Faculty Profiles

On the latest episode of 13, join Professor of Sociology Paul Lopes for a wide-ranging exploration into the history of jazz, comic books, and the commonalities between Miles Davis and Martin Scorsese.

On the latest episode of 13, Colgate Men’s Basketball Head Coach Matt Langel talks about leading a Division I basketball team, defeating Syracuse twice in a row, and building a culture of excellence.

On the latest episode of 13, Associate Professor of English C.J. Hauser discusses literary influences, her latest collection of short stories, her experience writing deeply personal memoirs for a wide audience, and her love of the X-Files. Hauser also reads a selection from The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays.

Three members of the Colgate faculty have been awarded the University’s 2022 Jerome Balmuth Award for Teaching.

Associate Professor Mary Simonson started out as a piano performance major at Rutgers University, then shifted her undergraduate focus to music history with a double major in women’s studies. Today, she is the Daniel C. Benton ’80 Endowed Chair in Arts, Creativity, and Innovation at Colgate University.

President Joe Biden this week labeled the deaths of more than a million Armenians killed at the hands of Ottoman Turks in 1915 as genocide, a public recognition that Colgate English professor and Pulitzer Prize winner Peter Balakian has urged for decades. 

Prof. Carrie Keating shares insights into the physiology of leadership, the impact of society’s move to remote work, and more.

Join Colgate University Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Ynesse Abdul-Malak and Syracuse University Professor of Sociology Madonna Harrington Meyer as they discuss their research related to grandparents caring for grandchildren with disabilities. 

Konadu’s life work is devoted to knowledge production and the worldwide communities and struggles of peoples of African ancestry.

Take a journey through time and space with Russell Colgate Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, Anthropology, and Native American Studies Anthony Aveni.