professor of English and the Study of Women and Gender Representing Women in the Renaissance; Reimagining Shakespeare for Children and Young Adults; Mother and Others in Early Modern; Lady Mary Wroth. Book discussion: An Unknown Woman, by Vanora Bennett, The Creation of Eve, by Lynn Cullen; Renaissance historical fiction novels of Sarah Dunant.
Richard H. Millington Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman professor of American studies, professor of English American Literature, the Liberal Arts College, and the Invention of Leisure
William Allan Oram Helen Means Professor of English language and literature Developments in English at Smith; The Utopias of Ursula K. LeGuin; Teaching Science Fiction at Smith; Teaching Shakespeare
Douglas Lane Patey Sophia Smith Professor of English, member of Smith's program in the history of science and technology Where Our Punctuation Came from (And Where It's Going); Historical Reflections on How Authors Make Their Money; Book discussion: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, by Jane Austen; Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust, Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, by Evelyn Waugh
Cornelia Pearsall Associate professor of English language and literature Sylvia Plath ’55 at war in the Smith Archive; Book discussion: Victorian Sexuality, by Oscar Wilde; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , by Lewis Carroll; A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf; Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
Charles Eric Reeves Professor of English language and literature Genocide by Attrition in Darfur; Sudan at Its Moment of Historical Truth; Book discussion: A Long Day’s Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide, by Charles Eric Reeves
Sharon Cadman Seelig Roe/Straut Professor in the Humanities, English language and literature Noticing: Or What You Can Do with an English Major; Reading the Earth: Venturing Beyond the Classroom; Missing, Marginal, Mutilated: Tracing the Lives of Early Modern Women
Patricia Lyn Skarda Professor of English language and literature Smith in Literature and Popular Culture; Telling and Retelling: Modern Novels and their Literary Antecedents; The Enduring Legacy of The Biblical Book of Job; Book discussion: Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott; March, by Geraldine Brooks; The Little Women, by Katherine Weber; The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Double Bind, by Chris Bohjalian
Ellen Doré Watson Director of The Poetry Center, lecturer in English language and literature The Poetry Center at Smith: A Sampler of Poets and Programs; How Do Poems Mean? Trends in Contemporary Poetry; Dogged Hearts (poetry reading and discussion: establishing voice in persona poems); Shaking Loose/Shaping Up: A Poetry Workshop (making poems happen); Translator as Actress: Becoming Adélia (translating Brazilian poet Adélia Prado)
Environmental Science & Policy
Paul Wetzel Co-director Sustainable Food Concentration Smith's academic concentration in Sustainable Food
Executive Education
Iris Newalu Director of Smith College Executive Education Women's Leadership Programs; Corporate Women's Leadership Initiatives; Smith's Involvement in Executive Leadership Development
Exercise and Sport Studies
Christine J. Davis Senior coach, tennis Tennis: A Lifetime Sport
James H. Johnson Professor of exercise and sport studies Analyzing Your Lifestyle: Fear or Fun; The Ancient Olympics’ In?uence on the Modern Games; From the 776 B.C. Greek Palestra to the Modern Fitness Gym
Christine M. Shelton Professor of exercise and sport studies, co-chair for the Project on Women and Social Change Women's Education Worldwide: Why Educate Women? Women and Sport; International Sport Issues for Women; Coaching Education; Title IX; Women and Leadership
Donald Siegel Professor of exercise and sport studies Project Coach: Youth Development Through an Innovative Urban Sports Program
French Studies
Martine Gantrel Professor of French studies Paris in the movies: Comparing French and American Perspectives; Edith Wharton and Marcel Proust: Why They Never Met
Jonathan Gosnell Associate professor of French studies France in America; America in France; French Empire and its Aftermath
Ann Leone '71 Professor of French studies and landscape studies Reading Literary Gardens in French: French Studies and the Study of Cultural Landscapes at Smith
Hélène Visentin Associate professor of French studies Art and Politics in the French Renaissance: The King and the City; Court Performances in the Age of Louis XIV; Baroque French Theater
Geology
John Brady Mary E. Moses professor of geology Geology of the Smith College Campus; Precambrian Geology of the Tobacco Root Mountains in Southwest Montana; Topics related to geology, landscape, resources, climate, and energy. Will tailor topic to suit audience.
Robert Burger Achilles Professor of Geology What Does the Future Hold? An Overview of Natural Hazard Risk, Including Rapid Climate Change; Global Warming: Using the Past to Understand What the Future Holds; Book discussion: Surviving Armageddon: Solutions for a Threatened Planet, by Bill McGuire
German Studies
Hans R. Vaget Helen and Laura Shedd Professor Emeritus, professor emeritus of comparative literature Fateful Attraction: Hitler and Wagner; What is German About German Music?; Anti-Semitism, Memory, and the Construction of German Culture in America; The Operas of Wagner in Gilded-Age America; The Last Emperor of Classical Music: Richard Strauss
Joseph George McVeigh Professor of German studies From Weimar to War: Popular Education and Propaganda in Germany 1928–1941. This lecture is based on an exhibition McVeigh curated for the Rare Book Room in the Neilson Library in spring 2009. It examines one of the most widespread forms of popular education in Germany during the late Weimar period—cigarette card albums—and how they evolved into a popular propaganda medium during the Third Reich; How Ozzie and Harriet Saved Europe After World War II
Government
Martha A. Ackelsberg William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government, professor of the study of women and gender Who's Political? Whose Politics? Reflections on Contemporary Democracy; Who Votes? Who Cares?; Globalization Comes Home: Community Activism at the U.S.-Mexico Border; Making Democracy Work: Women's Community Activism and the Reconceptualization of Democratic Theory; Teaching about the Politics of Wealth and Poverty
Mlada Bukovansky Associate professor of government The United Nations in World Politics; Perspectives on U.S. Hegemony in World Politics; U.S./European Relations
Donna Robinson Divine Morningstar Family Professor of Jewish Studies, professor of government Any topic related to the Middle East; Middle East Conflict, Iran, Iraq; Book discussion: Exiled in the Homeland: Zionism and the Return to Mandate Palestine, by Donna Robinson Divine
John Patrick Coby Professor of Government Ancient and Medieval Political Theory
Donald Leonard Robinson Charles N. Clark Professor Emeritus of Government and American studies Obama's Predicament; Exporting Constitutional Democracy: Why Were Japan and Iraq So Different? What Chance Does Egypt Have?; Town Meeting Democracy: How Did It Develop in New England? Does It Still Work? Would It Work Elsewhere?
History
Lester K. Little Dwight W. Morrow Professor Emeritus of History The Three Pandemics of Plague in History (So Far); The Middle Ages Aren’t What They Used to Be
Douglas Lane Patey Sophia Smith Professor of English, member of Smith's program in the history of science and technology The Emergence of the Modern Division between the Arts and the Sciences; The Secret Life of Isaac Newton, Alchemist
Howard Allen Nenner Roe/Straut Professor Emeritus in the Humanities Future of the British Monarchy; Elizabeth I’s Refusal to Marry; Regicide and Memory; The Execution of Charles I
Ann Zulawski Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor of History and professor of Latin American studies National Latin America, 1821 to the Present; Problems in the History of Spanish America and Brazil
Italian Language and Literature
Giovanna Bellesia Professor of Italian language and literature Italian Women Writers; Immigrant Women Writers in Italy Today; Translation Theory and Practice
Landscape Studies
Ann Leone '71 Professor of French studies and landscape studies Reading Literary Gardens; Every Fourth Household: Vernacular Gardens in Northampton; From Jane Austen to Engineering: Landscape Studies at Smith
Latin American and Latina/o Studies
Ginetta E.B. Candelario Associate professor of sociology and Latin American studies Not Just Pin Curls and Perms: The American Beauty Shop and Women’s Community
Libraries
Martin Antonetti Curator of rare books Collecting Rare Books; New Acquisitions to the Mortimer Rare Book Room; Book Arts at Smith; History of Printing, Bookbinding, and Papermaking; Using Rare Books in the Curriculum at Smith
Christopher B. Loring Director of libraries With the Internet, Why Libraries?; From Books to Bytes
Nanci A. Young College archivist History of the College; Women of Color at Smith; Photography on Campus
Mathematics & Statistics
Pau Atela Professor of mathematics and statistics Art and Mathematics: The Case for MathStudio, An Ongoing Creative Studio Space Focusing On Process and Dialog About Art and Mathematic
David Warren Cohen Professor of mathematics and statistics Teaching Mathematics as a Language; Current Reforms in Math Education at the College Level; Mathematics as the Language of Nature
Katherine Taylor Halvorsen Professor of mathematics and statistics Consequences of the No Child Left Behind Act: Nationwide Standards for the Kindergarten to Twelfth-Grade Mathematics Curriculum
Nicholas Jon Horton Associate professor of mathematics and statistics What Your Physician Should Know About Statistics (But Perhaps Doesn’t); Maternal In?uenza and Schizophrenia: Teasing Out Interacting Causes; Quantitative Literacy: What Every Smith Alumna Should Know
Music
Judith Gordon Assistant professor of music Informal performance and lively conversation; solo piano and/or duo programs with members of the Smith Chamber Ensemble; wide range of repertoire available (grand piano needed)
Jonathan Hirsh Senior lecturer, director of orchestral and choral activities All groups available to perform (certain conditions apply)
Monica Jakuc Elsie Irwin Sweeney Professor Emerita of Music Women Composers Then and Now; Lecture recital of solo piano music (grand piano needed)
Joel Pitchon Associate professor of music Robert and Clara Schumann: Music, Romance, and Marriage: A Revealing Look at Their Letters; performances of piano; string trios; the “Kreutzer” Sonata for Violin and Piano by Ludwig van Beethoven, includes a lecture and a performance of the piece (a piano is required); the third and last sonata for violin and piano by Robert Schumann
William Petrie Wittig Professor emeritus of music American Music and Art (20th Century); What’s New (and Not!) about Pop Music
Philosophy
Nalini Bhushan Professor of Philosophy   Book: Trans-Buddhism: Transmission, Translation and Transformation (co-editor with Jay Garfield and Abraham Zablocki)
Physics
Piotr Decowski Professor of physics Big Bang – The Beginning of Everything
Nalini Easwar Professor of physics The Physics of Sand: Your Visit to the Beach Will Never Be the Same
Gary Felder Associate professor of physics Einstein’s Legacy: A New Vision of Space and Time; The Big Bang and the Expanding Universe; Beyond the Big Bang: What We Know About the Early Universe; If Only I Had a Brane: Life in More Than Three Dimensions
Malgorzata Z. Pfabé Sophia Smith Professor of Physics Nuclear Physics: Its History, Major Players, and Nuclear Power
Psychology
Peter A. de Villiers Sophia and Austin Smith Professor of Psychology Autism Spectrum Disorders: Myths and Mysteries (And a Few Answers From Recent Research)
Randy O. Frost Harold Edward and Elsa Siipola Israel Professor of Psychology Book discussion: Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things, by Randy Frost and Gail Steketee; Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Saving, Acquiring, and Hoarding, by Randy Frost, Gail Steketee and David Tolin
Maureen Mahoney Dean of the college, adjunct professor of psychology Book discussion: The Spiral Staircase, by Karen Armstrong
Philip K. Peake Professor of psychology Longitudinal Consequences of Preschool Self-Control, 30-Year Study
Religion / Biblical Literature
Joel S. Kaminsky Professor of religion, co-director of Jewish studies Humor in the Bible; Narrative Art in the Bible; Divine Favoritism in the Bible; The Rabbinic View of Immortality; Early Jewish Biblical Interpretation; Jewish-Christian Dialogue; The Treatment of the Other in the Bible and Early Rabbinic Literature; Sibling Rivalry in the Bible; Book discussion: Yet I Loved Jacob: Reclaiming the Biblical Concept of Election, by Joel S. Kaminsky
Suleiman Ali Mourad Professor of religion, faculty director of the Global Studies Center Islamic and Middle East History, Religion, and Culture; Muhammad; the Qur’an; Jesus in the Qur’an and Islamic Thought; Jerusalem in Islam; Symbolism of Jerusalem in Islam; Muslim Reactions to the Crusades; Islam and Modernity; Jihad; Global Studies at Smith
Andy Rotman Associate professor of religion Can talk about religion, culture, politics, and film of the region (India specialist); Book discussion: Thus Have I Seen: Visualizing Faith in Early Indian Buddhism; Divine Stories, Translations from the Divyavadana, Part 1, by Andy Rotman
Jennifer Walters Dean of religious life Book discussion: The Ten-Year Nap, by Meg Wolitzer; The Maytrees, by Annie Dillard
School of Social Work
Mary F. Hall Professor and licensed independent clinical social worker The Legacy of Slavery; Ending Racism: The Work Ahead; Substance Abuse in Women
Carolyn Jacobs Dean of the School for Social Work, Elizabeth Marting Treuhaft Professor Spirituality: Transformative Moments in Life Stories; Finding Hope:  The Role of Spirituality in Responding to Trauma
Sciences
Thomas S. Litwin Director of the Clark Science Center 1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced; Science in the Liberal Arts: Curriculum and Construction for the 21st Century; Women in Science: Much Accomplished, Much to Do
Sociology
Rick Fantasia Director of the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute, Barbara Richmond 1940 Professor in the Social Sciences Alchemy for the Intellect: The Transformative Powers of the Kahn Institute; War of the Worlds: Fast Food Meets Haute Cuisine in France; The Moral Basis of a Predatory Society or Social Inequality for Fun and Profit: New Forms of Exploitation for a New Century
Peter Isaac Rose Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Anthropology; senior fellow, Kahn Institute Smith Clones in the Netherlands: The College as a Model for Reforming Higher Education in Europe; Making a Difference: William Allan Neilson and the Rescue of Refugee Intellectuals; With Few Reservations: Readings from Guest Appearances and Other Travels in Time and Space; Is Anti-Immigration the New Racism? Notes from the U.S. and Europe
Spanish and Portuguese
Maria Estela Harretche Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Spanish Poetry in Exile: Power of the Memory; Magic Realism: From Page to Stage; Federico Garcia Lorca, Playwright: Hidden and Revealed
Reyes Lázaro Associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese The "Caricatsculpture" of Captain Dreyfus in Paris
Theatre
Andrea Hairston '74 L. Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor of Theatre and professor of Afro-American studies How Do We Conjure the Wondrous World We Believe In? Researching and Writing Redwood and Wildfire, An Historical Novel; The Magic If: Speculative Theatre and Film from RUR to Avatar; Minstrel Shows from Daddy Rice to Big Momma’s House-American Popular Culture’s Long Running Hits; Realist Historical Novel about Turn of the 20th Century Theatre and Film Artists in Georgia and Chicago
Ellen W. Kaplan Professor, theatre chair, director of Jewish studies Crossing Borders: Making Theatre in China; Under the Gun: Dramatic Narrative in Zones of Conflict; Theatre in Israel
Daniel Elihu Kramer Assistant professor of theatre Updating the Classics; Theatre and the Liberal Arts; Shakespeare on Film
Women's Studies
Martha A. Ackelsberg William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government, professor of the study of women and gender Who's Political? Whose Politics? Reflections on Contemporary Democracy; Who Votes? Who Cares?; Globalization Comes Home: Community Activism at the U.S.-Mexico Border; Making Democracy Work: Women's Community A ctivism and the Reconceptualization of Democratic Theory; Teaching about the Politics of Wealth and Poverty
Marilyn R. Schuster Provost and dean of the faculty, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities Women Writers: Portraits and Self-Portraits (Writers such as Colette, Marguerite Duras, Jane Rule, and Margaret Atwood); Rethinking Sexuality: Lesbian and Gay Rights Movements before 1960 (De Martin and Phyllis Lyon The Daughters of Bilitis and The Ladder; Resistance in an Age of Repression)