Colby College

Waterville, ME
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    91 faculty · 412 courses · data as of 2026-07-02

    Economics21 faculty · 40 courses avg h-index 10.2 #70 of 104 in Economics
    Andreas Waldkirch, Chair, Professor h-index 12
    Notable: “Employment Effects of FDI in Mexico's Non-Maquiladora Manufacturing” (2009) · 101 citations
    Daniel LaFave, Associate Professor h-index 10
    Notable: “Farms, Families, and Markets: New Evidence on Completeness of Markets in Agricultural Settings” (2016) · 93 citations
    Michael Donihue, Professor h-index 10
    Notable: “Differential Environmental Regulation: Effects on Electric Utility Capital Turnover and Emissions” (1993) · 169 citations
    Timothy Hubbard, Associate Professor h-index 10
    Notable: “Investigating bid preferences at low-price, sealed-bid auctions with endogenous participation” (2008) · 67 citations
    Courses: Introduction to Financial Decision Making · Financial Accounting and Analysis · Art of the M&A Deal · Principles of Microeconomics · Principles of Macroeconomics · Global Financial Markets +34 more
    Environmental Studies14 faculty · 40 courses avg h-index 18.7
    Karena McKinney, Associate Professor (Chemistry) h-index 29
    Notable: “Measurement of Gas-Phase Hydroperoxides by Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry” (2006) · 421 citations
    Denise Bruesewitz, Director, Associate Professor h-index 24
    Notable: “Nitrate removal, communities of denitrifiers and adverse effects in different carbon substrates for use in denitrification beds” (2011) · 289 citations
    Justin Becknell, Associate Director, Assistant Professor h-index 21
    Notable: “Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests” (2016) · 1,179 citations
    Amanda Gallinat, Visiting Assistant Professor h-index 20
    Notable: “Autumn, the neglected season in climate change research” (2015) · 532 citations
    Courses: Environment and Society · Ecology and Natural History in Maine: Thoreau to Rachel Carson · Environmental Impacts of Pandemics on Human and Natural Systems · Environmental Activism · Sustainable and Socially Responsible Business · Introduction to Ocean Science +34 more
    Science, Technology & Society14 faculty · 40 courses avg h-index 24.3
    Aaron Hanlon, Chair, Associate Professor (English)
    Alicia E. Ellis, Associate Professor (German)
    Andrea Tilden, Associate Professor (Biology)
    Ashton Wesner, Visiting Assistant Professor
    Courses: Science, Technology, and Society · Introduction to Medicine and Society · Information Use and Misuse: Big Data and Artificial Intelligence · Information Before and After Google: Impacts and Technologies · Critical Inquiries in Medical Ethics · War Games: The Cold War in Board Game Media +34 more
    Psychology13 faculty · 40 courses avg h-index 16.3 #47 of 89 in Psychology
    Christopher Soto, Chair, Professor h-index 40
    Notable: “Paradigm shift to the integrative Big Five trait taxonomy: History, measurement, and conceptual issues.” (2008) · 2,569 citations
    Martha Arterberry, Professor h-index 27
    Notable: “Recognition, discrimination and categorization of smiling by 5‐month‐old infants” (2003) · 200 citations
    Jennifer Coane, Associate Professor h-index 19
    Notable: “Test-enhanced learning of natural concepts: Effects on recognition memory, classification, and metacognition.” (2010) · 124 citations
    Jin Goh, Assistant Professor h-index 16
    Notable: “Mini Meta‐Analysis of Your Own Studies: Some Arguments on Why and a Primer on How” (2016) · 1,027 citations
    Courses: Introduction to Psychology · Memories and Memoirs · Worlds of Childhood · Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology I · Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology II · Social Identities +34 more
    Government13 faculty · 40 courses avg h-index 6.5 #71 of 100 in Political Science
    Daniel Shea, Chair, Professor h-index 11
    Kenneth Rodman, Professor h-index 11
    Lindsay Mayka, Associate Professor h-index 11
    Guilain Denoeux, Professor h-index 10
    Courses: Introduction to American Government and Politics · Introduction to International Relations · Introduction to U.S. Law · Writing and Thinking about Law · Utopia in Fiction: Happy Tomorrows or Hells on Earth? · Political Theory of Utopia +34 more
    Computer Science11 faculty · 40 courses avg h-index 11.2 #75 of 88 in Computer Science
    Amanda Stent, Professor h-index 29
    Notable: “TVSum: Summarizing web videos using titles” (2015) · 650 citations
    Ying Li, Associate Chair, Associate Professor h-index 17
    Notable: “An Extended Matrix Factorization Approach for QoS Prediction in Service Selection” (2012) · 104 citations
    Stephanie Taylor, Chair, Associate Professor h-index 13
    Notable: “A novel computational model of the circadian clock in Arabidopsis that incorporates PRR7 and PRR9” (2006) · 234 citations
    Oliver Layton, Assistant Professor h-index 12
    Notable: “A Neural Model of MST and MT Explains Perceived Object Motion during Self-Motion” (2016) · 44 citations
    Courses: Introduction to R · Computational Thinking: Visual Media · Computational Thinking: Science · Computational Thinking: Smart Systems · Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Organization +34 more

    Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Partial — enrichment ongoing.

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    About Colby College. Colby College in Waterville, ME reports an overall acceptance rate of 7.0%, an early-round acceptance rate of 32.0%, an SAT middle 50% of 1470–1530, a class size of 630, and a yield of 49.0% based on the most recent Common Data Set filings. Small LAC in Maine. Recently eliminated loans from financial aid packages. Strong sciences.