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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
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American foreign policy
American literature
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American politics
American Renaissance
American revolution
American south
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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
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business history
California
Caribbean
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chaos theory
Chapin Library
charitable giving
chemistry
child development
children's rights
China
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Chinese language
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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
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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
