Honors Faculty

Elizabeth Baeten

Elizabeth's Baeten primary teaching responsibilities are in the Ethics and Values Perspective curriculum. Though a philosopher by training and temperament, Professor Baeten's interests are broadly interdisciplinary; for example, she has worked with sophomore Honors students on the implications of evolution and natural selection on our conceptions of morality.

James Byrne

James Byrne's work has appeared in a number of journals, including MELUS and IJAS, and he has recently published a three volume co-edited study, Ireland and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History.

Robert Dulgarian

Nigel Gibson

Nigel C. Gibson is an expert in the fields of Africana thought, postcolonialism and African Studies and is recognized as one of the leading scholars on Frantz Fanon. He has presented his work in Africa, Europe and the Americas, as well as speaking at the UN and appearing on the History Channel.

Julie Humphreys

Julie has been a Part Time Faculty member in the WLP department since 2007 and teaches in the Honors Program through the Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies.

Wyatt Oswald

Wyatt Oswald is an ecologist with teaching and research interests spanning the earth and environmental sciences.

Jason Roush

Jason Roush has taught writing, literature, and interdisciplinary courses on cultural studies at Emerson College since 1999, and from 2001 to 2009, he also served as Faculty Assistant to the Director of the Honors Program.

Amy Vashlishan Murray

Dr. Vashlishan is a molecular biologist with research and teaching interests at the intersection of genetics, neurobiology, and public understanding of science.  Her current laboratory work utilizes genetic approaches to explore how neurons can adjust their activity in response to changes in the environment, leading to alterations in behavior.

Wendy Walters

Dr. Wendy W. Walters specializes in African American Literature, in the larger context of diaspora studies. She is the author of At Home in Diaspora: Black International Writing. In 2001-2002 she was a non-resident fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University.

Erika Williams

Erika R. Williams specializes in modernist and contemporary African American literature, focusing on theories of race, gender, and sexuality; on formations of cultural and personal identity; and on intersections and tensions betwen aesthetics and politics.