Your professors are highly experienced as both researchers and instructors. As teachers, they incorporate a variety of methods to facilitate your success in and out of the classroom.
Some professors will take you into the wetlands on campus for an ecology experiment, others will lecture or use theater games. Others will work with you on developing skills of entrepreneurship, writing a poem, reading a difficult text, solving a quadratic equation, or creating digital art.
Take advantage of this enormous resource for yourselves. Go by and talk your professors during office hours or while they are drinking coffee in the Commons. They are here to assist you in any way they can, and, together, to build a learning community for the information-age.
UW Bothell is proud of its outstanding and innovative faculty. As a first year student, you will enjoy small classes, be known by name, and have many opportunities to work with your professors not only in class, but also outside the classroom on projects of mutual interest. All faculty are active researchers as well as superb teachers. Get to know them! They are here to help in your success!
Patrick Blaine, who holds degrees in Spanish and English, is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature and has studied abroad at both the University of the Basque Country and in Chile. In addition to teaching, he has worked as a translator, as the coordinator of the Spanish Program at the Seattle campus of the University of Washington, and produced a Spanish radio program. His research centers on post-dictatorial Latin American literature, film, and politics.
Warren Buck earned his Ph.D. in theoretical high-energy nuclear physics from the College of William and Mary. Buck is the recipient of The Hulon Willis Association Impact Award for positively impacting the African-American community and the Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Mathematics, Science and Engineering(MSE) Network 2001 Giants in Science Award. In addition to his research in high-energy physics, he is an accomplished watercolor artist and yachtsman.
Sharon Crowley, who has a degree in Biology and is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Washington, is writing on "Genotopias: Biopower and Embodied Subjectivity in Late Capitalism." Her research interests include Genomics, Evolution, Cultural Theory, and Teaching with Technology, and Literature.
Robert Farkasch earned his Ph.D. in International Relations and also holds degrees in Economics and Psychology. He has taught in a wide range of institutions, both online and in physical settings, and has won several teaching awards, including the ASUWB Teaching Award University of Washington Bothell in 2003.
Mike Gillespie holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Southern Illinois University and teaches a wide range of interdisciplinary courses. In his teaching, Mike relates philosophy to the arts, the natural environment, social problems, and public school education. Most recently, his research has focused on the "immensities" of contemporary life, including the devastation of the earthâs ecological systems through human impacts and the cultural significance of the production, reproduction, and transmission of images in our multimedia society.
Wanda Gregory is the Vice President and Executive Producer of Flowplay, responsible for the design and creative development of ourWorld.com, an MMO for tweens and teens. She has also served as the Executive Producer of Bella Sara and the Group Product Manager of the Xbox Platform/Live. Wanda holds an MBA from the University of Washington, with a focus in international business and strategic planning.
Kim Gunnerson whose research focuses on science education and classical molecular dynamics, holds a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Washington. In addition to her university teaching, she has chaired the Science Program at University Prep and served as the Project Manager for K-12, which links the university with the schools.
Susan Helf specializes in First Amendment law, individual rights under the U.S. Constitution, corporate social responsibility, federal regulation, sustainable business practices, and on ethical impacts of globalization. After receiving her J.D. from the University of Minnesota, Susan practiced law and then entered into corporate training for Metropolitan Savings and Loan. Susan is active in the community through private consulting and community service.
Cinnamon Hillyard, with a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Utah State University, is interested in numerical methods for partial differential equations, undergraduate math education, quantitative literacy, and ethnomathematics. Cinnamon served as the Director of the UW Bothell Quantitative Skills Center from 2000-2006, currently, she is a co-Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation grant that teaches high school students math through computer animation, with the intent of increasing the participation of women and minorities in math and science.
Dan Jaffe received his Ph.D. from University of Washington in Chemistry, with areas of expertise in global and regional atmospheric pollution, especially carbon monoxide, ozone, nitrogen oxides, aerosols and metalsand in long range transport of air pollution in the Arctic and Pacific regions. He is especially interested in the rapidly developing regions of Asia and has been studying pollutants at sites in Alaska, Russia, Japan, and several island stations in the Pacific Ocean. He enjoys teaching environmental science and in developing new environmental science curriculum for college and secondary school classes. He has recently received an appointment to the National Academy of Sciences panel on International Transport of Air Pollutants (ITAP). The committee is comprised of scientists from universities and private companies from around the world.
Gray Kochhar-Lindgren is the Director of the Center for University Studies and Programs (CUSP), which administers the academic program for the first year students. A faculty member in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences-with particular interests in philosophy, literature, and new media-he earned a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies from Emory University. The author of Narcissus Transformed, Starting Time, and TechnoLogics, Gray has also been the recipient of two teaching awards.
Amy Lambert, with degrees in restoration ecology and visual art, is currently completing her doctorate in Forest Resources at the University of Washington. She has curated art shows, been included as an artist in public exhibits, and served as Natural Resource Manager and Research Scientist at the Golden Gate National Park. She teaches in the areas of feminism, global climate change, ecological restoration, and public art.
Joseph Lavy is the founder and artistic co-director of the Akropolis Performance Lab in Seattle, where he teaches and directs theatre productions. He received his Master of Theatre Arts from the University of Akron and has performed Shakespeare with the Porthouse Theatre Company, as well as various roles with the Cleveland Public Theatre and the Magical Theatre Company. In addition, he has studied with, among others, Peter Brook, Jerzy Grotowski, and with the New World Performance Lab.
Alan Leong, who holds an M.S.E. from the University of Washington, is the Director of Research for Biotech Monthly, a periodical devoted to the biotech for high end investors. He also serves as an advisor or board member for various startups and is currently associated with teaching in the areas of technology management,entrepreneurship, and enterprise project implementations. His work focuses on developing businesses from ideas to execution and Alan serves as the Director of the Center for Student Entrepreneurship.
Kari Lerum holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Washington. Focusing on the intersections of sexuality, culture, institutions, and power, she has worked with the Pat Graney Dance Company's Prison project as videographer, and, in her classes, engages students with the structural and material conditions that can explain patterns of inequality; inspire students to examine their own subject positions within these patterns; have students understand social scientific standards for evaluating both theoretical claims and evidence; and empower students to integrate their knowledge into their everyday lives.
Peter Littig earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Washington. In his teaching, he creates affirmative learning environments in which he and his students engage in scholastic inquiry and seek to connect course content to life beyond the walls of the classroom. As a scholar, Peter is committed to engaging in research that links theory to experience, that illuminates the connections between disciplines, and that sustains intellectual curiosity. His primary research interests are in algebraic topology, Lie theory, the historical development of mathematical thought, and the sociology of mathematics.
David Nixon earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Washington. His areas of specialization are epistemology, philosophy of mind, and contemporary analytic philosophy, with primary interests in ethics, religion, and science. David is also a performing artist, a musician, and a film-maker.
Kory Perigo earned a B.F.A and the Martha Hill Award for Excellence in Dance at the Julliard School of Dance in New York City. With a certificate in Laban Movement Analysis and an M.F.A in Dance from the University of Washington, Kory has danced professionally and choreographed numerous productions in Seattle,Rotterdam, and New York.
Becca Price is an evolutionary biologist and an educator. Her interest in evolution began as a young girl when she visited a museum exhibit about fossils and she has since pursued that interest through an undergraduate degree at the University of Washington and a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Her research addresses why organisms change shape through time and space in an effort to determine whether large changes in body shapes result from the same evolutionary processes that occur in populations.
Travis Sands, a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Washington, is the primary investigator of the 2007-08 Queer Worlds Research Cluster, sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, and served the co-organizer of "Re-Thinking Transnational Studies: Critical Dialogues Across Field Formations," at the UW Institute for Transnational Studies.
Julie Shayne earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from University of California, Santa Barbara, and has teaching and research interests in feminism and revolution in Latin America, social movements and culture, political exile,diaspora, and the sociology of development. She has won several writing and teaching awards and is the author of The Revolution Question: Feminisms in El Salvador, Chile, and Cuba.
Academic Services:
David Goldstein
is the Interim Director for the
Teaching and Learning Center for 2008-2009. He teaches American and ethnic studies -mostly literature and film- in the
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program, and won the Distinguished
Teaching Award in 2007. He earned his Ph.D. in
comparative culture at the University of California, Irvine, and
recently published Complicating Constructions:Race, Ethnicity, and
Hybridity in American Texts. He lives in Seattle, where he enjoys
inline skating and cycling, and goes to as many live rock shows as he
can.
Nicole Hoover Director of the Quantitative Skills Center and one of our mathematics teachers, enjoys broadening the ways in which students perceive quantitative literacy by calming math anxieties and teachingin an interactive format. With an M.A. in Mathematics from the University of California, Davis, Nicole servedas the Precalculus Trigonometry Coordinator and mentor for graduate students at the University of New Orleans, while teaching a range of math courses from Precalculus to Multivariable Calculus.
