Oberlin College
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124 faculty · 0 courses · data as of 2026-07-02
La Tanya Hall, Associate Professor of Jazz Voice h-index 2
Notable: “Nutrients in Nuts, The Nutritive Value of Fresh and Roasted California Grown Nonpareil Almonds” (1958) · 16 citations
Alvin Chow, Professor of Piano
Amy Lee, Associate Professor of Violin
Andrea McAlister, Professor of Piano Pedagogy
Wendy Beth Hyman, Donald R. Longman Professor of English and Comparative Literature h-index 7
Notable: “Seizing Flowers in Spenser's Bower and Garden” (2007) · 26 citations
Jeffrey Pence, Associate Professor of English and Cinema and Media h-index 4
Notable: “Between Thing and Theory” (2003) · 16 citations
Charlie Ericson, Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Danielle Skeehan, Associate Professor of English and Comparative American Studies, Department Chair
Michael Moore, Professor of Biology h-index 48
Notable: “PGA: a software package for rapid, accurate, and flexible batch annotation of plastomes” (2019) · 1,223 citations
Aaron Goldman, Professor of Biology h-index 19
Revolve around the early history of life on Earth as understood from the perspective of molecular evolution. The evolutionary tree of life coalesces into a single root representing an ancestral population that lived more than 3.5 billion ye
Notable: “Pseudomonas aeruginosa uses a cyclic‐di‐GMP‐regulated adhesin to reinforce the biofilm extracellular matrix” (2010) · 550 citations
Andrew Pike, Assistant Professor of Biology h-index 18
Notable: “Genome of Rhodnius prolixus , an insect vector of Chagas disease, reveals unique adaptations to hematophagy and parasite infection” (2015) · 363 citations
John Petersen, Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology h-index 16
Notable: “Dormitory residents reduce electricity consumption when exposed to real‐time visual feedback and incentives” (2007) · 435 citations
Michael Parkin, Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences h-index 35
Es on the relationship between political candidates, the media, and voters in the United States. He is particularly interested in how candidates use ‘‘new media’’ (e.g., the internet, entertainment television) and the effect this has o
David Forrest, Associate Professor of Politics and Comparative American Studies, Department Chair h-index 35
Marc Blecher, James Monroe Professor of Politics and of East Asian Studies h-index 18
Notable: “Communist Neo-Traditionalism: Work and Authority in Chinese Industry” (1987) · 988 citations
Joshua Freedman, Assistant Professor of Politics h-index 9
Nancy Darling, Professor of Psychology h-index 38
Es on how adolescents influence and are influenced by these social relationships and how these different social spheres interact to change the course of individual development. Because many of these processes aren't amenable to experimental
Notable: “Parenting style as context: An integrative model.” (1993) · 4,263 citations
Sara Verosky, Associate Professor of Psychology h-index 18
Notable: “Mentalizing about emotion and its relationship to empathy” (2008) · 238 citations
Cynthia Frantz, Professor of Psychology and Environmental Studies, Department Chair h-index 16
Es broadly on humans’ relationship with the natural world, with an emphasis on promoting sustainable behavior. Past research in collaboration with Steve Mayer suggests that both individuals and the environment benefit when people feel
Notable: “The connectedness to nature scale: A measure of individuals’ feeling in community with nature” (2004) · 2,916 citations
Travis Wilson, Associate Professor of Psychology h-index 11
Notable: “Social goals, social behavior, and social status in middle childhood.” (2012) · 140 citations
John V. Duca, Robert S. Danforth and Ben W. Lewis Professor of Economics h-index 30
Notable: “Economic policy uncertainty and the credit channel: Aggregate and bank level U.S. evidence over several decades” (2016) · 576 citations
Ron Cheung, Professor of Economics h-index 9
Notable: “Induced earthquakes and housing markets: Evidence from Oklahoma” (2018) · 47 citations
M. Udara Peiris, Associate Professor of Financial Economics h-index 8
Notable: “On dividend restrictions and the collapse of the interbank market” (2010) · 33 citations
Eric Lin, Associate Professor of Business h-index 7
Es on human capital and talent management. Prior to coming to Oberlin, he was on the faculty in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Eric has taught courses on human resou
Notable: “The positive and negative effects of social status on ratings of voice behavior: A test of opposing structural and psychological pathways.” (2021) · 29 citations
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About Oberlin College. Oberlin College in Oberlin, OH reports an overall acceptance rate of 34.0%, an early-round acceptance rate of 38.7%, an SAT middle 50% of 1360–1530, a class size of 701, and a yield of 19.0% based on the most recent Common Data Set filings. First coeducational college in the U.S. and first to regularly admit Black students (1835). World-class Conservatory of Music integrated with liberal arts. Strong progressive tradition.