Nov 21, 2024  
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2024-25 Catalog

Faculty & Emeriti Faculty



Faculty

Shivani Ahuja
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
BS 2001 Delhi University, MA 2005, PhD 2008 Stony Brook University. Reed College 2019-. 

Iliana Alcántar
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish and Humanities
BA 1996, MA 1997 California State University, Los Angeles. PhD 2006 University of California, Los Angeles. Reed College 2014, 2016-17, 2019-20, 2021-22, 2023-.

Diego Alonso
Professor of Spanish and Humanities
Maîtrise d’Histoire 1986 Université de Paris VII, Jussieu. DEA 1989 Université de Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle. MA 1993, PhD 1998 Princeton University. Reed College 2001-. On sabbatical 2024-25.

Greg Anderson
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
BS 2017 University of Virginia. PhD 2023 University of Texas, Austin. Reed College 2023-.

Kristen G. Anderson
Professor of Psychology
BA 1992 Drew University. PhD 2003 University of Kentucky. Reed College 2007-.

Derek A. Applewhite
Professor of Biology
BS 2002 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. PhD 2007 Northwestern University. Reed College 2014-.

Steven Arkonovich
Professor of Philosophy and Humanities
BA 1989 University of California, Los Angeles. PhD 1998 University of California, Berkeley. Reed College 1998-.

Mark Beck
Professor of Physics
BS 1985, PhD 1992 University of Rochester. Reed College 2018-. On leave fall 2024.

Kara Becker
Professor of Linguistics
BA, MA 2003 Stanford University. MA 2006, PhD 2010 New York University. Reed College 2010-.

Mark Adam Bedau
Professor of Philosophy and Humanities
BA 1977 Reed College. MA 1981, PhD 1985 University of California, Berkeley. Reed College 1991-.

Evgenii Bershtein
Professor of Russian
MA 1990 Tartu University, Estonia. PhD 1998 University of California, Berkeley. Reed College 1999-.

Erica Blum
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
BS 2018 Haverford College. MS 2020, PhD 2023 University of Maryland. Reed College 2023-.

Miriam A. Bowring
Margret Geselbracht Associate Professor of Chemistry
BS 2006 Yale University. PhD 2013 University of California, Berkeley. Reed College 2016-.

Betsey Behr Brada
Associate Professor of Anthropology
BA 1997 Mount Holyoke College. MA 2005, PhD 2011 University of Chicago. Reed College 2015-. 

Kate Bredeson
Professor of Theatre
BA 1998 Macalester College. MFA 2002, DFA 2006 Yale School of Drama. Reed College 2009-. 

Michael P. Breen
Professor of History and Humanities
BA 1989 University of Chicago. AM 1990, PhD 2000 Brown University. Reed College 2000-. 

Megan Bruun
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
BS 2015 University of Oregon. MS 2018 Montana State University. Reed College 2024-. 

Mark Burford
R.P. Wollenberg Professor of Music
BA 1994 University of California, Santa Barbara. MA 1999, MPhil 2000, PhD 2005 Columbia University. Reed College 2007-.

Naomi Caffee
Assistant Professor of Russian
BA 2004 Grinnell College. MA 2008, PhD 2013 University of California, Los Angeles. Reed College 2018-.

Gonzalo Campillo-Alvarado
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
BSc 2012 University of Veracruz. MSc 2015 Autonomous University of the State of Morelos. PhD 2020 University of Iowa. Reed College 2022-.

Felipe Carrera
Assistant Professor of Economics
BA 2009 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. MA 2014 Universidad de Chile. MA 2016 University of California, Los Angeles. Reed College 2020-.

Danielle M. Cass
Visiting Associate Professor of Chemistry
BS 2002 University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. PhD 2007 University of Oregon. Reed College 2010-12, 2019-20, 2022-.

Kara L. Cerveny
Ronald A. Laing Professor of Biology
BA, BS 1996 Duke University. PhD 2005 Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Reed College 2012-.

Kelly N. Chacón
Arthur F. Scott Associate Professor of Chemistry
BS 2009 Portland State University. PhD 2015 Oregon Health and Science University. Reed College 2015-.

Noah Charles
Assistant Professor of Physics
BA 2013 Northwestern University. PhD 2020 Ohio State University. Reed College 2021-.

Jeremy Coate
Visiting Associate Professor of Biology
BA 1992 Reed College. MS 1999 Oregon State University. PhD 2010 Cornell University. Reed College 2022-.

Kris Cohen
Jane Neuberger Goodsell Associate Professor of Art History and Humanities
BA 1994 University of Texas, Austin. MA 1995, PhD 2010 University of Chicago. Reed College 2011-. 

Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Professor of Psychology
BA 1995 University of Michigan. MA 1997, PhD 2000 Stanford University. Reed College 2000-. On sabbatical 2024-25.

Erin Cottle Hunt
Assistant Professor of Economics
BA 2009, MA 2011 Utah State University. PhD 2018 University of Oregon. Reed College 2023-.

Alison Crocker
A.A. Knowlton Professor of Physics
BA 2006 Dartmouth College. DPhil 2009 University of Oxford. Reed College 2014-.

Troy Cross
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Humanities
BA 1992 Wheaton College. PhD 2004 Rutgers University. Reed College 2010-.

Yan Cui
Visiting Associate Professor of Statistics
BS 2015, PhD 2020 Jilin University. Reed College 2024-.

Mariela Daby
Professor of Political Science
BA 2000 Torcuato Dio Tella University. MA 2004, PhD 2009 University of Chicago. Reed College 2012-.

Justas Dainauskas
Assistant Professor of Economics
BA 2012 Newcastle University. MSc 2014, PhD 2019 University of York. Reed College 2024-.

Pietro D’Amelio
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
BS 2009, MS 2011 University of Pisa. Reed College 2024-.

Thomas Dannenhoffer-Lafage
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
BS 2013 University of Oregon. PhD 2018 University of Chicago. Reed College 2023-.

Zajj Daugherty
Associate Professor of Mathematics
BS 2005 Harvey Mudd College. MA 2006, PhD 2010 University of Wisconsin, Madison. Reed College 2022-.

Ann T. Delehanty
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of French and Humanities
BA 1992 Carleton College. PhD 2000 University of California, Berkeley. Reed College 2000-.

Jay M. Dickson
Professor of English and Humanities
AB 1988 Harvard College. PhD 1996 Princeton University. Reed College 1996-99, 2001-.

Tarik Nejat Dinç
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
AB 1997 Boğaziçi University. MA 2022, PhD 2022 Stanford university. Reed College 2023-.

Jacqueline Dirks
Cornelia Marvin Pierce Professor of History and Humanities
BA 1982 Reed College. MA, MPhil 1986, PhD 1996 Yale University. Reed College 1991-.

Alexei Kamran Ditter
Professor of Chinese
BA 1995 University of Minnesota. MA 2001, PhD 2009 Princeton University. Reed College 2006-. 

Nathan Drapela
Visiting Assistant Professor of German
BA 2014 Western University. PhD 2024 Duke University, University of North Carolina. Reed College 2024-. 

Elizabeth Drumm
John and Elizabeth Yeon Professor of Spanish and Humanities
BA 1983 University of Notre Dame. MA 1985, PhD 1993 University of Chicago. Reed College 1995-.

Catherine Ming T’ien Duffly
Associate Professor of Theatre
BA 2000 Macalester College. MA 2005 New York University. PhD 2011 University of California, Berkeley. Reed College 2012-.

Daniel Duford
Visiting Associate Professor of Art
BFA 1996 University of New Mexico. Reed College 2015-18, 2022-.

Safaa Y. El-Mansy
Visiting Associate Professor of Chemistry
BS 1995 Portland State University. MS 1997 Stanford University. PhD 2023 Portland State University. Reed College 2023-.

Michael Faletra
Professor of English and Humanities
BA 1994 Boston University. PhD 2000 Boston College. Reed College 2001-04, 2007-09, 2010-.

Maria Fantinato G. Siqueira
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
BA 2009, MA 2013 Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. MA 2015, PhD 2021 Columbia University. Reed College 2024-.

Samuel Fey
Associate Professor of Biology
BA 2006 Hamilton College. PhD 2014 Dartmouth College. Reed College 2017-. 

James D. Fix
Richard E. Crandall Professor of Computer Science
BS 1992 Carnegie Mellon University. MS 1994, PhD 2002 University of Washington. Reed College 1999-. 

Michael E. Foat
Professor of Religion and Humanities
BA 1986 Reed College. MTS 1989 Harvard Divinity School. PhD 1996 Brown University. Reed College 1996-.

Victoria Fortuna
Associate Professor of Dance
AB 2007 Brown University. MA 2008, PhD 2013 Northwestern University. Reed College 2015-.

Eitan Frachtenberg
Visiting Associate Professor of Computer Science
BS 1993, MS 2001, PhD 2003 Hebrew University. Reed College 2017-22, 2023-.

Joel Franklin
James Borders Professor of Physics
BA 1997 Reed College. MA 1999 Brandeis University. PhD 2003 Stanford University. Reed College 2005-.

Jake Fraser
Associate Professor of German and Humanities
BA 2010 University of North Carolina. MA 2012, PhD 2018 University of Chicago. Reed College 2018-. On sabbatical 2024-25.

Ariadna García-Bryce
Professor of Spanish and Humanities
Diplôme Supérieur 1985 Université de Paris, Sorbonne. BA 1989 Yale University. MA 1993, PhD 1997 Princeton University. Reed College 2001-. 

Katja Garloff
Professor of German and Humanities
MA 1992 University of Hamburg. PhD 1997 University of Chicago. Reed College 1997-. On sabbatical 2024-25.

David T. Garrett
Richard F. Scholz Professor of History and Humanities
BA 1988 Yale University. MA 1991 Harvard University. MPhil 1993, PhD 2002 Columbia University. Reed College 1998-.

Daniel P. Gerrity
Professor of Chemistry
BA 1977 Cornell College. PhD 1982 Harvard University. Reed College 1987-.

Kambiz GhaneaBassiri
Thomas Lamb Eliot Professor of Religion and Humanities
BA 1994 Claremont McKenna College. AM 1998, PhD 2002 Harvard University. Reed College 2002-. On leave 2023-25.

Valeria González
Assistant Professor of Psychology
BS 2014 Universidad de Chile. PhD 2020 Universidade do Minho. Reed College 2024-.

Lynne Gratz
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Studies
BS 2004, MS 2005, PhD 2010 University of Michigan. Reed College 2023-.

Marat Grinberg
Professor of Russian and Humanities
BA 1999 Jewish Theological Seminary of America. BA 1999 Columbia University. MA 2001, PhD 2006 University of Chicago. Reed College 2006-.

Adam Groce
Associate Professor of Computer Science
BS 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. PhD 2014 University of Maryland. Reed College 2014-.

Paul Gronke
Professor of Political Science
BA 1982 University of Chicago. MA 1984 University of Essex. PhD 1993 University of Michigan. Reed College 2001-. On leave 2024-25.

Chauncey Diego Francisco Handy
Assistant Professor of Religion and Humanities
BA 2009 Seattle Pacific University. MDiv 2015 Duke Divinity School. MA 2017 Hebrew University of Jerusalem. PhD 2023 Princeton Theological Seminary. Reed College 2023-.

Denise Hare
Dr. Lester B. Lave Professor of Economics
BA 1983 Carleton College. PhD 1992 Stanford University. Reed College 1992-.

Maureen Harkin
Professor of English and Humanities
BA 1983 University of Melbourne. MA 1986, PhD 1994 Johns Hopkins University. Reed College 2002-. On sabbatical 2024-25.

Juniper Harrower
Assistant Professor of Art
BS 2006, MFA 2023 University of California, Berkeley. MA 2015, PhD 2019 University of California, Santa Cruz. Reed College 2023-.

Jennifer Heath
Professor of Physics
BA 1995 Whitman College. MS 2002, PhD 2002 University of Oregon. Reed College 2022-.

Mark Hinchliff
Professor of Philosophy
BA 1981 Reed College. PhD 1988 Princeton University. Reed College 1991-.

Pauline Ho
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
BA 2017 University of California, Irvine. MS 2020 University of Wisconsin, Madison. Reed College 2024-.

Hugh M. Hochman
Professor of French and Humanities
BA 1990 Columbia University. MA 1995, PhD 1999 University of Wisconsin, Madison. Reed College 1999-.

Kevin J. Holmes
Associate Professor of Psychology
BA 2005, MA 2005 Stanford University. PhD 2012 Emory University. Reed College 2020-. 

Paul Hovda
Professor of Philosophy and Humanities
BA 1992 University of Colorado, Boulder. PhD 2001 University of California, Los Angeles. Reed College 2002-. 

Joshua P. Howe
Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies
BA 2002 Middlebury College. MA 2005, PhD 2010 Stanford University. Reed College 2012-.

Alexandra Hrycak
Professor of Sociology
BA 1988 Rutgers University. MA 1991, PhD 1998 University of Chicago. Reed College 1998-.

Alice Hu
Assistant Professor of Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Humanities
BA 2010 Stanford University. PhD 2019 University of Pennsylvania. Reed College 2020-. On sabbatical spring 2025.

Lucas Illing
David W. Brauer Professor of Physics
Vordiplom 1997 Humboldt Universitat, Berlin. MSc 1999, PhD 2002 University of California, San Diego. Reed College 2007-.

Sara Jaffe
Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing
BA 1999 Wesleyan University. MFA 2009 University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Reed College 2014-15, 2018-20, 2023-.

Nicole M. James
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
BA 2011 Whitman College. MS 2014, PhD 2019 University of Chicago. Reed College 2021-. On sabbatical and leave 2024-25.

Greg G. Jensen
Assistant Professor of Psychology
BA 2003 Reed College. MA 2011, MPhil 2013, PhD 2014 Columbia University. Reed College 2019-20, 2021-.

Brianna Jett
Postdoctoral Scholar in Residence, Chemistry
BS 2019 Colorado State University. PhD 2024 University of Michigan. Reed College 2024-.

Jing Jiang
Professor of Chinese and Humanities
BA 1992 Nanjing University, Nanjing. MA 1995 Peking University, Beijing. PhD 2006 University of Michigan. Reed College 2006-.

Joan Naviyuk Kane
Associate Professor of Creative Writing
AB 2000 Harvard College. MFA 2006 Columbia University. Reed College 2023-.

Keith Karoly
Laurens N. Ruben Professor of Biology
BA 1985 Whitman College. MS 1987, PhD 1991 University of Chicago. Reed College 1994-.

Dana E. Katz
Joshua C. Taylor Professor of Art History and Humanities
BA 1991 University of Michigan. MA 1997 University of Illinois. PhD 2003 University of Chicago. Reed College 2005-.

Sameer ud Dowla Khan
Professor of Linguistics
BA 2003, MA 2006, PhD 2008 University of California, Los Angeles. Reed College 2012-.

Nathalia King
David Eddings Professor of English and Humanities
BA 1978 University of Massachusetts, Amherst. PhD 1992 New York University. Reed College 1987-.

Marina Knittel
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
BS 2018 Harvey Mudd. MS 2020, PhD 2023 University of Maryland. Reed College 2024-.

Shohei Kobayashi
Assistant Professor of Music
BA 2013 Lewis & Clark College. MM 2017, DMA 2020 University of Michigan. Reed College 2020-. 

Lyudmila Korobenko
Associate Professor of Mathematics
BS 2006, MS 2008 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. PhD 2013 University of Calgary. Reed College 2017-. On leave spring 2025.

Chris Koski
Daniel B. Greenberg Professor of Political Science and Environmental Studies
BA 2001 Carroll College. MA 2003, PhD 2007 University of Washington. Reed College 2011-.

Christian Kroll
Associate Professor of Spanish and Humanities
BA 2000 Universidad Francisco Marroquin, Guatemala. MA 2006, PhD 2012 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Reed College 2014-.

Peter Ksander
Professor of Theatre
BA 1998 University of Iowa. MFA 2001 California Institute of the Arts. Reed College 2011-.

Thomas P. Landvatter
Associate Professor of Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Humanities
BA 2006 Pennsylvania State University. PhD 2013 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Reed College 2015-.

Benjamin Lazier
Professor of History and Humanities
BA 1993 University of Virginia. MA 1998, PhD 2002 University of California, Berkeley. Reed College 2005-.

Laura Leibman
Kenan Professor of English and Humanities
BA 1989 University of California, Davis. MA 1993, PhD 1995 University of California, Los Angeles. Reed College 1995-. On leave 2024-25.

Mónica López Lerma
Associate Professor of Spanish and Humanities
LLB 1997, DEA 2004 University of Valencia, Spain. LLM 2000 European Academy of Legal Theory. PhD 2010 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Reed College 2015-.

Morgan James Luker
Associate Professor of Music
BA 2001 University of Wisconsin. MA 2003, PhD 2009 Columbia University. Reed College 2010-. On sabbatical 2024-25.

Chenxi Luo
Visiting Associate Professor of History and Humanities
BA 2013 Renmin University of China. MA 2016 Shanghai Jiao Tong University. PhD 2025 Washington University. Reed College 2024-.

Charlene E. Makley
Elizabeth C. Ducey Professor of Anthropology
BA 1986 Middlebury College. MA 1993, PhD 1999 University of Michigan. Reed College 2000-.

Carla Mann
Judy Massee Professor of Dance
BA 1981 Reed College. MALS 1997 Wesleyan University. Reed College 1995-.

Lucía Martínez Valdivia
Associate Professor of English and Humanities
BM 2005 Florida State University. MA 2007 Columbia University. MA 2008, PhD 2014 University of Pennsylvania. Reed College 2014-.

Liz Matsushita
Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Humanities
BA 2007 University of California, Davis. MA 2011 San Francisco State University. PhD 2021 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Reed College 2022-.

Alicia Frost McGhee
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
BS 2006 University of Maine. MS 2007 University of East Anglia. PhD 2014 University of Washington. Reed College 2022, 2023-.

Charles McGuffey
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
BS 2015 Clarkson University. MS 2019, PhD 2021 Carnegie Mellon University. Reed College 2021-. On sabbatical spring 2025.

Jay L. Mellies
Amgen-Perlmutter Professor of Biology
BS 1986, PhD 1994 University of California, Davis. Reed College 1999-.

Tamara Metz
Associate Professor of Political Science and Humanities
BA 1992 Brandeis University. PhD 2004 Harvard University. Reed College 2006-. On sabbatical 2024-25.

David Meyer
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
BS 2001 University of Hawai’i. MA 2006 Indiana University. PhD 2015 University of Iowa. Reed College 2022-.

Jan Mieszkowski
Reginald F. Arragon Professor of German and Humanities
BA 1990 Yale University. MA 1992, PhD 1998 Johns Hopkins University. Reed College 1997-.

Ellen G. Millender
Omar and Althea Hoskins Professor of Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Humanities
BA, MA 1986 Brown University. BA 1989 Corpus Christi College, Oxford University. PhD 1996 University of Pennsylvania. Reed College 2002-. 

Mary Ashburn Miller
Professor of History and Humanities
BA 2001 University of Virginia. MA 2004, PhD 2008 Johns Hopkins University. Reed College 2008-. On sabbatical 2024-25.

Peter Miller
Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Humanities
BA 2009 Goshen College. PhD 2019 University of Virginia. Reed College 2023-.

Margot Minardi
Professor of History and Humanities
AB 2000 Harvard College. AM 2003, PhD 2007 Harvard University. Reed College 2007-. On sabbatical 2024-25.

Candace Mixon
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion
BA 2008 Vanderbilt University. MA 2011 McGill University. PhD 2019 University of North Carolina. Reed College 2023-.

Akihiko Miyoshi
Professor of Art
BA 1996 Keio University. MS 2000 Carnegie Mellon University. MFA 2005 Rochester Institute of Technology. Reed College 2005-.

Alexander Moll
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
BA 2011 Columbia University. PhD 2016 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Reed College 2022-. On sabbatical spring 2025.

Luc A. Monnin
Professor of French
MA 1997 University of Geneva. PhD 2004 Johns Hopkins University. Reed College 2004-.

Alexander H. Montgomery
Associate Professor of Political Science
BA 1996 University of Chicago. MA 1999 University of California, Berkeley. MA 2003, PhD 2005 Stanford University. Reed College 2006-.

Fathimath Musthaq
Assistant Professor of Political Science
BA 2009 Williams College. PhD 2021 Indiana University. Reed College 2021-.

Radhika Natarajan
Associate Professor of History and Humanities
BA 2002 Yale University. PhD 2013 University of California, Berkeley. Reed College 2014-. On leave fall 2024.

Lexi Neame
Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science
BA 2000, MPhil 2005 University of Queensland. PhD 2018 Northwestern University. Reed College 2021-.

Noelwah R. Netusil
Stanley H. Cohn Professor of Economics
BS 1986 Allegheny College. MS 1988, PhD 1992 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Reed College 1990-. On sabbatical 2024-25.

Yoli Ngandali
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
AA 2009 Minneapolis Community and Technical College. BS 2014 University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. MA 2017 University of Washington. Reed College 2024-.

Nigel J. Nicholson
Walter Mintz Professor of Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Humanities
BA 1990 Oxford University. MA 1991, PhD 1994 University of Pennsylvania. Reed College 1995-.

Lindsey K. Novak
Assistant Professor of Economics
BS 2008 Texas A&M University. MS 2010 Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. PhD 2017 University of Minnesota. Reed College 2021-.

Bobby O’Brien
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
BA 2003 St. John’s College. BS 2006 Seattle University. PhD 2012 Boston College. Reed College 2022-.

Kathryn C. Oleson
Dean of the Faculty and Patricia and Clifford Lunneborg Professor of Psychology
BA 1989 University of Kansas. MA 1991, PhD 1993 Princeton University. Reed College 1995-.

Geraldine Ondrizek
Professor of Art
BFA 1985 Carnegie Mellon University. MFA 1994 University of Washington. Reed College 1994-.

Kyle Ormsby
Associate Professor of Mathematics
BA 2006 University of Chicago. PhD 2010 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Reed College 2014-. 

Angélica Osorno
Associate Professor of Mathematics
BSc 2005, PhD 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Reed College 2013-. 

Oluyinka Parsons-Akinjiola
Assistant Professor of Dance
BA 2009 Kutztown University. MFA 2011 State University of New York at Brockport. Reed College 2017-18, 2022-.

Michael Pearce
Assistant Professor of Statistics
BA 2017 St. Olaf College. PhD 2023 University of Washington. Reed College 2023-.

Matthew Pearson
Professor of Linguistics
BA 1992 Reed College. MA 1996, PhD 2000 University of California, Los Angeles. Reed College 2001-. 

Michael Pitts
Professor of Psychology
BA 2001 University of New Hampshire. MS 2004, PhD 2007 Colorado State University. Reed College 2011-.

James Pommersheim
Katharine Piggott Professor of Mathematics
BS 1986 Bucknell University. MS 1987, PhD 1992 University of Chicago. Reed College 2004-.

Hannah Prather
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
BS 2007 Oregon State University. PhD 2017 Portland State University. Reed College 2023-.

Kritish Rajbhandari
Assistant Professor of English and Humanities
BA 2012 Reed College. PhD 2019 Northwestern University. Reed College 2019-.

Aaron Ramirez
Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies
BS 2008 California State College, Bakersfield. PhD 2015 University of California, Berkeley. Reed College 2018-. On sabbatical 2024-25.

Suzy C.P. Renn
Associate Dean of the Faculty and Roger M. Perlmutter Professor of Biology
BS 1992 University of Washington. PhD 1999 Washington University School of Medicine. Reed College 2006-. 

Hyong G. Rhew
Professor of Chinese and Humanities
BA 1978 Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. MA 1983 Fu-Jen Catholic University. MA 1987, PhD 1993 Princeton University. Reed College 1988-.

Robert Ribera
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
BA 2005, MA 2006 Saint John’s University. MFA 2008, PhD 2016 Boston University. Reed College 2024-.

Padraig Riley
Visiting Associate Professor of History and Humanities
BA 1999, MA 2001, PhD 2007 University of California, Berkeley. Reed College 2016-.

Anna Ritz
Associate Professor of Biology
BA 2006 Carleton College. ScM 2008, PhD 2012 Brown University. Reed College 2015-.

Marcus Robinson
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
BA 2013 Reed College. PhD 2020 University of Utah. Reed College 2020-.

Peter Rock
Professor of Creative Writing
AA 1988 Deep Springs College. BA 1991 Yale College. Stegner Fellow 1995-97 Stanford University. Reed College 2001-. 

Jonathan C. Rork
George Hay Professor of Economics and Director, Center for Teaching and Learning
AB 1994 Brown University. PhD 1999 Stanford University. Reed College 2010-.

Sonia A. Sabnis
Professor of Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Humanities
BA 1998 Columbia University. MA 2000, PhD 2006 University of California, Berkeley. Reed College 2006-. On leave 2024-25.

Vasiliy Safin
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
BA 2007 Reed College. MS 2010 City University of New York. MA 2013, PhD 2018 Stony Brook University. Reed College 2019-20, 2023-.

Jennifer Sakai
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History and Humanities
BA 2001 University of California, Berkeley. MA 2004 Columbia University. PhD 2014 University of California, Berkeley. Reed College 2018-19, 2021-.

Pancho Savery
Professor of English and Humanities
BA 1972 Stanford University. PhD 1980 Cornell University. Reed College 1995-. On sabbatical 2023-25.

Sarah Schaack
Howard Vollum Professor of Biology
BA 1996 Earlham College. MS 2002 University of Florida. PhD 2008 Indiana University. Reed College 2011-. 

Margaret Elizabeth Scharle
Professor of Philosophy and Humanities
BA 1995 University of Notre Dame. MA 1997, PhD 2005 University of California, Los Angeles. Reed College 2003-.

Kristin Scheible
Professor of Religion and Humanities
BA 1994 Colby College. MTS 1997 Harvard Divinity School. PhD 2006 Harvard University. Reed College 2014-.

Alexander Schielke
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
BS 2012, MS 2013 Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. PhD 2022 Rutgers University. Reed College 2024-.

Marc Schneiberg
John C. Pock Professor of Sociology
BA 1980 Haverford College. MS 1985, PhD 1994 University of Wisconsin, Madison. Reed College 2000-.

Darrell F. Schroeter
Professor of Physics
BA 1995 Reed College. PhD 2002 Stanford University. Reed College 2003-05, 2007-.

Jerry Shurman
Professor of Mathematics
BS 1982 Stanford University. PhD 1988 Princeton University. Reed College 1989-.

Paul A. Silverstein
Professor of Anthropology
AB 1992 Princeton University. MA 1994, PhD 1998 University of Chicago. Reed College 2000-.

José Miguel Simões
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
BSc 2006, MSc 2007, PhD 2014 University of Lisbon. Reed College 2024-.

Irina Simova
Visiting Assistant Professor of German
BA 2007 Sofia University. MA 2010 Humboldt Universitat, Berlin. MA 2016, PhD 2022 Princeton University. Reed College 2024-.

Dustin Simpson
Visiting Associate Professor of English and Humanities
BA 1996 University of Arizona, Tucson. MA 2001 Miami University. PhD 2012 University of Chicago. Reed College 2012-.

Peter J. Steinberger
Robert H. and Blanche Day Ellis Professor of Political Science and Humanities
BA 1970, MA 1972 Fordham University. PhD 1975 University of California, Riverside. Reed College 1977-.

Master Artist Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
BFA 2010 Alfred University. MFA 2020 Portland State University. Reed College 2022-.

Shivani Sud
Assistant Professor of Art History and Humanities
BA 2012 University of California, Los Angeles. MA 2017 University of California, Berkeley. Reed College 2022-. 

LaShandra P. Sullivan
Associate Professor of Anthropology
BA 2000 Howard University. MA 2002 Yale University. MA 2008, PhD 2013 University of Chicago. Reed College 2016-. On leave 2023-25.

Barbara Tetenbaum
Visiting Professor of Studio Art
BS 1979 University of Wisconsin, Madison. MFA 1985 School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Reed College 2019-.

Anand Vaidya
Associate Professor of Anthropology
BA 2005 Swarthmore College. AM 2009, PhD 2014 Harvard University. Reed College 2018-. On sabbatical 2024-25.

Lisa Velkoff
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
BA 2013 Northwestern University. MA 2017, PhD 2021 Miami University. Reed College 2022-.

Sarah Wagner-McCoy
Associate Professor of English and Humanities
BA 2002 Columbia University. MA 2003 University College Dublin. PhD 2011 Harvard University. Reed College 2011-.

Leonard Wainstein
Assistant Professor of Statistics
BA 2015 University of Pennsylvania. PhD 2021 University of California, Los Angeles. Reed College 2022-.

Simone Waller
Assistant Professor of English and Humanities
BA 2011 Miami University. PhD 2019 Northwestern University. Reed College 2020-. 

Michelle H. Wang
Associate Professor of Art History and Humanities
BA 2007 Swarthmore College. PhD 2014 University of California, Berkeley. Reed College 2015-.

Kjersten Bunker Whittington
Professor of Sociology
BS 1999 North Carolina State University. MA 2001, PhD 2007 Stanford University. Reed College 2007-. 

Catherine A. Witt
Professor of French
BA, MA 1996 Oxford University. MA 1998 University of Sussex. PhD 2008 Princeton University. Reed College 2005-.

Barbie Wu
Assistant Professor of Theatre
BA 2011 University of Oregon. MFA 2014 Southern Methodist University. Reed College 2022-.

Bora Yoon
Assistant Professor of Music
BA 2002 Ithaca College. MFA 2016 Princeton University. Reed College 2022-.

Xue Zhang
Assistant Professor of History and Humanities
BA 2010, MA 2012 Wuhan University. MA 2016, PhD 2020 Princeton University. Reed College 2022-. On sabbatical and leave 2024-25.

Erik Zornik
Professor of Biology
BS 1997 University of Michigan. MA 2000, PhD 2006 Columbia University. Reed College 2012-.

 

Emeriti Faculty

Steven D. Black
Professor of Biology, Emeritus
AB 1976, PhD 1982 University of California, Berkeley. Reed College 1989-2012.

Kenneth E. Brashier
Thomas Lamb Eliot Professor of Religion and Humanities, Emeritus
BA 1987 University of Missouri, Columbia. BA 1990 University of Oxford. MA 1993 Harvard University. PhD 1998 University of Cambridge. Reed College 1998-2020.

Robert A. Brightman
Ruth C. Greenberg Professor of American Indian Studies, Emeritus
BA 1973 Reed College. MA 1976, PhD 1983 University of Chicago. Reed College 1988-2016.

Joe P. Buhler
Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus
BA 1972 Reed College. PhD 1977 Harvard University. Reed College 1980-2005.

Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Patricia and Clifford Lunneborg Professor of Psychology, Emerita
BA 1980, MA 1988 University of México. PhD 1991 Brandeis University. Reed College 1992-2023.

Carolyn Carr
Costuming Director, Emerita
BFA 1967 University of Utah. MA 1975 Idaho State University. Reed College 1989-2005.

Craig D. Clinton
Professor of Theatre, Emeritus
BA 1967, MA 1969 San Francisco State University. PhD 1972 Carnegie Mellon University. Reed College 1978-2010.

David A. Dalton
Professor of Biology, Emeritus
BS 1973 Duke University. MS 1976, PhD 1986 Oregon State University. Reed College 1987-2020.

Samuel Danon
Professor of French, Emeritus
BA 1958 Brandeis University. PhD 1976 Johns Hopkins University. Reed College 1962-2000.

William Diebold
Jane Neuberger Goodsell Professor of Art History and Humanities, Emeritus
BA 1980 Yale College. MA 1981, PhD 1989 Johns Hopkins University. Reed College 1987-2020.

Colin S. Diver
President Emeritus
BA 1965 Amherst College. LLB 1968 Harvard University. Reed College 2002-12.

Walter G. Englert
Omar and Althea Hoskins Professor of Classical Studies and Humanities, Emeritus
BA 1974 St. Mary’s College. MA 1976 University of California, Santa Barbara. PhD 1981 Stanford University. Reed College 1981-2018.

John Essick
David W. Brauer Professor of Physics, Emeritus
BS 1976 University of California, Berkeley. MS 1978 University of California, Los Angeles. PhD 1988 University of Oregon. Reed College 1993-2022.

Leila Falk
Professor of Music, Emerita
BA 1965 Mills College. Reed College 1969-2009.

Douglas L. Fix
Elizabeth C. Ducey Professor of Asian Studies and Humanities, Emeritus
BA 1977 University of Colorado, Boulder. MA 1983, PhD 1993 University of California, Berkeley. Reed College 1990-2022.

Edwin Gerow
Professor of Religion and Humanities, Emeritus
BA 1952, PhD 1962 University of Chicago. Reed College 1985-96.

Arthur Glasfeld
Margret Geselbracht Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus
BA 1983 Carleton College. MA 1985, PhD 1988 Harvard University. Reed College 1989-2022.

Ülker Gökberk
Professor of German and Humanities, Emerita
BA 1970, MA 1976 University of Istanbul. PhD 1986 University of Washington. Reed College 1986-2013.

David J. Griffiths
Professor of Physics, Emeritus
BA 1964, MA 1966, PhD 1970 Harvard University. Reed College 1978-2009.

Victoria L. Hanawalt
Norman F. Carrigg College Librarian, Emerita
BA 1969 Stanford University. MLS 1974 University of California, Berkeley. Reed College 1987-2012.

Virginia Hancock
Professor of Music, Emerita
BA 1962 Reed College. MA 1963 Harvard University. DMA 1977 University of Oregon. Reed College 1991-2016.

John Haviland
Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, Emeritus
AB 1966, PhD 1971 Harvard University. Reed College 1991-2005.

Mary B. James
A.A. Knowlton Professor of Physics, Emerita
BA 1976 Hampshire College. PhD 1988 Stanford University. Reed College 1988-2022.

Albyn Jones
Professor of Statistics, Emeritus
BA 1978 University of California, Los Angeles. MPhil 1980, PhD 1986 Yale University. Reed College 1986-2017.

Robert H. Kaplan
Professor of Biology, Emeritus
BS 1970, PhD 1978 City University of New York. Reed College 1983-2015.

Stefan J. Kapsch
Professor of Political Science, Emeritus
BA 1964, MA 1967, PhD 1971 University of Minnesota. Reed College 1974-2005.

Robert S. Knapp
Reginald F. Arragon Professor of English and Humanities, Emeritus
BA 1962 University of Colorado. MA 1963 University of Denver. PhD 1968 Cornell University. Reed College 1974-2020.

Michael Knutson
Professor of Art, Emeritus
BFA 1972 University of Washington. MFA 1975 Yale University. Reed College 1982-2020.

Steven Koblik
President Emeritus
BA 1963 University of California, Berkeley. MA 1964 University of Stockholm. PhD 1970 Northwestern University. Reed College 1992-2001.

Sharon Larisch
Professor of Spanish and Humanities, Emerita
BA 1970, MA 1972 University of California, Santa Barbara. MA 1978, PhD 1984 University of Oregon. Reed College 1986-2019.

Lena (Helen) M. Lencek
Professor of Russian and Humanities, Emerita
BA 1970 Barnard College. AM 1972 Harvard University. Reed College 1977-2022.

Raymond A. Mayer
Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus
SB 1958 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MA 1960, PhD 1964 Columbia University. Reed College 1974-2002.

Ronald Wayne McClard
Arthur F. Scott Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus
BA 1972 Central College. PhD 1978 University of California, Los Angeles. Reed College 1984-2014.

Maryanne McClellan
Laurens N. Ruben Professor of Biology, Emerita
BS 1971 Auburn University. MS 1975, PhD 1979 Colorado State University. Reed College 1982-2015.

Patrick G. McDougal
Howard Vollum Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus
BA 1974 Hamilton College. PhD 1982 University of Wisconsin, Madison. Reed College 1990-2013.

Nora McLaughlin
Registrar, Emerita
BA Johnston College, University of Redlands. MA Reed College. Reed College 1994-2021.

Christine L. Mueller
Professor of History and Humanities, Emerita
BA 1967 Carleton College. PhD 1980 University of Virginia. Reed College 1973-2004.

Max Muller
Director/Technical Designer for Theatre, Emeritus
BA 1966 Emporia State University. MA 1970 University of Northern Colorado, Greeley. Reed College 1989-2006.

Allen J. Neuringer
MacArthur Professor of Psychology, Emeritus
BA 1962 Columbia College. PhD 1967 Harvard University. Reed College 1970-2008.

Dieter Paetzold
Associate Professor of German and Humanities, Emeritus
Staatsexamen 1953 University of Frankfurt. Reed College 1963-86.

Jeffrey A. Parker
George Hay Professor of Economics, Emeritus
BA 1974 Drake University. PhD 1981 Stanford University. Reed College 1988-2020.

David Perkinson
F.L. Griffin Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus
BA 1981 Grinnell College. MS 1984, PhD 1990 University of Chicago. Reed College 1990-2024.

Roger J. Porter
Professor of English and Humanities, Emeritus
BA 1958 Amherst College. MA 1959, PhD 1967 Yale University. Reed College 1961-2015.

V. Rao Potluri
Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus
BS 1962 Andhra University. MS 1968 Banaras Hindu University. MS 1970, PhD 1973 University of Oregon. Reed College 1973-2014.

John W. Powell
Professor of Physics, Emeritus
BS 1971, MS 1972 California State University, Northridge. PhD 1983 Arizona State University. Reed College 1987-2018.

William E. Ray
John and Elizabeth M. Yeon Professor of French and Humanities, Emeritus
BA 1966 Wabash College. MA 1967, PhD 1971 University of Chicago. Reed College 1972-2013.

Daniel Reisberg
Patricia and Clifford Lunneborg Professor of Psychology, Emeritus
BA 1975 Swarthmore College. MA 1976, PhD 1980 University of Pennsylvania. Reed College 1986-2019.

Darius Rejali
Professor of Political Science, Emeritus
BA 1981 Swarthmore College. MA 1983, PhD 1987 McGill University. Reed College 1989-2020.

Robert E. Reynolds
David W. Brauer Professor of Physics, Emeritus
BA, BS 1956, MA 1958, PhD 1961 University of Texas. Reed College 1963-2002, 2006-08.

Martin Ringle
Chief Information Officer, Emeritus
BA, MA, PhD Binghamton University. Reed College 1989-2020.

Laurens N. Ruben
Kenan Professor of Biology, Emeritus
AB 1949, MS 1950 University of Michigan. PhD 1954 Columbia University. Reed College 1955-92.

Peter J. Russell
Professor of Biology, Emeritus
BSc 1968 University of Sussex, England. PhD 1972 Cornell University. Reed College 1972-2011.

David Harris Sacks
Richard F. Scholz Professor of History and Humanities, Emeritus
BA 1963 Brooklyn College. AM 1965, PhD 1977 Harvard University. Reed College 1986-2015.

David A. Schiff
R.P. Wollenberg Professor of Music, Emeritus
BA 1967 Columbia College. MA 1970 Clare College. MPhil 1974 Columbia University. MMA 1975 Manhattan School of Music. DMA 1979 Juilliard School of Music. Reed College 1980-2019.

Janis Shampay
Howard Vollum Professor of Biology, Emerita
BA 1981 Northwestern University. PhD 1987 University of California, Berkeley. Reed College 1990-2023.

Gail Berkeley Sherman
Professor of English and Humanities, Emerita
BA 1975 Barnard College. MA 1977, PhD 1982 Princeton University. Reed College 1981-2022.

Alan Shusterman
Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus
BS 1976 California Institute of Technology. PhD 1981 University of Wisconsin. Reed College 1989-2020.

Ellen Keck Stauder
David Eddings Professor of English and Humanities, Emerita
BM 1973 Eastman School of Music. MA 1975 College of St. Rose. PhD 1982 University of Chicago. Reed College 1983-2013.

Lisa M. Steinman
Kenan Professor of English and Humanities, Emerita
BA 1971, MFA 1973, PhD 1976 Cornell University. Reed College 1976-2022.

Richard S. Tron
Professor of Classics and Humanities, Emeritus
AB 1954, MA 1957 Columbia University. Reed College 1961-2003.

William Tudor
Professor of Sociology, Emeritus
BA 1965 Reed College. MA 1967, PhD 1971 Vanderbilt University. Reed College 1973-2009.

Steven M. Wasserstrom
Moe and Izetta Tonkon Professor of Judaic Studies and Humanities, Emeritus
BA 1978 Ohio State University. MA 1980, PhD 1985 University of Toronto. Reed College 1987-2024.

Patricia Wong
Professor of Dance, Emerita
BA 1969 Portland State University. Reed College 1975-2009.

Kathleen Worley
Professor of Theatre, Emerita
BA 1969 Pomona College. MFA 1971 University of California, Riverside. Reed College 1985-2014.