Tadler Center for the Humanities

Semahagn Abebe, Assistant Professor    
Samuel Alexander, Faculty Department Lead, Associate Professor   
Sara Allen, Professor, Communication   
Gail Cantor, Chaplin  
Myoung Joo Chun, Director of Interior Architecture Programs     
Rocky Gangle, Professor, Philosophy   
Charlotte Gordon, Distinguished Professor of Humanities
Mark Herlihy, Dean, School of Social Sciences, Communication, & Humanities     
Brandi Johnson, Vice President & Chief Diversity Officer   
Rebecca Kenneally, Chair, Performing Arts   
Rimonda Maroun, Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice   
Elizabeth Matelski, Associate Professor, History   
Kelsey McNiff, Associate Professor, English/Composition 
Josie Schoel, 
Anna Suranyi, Professor, History   
Gabrielle Watling, Professor, English    
Todd Wemmer, Associate Professor, Communication   
Elizabeth Winthrop, Assistant Professor, English  
William Young, Professor, Philosophy 

October, 2019

Phil Deloria, leading Native American studies scholar, delivered a lecture on "The American Indian in American Popular Culture,” Dr. Deloria is Professor of History at Harvard University and a past President of the American Studies Association.  He has authored numerous books, including Playing Indian, which traces the tradition of white “Indian play” from the Boston Tea Party to the New Age movement, and Indians in Unexpected Places, which examines the ideologies surrounding Indian people in the early twentieth century and the ways Native Americans challenged them through sports, travel, automobility, film, and musical performance.  His most recent book is Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract.

February, 2019

Jill Lepore, staff writer for The New Yorker and Harvard historian, discussed "The Rise and Fall of the Fact" in a lecture at Endicott. Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker, and the host of the podcast, The Last Archive. A prize-winning professor, she teaches classes in evidence, historical methods, humanistic inquiry, and American history. Much of her scholarship explores absences and asymmetries in the historical record, with a particular emphasis on the history and technology of evidence. As a wide-ranging and prolific essayist, Lepore writes about American history, law, literature, and politics. She is the author of many award-winning books, including the international bestseller, These Truths: A History of the United States(2018). Her latest book is IF THEN: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future,, longlisted for the National Book Award. She is currently working on a study of the history of attempts to amend the U.S. Constitution.

February, 2020

Christine Schutt, renowned author: Over a span of two days, celebrated fiction writer Christine Schutt gave a public reading of her work and visited two creative writing classes at the College.  On February 18, Schutt read "The Duchess of Albany" from her Pure Hollywood and Other Stories (2018) collection, and then took questions from the audience about the story, her writing process, and her career. The following day she visited two of Professor Elizabeth Winthrop's classes—Writing Short Fiction II and Writing the Novel II.  

The Tadler Center sponsors scholarships for outstanding students in the humanities. For more info, please contact The Office of Financial Aid.