January 11, 2023: Professor of Psychology and Health Sciences Deb Gagnon has been a Wells professor since 2004. She primarily teaches in the cognitive and biological areas of the psychology curriculum, but since arriving at Wells, developed interests in the psychology of art and positive psychology and now teaches those courses as well. She also teaches foundational courses in the curriculum, such as Foundations and Methods in Psychology, which is how she discovered Wells’ claim to fame in the field of psychology: The first woman awarded the PhD in psychology (at Cornell), Margaret Floy Washburn, whose first academic appointment was at Wells as a Professor of Psychology and Ethics (1894-1900). It was through the course in Psychology of Art, however, that she came to learn of Wells’ other claim to fame in the field, Ivy Campbell Fisher (Wells 1916-1948), who conducted significant empirical research in the field of aesthetics. Professor Gagnon became enthralled and excited by how the history of psychology coursed through the veins of Wells College and it is this history that she wishes to share with the community in her Learning by the Lake (LxL) talk.

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