MLS Faculty and Staff Profiles

MLS Staff

MLS e-mail: ccemls@umn.edu

MLS phone: 612-626-8724

MLS fax: 612-626-2800

Jack Johnson: Program Director

JoEllen Lundblad: Associate Program Director

Connie Hessburg: Program Associate

Adam Reef: Associate Administrator

Roger Miller: Director of Graduate Studies

Arthur Harkins: Faculty Director for Innovation Studies

Ellen Lucast: Writing Tutor

The MLS offices are located on the University of Minnesota St. Paul campus in Classroom Office Building, Suite 20.

MLS Faculty

Jerry Allan: Creativity, Innovation, Architecture
Jerry Allan, M.A., Architecture, U of M. He was founder and president of Criteria Architects, Inc. and Criteria Foundation, and has taught in the U of M’s School of Architecture. Mr. Allan has been a faculty member at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design since 1978, and was chairman of Visual Studies from 1979-91. He teaches, trains, and facilitates in the areas of creativity, futures, new product development, and staff development for both the public and private sectors. His current project is “Five Great Ideas the World Needs.” He co-teaches the MLS/IS seminar “Creativity, Imagination, and Innovation.”

Fred Amram: Invention, Creativity, Innovation Studies
Fred M. B. Amram, M.A., University of Minnesota, is a professor emeritus in General College at the U of M. He has been head of the Division of Arts, Communication, and Philosophy, as well as Director of Academic Affairs. He has won the Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award and has taught courses in the areas of speech communication and creativity. Professor Amram is an author of books and articles about creativity, invention, robotics, and communication, and curator of several exhibitions displaying the achievements of women inventors. He has provided worldwide consulting services to industry, government agencies, and educational institutions. MLS seminar: "From Fantasy to Reality: Creativity at Work and Play."

Michael Andregg: Sustainability, Causes of Warfare, Genetics and Society
Michael Andregg, Ph.D. in genetics, University of California, Davis. He founded and directs a nonprofit education group called Ground Zero Minnesota dedicated to "education for informed democracy and human survival." He has published numerous articles in drosophila and human genetics, a study guide on nuclear issues, and papers on advanced technology and contemporary social problems. He has also produced 48 educational videotapes on a wide range of subjects and his award-winning book, On the Causes of War, was released November 1997. MLS seminars: "Sustainability," "The Causes of War," "Genetics and Human Society," and "Ecology, Technology, and Society."

Kathleen Bernard: Transformational Learning, Organizational Change
Kathleen Bernard, Ph.D. in Applied Management and Decision Sciences, Walden University; M.B.A., Loyola College. Kathleen has extensive experience in transforming governmental, corporate, and private organizations through developing organizational and individual thinking and learning capacities. In her wide ranging career she has been a computer scientist with Boeing Computer Services in Richland, WA; Senior Policy Analyst for Science and Technology Policy with the White House Science Office, Washington, D.C.; and the Director of Technology and Federal Programs at the Minnesota Supercomputer Center in Washington, D.C. She presently is involved in consulting, coaching, and research as principal of a small transformational learning organization. For the MLS program she team teaches "Accessing the Innovating Mind."

Rose Brewer: Sociology, Multiculturalism
Rose Brewer, Ph.D., Sociology at Indiana University. She is a Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Afro-American and African Studies and was the department chair from 1999-2001. Brewer’s specialties include: multiculturalism, African American women’s studies, Black family life, race, class, gender, social transformation, critical theory. Some of her recent publications include, Black Radical Theory and Practice: Gender, Race, and Class, A Special Issue on Gender, Color, Class, and Caste, Family Structure, Poverty, and Race in the United States, and she co-authored The Color of Wealth. MLS seminars include “Beyond Civil Rights,” “Race, Class, Gender,” and “21st Century America: Race and Ethnicity in the New Millenium.”

R. Kurt Burch: Political Science, Global Affairs
Kurt Burch, Ph.D., Political Science, University of Minnesota. Kurt Burch has been teaching global affairs courses since 1988 at University of Delaware, University of Minnesota, University of St. Thomas, and Macalester College. Most recently he has been writing and editing long-range forecasts for U.S. government agencies, corporations, and international management consultant firms. MLS seminars: "Projecting Our Global Futures"

Jennifer Caruso: Comparative Literature, American Literature, Women's Studies
Jennifer Caruso, Ph.D. in comparative literature, State University of New York at Buffalo. Prof. Caruso teaches at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and at Macalester College in St Paul; courses taught include: "Race and Culture in American Literature," "Imaginaries of the Body," "The City in Literature: Modern, Post-modern, and Futuristic Cities," and "Women, Work, and Family in the 20^th Century." She teaches "Women in Europe: Art, Literature, and Film" for the MLS program.

Patricia Casello: Holistic Health
Patricia Casello, D.C.M., B.S. Human Biology, Northwestern Health Sciences University, Bloomington, Minnesota. Patricia Casello is a speaker, writer, educator, and holistic practitioner. She is an assistant professor at Northwestern Health Sciences University and a national online instructor for Argosy University. In addition to her clinic, HealthSpirit Holistic Services, she provides instruction, presentations , seminars and retreats to organizations and individuals. For the MLS program she team teaches the online seminar "Women’s Leadership Journey."

Terry Collins: American Literature, Multiculturalism
Terry Collins, Ph.D. in English, University of Minnesota. He is a Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Writing and Literature and recipient of a 2002 President\'s Award for Outstanding Service. He has been director of Academic Affairs and Curriculum in General College and director of the Center for Research on Developmental Education and Urban Literacy. MLS seminar: "Multicultural America."

Barbara Crosby: Leadership Studies
Barbara Crosby, Ph.D. in leadership studies, with a concentration in political philosophies, international relations, social movements, and intercultural communication. She is a senior fellow and director of the Reflective Leadership Center at the HHH Institute of Public Affairs, U of M. She has written extensively about leadership, women in public positions, media and public policy, and planning. Crosby is a published author, contributor for national journals, and winner of a Terry McAdam Award from the Nonprofit Management Association. MLS seminar: "Leadership and Change."

Stephen Daniel: Literature, Religion, Healing Arts, Ethics
Stephen Daniel, Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Humanities, Emory University, has worked as a hospital chaplain and as an education director for several medical organizations. He has written and lectured on various topics at the interface of health care, literature, religion, the fine arts, and philosophy. MLS seminars include: "Making Sense of Aging," "Imagination, Religion, Spirituality," "Case Studies in Healthcare Ethics," "Spiritual Dimensions of Healing," "Suffering and Civilization," "Literature and Religion," "The Patient as Text: Literature and Medicine," "Visions and Visionaries," "Introduction to Graduate Liberal Studies," and "Final Project for Graduate Liberal Studies."

Sarah Dennison: Law, English, Philosophy
Sarah Dennison, J.D., Santa Clara University and M.A. in English literature, Colorado State. She is dean of education at the Art Institutes International Minnesota . Her focus lies with history and rhetoric of classical liberalism and capitalism, and her interests include the history of economic and political ideas. Currently she is working on interdisciplinary methodologies, i.e., how do we do interdisciplinary work? MLS seminars she teaches or team teaches: "Resonant Notes and Ideas: Economics and Politics," "Art and Music," "Hanging Chads: The Hidden Carnival of Post-Modern Life," "Advanced Interdisciplinary Inquiry," and "Designing Professional Futures."

Daniel Detzner: American Studies
Daniel Detzner has a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota. He is currently the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in General College. He recently returned to General College after 17 years with the College of Human Ecology's Department of Family Social Science. He was a faculty member and served as an Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for Human Ecology 1996-2001, and served as Interim Dean 2000-2001. General College was his first home at the U of M, 1972-1987. Detzner received the Morse-Alumni Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education in 1981. He is also a member of the University's Academy of Distinguished Teachers. Detzner\'s teaching and research interests include the intersection of social gerontology, family science, and ethnic studies. His new book, Elder Voices: Southeast Asian Families in the United States , was published in 2004. MLS seminar: "Intergenerational Relations in Old and New Immigrant Families."

William Dikel: Psychiatry, Mental Health
William Dikel, M.D., is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Minnesota, and is on the faculty of the Hennepin-Regents psychiatry residency training program. He is the psychiatrist representative on the State Mental Health Advisory Council. Dr. Dikel provides clinical services at Pilot City Mental Health Center and Family and Children's Services community mental health clinics. He also consults to professionals in the Twin Cities and in Greater Minnesota who provide services to children and adolescents with mental health problems in the social services, corrections, and educational systems. He has provided consultation to the State departments of Children, Families and Learning, the Department of Human Services, and to the State Mental Health Ombudsman's Office. MLS seminars he team teaches: "Justice and Society," "Human Nature," and "Human Potential."

Margot Galt: American Studies
Margot Galt has a Ph.D. in American Studies, University of Minnesota. Professor Galt teaches courses for the U of M Independent and Distance Learning program, Metro State University, and Hamline University's Graduate Liberal Studies Program. She also teaches at The Loft and The Grand Marais Art Colony. She has published poetry and creative prose about Italian art, family history, and travel including numerous articles on art, and five books of prose and poetry. One of her books is Turning the Feather Around: My Life in Art, an Oral History Memoir of Minnesota Ojibway artist George Morrison (1998). Professor Galt\'s writing has won grants and awards from the Minnesota State Arts Board, The Loft, Jerome Foundation, and the Center for Arts Criticism. Her most recent collection of poems is entitled Between the Houses (2004). MLS seminar: "Memoir, Music and Art in Florence, Italy" (MLS Study Abroad seminar), and "The Documentary Impulse in Film, Photography, History, and Literature."

Maria L. Gini: Computer Science
Maria Gini is an associate professor in computer science, and she received the College of Continuing Education Distinguished Teaching Award in 1995. She is editor of the newsletter of the special interest group on manufacturing of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. Her interests include robotics and the design and construction of autonomous agents for navigation, exploration, and learning. MLS seminar: "Computational Aspects of Intelligence."

Judge Isabel Gomez: Law, Family Law
The Honorable Judge Isabel Gomez, College of Law, Arizona State University, has been a judge of Hennepin County District Court since 1984. She was also chief judge of Hennepin County Juvenile Court until 1992. Judge Gomez is active on various community boards including the Northwest Area Foundation, the Children\'s Theatre Company of Minneapolis, and the Mediation Center. She works and speaks in the community on issues including children\'s advocacy, gender in the law profession, law and family, juvenile justice and human rights. MLS seminar she team teaches: "Justice and Society."

Anita Gonzalez : American Studies, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Critical Theory
Anita Gonzalez, Ph.D., in American Studies, University of Minnesota; M.A. in history of art, University of Michigan. Her areas of research and teaching include 20th- and 21st- century American culture, comparative ethnic studies, critical theory, and interdisciplinary pedagogy. Gonzalez is a Teaching Consultant at the Center for Teaching & Learning at the University of Minnesota. For the MLS Program, she designs and teaches interdisciplinary seminars with a focus on contemporary culture and multicultural studies within an international context. Previous Liberal Studies seminars include "Borderlands: Crossings, Transgressions, and Creations," "Prize Politics: Literature for Social Change," "Multicultural Critical Theory," and "The Media and American Youth."

DonnaMae Gustafson: Music History and Theory, Literature
DonnaMae Gustafson, Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Minnesota. She is a specialist in 16th-century Italian music and culture and has served as faculty member at the University of St. Thomas and in University College programs. Dr. Gustafson has taught a wide range of music history, music theory, and interdisciplinary courses. MLS seminars: "Resonant Notes: Politics, Economics, Art and Music," "Testing Our Inheritance," "Hanging Chads: The Hidden Carnival of Post-Modern Life," "Arts and Innovation," and "Final Project in Graduate Liberal Studies."

Janet O. Hagberg: Leadership, Social Work, Entrepreneur
Janet Hagberg, ABD, social work, MSW from the U of M. She is a nationally recognized speaker and author of seven books. Ms. Hagberg works with Fortune 500 companies on leadership development, and with nonprofit organizations as a facilitator for planning and visioning. She is executive director of the Silent Witness National Initiative, a movement working to reduce domestic violence, and has launched three consulting companies serving corporations, nonprofits, and government agencies. She is a recipient of the Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award from the U of M. She co-teaches the online MLS seminar “Women’s Leadership Journey.”

Arthur Harkins: Education and Human Development, Innovation Studies
Arthur Harkins, Ph.D. in sociology, University of Kansas. He is an associate professor with the College of Education and Human Development and is the faculty director for Innovation Studies. Dr. Harkins was co-director of the Graduate Concentration in Future Cultural and Educational Systems and recently co-wrote "The Future as Culture," a monograph for the journal Futurics. MLS seminars: "Designing Professional Futures," "Strategic Thinking," "Plaid Collar: Knowledge Workers and Their Organizational Support," "Backcasting and Forecasting the Innovation Society," "Innovative Responses to Terrorism," "Introduction to Innovation Studies," "Future Studies I: New Directions in American Society," and "Creating Brand Me: Self Development Through Personalized Knowledge," plus numerous one-credit workshops for Innovation Studies.

John Hasselberg: Strategic Management, Innovation Studies
John Hasselberg, M.B.A., from the Carlson School of Management, and a J.D., U of M Law School. He is an associate professor of management at the College of St. Benedict/St. John's University. That means he gets to drive out to Lake Wobegon to work every day. He has been a lecturer with the U of M for 20 years, including with the Carlson School and with the Applied Business Program. He is particularly intrigued by the ethical and cultural aspects of international organizational strategy and works actively to build links between Minnesotans, Scandinavians, and Chinese people. He teaches MLS seminars "Organizations and Intellectual Capital in a Network Economy" and "Nordic Judo" Global Leveraging of Technology, Culture, and Foreign Policy."

Janet Hively: Vital Aging
Janet Hively, Ph.D., education for work and community, U of M. She is currently co-convenor and senior adviser for the Vital Aging Network (VAN) through the College of Continuing Education. She came to work with VAN from past careers in planning, administration, and community outreach for public institutions and non-proft organizations. Dr. Hively has developed collaborative education projects throughout Minnesota and has written about workforce development and lifework planning issues. She recently received from Blue Cross and Blue Shield the Minnesota Ageless Hero Award, and the Josie Johnson Social Justice and Human Rights Award from the U of M. MLS seminar co-taught: "Baby Boomers Confront the Innovation Society."

David Husom: Photography, Art History, and Design
David Husom, M.F.A., University of Minnesota; photography, film, art history. He is the lead instructor for the U of M's Web Designer Institute and teaches creative photography for General College. David has taught imaging, photography, and design courses in various local colleges and schools, and has held numerous exhibitions. MLS seminar: "The Changing Main Street in Small Town Minnesota."

Jeremy Iggers: Media and Politics
Jeremy Iggers, Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Minnesota. He is an adjunct professor for the Department of American Studies and a staff writer with the Star Tribune covering restaurants and food. Iggers has written about ethics and public journalism, and has taught courses entitled "Press Ethics and Responsibility, Ethical Inquiry, and Existentialism." He is a recipient of the 1997 Minnesota Book Award. MLS seminars: "The News Media," "The Crisis of Democracy," and "Is Journalism Dead? The Future of News."

Jack Johnson: Education and Human Development, Military History
Jack Johnson has an M.A. in educational psychology and a Ph.D. in education, University of Minnesota. He is director of the MLS Program and also director of the Office of Evening Classes and Summer Session. His special interests include cognitive development, higher education policy and administration, museum studies, and military history. He teaches the Final Project seminar.

Judith Katz: Women's Studies, Literature
Judith Katz received her M.A. in theatre from Smith College. Her numerous writings include an upcoming novel, The Escape Artist , from Firebrand Books, Ithaca, New York, and, Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound , for which she won the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts Crawford Prize for Best New Fiction. She teaches at Hamline University, Macalester College, the Women's Studies program at the University of Minnesota, and at The Loft. MLS seminar: "Literature, Art and Social Change."

Teresa Kupin-Escobar: Gender and Performance Theories, Latin American Literature, Feminist Studies
Teresa Kupin-Escobar, Ph.D. (ABD), in Hispanic literature and culture. Her poetry and photography has been published in Chicana/Latina Feminist Literary and Visual Arts magazine (2004), and she has presented at numerous conferences; topics included “Voces Latinas: The U.S. Chicana Experience”, NACCS Annual Conference in Chicago, and “The Search for Stability in the Latin American Boom”, Minnesota State University, Mankato. Ms. Kupin-Escobar’s artwork has been exhibited extensively at such places as The Purple Onion, Spot Art Gallery, Vera’s Café, and the American Institute, all in Minneapolis. She co-teaches the MLS seminar “Performance Art: Gender Theory and Body Image.”

Roseann Lloyd: English Literature, Poetry
Roseann Lloyd , M.A. in Scandinavian language and literature, University of Minnesota. She has completed subsequent academic work in English literature and poetry and has received an American Book Award in 1991 for Looking Home: Women Writing about Exile from The Before Columbus Foundation . Professor Lloyd has taught writing, poetry, and language courses at The Loft, Augsburg College, and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She is a recipient of the 1997 Minnesota Book Award. MLS seminars: "Americans at Work: In Poetry, Film, and Nonfiction," "Literature of Trauma and Recovery," "Hell, Healing and Resistance," and "Final Project for Graduate Liberal Studies."

Peter Lock: Romance Languages and Literature
Peter Lock has a Ph.D. in romance languages and literature, University of California, Berkeley. He is a professor emeritus with the Department of French and Italian and is senior consultant in technical writing for Dashe & Thomson, Minneapolis. He possesses fluent speaking and reading knowledge of French, Italian, and Spanish. MLS seminars: "Computers in Culture," "Introduction to Interdisciplinary Inquiry," and "Final Project Seminar."

John Logie: Internet Studies, Rhetoric
John Logie, Ph.D. in English, Pennsylvania State University. John’s research is focused on the first rhetorical canon, Invention, and involves investigations of rhetorical and literary treatments of authorship and intellectual property. He has a particular interest in Internet-related issues and has recently published Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion: The Rhetoric of the Peer-to-Peer Debates. His scholarship has also been published in "First Monday," "Computers and Composition," "KBJournal," "Rhetoric Review," and "Rhetoric Society Quarterly." MLS seminar: "A Critical Look at the Internet."

Judith Martin: Urban Studies
Judith Martin has a Ph.D. in American studies, University of Minnesota. She is director of the Urban Studies program at the U of M and teaches with the Departments of Geography and American Studies. Her research interests include contemporary urban development and urban design, comparative urbanization, historical geography, and urban history. Professor Martin has numerous publications and research reports in these areas, and gives lectures and presentations, as well. She is a member of the Minneapolis City Planning Commission, a member of Hennepin Parks/Public Works Study Commission and is on the Steering Committee, Metro 2010 Plan, (chair of Land Use Subcommittee). MLS seminar: "The City: An Exercise in Human Creativity."

Carol Miller: American Studies
Carol Miller, Ph.D. in American literature, University of Oklahoma. She has been an associate professor in American Studies and American Indian Studies at the U of M and has served as the Director of Graduate Studies for the MLS program. She has written extensively including "Better Than What People Told Me I Was: What Students of Color Tell Us About the Multicultural Composition Classroom" (book chapter), and "Mediation and Authority: The Voices of Sarah Winnemucca, Humishima, and Ella Cara Deloria in the Multicultural Classroom." She has been distinguished as a Salzburg Seminar Presidential Fellow, received a Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award, and is a recipient of the 2002 President\'s Award for Outstanding Service. MLS seminars: "Contested Ground: Problem of Authority in American Literature" and "Celluloid Nation."

Roger Miller: Geography
Roger Miller, Ph.D. in geography, University of California, Berkeley. He is the Director of Graduate Studies for the MLS, and is an associate professor in the College of Liberal Arts in the geography department. He also teaches courses in American Studies, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, and the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. His interests include geography, history, and urban living, especially as it relates to women's lives, and has written on topics from cartography and geographic information systems to social change in 19th-century Swedish agrarian society. MLS seminar: "The Third World City in Film."

Randy Moore: Botany, Science Education, Evolution-Creationism
Randy Moore, M.S. in botany, University of Georgia and Ph.D. in biology, UCLA, has written a variety of textbooks, won a variety of teaching awards, edits The American Biology Teacher, serves on the editorial board of several other journals including Journal of College Science Teaching and Journal of Biological Education, and teaches introductory biology. Randy studies science education and the evolution-creationism controversy. MLS seminars: "Understanding the Evolution-Creationism Controversy."

Lisa Norling: Maritime History, Women's History
Lisa Norling, Ph.D., American History, Rutgers University, 1992. She is an associate professor in the history department, U of M. Her interests intersect maritime history and women\'s history. Professor Norling's 2000 book, Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 (Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina Press), examines gender dynamics in the American whaling industry from the 18th through the 19th centuries. MLS seminar: "Voyaging: Clarity, Madness, and Transformation on the Sea."

Justin O'Brien: Leadership, Wellness, Spirituality
Justin O'Brien has a Ph.D., Philosophy, Nijmegen University, Netherlands, and an M.A., Religious Studies, from Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is the founder of Justin O'Brien Associates, Consultants in Lifestyle Management, and organizes wellness conferences nationally. Areas of expertise include stress management, leadership, and counseling. He is a national speaker and an award- winning author of books and publications on wellness, spirituality, leadership, and holistic wellness. MLS seminars team taught: "Human Nature" and "Human Potential."

Kathleen O'Donovan: Foreign Language Instruction, Education
Kathleen O'Donovan has a Ph.D. in Foreign language Instruction from the University of Minnesota. As Program Lead with the U of M Center for Teaching and Learning, Kathleen is instrumental in integrating international faculty and graduate students into the teaching mission of the University. She has presented at numerous conferences and workshops on teaching, cross-cultural education, curriculum design, and career assessment. For the MLS program she co-teaches "Accessing the Innovating Mind."

Nick Pease: Music, Art, Literature
Nicholas Pease, Ph.D. in English, University of New York, Buffalo. Freelance writer, instructor, and instructional designer. Has taught writing, literature, and humanities at NYU, Brooklyn C, New School U, UST, and other colleges and universities. MLS seminars: "Cross-Currents in 19th- and 20th-Century Painting, Music and Literature,” “The Prism of Culture," "The Classic-Romantic Divide," and “Movies: A Two-Way Mirror of Culture.”

Philip Regal: Ecology, Evolution, Human/Animal Relationships
Philip J. Regal, Ph.D. in Zoology, UCLA. He is a professor of ecology, evolution, and behavior. Professor Regal has taken an interdisciplinary approach to his work in his home department drawing upon physiology, ecology, genetic, and philosophy. He has written a book on bonobos and their implications for human evolution and has recently joined the board of directors of Censhare, a Minnesota-based national organization that has long been devoted to the scientific study of human/animal relationships. Their interests have ranged from questions about animal awareness to research into the use of animals in programs for the elderly and otherwise compromised people. Team-taught MLS/IS seminar: "Innovation over Extinction: Exploring the Protection of Life in Cultures Beyond the Earth." Taught the MLS seminar: "Art, Genes, and the Future."

David Schuelke: Rhetoric, Organizational Leadership, Communication Studies
David Schuelke, Ph.D., in rhetoric. He taught at the U of M for the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and the Department of Rhetoric, and served as head of Rhetoric from 1972-79. Since 1983 he has taught organizational leadership at Bethel College in St. Paul, and also teaches courses in the areas of organizational behavior and conflict management. He is a developer of Internet and distance education course materials, has co-authored three college textbooks, and is a consultant to local corporations and government agencies. He teaches the MLS seminar “The Rhetoric of Innovation and Change: Past, Present, and Future.”

David Shupe: Business and Education Innovations
David Shupe, Ph.D., worked at Control Data Corporation in the 1980s, and as director of the MLS program at the U of M in the 1990s. Presently he runs eLumen Collaborative, an educational consulting business. MLS seminars include: "Innovations in Education and Business," "Chaos and Complexity," and "Emergent Patterns in Human Affairs," and " Introduction to Interdisciplinary Inquiry."

Roslye Ultan: Art History and American Studies
Roslye Ultan, M.A. in art history, American University. She is an assistant professor of art history on the Graduate School core faculty and director of Internship Programs for the M.A. in Graduate Liberal Studies program at Hamline University, and is an independent curator/consultant. Professor Ultan has been a presenter at the National Conference for the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs, as well as the Women's Art Caucus National Conference. She has been on panels, lectured, and presented on topics related to art and art history, and she has curated many exhibitions around Minnesota and the United States. MLS seminars: "Introduction to Interdisciplinary Inquiry," "Art in Cultural Context: The Cold War Years," "Art in Cultural Context: Intersections of Art Since the 1960s," co-taught "Arts and Innovation," and led study abroad seminar "Persistence of Ancient Greece in the Arts: The Threshold of Memory in Athens, Greece."

Sherry Wagner-Henry: - Arts Administration, Theater
Sherry Wagner-Henry, M.B.A, Illinois State University. Sherry Wagner-Henry has over 16 years experience creating and delivering non-profit arts and cultural programs in community and educational settings. She has held leadership roles in numerous state and national organizations including the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Arts and Cultural Partnership of Saint Paul, and the United States Institute for Theatre Technology. She has been Assistant General Manager of the Illinois Shakespeare Festival and is currently the Managing Director and Program Director of the University of Minnesota's University Theatre and Minnesota Centennial Showboat. She is a consultant for the MLS Arts Management focus and teaches "Issues in Arts Management and Policy."

John Wallace: Philosophy of Education
John Wallace, professor of philosophy, was previously assistant vice president for academic affairs at the U of M, and dean of cooperative education at Antioch College. He has published numerous articles in professional philosophy journals on the philosophy of language, the theory of knowledge, the philosophy of science, and philosophy of education. He is leading the efforts to create and develop the Jane Addams School for Democracy on St. Paul's West Side. MLS seminar: "Transforming Education."

Jack Zipes: Scandinavian Studies, Children's Literature, Folklore
Jack Zipes, professor of Scandinavian Studies, is also director of the Center for German and European Studies at the U of M. He has won many awards, including the International Brothers Grimm Award in 1999 from the International Institute for Children's Literature, Osaka, Japan. Professor Zipes' numerous publications include Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture (Viking, 1991), a book of translations of French, German, and Italian tales. He presented the paper, "The Value of Evaluating the Value of Children's Literature" at the Children's Literature Association and International Research for Children's Literature Conference in Calgary, Canada, July, 1999. MLS seminar : "Children's Literature and Film."

Jacqueline Zita: Women's Studies
Jacqueline Zita, Ph.D. in philosophy, and a B.A. in biology from Washington University in St. Louis. She is chair and associate professor in the Department of Women's Studies at the U. Professor Zita has done extensive research and is well published in the area of women's issues from a biological, philosophical, and historical feminist perspective. She received a Morse Alumni Teaching Award in 1997, and was awarded a College of Liberal Arts Faculty Bush Sabbatical Supplement in 1999-2000. MLS seminars: "Final Project for Graduate Liberal Studies," "Theorizing the Body."