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Amherst College (/ ˈ æ m ər s t / ⓘ [6] AM-ərst) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States.Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher education in Massachusetts. [7]
History Professor of History, dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts: Jim Kurose: Computer Science 1956– Professor of Computer Science Joseph Levine: Philosophy 1952– Shona Macdonald: Art 1969– Chair of the Department of Art [1] Lynn Margulis: Biological Science 1938–2011 Distinguished Professor of Botany, Biology, Geosciences ...
Poet and professor Richard P. Wilbur 1942, second U.S. Poet Laureate; Amherst College professor Robert Frost was Wilbur's teacher and mentor Linguist and professor Eric P. Hamp 1942, LHD (hon.)'72, The University of Chicago, known for expertise in lesser-known Indo-European languages and dialects.
The Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst College, is located on the campus of Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. It showcases fossils and minerals collected locally and abroad, many by past and present students and professors. The museum is located in the Beneski Earth Sciences Building, completed in 2006. It is a member of Museums10.
The College of Humanities & Fine Arts (in full, University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Humanities and Fine Arts) is a college of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The college was founded in 1915.
Stephen Nissenbaum (A.B. Harvard College, 1961; M.A. Columbia University, 1963; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1968 [1]), is an American scholar, a Professor Emeritus of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst's History Department specializing in early American history through to the nineteenth century.
Craig was born on November 15, 1914, in Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended the Hawken School.A member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst College in 1937, and subsequently studied English at Harvard University receiving an M.A. in 1938 and a Ph.D. in 1947. [2]
Manion was a member of the history department faculty at Connecticut College for ten years before becoming an associate professor at Amherst College in 2016. [5] [2] [6] Manion was also the founding director of the LGBTQ Resource Center at Connecticut College.