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Humanities Faculty
Advising Assistant
Guidelines for Submitting Items to the MAP Office for Humanities
Graduate Advisors in the Humanities
Areas of Study and Concentrations
Joan Clingan, M.A. is faculty for the Humanities program as well as chair of humanities.
Joan has expertise in literature and creative writing; cultural studies including identity and social justice emphases; and cultural and critical theory. Joan's web page includes resources relating to research, syllabi, bibliographies, and information about concentrations in working-class studies and solidarity studies.
Jared Aldern, M.A. has
expertise in environmental studies, ethnic studies, media studies, Western U.S. history, and visual art. Jared's biographical information is here.
Dereka Rushbrook, Ph.D. has expertise in development/international political economy; border studies; Latin American Studies; human geography; queer/LBGT studies; society-environment relations; and race/class/gender studies. Dereka's biographical information is here.
Priscilla Stuckey, Ph.D. has expertise in gender studies, religious studies, spirituality, the environment, and U.S. history; also longtime study and practice of writing, ceramics, and music. Priscilla's biographical information is here.
This link will take you to the full listing of Faculty for the Master of Arts Program.
Angee Hadar is the advising assistant for all students and advisors in the MAP Humanities Program.
Hard Copies
Specific instructions are in the MAP Process Handbook detailing due-dates, number of copies, etc. MAP requires that each item below be sent by hard copy to the MAP Office with appropriate signatures.
Angee Hadar
MAP Humanities Program
Prescott College
220 Grove Ave.
Prescott, AZ 86301
(928) 350-3221
ahadar@prescott.edu
The following materials should be sent by mail (or hand delivery if local) to Angee's attention in the MAP Office; she will record their receipt and forward them as appropriate to the student's CF:
- advisor approved study plans (every semester);
- the advisor and student chosen QP to be reviewed by committee, as well as the final revision of the QP (usually the second semester);
- a copy of each colloquium attendance sheet and reflective narrative evaluation (twice each semester);
- requisition forms with CVs for practicum supervisor and thesis second reader (with study plans as needed);
- thesis plan (second to last semester—serves as the study plan for thesis semester);
- drafts of the thesis to be read by the third reader (final semester);
- advisor approved and signed end-of-term materials (each semester).
Electronic Copies
In order to expedite the processing of all materials,
in addition to the hard copies that must be mailed as noted above,
students and graduate advisors are asked to
submit an electronic copy of each item via email.
Please email this electronic copy to the Humanities Advising Assistant:
Angee Hadar ahadar@prescott.edu
and to your Core Faculty:
Joan Clingan jclingan@prescott.edu;
or Jared Aldern jaldern@prescott.edu;
or Dereka Rushbrook drushbrook@prescott.edu;
or Priscilla Stuckey pstuckey@prescott.edu.
Graduate Advisors: After you have approved and signed these items, and at the same time that you mail the hard copy to Angee in the MAP Office, please email an electronic copy of each item. Please note in the email that the attached item has your approval. Thank you.
- advisor approved study plans (every semester);
- requisition forms with CVs for practicum supervisor and thesis second reader (with study plans as needed);
- thesis plan (second to last semester—serves as the study plan for thesis semester);
- advisor approved and signed end-of-term materials (each semester).
Students: At the same time that you mail the hard copy of these items to the MAP Office, please email an electronic copy of the same item. Thank you.
- the advisor and student chosen QP to be reviewed by committee, as well as the final revision of the QP (usually the second semester)—Please include the cover letter and "something else" in the electronic copy if possible; otherwise they can be included only with the hard copy;
- a copy of each colloquium attendance sheet and reflective narrative evaluation (twice each semester)—If this narrative includes the review of your thesis presentation, please include the photocopies of the audience evals with the hard copy.
Note: Please do not email electronic copies of your thesis to your CF and Advising Assistant. Send only the hard copy by mail for the third reader review. Thank you.
Graduate Advisors are hired individually as each new student enrolls in the Master of Arts Program. Potential advisors are recommended to new students by their core faculty and chosen by consensus of each new student, advisor, and CF. Following are biographical statements of some of the advisors currently serving students in MAP's humanities program.
Bernardo Aguilar, J.D.
J.D., University of Costa Rica, San Jose, 1987; M.S., University of Georgia, Athens (Fulbright Scholar), 1991; Specialist in Agrarian and Environmental Law, University of Costa Rica, San Jose, 1989. Bernardo's fields of expertise are ecological economics and environmental law. Through field experience he has acquired expertise in the areas of sustainable development studies and Latin American/border studies. Bernardo is a professor in the undergraduate Cultural and Regional Studies program at Prescott College.
Randall Amster, Ph.D.
Ph.D., Arizona State University, Justice Studies, 2002; J.D., Brooklyn Law School, 1991; B.S., University of Rochester, Physics & Astronomy, 1988. Before coming to Prescott College, Randall worked as an attorney, a judicial clerk, and an instructor in the School of Justice Studies at Arizona State University. He is a homeless-rights advocate, a sustainable-community activist, an anti-war organizer, and has published widely on subjects ranging from radical pedagogy to community building to the global justice movement. Teaching undergraduate courses at Prescott College in Peace Studies and Social Thought (including Social Movements, Law and Social Change, and Human Rights) has provided a unique opportunity for Randall to combine his scholarly pursuits and his activist passions, and to continue his explorations of social justice, political action, and peace education.
Andrew Beckham, M.A.
M.A., Prescott College, Aesthetic Theory, 2005; B.F.A., Pacific Northwest College of Art, Photography and Printmaking, 1992. Andrew holds an MA in Aesthetic Theory from Prescott College and a BFA in photography and printmaking from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Mr. Beckham has been honored as a Fulbright Fellow, and his work is represented in collections around the country, including the MacArthur Foundation, the Portland Art Museum, and the Museum for Contemporary Religious Art. Andrew has had two portfolios published in LensWork over the past three years, and his work is represented by Shira Fine Art Consulting. He also teaches photography and aesthetics at St. Mary’s Academy and Naropa University.
Jeanine Canty, Ph.D.
Ph.D., California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), Transformative Learning and Change, 2007;
M.A., Prescott College, Cultural Ecopsychology, 2000; B.A., Colgate University, International Relations, 1992. Jeanine teaches in the Adult Degree Program at Prescott College. Education, awareness, and transformation are revered processes for Jeanine. She believes that teachers have immense power for creating change and awakening critical thinking skills in their students. Her favorite courses to teach are Ecopsychology and Educating for the Future: Environmental and Cultural Issues. Her areas of passion include ecopsychology, consciousness, transformative learning, environmental and social justice and cultural studies. She is very interested in the process individuals go through to reach heightened awareness of environmental and social justice. Jeanine is involved with multiple social justice and consciousness based organizations. Much of her understanding has come through her experience as an African American woman living in privileged communities.
B. June Covington, M.A.
MA, Prescott College, Business Communications, 2004; BA, Prescott College, Business Management, 2002. June is currently a Ph.D. learner at Capella University in Organizational Management with a specialization in Leadership, anticipated completion 2007. June Covington became an MAP advisor in 2005, and currently advises a student working on a degree in Communication Arts. June’s professional background includes 10 years as a graphic designer, 10 years as a project manager, and 15 years as a management consultant. Her projects include work with clients in the non-profit and for-profit sectors with a focus on facilitating transition in organizational change associated with major initiatives, i.e. technology implementation and organizational restructuring. Change program components include organizational assessments, communication planning, training and leadership development. She previously served on the Internship Committee for the International School of Business at San Francisco State University. June is currently on contract with a Fortune 50 company developing a global-focused leadership program. Her research interests include organizational conflict mitigation.
Drew Dellinger, M.A.
Drew is a spoken word poet, teacher, and activist. He is founder of Poets for Global Justice, and author of the collection of poems, love letter to the milky way. Dellinger has presented and performed at hundreds of conferences, colleges, protests, and events across the country, speaking on justice, cosmology, ecology, and democracy. Dellinger’s poetry has been widely published and his work is featured in the film, "Voices of Dissent," and the books Igniting a Revolution, Children of the Movement, and Global Uprising. In 1997 he received Common Boundary magazine’s national Green Dove Award. Dellinger has studied cosmology and ecological thought with Thomas Berry since 1990, and has taught at Prescott College, Naropa University-Oakland, and Esalen Institute. Drew is currently working on the Ph.D. in philosophy, cosmology, and consciousness at the California Institute for Integral Studies. (See www.drewdellinger.org)
Reuben Ellis, Ph.D.
Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder, English, 1990; M.A., University of Idaho, English, 1985; B.A. Western State College of Colorado, English, 1977.
Reuben teaches Prescott College undergraduate students a variety of courses in American literature and journalism and advises the award-winning independent student newspaper, The Raven Review. He designs his journalism courses to prepare students for work in the independent or mainsteam media and to found their own publications. Reuben's background as a scholar of western American studies and the literature and history of mountaineering are expressed in courses like The American West in Film and Literature and Vertical Margins: Mountaineering and Exploration Literature. During his field-based course, Ancient People: Literature and Prehistory in the American Southwest, students study literature and Native American culture while exploring the canyon country of the Four Corners.
Maryo Gard Ewell, M.A.
M.A. Organizational Behavior, Yale University, and M.A. Urban & Regional Planning, University of Colorado-Denver. Maryo has worked in community arts development since her first summer job in 1967 when she was hired to participate in the National Endowment for the Arts' first "access grant" project. In December 2006, Americans for the Arts is publishing her contemporary rewrite of the classic "Arts in the Small Community" book which was the culmination of this project; she has co-authored the re-write with Michael Warlum, one of the book's original authors. Since then, Maryo has worked for community arts councils in Connecticut, the Illinois Arts Council, and the Colorado Council on the Arts. She is currently consulting, speaking, and writing about community arts development, especially in rural areas. She's on the board of her local arts center in Gunnison, Colorado, and on the board of the Gunnison Area Community Foundation.
Liz Faller, M.A.
M.A., Prescott College, Dance and Transformation, 1999; B.A., Western Washington State College, 1974. Liz is a core instructor in Prescott College's undergraduate
Arts & Letters and Integrative Studies programs. Liz's passion for dance, nature, experiential and progressive education and human potential has spanned 30 years. With her extensive foundation in African-inspired, improvisational, and transformational dance, Liz continues to enthusiastically teach, perform, direct, and choreograph. Her background in personal growth and earth-based community enlivens her courses. Her approach is holistic and supportive, calling forth the unique creative potential of each student.
Elaine W. Farrar, Ph.D.
Born in California, Elaine received her formal education at Glendale High School, University of California Berkeley, Stanford University, University of Southern California, and Arizona State University. She received her Ph.D. at Arizona State in 1990 in Adult Art Education. Elaine has been a Graduate Advisor for MAP of Prescott College since its beginnings. She taught at Yavapai College in Prescott for 25 years and is Faculty Emeritus. During those years she served as Art Department Chairperson, introduced the Watercolor and Printmaking programs and taught various painting, drawing, and design classes. She enjoyed sponsoring the Art Club for many years. After retirement from Yavapai College in 1993 she continued as Graduate Advisor in the Master of Arts Program. Since her move to Gilbert, AZ she has expanded her own personal areas of study and studio art, and is involved in individual competitions, group exhibits, and art advocacy. Her individual work with students as a Graduate Advisor has been very rewarding, seeing the growth and enthusiastic study of students in their chosen fields. Farrar's informal training has been received through various extension classes and workshops, as well as private sessions with professional artists. A few of these include Frank Webb, Zoltan Szabo, Tom Hill, and early workshops with Vernon Kerr of Laguna Beach. Elaine has been invited, accepted, and awarded in many local, state, national, and international competitions and galleries. Her work is in private collections in Australia, England, France, Reunion Island, Canada, Mexico City, and in many parts of the U.S. Other information can be found in various Marqui's Publications such as Who's Who in America; Who's Who of Women of the World; ... of Women of the West; ... of American Women; ... of Women in Education, etc. Farrar's work changes, depending on life changes or media choices. But she feels that this is a definite sign of continual growth. Elaine plans to work as long as mind and hand coordinate to express feelings about her surrounding world.
Ellen Greenblum, M.Ed.
M.Ed., Antioch College, Education, 1981; B.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art, 1979.
Ellen teaches students in the arts and education in Prescott College's Adult Degree Program. She has an eclectic history of working in the field of education, including work in alternative schools and experimental programs for at-risk populations. She has been involved with Prescott College in various capacities for more than eight years, teaching in the Adult Degree Program, Resident Degree Program, and Master of Arts Program. Ellen is an instructor for MAP's Summer Expressive Art Therapies Institute.
Zoë Hammer, Ph.D.
Ph.D., Comparative Cultural & Literary Studies, University of Arizona, 2004; M.A., Comparative Cultural & Literary Studies, University of Arizona, 1995; B.A., Critical Cultural Theory, Scripps College, 1989. Zoë's interdisciplinary academic work combines cultural studies and political economic analysis, social justice action research, movement-generated research questions, and critical social theory to analyze the dynamics of diverse social justice movements in the interdependent contexts of cultural performance, corporate globalization and repressive state practices. Her research and writing topics include: the prison abolition, human rights, environmental justice, anti-racist, queer/feminist, and immigrant rights movements; prison expansion and border militarization; the politics and limits of critical theory; and the ethics of community based social justice research practices. Zoë sits on the Board of Directors of the Border Action Network, the Institute for Restorative Justice, and the Arizona Migrant Rights Coalition, the Steering Committee of the Arizona American Friends Service Committee Criminal Justice Program, the Criminal Justice Working group of the Progressive Communicators Network, and coordinates human rights communications strategy for the Border Community Alliance for Human Rights. She is a Graduate Advisor in the MAP at Prescott College and teaches critical criminology courses at Northern Arizona University. She has expertise in the areas of critical social theory, US-Mexico Border Studies, Critical Prison Studies, and social movements.
Laraine Herring, M.F.A.
Laraine Herring holds an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Counseling Psychology. She has developed numerous workshops which use writing as a tool for healing through grief and loss. She also works with substance abusers, using personal story to help them work through to the core issues of addiction. She has used creative writing to work with international refugees, political prisoners, and survivors of torture as well. She currently teaches creative writing in Prescott, Arizona. Her latest book, Lost Fathers: How Women Can Heal from Adolescent Father Loss (Hazelden 2005), uses writing as a technique to work through the pain of loss. Her first book of prose and poetry, Monsoons, was published in 1999 by Duality Press. She is also a playwright and editor, and has written everything from copy on the backs of shampoo bottles to science and social studies textbooks. Her non-fiction work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her fiction has won the Barbara Deming Award for Women. Her forthcoming book, The Awakened Writer: Deep Writing Through the Union of Body, Mind, and Spirit will be published by Shambhala Publications in Fall 2007. (See www.laraineherring.com)
Donald Irwin, M.A.
M.A., Arizona State University, Anthropology/Archaeology, 1993. Don is currently working as the District Heritage Manager/Archaeologist for the Moab-Monticello Ranger Districts, Manti-LA Sal National Forest in southeastern Utah. Don’s M.A. concentrated on economic specialization among small sites on the northern Periphery of the Hohokam Regional System. Currently, Don manages the Moab-Monticello District Heritage program and responsible for stewardship of numerous Ancestral Puebloan and other archaeological sites in the Districts. Don works with other Forest Service Staff to ensure compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act and other federal laws, manages the GIS and Heritage Databases for the Districts, and conducts public education and outreach programs for the Forest. Among his research interests are prehistoric settlement and subsistence systems, lithic technology, and social complexity and regional systems in prehistory. His personal interests include permacultre and alternative building and energy systems, which he practices at his Colorado home.
Hune Margulies, Ph.D.
Ph.D., Columbia University, Urban Studies, 1997; M.A., Fordham University, Philosophy, 1995; M.A., Hunter College, Urban Studies, 1990; Bachelors, Adelphi University, Communications, 1986.
Dr. Hune Margulies is the Director of The Martin Buber Institute for Dialogical Ecology (www.culture-and-ecology.com). Hune is the founder of the Community Development Partners for the Americas, an organization engaged in cultural preservation, environmental awareness, community formation and cooperative economic programs within Indigenous and working class regions of Latin America. For a number of years, Hune served as a Deputy Commissioner in the Division of Housing and Community Renewal in the State of New York. As a component program of his work in Latin America, Hune organizes and conducts study tours to Indigenous communities and to ecological sites throughout the continent. Hune has studied and written about the philosophy of Martin Buber, Zen, Spinoza, the Hasidic community and other religious-communitarian societies. At present Hune is writing a book on the principles of Dialogical Ecology.
Peggy Natiello, Ph.D.
Ph.D. Union Institute and University, Adult Development, 1982; M.A. Fairleigh Dickinson University, Human Development, 1975; Rosemont College, B.A., English, 1952. Peggy, who completed her doctoral studies under the tutelage of Carl Rogers, Ph.D., has trained counselors and presented papers on the person-centered approach worldwide. A large number of published articles and a book, The Person-centered Approach: A Passionate Presence, reflect her interest in expanding consciousness and cultural change, spirituality, use/abuse of power, social implications of group work, and the congruence of theory, practice and politics.
Penelope Price, Ph.D.
Penelope Price is an award winning filmmaker whose work focuses on human rights and the arts. Her first documentary, Pasa Un Angel, captured the top award at the 2000 San Francisco International Film Festival. Since then, her film has been collected by art museums, politicians, human rights activists, artists and educators in Serbia & Montenegro, Poland, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, San Francisco, Phoenix, New York, and Washington DC.
Price's cinematography contributed to the student Academy award winning documentary Walk This Way. Price has also received the Golden Spire Award in the Golden Gate San Francisco International Film Festival for the documentary Pasa Un Angel; which also screened at the United Nations Conference Against Torture in Washington D.C. She received a Telly Award in the Political Category for Artists of Resistance; the Audience Choice Award in the Fire Fest Portland Oregan festival for Dinner; the "Arizona Artist" award for Home Movies, sponsored by and shown on Bravo. Price also received Innovation of the Year by the National College League of Innovation for Maya Deren: Goddes of Illusion.
Dr. Price has a Ph.D. from Arizona State University and teaches at Scottsdale Community College where she has developed a Motion Picture/Television Program with her personal mandate as the guiding vision: to offer an affordable film school for diverse voices. She has created and is currently teaching a documentary production class titled "Lights, Camera, Activism: Documentaries for Social Change." Penelope screened her film Artist of Resistance at the August 2005 colloquium. Prescott College has a copy available for use in the library. If you would like to obtain a personal copy, please go to Dr. Price's web page for more information.
Dave Shaul, Ph.D.
B.A. in Chinese (U. of Arizona), B.Music in harp performance (U. of Arizona), M.A. in Anthropology (U. of Arizona), and Ph.D. in Anthropological Linguistics (U. of California, Berkeley). Dave Shaul has worked with Native Americans on linguistics for over thirty years. He has worked with Hopi, Yoeme (Yaqui), Shoshone, Southern Paiute, O’odham and other Piman languages, as well as with a number of sleeping heritage languages. He is interested in documentary linguistics, the linguistic ideology of language revitalization, and ethno-literatures. He is currently working on reconstructing various subfamilies of the Uto-Aztecan language family.
Terril L. Shorb, M.A.
M.A., Sonoma State University, Interdisciplinary Studies, 1992; Journalism Certificate, Sonoma State University; B.A., Sonoma State University, Communications Studies, 1989. Terril is the Founder and Faculty Coordinator of the Sustainable Community Development Program. He is a Core Faculty member of the Adult Degree Program and is Co-Publisher of a small, natural history press, Native West Press. He is currently working to help save a treasured local wetlands area from extinction due to development pressures. Terril is working on his Ph.D. in Sustainability Education at Prescott College.
Camille Smith, M.A.
M.A., Lesley University, Expressive Art Therapies, 1990; B.A., Bridgewater State College, Art, 1988. Camille has focused her professional practice on using creative expression to assist others in achieving their personal potential. Camille has concentrated her efforts in the area of psychiatric disability, speaking internationally about the power of creative expression in recovery. She is a former associate faculty for Arizona State University, teaching Art Therapy courses, and former Clinical Director of Art Awakenings.
Jordana DeZeeuw Spencer, M.S.
M.S., University of New Hampshire, Experiential Education, 2001; B.A., Yale University, Theatre Studies and Literature, 1995. Jordana has taught in both public and private schools, nationally and internationally, ranging from Massachusetts to California and South Africa to Greece. In addition to her classroom experience, Jordana has facilitated eight seasons of programs through Interlocken: Center for Experiential Learning (for which she traveled with students across Western Europe, Northern Africa, and the Hawaiian Islands) and toured her one-woman, Shakespeare show, Muse of Fire, to demonstrate the universal themes represented in the Bard’s canon. Jordana was the creator and first coordinator for the residential, post-secondary Bridge Year Program, an academically rigorous, semester or year-long experience, which engages students in vocational internships, cross-cultural exchanges, service learning, and scholarship. Jordana’s graduate research examined the efficacy of experiential education in cross-cultural programs to enhance students’ moral development, and her passion is education for social change. Jordana complements her MAP faculty responsibilities with full-time teaching in Prescott’s undergraduate program (RDP) and serving as a graduate advisor to MAP students.
William (Chip) Stearns, Ph.D.
Ph.D, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Political Science, 1991; Graduate Studies, University College Dublin (Ireland), History, 1976-1977; B.A., University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, History, 1976. Chip is a professor in the undergraduate program of Cultural and Regional Studies at Prescott College. Chip has taught at the University of Montana, College of St. Benedict/St. John's University, University of Michigan, and University of Bucharest, Romania. His area of interest include political philosophy, political psychology and sociology, world politics and peace studies, media studies, and environmental politics. Chip's research and professional activities focus on the uses and abuses of political language and on the construction of political and social reality through symbols. He was the first political scientist to teach at the University of Bucharest after the collapse of communism, and is actively interested in the political and environmental issues facing Central and Eastern Europe.
Jed Swift, M.A.
Jed has been an advisor for MAP since 1995 and has advised humanities students in Ecopsychology, as well as students in Counseling Psychology, Adventure Education, and Education, with emphases in Outdoor Leadership, Rites of Passage, Experiential Education, Ecopsychology, and Wilderness Therapy. He currently works full time for Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado and directs the low residency Master's in Transpersonal Psychology with Ecopsychology Concentration program that is in its second year. Jed has a great love for any subject that explores the human relationship with self, nature, and community and he is often inspired by the poetry of Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry, Adrienne Rich, Gary Snyder, Rilke, Rumi, and many others.
Brian Tokar, M.A.
Brian Tokar has been an activist, author, and a leading critical voice for ecological activism since the 1970s, and is a faculty member and Biotechnology Project Director at the Institute for Social Ecology in Vermont. He is the author of The Green Alternative (1987, revised 1992) and Earth for Sale (1997), and edited Redesigning Life?, an international collection on the politics and implications of biotechnology, (Zed Books, 2001). His latest book, Gene Traders: Biotechnology, World Trade and the Globalization of Hunger, was published in 2004 by Toward Freedom in Burlington, Vermont. Brian was the recipient of a 1999 Project Censored award for his investigative history of the Monsanto company (The Ecologist, Sept./Oct. 1998). Brian has lectured throughout the U.S., as well as internationally, and is acclaimed as a passionate advocate of grassroots action for food sovereignty and global justice. His articles on environmental issues, emerging ecological movements, and resistance to genetic engineering appear in Z Magazine, Earth Island Journal, Toward Freedom, and many other publications. Brian holds concurrent degrees from MIT in biology and physics, and a Masters degree in biophysics from Harvard University.
Char Ullman, Ph.D.
Char Ullman is an educational anthropologist who works with Mexican migrants to the U.S. She studies the identities and ideologies that are produced through migration and globalization processes. She is especially interested in the ways in which globalization affects language use and language learning. She is currently an assistant professor at the University of Texas at El Paso. Having earned her B.A. in philosophy and journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she went on to pursue a Master’s degree in applied linguistics at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. After that, she obtained her Ph.D. in the department of Language, Reading, and Culture at the University of Arizona. When she is not focused on the ways in which identities and ideologies are produced in schools or through educational processes, Char finds herself interested in qualitative methods. An ethnographer by training, she is excited to talk with fledgling researchers about a variety of qualitative and mixed methods approaches to research. She has worked in many capacities within the field of education, including the teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) in Chicago, Illinois and Tucson, Arizona, and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Quito Ecuador. She has also run an adult education ESOL program, directed a workplace literacy program, educated in-service and pre-service teachers, developed textbooks for publishing companies, and written curricula. She delights in working with Prescott students.
Heidi Wiesenfelder, Ph.D.
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, Experimental Psychology, 1993; M.A., Vanderbilt University, Experimental Psychology, 1991; B.S., University of Southern California, Psychobiology, 1987. Heidi's experience spans academic, nonprofit, and business arenas. Her graduate research focused on the physiological basis of visual perception, with an emphasis on binocular vision and motion perception. Her publications furthered our knowledge of the phenomenon of binocular rivalry and of the processing of visual motion in different regions of the brain. After completing her degree, she transitioned from neuroscience to student affairs, taking a position as Director of Jewish Affairs at Vanderbilt and working for the nonprofit Jewish Federation. Following her move to Tucson, she spent 7 years in the corporate world, holding a variety of positions at Intuit Inc, and becoming a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt. These roles encompassed analysis, technology, process improvement, and training/facilitation. She is a member of the American Society for Quality, and is currently working as an independent contractor. She recently launched a consulting business to assist nonprofits and small businesses with an integrative approach, combining her experience in leadership, process and systems thinking, and technology. She is President of the Board of The Hermitage Cat Shelter in Tucson, and enjoys collaborating with other animal welfare organizations. She works diligently toward the day when animals will be treated ethically and neither exploited nor mistreated. In her supposed free time, she enjoys collecting art from cultures around the world, improving her Spanish conversation skills, and doting on her cats.
Joy Salvetti Wolfe, Ph.D.
Professoressa Joy Salvetti Wolfe has been a poet and teacher of the Italian language, literature, and poetry for over 20 years. She was educated at the California State University, Sacramento, and the Università di Firenze in Florence, Italy. In 1981, she was awarded an academic fellowship from Rutgers University, which enabled her to pursue independent study in Florence, Italy. She received her M.A. in Italian Studies/Multicultural Education from Vermont College and her Ph.D. in Italian Studies, with a specialization in Italian and Italian-American Film/Literature. Professoressa Salvetti Wolfe was the 2003 National Italian-American Foundation fellowship award recipient, which was national recognition for outstanding academic and professional accomplishments in the fields of Italian and Italian-American Studies.
Currently, she teaches the Italian language, culture, and literature at the California State University, Sacramento.
Last Updated January 2, 2008.
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