Meet the Faculty
Meet the Faculty
With a student-to-faculty ratio of 12-to-1, Washington College is passionate about providing you with a truly personalized education, one that tests and stretches the limits of your talent and potential.
American Studies
Kenneth Schweitzer Assistant Professor of Music; Director of American Studies Music
Richard DeProspo Professor of English English
Alisha Knight Associate Professor of English and American Studies English and American Studies
Sean Meehan Assistant Professor of English English
Kenneth Miller Assistant Professor of History History
Joseph Prud'homme Assistant Professor of Political Science Political Science
John Seidel Lammot du Pont Copeland Associate Professor of Anthropology Anthropology and Environmental Studies
Richard Striner Professor of History History
Aileen Tsui Associate Professor of Art History Art History
Michele Volansky Associate Professor of Drama Drama
Carol Wilson Arthur A. and Elizabeth R. Knapp Professor of American History History
Anthropology
Aaron Lampman Anthropology Program Director, Assistant Professor of Anthropology- John Seidel Lammot du Pont Copeland Associate Professor of Anthropology
Stewart Bruce Lecturer in Anthropology
Bill Schindler Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Elizabeth Seidel Archaeology Lab Director
Jeanette Sherbondy Associate Professor of Anthropology, Emerita
Mark Wiest Lecturer in Anthropology
Art and Art History
Patrice DiQuinzio Associate Provost for Academic Services and Interim Chair
Alejandro Castro Lecturer in Art
Heather Harvey Assistant Professor of Art
Fatma Talaat Ismail Lecturer in Art
Donald McColl Nancy L. Underwood Associate Professor of Art History
Denise Mensinger-Campbell Lecturer in Art
Ricky Sears Visiting Assistant Professor of Art- Aileen Tsui Assistant Professor of Art History
Scott Woolever Lecturer in Art
Robert Duemling Senior Fellow
Behavioral Neuroscience
Cynthia Gibson Assistant Professor of Psychology
Michael Kerchner Associate Professor of Psychology
Lauren Littlefield Associate Professor of Psychology
George Spilich John Toll Professor of Psychology
Biology
Martin Connaughton Associate Professor of Biology Fish bioacoustics and behavior
Daniel Brougher Lecturer in Biology Aquaculture including nutrition, vaccine development, and reproduction in fishes.
Walter Ellison Lecturer in Biology 
Rosemary Ford Alonzo G. and Virginia Gent Decker Associate Professor of Biology Plant genetics
Patricia Gladu Lecturer in Biology Phytosterols as a taxonomic tool 
Mariah Goodall Lecturer in Biology 
Aaron Krochmal Assistant Professor of Biology Behavioral, Physiological and Biophysical Ecology
Joanne Morton Lecturer in Biology 
Donald Munson Joseph H. McLain Professor of Environmental Studies Free-living potentially pathogenic amoebae, and diseases of fish and shellfish
Nathan Nazdrowicz Lecturer in Biology 
Debora Palmer Lecturer in Biology 
Elka Porter Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology Ecology and Marine Biology
Mindy Reynolds Assistant Professor of Biology Environmental toxicology and cancer
Jennifer Rowsell Assistant Professor of Biology 
Kristi Shaw Lecturer in Biology 
Diana Speelman Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology 
Kathleen Verville Associate Professor of Biology Water microbiology
Black Studies
- Alisha Knight Associate Professor of English and American Studies
Lisa Daniels Hodson Trust Associate Professor of Economics- Kenneth Schweitzer Assistant Professor of Music; Director of American Studies
Tahir Shad Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies
Ruth Shoge Clifton M. Miller Associate Professor
Christine Wade Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies- Carol Wilson Arthur A. and Elizabeth R. Knapp Professor of American History
Business Management
Michael Harvey Associate Professor of Business Management Organizational Behavior and Leadership
"Leaders live in the future."
Stewart Barroll Lecturer in Business Management Business Law
"Law effectively is a minor for every future business manager."
Joseph Bauer Lecturer in Business Management 
Michael Davenport Lecturer in Business Management
Alvin Drischler Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Business Management International Business
"The best way to learn theory is to link it to real-world applications."
Colin McRae Lecturer in Business Management 
Steven Migdal Lecturer in Business Management 
Terrence Scout Connie and Carl Ferris Associate Professor of Business Management Marketing
"Marketing 101: Find out what people want and give it to them."
Hui-Ju Tsai Assistant Professor of Business Management 
Susan Vowels Associate Professor of Business Management Management Information Systems
"Better information leads to better decision-making."
Lansing Williams Assistant Professor of Business Management Accounting
"He who knows has a place in the world. He who knows why will be the boss."
Stephen Winand Lecturer in Business Management
Chemistry
Anne Marteel-Parrish Associate Professor of Chemistry General Chemistry; Inorganic Chemistry; Green Chemistry
Aaron Amick Assistant Professor of Chemistry Organic Chemistry; Organometallic Chemistry
Nicholas Deifel Lecturer in Chemistry General Chemistry; Organic Chemistry
Rick Locker Clarence C. White Associate Professor of Chemistry Physical Chemistry; Analytical Chemistry; Environmental Chemistry
Betsy Moyer-Taylor Lecturer in Chemistry 
Leslie Sherman W. Alton Jones Associate Professor of Chemistry Environmental Chemistry; General Chemistry
Chesapeake Regional Studies
- Donald Munson Joseph H. McLain Professor of Environmental Studies
- John Seidel Lammot du Pont Copeland Associate Professor of Anthropology
Clinical Counseling
Sheila Barry Lecturer in Psychology- Lauren Littlefield Associate Professor of Psychology
James Siemen Professor of Psychology
Computer Science
Austin Lobo Associate Professor of Computer Science
H. Louise Amick Associate Professor of Mathematics
Eugene Hamilton Professor of Mathematics
Matthew Kibler Lecturer in Mathematics
Shaun Ramsey Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Martin Suydam Instructor in Mathematics and Computer Science
Creative Writing
Kathryn Moncrief Associate Professor of English
Dale Daigle Associate Professor of Drama
Jehanne Dubrow Assistant Professor of English
Timothy Maloney Professor of Drama
Robert Mooney Associate Professor of English
Robert Earl Price Lecturer in Drama
Katherine Wagner Assistant Professor of English (part-time)
Dance
Drama
- Michele Volansky Associate Professor of Drama
- Dale Daigle Associate Professor of Drama
Lucia Foster Lecturer in Drama- Timothy Maloney Professor of Drama
- Robert Earl Price Lecturer in Drama
Jason Rubin Associate Professor of Drama
Polly Kuulei Sommerfeld Lecturer in Drama
Lawrence Stahl Lecturer in Drama
Beverly Wolff Lecturer in Drama
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Economics
Robert Lynch Everett E. Nuttle Professor of Economics- Lisa Daniels Hodson Trust Associate Professor of Economics
Melanie Gness Lecturer in Economics
Andrew Helms Assistant Professor of Economics
Adalbert Mayer Assistant Professor of Economics
Amin Mohseni-Cheraglou Visiting Instructor of Economics
Brian Scott Assistant Professor of Economics
David Wharton Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
Education
- James Siemen Professor of Psychology
John Boyd Lecturer in Education and English
Michelle Johnson Billups Elementary Education Field Experiences Coordinator
Bridget Anne Bunten Assistant Professor of Education
Erin Counihan Lecturer in Education
Teresa Gloyd Lecturer in Education
Virginia NewlinLecturer in Education
Darnell Parker Lecturer in Education
Robert Siudzinski Assistant Professor of Education
Engineering
English
- Kathryn Moncrief Associate Professor of English Early Modern English Drama, Literature, and Culture
Christopher Ames Professor of English 20th Century English Literature; Hollywood Films
Thomas Cousineau Professor of English Modernism; Literature and Composition
Liam Daley Lecturer in English Literature and Composition- Richard DeProspo Professor of English American Literature and Popular Culture
- Jehanne Dubrow Assistant Professor of English Creative Writing
Sherri Foster Lecturer in English 
Leslie HarrisonVisiting Assistant Professor of English Creative Writing
Barbara Gillin Lecturer in English
Richard Gillin Ernest A. Howard Professor of English Literature English Literature- Alisha Knight Associate Professor of English and American Studies African American Literature; American Literary Realism
Melissa McIntire Lecturer in English- Sean Meehan Assistant Professor of English Composition Theory and Pedagogy; Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
- Robert Mooney Associate Professor of English Fiction; The Novel
Corey Olsen Assistant Professor of English Medieval Literature; J. R. R. Tolkien
Moriah Purdy Lecturer in English- Katherine Wagner Assistant Professor of English (part-time) Creative Writing; Special Interest Literature
Philip Walsh Visiting Assistant Professor of English Comparative Literature; Ancient Greek and Latin Languages
Environmental Studies
- Leslie Sherman W. Alton Jones Associate Professor of Chemistry
Karl Kehm Adrian Reed Associate Professor of Physics and Earth and Planetary Science- Donald Munson Joseph H. McLain Professor of Environmental Studies
- Brian Scott Assistant Professor of Economics
- John Seidel Lammot du Pont Copeland Associate Professor of Anthropology
Gender Studies
Janet Sorrentino Associate Professor of History
Erin Anderson Assistant Professor of Sociology
Jennifer Benson Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Cristina Casado Presa Assistant Professor of Spanish
Melissa Deckman Associate Professor of Political Science- Richard DeProspo Professor of English
- Richard Gillin Ernest A. Howard Professor of English Literature
Ryan Kelty Assistant Professor of Sociology- Alisha Knight Associate Professor of English and American Studies
- Timothy Maloney Professor of Drama
Matthew McCabe Assistant Professor of Philosophy- Kathryn Moncrief Associate Professor of English
Pamela Pears Associate Professor of French- George Spilich John Toll Professor of Psychology
- Aileen Tsui Assistant Professor of Art History
- Christine Wade Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies
- Carol Wilson Arthur A. and Elizabeth R. Knapp Professor of American History
Geographic Information Systems
History
- Carol Wilson Arthur A. and Elizabeth R. Knapp Professor of American History
Clayton Black Associate Professor of History
Matthew Hetrick Lecturer in History
Melissa Kravetz Lecturer in History- Kenneth Miller Assistant Professor of History
- Janet Sorrentino Associate Professor of History
- Richard Striner Professor of History
Human Development
- Michelle Johnson Billups Lecturer in Education
- John Boyd Lecturer in Education
- Bridget Anne Bunten Assistant Professor of Education
Humanities
- Richard Gillin Ernest A. Howard Professor of English Literature
- Clayton Black Associate Professor of History
Peter Weigel Associate Professor of Philosophy
Information Systems
- Austin Lobo Associate Professor of Computer Science Computer Science and Information Systems
- Susan Vowels Associate Professor of Business Management Business Management and Information Systems
International Studies
Andrew Oros Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies East Asia & Europe - Clayton Black Associate Professor of History Russia & East Asia
- Lisa DanielsAssociate Professor of Economics Africa
- Alvin DrischlerAdjunct Professor of Political Science and Business Management Global Business
- Michael Harvey Associate Professor of Business Management Global Business
- Aaron Lampman Assistant Professor of Anthropology
- Robert Lynch Everett E. Nuttle Professor of Economics
- Pamela Pears Associate Professor of French Francophone Africa
Juris Pupcenoks Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies 
Mitchell Reiss Professor of Political Science and International Studies Foreign Policy & Diplomacy- Tahir Shad Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies Africa & the Middle East
- Christine Wade Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies Latin America
Justice, Law, and Society
Mathematics
- Austin Lobo Associate Professor of Computer Science Computer science, integral calculus, database systems
- H. Louise Amick Associate Professor of Mathematics Calculus, Abstract Algebra, Complex Analysis, Number Theory, Vector Spaces, Probability, Math Education
Marlo Dianne Coppage Lecturer in Mathematics - Eugene Hamilton Professor of Mathematics Statistics, calculus, differential equations, probability, numerical analysis, chaos and fractals
Rebecca Jayne Assistant Professor of Mathematics - Matthew Kibler Lecturer in Mathematics
- Shaun Ramsey Assistant Professor of Computer Science Computer Science
- Martin Suydam Instructor in Mathematics and Computer Science Computing Science
Miller Library
- Ruth Shoge Clifton M. Miller Associate Professor
Jeff Chaffin Associate Professor; Director of Readers' Services
David Dudek Associate Professor, Information Commons Librarian
Judith Hymes Associate Professor; Director of Technical Services
Michele Santamaria Assistant Librarian, Research and Information Literacy Librarian
Jin Xiu Guo Associate Professor, Metadata Librarian
Modern Languages
Katherine Maynard Associate Professor of French French
Collin Ashmore Visiting Instructor of Spanish Spanish- Cristina Casado Presa Assistant Professor of Spanish
Elena Deanda Camacho Assistant Professor of Spanish Spanish
Victoria Finney Lecturer in German German
Stephanie Gerhold Lecturer in Spanish Spanish
Liz Gilbert Lecturer in French French
Nicole Grewling Assistant Professor of German German
James Martin Associate Professor of German German
Noriko Narita Lecturer in Japanese Japanese- Pamela Pears Associate Professor of French French
Clelia Rodiguez Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish Spanish
Shawn Stein Assistant Professor of Spanish Spanish
Kaitlin Thomas Lecturer in Spanish Spanish- Philip Walsh Visiting Assistant Professor of English Comparative Literature; Ancient Greek and Latin Languages
Music
Garry Clarke Professor of Music music theory, opera, vocal consort
Catherine Anderson Lecturer in Music voice
Thomas Anthony Lecturer in Music guitar, lute, double bass
Donald Buxton Lecturer in Music string ensemble
Merideth Buxton Lecturer in Music strings
Phyllis Crossen-Richardson Lecturer in Music clarinet, saxophone, flute, oboe
Grace Eun Hae Kim Lecturer in Music Piano
Jonathan McCollum Assistant Professor of Music musicology, ethnomusicology, trombone, woodwind and brass ensembles, early music consort- Kenneth Schweitzer Assistant Professor of Music; Director of American Studies ethnomusicology, music technology, percussion, jazz band, jazz combo, Afro-Cuban ensemble
Keith Wharton Lecturer in Music trumpet
Nursing
Pharmacy
Philosophy and Religion
- Peter Weigel Associate Professor of Philosophy
- Jennifer Benson Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Kevin Brien Professor of Philosophy- Patrice DiQuinzio Lecturer in Philosophy
Matthew Holtzman Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Peter Manseau Lecturer in Philosophy- Matthew McCabe Assistant Professor of Philosophy
James Taggart Lecturer in Philosophy
Physical Education
Thomas Finnegan Professor of Physical Education
Sandra Griffiths Lecturer in Physical Education
Jonathan Jenkins Lecturer in Physical Education
Carrie Kerr Lecturer in Physical Education
John Kiser Lecturer in Physical Education
Kim Lessard Lecturer in Physical Education
Wayne McGuire Lecturer in Physical Education
Thaddeus Moore Lecturer in Physical Education
Karen Smith Professor of Physical Education
Physics
Satinder Sidhu Associate Professor of Physics Mathematical and computational physics, electronics, astronomy
Gerald Ferguson Lecturer in Physics Optics and lasers- Karl Kehm Adrian Reed Associate Professor of Physics and Earth and Planetary Science Earth and planetary science
Juan Lin Professor of Physics Nonlinear dynamics and biological physics
Political Science
- Melissa Deckman Associate Professor of Political Science
- Alvin Drischler Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Business Management
Jennifer Hopper Assistant Professor of Political Science
Shiraz Maher Lecturer in Political Science- Andrew Oros Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies
- Joseph Prud'homme Assistant Professor of Political Science
- Juris Pupcenoks Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies
- Mitchell Reiss Professor of Political Science and International Studies
- Tahir Shad Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies
- Christine Wade Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies
Pre-Law
Jim Allison Director of Career Development
Andrea Lange Assistant Dean of Academic Initiatives- Joseph Prud'homme Assistant Professor of Political Science
Premedical
- Kathleen Verville Associate Professor of Biology Biology
- Anne Marteel-Parrish Associate Professor of Chemistry Chemistry
- George Spilich John Toll Professor of Psychology Psychology
- Juan Lin Professor of Physics Physics
- Matthew McCabe Assistant Professor of Philosophy Philosophy
Psychology
- Lauren Littlefield Associate Professor of Psychology Assessment and diagnosis of psychopathology, group treatments/therapy
- Sheila Barry Lecturer in Psychology Clinical Counseling
Jennifer Chikar Lecturer in Psychology Biopsychology, Research Methods and Advanced Statistics, Sensation and Perception, Neuroscience Research Methods- Cynthia Gibson Assistant Professor of Psychology Biopsychology, Research Methods and Advanced Statistics, Sensation and Perception, Neuroscience Research Methods
- Michael Kerchner Associate Professor of Psychology Behavioral Neuroscience, Biopsychology, Comparative Psychology, Psychopharmacology
Benjamin Kohl, Jr. Lecturer in Psychology
Kevin McKillop Associate Professor of Psychology Experimental Social Psychology, Personality; Statistics & Experimental Design
John Murray Research Fellow
Tia Panfile Assistant Professor of Psychology
Laurie Reider-Lewis Graduate Lecturer in Psychology- James Siemen Professor of Psychology Clinical Counseling, Psychopathology, Behavior Modification
- George Spilich John Toll Professor of Psychology Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Life-span Developmental, Neuroscience Research Methods
Sociology
- Erin Anderson, Chair Assistant Professor of Sociology
Almon Barrell Lecturer in Sociology- Stewart Bruce Lecturer in Anthropology
R.E. Theresa Canjar Lecturer in Sociology
Judith Hand Lecturer in Sociology- Ryan Kelty Associate Professor of Sociology
- Aaron Lampman Anthropology Program Director, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Leon LaRosa Lecturer in Sociology
Julie Gayle Markin Lecturer in Anthropology- Bill Schindler Assistant Professor of Anthropology
- Elizabeth Seidel Archaeology Lab Director
- John Seidel Lammot du Pont Copeland Associate Professor of Anthropology
- Mark Wiest Lecturer in Anthropology