Humanities

Our faculty are using critical research methods to study human culture, history, literature, and communication. 

Brian Williams
Brian Williams

Professor

History
Liberal Arts 334

508-999-8302
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Research

Research interests

  • America's post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria
  • CIA drone warfare and global counter-terrorism
  • Taliban, Al Qaeda and ISIS terrorism and warfare
  • Islamic Central Asia, Crimea, Russia, Chechnya, Ukraine, Turkey, Balkans
  • History of the Ottoman Islamic and Mongol Empires and Barbarian conquests
Timothy Walker

Professor

History
Liberal Arts 330

508-999-8970
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Research

Research interests

  • Early Modern Europe, the Atlantic World, the Portuguese and their Empire
  • Maritime History and European Global Colonial Expansion
  • The Adoption of Colonial Indigenous Medicines by Europeans
  • Climate Data Derived from Colonial-Era Archival documentation
  • Slave Trading in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans
Anna Klobucka
Anna Klobucka

Commonwealth Professor

Portuguese
Liberal Arts 398H

508-999-8241
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Research

Research interests

  • Modern Portuguese literature and culture
  • Women's writing and history
  • Gender and sexuality in Luso-Brazilian cultures
  • Modernist studies
  • Lesbian history
Glaucia Silva
Glaucia Silva

Professor

Portuguese
Liberal Arts 396H

508-999-8271
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Research

Research interests

  • Teaching and learning Portuguese as a heritage language
Victor Mendes

Associate Professor / Director of Portuguese

Portuguese
Liberal Arts 398L

508-999-8338
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Portrait of Anna Dempsey
Anna Dempsey

Professor / Chairperson

Art Education, Art History & Media Studies
College of Visual & Performing Arts 360A

508-999-8553
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Research

Research interests

  • Contemporary Art
  • Curatorial Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Design and Architectural History
  • Virtual Museums