Master of Arts
in Liberal Studies
The Committee on Graduate Studies
Faculty members of the Committee on Graduate Studies serve as advisers to MALS students, attend degree paper orals boards, assist with the evaluation of initial and candidacy applications, and set policies and curriculum for the program. Membership in the committee varies from year to year. Members for the 2007–08 academic year include:
Edward Segel, chair view web page
Professor of History and Humanities
A.B. 1960 Harvard College. M.A. 1962, Ph.D. 1969 University of California, Berkeley. Reed College 1973–.
Academic interests: nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe, diplomatic history, war and society, the Cold War.
Assistant Professor of Music
B.A. 1994 University of California, Santa Barbara. Ph.D. 2005 Columbia University. Reed College 2007–.
Academic interests: musicology.
Maureen Harkin
Associate Professor of English and Humanities
B.A. 1983 University of Melbourne. M.A. 1986, Ph.D. 1994 Johns Hopkins University. Reed College 2002–.
Academic interests: eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British narrative, the sentimental novel, aesthetic theory, spatial studies.
Jing Jiang
Assistant Professor of Chinese and Humanities
B.A. 1992 Nanjing University, Nanjing. M.A. 1995 Peking University, Bejing. Ph.D. 2006 University of Michigan. Reed College 2006–.
Academic interests: modern Chinese literature, translation theory, post-colonial theory.
Nathalia King
Professor of English and Humanities
B.A. 1978 University of Massacusetts, Amherst. Ph.D. 1992 New York University. Reed College 1987–.
Academic interests: rhetorical and narrative theory, the novel, autobiography, gender studies, creative writing.
Thomas W. Wieting view web page
Professor of Mathematics
B.S. 1960 Washington and Lee University. Ph.D. 1973 Harvard University. Reed College 1965–.
Academic interests: differential geometry, ergodic theory, history of science.
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