List of Colby College faculty

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]

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

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 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]

Social Sciences

Name	Position(s)	Joined College	Left/retired	Alumnus/na?	Reference
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]

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	[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]

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	[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

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	[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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