Our Faculty
From honored poets to internationally acclaimed human rights scholars.
The distinguished interdisciplinary faculty gathered in the SMU MLS program represents the best of the best. From honored poets to internationally acclaimed human rights scholars, more than 40 professors bring a wealth of knowledge in their individual areas of expertise to classrooms that radiate their love of teaching.
Faculty in the News...
Dr. Gary Swaim, Faculty Advisor for the Creative Writing Program in
the Master of Liberal Studies Program, has received notice that he has won the
competition for the 2011 Morris Memorial Chapbook Contest. His collection of
poems, Lighted Matches, will be published from Alabama in 2011. While this is
his second chapbook of poems published, he continues his work in playwriting and
the writing of fiction. His play, Morphine, is scheduled for performance at the ArtCentre Theatre of Plano in March, 2012.
Most recently, he was selected as the 2011 Texas Senior Poet Laureate. Over 200 poets in the U.S. submitted small collections of poems with the total number of poems exceeding 900. Additionally, Dr. Swaim will have two exhibitions of his digital paintings in North Dallas and in the Bishop Arts District.
MLS Faculty
Dr. G. William Barnard - Associate Professor, SMU
Department of Religious Studies SMU University Distinguished Teaching
Professor
Ph.D. University of Chicago
Dr. G. William Barnard's primary areas of research are the comparative philosophy of mysticism, religion and the social sciences, contemporary spirituality, and religion and healing. In 2000, Barnard won the Golden Mustang Award for teaching and scholarship, and from 2002-2004 he was a member of SMU's Academy of Distinguished Teachers. He has published Exploring Unseen Worlds: William James and the Philosophy of Mysticism as well as an edited volume, Crossing Boundaries: Essays on the Ethical Status of Mysticism. He has also written many journal articles and book chapters on a variety of topics, such as pedagogy in religious studies, the nature of religious experience, and issues in the psychology of religion. He has recently completed a second monograph, Living Consciousness: Reclaiming the Intuitive Vision of Henri Bergson.
Courses Taught:
HUMN 6204/6104 Sacred Places and Spiritual Practices
HUMN 6338 The Fire of Transformation: Exploring the Mystical Life
HUMN 6358 Trances and Dances: Investigations of Aboriginal Religious
Life
Charlotte
P. Barner, Ed.D.
Charlotte Barner received an Ed.D. in Human & Organizational Learning from The George
Washington University. Her master of education in
Curriculum Design & Instructional Technologies is with honors from George Mason
University; and her undergraduate degree in Business & Human Resources
Administration is from Barry University.
Charlotte is honored to be the MLS faculty advisor for the Organizational
Dynamics concentration. She has over 20 years of experience in the area of human
and organizational learning and development. Prior to joining SMU, she held
senior corporate leadership positions responsible for creating and implementing
development strategies and systems. Most recently, she established and lead
Organizational Effectiveness for one of North America's top sales and marketing
companies with clients such as AT&T, Best Buy, Disney, HP, Microsoft, and
Wal-Mart, as well as the major movie and gaming producers.
Her philosophy and passion is that the journey of learning and development--from
the individual to the organizational level--can be filled with positive
possibilities that result in a life of well-being. In addition to presenting at
regional and national human resource and training conferences, Charlotte has
authored several articles in professional journals. Most recently, she
co-authored the chapter "The relationship between mindfulness, openness to
experience, and transformational learning" in the Handbook of Reciprocal Adult
Development & Learning, Oxford Press (in press, 2011). She is a member of the
Academy of Management, Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division;
American Society for Training and Development; and Kappa Delta Pi International
Honor Society in Education.
Courses Taught:
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Robert Barner, Ph.D
Dr. Robert Barner currently holds the position of Associate Director of
Executive Education, within the School of Education and Human Development at
Southern Methodist University. He is also a full-time lecturer within the
School's Graduate Program of Dispute Mediation and Conflict Resolution, where he
teaches graduate classes in executive coaching, team building, group
facilitation, and organizational consulting.
Prior to joining SMU, Dr Barner held senior-level corporate HR positions for
several different companies, with three of these position involving support to
global operations. These roles included responsibilities for career planning,
executive development, the assessment and development of high-potential leaders,
managing intervention projects, and directing executive coaching assignments.
Dr. Barner's work experience also includes management consulting to such
companies as GTE, AT&T, Harris, Disney, Honeywell, and United Technologies.
Dr. Barner has presented to several international symposia and conferences,
including the American Society for Training and Development, The Society for
Human Resource Management, The World Future Society, and the OD Network. His
articles on the subjects of career planning, executive coaching, executive
development, and team building have appeared in such publications as The Wall
Street Journal's National Business Employment Weekly, The OD Practitioner,
Career Development International, Team Performance Management, HR Magazine, ad
Training & Development.
Dr. Barner is the author of five books on the subjects of career development,
leadership development and team building, with three foreign language
translations. In addition, he has also been a contributor to several texts,
including Annual Editions: Management 1997/98, 1998/99; McGraw-Hill), The
Quality Yearbook 2001 Edition McGraw-Hill), Inside the Minds: Developing a
Corporate Culture (2006, Aspatore Books), and The Handbook of Adult Development
and Learning (2006; Oxford University Press)..
Dr Barner holds a Masters and Doctorate in Organization Development, a Masters
in Counseling Psychology, and Bachelors degrees in Education and Psychology.
Course(s) Taught:
BHSC 7352 International Consulting at Trinity College: Dublin, Ireland
Dr.
Diane C. Betts-
Adjunct
Assistant Professor, Departments of Economics and History, Southern Methodist
University, June 1992 to the present.
Dr. Betts is a First Vice President for Morgan Keegan & Co., Inc. and a Senior Investment Management Consultant where she provides research and analysis for high net worth individuals, employee benefit plans, and non-profit organizations. Since joining Morgan Keegan in 2000, she has served on the IMCG Advisory Council and is a member of the President's Club. She has been in the field of economics and finance since 1981.
Course(s) Taught:
SOSC 6344 Contemporary Economic Issues
Richard R. Bozorth - Associate Professor of
English
Richard Bozorth is a graduate of Princeton and the University of Virginia, where
he received his Ph.D. Since coming to SMU in 1998, he has taught courses in
British literature, poetry, modernist literature, and LGBT studies. He is
the author of _Auden's Games of Knowledge_ (Columbia UP, 2001), and is currently
completing a book on historical consciousness in modern lesbian and gay
literature.
Courses Taught:
HUMN 6115 Classic
Texts: Shakespeare's Sonnets
HUMN 6309 Reading
Poetry
HUMN 6361 Literature of Religious Reflection
Caroline Brettell
Dr. Caroline Brettell is University Distinguished Professor at Southern
Methodist University and a member of the faculty of the Department of
Anthropology. She has served as Director of Women's Studies (1989-1994), Chair
of the Department of Anthropology (1994-2004), and Interim Dean of Dedman
College (2006-2008) She has written extensively on problems of international
migration in general, and on aspects of Portuguese emigration in particular. Her
most recent books are Civic Engagements: The Citizenship Practices of Indian
and Vietnamese Immigrants (with Deborah Reed-Danahay); Gender in
Cross-Cultural Perspective (6th edition; co-edited with Carolyn Sargent);
Citizenship, Immigration and Belonging: Immigrants in Europe and the United
States (co-edited with Deborah Reed-Danahay) and Twenty-first Century
Gateways: Immigrant Incorporation in Suburban America (co-edited with Audrey
Singer and Susan W. Hardwick).
For more information see,
http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/Academics/Departments/Anthropology/People/Faculty/FullTimeFaculty/Brettell.aspx
Course(s) Taught:
BHSC 6363 The Immigrant Experience
Dr. Michael G. Callaghan
Dr. Callaghan is an anthropological archaeologist who received his Ph.D. in anthropology from Vanderbilt University in 2008. His research interests include the rise and collapse of complex societies, ceramic analysis, gender in archaeology, household archaeology, ritual, and prehistoric political economies. His primary research area is Mesoamerica and the Maya lowlands of Guatemala but he has also conducted fieldwork in Tennessee and Honduras. He has served as archaeologist, lab-director, and Co-Director of the Vanderbilt Cancuen Regional Archaeological Project located in Cancuen, Guatemala. He performed his dissertation research and served as project ceramicist on the Holmul Regional Archaeological Project in Holmul, Guatemala. Callaghan is now Co-Director of the Holtun Archaeological Project located in the Central Peten Lakes Region of Guatemala. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, and Vanderbilt University. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the department of Anthropology at SMU. Before coming to SMU Callaghan taught anthropology courses at Vanderbilt University, Sweet Briar College, and the University of Texas at Arlington. Callaghan has authored articles pertaining to his research in both English and Spanish. Forthcoming publications include a co-edited volume The Inalienable in the Archaeology of Mesoamerica published by the American Anthropological Association, and chapters in forthcoming books including Gendered Labor in Specialized Economies published by the University Press of Colorado and Maya Ceramic Style and Interaction published by the University Press of Florida.
Course(s) Taught:
HUMN 6315 Gender and Sex in Archeology
Dr. Brad Carter -
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Bradley Kent Carter received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1972. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and has been at SMU since 1970. He has taught in the MLS program for many years.
Carter's teaching and research interests include political thought, organization theory, American and British politics, and institutional development. He has written on James Madison and Mary Parker Follett.
Mr. Carter has served as President of the Faculty senate and was Chief Marshal of the University for nineteen years. He has received both the M Award and the Willis M. Tate Award and was twice selected as a Rotunda Outstanding Professor.
Courses Taught:
SOSC 6343 Politics of
a Capitalist Democracy
SOSC 6248 The Changing Landscape of Political Thought
Dr. Edward Countryman - SMU
Distinguished Professor of History Ph.D. Cornell, 1971
Dr. Countryman has been teaching at SMU since 1991. He's been involved with this program almost that long and
has thanked classes in book acknowledgements. Best known as a scholar of
the American Revolution, he's currently writing a short book on
African-Americans and the revolutionary era. His strong interest now is
Woodland Indians in the age of their encounter with Europeans and Africans.
He's working on a large book about the Oneida Nation's long-term relationship
with
SOSC 6314 American Revolution
SOSC 6316 Farms, Plantations & Towns
SOSC 6327 American Citizenship
SOSC 6350 First-Person American Lives
SOSC 7308 The Great Encounter: How Indians and Europeans Met
Dr. Thomas Cox is a Clinical Psychologist (Psy.D.) specializing in child
and adolescent abnormal behaviors. His focus is on developmental issues
surrounding children from both an environmental and biological perspective.
His dissertation research work and teaching have centered on social issues and
physiological brain development in adolescents. He researched, wrote, and
created a character building model for parents of adolescent children, utilizing
the works of Lawrence Kohlberg, Jean Piaget, and Erick Erickson. He also
provides seminars for Parents of Adolescent Children, teaching parents to
understand the chemical and physiological brain development of Adolescents,
along with, the development of Hormones and Social implications of the
Adolescent years.
Professor Cox joined the SMU Psychology Faculty in 2003 and has taught multiple
Psychology Courses at the undergraduate level, where he achieved and was the
recipient of awards in teaching excellence in undergraduate studies. Most
recently he has been teaching courses in the Master's in Counseling Program.
Courses Taught:
BHSC 6310 Understanding the Mind and Behavior
BHSC 6322 Abnormal Psychology of Mind, Body and Health
BHSC 6355 Psych: Discovery of Self
Joan Davidow
Maybe you've heard Joan Davidow during drive time on KERA's Morning
Edition or during All Things Considered. Her commentaries about today's art and
the urban environment air monthly. Or maybe you heard her insightful arts
reviews in the 1980s during her six years as weekly broadcaster on KERA 90.1,
when she also aired national stories on NPR. Director Emerita after nine
years as Dallas Contemporary Director, Davidow transformed the local arts space
into a non-collecting contemporary museum, raising $4.4 million in capital funds
to purchase and move it to its heady industrial quarters in the Design District.
Gaining national attention, The Wall Street Journal recognized Dallas
Contemporary as a respected museum for presenting group exhibitions of young
artists to watch. The international magazine, ArtNews, spotlighted Davidow's
prior ten years at the Arlington Museum of Art for developing Texas' premier
venue for cutting-edge art. Statewide recognition came with a Texas Monthly
profile naming Davidow the most imaginative and adventurous museum director
working in Texas. Locally, D Magazine in its 25th anniversary issue claimed Davidow almost single-handedly carved one of the best modern art museums in
Texas. With a strong commitment to Texas artists, Davidow curated 75
exhibitions advancing the careers of 300 artists. Her great dedication to making
art accessible culminated in the nationally awarded Art ThinkTM
program she authored, teaching all ages to think creatively about contemporary
art. Seventy-five graphic design awards during her double museum career attest
to the high quality catalogues and publications she produced. With an MFA
degree in painting from the University of Florida and a BA in English from
Jacksonville University, Davidow began her museum career at the Dallas Museum of
Art as a McDermott Curatorial Intern in Contemporary Art. In 1994, she was
selected to attend the University of California, Berkeley, for the prestigious
Museum Management Institute (MMI) funded by The J. Paul Getty Trust.
Davidow comes to SMU|MLS to initiate two courses in approaching contemporary art
and share her vibrant love of the art of our day.
Course(s) Taught:
FNAR 6313 Contemporary Art
Silvio De Santis
Professor De Santis received his Ph.D. in Medieval History from the
University of Cagliari (Italy). Before he moved to the United States he taught
graduate and undergraduate courses at the University of Tuscia in Viterbo
(Italy) for six years. His interests range from Italy to the Western
Mediterranean during the late Middle Ages. He specializes in agrarian history,
social history, history of nutrition and medieval slavery. His research focuses
on Italian rural and social history from the 11th to 14th Centuries. From 2006
to 2008, he was a member of the Scientific Committee at Istituto Superiore di
Studi Medievali "Cecco d'Ascoli" - Ascoli Piceno. He attended several congresses
and his researches were published in the main Italian historical journals as "Bullettino dell'Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo" and
"Rivista di
Storia dell'Agricoltura"or in miscellaneous studies. He recently published a
volume by the "Istituto di Storia e Arte del Lazio Meridionale" (Anagni, Italy),
which offers original insights into land Lordship and agrarian topics on the
border between the States of the Church and the Kingdom of Naples. Professor De
Santis is currently proofing a most noteworthy book that will be issued by the
History Department at University of Sassari (Italy). The book addresses complex
questions on economic sides, social conflicts, colonial policies, family
strategies, agriculture production, men/environment relations, in Italy, its
isles, and the Kingdom of Aragon (11th-14th C).
Courses Taught:
SOSC 6319 The Medieval City
SOSC 7318 Man and Food: History of Nourishment through the Middle
Melissa Dowling
Dr. Dowling received her
Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1995. Professor Dowling is interested in
the ways in which Romans responded to the end of democratic Republican
government and the rise of Roman Imperial society. She finds that this
transition resulted in a new ideal of clemency to balance the cruel abuses of
power in the Roman empire. Her first book, Clemency and Cruelty in the Roman
World, explores the spread of clementia as a popular virtue, ultimately
influencing early Christian ideals of mercy.
Dowling's current research examines the connection between ancient ideas of
immortality and changing Roman conceptions of time and temporality. In
particular, she is investigating the contributions of the Egyptian cult of Isis
to Roman ideas of the afterlife, an important predecessor to Christian beliefs
in heaven and hell. She has presented her conclusions on several occasions and
they have also been published as articles.
Course(s) Taught:
HUMN 7301 Greek Mythology and Literature
Martinella M. Dryburgh, Ph.D.
Dr. Dryburgh received her Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Dallas.
Prior to that, she earned a Master of Liberal Arts (now Master of Liberal
Studies) degree as well as a Graduate Certificate in Dispute Resolution from
Southern Methodist University. Her undergraduate degree in Business
Administration is from The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Dryburgh's
current research examines technology's impact on societies and individuals.
Specifically, she studies issues centering on the distinction between public and
private spaces on the Internet. The focus of her dissertation was how social
media affects civil servants and public service ethics. Her dissertation was
nominated by UTD for the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and
Administration Annual Dissertation Award. Her previous research has appeared in
PA Times and Public Integrity, the premier journal of ethics and leadership in
public service. Dr. Dryburgh actively supports the MLS program by regularly
speaking at information sessions and encouraging potential students to explore
the liberal arts.
Course(s) Taught:
HUMN 6304 Technology, Humanity and Identity
Yolette Garcia -
a summa cum laude
graduate of Southern Methodist University, with a Masters of Arts degree in Art
History. She received her
undergraduate degree in Art History from
Yolette recently joined
the Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development at
Southern Methodist University in
Garcia comes to her position as a veteran public
broadcasting journalist and manager for KERA television and radio, the
Dianne Goode -
Dr. Dianne
Goode has been a member of the MLS faculty since 1981, and has served
multiple terms on the MLS Academic Council. She is an art historian who
regularly teaches courses on Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and
architecture, and modern painting. She
also teaches
two-week summer courses abroad in Italy and France, offering MLS students
an extraordinary and memorable opportunity to experience the magnificent
artworks in their historical and cultural contexts.
Dr. Goode
lectures widely to school, church, and civic groups, most frequently on
Christian imagery. Her research involves multiple aspects of Italian art: Marian
imagery, the relationship between devotional texts and images, the development
of altarpiece imagery, and the role of narrative.
Courses Taught:
SMU
Campus:
FNAR 6115
Manet's
Bar at the Folies Bergere
FNAR 6309 Art of the Italian Reniassance
FNAR 6317 Art of the Baroque
FNAR 6322 Modern Movements in European and American Painting
Abroad:
FNAR 6308 Renaissance and Baroque Art in Italy
FNAR 6323 Modern Painting in France: Paris and Provence
Randy Gordon - B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Kansas; J.D., Washburn; LL.M., Columbia; Ph.D., Edinburgh
Randy Gordon is a partner in the Antitrust Group of Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP, where he has also served as the Firm's first Professional Development Partner. He is a past Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, an Adjunct Professor of Law and Lecturer in English at Southern Methodist University, a fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Hiett Prize, the largest humanities-specific prize in the U.S. His professional activities include service as Immediate Past Chair of the State Bar of Texas Antitrust & Business Litigation Section, a member of the Professionalism Committee of the Legal Education Section of the ABA, a member and former board member of the Professional Development Consortium, and an elected member of both the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet and the American Law Institute. Randy is also an Advisory Board Member of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, the Hall Center for the Humanities, and the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas and a Key Collaborator in the Beyond Text project at the University of Edinburgh School of Law. A frequent lecturer and writer, he is the Senior Host of “The Writer's Studio,“ a series of interviews with contemporary authors broadcast throughout the country by KERA/National Public Radio. He is recognized in antitrust by both Chambers & Partners and Who's Who Legal. For more information, visit: http://www.gardere.com/Attorneys/Attorney_Bio/?id=1414
Courses Taught:
HUMN 6115/Classic Texts:
Marcel Proust and the Modern Tradition: Literature, Philosophy, Art
HUMN 6115/Classic Texts:
Discovering Proust: Swann's Way and the
Texture of Memory
HUMN 6318 Americans in Paris: The Lost Generation and Its Milieu
HUMN 6378 Literature of the Great Plains: A Study in Environment
HUMN 6390 Law and Literature: Parallel Interpretive Strategies
Rabbi David S. Gruber
Rabbi Gruber is a native of Evanston, Illinois, and an eighth generation rabbi.
He grew up in Israel, where he served as a tank gunner in the IDF Armored Corps,
and attended Yeshivat Sha'alvim, one of the most prominent institutions of
higher Jewish learning in Israel. He holds a B.A. in History from Thomas Edison
State College, and an M.S. in Educational Leadership from Walden University. He
has served in educational and religious leadership positions in the Jewish
community on three continents. He is the only person to date to be ordained both
by the Chief Rabbis of Israel, and the Humanist Society.
Course(s) Taught:
HUMN 7301 How the People of the Book Read It
Dr. Rick Halperin
"There is no such thing as a lesser person."
Rick Halperin is Director of the Southern Methodist University Human Rights Education Program (http://www.smu.edu/humanrights/), and teaches courses at SMU including: America's Dilemma: The Struggle for Human Rights; America and the Age of Genocide; and America Enraged: From Brown to Watergate, 1954-1974.
Halperin has served on the Board
of Directors of Amnesty International USA from 1989-1995, and again from
2004-2010; he served as Chair of the Board from 1992-1993 and again from
2005-2007. He is also a member of the National Death Penalty Advisory Committee,
the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and the Texas Coalition to
Abolish the Death Penalty (serving as President from 2000-2006 and from 2007 to
present).
Halperin has been involved in many human rights monitoring projects, including
an Amnesty International delegation which investigated the conditions of the
Terrell Unit (Texas death row facility) in Livingston, Texas. In 1998, he was
eyewitness to a lethal injection execution in the death chamber in Huntsville,
Texas. Halperin also participated in a U.N. Human Rights delegation and
inspected prison conditions in Dublin, Ireland, and Belfast, Northern Ireland
for a report by the Irish Prison Commission, and he participated in a human
rights monitoring delegation in El Salvador in 1987.
In addition to his work against the death penalty, Halperin is also active in
other areas of human rights. He works with a variety of organizations which seek
improvements in human rights on behalf of women, children, gays and lesbians,
indigenous persons, survivors of torture, imprisoned political prisoners of
conscience and human rights defenders, journalists, and healthcare professionals
who are under non-stop assault by governments around the world.
Halperin leads groups of interested persons, including students, faculty, and
community members, on human rights educational journeys three times each year to
places such as Argentina, Cambodia, Rwanda, South Africa, El Salvador, Bosnia,
and numerous Holocaust sites across Europe. Every December he takes a group to
death camps and other Holocaust sites in Poland for two weeks. These trips are
designed to pay tribute, in part, to those men, women and children who were
destroyed in the camps, as well as to honor those who survived the experience. (http://smu.edu/newsinfo/stories/rick-halperin-trip-dec2006.asp) It
was, and remains, necessary to remember that the human spirit is capable of
enduring and vanquishing the most unimaginable horrors that humanity can
produce.
Halperin received his Ph.D. from Auburn University, his M.A. from Southern Methodist University and his B.A. from George Washington University. He is frequently interviewed on television and radio as well as by print media, and he speaks nationally and internationally on a wide range of human rights issues including genocide and the death penalty.
Courses Taught:
SOSC 6309 Struggle for Human Rights
SOSC 6355 America: Integration-Watergate
SOSC 7303 In the Camps
SOSC 7305 Special Topics in Human Rights: The Holocaust
SOSC 7316 Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia
SOSC 7317 Human Rights: Japan
Dr. Harris has taught literature and writing for over twenty-five years with special emphasis on the connection between learning from other writers and application of that knowledge to writing projects. She has helped more than 100 writers develop, edit, and publish their work and has guided more than 85 books into print for literary and mass markets. Co-author of a literature and composition text, she has published articles, monographs, and reviews.
FNAR 6306 Reading to Write: Learning from the Masters
FNAR 6396 Time Past, Time Present Storytelling with a Backdrop of History
HUMN 6115 Classic Texts: Portrait of a Lady, Invisible Man, Short Fiction of
Edgar Allan Poe, Short Fiction of Eudora Welty, Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn, Heart of Darkness, Angle of Repose, All the King's Men, The House
of Seven Gables, and Billy Budd
Dr. Adam L. Herring
Adam L. Herring is an art historian who has received fellowships from the Jacob K. Javits Foundation, Dumbarton Oaks, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1999, his doctoral dissertation won Yale University's Frances Blanshard Prize. His book, Art and Writing in the Maya Cities, AD 600-800: A Poetics of Line was published by Cambridge University Press in 2005, and won the Dallas Museum of Art's Vasari Award that year. Herring's primary areas of research are art and writing of the ancient Americas, colonial Latin America, and cultural history and theory. he has taught undergraduate and Cultural Institute courses at SMU-in-Taos for ten years.
Courses Taught:
FNAR 6101/6201 Art in Hispanic New Mexico
FNAR 6310 Art of the Maya
FNAR 6321 Great Books of Art History
Holly Hill
Holly Hill is Emerita Professor of Speech & Theater at John Jay College of The City University of New York and former New York Theatre Corresondent for The Times of London. Her most recent book, Salaam.Peace: an Anthology of Middle Eastern American Theatre, was co-edited with Egyptian scholar Dina Amin.
Course(s) Taught:
HUMN 7304 Middle Eastern American Literature
Dr.
Leroy Howe
Leroy Howe is Professor emeritus of Pastoral Theology at SMU's Perkins School of Theology, where he taught courses in theology and pastoral care and counseling, including dream interpretation, for 30 years. He now teaches regularly in the MLS program. Dr. Howe's published writings include eight books and numerous articles and reviews in academic, professional, and general audience journals and magazines. His website, HoweAbout.com, contains twice monthly articles on faith, theology, and everyday living.
Courses Taught:
HUMN 6323 The
Significance of Dreams
HUMN 6340 Psychoanalysis and Religion
Dr. Robert Hunt-
Director of Global Theological Education
Robert Hunt was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1955. After attending school in Austin and Richardson, he majored in History at the University of Texas in Austin. After completing a Master of Theology at Perkins School of Theology (SMU) he served as associate pastor of the Bethany United Methodist Church in Austin, Texas. He and his wife Lilian were married in 1979. Lilian is a native of Sarawak, Malaysia who attended Martin College, SMU, and the University of Texas. She is a music therapist practicing in the Dallas area. They have two children. Naomi is a graduate of Boston University and the Diplomatic Academy of the University of Vienna and is currently working in Vienna. Elliott is a graduate in Middlesex University and works in London.
In 1984 Robert and Lilian became missionaries with the General Board of Global Ministry. In 1985 they moved to the Philippines and then Kuala Lumpur, where they taught at the Seminary Theology Malaysia. At STM Robert was the director of extension education, and taught a wide variety of courses. He was also an editor of the current Malay translation of the Bible. He received a Ph.D. in History from the University of Malaya in 1993, focusing on the history of Bible translation and Christian Muslim relations. From 1993 to 1997 Robert and Lilian taught at the Trinity Theological College, where Robert taught world religions and directed the education by extension and field education programs. From 1997 to 2004 he was pastor of the English Speaking United Methodist Church of Vienna, and an adjunct professor at Webster University in Vienna in Religions and International Studies. Dr. Hunt is presently Director of Global Theological Education at the Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. He lectures on World Religions, Christian missions, and Islam. He is author of books on Malaysian Church history, and more recently works on Islam including: Islam in Southeast Asia, Muslim Faith and Values: What Every Christian Should Know and Muslim Citizens of the Globalized World. He has also published articles in a number of journals and reference works. His current projects include a study of Christian identity in religiously plural contexts, a study on the relationship of Muslim identity to power-sharing in secular societies. He participated in diverse conferences on Christian Muslim dialogue in Malaysia, Indonesia, Austria, Macedonia, Spain, and the United States.
"The focus of my professional life, as a teacher and pastor, has been interpretation: helping people understand one another, their history, different cultures and religions, and themselves. I believe that every person, culture, and society has something valuable to offer to others, and that we discover this through critical and appreciative study, open dialogue, and a willingness to learn."
Courses Taught:
HUMN 7312 Islam, State &
Society
HUMN 7315 Religions of the East
Dr. Camille Kraeplin
Dr. Camille Kraeplin spent nearly a decade working as a food writer/restaurant critic and features editor for publications including The Dallas Morning News and Texas Monthly. She developed an interest in studying media representations of racial and ethnic groups while working as a newspaper reporter in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her research focuses on the intersection of race, ethnicity, class and gender and how these factors affect both media use and portrayals, especially portrayals of women. Kraeplin also completed one of the first broad-based studies of media convergence. She is the author of a number of journal articles and book chapters and often presents her work at conferences. She enjoys teaching such critical studies courses as "Women & Minorities in the Media" and "Human Rights & the Journalist" for the Journalism Division, and was recently named director of Meadows new Fashion Media minor. She received both her master's and doctorate in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin.
Course(s) Taught:
HUMN 6311 Objectivity and Bias in News
Dr. LaiYee Leong - Research
Fellow at the John G. Tower Center for Political Studies
Dr. Leong received her B.A. (1994) and Ph.D. in Political Science (2008)
from Yale University. At SMU, Dr. Leong teaches undergraduate courses in
Comparative Politics, the Politics of Southeast Asia, the Politics of the Middle
East, and the Politics of Islam. She also teaches an SMU-in-Bali Study Abroad
course on Politics and Religions, as well as courses for the Continuing and
Professional Education program. Dr. Leong's scholarship focuses on Islamic
groups and ideological change; she is working on a book analyzing how such
groups in Indonesia played a positive role in the country's democratization. She
most recently contributed a chapter on Islam and the Indonesian state to a
forthcoming volume titled "Sacred Matters, Stately Concerns: Essays on Faith and
Politics in Asia." Dr. Leong's other research interests include regime
transitions, social movements, and development. Dr. Leong is a native of
Singapore, but has lived in various parts of the U.S. for two decades. Outside
of academia, she has professional experience working as a news journalist
covering political developments in Southeast Asia.
Course(s) Taught:
SOSC 6302 Democracy and Development in Southeast Asia
Dr. Bruce Levy - PhD in American Studies from Brown University
Dr. Levy has published articles on late nineteenth century American Literature and Culture and the history of American social reform. He is currently completing a book on the Midwest and American Modernism, and is at work on a new book on the idea of economic freedom within American culture. At SMU, he directs the Center for Academic-Community Engagement, which involves students in coursework that engages them as well in community work. He teaches courses on Adolescence in America, Social Class and Democracy, the idea of "community" as both a lived and imagined experience, and the literatures of minorities.
Course(s) Taught:
HUMN 6397 Troubled Youth: Educating the Young in America
Dr. John Lewis -
After undergraduate and graduate studies in English and American Language
and Literature at Harvard, where he was a member of Lowell House and a Junior
Fellow in the Society of Fellows, John Lewis joined the SMU English Department
in 1970, specializing in American Literature. From the first he has been heavily
involved in the design and teaching of general education courses at SMU, and
this involvement has led him to broaden his interests to include work in Western
cultural and intellectual history from the Greeks forward, with a speccial
interest in early modern America and Europe. He has also designed and taught
courses in poetry, creative and expository writing, and linguistics. His current
course offerings in the MLS program include "Shakespeare from Page to Stage,"
"The Muse in Arms: War and the Literary Imagination," "A Book of Begettings: the
Bible and Literature," "Remembering the Sixties," "Tell About the South: Voices
in Faulkner's Novels," "Our Stories, Ourselves: Journaling as a Path to
Self-Discovery," "Reading Darwin: An Introduction to his Major Works," and
"Writing and the Search for Self." His current research interests center on the
nineteenth-century roots of American modernism and the contemporary writer
Thomas Pynchon.
Courses Taught:
HUMN 6106 Reading Darwin: An Introduction to his Major Works
HUMN 6310 Tell About the South: Voices in Faulkner's Novels
HUMN 6313 Shakespeare from Page to Stage
HUMN 6328 The Muse in Arms: War and the Literary Imagination
HUMN 6335 A Book of Begettings: the Bible and Literature
HUMN 6354 Remembering the Sixties
HUMN 6374 Writing and the Search for Self
HUMN 6376 Our Stories, Ourselves: Journaling as a Path to
Self-Discovery
Dr. Anthony Mansueto
Anthony Mansueto is a scholar of religion with roots in social theory, philosophy, and theology. He holds a Ph.D. in Religion and Society from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley (1985) and is the author of The Death of Secular Messianism: Religion and Politics in an Age of Civilizational Crisis (Cascade 2010), Spirituality and Dialectics (with Maggie Mansueto, Lexington 2005), as well as four other books. His articles have appeared in leading scholarly journals such as the Journal of Religion and Filosofskie Nauki, as well as important journals of public opinion such as Commonweal and Tikkun. A leader in in interreligious dialogue and organizing, he has led pioneering efforts to create a new kind of public arena, democratic and pluralistic, but constituted by deliberation regarding fundamental questions of meaning and value and has served as a senior advisor to religious and political leaders both in the United States and internationally. He has served as a faculty member, program director, department chair, and dean and currently President and Senior Scholar at Seeking Wisdom, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, interfaith research, education, and organizing institute.
Courses Taught:
HUMN 6313 Extending the Convivencia: Meaning and Value Across Wisdom
Traditions
HUMN 6316
SOSC 6368 Silk Roads and Silicon Superhighways: Religion, Conquest, and
Trade
Dr.
Nancy Cain Marcus -
Marsha McCoy has degrees from Bryn Mawr College, Oxford University,
Harvard University, and Yale University, and has taught at Harvard, Yale, New
York University, and elsewhere. She has held a Fulbright Fellowship at the
University in Munich, Germany, and a Mellon Fellowship at New York University,
and has received scholarships for study at the American School of Classical
Studies, Athens, Greece, as well as at the American Numismatic Society in New York
City. She has been a finalist numerous times for the National Collegiate
Teaching Award of the American Philological Association.
Her areas of interest include Cicero and the late Roman Republic, the subject of
her doctoral dissertation and a book in preparation, Augustan ideology,
Petronius and cultural politics under Nero, Apuleius and Roman culture in the
2nd c. CE, Roman numismatics, Roman law, as well as Greek culture and
civilization.
She has developed and taught a wide variety of courses in Classical languages,
literature, history, and civilization, and has been awarded grants by NITLE
(National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education) and Sunoikisis
(southern consortium of liberal arts colleges) to help create and teach
nationally podcast and other technology-enhanced courses. She received a grant
from the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC, to participate in
workshops on incorporating into existing courses the Reacting to the Past
curriculum, wherein students assume the roles of historic personalities at
pivotal points in history and replay the historical moment to reconfigure the
outcome. She uses films and other media in her courses and regularly supplements
her teaching with a wide variety of field trips to plays, museums, and other
events.
She has travelled extensively throughout Europe and the Mediterranean, including
archaeological trips to Turkey and Egypt. She has visited Greece and Italy many
times; most recently she co-lead a student and alumni group on a three and a
half week study trip to mainland Greece and Crete. She has given numerous papers
and invited lectures at national and international conferences, and has
published widely in her fields.
HUMN 7333 Reading Plato in Gatsby
SOSC 7313 Athens and Democracy: The Great Experiment
Dr.
Alexis McCrossen -
She has written a book about the history of Sunday in the United States (HOLY DAY, HOLIDAY: THE AMERICAN SUNDAY, Cornell University Press, 2000), edited and contributed to a volume about consumer culture in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands (LAND OF NECESSITY: CONSUMER CULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES-MEXICO BORDERLANDS, Duke University Press, 2009), and is finishing a book about timekeeping and time consciousness in the United States (MARKING MODERN TIMES: KEEPING TIME IN THE UNITED STATES, 1840-1940, University of Chicago Press, forthcoming).
An associate professor of history since 2001, Professor McCrossen teaches the following courses for the MLS program: the history of consumer culture in the United States and the history of cultural institutions in the United States. In addition to her busy research and teaching agenda, Professor McCrossen serves on the SMU Faculty Senate, SMU's History Department's graduate committee, SMU's Clements Center for Southwest Studies executive committee, and SMU's Ethnic Studies advisory board.
Course(s) Taught:
SOSC 6307 History of Consumer Culture in the United States
Dr. Njoki McElroy -
A graduate of Xavier University in New Orleans, she received her masters and PhD from the School of Speech at Northwestern University.Dr. McElroy taught at Northwestern for 35 years and developed Black Literature courses. She began teaching in the Master of Liberal Studies program in 1987. Dr. McElroy has enriched the MLS program for many years with her background and passion for teaching. A noted folklorist, storyteller and published author and playwright, Njoki has performed throughout the US, Africa, Europe and the Caribbean. With a strong concern for outreach cultural programs for underserved communities, McElroy founded the "Back Home Folk Festival" an annual folk art festival for Texas and Illinois. Her plays explore the historical and sociological experiences of African Americans as entertainers. She recently completed a memoir of her life growing up in Texas during the Jim Crow years, coming of age in New Orleans and migrating to Chicago during the Great Migration period.
Courses Taught:
HUMN 6330 Wit and Humor In African America Literature
HUMN 6350 The Art of African American Storytelling
HUMN 6351 Interpretation /Performance of African American Poetry
HUMN 6352 The Influence of Folklore on African American Fiction
Thomas R. McFaul
Thomas McFaul received his Ph.D. from
Boston University in Sociology of Religion and Social Ethics. During his
academic career of more than 40 years, he has taught a broad range of courses on
several campuses, received 2 teaching awards, and held numerous administrative
positions.
His scholarly interests combine Sociology, Ethics, Philosophy, and Religion. He
is an emeritus faculty member at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois
in Ethics and Religious Studies. He also has a passion for studying the future
and is a long-standing member of the World Future Society. He has published many
articles and 6 books, including a trilogy on the future: The Future of Peace and
Justice in the Global Village: The Role of World Religions in the Twenty-First Century
(2006), The Future of Truth and Freedom in the Global
Village: Modernism and the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century (2010), and
The Future of God in the Global Village: Spirituality in an Age of Terrorism and
Beyond (2011).
In addition to his teaching and scholarship, Dr. McFaul has extensive
administrative experience in creating new courses and programs. He has served as
the Director of Human Sciences at the University of Houston/Clear lake, Dean of
the Yale Gordon College of liberal Arts-University of Baltimore, and Vice
President for Academic Affairs at George William College. His lifelong
commitment to an interdisciplinary method of learning has led him to look for
ways to combine multiple viewpoints that stretch beyond the boundaries of
academic disciplines while integrating their best insights.
Course(s) Taught:
SCCL 6303 Bioethics and Public Policy
John A. Mears
John Mears received his B.A. from the University of Minnesota and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, then spent three years at New Mexico State University before joining the faculty at SMU in 1967. A specialist in modem European history, he initially focused his attention on seventeenth-century Austria. As his interests broadened in the 1980s, he joined the World History Association, serving as its president from 1994 to 1996. He is currently completing a book that offers an interpretative overview of humanity's past, tentatively entitled To Be Human: A Perspective on Our Common History. Professor Mears has taught in the MLS program from its inception, regularly offering a round of three courses:
SOSC 6367 Revolution: An Historical Perspective
SOSC 6376 Intellectual and Cultural History of Modern Europe: Renaissance
to Enlightenment
SOSC 6377 Intellectual and Cultural History of Modern Europe: Romanticism
to the Present
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Vicki Meek -
Ms. Meek received her
Bachelor of Fine Arts from Tyler School of Fine Arts in Elkins Park,
Pennsylvania and her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin,
Madison. In addition to her training in fine arts, Ms. Meek did Post
Graduate work in Art History at Queens College in New York.
Ms. Meek's work is included in numerous private collections and part of the public collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Norwalk Community College in Norwalk, Connecticut, and the African-American Museum in Dallas. Although she no longer works actively as an artist in the public art arena, she continues to serve on numerous national selection panels for public art projects.
Vicki Meek adds to her career a long history as an independent curator. Having curated over sixty exhibitions, she served as an Adjunct Curator for the African American Museum in Dallas. Ms. Meek also writes cultural criticism for ArtLies: A Texas Art Journal where she also served as board secretary. Ms. Meek is currently the Manager of the South Dallas Cultural Center.
Course(s) Taught:
FNAR 6302 The Black Aesthetic in the Visual Arts
Paul Otremba
Paul Otremba is a poet and critic whose work has focused on modes of understanding and representation in poetry, including investigations of artworks, film, and other media as subjects alongside experiences drawn from Midwestern landscapes and urban centers both in America and abroad. He is currently finishing a second manuscript, which includes experiments in forms and occasions for poetry, including psalms, sonnets, epistles, and literary allusion. Ph.D., Houston.
Publications: The Currency, Four Way Books, 2009.
"A Space for Desire and the Mutable Self: Karen Volkman's Experimentations with
the Lyric," in American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics, Claudia
Rankine and Lisa Sewell eds. Wesleyan University Press, 2007.
Courses/Seminars: Introductory Poetry Writing, Intermediate Poetry Writing,
Advanced Poetry Writing.
Spring 2012 Course: FNAR 6394 Creative
Poetry II
Hugh Parmer
Hugh Parmer was appointed by President Clinton to lead the Humanitarian Response Bureau of the U. S. Agency for International Development. In that capacity he managed U. S. government humanitarian and disaster relief efforts in over eighty countries. He was on the ground during fourteen of those crises including famine in East Africa, hurricanes in the Caribbean, and the humanitarian relief efforts surrounding the Kosovo War. After his government service Mr. Parmer served as President of the American Refugee Committee, a private non-profit relief organization with 2000 employees and programs in a dozen disaster stricken countries. Prior to his ten year career in humanitarian relief, he was active in politics and local govenment in Texas serving as Mayor of Fort Worth and for eight years in the Texas State Senate. He is a licensed attorney and mediator in Fort Worth and an adjutant professor in the International Studies Program at the University of North Texas.
Course(s) Taught:
HUMN 6321 International Humanitarian Aid in a Post Cold War World
Annette R. Patterson
- M.S., C.G.C.
Annette Pattersonreceived her undergraduate degree in biology from Southern Methodist University, and her Master's degree in Human Genetics from Sarah Lawrence College in New York.
Annette Patterson is a cancer genetic counselor with a
background in biochemistry research and a special interest in medical ethics.
From 2000 to 2007 she worked in cancer genetics at the UT Southwestern
Medical Center, functioning in both clinical and research capacities.
She is currently employed as a cancer genetic counselor at
Course(s) Taught:
SCCL 6305 Genetics and Ethics (WI)
Dr. Darwin Payne - a professor of communications emeritus at Southern Methodist University, where he taught journalism for thirty years.
He holds a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Texas at Austin, a master of arts degree in history from Southern Methodist University, and a Ph.D. in American Civilization from the University of Texas at Austin.
He has written several books on Dallas history, the most prominent being Big D: Triumphs and Troubles of an American Supercity in the 20th Century (Three Forks Press, 1994 and revised in 2000. Others include As Old As Dallas Itself: A History of the Lawyers of Dallas, the Dallas Bar Associations, and the City They Helped Build (Three Forks Press, 1999), From Prairie to Planes: How Dallas and Fort Worth Overcame Politics and Personalities to Build One of the World's Biggest and Busiest Airports (Three Forks Press, 1999, with Kathy Fitzpatrick), Dallas: An Illustrated History (Windsor, 1982), Dynamic Dallas: An Illustrated History (Heritage, 2002), and Dallas Citizens Council: An Obligation of Leadership (2008).
His most recent publication is Quest for Justice: L.A. Bedford Jr. and the Struggle for Equal Rights in Texas, published by SMU Press in 2009.
He was one of the researchers who helped prepare information and gather archival materials for the Old Red Museum.
His biography of Sarah T. Hughes, entitled Indomitable Sarah: The Life of Judge Sarah T. Hughes, published by the SMU Press, won the Texas State Historical Association's Liz Carpenter Award for the best book on women's history for 2004, and was a finalist in the Texas Institute of Letters' for the best non-fiction book of the year. His biography of the writer Owen Wister entitled Owen Wister: Chronicler of the West, Gentleman of the East, published in 1985 by the SMU Press, won the Texas Institute of Letters' award for best scholarly book of 1985.
His biography of the historian and editor Frederick Lewis Allen (The Man of Only Yesterday), was published by Harper & Row in 1975. His biography of Dallas' first African American judge, Quest for Justice: Louis A. Bedford Jr. and the Struggle for Equal Rights in Texas, will be published in February 2009 by the SMU Press.
Payne is a former reporter for the Fort Worth Press, Dallas Times Herald, and KERA-TV's "Newsroom."
Course(s) Taught:
SOSC 6311 Seminar in Dallas History
Tony Pederson -
received a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism/communication from Baylor University and a Master of Arts in journalism from Ohio State University.Pederson
holds the rank of professor and is the Belo Distinguished Chair in Journalism at
Southern Methodist University. In
that position he chairs the Division of Journalism in the Meadows School of the
Arts. Before assuming the Belo
chair in June of 2003 he was senior vice president and executive editor of the
Houston Chronicle.
His teaching at SMU focuses on
media ethics, and he has written extensively on the subject and serves as a
local resource for media in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
He lectures and speaks frequently on mass media issues, especially
relating to converging media. In the
MLS program he teaches HUMN 6380:
News Media in Contemporary Society.
He is a longtime activist in First Amendment issues and international press freedom issues, especially in Latin America. He was president of the Inter American Press Association in 1999-2000.
Course(s) Taught:
HUMN 6380 News Media in Contemporary Society
Dr. Gerry Perkus
A native of New York, with a B.A. from Brooklyn College, and a PhD in English
literature from the University of Rochester , Dr. Gerry Perkus has served as an
Adjunct Professor of Humanities in the MLA/MLS program since 1986 and has taught
literature, writing, and interdisciplinary courses at colleges and universities
in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Texas. At SMU, he has taught
Business Communications in the Cox School of Business and has also held the
position of Director of Off-Campus Education for the School of Engineering and
Applied Science. In addition to Business and the American Dream in Literature,
Dr. Perkus' teaching and research interests include Love in Literature, and
Psychological Fiction. He thoroughly enjoys working with mature students in the
MLS program, encouraging them to integrate the subject matter of literature with
their own life-experience to gain new insights. His hobbies include travel,
oil-painting, jazz piano, swimming, and racquetball.
Courses Taught:
HUMN 6115 Classic Texts: Gustave Flaubert and Madame Bovary
HUMN 6314 Business and the American Dream in Literature
HUMN 6315 16 Love in Literature I and II
Dr. Benjamin A. Petty
Benjamin A. Petty is a native of New Orleans who graduated with honors in English from Tulane University. Subsequent schooling earned him a Master of Divinity degree from Emory University and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston University. He began teaching at SMU in 1953 in the undergraduate Religion Department. Soon he taught also in the Philosophy Department and in time became its Chairman. Dr. Petty was among the first teachers in the MLA (now MLS) program. His course offerings are in the field of the history of philosophy and his specialty is the philosophy of religion.
Courses Taught:
HUMN 6115 Classic Texts:
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
HUMN 6314 History of Philosophy - Idealism
HUMN 6363 Philosophers Examine Religion, Part II
Dr. Anthony Picchioni
Dr. Anthony Picchioni is Chair of the Department of Human Development at Southern Methodist University. He has used his extensive knowledge and experience in negotiation, organizational behavior, conflict management, change management, succession planning, and dispute resolution to educate corporate executives and business people across the United States and abroad. With more than thirty years experience as a facilitator/ trainer, Dr. Picchioni has assisted in resolving all types of disputes, including those involving employment, commercial contracts, interdepartmental conflicts, and family matters. Dr. Picchioni received his Ph.D. from the University of North Texas in Counseling. He has also done extensive post-graduate studies in Dispute Resolution at The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, Pepperdine Law School and CDR Associates in Boulder, Colorado. He is published in areas relating to human development, counseling, psychology, philosophy, and history.
Course(s) Taught:
HUMN 6316 The Human Experience: Introduction to Graduate Liberal Studies
Dr. Jody Potts - B.S., Baylor University; M.A.,
Southern Methodist University; Ph.D., University of North Texas
Dr. Potts' research and teaching focus on the biographical aspects of the
American experience. Through the writings of key Americans, her course Ideas
Shaping the American Character explores the ideas--political, economic,
religious, social, intellectual, and artistic--that shaped the American
character from the Puritan Era through the twentieth century. An additional
research interest involving left and right brain learning concepts resulted in
Dr. Potts' creation of an MLS course titled The Lively Mind: Creative and
Critical Thinking.
Dr. Potts has served as University Spokesperson on the Texas Council for Social
Studies Textbook Adoption Review Committee and as a member of the TCSS
curriculum committee. She is a member the Department of History Advisory Council
and the Teaching of History Conference Advisory Board at the University of North
Texas and is a past member of the Presidents' Circle of the National Academy of
Sciences. During the summer she teaches courses at the Chautauqua Institution in
New York. In 2001 she was honored as an outstanding alumna of the University of
North Texas.
Dr. Potts is the founder of Lively Mind Seminars, a national consulting firm
offering left/right brain learning seminars for education, government, and
business organizations. Participants include The University of Texas at Austin
Senior Faculty, the New York City Association of Middle School Principals, the
New York City United Federation of Teachers, and The Wall Street Journal
executives.
Courses Taught:
BHSC 6315 The Lively Mind: Creative and Critical Thinking
SOSC 6115 Classic Texts: Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography
SOSC 6115 Classic Texts: James Madison, Notes of Debates in the Federal
Convention
SOSC 6332 Ideas Shaping the American Character, Part I, 1607-1877
SOSC 6333 Ideas Shaping the American Character, Part II, 1877-2000
SOSC 7322 Women and the American Experience, Part 1, 1607-1900
SOSC 7323 Women and
American Experience, Part II
Morton D. Prager, Ph.D.
Dr. Prager served as professor of Surgery and Biochemistry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center where he taught medical students and graduate students seeking the Ph.D. degree in a basic science related to medicine. His teaching included courses in biochemistry, immunology and medical ethics. He conducted a research program which for many years was focused on problems related to cancer. In later years his research involved studies of biomaterials and their application in medical practice. He has lectured widely across the United States and in 11 foreign countries which include Canada, Mexico, France, Italy, Germany, England, Belgium, The Netherlands, Sweden, Israel, and Japan. He published more than 100 scientific manuscripts and made a still larger number of presentations at national and international scientific meetings. Dr. Prager has been a member of 12 learned scientific societies. He was Visiting Professor at Texas Christian University and has taught courses dealing with the impact of science on issues of ethical concern at both Southern Methodist University and the University of North Texas. Dr. Prager was a board member and chairman of the American Chemical Society, Dallas-Ft. Worth section. He has served on numerous boards for Jewish organizations, both locally and nationally. He is a frequent lecturer on scientific and ethical issues.
Courses Taught:
SCCL 6310 Science/Ethics Concerns
SCCL 6101 Matters of Life and Death
Dr. William Pulte
Dr. William Pulte received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin. His major research interest is Native American linguistics, and is the co-author of two volumes in Cherokee linguistics: The Cherokee-English Dictionary, and An Outline of Cherokee Grammar. A third volume, Cherokee Narratives is near completion. Dr. Pulte is familiar with the cultures and languages of a number of Native American tribes in addition to Cherokee, including Chickasaw, Kiowa, and Cheyenne. His other interests include body language and the various functions of language and paralanguage in conversational settings. Dr. Pulte has received 15 grants at SMU, including 14 training grants for teachers of bilingual education and a National Science Foundation grant for Cherokee language research and worked with the Otomi in the state of Hildalgo, Mexico.
Courses Taught:
BHSC 6314 Native American Heritage
BHSC 6324 Language, Culture, and Beliefs
BHSC 6325 Speech & Body Language
Anthony Robinson
Tony Robinson has been involved with energy
efficiency and sustainability in the built environment for more than twenty-five
years, including broad experience in product design & development, building
energy analysis, manufacturers' representation and construction management. He
has a BA in Philosophy & English Literature from UC Berkeley, and a MS in
Design, Engineering Technology & Business Administration from the University of
North Texas. He has authored a variety of articles on energy and buildings and
his book, High Performance Buildings: A Guide For Owners & Managers, is
forthcoming from the Fairmont Press. A member of the Clean Technology &
Sustainable Industries Organization, the Sustainable Leadership Roundtable and
the Association of Energy Engineers, he sits on the Board of Advisors for the
Energy & Resource Technology HUB - North Texas and is president of Axis
Design-Build, Inc.
Courses Taught:
SCCL 6312 Energy & Economy: The Sustainability Factor
SCCL 6395 Environmental Sustainability: Current Issues
Sara Romersberger -
SMU Associate Professor of Theatre
M.A., University of
Illinois
Sara Romersberger, Movement Specialist, holds a B.S. in theatre education from
Illinois State University, an M.A. in dance from the University of Illinois, and
a Certificate of Mime/Movement from Ecole Jacques Lecoq, Paris, France. Lecoq-based
movement classes include placement, acrobatics, neutral and character mask,
masks of the Commedia Dell' Arte, European clown, historical movement styles
(Renaissance and Restoration) and dance of the 20th century.
Her professional work in the Dallas area since 2000 includes directing Tripping the Light Fantastic for the Festival of Independent Theaters and creating or coaching movement, dance and/or fight choreography for Macbeth, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream- the musical, As You Like It, A Comedy of Errors, The Compleat Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) at the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas; for Anna in the Tropics, Hamlet, Wit and Crumbs From the Table of Joy at The Dallas Theater Center; for Greendale, Waiting for the Train, Blasted, The Late Henry Moss, A Man's Best Friend, and Silence at the Undermain Theatre; for Misery at Circle Theatre in Fort Worth; and for The Last Five Years at the Plano Repertory Theatre as well as additional shows at Theatre Three, Classical Acting Company and Contemporary Theatre of Dallas. She was a winner of a Dallas Theatre Critics award and a 2005 Rabin award for Special Recognition for Outstanding Choreography for her work on The Wrestling Season at Dallas Children's Theatre.
Course(s) Taught:
FNAR 6316 On Being Funny
Elizabeth Russ
Elizabeth Russ grew up in Dallas. Although she left the Big D to attend Pomona College in sunny Southern California, she came back after graduating to teach bilingual kindergarten in the DISD. Two years later, she left again to pursue her doctorate in Spanish language and Latin American literature at Columbia University. After six years in New York, plus a year in the Dominican Republic as a Fulbright student scholar, she made yet another return to Dallas, this time to join the faculty of Dedman College's Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, where she currently holds the position of Associate Professor of Spanish. She is author of numerous scholarly articles plus a book, The Plantation in the Postslavery Imagination, which examines how twentieth-century writers from across the Americas use the language of fiction to reexamine the legacy of slavery and the plantation. She is currently working on a second book, about the nature of space and place in recent literature from the Dominican Republic. In addition to teaching courses on Latin American literature and culture to undergraduates at SMU, she has given presentations and facilitated conversations about film and literature in such venues as the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture and the Dallas Latino Cultural Center.
Course(s) Taught:
HUMN 7302 Transnational
Traditions: the Literature of the Americas
Martha Satz, Ph.D.
Martha Satz exploits her dual background in philosophy and literature and
experience in trans-racial culture to teach and write about a diversity of
topics. She teaches courses in minority literature, most notably African
American and Jewish American literature, ethics and children's literature,
literature and disability, and ethics and literature. She is on leave fall 2006
to complete a work on literature, culture, and trans-racial adoption.
Course(s) Taught:
HUMN 6308 Women's Lives and Literature
Jan Sayers, Ph.D. Speech Coach and Lecturer, SMU
Dr. Sayers's career has always included experience in the
corporate world as well as academia. She served as an Educational
Technologist while at the GTE World Headquarters (Telephone Operations) in Irving, Texas.
She assessed training needs and designed curricula for various courses. While
at GTE, the issue of workplace literacy became one of her primary areas of
concentration. She interviewed area schools providing workplace literacy
and the businesses they served. A summary of her dissertation on how
colleges provide workplace literacy programs to business and industry was
published two years later.*
Dr. Sayers' degrees include the B.F.A., Communication in Human Relations,
Texas Christian University; M.S., Communication in Human Relations, T.C.U.; and
Ph.D., Higher Education, University of North Texas.
* Sayers, J.K. (l995, July-August). “Providing Workplace Literacy: Collaboration with Business and Industry.“ Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 19, pp. 295-305.
Courses Taught:
BHSC 6110 Articulate Voice
BHSC 6302 The Art of Public Speaking
BHSC 6326 Communication and Persuasion
HUMN 6356 Oral Interpretation of Literature
The Reverend Dr. Frederick W. Schmidt - Director of Spiritual Formation and Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality at Southern Methodist University, Perkins School of Theology in Dallas, Texas. An Episcopal priest, he also serves as the director of the Episcopal studies program. He is canonically resident in the Diocese of Washington and a member of the national church's Board of Examining Chaplains.
Prior to
his arrival at SMU, he served as Canon Educator and Director of Programs in
Spirituality and Religious Education at Washington National Cathedral; special
assistant to the President and Provost of La Salle University in Philadelphia; a
Fellow of the American Council on Education; and Dean of St. George's College in
Jerusalem. He has also served in
numerous parishes in the United States and abroad.
His work
in higher education includes service as a lecturer in New Testament studies at
Oxford University, and as a tutor at Keble College, Oxford. He has been a guest
lecturer at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., at the National
Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and Southwestern Medical Center at the
University of Texas, Dallas.
He is the author of numerous published articles and reviews, including forty-four entries in Doubleday's Anchor Bible Dictionary, as well as contributions to Feminist Theology andThe Scottish Journal of Theology. He is author of A Still Small Voice: Women, Ordination and the Church (Syracuse University Press, 1998); The Changing Face of God (Morehouse-Continuum, 2000); When Suffering Persists (Morehouse, 2001), in Italian translation: Sofferenza, All ricerca di una riposta (Torino: Claudiana, 2004); Conversations with Scripture: Revelation (Morehouse, 2005); and What God Wants for Your Life, Finding Answers to the Deepest Questions (HarperSanFrancisco, 2005). His more recent work includes an article co-written for the Heythrop Journal with Drs. Jeff Bishop and Philipp Rosemann, entitled, "Fides ancilla medicinae: On the Ersatz Liturgy of Death in Biopsychosociospiritual Medicine."
In
addition to his work in the academy and the church Dr. Schmidt currently serves
on two Data Safety Monitoring Boards for the National Institutes of Health and a
third board for Amgen, Inc.
Courses Taught:
HUMN 6322 Making Sense of the American Spiritual Landscape
HUMN 6366 Revelation: Leaving Behind Left Behind
HUMN 6342 The Spiritual Vision of Jesus
HUMN 7212 Introduction to Monastic Spirituality
Ken Shields, Emeritus Professor, English
My wife and I enjoy traveling, visiting friends in England and Scotland, and spending several weeks each year in the woods, ponds, and seashore on outermost Cape Cod.
Course(s) Taught:
HUMN 6317 Heroes and Heroism
Dr. Clive Siegle
Clive Siegle received a Master's degree in International Affairs
from George Washington University, with a specialty in African military studies.
After an extended stay in the commercial world of safari outfitting, publishing,
and oil exploration, he returned to academics to focus on the history of the
nineteenth-century American West. He currently teaches US history at
Richland College and Southern Methodist University. Clive earned his Ph.D. as a
William P. Clements Fellow at SMU, and his dissertation, Ciboleros! Hispanic
Buffalo Hunters on the Southern Plains, explores the vibrant world of the New
Mexican horsemen who became America's first commercial buffalo hunters. It
is due for publication as a book in the fall of 2010.
Courses Taught:
SOSC 6115 Classic Texts:
Andy Adams' The Log of a Cowboy
SOSC 6115 Classic
Texts: Josiah Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies
Dr. Dennis Simon
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His research and teaching interests include the
American Presidency, national elections, and the politics of change in the
Courses Taught:
SOSC 6329 The American
Presidency
SOSC 6330 Politics and Film
SOSC 6331 Elections and
Politics
SOSC 6356 Civil Rights: An Unfinished
Revolution
Carmen Smith
Course(s) Taught:
FNAR 6387 Inspiring Creativity through Original Art
Dr. Gary D. Swaim,
Adjunct Professor for the Master's in Liberal Studies Program
Dr. Gary D. Swaim received his A.B. in English from the University of California
at Riverside and his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Philosophy from the
University of Redlands and Claremont Graduate University (both of California).
He has taught broadly in a variety of interdisciplinary courses as well as in
English and creative writing (graduate and undergraduate). He serves as
Faculty Advisor for the Creative Writing Concentration in the MLS Program and is
Executive Editor of Pony Express(ions), an emerging online journal reflecting
the academic work, including creative writing, of the MLS Program.
He is a produced playwright, writer of fiction, and digital painter. In 1999 he
was selected as a Minnie Stevens Piper Professor of Excellence for the State of
Texas. He has, additionally, been honored as the 2011 Texas Senior Poet
Laureate.
See his webpage at
garyswaim.com.
Courses Taught:
FNAR 6304 Writing the West
FNAR 6308 Creating Truths
FNAR 6315 Creating the Memoir
FNAR 6394 Creating Poetry
HUMN 6316 The Human Experience
HUMN 7313 Creating the Short Story
HUMN 7336 Creativity: Historical and Personal
Harry M. Teitelbaum, Ed.D.
Harry M. Teitelbaum retired as Professor of Education and former Dean of the School of Education at Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Florida, in 2007. From 2007 until his relocation to Texas in 2009, Dr. Teitelbaum served as Visiting Professor of Education at the University of North Florida. Under Dr. Teitelbaum's tenure, former President Bush recognized the achievements of the partnership between the Jacksonville University School of Education and the Duval County School District when the President visited the School of Education's professional development school, Justina Elementary School in Jacksonville, Florida in September 2001.
Previous academic appointments include: Associate/Acting Dean of the College of Education at Kutztown State University of Pennsylvania, Director of Teacher Education at the University of Portland (OR), and Fort Hays State University (KS) as Director of Professional Services. A former teacher, principal of elementary, middle, and senior high schools, Dr. Teitelbaum also served as assistant superintendent for the W. Sacramento (CA) Public Schools and district superintendent in Penn Valley, CA.
Best selling publications include a textbook published by McGraw-Hill entitled, The Induction Year: A Case Study Approach, thirty-seven published articles and over one hundred presentations/workshops at local, state, regional, national, and international conferences.
Dr. Teitelbaum is internationally known for his writings and presentations on leadership, organizational dynamics, recruitment, public/private partnerships, preservice education, induction, mentoring and connoisseurship. Dr. Teitelbaum's presentations at UNESCO's international conference in Paris and the MOFET Institute in Tel-Aviv won national recognition by the former President of the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education.
As Fulbright Scholar to New Zealand, Dr. Teitelbaum worked closely with teacher training institutions throughout the country for the U. S. State Department. During his tenure in New Zealand, he conducted over 100 seminars throughout the country. Dr. Teitelbaum is the founding president of the Upper Florida Chapter of the Fulbright Association.
Dr. Teitelbaum earned his masters and doctoral degrees from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he served as Ford Foundation Fellow. His wife, Sharyn, is a teacher. They have four children...all girls. The Teitelbaums currently reside in Plano, TX.
Course(s) Taught:
BHSC 6308 Introduction to Organizational Dynamics (Plano Campus)
Paul Toprac
Paul Toprac
is a lecturer at The Guildhall at Southern Methodist University, where he
focuses on teaching about ethics and games, game design, and the business of
games. He has more than the twenty years of experience in the software industry,
in roles ranging from CEO to product manager to consultant. During his studies
at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, Paul was the designer and producer of
a science-based computer game called The Alien Rescue Game, which was used in
the research study for his dissertation entitled "The Effects of a Problem Based
Learning Computer Game on Continuing Motivation to Learn Science." Also while at
the University of Texas at Austin, he developed and taught UT Austin's longest
lasting course on digital games. He holds a Bachelor's of Science in Chemical
Engineering, a Master's of Business Administration, and a Ph.D. in Curriculum
and Instruction from The University of Texas at Austin. In his spare time, Paul
hopes to convince universities and schools that students can have fun and learn
at the same time.
Course(s) Taught:
SCCL 6366 Understanding Civilization through Games (Plano Campus)
Rob Tranchin is a senior producer, writer
and director of documentaries, radio features and outreach specials for the
public broadcasting affiliate KERA in Dallas/Ft. Worth, where he also serves as
executive producer for content. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard
College (Visual and Environmental Studies) and of New York University (Cinema
Studies), and has lived and traveled extensively in Japan, where he worked as an
assistant director to the Japanese film director Imamura Shohei. Among his many
national productions for PBS are the four-part, national Emmy Award winning
series The U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848) and Matisse & Picasso, for which
Tranchin received a national Emmy Award nomination.
Course(s) Taught:
FNAR 6305 From Sunrise to Psycho: Form and Meaning in the Cinema
Nicolay
(Nick) Tsarevsky obtained his M.S. in theoretical chemistry and chemical
physics in 1999 from the University of Sofia, Bulgaria. He joined Professor Kris
Matyjaszewski's research group at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA,
as a Ph.D. student in 2000, and obtained his doctorate in 2005. He worked on the
synthesis of functional polymers by atom transfer radical polymerization, and on
development of rules for rational selection of the catalyst for various reaction
media, including aqueous solvents. He was awarded the Kenneth G. Hancock
Memorial Award in Green Chemistry (2003), the Excellence in Graduate Polymer
Research Award (2004), the Pittsburgh Section of the American Chemical Society
(ACS) Polymer Group Student Award (2004), as well as the Harrison Legacy
Dissertation Fellowship (2004-5), and the National Starch & Chemical Award
(2008). He has authored and coauthored 53 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 8
book chapters, a textbook for high school students, and several patents. He was
Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon
University (2005-6), Associate Director of the CRP Consortium (2006), and a
member of the founding team of ATRP Solutions, Inc., of which he served as Chief
Science Officer (2007-10). He was secretary (2005) and chair (2006) of the
Polymer Group of the Pittsburgh Section of ACS, as well as chair of the Section
(2009). He joined the Department of Chemistry at Southern Methodist University
in the Summer of 2010. His current work focuses on the synthesis and
applications of polymers with controlled molecular architecture and
functionality.
http://smu.edu/chemistry/tsarevsky.asp
Course(s) Taught:
FNAR 6307 Chemistry and Technology in Art: From Antiquity to the
Industrial Revolution
John Ubelaker
Dr. John Ubelaker is a professor of Biological Sciences at SMU. His research specializes on parasitic organisms that cause human diseases. He has over 100 publications in professional publications on parasites and has conducted research projects in Central and South America, and in Yugoslavia as well as throughout the US. His course on Parasitology is a popular course in the biological sciences and he has taught a related course in the MLS program entitled Little but Lethal. Dr. Ubelaker is an engaging lecturer, and was awarded the Altschuler Outstanding lecturer in recognition of his skills. He has also served as chair of the department of Biological Sciences and Associate Director of the SMU in Taos program. John has build a home in the Taos New Mexico area and will retire there in 3 years.
Courses Taught:
SCCL
6335 Little but Lethal
SCCL 6389 The Origins and Evolution of Life
SCCL 7205
Wildflowers of the Southern Rockies
John M. Vernon -
JD, St. Mary's University; B.A., The University of Texas at Austin
Mr. Vernon is a practicing attorney, licensed in Texas, Utah, and the District of Columbia, with The Vernon Law Group, PLLC, who advises and counsels clients on cross-border international and domestic transactions, international trade, and international franchising. He has taught seminars and spoken as a guest lecturer at law schools both in the US and in many other countries. Mr. Vernon is also adjunct faculty to the SMU Dedman School of Law.
Mr. Vernon has taken an active role in dealing with human rights issues both in the US and abroad. He is involved with Texas Appleseed, where he participates in the pro bono representation of juveniles in the state of Texas who were denied representation of counsel in crucial detention hearings. In addition, he is a member of the International Bar Association Human Rights Institute, a leading voice in international human rights and the promotion of the rule of law, where he works closely with other international counsel and foreign bar associations reviewing and making comment to Human Rights Institute investigations being conducted in countries with known, on-going human rights violations. Further, he has participated in Human Rights Institute programs analyzing the process of pre-trial detention, access to legal representation and the criminal justice system in several Sub-Saharan African countries. He has also participated in a variety of human rights and international trade projects related to work in Sub-Saharan Africa, most prominently, Malawi. Also, Mr. Vernon is involved with establishing a law school in Livingstonia, Malawi, to educate law students, clergy and attorneys in International Human Rights Law.
Course(s) Taught:
HUMN 6326 Indigenous Peoples' Rights in a Global Economy
SOSC 6301 Terrorism and
Torture
Dr. Gregory Warden
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He has
authored or co-authored four books as well as over fifty articles and reviews in
journals such as the American Journal of Archaeology, Art History,
Etruscan Studies, Römische
Mitteilungen, Journal of the Society
of Architectural Historians, and the
International Foundation for Art Research Journal. His research interests
have included Greek archaeology (the Demeter sanctuary at
A native
of Italy, Warden is the founder, Principal Investigator, and co-Director of the
Mugello Valley Archaeological Project and excavations at Poggio Colla, an
Etruscan settlement north-east of Florence, a joint mission of SMU, Franklin and
Marshall College, and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology.
Since 1995 this international project has trained students from over 60
universities and includes scholars from seven countries. The research project
has been featured in the New York Times,
the International Herald Tribune, in
the European media, as well as on the Discovery Channel. Warden is also the
former Editor of Etruscan Studies, a
journal of Etruscan and Italic art and culture, and has been elected to the
Istituto di Studi Etruschi e Italici.
Courses Taught:
FNAR 6311 Etruscan Art/Archaeology
FNAR 6320 Egypt of the Pharaohs
HUMN 6359 Etruscan Archaeology in Italy
Andrew Weaver
Andrew Weaver has served as an adjunct professor in the Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering and taught a course of the same name (ME 7303 - Organizational Leadership) as part of the Master of Science in Manufacturing Systems Management (MSM) program. Presently, he is the Vice President of Strategy & Policy for a $8 billion retailer. A student and practitioner of leadership for the last two decades, he has led organizations from 5 to 5,000. His degrees include: M.A National Security & Strategic Studies, U.S. Naval War College 1998; M.P.A. Public Administration, Troy State University 1994; and B.S. in Business from the University of California, Berkeley 1980.
Course(s) Taught:
BHSC 6320 Organizational Leadership
Steve Woods (Lighting Designer)
Web site: http://www.wix.com/st0168/stevewoods
Course(s) Taught:
FNAR 6396 Spectacle of Theater