This list of Colby College faculty includes current and former instructors and administrators of Colby College in Waterville, Maine, as well as a list of the endowed faculty positions.Colby College Endowed Chairs: http://www.colby.edu/campaign/endowment/chairs.cfm As of 2025, Colby has 247 instructional employees.
Humanities and social sciences Name Position(s) Joined college Left/retired Alumnus/na? Reference Neil Gross Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology and chair of the department of sociology 2015 active no Aaron R. HanlonNEH/Class of 1940 Distinguished Associate Professor of the Humanities2015activenoTanya SheehanEllerton M. and Edith K. Jetté Professor of Art, chair of the Department of STS, and chair of the Humanities Division2013activeno Jennifer Yoder Robert Diamond Professor of Humanities 1996 active no Catherine L. Besteman Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology 1994 active no Debra Barbezat Mitchell Family Professor of Economics 1992 active no Colby College Faculty, published online 2008, accessed at: http://www.colby.edu/academics_cs/catalogue/2007_2008/faculty/0608faculty.cfm Sarah Willie-LeBreton Assistant professor, African American Studies/Sociology/Women's Studies 1991 1995 no Kenneth A. Rodman William R. Cotter Distinguished Teaching Professor of Government 1989 active no James Rodger Fleming Visiting assistant to Charles A. Dana Professor of STS 1988 2021 no colby.edu Randy A. Nelson Douglas Professor of Economics and Finance 1987 active no Cheryl Townsend Gilkes John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies 1987 2022 no Patrice M. Franko Grossman Professor of Economics 1986 active no G. Calvin Mackenzie Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government 1985 active no David W. Findlay Pugh Family Professor of Economics 1985 active no James W. Meehan Herbert E. Wadsworth Professor of Economics 1973 Emeritus no L. Sandy Maisel William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government 1971 2021 no Thomas J. Morrione Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology 1971 active 1965 Jack D. Foner History 1969 1976 no Albion Woodbury Small Professor of political economy 1881 1888 1876
Natural sciences Name Position(s) Joined college Left/retired Alumnus/na? ReferenceAndrea R. Tilden J. Warren Merrill Professor of Chemistry and Natural History active no Fernando Q. Gouvêa Carter Professor of Mathematics active no D. Whitney King Frank and Theodora Miselis Professor of Chemistry 1989 active no W. Herbert Wilson Leslie Brainerd Arey Professor of Biosciences 1990 2018 no F. Russell Cole Oak Professor of Biological Sciences 2016 no Robert A. Gastaldo Whipple-Coddington Professor of Geology 1999 2020 no Julie T. Millard Dr. Gerald and Myra Dorros Professor of Chemistry active no Charles Conover William A. Rogers Professor in Physics active no Robert T. Bluhm, Jr. Sunrise Professor of Physics active no Allen B. Downey Assistant professor of computer science 1997 2000 no Gordon Enoch Gates Professor of biology 1948 1950 1919 Smithsonian Institution Archives, 96-111, Gates, G. E (Gordon Enoch) 1897-, Gordon Enoch Gates Papers, c. 1931 – 1979. Accessed at: http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_252139 Keith Devlin Carter Professor of Mathematics and chair of Department of Math & Computer Science 1989 1993 no Academic CV, Accessed at: https://web.stanford.edu/~kdevlin/OnePageVita.pdf William T. Bovie Lecturer in science 1939 1949 no Rutherford John Gettens Instructor in chemistry 1923 1927 no The Chesapeake Chemist, Vol 5 No. 1, p1. 1949. Accessed at: http://maryland.sites.acs.org/Chesapeake%20Chemist/Archives/1949/cc-jan-1949.pdfMarshman Edward Wadsworth Professor of mineralogy and geology 1885 1886 no Theophilus C. Abbot Instructor in chemistry, history, Greek, and Latin 1845 1852 1853 Justin Rolph Loomis Professor of chemistry and natural history 1838 no
Athletics Name Position(s) Joined college Left/retired Alumnus/na? Reference Blaise MacDonald Men's ice hockey coach 2012 active no Lori Gear McBride Women's basketball coach 2004 2010 no Timothy Wheaton Harold Alfond Director of Athletics 2015 2017 no Laura Halldorson Women's ice hockey coach 1989 1986 no James Wescott Men's track and cross-country coach 1978 2003 no Jack Kelley Men's ice hockey coach 1976 1977 no John Winkin Men's baseball coach, director of athletics 1954 1974 no Lee Williams Men's basketball coach 1946 1965 no Bill Millett Coach, "Mr. Colby" 1929 1948 1929 Harold McDevitt Men's baseball coach, director of athletics 1909 1910 no
Other Name Position(s) Joined college Left/retired Alumnus/na? Reference Sharon L. Corwin Carolyn Muzzy Director of the Colby College Museum of Art and chief curator 2006 active no Robert B. Downs Librarian 1929 1931 no Peyton R. Helm Vice president for college relations 1988 2003 no Ninetta May Runnals Dean of women, professor of mathematics and education 1920 1949 yes
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