AMHERST COLLEGE - Key Persons


Adam Honig

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Economics and Direcor of the Moss Quantitative Center

Allen Kropf

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Faculty & Staff

Amherst Alumni

Job Titles:
  • President & College Leadership
Since our 1821 founding, Amherst has demonstrated steadfast confidence in the value of the liberal arts and the importance of critical thinking. Small classes, an open curriculum and a singular focus on undergraduate education ensure that leading scholars engage daily with talented, curious students, equipping them for leadership in an increasingly global and complex world.

Amherst Fund

Job Titles:
  • Chief Advancement Officer

Amos B. Hostetter

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  • Life Trustee

Amrita Basu

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  • Staff Member

Andrew J. Nussbaum - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Partner

Anthony C. Bishop

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Faculty & Staff
  • Professor of Chemistry
  • Stem Presidential Teaching Professor of Chemistry Associate Provost and Associate Dean of the Faculty
  • Stem Presidential Teaching Professor of Chemistry Associate Provost and Associate Dean of the Faculty / E - Mail Science Center
Anthony Bishop, Professor of Chemistry at Amherst College and 2010 Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, gives a talk, "Chemical On/Off Switches for Cellular Enzymes," at the Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Conference.

Bishop, Anthony C.

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  • Member of the Faculty & Staff
  • Bishop Lab
  • Research Interests / Bishop, Anthony C. Research Interests

Boris Wolfson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Russian

Catherine A. Stillerman

Job Titles:
  • Academic Department Coordinator - Chemistry

Catherine Epstein

Job Titles:
  • Dean of the Faculty and Professor of History ( Ex Officio, Non - Voting )
  • Provost and Dean of the Faculty
Catherine Epstein has been Amherst's dean of the faculty since 2014 and became the college's first provost and dean of the faculty in 2019. A professor of history at the college since 2000, she is a scholar of German history and the author of four books, including Model Nazi: Arthur Greiser and the Nazi Occupation of Western Poland (Oxford, 2010) and a textbook, Nazi Germany: Confronting the Myths (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015). Provost Epstein has taught a wide range of European history classes, including courses on the Holocaust, Nazi Germany, and World War II. Read more about Provost Epstein ยป Catherine Epstein, Dean of the Faculty and Professor of History (ex officio, non-voting)

Chantal E. Kordula

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Christopher B. Durr

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Daniel Curtis

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  • Staff Member

David A. Novak

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  • Co - President

David W. MacLennan - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Executive Chair of the Board

Don J. Dayarathne

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  • Assistant Chemical Laboratory Coordinator

Dwight M. Poler - CEO, Chairman

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Chairman

Dylan R. Donovan

Job Titles:
  • Chemical Laboratory Coordinator

Edward D. Melillo

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  • Member of the Faculty & Staff

Elaine B. Reilly

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant
  • Member of the Amherst Gift Planning Team

Elizabeth C. Shelburne

Job Titles:
  • Writer

Geoffrey Sanborn

Job Titles:
  • Professor of English

George H. Corey

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Chemistry Chair of Chemistry
  • Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus

Hanna Spinosa

Job Titles:
  • Chief Institutional Research and Planning Officer )

hari stephen

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  • Staff Member

Henry Steele Commager

Job Titles:
  • Professor of History

Jacob H. Olshansky

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry ( on Leave 7 / 1 / 2023 - 6 / 30 / 2024 )

Jeeyon Jeong

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Biology Associate Chair of Biology

Jeffrey Ferguson

Job Titles:
  • Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Black Studies

Jill Miller

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies

John I. Williams

Job Titles:
  • Life Trustee

Johnson Chapel

Dedicated in 1827, Johnson Chapel is home to many of the College's most prominent events, as well as the English department and film and media studies program. The chapel walls are lined with portraits of Amherst presidents, alumni, and others.

Jonathan E. Thai

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Joseph N. Kushick

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus

Julian H. Gibbs

Job Titles:
  • Professor in the Natural and Mathematical Sciences ( Chemistry ), Emeritus
  • Professor of Chemistry

Julie R. Lackner

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Amherst Gift Planning Team
  • Director of Gift Planning

Kenneth S. Rotondi

Job Titles:
  • Laboratory Instructor in Chemistry

Kropf, Allen

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  • Member of the Faculty & Staff

Madison Dearborn - Managing Director

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  • Managing Director

Marc S. Silver

Job Titles:
  • Massachusetts Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus

Martha L. Byorum

Job Titles:
  • Life Trustee

Mary Patterson McPherson

Job Titles:
  • Life Trustee

Matthew N. Hulsizer - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Co - Founder

Melillo, Edward D.

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  • Member of the Faculty & Staff

Missy Roser

Job Titles:
  • Head of Research and Instruction, Frost Library

Naana A. Frimpong

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  • Partner

Nancy Ratner

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  • Associate Dean of Admission and Director of Academic Projects ( Ex Officio, Non - Voting )

Natasha Kim

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  • Staff Member

Nicholas Horton

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Statistics

Olivia Pinney

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  • Staff Member

Patricia B. O'Hara

Job Titles:
  • Amanda and Lisa Cross Professor of Chemistry ( on Leave 7 / 1 / 2023 - 12 / 31 / 2023 )

Paul M. Smith

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Peter A. Nadosy

Job Titles:
  • Life Trustee

Rejji P. Hayes - CFO, EVP

Job Titles:
  • CFO
  • Executive Vice President

Ren Wiscons

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Richmond J. Ampiah-Bonney

Job Titles:
  • Academic Manager of the Chemistry Department

Ryan J. Kurtz

Job Titles:
  • Scientific Instrumentation Specialist

Sandra Burkett

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Chemistry

Sheila S. Jaswal

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Chemistry Faculty Equity and Inclusion Officer

Shelly A. Martin

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  • Budget and Acquisitions Coordinator - Biology

Shirley M. Tilghman

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  • Professor and President Emerita, Lewis - Sigler Institute, Princeton University / Princeton, New Jersey

Simon C. Krinsky - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner

Stephen F. Cartier

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in Chemistry

Stone Point - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director

Ted W. Beneski - CEO

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Managing Partner

Tommy Tashjian

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer in Biology

Trinity Wall

Job Titles:
  • Rector

Wendy Woodson

Job Titles:
  • Roger C. Holden 1919 Professor of Theater and Dance

William A. O'Malley

Job Titles:
  • CEO and Co - Chief Investment Officer

William R. Kenan

Job Titles:
  • Professor of History and Environmental Studies Chair of Environmental Studies