Harriet Hayes, PhD

Academic Associate Harriett E. Hayes is the Dean of the Rhodes School of Arts and Humanities at Bridgewater College.

“Betsy” has been engaged in the campus-wide dialogue initiative at Bridgewater for more than a decade. She served as a Co-Principal Investigator on a multi-year, multi-institutional grant, "The Dialogic Classroom: Teaching for Humility and Civic Engagement” funded by the Humility and Conviction in Public Life Project at the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut and the John Templeton Foundation.

She teaches a first year seminar on anthrozoology, as well as a seminar on the sociology of birth and death.