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List of Professors
Name |
Years at Michigan | Position | |
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Ann E. Larimore |
1966 - 1999 |
Professor of Geography and Women's Studies Professor of the Residential College |
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Barbara Sloat |
1976 - 1998 |
Assistant Research scientist Lecturer, Biology in Residential College |
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Barbra Morris |
1974 - 2006 |
Senior Lecturer in English Lecturer in English, Sweetland Writing Center |
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Burton Doan Thuma |
1931 - 1967 |
Professor of Psychology Associate Dean Emeritus College of Literature, Science and the Arts Director Emeritus of the Residential College |
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Carl Cohen |
1955 - 2017 | Professor of Philosophy |
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Charles C. Bright |
1971 - 2016 |
Professor of History and Judaic Studies Professor of Residential College |
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Cynthia Sowers |
1973 - 2021 |
Senior Lecturer, Lecturer IV, Residential College Senior Lecturer Emerita, Lecturer IV Emerita |
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Derrick I M Gilbert |
2002 - 2006 |
Assistant Professor of Afroamerican & African Studies Assistant Professor, Residential College |
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Eliana Moya-Raggio |
1974 - 2000 | Lecturer in Spanish |
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Elizabeth M. Douvan |
1958 - 1995 |
Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies Catharine Neafie Kellogg Professor of Psychology Director of the Residential College |
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Frank W. Thompson |
1985 - 2013 |
Lecturer IV Lecturer IV Emeritus |
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Frederick Cooper |
1982 - 2003 |
Professor of AfroAmerican & African Studies Profesor of History Charles Gibson Collegiate Professor of History |
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Frederick G. Peters |
1979 - 2017 |
Lecturer IV Lecturer IV Emeritus |
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George Kish |
1943 - 1985 |
William Herbert Hobbs Distinguished Professor of Geography Professor of the Residential College |
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Helen Fox |
1993 - 2021 | Lecturer IV in the Residential College |
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Henry Greenspan |
1987 - 2021 |
Lecture IV Lecturer IV Emeritus |
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Jane R. Heirich |
1972 - 2003 | Lecturer in Music |
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Janet Hegman Shier |
1980 - 2021 |
Lecturer IV Residential College, Germanic Language Lecturer IV Emeritus |
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Jennifer Myers |
1996 - 2021 | Lecturer IV in the Residential College |
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Joel L. Cressman |
1977 - 2015 |
Professor of Art Professor of Residential College |
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Martin W. Walsh |
1977 - 2021 | Lecturer IV in the Residential College |
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Matthew Daniel Price |
2004 - 2009 |
Assistant Professor of Art & Design Assistant Professor of Residential College |
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Max A. Heirich |
1967 - 1999 |
Professor of Sociology and Residential College Research Scientist in the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations |
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Naomi A. Andre |
1995 - 2022 | Professor of Afroamerican & African Studies, Women & Gender Studies, Residential College |
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Peter B. Kaufman |
1956 - 1997 |
Professor of Biology Professor of the Residential College |
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Peter Ferran |
1973 - 1994 | Associate Professor of English, Theatre and Residential College |
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Santiago Colas |
1992 - 2017 |
Professor of Comparative Literature Professor of Residential College |
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Susan Pratt Walton |
1996 - 2021 |
Lecturer IV in the Residential College Lecturer IV Emerita |
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Susan Rosegrant |
2008 - 2022 |
Lecturer IV in the Residential College Lecturer IV Emerita |
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Susan Wright |
1979 - 2005 |
Research Scientist in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecturer in the History of Science in the Residential College |
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Theodore Mead Newcomb |
1941 - 1974 |
Mary Ann and Charles R. Walgreen Jr. Professor for the Study of Human Understanding Professor of Psychology Professor of Sociology |
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Thomas E Weisskopf |
1972 - 2010 |
Professor of Economics Professor of Residential College |
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Thomas Willette |
2000 - 2022 |
Lecturer IV in History of Art and Residential College Lecturer IV Emeritus |
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Warren J. Hecht |
1970 - 2016 |
Lecturer IV Lecturer IV Emeritus |