Faculty
Haverford faculty members are internationally recognized thought-leaders dedicated to working closely with undergraduates. At large research institutions, it can be difficult to connect with your professors—but the experience here is designed to maximize the amount of time students spend in direct collaboration with faculty.
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The associate professor of chemistry is the sixth recent member of her department to receive the award, which recognizes young faculty at primarily undergraduate institutions who are both accomplished researchers and outstanding educators.
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The professor of biology gives us a tour of his office.
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The professor of religion gives us a tour of his office.
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The associate professor of political science gives us a tour of her office.
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The senior lecturer of mathematics and statistics gives us a tour of his office.
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Ahead of its series finale, Assistant Professor of Philosophy Qrescent Mali Mason discusses how NBC comedy The Good Place offers lessons in ethics along with the laughs.
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The professor of economics gives us a tour of her office.
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The professor and chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy will help shape the next decade of astrophysics research in the United States as a member of the Panel on Particle Astrophysics and Gravitation.
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The movement, which endorses accessibility, inclusion, and a healthy dose of skepticism, is being taught in a course by Psychology Professor Benjamin Le that is one of the nation's only undergraduate courses of its kind.
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The associate professor of French and comparative literature gives us a tour of his office.
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The associate professor of history gives us a tour of his office.
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science Sorelle Friedler discusses how she and her collaborators will use a recent award from Mozilla to expand pedagogical efforts to emphasize the importance of ethics in computer science.
Faculty Profiles
- Elif Akcetin Visiting Assistant Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures
- Karin Åkerfeldt Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
- Timur Akhunov Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
- Suzanne Amador Kane The John and Barbara Bush Professor in the Natural Sciences; Professor of Physics and Astronomy; Coordinator of Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Eli Anders Visiting Assistant Professor of the Writing Program and Health Studies
- Koffi Anyinefa Professor and Chair of French and Francophone Studies
- Tarik Aougab Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
- Ingrid Arauco The Ruth Marshall Magill Professor; Professor of Music
- Alberto Arredondo-Chavez Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
- Markus Baenziger Professor of Fine Arts
- Richard Ball Professor of Economics
- Robert Barnes Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics
- Laura Been Assistant Professor of Psychology
- Anna Benjamin Visiting Instructor of Fine Arts
- Sue Benston Visiting Professor of Independent College Programs
- Kimberly Benston The Francis B. Gummere Professor of English
- Benjamin Berger Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
- Carola Binder Associate Professor of Economics
- Frances Rose Blase Associate Professor of Chemistry
- Marilyn Boltz Professor of Psychology
- Craig Borowiak Professor of Political Science
- Moses Boudourides Visiting Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Steve Boughn Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy
- Imke Brust Associate Professor and Chair of German
- Ted Brzinski Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
- Israel Burshatin Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Comparative Literature
- Lynne Butler Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
- Curtis Cacioppo Professor Emeritus of Music
- Christopher Cairns Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts
- Roberto Castillo Sandoval Professor of Spanish
- Jane Chandlee Assistant Professor of Linguistics
- Alexandra Chang Visiting Assistant Professor of English
- Lou Charkoudian Associate Professor of Chemistry
- Kin Cheung Visiting Instructor in EALC
- Rebecca Compton Professor of Psychology and Director of Neuroscience
- Amy Cooke Assistant Professor of Biology
- Kathryne Corbin Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies; Coordinator of Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Christophe Corbin Visiting Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies
- Clyde Daly Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- Sanjukta Das Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- Douglas Davis Professor Emeritus of Psychology
- Danielle De Leo Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
- Thomas Devaney Visiting Assistant Professor of English
- Thomas Donahue Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science
- John Dougherty Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Joanne Douglas Visiting Instructor of Environmental Studies
- Leonardo Dugan Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
- Menkkat Asli Dukan Visiting Assistant Professor of Visual Studies
- Tajah Ebram Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Writing Fellow
- Kaye Edwards Associate Professor Emeritus of Independent College Programs
- Richard Evans Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion
- Rebecca Everett Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
- Robert Fairman Professor of Biology
- Matthew Farmer Associate Professor of Classics
- Molly Farneth Associate Professor of Religion
- Sebastián Figueroa Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
- Stephen Finley Professor of English
- Eric Fleming Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
- Richard Freedman The John C. Whitehead 1943 Professor of the Humanities; Chair and Professor of Music
- Sorelle Friedler Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Andrew Friedman Associate Professor and Chair of History
- Victoria Funari Senior Lecturer of Visual Studies
- Ashok Gangadean The Emily Judson Baugh Gest and John Marshall Gest Professor of Global Philosophy; Professor of Global Philosophy; Director of Gest Center
- Edzna Garcia Ramirez Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellow
- Ramon Garcia-Castro Professor Emeritus of Spanish
- Linda Gerstein Professor of History; Chair of Independent College Programs
- Pika Ghosh Visiting Associate Professor of Religion
- Daniel Gillis Professor Emeritus of Classics
- Hank Glassman The Janet and Henry Richotte 1985 Professor of Asian Studies; Associate Professor and Chair of East Asian Languages and Cultures
- Harvey Glickman Professor Emeritus of Political Science
- Aurelia Gómez De Unamuno Associate Professor of Spanish
- Jonathan Goodrich Visiting Instructor of Fine Arts
- Mark Gould Professor of Sociology
- Neal Grabell Visiting Professor of Economics and Independent College Programs
- Lisa Jane Graham The Frank A. Kafker Professor of History and Professor of History
- Myron Gray Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
- Curtis Greene Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Statistics
- Daniel Grin Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
- Alvin Grissom Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Marcel Gutwirth Professor Emeritus of French
- Guangtian Ha Assistant Professor of Religion
- David Harrington Watt Douglas & Dorothy Steere Professor of Quaker Studies
- Laurie Hart Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
- Ana Hartman Visiting Assistant Professor of the Writing Program
- Jack Hasler Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science
- Shannan Hayes Visiting Assistant Professor of the Writing Program and Peace, Justice, and Human Rights
- Darin Hayton Associate Professor of History
- Amber Henry Visiting Instructor of Anthropology
- Mark Hilfiker Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- Zachary Hill Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts
- Rachel Hoang Associate Professor of Biology
- William Hohenstein Professor Emeritus of Sociology
- Emily Hong Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Visual Studies
- Shizhe Huang The C.V. Starr Professor of Asian Studies; Associate Professor of Chinese and Linguistics
- Ariana Huberman Associate Professor of Spanish; Coordinator of Latin American and Iberian Studies
- Dale Husemoller Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
- Seol Hee Im Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
- Anita Isaacs Benjamin R. Collins Professor of Social Sciences
- Heidi Jacob Professor of Music
- Roshan Jain Assistant Professor of Biology
- Eric Janofsky Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
- Paul Jefferson Associate Professor Emeritus of History
- Saleha Jilani Assistant Professor of Economics
- Karl Johnson Professor and Chair of Biology
- Patricia Kelly Visiting Assistant Professor of Health Studies and Independent College Programs
- Dana Khromov Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
- Elizabeth Kim Visiting Assistant Professor of English
- Hee Sook Kim Professor of Fine Arts
- Alexander Kitroeff Professor of History
- Nathaniel Klooster Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
- Christina Knight Assistant Professor and Director of Visual Studies
- Yoko Koike Senior Lecturer Emeritus of Japanese
- Naomi Koltun-Fromm Professor and Chair of Religion
- Ken Koltun-Fromm Robert and Constance MacCrate Professor of Social Responsibility and Professor of Religion
- Vladimir Kontorovich Professor of Economics
- Aryeh Kosman Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
- Sarah-Jane Koulen Assistant Professor of Peace, Justice, and Human Right
- James Krippner Edmund and Margiana Stinnes Professor of Global Studies; Professor of History
- Charles Kuper Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics
- Nimisha Ladva Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing; Oral Communication Specialist
- Huang-wen Lai Visiting Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures
- Roger Lane Professor Emeritus of History
- Emma Lapsansky-Werner Professor Emeritus of History and Visiting Professor in the Writing Program and Quaker Studies
- Benjamin Le Associate Provost for Faculty Development; Professor of Psychology
- Kirsten Lee Visiting Instructor of Independent College Programs and Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Jia Hui Lee Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
- Ryan Lei Assistant Professor of Psychology
- Michael Levere Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
- Ying Li The Phlyssa Koshland Professor of Fine Arts; Chair of Fine Arts
- Jennifer Lilgendahl Associate Professor and Chair of Psychology
- Brook Lillehaugen Associate Professor and Haverford Chair of Linguistics (TriCo)
- Steven Lindell Professor of Computer Science
- Thomas Lloyd Professor Emeritus of Music
- Andrea Lommen The John Farnum Professor; Professor and Chair of Physics and Astronomy
- Casey Londergan Professor of Chemistry
- Ana López-Sánchez Associate Professor and Chair of Spanish
- Jay Lunden Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
- Danielle Macbeth T. Wistar Brown Professor; Professor and Chair of Philosophy
- Wyatt MacGaffey Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
- Qrescent Mali Mason Assistant Professor of Philosophy
- Robert Manning Professor and Chair of Mathematics and Statistics; William H. and Johanna A. Harris Chair of Computational Science
- Lina Martinez Hernandez Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
- Karen Masters Professor of Physics and Astronomy; Director of Marian E. Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center
- Sara Mathieson Assistant Professor of Computer Science; Coordinator of Scientific Computing
- Steve McGovern Professor of Political Science
- Laura McGrane Associate Provost for Strategic Initiatives; Associate Professor of English
- Anne McGuire The Kies Family Professor of Humanities; Associate Professor of Religion
- Maud McInerney The Laurie Ann Levin Professor of Comparative Literature; Professor of English; Chair of Comparative Literature
- Matthew McKeever Professor and Chair of Sociology
- Barak Mendelsohn Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science
- Philip Meneely Professor Emeritus of Biology
- Weiwen Miao Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
- Graciela Michelotti Associate Professor of Spanish
- Elizabeth Milićević Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
- Jerry Miller Associate Professor of Philosophy
- Eric Miller Assistant Professor of Biology
- Rajeswari Mohan Associate Professor of English; MMUF Coordinator
- Robert Mortimer Professor Emeritus of Political Science
- Joshua Moses Associate Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies; Visual Culture, Arts, and Media Faculty Fellow (2020-2022)
- Shannon Mudd Director of Microfinance, Impact Investing, and Social Entrepreneurial Programs; Assistant Professor of Economics
- Bret Mulligan Associate Professor and Chair of Classics
- John Muse Assistant Professor of Visual Studies
- Terry Newirth Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
- Liem Nguyen Visiting Assistant Professor
- Zolani Ngwane Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology
- Alexander Norquist Professor of Chemistry
- Matthew O'Hare Visiting Assistant Professor of Visual Studies and Digital Fellow
- Zachary Oberfield Professor of Political Science
- Paulina Ochoa Espejo The William Penn Foundation Professor; Professor of Political Science
- Judith Owen Professor Emeritus of Biology; Visiting Professor of Biology
- David Owens Associate Professor of Economics
- Giri Parameswaran Associate Professor of Economics; Coordinator of Mathematical Economics
- Young Su Park Visiting Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Fellow in Medical Humanities
- Bruce Partridge Emeritus Professor of Astronomy
- Amanda Payne Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics
- Foen Peng Assistant Professor of Biology
- Sidney Perloe Professor Emeritus of Psychology
- Anne Preston John Hurford Professor; Professor and Chair of Economics
- James Ransom Associate Professor Emeritus of English
- Lindsay Reckson Associate Professor of English
- Margaret Reif Visiting Assistant Professor of German
- Deborah Roberts Professor Emeritus of Classics
- Patrese Robinson-Drummer Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
- Luis Rodriguez-Rincon Assistant Professor of Spanish
- Marlén Rosas Visiting Assistant Professor of History
- Joseph Russo Professor Emeritus of Classics
- Joshua Sabloff J. McLain King 1928 Professor in Mathematics; Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
- Zainab Saleh Assistant Professor of Anthropology; Coordinator of Middle East and Islamic Studies
- Bethel Saler Associate Professor of History
- Tetsuya Sato Senior Lecturer and Director of Japanese Language Program
- Robert Scarrow Professor and Chair of Chemistry
- Carol Schilling Visiting Professor of Independent College Programs and Health Studies
- Erin Schoneveld Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures; Associate Professor of Visual Studies
- Ulrich Schönherr Professor Emeritus of German and German Studies
- David Sedley Professor of French and Francophone Studies
- Debora Sherman Assistant Professor of English; Director of Writing Program
- Ava Shirazi Assistant Professor of Classics
- Sara Shumer Associate Professor Emeritus of Political Science
- Hannah Silverblank Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics
- Walter Smith The Paul and Sally Bolgiano Professor of Physics; Professor of Physics and Astronomy
- Paul Smith Professor Emeritus of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures
- Asali Solomon Associate Professor of English; Director of Creative Writing
- Paul Spoors Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- Gustavus Stadler The William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor; Professor and Chair of English; Director of HCAH
- Jill Stauffer Associate Professor and Director of Peace, Justice, and Human Rights
- Kristina Streu Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- Susan Stuard Professor Emeritus of History
- Elisabeth Sumpter Visiting Assistant Professor of Visual Studies and Environmental Studies
- Kimiko Suzuki Lecturer in Japanese
- Yung-Sheng Tai Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
- Jeffrey Tecosky-Feldman Senior Lecturer of Mathematics and Statistics
- Raegan Truax Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow; Visiting Assistant Professor of Visual Studies
- Yuka Usami Visiting Instructor of Japanese
- Xiang Wan Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
- Shu-wen Wang Associate Professor of Psychology
- Sarah Watson Visiting Assistant Professor of English
- Anna West Assistant Professor and Director of Health Studies
- Kristen Whalen Assistant Professor of Biology
- Katheryn Whitcomb Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics and the Writing Program
- Helen White The William H. and Johanna A. Harris Professor in Environmental Studies for Chemistry; Associate Provost for Curricular Development & Research; Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Studies
- Terrance Wiley Assistant Professor of Religion and Coordinator of African and Africana Studies
- William Williams Audrey A. and John L. Dusseau Professor in the Humanities; Professor of Fine Arts
- David Wilson Visiting Assistant Professor
- Jonathan Wilson Associate Professor and Chair of Environmental Studies
- Susanna Wing Associate Professor of Political Science
- Claude Wintner Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
- Martha Wintner Senior Lecturer Emeritus of English
- David Wonnacott Professor and Chair of Computer Science
- Kathleen Wright Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
- Talia Young Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
- Rosetta Young Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Writing Fellow
- Joel Yurdin Associate Professor of Philosophy
- Nathan Zullinger Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choral and Vocal Studies
- Christina Zwarg Professor of English