This list of Colby College faculty includes current and former instructors and administrators of Colby College in Waterville, Maine, as well as a list the 44 endowed faculty positions. [1] As of 2013, Colby employs 216 instructional faculty members, approximately 90% whom hold a doctorate or other terminal degree. [2]
Colby College is a private liberal arts college in Waterville, Maine. Approximately 1,800 students from more than 60 countries are enrolled annually. The college offers 54 major fields of study and 30 minors. It was founded in 1813 as the Maine Literary and Theological Institution until it was renamed after the city it resides in with Waterville College. The donations of Christian philanthropist Gardner Colby saw the institution renamed again to Colby University before concluding on its final and current title, reflecting its liberal arts college curriculum.
Waterville is a city in Kennebec County, Maine, United States, on the west bank of the Kennebec River. The city is home to Colby College and Thomas College. As of the 2010 census the population was 15,722, and in 2017 the estimated population was 16,600. Along with Augusta, Waterville is one of the principal cities of the Augusta-Waterville, ME Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Name | Position(s) | Joined College | Left/retired | Alumnus/na? | Reference |
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Julia Piera | Director of the Colby Program in Spain | 2013 | active | no | [3] |
Rachel Isaacs | Dorothy “Bibby” Levine Alfond Assistant Professor in Jewish Studies | 2010 | active | no | [4] |
David M. Freidenreich | Pulver Family Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies | 2008 | active | no | [5] [6] |
William Chapman Nyaho | Visiting Assistant Professor of Music | 2007 | 2007 | no | [7] |
Adrian Blevins | Associate Professor of English | 2004 | active | no | [8] [9] |
Tilar J. Mazzeo | Clara C. Piper Associate Professor of English | 2004 | active | no | [7] [10] |
Debra Spark | Professor of English | 2003 | active | no | [11] |
Wesley McNair | Visiting Professor of Creative Writing | 1999 | 2004 | no | [12] [13] |
Joseph R. Reisert | Harriet S. Wiswell and George C. Wiswell Jr. Associate Professor of American Constitutional Law | 1997 | active | no | [7] [14] |
Suisheng Zhao | Associate Professor of Government and East Asian Politics | 1993 | 1998 | no | [15] |
Kerill N. O'Neil | Julian D. Taylor Associate Professor of Classics | 1992 | active | no | [7] [16] |
Elizabeth D. Leonard | John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History | 1992 | active | no | [7] [17] |
Jill P. Gordon | Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy | 1991 | active | no | [18] |
Lee Feigon | Professor of History and Chair of East Asian Studies | 1990 | ?? | no | [19] |
Hanna M. Roisman | Arnold Bernhard Professor in Arts and Humanities, Professor of Classics | 1990 | active | no | [7] [20] |
Steven Saunders | Charles A. Dana Professor of Music | 1990 | active | no | [7] [21] |
Adrianna Paliyenko | Charles A. Dana Professor of French | 1989 | active | no | [22] |
Jennifer Finney Boylan | Professor of English | 1988 | 2014 | no | [23] [24] |
Cedric Gael Bryant | Lee Family Professor of English | 1988 | active | no | [7] [25] |
Richard Russo | Professor of English | 1994 | no | [26] - | |
Elizabeth Harris Sagaser | Associate Professor of English | 1994 | active | no | [27] |
John A. Rice (musicologist) | Visiting Assistant Professor of Music | 1988 | 1990 | no | |
Irina Livezeanu | Assistant Professor of History | 1987 | 1991 | no | [28] |
Nikky-Guninder Singh | Crawford Family Professor of Religion | 1986 | active | no | [7] [29] |
Tamae K. Prindle | Oak Professor of East Asian Language and Literature | 1985 | active | no | [7] [30] |
Michael A. Marlais | James M. Gillespie Professor of Art | 1983 | active | no | [7] [31] |
Jorge Olivares | Allen Family Professor of Latin American Literature | 1982 | active | no | [32] |
David L. Simon | Ellerton and Edith Jette Professor of Art | 1981 | active | no | [33] |
Robert S. Weisbrot | Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Teaching Professor of History | 1980 | active | no | [7] [34] |
Richard Beeman | William R. Kenan Professor of American History | 1979 | 1980 | no | [35] |
Anthony di Bonaventura | Director of the Colby Piano Institute | 1978 | 2003 | no | |
Ira Sadoff | Arthur Jeremiah Roberts Professor of Literature | 1976 | active | no | [36] |
Peter B. Harris | Zacamy Professor of English | 1974 | active | no | [7] [37] |
Marion Brown | Professor of Music | 1973 | 1974 | no | |
Paul S. Machlin | Arnold Bernhard Professor of Arts and Humanities | 1984 | 2012 | no | [7] [38] [39] |
Laurie E. Osborne | NEH/Class of 1940 Distinguished Professor of Humanities | 1990 | active | no | |
Jonathan M. Weiss | NEH/Class of 1940 Distinguished Professor of Humanities | 1972 | Emeritus | no | [40] |
Susan Kenney | Chair, Humanities Division | 1968 | 1996 | no | [41] |
Hubert C. Kueter | Professor of German | 1965 | 1997 | no | [42] |
Paul Langdon Ward | Professor of History | 1951 | 1953 | no | [43] |
Thomas McGrath (poet) | Professor of English | 1940 | 1941 | no | [44] |
Shailer Mathews | Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Instructor of Elocution | 1887 | 1890 | 1884 | [45] |
Samuel Francis Smith | Professor of Modern Languages | 1834 | 1842 | no | |
Thomas Jefferson Conant | Professor of Languages | 1827 | 1833 | no | [46] |
Name | Position(s) | Joined College | Left/retired | Alumnus/na? | Reference |
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Jennifer Yoder | Robert Diamond Professor of Humanities | 1996 | active | no | [47] |
Debra Barbezat | Mitchell Family Professor of Economics | 1992 | active | no | [7] [48] |
Kenneth A. Rodman | William R. Cotter Distinguished Teaching Professor of Government | 1989 | active | no | [49] |
Randy A. Nelson | Douglas Professor of Economics and Finance | 1987 | active | no | [50] |
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies | 1987 | active | no | [7] [51] |
Patrice M. Franko | Grossman Professor of Economics | 1986 | active | no | [52] |
G. Calvin Mackenzie | Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government | 1985 | active | no | [53] |
David W. Findlay | Pugh Family Professor of Economics | 1985 | active | no | [7] [54] |
James W. Meehan | Herbert E. Wadsworth Professor of Economics | 1973 | Emeritus | no | [7] [55] |
L. Sandy Maisel | William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government | 1971 | active | no | [56] |
Thomas J. Morrione | Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology | 1971 | active | 1965 | [7] [57] |
Albion Woodbury Small | Professor of Political Economy | 1881 | 1888 | 1876 | [58] |
Name | Position(s) | Joined College | Left/retired | Alumnus/na? | Reference |
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Andrea R. Tilden | J. Warren Merrill Professor of Chemistry and Natural History | active | no | [59] | |
Fernando Q. Gouvêa | Carter Professor of Mathematics | active | no | [60] | |
D. Whitney King | Frank and Theodora Miselis Professor of Chemistry | 1989 | active | no | [61] |
W. Herbert Wilson | Leslie Brainerd Arey Professor of Biosciences | 1990 | active | no | [62] |
F. Russell Cole | Oak Professor of Biological Sciences | active | no | [63] | |
Robert A. Gastaldo | Whipple-Coddington Professor of Geology | active | no | [64] | |
Julie T. Millard | Dr. Gerald and Myra Dorros Professor of Chemistry | active | no | [65] | |
Charles Conover | William A. Rogers Professor in Physics | active | no | [66] | |
Robert T. Bluhm, Jr. | Sunrise Professor of Physics | active | no | [67] | |
Allen B. Downey | Assistant Professor of Computer Science | 1997 | 2000 | no | |
Gordon Enoch Gates | Professor of Biology | 1948 | 1950 | 1919 | [68] |
Keith Devlin | Carter Professor of Mathematics and Chair of Department of Math & Computer Science | 1989 | 1993 | no | [69] |
William T. Bovie | Lecturer in Science | 1939 | 1949 | no | |
Rutherford John Gettens | Instructor in Chemistry | 1923 | 1927 | no | [70] |
Marshman Edward Wadsworth | Professor of Mineralogy and Geology | 1885 | 1886 | no | |
Theophilus C. Abbot | Instructor in Chemistry, History, Greek, and Latin | 1845 | 1852 | 1853 | [71] |
Justin Rolph Loomis | Professor of Chemistry and Natural History | 1838 | no | [72] |
Name | Position(s) | Joined College | Left/retired | Alumnus/na? | Reference |
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Blaise MacDonald | Men's Ice Hockey Coach | 2012 | active | no | |
Lori Gear McBride | Women's Basketball Coach | 2004 | 2010 | no | |
Timothy Wheaton | Harold Alfond Director of Athletics | 2015 | 2017 | no | [73] |
Laura Halldorson | Women's Ice Hockey Coach | 1989 | 1986 | no | [74] |
James Wescott | Men's Track and Cross-Country Coach | 1978 | 2003 | no | [75] |
Jack Kelley | Men's Ice Hockey Coach | 1976 | 1977 | no | [76] |
John Winkin | Men's Baseball Coach, Director of Athletics | 1954 | 1974 | no | |
Lee Williams | Men's Basketball Coach | 1946 | 1965 | no | [77] |
Harold McDevitt | Men's Baseball Coach, Director of Athletics | 1909 | 1910 | no |
Name | Position(s) | Joined College | Left/retired | Alumnus/na? | Reference |
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Sharon L. Corwin | Carolyn Muzzy Director of the Colby College Museum of Art and Chief Curator | 2006 | active | no | [78] |
Robert B. Downs | Librarian | 1929 | 1931 | no | |
Peyton R. Helm | Vice President for College Relations | 1988 | 2003 | no | [79] |
Ninetta May Runnals | Dean of Women Professor of Mathematics and Education | 1920 | 1949 | yes | [80] |
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Ninetta May "Nettie" Runnals was an American academic and college administrator. She served as Dean of Women at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, her alma mater, for 27 years, advocating for gender equality for women students and faculty members. She also helped raise significant funding for a Women's Union on the Mayflower Hill campus, which was renamed Runnals Union in her honor in 1959. She was inducted into the Maine Women's Hall of Fame in 1992.