Faculty

NAME	POSITION	EDUCATION
Professor
Denise Despres ddespres@pugetsound.edu More Information	Professor, Humanities, Honors, and English	BA, University of Notre Dame, 1979 MA, PhD, Indiana University, 1980, 1985
George Erving gerving@pugetsound.edu More Information	Professor, Honors, Humanities, and English; Susan Resneck Pierce Professor of Humanities and Honors; Director, Honors Program	BA, Stanford University, 1977 MBA, University of Oregon, 1980 MA, St. John's College, 1995 MA, PhD, University of Washington, 1996, 2005
Committee
Greta Austin ggaustin@pugetsound.edu More Information	Professor, Religious Studies	BA, Princeton University, 1990 MA, University of Colorado-Boulder, 1992 MPhil, PhD, Columbia University, 1996, 2000
Gwynne K. Brown gkbrown@pugetsound.edu More Information	Professor, Music (On leave Spring 2021)	BM, University of Puget Sound, 1995 MM, Indiana University, 1997 PhD, University of Washington, 2006
Derek Buescher dbuescher@pugetsound.edu More Information	Professor, Communication Studies and Director of Forensics	BA, Whitman College, 1992 MA, University of California-Davis, 1995 PhD, University of Utah, 2003
Andrew Gomez andrewgomez@pugetsound.edu More Information	Associate Professor, History (On leave Fall 2020)	BS, BA, Florida International University, 2008, 2010 MA, PhD, University of California-Los Angeles, 2012, 2015
Alison Tracy Hale ajtracy@pugetsound.edu More Information	Professor, English	BA, University of California-Berkeley, 1985 MA, Boston University, 1989 MA, San Francisco State University, 1995 PhD, University of Washington, 2005
Kriszta Kotsis kkotsis@pugetsound.edu More Information	Professor, Art and Art History and Co-director, Interdisciplinary Humanities	MA, Loránd Eötvös University, 1990 PhD, University of Washington, 2004
Grace Livingston glivingston@pugetsound.edu More Information	Professor, African American Studies Program	BA, Jamaica Theological Seminary, 1984 MS, PhD, University of Wisconsin, 1991, 2003
Jess K Smith jksmith@pugetsound.edu More Information	Associate Professor, Theatre Arts (On leave Fall 2020)	BA, University of Puget Sound, 2005 MFA, Columbia University, 2011
Katherine Smith kasmith2@pugetsound.edu More Information	Professor, History, and Director, Interdisciplinary Humanities	BA, Vassar College, 1998 MA, MPhil, PhD, New York University, 1999, 2001, 2004
Justin Tiehen jtiehen@pugetsound.edu More Information	Professor, Philosophy (On leave 2020-21)	BA, University of Chicago, 2000 PhD, University of Texas-Austin, 2007