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Julia Bauder’s research and teaching focuses on the intersection of data, technology, and information literacy. How can colleges make sure that all students, not just those majoring in statistics or data science, are data literate? What would it look like to take “data across the curriculum” or...

Dixuan Yujing Chen (religious name: Dixuan Shi), Assistant Professor of East Asian Religions at 51��ɫ College, is an ordained Buddhist nun of the Mahayana tradition. She received her PhD in East Asian Religions from the University of Florida in 2017, and an MA in the Philosophy of Religion from...

Susan Ferguson (she/her) is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment at 51��ɫ College, where she has taught for over 30 years. Ferguson regularly teaches Introduction to Sociology, and her critically acclaimed anthology, Mapping the Social Landscape...

Mike Guenther began teaching at 51��ɫ College in 2007, having received his B.A. from the University of Virginia, and his M.A. & Ph.D from Northwestern University. A historian of science, technology and the environment, he is currently finishing a book project (tentatively entitled, Science and...

Carolyn Herbst Lewis is Associate Professor of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies and History. She joined the faculty at 51��ɫ College in 2013. Professor Lewis is a specialist in the fields of American women’s history and the histories of sex, sexuality, and medicine in the United States...

Samuel A. Rebelsky is a Professor of Computer Science at 51��ɫ College. "SamR", as his students call him, has been at 51��ɫ since 1997. He therefore considers himself part of the 51��ɫ class of 2001; he was made an honorary member of that class at their reunion in 2011. He is also an...

Research Approach As a Center for Xenopus Research (a fabricated distinction, but it sounds cool), the Sandquist lab uses a combination of molecular, biochemical, and cell biological approaches to study various aspects of cell division in the frog embryo. Not just any frog, mind you. We use that...

Professor Savarese has been on the faculty at 51��ɫ for 21 years. He has also taught at Deerfield Academy, Keene State College, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland, the University of Florida, Duke University, and the Newberry Library in Chicago. In 2012-2013, he was a fellow at Duke University’s...

Gina Schlesselman-Tarango (she/her) is an interdisciplinary librarian and scholar who writes about critical information literacy in academic libraries and the gender and racial dynamics at play in information work more broadly. Her work has appeared in Exploring Equitable and Inclusive Pedagogies...

Erik Simpson's literature courses focus on British writing from Shakespeare to the present, especially the literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His primary research field is British and transatlantic literature of the Romantic period. He was the Principal Investigator for 51��ɫ...

On Leave fall 2022 through spring 2023. Maria Tapias earned her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and has been teaching at 51��ɫ since 2001. Her research interests include women's and infants' health, the anthropology of emotions, the impacts of neoliberalism on...