Colby College, the highly selective liberal arts educational institution in Watervillle, Maine, has added seven scholars to its permanent faculty. Five of the new hires are women.
Rebecca Frank is an assistant professor of classics. She has been a visiting professor at the college since 2022. Before coming to Colby, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Oberlin College in Ohio. Dr. Frank studies ancient Greek and Roman religious beliefs and practices as well as the social and cultural history of the Roman Imperial era. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.
Eftychia Karfaki is an assistant professor of economics. She was a research assistant at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research interests include international finance, applied macroeconomics, and monetary economics. Dr. Karfaki is a graduate of the University of Macedonia. She holds a master’s degree in economics from the University of British Columbia and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota.
Rachel A. King is an assistant professor of psychology. She studies the development of socioeconomic cognition and early life learning and thinking about, and first-person engagement in, social relationships and networks. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. King holds a master’s degree is social psychology from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the University of Chicago.
Anna Reine is a new assistant professor of physics and astronomy. She works on experiments to study the properties of ultra-light and highly abundant fundamental particles known as neutrinos. Dr. Reine is a graduate of Hendrix College in Arkansas, where she majored in physics. She holds a Ph.D. in experimental nuclear and astroparticle physics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Andrea Killian Wegrzynowicz is an assistant professor of biology. Her research concerns the role of the immune system in female infertility and pregnancy complications. Dr. Wegrzynowicz is a graduate of Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, where she majored in biochemistry. She holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.