Amy L. Wordelman *94

Amy Wordelman, director of the Five College Center for the Study of World Languages in Amherst, Mass., died Oct. 24, 2018, after a seven-month battle with leukemia. She was 57.

Wordelman earned a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin in 1983, and a master’s of divinity degree from Emory in 1987. In 1990 she earned a master’s degree and in 1994 a Ph.D., both from Princeton. She then taught at Oberlin, Emory, and Canisius.

For the past 22 years she had been on the staff of the Five College Center for the Study of World Languages. Initially she was a program assistant, then assistant, associate, and interim director. Since 2016 she was director of the center. Wordelman had been involved in nearly every aspect of the center, which offers instruction in more than 40 less-commonly taught languages.

Derek Krueger *91, professor of religion at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, wrote that “her fellow graduate students remember her for her practical approach to historical problems, her incisive feminism, and her clear sense of history as an instrument for social justice.”

Wordelman is survived by her husband, Eric R. Loehr, whom she married in 1993; her parents; and a brother.

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