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 the 44 endowed faculty positions. As of 2013, Colby employs 216 instructional faculty members, approximately 90% whom hold a doctorate or other terminal degree.

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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
Rachel Isaacs	Dorothy “Bibby” Levine Alfond Assistant Professor in Jewish Studies	2010	active	no
David M. Freidenreich	Pulver Family Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies	2008	active	no
William Chapman Nyaho	Visiting Assistant Professor of Music	2007	2007	no
Adrian Blevins	Associate Professor of English	2004	active	no
Tilar J. Mazzeo	Clara C. Piper Associate Professor of English	2004	active	no
Debra Spark	Professor of English	2003	active	no
Wesley McNair	Visiting Professor of Creative Writing	1999	2004	no
Joseph R. Reisert	Harriet S. Wiswell and George C. Wiswell Jr. Associate Professor of American Constitutional Law	1997	active	no
Suisheng Zhao	Associate Professor of Government and East Asian Politics	1993	1998	no
Kerill N. O'Neil	Julian D. Taylor Associate Professor of Classics	1992	active	no
Elizabeth D. Leonard	John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History	1992	active	no
Jill P. Gordon	Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy	1991	active	no
Lee Feigon	Professor of History and Chair of East Asian Studies	1990	??	no
Hanna M. Roisman	Arnold Bernhard Professor in Arts and Humanities, Professor of Classics	1990	active	no
Steven Saunders	Charles A. Dana Professor of Music	1990	active	no
Adrianna Paliyenko	Charles A. Dana Professor of French	1989	active	no
Jennifer Finney Boylan	Professor of English	1988	2014	no
Cedric Gael Bryant	Lee Family Professor of English	1988	active	no
Richard Russo	Professor of English		1994	no	-
Elizabeth Harris Sagaser	Associate Professor of English	1994	active	no
John A. Rice (musicologist)	Visiting Assistant Professor of Music	1988	1990	no
Irina Livezeanu	Assistant Professor of History	1987	1991	no
Nikky-Guninder Singh	Crawford Family Professor of Religion	1986	active	no
Tamae K. Prindle	Oak Professor of East Asian Language and Literature	1985	active	no
Michael A. Marlais	James M. Gillespie Professor of Art	1983	active	no
Jorge Olivares	Allen Family Professor of Latin American Literature	1982	active	no
David L. Simon	Ellerton and Edith Jette Professor of Art	1981	active	no
Robert S. Weisbrot	Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Teaching Professor of History	1980	active	no
Richard Beeman	William R. Kenan Professor of American History	1979	1980	no
Anthony di Bonaventura	Director of the Colby Piano Institute	1978	2003	no
Ira Sadoff	Arthur Jeremiah Roberts Professor of Literature	1976	active	no
Peter B. Harris	Zacamy Professor of English	1974	active	no
Marion Brown	Professor of Music	1973	1974	no
Paul S. Machlin	Arnold Bernhard Professor of Arts and Humanities	1984	active	no
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
Susan Kenney	Chair, Humanities Division	1968	1996	no
Hubert C. Kueter	Professor of German	1965	1997	no
Paul Langdon Ward	Professor of History	1951	1953	no
Thomas McGrath (poet)	Professor of English	1940	1941	no
Shailer Mathews	Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Instructor of Elocution	1887	1890	1884
Samuel Francis Smith	Professor of Modern Languages	1834	1842	no
Thomas Jefferson Conant	Professor of Languages	1827	1833	no

Social Sciences

Name	Position(s)	Joined College	Left/retired	Alumnus/na?	Reference
Jennifer Yoder	Robert Diamond Professor of Humanities	1996	active	no
Debra Barbezat	Mitchell Family Professor of Economics	1992	active	no
Kenneth A. Rodman	William R. Cotter Distinguished Teaching Professor of Government	1989	active	no
Randy A. Nelson	Douglas Professor of Economics and Finance	1987	active	no
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes	John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies	1987	active	no
Patrice M. Franko	Grossman Professor of Economics	1986	active	no
G. Calvin Mackenzie	Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government	1985	active	no
David W. Findlay	Pugh Family Professor of Economics	1985	active	no
James W. Meehan	Herbert E. Wadsworth Professor of Economics	1973	Emeritus	no
L. Sandy Maisel	William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government	1971	active	no
Thomas J. Morrione	Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology	1971	active	1965
Albion Woodbury Small	Professor of Political Economy	1881	1888	1876

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
Fernando Q. Gouvea	Carter Professor of Mathematics		active	no
D. Whitney King	Frank and Theodora Miselis Professor of Chemistry	1989	active	no
W. Herbert Wilson	Leslie Brainerd Arey Professor of Biosciences	1990	active	no
F. Russell Cole	Oak Professor of Biological Sciences		active	no
Robert A. Gastaldo	Whipple-Coddington Professor of Geology		active	no
Julie T. Millard	Dr. Gerald and Myra Dorros Professor of Chemistry		active	no
Charles Conover	William A. Rogers Professor in Physics		active	no
Robert T. Bluhm, Jr.	Sunrise Professor of Physics		active	no
Allen B. Downey	Assistant Professor of Computer Science	1997	2000	no
Gordon Enoch Gates	Professor of Biology	1948	1950	1919
William T. Bovie	Lecturer in Science	1939	1949	no
Rutherford John Gettens	Instructor in Chemistry	1923	1927	no
Marshman Edward Wadsworth	Professor of Mineralogy and Geology	1885	1886	no
Theophilus C. Abbot	Instructor in Chemistry, History, Greek, and Latin	1845	1852	1853
Justin Rolph Loomis	Professor of Chemistry and Natural History		1838	no

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	active	no
Laura Halldorson	Women's Ice Hockey Coach	1989	1986	no
James Wescott	Men's Track and Cross-Country Coach	1978	2003	no
Jack Kelley	Men's Ice Hockey Coach	1976	1977	no
John Winkin	Men's Baseball Coach, Director of Athletics	1954	1974	no
Lee Williams	Men's Basketball Coach	1946	1965	no
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
Robert B. Downs	Librarian	1929	1931	no
Peyton R. Helm	Vice President for College Relations	1988	2003	no
Ninetta May Runnals	Dean of Women Professor of Mathematics and Education	1920	1949	yes