(MA Liberal Studies UNCG) Julee is the go-to person for questions about the MALS program. From the application process, registration instructions, course selection, transcript review, purchasing books, program design, graduation process, etc. Julee is available to help.

Kathleen has worked with the MALS program since 1994. She is responsible for the overall planning, delivery and assessment of the program, including faculty recruitment, course offerings, curriculum development and new academic initiatives. She is a board member of the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs (AGLSP).

(Ph.D. University of Washington) Dr. Anderson is an Associate Professor in the History department at UNCG. His fields of study include Late Imperial China, Modern China, Pre-modern Southeast Asia, and High Medieval Europe. He is the recipient of several awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship for the 2006-2007 academic year in Beijing and a Luce Fellowship at the Library of Congress in 2004. His new book is titled, "The Rebel Den of Nung Tri Cao: Eleventh-Century Rebellion and Response along the Sino-Vietnamese Frontier."

(Ph.D. University of Delaware) Dr. Cannon is a Professor in the Department of Biology where he has been a faculty member since 1972. He regularly teaches general microbiology, virology, immunology, and principles of biology. For fun, he is an avid tennis and racquetball player, and an instrument-rated commercial pilot.

(Ph.D., University of New Hampshire) Dr. Chiseri-Strater is a Professor of English and a member of the Rhetoric and Composition faculty who teaches courses in creative non-fiction, composition and reading theory, literacy studies and research methodology. She has been a literacy educator for over thirty five years. Her book, FieldWorking: Reading and Writing Research, is in its second edition.

Dr. Evans specializes in eighteenth-century British literature and offers seminars in fiction and drama. He is the author of Comedy: An Annotated Bibliography of Theory and Criticism, A Guide to Prose Fiction in the Tatler and the Spectator (with John Wall), and numerous essays on Restoration Comedies, fiction (by Fielding, Smollett, and Richardson), and early British periodicals. A contributor to "Broken Boundaries: Women and Feminism in Restoration Drama," he is at work on a study of gambling in late Stuart comedy and culture. A piece of that project appeared recently in "Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture." Evans was a winner of the 1999-2000 Teaching Competition of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

is Professor of Broadcasting/Cinema. He has written and directed short films and published scholarly articles on European directors. He has been working on a series of documentaries in Sicily, including “A Beautiful Memory: A Mother and Her Sons Against the Mafia.” His current project focuses on lands confiscated from the Mafia and turned over to farm cooperatives, especially in the area of Corleone, made (in)famous by The Godfather.

(Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is an Assistant Professor of History. His specific area of research is Russian-Soviet history and he is interested in 20th century global history. Dr. Jones recently received the UCEA (University Continuing Education Association) Excellence in Teaching Award, which is resented to individuals who have provided outstanding teaching, course development, mentoring of students, and service to continuing education.

Ph.D. (University of Chicago) teaches a variety of courses at UNCG and in the community. Most of them encourage people to examine themselves and society, and make constructive changes in how they think and live. He likes to garden, walk, cook, be with his family, and learn Italian.

(Ph.D. Tulane University) is a cultural historian with a long history of environmental activism. With degrees in philosophy, theology, and history, he has taught courses in the philosophy of the environment, philosophy of religion, the history of moral philosophy, and environmental writing. Dr. Hamilton grew up exploring Western Colorado’s mountains and his mountaineering experience includes ascents in Colorado, Europe, and Latin America, where he lived for a decade as a human rights worker.

(Ph.D. University of Minnesota) Dr. Hodges is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Consumer, Apparel, and Retail Studies department at UNCG. Dr. Nelson Hodges’ research emphasis involves the exploration of dress in history, culture and society. Specifically, her research focuses on issues of gender as related to dress. Current research topics include: women, education, and the textile and apparel industry in North Carolina; cross-dressing and the Internet; the social psychology of apparel consumption; and women and the creation of knowledge within the clothing and textiles field.

Dr. Irwin is retired from the School of Education where she taught human development and curriculum studies. She is currently Co-Director of Healing Ground, a ministry of the Servant Leadership School of Greensboro. Her interests include servant leadership, spirituality and women’s studies.

Larry Lavender is a Professor of Dance at UNCG. He holds an MFA in Choreography from UC Irvine and a Ph.D. in Dance Education from New York University. Prior to coming to UNCG in 2002, Larry was Head of Dance and Director of the Interdisciplinary Undergraduate degree program at the University of New Mexico. Larry's primary areas of teaching are dance criticism, choreography, writing about art, and creativity studies.

(Ph.D., North Carolina State University) is Associate Professor in the department of Biology. He has conducted research on the chemosensory and endocrine coordination of mammalian reproduction at UNCG, the National Institute of Environmental Health Science, the Monell Chemical Senses Center and NCSU. In addition to his research on pheromones and hormones, he has taught a wide variety of courses in vertebrate and human physiology.

(Ph.D., University of Illinois) Dr. Miller is Professor Emeritus of Physics. As Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences he was instrumental in the founding of the MALS program in 1985

(Ph.D., University of Denver) Dr. Poulos is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at UNCG. An ethnographer and philosopher of communication, he teaches courses in relational communication, dialogue, rhetoric, and film studies. His writing has appeared in Communication Theory, Qualitative Inquiry, American Communication Journal, Southern Communication Journal, Cultural Studies: A Research Volume, and in several books. His forthcoming book is entitled Accidental Ethnography: An Inquiry into Family Secrecy.

(Ph.D., M.Div., Union Theological Seminary in New York) Dr. Ramsey is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at UNCG. His current research interests are in spirituality and politics.

(Ph.D., Duke University) Dr. Rosenblum grew up in Connecticut in a family where the greatest sin was raising one’s voice, though buying retail ran a close second. Since 1980, he has taught at UNCG. Among his books are “Shakespeare: An Annotated Bibliography” (1992) and “A Reader’s Guide to Shakespeare” (1998). In 1990, he won second prize in the Oxford University Press English Detective Fiction contest with a story about a thief who leaves Shakespearean quotations in lieu of the objects he steals.

(Ph.D. University of Chicago) Dr. Ruzicka is an Associate Professor of History. His interests as a classical historian focus on periods of cultural change. He is the recipient of the 2000 Alumni Teaching Excellence Award

(Ph.D. Harvard) Dr. Saab is Professor Emeritus of History at UNCG. She has served as Associate Dean of the UNCG Graduate School and Head of the History Department. Her research interests focus on cross-cultural understanding and misunderstandings

(Ph.D. SUNY Binghamton) Dr. Sarbaum is a Lecturer of Economics at UNCG. At SUNY Binghamton he specialized in experimental, labor international and urban economics and was an award-winning economics teacher

(MFA UNCG) Ms. Seabrook was educated at Cornell University and has taught English at UNCG for almost twenty years. She has published in "Best American Short Stories," 1985 and "The Virginia Quarterly Review." A chapbook of her short stories, "Margins of Error," was published by Unicorn Press in 2005.

(Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley) Dr. Smith-Soto is Professor of Romance Languages and Director of the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts. He is the recipient of the 1997 Alumni Teaching Excellence Award. He has published scholarly books and articles on the modern Spanish-American lyric, and his own poetry has appeared in journals such as Kenyon Review, Nimrod, Poetry East and Literary Review. He has authored two prize-winning poetry chapbooks. His first full-length collection, "Our Lives are Rivers," was published by University Press of Florida in 2003. His second poetry book, "Any Second Now" (Main Street Rag Publishing Co.) was completed with the assistance of a creative writing award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

(Ph.D. University of Virginia) Dr. Young lived in London from 1968-70 as a Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Philosophy at University College of the University of London, which was founded by Jeremy Bentham and James Mill in 1820. His daily walk to the University took him past Sir Francis Bacon’s Gray’s Inn, through “Dickens; London: and past the British Museum. He spent much of his free time walking his children around London in a double push-chair (stroller) to visit Christopher Wren churches, The City, Fleet Street, St. Paul’s and Westminster Cathedral.