Wasch Center Emeritus College
In the fall of 2017, the Wasch Center for Retired Faculty began a two-year pilot program, "Wesleyan Emeritus College."
The Wasch Center Emeritus College was established to encourage undergraduates to explore the prospect of taking individual tutorials within their areas of interest from retired faculty members. Faculty participants in this program have been specifically approved to administer tutorials for credit by their parent departments. Students are encouraged to approach retired faculty members listed in this program to explore the possibility of arranging a tutorial. All of the faculty members participating in the program are willing to give tutorials, but will necessarily be selective in the proposals they accept.
The Wesleyan Connection featured a story about this pilot program here.
If you are an emeritus faculty member interested in offering a tutorial, please fill out this form and email to emoemeka@wesleyan.edu and radelstein@wesleyan.edu.
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Richard P. Adelstein
Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics, Emeritus
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David Beveridge
Joshua Boger University Professor of the Sciences and Mathematics Professor of Chemistry Professor, Integrative Sciences
Show MoreInterests:
Physical Biology and Biophysics, Developmental History of Structural and Molecular Biology, . Science and Modernism (1875-1925), Science and Art -
Jack Carr
Professor of Theater, Emeritus
Show MoreI was the Lighting Designer for both Theater and Dance. Scene Designer for Theater. Head of Production for Theater and Dance. Designer for over 100 Theater and Dance. Professional designer in New York, Hartford, New Haven, U.K., Bucharest, Romania, and Russia.
My interests include lighting Design for Dance or Theater. Scenic Design for Dance or Theater. Written Thesis in Theater History and Dramatic Literature.
I taught Introduction to Production, Lighting Design, Designing for the computer. I advised hundreds of Thesis productions.
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Alex Dupuy
Professor of Sociology, Emeritus
Show MoreI am interested in offering tutorials (but not senior thesis tutorials) on the following topics:
Classical Sociology (Marx and Weber); Theories of capitalism and globalization, unequal geographic development, and global inequality; theories of social/economic justice; Haiti (history, economy, society).
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Al Fry
E.B. Nye Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus
Show MoreI am an organic chemist. My research involves studying the processes that take place when an electric current is passed through a solution containing one or more organic compounds. My aims are both to discover useful new reactions and to understand the mechanisms by which they take place. In recent years, I have also been working in computational electrochemistry, i.e., solving by computations electrochemical problems that cannot be solved by experiment. I expect to continue this computational work during retirement. -
Susan F. Lourie
Adjunct Professor of Dance, Emerita
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Clark Maines
Kenan Professor of the Humanities, Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture, Professor of Archaeology, Emeritus
Show MoreInterests:
I am interested in offering tutorials in medieval archaeology, medieval and early modern architectural history, the history of medieval and early modern monasticism and early modern iconoclasm in France
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Bruce A. Masters
John E. Andrus Professor of History, Emeritus
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Priscilla Meyer
Professor of Russian Language and Literature, Emerita
Show MoreI would enjoy offering a tutorial or directing a thesis on the work of Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Nabokov, or Chekhov with someone who appreciates the pleasures of close reading and intertextual analysis. I’m also interested in translation and happy to work on translating from Russian. -
Russ Murphy
Professor of Government, Emeritus
Show MoreMy research and teaching have focused on U.S. politics and government; less generally on urban politics and local governments; and less generally still, on the origins and fate of the Johnson Administration’s Great Society initiatives --- inter alia, the Voting Right Act, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the Higher Education Act, the Housing and Community Development Act, Medicaid.
My interest was greatly influenced by my work in (and on) New Haven’s prototype anti-poverty program. It was also influenced, more broadly, by an a long-standing wonderment --- dating from my years in Brighton, Rome, Chestnut Hill, Pearl Harbor and Yale --- about the correlates of the seeming inexorable growth of the ministrant and administrative state(s) and the implications of this growth for the viability of “democratic” politics.
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Michael J. Roberts
Robert Rich Professor of Latin, Emeritus
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Rob Rosenthal
John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology, Emeritus
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Yoshiko Samuel
Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures, Emerita
Show MoreI specialized in postwar Japanese literature, especially on Atomic-bomb Literature, Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo; also taught survey courses on modern Japanese literature, and women writers of Japan, Japanese poetry, and aesthetics throughout Japan’s literary history. Advised on senior honor theses.
Also thought Japanese language at all levels.
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Karl Scheibe
Professor of Psychology, Emeritus
Show MoreI taught in Wesleyan’s Psychology Department from 1963-2005, and since then directed the Wasch Center for Retired Faculty, until 2016. My interests are in the connections between psychology and theater, in addictive disorder, and in the Narrative Approach to Psychological Theory and Practice. I have special interests in William James, Erving Goffman, George Orwell, Jose’ Ortega y Gassett among others. I am a licensed clinical psychologist and maintain a modest private practice. I am at home with quantitative as well as qualitative methods. -
Nancy Schwartz
Professor of Government, Emerita
Show MoreInterests:
Classical Greek political theory (Plato, Aristotle), medieval political thought (Moses Maimonides,
St. Thomas Aquinas), classical political sociology (Karl Marx, Max Weber), political representation
and political parties, religion and politics, Israel, and ethical dilemmas of politics (action, leadership,
diplomacy.)
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Robert S. Steele
Professor of Psychology, Emeritus
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Ellen Thomas
Harold T. Stearns Professor of Integrative Sciences, Emerita
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Al Turco
Professor of English, Emeritus
Show MoreI have taught in the quite eclectic English department at Wesleyan from 1967-2009. Specialty in drama – Shakespeare (of course); selected playwrights of the early modern period (Ibsen, Strindberg, Shaw, O’Neill). Also interested in Scandinavian literature in translation ( Knut Hamsun), Wagnerian opera (The RING), late and post-Victorian novel (e.g., Hardy, Conrad). Emphasis on literary classics as the practice of philosophy by another name, as carriers of cultural cross-currents, and as works of art in their own right. -
Ruth Weissman
Walter Crowell University Professor of Social Sciences, Emerita
Show MoreProfessor Ruth Weissman (formerly named Ruth Striegel-Moore) is a clinical psychologist with research expertise in eating and weight disorders. Her scholarship focuses on reducing the burden of suffering associated with eating and weight problems. Her projects have included work on defining and classifying eating disorders, studies of risk factors for the development of eating and weight disorders, treatment outcome studies, and research of health services utilization and costs related to obesity, binge eating, and eating disorders. Professor Weissman teaches Positive Psychology, Seminar on Eating Disorders, and Advanced Research Methods in a variety of topical areas (e.g., epidemiology; psychosocial interventions). -
Arthur Wensinger
Marcus L. Taft Professor of German Language and Literature and Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus
Show MoreMy specialties and interests include two fields: German literature in early 19th and first half of the 20th century, with an emphasis on poetry, drama, and some novels. Also translation from 20th century German literature and the fine arts.
Further specialties include Architectural investigation: the vernacular houses of the 17th/18th c. in the lower Ct River valley; Sponsored by Candlewood Farm Arts Foundation. -
Duffy White
Associate Professor of Russian Language and Literature, Emeritus
Show MoreI recently retired from Wesleyan's Department of Russian Language and Literature where I taught courses that combined the study of 19th to 21st century Russian history with the study of the narrative and dramatic forms developed by Russian writers. I taught a range of courses--from monograph courses on Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov to period courses such as the novels of the 1860s and 1870s and the poetry of 1900-1930. I also taught courses on literary theory, focusing mostly, but not exclusively, on the works of Russian writers and theorists. -
Krishna R. Winston
Marcus L. Taft Professor of German Language and Literature and Professor, College of the Environment, Emerita
Show MoreI would be happy to supervise tutorials, theses, and senior projects focused on German literature and on translation, as well as on environmental studies. I would also consider supervising partial-credit or full-credit tutorials for juniors or seniors whose schedules conflict with GRST212 or 213 but who want to maintain and improve their German to qualify for Fulbright, DAAD, or Baden-Würrttemberg Exchange grants.