W&L Welcomes New Visiting Faculty Members and Postdoctoral Fellows The College, the Williams School and the Law School have combined to hire 25 visiting faculty members and two postdoctoral fellows for 2022-23.
Washington and Lee University has welcomed 25 new visiting faculty members and two postdoctoral fellows who will instruct classes among the College, the Williams School and the Law School this fall.
The new members of the visiting faculty are:
John AcevedoJohn Acevedo, Visiting Professor of Law
Acevedo holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and a J.D. from the University of Southern California. His subject expertise is in criminal law, criminal procedure and legal history.
Leslie AndersonLeslie Anderson, Visiting Assistant Professor of French
Anderson received a Ph.D. in French and Francophone studies from Tulane University and most recently served as a visiting assistant professor at Pacific Lutheran University. Her research interests include hair and dress in the French medieval narrative and female sexuality.
Michael BerlinMichael Berlin, Visiting Assistant Professor of English/Director of the Writing Program
Berlin earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California, Irvine and his research interests include comparative literature and poetics, transatlantic modernity and 17th-19th century Anglophone poetry.
Mia BrettMia Brett, Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Brett received a Ph.D. in history from Stony Brook University and most recently taught at Queens College. Her research interests include American legal history and the legal construction of race and gender.
Emma BrobeckEmma Brobeck, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics
Brobeck holds a Ph.D. in classics from the University of Washington and most recently served as a visiting assistant professor of classical studies at the University of Arkansas. Her research interests include Roman art and culture, Latin poetry, and the history and society of the Roman Empire.
Justin Desautels-SteinJustin Desautels-Stein, Visiting Professor of Law
Desautels-Stein earned a J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a L.L.M. from Harvard University. His subject expertise is in international law and critical legal theory.
Ebenezer DurojayeEbenezer Durojaye, Frances Lewis Scholar in Residence
Durojaye holds a L.L.D. and a L.L.M. from the University of the Free State and a L.L.B. from the University of Lagos. His subject expertise is in sexual and reproductive rights, socioeconomic rights and international human rights.
Kumudu GamageKumudu Gamage, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Gamage received a Ph.D. in computational applied mathematics from Old Dominion University and her research interests include numerical analysis, green energy technologies and sustainable practices.
Jacob GibsonJacob Gibson, Visiting Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Science
Gibson acquired a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Idaho State University and his research interests include personality judgement accuracy, effective pedagogical techniques, and politics/religion and personality.
Brandi Jane Wedgeworth-GrahamBrandi Jane Wedgeworth-Graham, Visiting Assistant Professor of Accounting
Wedgeworth-Graham earned a B.S. from Washington and Lee University and she was a member of the women’s tennis team as an undergraduate. Most recently, she has been the chief financial officer for N2 Capital Management and her research interest is in capital markets.
Matthew LambMatthew Lamb, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Lamb holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Rochester and his research and teaching interests include moral responsibility, culpable ignorance and ethics.
Emily LandryEmily Landry, Visiting Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Landry received a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee and her research and teaching interests include comparative entrepreneurship, ethical and sustainable business processes, B corps and stakeholders, and Cuba’s emerging private sector.
Quinn LesterQuinn Lester, Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics
Lester acquired a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and his teaching and research interests include policing, democratic theory, and race and ethnic politics.
Olivia LottOlivia Lott, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
Lott earned a Ph.D. in Hispanic studies from Washington University in St. Louis and most recently, she was a dissertation and teaching fellow at Kenyon College. Her research interests include Latin American poetry and poetics, the 1960’s and 1970’s, avant-garde movements, translation studies and literary translation.
Emerson LynchEmerson Lynch, Visiting Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Geoscience
Lynch holds an A.B.D. in Earth science from Northern Arizona University and her research and teaching interests include earth science labs, plate tectonics and earthquakes.
Geoffrey MatthewsGeoffrey Matthews, Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Matthews received a Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science from Indiana University and most recently, he was a professor of computer science at Western Washington University. His interests include data mining, data visualization, procedural generation and programming languages.
Nafeesa MonroeNafeesa Monroe, Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater
Monroe earned a M.F.A. in classical acting from George Washington University and most recently, she was an actor with the Shaw Festival in Canada. She has also served as a teaching artist with the Roundabout Theatre Company in New York City. Her research and teaching interests include the history of black American women in the theater arts.
Brittany NorwoodBrittany Norwood, Visiting Assistant Professor/Visiting Research Services Librarian
Norwood earned a M.S.L.S. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and most recently served as a librarian at the University of Tennessee. Her research and teaching interests including information literacy and misinformation/disinformation, and outreach and engagement in academic libraries.
Theresa RenkerTheresa Renker, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
Renker holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic studies from Brown University and her research and teaching interests include contemporary literature and film from the Andes and Mexico, political violence, migrations, race and indigeneity.
Jonathan SchachererJonathan Schacherer, Visiting Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Science
Schacherer received a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of Iowa and most recently, he was a visiting professor of psychology at Bowdoin College. His research interests include multitasking and cognitive psychology.
Theodore Van LoanTheodore Van Loan, Visiting Professor of Art History
Van Loan earned a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Pennsylvania and his research interests include Islamic art, architectural history and historiography with a specialization in the early Islamic period, and 6-8th centuries.
Zuoting WenZuoting Wen, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese
Wen acquired a Ph.D. in East Asian languages and civilizations from Arizona State University. Most recently, he served as a postdoctoral fellow in Chinese language and culture at Earlham College. His research and teaching interests include premodern Chinese literature 10-14th centuries, China under Mongol rule, literary Sinitic/Chinese (Mandarin) and travel writings.
Scott WilliamsonScott Williamson, Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
Williamson earned a D.M.A. in vocal performance from the University of Maryland. He has held various positions at Washington and Lee dating back to 1997 and he is the founding director of Collective Euphonia.
Steven WoodruffSteven Woodruff, Visiting Assistant Professor of Engineering
Woodruff received a Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Michigan and his research and teaching interests include origami-inspired engineering, and STEM and public policy.
Sean WuSean Wu, Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics
Wu earned a Ph.D. in physics from Texas A&M University and most recently, he was a visiting professor of physics from the University of Cincinnati. His interests include physics education research and open-source software.
The new postdoctoral fellows for 2022-23 are:
Madhumita ChakrabortyMadhumita Chakraborty, Earth and Environmental Geoscience
Chakraborty holds a Ph.D. in geology and geoscience from the Indian Institute of Technology and her research interests include hydrogeological characteristics of active delta systems, geogenic arsenic contamination and dynamics, and drinking water availability on temporal and spatial scales.
Alexander SuttonAlexander C. Sutton, Delaney postdoctoral fellow in the Shepherd Program
Sutton earned a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Virginia and his research and teaching focus includes cultural sociology, sociology of music, creativity and aesthetics, and sociology of disability and impairment.
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