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

## 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 Kaur 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 | 2012 | 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 | |
| Charles W. Bassett | Lee Family Professor of English and American Studies | 1969 | 2000 | no | |
| Susan Kenney | Chair, Humanities Division | 1968 | 1996 | no | |
| Hubert C. Kueter | Professor of German | 1965 | 1997 | no | |
| Adel Heinrich | Professor Emeritus of Music | 1964 | 1988 | 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? |
| Neil Gross | Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology and chair of the department of sociology | 2015 | active | no |
| Jennifer Yoder | Robert Diamond Professor of humanities | 1996 | active | no |
| Catherine L. Besteman | Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology | 1994 | active | no |
| Debra Barbezat | Mitchell Family Professor of economics | 1992 | active | no |
| Sarah Willie-LeBreton | Assistant Professor, African American Studies/Sociology/Women's Studies | 1991 | 1995 | no |
| Kenneth A. Rodman | William R. Cotter Distinguished teaching professor of government | 1989 | active | no |
| James Rodger Fleming | Visiting Assistant to Charles A. Dana Professor of STS | 1988 | 2021 | 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 | 2022 | 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 | 2021 | no |
| Thomas J. Morrione | Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology | 1971 | active | 1965 |
| Jack D. Foner | History | 1969 | 1976 | no |
| Albion Woodbury Small | Professor of political economy | 1881 | 1888 | 1876 |

## Natural Sciences

| Name | Position(s) | Joined College | Left/retired | Alumnus/na? |
| Andrea R. Tilden | J. Warren Merrill Professor of Chemistry and Natural History | | active | no |
| Fernando Q. Gouvêa | 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 | 2018 | no |
| F. Russell Cole | Oak Professor of Biological Sciences | | 2016 | no |
| Robert A. Gastaldo | Whipple-Coddington Professor of Geology | 1999 | 2020 | 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 |
| Keith Devlin | Carter Professor of Mathematics and Chair of Department of Math & Computer Science | 1989 | 1993 | no |
| 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? |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bill Millett | Coach, "Mr. Colby" | 1929 | 1948 | 1929 |
| Harold McDevitt | Men's baseball coach, director of athletics | 1909 | 1910 | no |

## Other

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