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Wellesley has more than 350 leading scholars and public intellectuals who provide groundbreaking research and informed perspectives available nowhere else, as well as analysis on global issues. Wellesley Media Relations can quickly connect reporters and producers to Wellesley Experts who have the answers and context they need.

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Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Slavic Studies and Professor of History

Nina Tumarkin, Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Slavic Studies and professor of history, is a historian of Russia who has researched the Soviet era; her books include The Living and the Dead: The Rise and Fall of the Cult of World War II in Russia and Lenin Lives! The Lenin Cult in Soviet Russia. Tumarkin was one of only six Soviet experts who briefed President Ronald Reagan and key cabinet members before Reagan’s historic first meeting with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in November 1985 at the Geneva Summit. She recently was a guest on Southern California Public Radio's AirTalk program to discuss the White House’s recent sanctions against Russia in response to election-related cyberhacking.

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Kaleb E. Goldschmitt, latin american, music, african, wellesley
Assistant Professor of Music

Kaleb Goldschmitt, assistant professor of music, is an ethnomusicologist and popular music scholar who, in addition to writing for academic publications, contributes to magazines and blogs like Sounding Out! and Sounds and Colours.

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Professor of Spanish

Marjorie Agosin, professor of Spanish, is a poet, human rights activist and literary critic. Her work examines the literature of human rights in the Americas, Jewish literature, and women writers of Latin America as well as issues of migration, identity, and ethnicity.

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