Faculty, Staff & Fellows

The Humanities Program faculty is committed to providing students with a series of courses that emphasize reading and writing and are interdisciplinary deep dives into the greatest questions of human existence.

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Faculty

Alison Bory

  • Chair & Associate Professor of Dance
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Patricio Boyer

  • E. Craig Wall, Jr., Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Humanities Program | Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies
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Amanda Ewington

  • Chair & Professor of Russian Studies

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • Russian Literature
  • Russia & the West
  • Eighteenth-Century Studies
  • Women Writers
  • Voltaire
  • Translation Studies
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Sharon Green

  • Professor of Theatre
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Yaakov Lipsker

  • Assistant Professor of Practice in Humanities and Jewish Studies

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • Modern Jewish History
  • Nations and Nationalisms
  • Late Imperial Russia
  • Diaspora and Transnational Studies
  • Yiddish and Hebrew Literature

yalipsker@davidson.edu

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Marcus Pyle

  • Franco Professor of Humanities | Assistant Professor of Music

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • Opera
  • Philosophy of the Voice
  • African American History
  • Comparative Literature
  • Gender and Sexuality

mapyle@davidson.edu

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Pronouns: he/him/his

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David Robb

  • Professor of Philosophy
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Mark Sample

  • Chair & Professor of Film, Media, and Digital Studies
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Anne Wills

  • Professor of Religious Studies

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • History of U.S. Religions
  • Sexuality, Gender, and Religion
  • Race and Religion
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Staff

Susan Archer

  • Department Coordinator

suarcher@davidson.edu

704-894-3109

Pronouns: she/her/hers

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Fellows

Get to Know the Humanities Fellows

Fall Fellows

  • Elias Henderson
  • Kate Muntzer
  • Felix Sammons
  • Cece Woo
  • Mia Riffle
  • Gabby Nahm
  • Tae Kim
  • Erin Price
  • Isaac Franks
  • Claire Begalla
  • Annabelle Ross

Spring Fellows

  • Olivia Lee
  • Nate Bagonza
  • Jacob Hertzinger
  • Toshaani Goel
  • Nadine Shannon
  • Erica Harris
  • Jack Barnett
  • Daisy Hoover
  • Katie Kowalyshyn
  • Brown Payne

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