Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
Graduate Faculty
The graduate faculty is drawn from the entire Reed College faculty. There is no set graduate curriculum, as courses and faculty members change each year. MALS students have access to all Reed faculty members they wish to consult about a particular question, interest, or course.
Faculty offering MALS courses, 2011-2013
Mark Burford
Assistant Professor of Music
BA 1994 University of California, Santa Barbara. PhD 2005 Columbia University. Reed College 2007–.
Academic interests: music history
Michael Breen
Associate Professor of History and Humanities
BA 1987 University of Missouri, Columbia. BA 1990 University of Oxford. MA 1993 Harvard University. PhD 1998 University of Cambridge. Reed College 2000—.
Academic interests: Early modern France; Renaissance Italy; political, cultural, and legal history.
Craig Clinton
Professor of Theatre, emeritus
BA 1967, MA 1969 San Francisco State University. PhD 1972 Carnegie Mellon University. Reed College 1978–2010.
Academic interests: 20th century theatre.
Jay M. Dickson
Professor of English and Humanities
AB 1988 Harvard College. PhD 1996 Princeton University. Reed College 1996-99, 2001–.
Academic interests: The novel, British modernism, Victorian literature, queer studies, postcolonial studies.
Jacqueline Dirks
Cornelia Marvin Pierce Professor of History and Humanities
BA 1982 Reed College. MA, MPhil 1986, PhD 1996 Yale University. Reed College 1991–.
Academic interests: American social and cultural history, U.S. women's history.
Marat Grinberg
Assistant Professor of Russian and Humanities
BA 1999 Jewish Theological Seminary of American.BA 1999 Columbia University. MA 2001, PhD 2006 University of Chicago. Reed College 2006–.
Academic interests: Russian-Jewish literature and culture, Soviet poetry, poetics and cinema studies, Russian and European modernism.
Maureen Harkin
Associate Professor of English and Humanities
BA 1983 University of Melbourne. MA 1986, PhD 1994 Johns Hopkins University. Reed College 2002–.
Academic interests: 18th-century British literary and visual culture, the novel and its social and cultural contexts 1680-1850, aesthetic theory.
Dana Katz
Associate Professor of Art History and Humanities
BA 1991 University of Michigan. MA 1997 University of Illinois. PhD 2003 University of Chicago. Reed College 1994–.
Academic interests:Renaissance, baroque, and colonial Latin American art and architecture; Jews and the visual arts; methodologies of art history.
Charlene Makley
Associate Professor of Anthropology
BA 1986 Middlebury College. MA 1993, PhD 1999 University of Michigan. Reed College 2000–.
Academic interests: development, globalization, anthropology of capitalism, exchange and value, gender, ethnicity, nationalism, religion and ritual, feminist theory, linguistic anthropology, China, Tibet, East Asia.
Tamara Metz
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Humanities
BA 1992 Brandeis University. PhD 2004 Harvard University. Reed College 2006–.
Academic interests: political theory, history of political thought.
Ellen Millender
Associate Professor of Classics and Humanities
BA 1986 Brown University. BA 1989 Corpus Christi College, Oxford University. PhD 1996 University of Pennsylvania. Reed College 2002–.
Academic interests: Greek and Roman history, Greek historiography, women in the ancient world.
Kathryn Oleson
Professor of Psychology
BA 1989 University of Kansas. MA 1991, PhD 1993 Princeton University. Reed College 1995–.
Academic interests: Social psychology, interpersonal relations, social cognition.
Pancho Savery
Professor of English and Humanities
BA 1972 Stanford University. PhD 1980 Cornell University. Reed College 1995–.
Academic interests: African American literature; American literature and cultural history; modern and contemporary drama, poetry, and fiction; creative writing; American Indian fiction.
Edward B. Segel
Professor of History and Humanities, emeritus
AB 1960 Harvard College. MA 1962, PhD 1969 University of California, Berkeley. Reed College 1973–2011.
Academic interests: 19th- and 20th-century Europe, diplomatic history, war and society, the Cold War.
Tamara Venit-Shelton
Assistant Professor of History
BA 2000 Amherst College. MA 2005, PhD 2008 Stanford University. Reed College 2008–.
Academic interests: Colonial and revolutionary America, 19th-century United States.
Thomas Wieting
Professor of Mathematics
BS 1960 Washington and Lee University. PhD 1973 Harvard University. Reed College 1965–.
Academic interests: differential geometry and ergodic theory.