Academics

Fields of Resistance

Anthropology professor LaShandra Sullivan investigates land rights movements and inspires a new generation of thinkers.

Prof. Kevin Holmes Wins Cattell Sabbatical Award

The associate professor of psychology will spend the upcoming academic year continuing his studies of linguistic framing.

By Rebecca Jacobson

Prof. Elizabeth Drumm Wins NEH Fellowship

With her project, the Spanish and humanities professor hopes to bring more attention to modernist author Ramón del Valle-Inclán.

By Rebecca Jacobson

Prof. Sam Fey Wins NSF CAREER Award

The associate professor of biology will study thermal refuges amid climate warming.

March 8, 2023

Six Professors Named to Prestigious Chairs

The newly appointed faculty inspire as both scholars and teachers.

February 28, 2023

Reed Awarded Mellon Foundation Grant to Support Environmental Humanities

The $500,000 initiative will fund new scholarship as well as the creation of courses centered on environmental justice and the literary imagination.

February 17, 2023

Two Reed Faculty Earn Fulbright Scholar Awards for 2022-23

Profs. Jamie Pommersheim [math] and Tom Landvatter [GLAM] each received grants to conduct research abroad.

February 8, 2023

The Blue Sky Falls; the White Sun Sets

The Burn Your Draft podcast talks Taiwanese politics with Seamus Boyle ’22.

January 20, 2023

Spiritual Ecstasy

Spanish 344 uses sculpture to explore paradoxes between religion and aesthetics.

December 21, 2022

Chemistry Prof. Kelly Chacón Named Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar

The award honors young faculty and comes with an unrestricted research grant of $75,000, which Chacón will use toward their work in bioinorganic spectroscopy.

December 21, 2022

Royal Musical Association Awards Dent Medal to Prof. Mark Burford

The scholar has spent the past 10 years focused on Black popular music studies, from Sam Cooke to Mahalia Jackson.

November 7, 2022

The Western

English 261 investigates a history of US film culture through the lens of the cinematic Western.

October 19, 2022

The Botany of Poetry

What does a 19th-century herbarium have to teach us about plants and politics?

September 28, 2022

Newly Tenured Faculty Bring Ideas and Innovation to Reed

Get to know ten professors making exceptional contributions to the college’s mission.