Bates College, the highly selective liberal arts educational institution in Lewiston, Maine, has announced the addition of 11 tenured or tenure-track faculty this fall. Five of the new faculty members are women.
Camille Borders is an assistant professor of history. She is a social historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. history with a specialty in women’s history and Black feminist thought. Dr. Borders is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis. She earned a master’s degree in U.S. history at the University of Oxford in England and a Ph.D. in history at Princeton University in New Jersey.
Emily Culbreath has been appointed an assistant professor of dance. Her work centers on collaboration, embodied storytelling, and creating meaningful artistic experiences that connect people across communities. She is the co-director of Snack Break Movement Arts, a hip-hop theater organization. Culbreath holds a bachelor of fine arts degree in dance from the University of Colorado Boulder and a master of fine arts degree in dance from the University of Iowa.
Angie Jo was named an assistant professor of politics. Her current research focuses on how welfare state institutions in wealthy democracies change (or do not change) in response to large collective crises, such as COVID-19, the 2008 financial crisis, and natural disasters. Dr. Jo is a graduate of Harvard University, where she majored in the history of art and architecture. She holds a master of city planning degree and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jasmine Mena has joined the Bates faculty as a professor of psychology. Her research examines the influence of cultural and contextual factors on mental and physical health. She is particularly interested in understanding how multi-level experiences impact the health outcomes of marginalized populations. She is the author of the forthcoming book Decolonizing Latinx Psychology: A Critical and Autoethnographic Approach (Cambridge University Press). Dr. Mena is a graduate of Rhode Island College, where she majored in psychology. She holds a master’s degree in psychology and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Rhode Island.
Mónica C. Quiñones-Frías was appointed an assistant professor of biology. She studies genetics and microscopy in fruit flies to understand how endoplasmic reticulum dysfunction contributes to neurodegenerative disease. Dr. Quiñones-Frías is a graduate of University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. She holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and conducted postdoctoral research at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.