BIS Instructors

John P. Ackerly
John Ackerly graduated from the School of Law of the University of Virginia (U.Va.), and is a senior counsel at the Richmond law firm of Troutman Sanders LLP. He has served on several civic committees and city commissions. From 1995 to 2003 he was a member of the Board of Visitors at U.Va. (Rector 1998 – 2003). He has been teaching business law as an assistant professor at Piedmont Virginia Community College since 2000.

Dawn L. Anderson
Dawn Anderson earned her Ph.D. in mathematics education in 2002 from the University of Georgia with additional graduate certificates in Women’s Studies, and Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies, and her M.S. in curriculum and instruction from University of South Florida. She is currently the Student Services Coordinator and Lecturer for the University Internship Programs at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. She has taught at several universities including the University of Pittsburg and California State University, Fullerton and is experienced in international education as well as curriculum consulting. She has authored published articles.

Jill Antonishak
Jill Antonishak is a doctoral student in the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia, Antonishak is the recipient of the University’s 2002 Distinguished Teaching Fellowship. Her teaching experience includes undergraduate courses related to children, families, and the law. She serves as a research assistant for the MacArthur Juvenile Culpability Study and is a project coordinator for the Monticello Area Community Action Agency Needs Assessment.

Elias M. Awad
Elias Awad earned his Ph.D. from the College of Business Administration, University of Kentucky. He is professor emeritus at the McIntire School of Commerce, the undergraduate business school at the University of Virginia. His teaching interest includes e-commerce design, banking applications in e-commerce, and building business-to-consumer applications. He has served as a consultant for e-commerce installations in the private sector and his most recent book is titled E-Commerce: From Vision to Fulfillment.

Thomas F. Ball
Thomas Ball received a law degree from the University of South Carolina Law School and currently serves as a circuit mediator for the Fourth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals. He has served as an assistant public defender in Florida’s Palm Beach County, where he represented indigent criminal defendants at all levels of state and federal courts. Ball has also taught as an adjunct associate professor of law at the T.C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond.

Dan Bauer
Dan Bauer is an instructor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia. He holds a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of California and an MBA in marketing from Michigan State University. His most recent work experience in the private sector includes serving as vice president of sensors and monitoring systems and vice president of engineering with AMTEK. His technical and business expertise includes the areas of fluid dynamics, electromagnetic devices, strategic and market planning, and budget preparation and management.

Kenneth Beals
Kenneth Beals received his doctorate in theory on church ministries from the School of Theology at Boston University. He has taught as an adjunct professor of religious studies at James Madison University and Mary Baldwin College. Currently, Beals is a member of the Staunton-West Augusta Ministerial Association, and a supervising pastor/mentor for ministerial candidates at the United Methodist Church.

Bobby G. Beamer
Bobby Beamer received his Ph.D. in economics and marketing from Purdue University, his M.S. in applied economics and B.S in education from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). He is a marketing consultant and the founder of BBeamer Consulting where he specializes in market analysis and planning, branding and promotion, and new business development. He has taught courses at Piedmont Virginia Community College and Virginia Tech.

TIMOTHY BEATLEY
TIMOTHY BEATLEY

Helen C. Benet-Goodman
Helen Benet-Goodman received her B.A. in economics from Towson State University, her M.A. and Ph.D. in religious studies from U.Va. She currently serves as assistant professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia.

Mildred M. Best
Mildred Best holds a Master of Divinity from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary of North Carolina, and Master of Social Service from Bryn Mawr College. She is currently associate director and assistant professor of medical education at the Department of Chaplaincy Services and Pastoral Education, University of Virginia Healthy System. Best has authored several articles. She is active in community involvement, teaching, mentoring, and serving on the board of several organizations in the Piedmont region of Virginia.

Janet S. Binns
Janet Binns

Julie Biskner
Julie Biskner was awarded the prestigious Dumas Malone Graduate Fellowship from the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation in 2002. She is a member of the American Political Science Association. Biskner completed her doctorate in foreign affairs at the University of Virginia.

Megan E. Bloom
Megan Bloom s a doctoral student in developmental psychology at the University of Virginia where she received her M.A. in 2006. Megan studies humans’ relationship with nature by examining infants’ responses to animals and landscapes. She has taught several courses in psychology, including cognitive psychology and child development.

Rae L. Blumberg
Rae Blumberg

Karin Bonding
Karin Bonding is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a National Association of Securities Dealers securities arbitrator with a degree in English from Denmark. She has over thirty years of experience as an investment analyst and portfolio manager in Europe and the United States. Bonding has taught as a visiting professor for MBA and EMBA programs in China and Korea, as a lecturer in finance at the University of Virginia, and conduct ed workshops for a variety of corporations and nonprofit organizations.

Sara Bon-Harper
Sara Bon-Harper received her Ph.D. in archaeology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her B.A. from the University of Arizona. She has taught at the University of Virginia, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and at the Monticello-University of Virginia Archaeological Field School. She is the Archaeological Research Manager at Monticello’s Department of Archaeology.

Joshua Daniel Botts
Joshua Botts earned his B.A. and M.A from the University of Florida, and is currently working on his dissertation toward a Ph.D. in history at the University of Virginia (U.Va.) where he is the recipient of the President’s Fellowship from 2002 to 2005. His research interest includes neoconservatism and United States foreign policy from 1968-1993. Botts has published in the journal Diplomatic History, delivered several conference presentations, and taught history courses at U.Va.

Erin Ann Brown
Erin Brown received her B.A. from Carleton College, and her M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Virginia where she taught undergraduate fiction workshops. She spent two years in West Africa with the Peace Corps as a health volunteer, and is currently on the fiction board of the Virginia Quarterly Review. Her work has appeared in Open City, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and the Northwest Review.

Matthew Calarco
Matthew Calarco is the Chair and Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Classics, Philosophy and Religion at Sweet Briar College. He earned his B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy from San Diego State University and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from SUNY-Binghamton. His research interests include ethical theory, animal ethics, and 20th-century Continental philosophy, and he teaches courses in ethics, philosophy of science, and modernism to postmodernism. He is the co-editor (with Peter Atterton) of several books, and has written numerous articles for publication in such journals as Philosophy Today, International Studies in Philosophy, and Angelaki.

Mary Beth Cancienne-Acgtblu
Mary Cancienne-Acgtblu earned her Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from the University of Virginia, her B.A. in English and M.Ed. in English education from Louisiana State University. Her major fields of concentration are teacher preparation, curriculum theory, and English education. In addition to the University of Virginia, Cancienne-Acgtblu has taught at Lesley University in Boston, Texas Tech University, and Piedmont Virginia Community College.

John T Casteen
John Casteen received a B.A. in English with a concentration in creative writing from the University of Virginia, and his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, University of Iowa. In addition to literary criticism, poetry, and fiction, he has written policy pieces on transportation and urban planning, gun control, and water allocation. He has published in Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, The Believer, Electronic Poetry Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Washington Post, among others. He is an editorial board member of The Virginia Quarterly Review.

Maria W. Chee
Maria Chee

John Scott Colley
John Colley

Stephanie Scheer Conley
Stephanie Conley received both her B.A. in humanities and M.Ed. in education at the University of Louisville, and her Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She currently serves as Assistant Director of Instructional Technology in Computing Support Services, Information Technology and Communication at the University of Virginia.

David Michael Corlett
David Corlett earned his B.A. in history and his M.A. in American history from the College of William and Mary, where he is a doctoral candidate in American history and teaches as an adjunct instructor. Corlett has also taught courses in American history at Thomas Nelson Community College in Hampton, Virginia. His interest in history ranges from U.S. Military from 1860 to the present as well as the non-military aspects of Indian wars.

John Corlett
John Corlett holds a Ph.D. in organization development from the Union Institute and University, and M.A in history from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has over twenty years of experience consulting to executives and senior managers on developing more effective organizations. Besides teaching in the BIS Program, he is an adjunct faculty member at the Saybrook Graduate Institute and Research Center, and at the Federal Executive Institute. His teaching interests include organizational change, leadership and management, organizational behavior, and organizational consulting. He is the co-author of Mapping the Organizational Psyche published in 2003.

Francis Leo Daugherty
Francis Daugherty is professor emeritus of literature and linguistics at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. He received his Ph.D. in American literature from Texas A&M University, and participated in postdoctoral studies in linguistics at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a life member of the Modern Language Association and a member of the Shakespeare Association of America. Daugherty’s areas of interest in teaching and research include Shakespeare, literary and social theory, and fiction writing.

Donna DeLoria
Donna DeLoria is a partner in the Charlottesville’s law firm of Payne and Hodous, DeLoria earned her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. She serves as a community board member of Madison House at UVA.

Deborah DiCroce
Deborah DiCroce earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in English from Old Dominion University and her doctorate in higher education from the College of William and Mary. She began her career as an English teacher at TCC in 1976. Since then she has expanded her experience in higher education to include adjunct faculty appointments at the University of Virginia, the College of William and Mary, and Old Dominion University. She assumed the presidency of Tidewater Community College (TCC) in 1998 after nine years as president of Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Evelyn Edson
Evelyn Edson received both her M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago. The recipient of several grants, fellowships, teaching awards, and the project director of two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Edson has authored numerous publications including two books and many articles on the history of medieval cartography, her primary field of research. She has been professor of history and humanities at Piedmont Virginia Community College since 1972.

Monica K. Erbacher
Monica Erbacher is currently a graduate student in the Quantitative area of the Psychology Department at the University of Virginia. She has been a teaching assistant for two undergraduate psychology courses, including Psychology of Aging, and twice for Research Methods and Data Analysis II. Over the past year Monica has been conducting research on the psychological correlates of chronic pain and the quality of several measures commonly used in chronic pain research under the advisement of Dr. Karen Schmidt. She presented her research along with Dr. Schmidt and three colleagues at the annual IOMW conference in NYC this past March. During her free time, Monica enjoys running, music, painting, and reading.

Karen Farber
Karen Farber obtained her M.B.A. from the University of Maryland and her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Virginia. She brings extensive executive, management, and operational experience in the areas of business affairs, human resources/personnel administration, and labor relations. Farber has served as Associate Vice Chancellor for the University of Maryland system and Director of Statewide University Personnel Programs for California State University. Currently, she is Director of the University Internship Program at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, University of Virginia.

Rachel Farr
Rachel Farr is a doctoral student in psychology at the University of Virginia (U.Va.). She received her M.A. in education and B.S. in animal science from Cornell University, and is the recipient of several honors and awards at Cornell and U.Va. She has served as teaching assistant and co-instructor at university level, and taught science and biology in public schools.

Mark C Fowler
Mark Fowler earned his B.A. and MA. in philosophy from California Sate University, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University. He specializes in ethics, social and political philosophy, environmental ethics, and human rights. He recently retired from the College of William and Mary after more than twenty five years of teaching in the Philosophy Department, and for the past several years in the Environmental Studies and Policy Program.

John Froitzheim
John Froitzheim was a doctoral candidate in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. He holds a law degree from St. John’s University School of Law and a master’s in law from the McGeorge School of Law. In 1999 and 2000, Froitzman was a finalist for the Seven Society Fellowship for Outstanding Teaching Assistant. His research interests include the role of international variables on domestic politics, state building and democratization, and internal and civil conflicts.

Richard Grenci
Richard Grenci served as Assistant Professor of Commerce at the McIntire School while teaching IT during the summer 2001 term for BIS. His area of research interests are electronic commerce and IT business value. Grenci's business experience includes serving as a programmer/analyst for Mellon Bank and as a senior consultant for Deloitte & Touche.

Patrice P Grimes
Patrice Grimes

Jerome S. Handler
Jerome Handler

Clifford W. Haury
Clifford Haury received his B.A. in history from King’s College in Pennsylvania, and his M.A. as well as Ph. D. from the University of Virginia (U.Va.). He currently serves as the Dean of Humanities, Fine Arts and Social Sciences Division at Piedmont Virginia Community College, and as an advisory board member for the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies program at U.Va.

Amanda Carol Hege
Amanda Hege is a graduate student in the Cognitive area of the Psychology Department at the University of Virginia. She received her M.A. in Psychology from the University of Virginia in 2004. Her current research focuses on how mood and emotional arousal can influence memory accuracy. Mandy was nominated for the Seven Society Graduate Fellowship Award two consecutive years. This year, she has received a Distinguished Teaching Fellowship, the Becky Boone Teaching Award, and the Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, all through the UVa. Department of Psychology. She is an Adjunct Instructor at Piedmont Virginia Community College and has served as a Seminar Leader and Master Teacher for the Summer Enrichment Program through the Curry School of Education. In the fleeting moments between her teaching and her research Mandy enjoys traveling, gourmet cooking, wine tasting, listening to live music, and singing with the Oratorio Society of Charlottesville-Albemarle.

Robert "Ran" Randolph Henry
Robert "Ran" Henry teaches creative writing in the U.Va. Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies program. He has written for Florida’s major newspapers, and is at work on a book entitled Keeping Score, the Gospel According to Steve Spurrier. He holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from Florida International University.

Jennifer Emilie Hill
Jennifer Hill is a graduate student in the Clinical area of the Psychology Department at the University of Virginia. She received her B.A. from Dartmouth College in 2003, and her M.A. in Psychology from the University of Virginia in January 2007. She has been a teaching assistant for undergraduate courses in the areas of statistical method and research design. Jennifer's research employs behavioral genetic designs to examine causal pathways to adolescent behavior, and in particular, the effect of peers on adolescent externalizing behavior. Clinically, Jennifer works with outpatient clients at the Mary Ainsworth Clinic at UVA and inpatient children and adolescents at the Virginia Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents in Staunton. Jennifer's non-psychology interests include horseback riding, rock climbing, hiking, and anything else that gets her outside.

John W. Hulburt
John Hulburt is a former CFO who teaches financial management for the U.Va. Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies program. He owns and operates a bed and breakfast inn that was voted one of the top ten B&Bs in America.

Allison Jack
Allison Jack holds a B.A. in psychology and English from the College of William and Mary and is currently pursuing her M.A. in psychology at the University of Virginia. She is the recipient of several honors, awards, as well as teaching assistantships. Her research interest includes language development in children with autism, sign language intervention for children with low functional communicational skills, peer relations, and ADHD.

Douglas Jerolimov
Douglas Jerolimov

Andrew D Kaufman
Andrew Kaufman received his M.A. in Russian and his Ph.D. in Slavic languages and literatures from Stanford Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences. His areas of specialization include nineteenth-century prose, Russian novel, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. He has taught both graduate and undergraduate courses in Russian studies at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia.

William Kehoe
William Kehoe holds a doctorate in business administration from the University of Kentucky. He is the William F. O’Dell Professor of Commerce at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce where he has served as an associate dean. His teaching interests include global business and marketing, marketing strategy, and business ethics. Kehoe has held management positions in Centrex Corporation, Mercantile Stores, and Philips Petroleum Company. He has consulted with businesses and banking industry regarding global business strategy and business ethics, and served as an expert witness in antitrust litigation.

Glenn P. Kessler
Glenn Kessler received his Ph.D. in logic from Princeton University. His professional experience spans higher education, information technology, and business management. As an assistant professor of philosophy and assistant dean at the University of Virginia, his exceptional commitment to teaching and the University community were recognized through the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award.

Dustin Kidd
Dustin Kidd earned his B.A. at JMU in English/religious studies, his M.A. in English and Ph. D. in sociology at U.Va. He has served as a teaching assistant at UVA in the Sociology Department as well as supporting the department as a guest Lecturer. He taught a critical issues course for BIS in the summer term of 2003 entitled "Popular Culture in American Society".

Robert Kolker
Robert Kolker received his Ph. D. in English literature from Columbia University, M.A. from Syracuse University, and B.A. from Queens College (CUNY). He has taught film and digital studies at the University of Maryland where he is an emeritus professor. He recently served as Chair of the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of numerous publications including A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Stone, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, and Altman (3rd ed); The altering Eye: Contemporary International Cinema, as well as Film, Form, and Culture. He is the editor of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho: A Casebook and Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey: New Essays.

Charles Kromkowski
Charles Kromkowski earned his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia where he serves as a lecturer in the Department of Politics. He has taught as a visiting assistant professor at the Williams School of Commerce at Washington and Lee University, and as a teaching fellow at the Center on Religion and Democracy, University of Virginia. He is the author of Recreating the American Republic: Rules of Apportionment, Constitutional Change, and American Political Development, 1700-1870.

Darryl Leiter
Darryl Leiter obtained his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Brandeis University and has taught at Boston College, University of Windsor, Central Michigan University, and George Mason University. He was a Senior Research Associate at NASA and the Goddard Flight Center, and has published more than 50 research papers in elementary particle theory, relativity and gravitational theory, and quantum physics, among others. After more than 25 years as a physicist and electronic engineer in the Federal Government, he retired from the U.S. Army National Ground Intelligence Center in 2006. He is currently a member of an astrophysical research team at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics toward the development of a new theory of quasar structure.

Sharon L. Leiter
Sharon Leiter obtained her M.A. and Ph.D. in Slavic languages and literature from the University of Michigan. She has served as assistant professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia, and has taught various levels of Russian studies from introductory Russian to 20th century Russian poetry at the graduate level. She is the author of Emily Dickenson: A Critical Companion as well as The Dream of Leaving which is a volume of original poetry.

Stephen L Levine
Stephen Levine earned his Ph.D. in History from Kent State University with a specialization U.S. cultural history. Professor Levine was an Associate Professor at the University of Maine at Farmington and is currently a Scholar in Residence in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. He teaches courses in 19th and 20th century U.S. history and art history.

Brian Lowe
Brian Lowe taught in the College of Arts and Sciences at UVA and at Mary Baldwin College. Mr. Lowe’s areas of intellectual interest and research include sociological theory, sociology of religion, and sociology of culture. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Virginia.

Karlin Luedtke
Karlin Luedtke earned her master and doctoral degrees in sociology from the University of Virginia. Currently, she serves as a lecturer in the studies of women and gender program and is an adjunct faculty member in the humanities and social sciences division at Piedmont Virginia Community College. Luedtke’s areas of intellectual interest and research include sociology of gender and sexually, sociology of mass communications, classical social theory, and feminist theory. In 2000, she was elected to the Raven Society in recognition of her academic achievement and dedicated service to the University community as a graduate instructor.

Mary E Lyons
Mary Lyons received her B. S. in elementary education with a concentration in social studies, and her M.S. in reading education from Appalachian State University. Lyons is a former reading specialist and school librarian with 23 years of experience at all grade levels. In 1988 she began sharing with young people the lost stories of southerners, women, and African Americans. Now a full time writer and lecturer, her books are her way to continue the mission she began as a teacher. Her current writing interests focus on Irish American history and ancient history.

Robyn K. Mallett
Robyn Mallett currently teaches in the Psychology Department at the University of Virginia. She earned her Ph.D. and M.S. in social psychology from the Pennsylvania State University, and holds a B.A. in psychology from the University of Alaska.

Kenny Marotta
Kenny Marotta received his Ph.D. and M. A. in English literature from Johns Hopkins University and his B.A. from Harvard University. An assistant professor of English literature at the University of Virginia from 1974 to 1981, he became a fiction writer in 1981 and has since taught writing and literature at the University of Virginia, Piedmont Virginia Community College, and as artist-in-residence at several other venues. His latest book, A House on the Piazza, is a collection of short stories.

Douglas Marshall
Douglas Marshall

Jan Mason
Jan Mason earned her master of fine arts from the University of Virginia. Before coming to Virginia, she lived in New York City for eight years where she directed numerous plays, led workshops, taught acting classes, and worked with various theatre companies. Her interests are varied and include a focus on individual masters (writers such as Tennessee Williams and Eugene O’Neill), women playwrights, gay and lesbian playwrights, world drama, and black playwrights including American and non-American writers.

Charlotte H. Matthews
Charlotte Matthews earned her B.A. in English from the University of Virginia (U.Va.) and M.F.A. in creative writing from Warren Wilson College. A poet and recipient of several awards, she has served as a writing tutor at the Center for Talented Youth of Johns Hopkins University, taught English and writing at both college and high school levels, and is an assistant professor at Piedmont Virginia Community College. She teaches English and writing in the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies program at U.Va. and runs the program’s writing center.

Monica McTighe
Monica McTighe is a doctoral candidate in the contemporary art history program at the University of Virginia. She has served as a teaching assistant at U.Va. for the past three years and held internships at the Museum for Fine Arts, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and with the curator of 20th century art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Eric Meier
Eric Meier

Peter B. Miller
Peter Miller earned a master’s degree in theological studies from the Virginia Theological Seminary. He has taught in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia (U.Va.), where he once served as a graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Religious Studies. In 2000, he received the Department of Computer Science Outstanding Teaching Service Award and was a finalist for the Seven Society Teaching Award, both at U.Va.

John V. Mirabella
John Mirabella holds a B.S. in aerospace engineering from the University of Virginia, M. S. in engineering mechanics from George Washington University, and a doctorate in public administration from George Mason University. Combining an engineering background and a career in federal government service for more than three decades, he commands expertise in policies and technical fields in three federal government departments. His experience spans research, project and program management, policy analysis, regulation writing, and supervision.

Bernard A Morin
Bernard Morin is the Robert Hill Carter Professor Emeritus of Marketing at U.Va.’s McIntire School of Commerce. His teaching interests include introductory marketing, marketing management, and services marketing. He has participated in more than 100 management seminars for clients such as the FBI Academy, Department of the Army, Meredith-Burda, and Nations Bank. Morin has also served as an associate dean at the McIntire School and associate provost at U.Va.

Virginia Mosser
Virginia Mosser holds a doctorate in early modern European history, an M.A. in German literature and M. A. in music history, all from the University of Virginia (U.Va.). A Fulbright research fellow, she has taught at U.Va., the American University of Bulgaria, Mary Baldwin College, and several courses in the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies program at U.Va. including Love, Marriage and other Western Delusions; The Enlightenment Era; and Art and Society: Myth, Music and Merriment. She is the author of articles and the books Strange Mercies: The Search for Miracles in the Habsburg Monarchy and The Opera Buffa Libretti of Carlo Goldoni and Baldassare Galuppi.

Thomas F. Noble
Thomas Noble served as professor of medieval history in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia. He authored "Images and the Carolingians" that bring together the literary and art-historical evidence relevant to a series of disputes over religious art in the 8th and 9th centuries. Noble also served as a member of the BIS Advisory Committee and was instrumental in helping to make the vision of this part-time degree program a reality. He earned a Ph.D. degree from Michigan State.

Peter Norton
Peter Norton obtained his M.A. from the University of Delaware, and Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia where he has taught since 1998 surrounding the history of technology, writing, and thesis research in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. His research emphasizes historical aspects of engineering, technology, and society especially since 1700; the social implications of engineer; and American society, transportation and engineering in the early twentieth century. He has authored several publications, including the book Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City.

James P. O'Brien
James O'Brien earned his M.S. in general-applied psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University and Ph.D. in human factors psychology from The Catholic University of America. Since 1972 he has taught at Tidewater Community College where he is now full professor. He teaches several courses that include applied psychology, social psychology, child psychology, human relations, and honors research methods in the behavioral sciences. He is the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions, and author of several publications.

Victoria Olwell
Victoria Olwell currently, Olwell serves as a lecturer in English literature at the University of Virginia. She earned her Ph.D. in English language and literature and her. M.A. in English literature with honors from the University of Chicago.

Robert Patterson
Robert Patterson received his M.A. in communication from the University of Oklahoma and his Ph.D. in rhetoric and communication studies from the University of Nebraska. He is currently an assistant professor in the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. He specializes in communication studies, political communication, small group communication, discourse analysis, and cultural criticism. His publications include refereed articles and the book Using Presentation Software in Public Speaking.

Liliana D. Perkowski
Liliana Perkowski earned her B.A. in English language and literature from Sofia University, her M.A. and Ph. D. in social and cultural Anthropology from the University of Virginia. Her research interests include ethnopoetics, verbal art and aesthetics, and discourse analysis.

Ashley M. Pinkham
Ashley Pinkham is a 5th year developmental psychology graduate student at the University of Virginia, where she received her M.A. in 2005. Her research focuses on how children use other people’s knowledge to learn about the world, particularly during language learning. She has been a teaching assistant for several psychology courses, including Introduction to Child Psychology and Research Methods and Data Analysis. When she is able to sneak out of the psychology department, Ashley enjoys listening to live music, cooking, reading, and spoiling her dog.

Donna J. Plasket
Donna Plasket holds a doctorate from Harvard University in administration, planning, and social policy. Her research interests focus on professional music education, arts, and aesthetic education. She has taught music at the high school and college levels, and held higher education positions in arts research, development, career services, and alumni relations. At the University of Virginia, she was Associate Director of the Women's Center and Conductor of the Virginia Women's Chorus, prior to assuming her current position as Director of the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies program.

Ann Marie Plunkett
Ann Plunkett received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia and specializes in modern Britain, medieval and early modern Britain, modern Ireland, 20th century Russia, and modern Europe. She has taught at the University of Virginia, Mary Baldwin College, Hollins University, and Piedmont Virginia Community College. Her research interests include British and Irish 19th and 20th century political and social history, nationalism, and print culture.

Donald Polaski
Donald Polaski earned his B.A. in history from Furman University, M. Div. from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Duke University. He has taught at several colleges and universities including the University of Virginia, the College of William and Mary, and Duke University. He has authored numerous publications including reviews, articles, and books such as Authorizing an End: The Isaiah Apocalypse and Intertextuality as well as Envisioning Writing: Texts and power in Early Judaism.

Anita J. Poletti-Anderson
Anita Poletti-Anderson received a Ph.D. in Architectural History from the University of Virginia, where she also taught the history of modern architecture. Of Italian descent, she was born in Belgium where she underwent training as an art historian.

Jane C Prey
Jane Prey received a BS in Biology from the University of Illinois, an MS in Mathemathics from DePaul University, an MS in Education from JMU, and a Ph.D. in Instructional Technology from UVA. She served as a Lecturer of Computer Sciecne for the Department of Computer Science in the School of Engineering here at UVA. Ms. Prey taught "Business Software Development" for BIS in the summer term of 2000.

Paige C. Pullen
Paige Pullen

Alan Rasmussen
Alan Rasmussen obtained his B.S. and M.Ed. degrees from the University of Virginia. He retired as the chief probation and parole officer from the Virginia Department of Corrections and Community Corrections in Culpeper and Charlottesville. From 1984-2000, he acted as chairman of the Program Advisory Training Council for Probation and Parole Officers. He currently serves as a prevention specialist with a Community Services Board.

Peter Ronayne
Peter Ronayne received his Ph.D. in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia (U.Va.). He serves as a senior faculty member and international affairs coordinator at the Federal Executive Institute in Charlottesville, Virginia. At U.Va., he has taught several courses including “World Politics in the Nuclear Age” and “American Foreign Policy.”

Daniel H. Rosensweig
Daniel Rosensweig earned his Master of Arts from Georgetown University, and his Ph.D. in English language and literature from the University of Virginia (U.Va.), with concentrations in cultural studies and contemporary American literature. He has taught at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, and he instructed undergraduate courses at U.Va. from 1992 to 1999.

Andrew Ruppel
Andrew Ruppel is professor emeritus of commerce at the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His teaching interests include quantitative analysis, operations management, and global business. Ruppel is a feature editor for Decision Line, the newsletter of the Decision Sciences Institute. He also is a member of the Central Virginia Roundtable for the Council for Logistics Management, and has served with the U.S. Army, NASA, and the International Atomic Energy Agency (with diplomatic rank).

Mark Robert Ryan
Mark Ryan received a BA from Swarthmore College, a Teaching Certification from Lehman College, CUNY, and his Ph.D. in Religious Ethics at UVA. Mr. Ryan taught "Business Ethics" for BIS during the summer term of 2003.

Robert P. Saldin
Robert Saldin is currently working towards his Ph.D. in American politics at the University of Virginia (U.Va.). He holds his M.A. in government from U.Va. and a B.A. in political science from Davidson College. Saldin has studied abroad at various universities in Galway, Ireland; San Sebastian, Spain and Lima, Peru.

Lynn M. Sanders
Lynn Sanders

Karen M Schmidt
Karen Schmidt holds a B.A. in psychology, an M.A. in development and child psychology, and received her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas where her research focused on experimental psychology and quantitative methods. Currently she is an assistant professor in quantitative methods in the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia, and serves as its co-director of studies at Brown College. Schmidt has written numerous articles for professional journals and book chapters, and has presented at national and international conferences.

Mark Shields
Mark Shields taught Case Studies in Technology Management and Policy for BIS in the summer of 2000. He was appointed to a position at ITU to teach in Istanbul after only teaching for BIS one term..

Xiaobing Shuai
Xiaobing Shuai obtained his M.A. in agricultural economics and Ph.D in economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He was a senior analyst at Capital One Financial Corporation in Richmond, Virginia and is now a senior economist at Chmura Economics & Analytics. His research interests include regional economic development, workforce development, and economic forecasting with expertise in credit risk management and econometric modeling, among others.

Jeanine Lee Skorinko
Jeanine Skorinko is a graduate student in the Social area of the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia. She received her M.A. in Psychology from The University of Virginia in 2004. She teaches undergraduate courses in Psychology in the areas of social psychology and statistical methods and research design. Her research is guided by attempting to understand how factors in our social environment, especially those we are unaware of, affect our interactions and decisions. And she has investigated how different types of external and internal influences (e.g., subtle contextual signs, stereotypes/stigmas, perceptions of others, the ability to perspective take) affect perceptions, decisions, and self-views, especially in the legal and organizational domains. Jeanine loves exercising, dancing, and playing different sports. She also enjoys traveling in her spare time, and has two adopted penguins.

Larissa Loree Smith
Larissa Smith earned her B.A in Psychology from the University of Puget Sound, her M.A. and Ph.D in Social/Personality Psychology from the University of California. She is currently serving as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology in the Quantitative program at UVA. She served as an Associate Faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Mt. San Jacinto Community College.

Jim Sofka
Jim Sofka served as assistant dean and assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences and Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. Additionally, he was the Director of the College’s new interdisciplinary major in political philosophy, policy, and law, and Director of the Echols Scholars Program. Sofka taught courses in European foreign policy and international law. He received his Ph.D. from UVA.

Timothy L. Supler
Timothy Supler obtained his J.D. from Appalachian School of Law and his Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Virginia. He currently works as an attorney adviser in the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Administrative Law Judges in Virginia. He was a law fellow at the Alliance for Justice in the summer of 2005 and a Public Defender Service Law Clerk in the summer of 2004, both in Washington, D. C.

Erin Sutfin
Erin Sutfin is completing her Ph.D. in developmental psychology at the University of Virginia. Her teaching interests include developmental psychology, media and children’s development, social and emotional development in childhood, and gender-role development. Her research has focused on topics that include children’s gender-role development in the context of traditional and non-traditional families, children’s understanding of media, and the media’s influence on children’s cognitive, social, and emotional development.

Yuri Urbanovich
Yuri Urbanovich received his doctorate in international relations/economics from the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and has served as associate professor and director of the Special Projects Task Force on International Negotiations at the Diplomatic Academy, Moscow. Currently he is a research associate and faculty member of the Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction, School of Medicine, University of Virginia where he directs a multidisciplinary project on political identity, national interests, and foreign policy with a focus on controversial issues of contemporary international politics.

Stephanie Diana Van Hover
Stephanie Van Hover holds a B.A. in history, an M.Ed. in instruction and curriculum, and her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Florida. At present she is an assistant professor of social studies education in the Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education in the Curry School of Education, University of Virginia. She has authored several refereed journal articles and book chapters, and was a co-principal investigator of a National Science Foundation grant in 2004-05.

Jennifer Lynn Van Reet
Jennifer Van Reet is a doctoral student in the developmental area of the Psychology Department at the University of Virginia, where she received her M.A. in 2006. She has served as a teaching assistant for various courses in psychology. She is currently involved in several research projects investigating how children and adults understand pretend actions, how children decide if a novel entity is real or not real, and how these and other related abilities change throughout childhood. She received Honorable Mention in the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship competition in 2005.

Jacquelyn Vawter
Jacquelyn Vawter has been self-employed as an early childhood education consultant, children’s literature specialist and writer. She received her BS in Education from Illinois State University. She received both her M.Ed. Early Childhood Education and her Ph.D. in Early Childhood-Elementary Education from the University of Maryland.

William Welty
William Welty holds a Ph.D. in American history. He recently retired from Pace University in New York City after 39 years of teaching in the Pace MBA program, including courses in public policy, business policy, the social and political environment of business, ethical issues in organizations, and management skills. He has published, consulted, and presented workshops nationally and internationally. His book of case studies in teacher education pioneered the use of the business school case model in teacher education.

Mark White
Mark White is an associate professor of commerce at the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce. His primary research interests include the valuation and the impact of environmental issues on financial decision-making. As an instructor in executive education programs, he has taught seminars in the United States, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, and Lithuania. White earned his Ph.D. degree in finance from the University of Michigan.

Matthew Jennings White
Matthew White obtained his B.A. in criminal justice with a minor in religion and an M.L.A. in American cultural studies from the University of Richmond. He is currently a Ph. D. candidate in the American Studies Program at the College of William and Mary. His minor field of study is African-American literature, and religion and cultural studies. He has served as an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Religion, University of Richmond.

Laurance Wieder
Laurance Wieder earned his master’s degree from Cornell University and bachelor’s degree from Columbia University. He is the publisher and president of Nimbus Books, Inc. A writer and independent scholar, he has taught as an adjunct faculty member in Dowling College, and published extensively in such periodicals as Books & Culture and The Weekly Standard.

William Wilkerson
William Wilkerson received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia. He specializes in international business with an emphasis on Europe and business regulation. His additional interests include aspects of business history and credit unions. Mr. Wilkerson is a frequent reviewer of article submissions to the International Journal of Public Administration. He has held various offices in the Management History Division of the Academy of Management and has made presentations at several national meetings of the division.

DAVID A WILLIAMS
DAVID WILLIAMS

Monnica Williams
Monnica Williams is a Ph.D. candidate and serves as an instructor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia. She earned her M.A. in clinical psychology from UVA and a B.S. in electrical engineering/biomedical technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Williams has experience as a research analyst, clinical therapist, and consultant.

Edwin N Wilmot
Edwin Wilmot earned his B.A. from Radford University and his J.D. from Marshall-Wythe School of Law at The College of William and Mary. As an adjunct assistant professor at the T.C. Williams School of Law of the University of Richmond from 1996 to 2000, Mr. Wilmot taught various courses including legal research, writing, counseling, advocacy and negotiation. He had served in the Supreme Court and the Fourth Circuit court of Appeals in Virginia, and has been the city attorney for the City of Hopewell, Virginia since 1995.

Andrew A Wilson
Andrew Wilson holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Claremont Graduate School. He is the founder and director of the Springtree Agroforestry Project. It involves economic evaluations, design, and implementation of various sustainable agriculture projects using silvopasture and riparian agroforestry systems. Wilson currently teaches at Averett College, Piedmont Virginia Community College, and the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies Program at the University of Virginia.

Lauren Winner
Lauren Winner is currently working towards her Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia. She holds a M. Phil. in historical studies from Clare College at the University of Cambridge and earned a bachelor’s degree in history and religion from Columbia University.

Kathryn F. Wood
Kathryn Wood earned her B.A. in sociology from Valparaiso University, her M.A. in sociology and Ph.D. in religious studies from the University of Virginia where she currently serves as consultant to the Center for Survey Research. She specializes in sociology of religion, research methods, and European and American religious history.

Robert A. Wray
Robert Wray received his M.F.A. in theatre arts from the University of Iowa. He was a professional writer and actor in New York, and has taught acting based on the Meisner/ Method techniques and improvisation. He also conducted seminars on the art and craft of writing for the stage while he was a Playwright-in-Residence for the Young Writers Workshop at the University of Virginia.

Luke Wright
Luke Wright earned his doctorate in theology from Oxford University, and M. A. in philosophical theology from the University of Virginia. His research interests include the philosophy of church and state, indwelling tacit knowledge (the shadow of God) particularly in the work of Michael Polanyi, and religious influences on the secular actions of nation states. He has taught history, theology, and English at British universities including Oxford and Northampton, and at the Virginia Theological Seminary.