Good Shots, photographs by and of people with mental disabilities. Prof. Martin Benjamin directed the joint project between the College and photographers from the Schenectady Association for Retarded Citizens. The photographs reflect the lives of the retarded, their families and friends in unexpected and poignant ways. The nine-month appointment is to begin in September. Wells is to teach American history for advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as offer at least one seminar.
All teaching is in English.
Wells, who specializes in early American history and demographic history, earned his bachelor's degree from Denison University, and his Ph.D. from Princeton University. On the Union faculty since 1969, he became full professor in 1980. He was the Washington Irving Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies from 1986 to 1993. He was named Chauncey Winters Professor in 1994. He was a fellow at both the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and at the Charles Warren Center at Harvard University.