CRES Faculty & Staff
At Reed, CRES faculty take different disciplinary approaches to the study of race and ethnicity, including anthropological, creative, historical, literary, and sociological. They also engage with multiple interdisciplinary fields and scholarly traditions: Black Studies, Indigenous studies, performance studies, postcolonial studies, and more.CRES Committee 2025–2026
Radhika Natarajan, Chair: History
Kris Cohen: ArtJoan Kane: English
Shohei Kobayashi: Music
Anand Vaidya: Anthropology
Administrative Coordinator
Charlie Wilcox: PAB 133 (503) 517-5131 - cwilcox@reed.edu
Contributing Faculty
Betsey Brada
Charlene Makley
Paul Silverstein
LaShandra Sullivan
Anand Vaidya
Dance
Oluyinka Akinjiola-Parsons
Victoria Fortuna
Kemba Shannon
Minh Tran
Joan Kane
Kritish Rajbhandari
Pancho Savery
Sarah Wagner-McCoy
French
Hugh Hochman
German
Katja Garloff
History
David Garrett
Ben Lazier
Liz Matsushita
Margot Minardi
Radhika Natarajan
Linguistics
Kara Becker
Mark Burford
Shohei Kobayashi
Morgan Luker
Religion
Tatyana Castillo-Ramos
Michael Foat
Chauncey Handy
Candace Mixon
Kristin Scheible
Russian
Naomi Caffee
Marat Grinberg
Alex Hrycak
Marc Schneiberg
Kjersten Whittington
Spanish
Christian Kroll-Bryce
Theatre
Catherine Ming T'ien Duffly