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This page is designed to help editors and reporters identify specialists who can comment on, and answer questions about, a broad range of issues. The faculty listed here welcome inquiries concerning their fields of interest and areas of expertise. Click on any topic below to see experts on that subject (the larger the font, the more experts in that field). Use your back button to return to the complete list.

To request an interview with a faculty member, contact Noelle Lemoine (413) 597-4277, nlemoine@williams.edu in the Office of Communications.

Areas of Expertise

3D modeling 18th-century literature adolescent depression adolescent romantic relationships aesthetics Afghanistan Africa African-American history African Art Africana Studies African music African Politics agriculture Agriculture in developing countries algebraic geometry algorithms al Qaeda American counterterrorism and counterinsurgency American foreign policy American literature American poetry American politics American Renaissance American revolution American south American studies American West ancient letter-writing ancient to contemporary political theory animal behavior animal thought process anthropology anti-poverty policy Apocalypticism archaeology architecture art Arthur Ransome artificial intelligence Asian Studies astronomy Austria autism autobiography banking crises bank regulation beauty biodiversity biography biology biostatistics biotechnology bird song Black leadership blood pressure books boredom botany Botswana Brazil Buddhism business history California Caribbean Caribbean history chaos theory Chapin Library charitable giving chemistry child development children's rights China Chinese culture Chinese language Chinese linguistics Chinese literature civil rights classics climate cognitive science comedy comedy theory comets Commencement commutative algebra complexity theory composition computers computer science conceptions of Jewis election conceptual writing Condensed Matter Physics confessions Congress consumer culture contemporary fiction contemporary poetry contemporary Russia costume design creative writing creativity critical theory criticism culinary history cultural studies cultural theory culture cycling dance Darwiniana data mining David Foster Wallace death theory decorative arts depression depression and stress design developing countries Diego Velasquez differential geometry disability policy discrimination disease documentary drafting drama dramaturgy early childhood development early modernism early modern women writers early republic Earth catastrophes eclipses ecology economic development economics economics of gender economics of higher education economics of the family Edgar Allan Poe education eighteenth-century British literature eighteenth-century philosophy elections electric power generation elegies Elizabeth I energy English English literature environment environmental studies epics ergodic theory ethics Europe evolution exercise exercise physiology experiential education experimental writing extinction eyewitness accounts fair division family relationships famine Fat Studies Federal Reserve feminism feminist theory fetal alcohol syndrome fiction film Film Gender Theory film music financial history financial markets financing retirement fossils Foucault Founding Fathers fractals France Franklin Roosevelt freedom French French philosophy and intellectual history French revolution Freud gender gender history gender sexuality and queer studies gender theory general relativity genetics genomics geochemistry geology geometry geophysics geosciences German German Enlightenment German idealism Germany ghosts glacial geology globalization global tectonics global warming Gothic Greek Greek literature health health care health in poor countries heart Hebrew Bible Hegel Hellenistic ethics Henry Fielding hibernation higher education historical linguistics historical music theories history history of science history of sexuality HIV/AIDS in Africa Holocaust Holocaust studies holographic optical trapping homework Honorary Degree horror household savings humanitarian intervention humanities humor hydrology Immigrant literatures immigration income inequality infancy international relations internet interrogations Iran Iraq Ireland Irish literature Islam Italy James Joyce Japan Japanese Religions jazz jazz composition history jazz harmony and theory Judaism juries k-12 Kafka Kant Kenya knot theory labor land use lasers late medieval and Renaissance chant late nineteenth-century U.S. literature Latin Latin America Latin literature Latino Studies Laurence Sterne law learning Leonardo da Vinci liberal theory light literary theory literature lyric poetry machine learning macroeconomics marine ecology marine geology marine science marine sciences maritime studies Martha Graham technique materials chemistry material science math and music math and politics mathematical biology mathematical fiction mathematics mathematics and statistics math riddles maya media Medicaid medicine medieval European literature memoir memory memory of socialism mental diagnosis microbiology microfinance microscopes Middle East military history mineralogy mobile computing mock-epics model making modern British history modern British society and politics modern dance history modernism modernization modern Japanese history modern Jewish thought modern political violence modern U.S history molecular biology molecular self-asembly monetary policy Moroccan Studies museum museum studies music music composition music in ritual context music of Bela Bartok music program music technology music theory and analysis nanostructures nanotech national security national security affairs natural disasters neoliberalism neuroscience new media nineteenth-century novel nineteenth century French literature non-fiction prose Nordic literature & film from Scandinavia to Québec North Africa art novel nuclear power number theory nutrition obesity oceanography optical trapping optics oral history organic solar cells organized crime origami overconfidence Pacific Ocean Pakistan paleogeography Paraguay parenting pay-per-click advertising Persian Gulf philosophy philosophy of emotions philosophy of the mind photography photoshop physics planetary geology planets plate tectonics Plato poetry policy political campaigning political economy political leadership political science political sociology political thought political violence politics politics in literature polling pollution Popular Culture postcolonial postmodernism poverty prejudice presidency presidential debates presidential elections presidential leadership probability programming language psychoanalysis psychoanalytic theory psychology psychotherapy public opinion quantum computing quantum physics queer literature queer theory quilts race Race/Ethnicity race and slavery in American culture rare books rationality realism religion Religion and African American Culture Religion and Latin American culture religion and literature Religion and Music religion and race/ethnicity Religion Religion Renaissance Renaissance Literature renewable energy reproductive politics rock & roll Roman cultural history Russia Russian history Russian language Russian literature sabermetrics Sacred polyphony same-sex marriage Samuel Johnson satire scenic painting school reform science scientometrics scriptures sculpture sedimentary geology self-esteem Serbo-Croatian language set design sexuality Shakespeare skepticism sky phenomena slavery soap bubbles social policy social security sociology sociology of science software engineering South Africa South Asia Southern politics Soviet art Soviet culture Soviet literature Soviet poetry Soviet show trials Spanish Spanish language Spanish literature Stanley Cavell statistical modeling statistics stem cell research stereotypes Stoicism studio art studying Supplemental Security Income Sylvia Plath Taliban tax and data fraud tax policy technology terrorism tetrahymena genetics theatre theatre history The Clark the English novel The ethics and politics of images the novel Theodore Roosevelt theoretical physics Theories of Religion Thomas Hobbes Thomas Kuhn Thomas Pynchon Tibet Tolkien topology transit of Venus transnationalism twentieth-century French fiction and film U.S.-Japan relations U.S. invasion of Iraq U.S. queer literature U.S. women’s literature uncreative writing United States literature urbanization urban policy Utopias and Utopianism Victorian literature victorian poetry Vienna Vietnam war Virginia Woolf visualization Vladimir Nabokov volcanology voting war war novels Washington and Lincoln presidency Watson wealth advocacy web Western esotericism Western Europe Williams-Mystic Williams College Museum of Art Winnicott Wittgenstein women women's literature women in computer science world novel World War II Yugoslavia Zambia Zimbabwe