List of Colby College faculty

Jeremiah Chaplin, the founder and first president of the college.

This list of Colby College faculty includes current and former instructors and administrators of Colby College in Waterville, Maine, as well as a list of 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]

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by editing the page to add missing items, with references to reliable sources.

Arts and Humanities

Name	Position(s)	Joined College	Left/retired	Alumnus/na?	Reference
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 Kaur 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]
Charles W. Bassett	Lee Family Professor of English and American Studies	1969	2000	no	[41]
Susan Kenney	Chair, Humanities Division	1968	1996	no	[42]
Hubert C. Kueter	Professor of German	1965	1997	no	[43]
Adel Heinrich	Professor Emeritus of Music	1964	1988	no	[44]
Paul Langdon Ward	Professor of history	1951	1953	no	[45]
Thomas McGrath (poet)	Professor of English	1940	1941	no	[46]
Shailer Mathews	Assistant professor of rhetoric and instructor of elocution	1887	1890	1884	[47]
Samuel Francis Smith	Professor of modern languages	1834	1842	no
Thomas Jefferson Conant	Professor of Languages	1827	1833	no	[48]

Social Sciences

Name	Position(s)	Joined College	Left/retired	Alumnus/na?	Reference
Neil Gross	Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology and chair of the department of sociology	2015	active	no	[49]
Jennifer Yoder	Robert Diamond Professor of humanities	1996	active	no	[50]
Catherine L. Besteman	Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology	1994	active	no	[51]
Debra Barbezat	Mitchell Family Professor of economics	1992	active	no	[7] [52]
Sarah Willie-LeBreton	Assistant Professor, African American Studies/Sociology/Women's Studies	1991	1995	no	[53]
Kenneth A. Rodman	William R. Cotter Distinguished teaching professor of government	1989	active	no	[54]
James Rodger Fleming	Visiting Assistant to Charles A. Dana Professor of STS	1988	2021	no	[7] [55]
Randy A. Nelson	Douglas Professor of Economics and Finance	1987	active	no	[56]
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes	John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies	1987	2022	no	[7] [57]
Patrice M. Franko	Grossman Professor of Economics	1986	active	no	[58]
G. Calvin Mackenzie	Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government	1985	active	no	[59]
David W. Findlay	Pugh Family Professor of Economics	1985	active	no	[7] [60]
James W. Meehan	Herbert E. Wadsworth Professor of Economics	1973	Emeritus	no	[7] [61]
L. Sandy Maisel	William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government	1971	2021	no	[62]
Thomas J. Morrione	Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology	1971	active	1965	[7] [63]
Jack D. Foner	History	1969	1976	no	[64]
Albion Woodbury Small	Professor of political economy	1881	1888	1876	[65]

Natural Sciences

Name	Position(s)	Joined College	Left/retired	Alumnus/na?	Reference
Andrea R. Tilden	J. Warren Merrill Professor of Chemistry and Natural History		active	no	[66]
Fernando Q. Gouvêa	Carter Professor of Mathematics		active	no	[67]
D. Whitney King	Frank and Theodora Miselis Professor of Chemistry	1989	active	no	[68]
W. Herbert Wilson	Leslie Brainerd Arey Professor of Biosciences	1990	2018	no	[69]
F. Russell Cole	Oak Professor of Biological Sciences		2016	no	[70]
Robert A. Gastaldo	Whipple-Coddington Professor of Geology	1999	2020	no	[71]
Julie T. Millard	Dr. Gerald and Myra Dorros Professor of Chemistry		active	no	[72]
Charles Conover	William A. Rogers Professor in Physics		active	no	[73]
Robert T. Bluhm, Jr.	Sunrise Professor of Physics		active	no	[74]
Allen B. Downey	Assistant professor of computer science	1997	2000	no
Gordon Enoch Gates	Professor of biology	1948	1950	1919	[75]
Keith Devlin	Carter Professor of Mathematics and Chair of Department of Math & Computer Science	1989	1993	no	[76]
William T. Bovie	Lecturer in science	1939	1949	no
Rutherford John Gettens	Instructor in chemistry	1923	1927	no	[77]
Marshman Edward Wadsworth	Professor of mineralogy and geology	1885	1886	no
Theophilus C. Abbot	Instructor in chemistry, history, Greek, and Latin	1845	1852	1853	[78]
Justin Rolph Loomis	Professor of chemistry and natural history		1838	no	[79]

Athletics

Name	Position(s)	Joined College	Left/retired	Alumnus/na?	Reference
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	[80]
Laura Halldorson	Women's ice hockey coach	1989	1986	no	[81]
James Wescott	Men's track and cross-country coach	1978	2003	no	[82]
Jack Kelley	Men's ice hockey coach	1976	1977	no	[83]
John Winkin	Men's baseball coach, director of athletics	1954	1974	no
Lee Williams	Men's basketball coach	1946	1965	no	[84]
Bill Millett	Coach, "Mr. Colby"	1929	1948	1929	[85]
Harold McDevitt	Men's baseball coach, director of athletics	1909	1910	no

Other

Name	Position(s)	Joined College	Left/retired	Alumnus/na?	Reference
Sharon L. Corwin	Carolyn Muzzy Director of the Colby College Museum of Art and chief curator	2006	active	no	[86]
Robert B. Downs	Librarian	1929	1931	no
Peyton R. Helm	Vice president for college relations	1988	2003	no	[87]
Ninetta May Runnals	Dean of women Professor of mathematics and education	1920	1949	yes	[88]

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