Life in Class
Your teachers are highly experienced and incorporate a variety of methods to facilitate your success in and out of the classroom.
Some instructors 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 with your instructors 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 instructors 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!
Faculty 2008-2009
Laurie Anderson, Ph.D. began her career in the computer industry as a software developer, network manager, competitive analyst, product manager, and technical and marketing writer. With an undergraduate degree in computer science and experience spanning over two decades, she has worked at both small and large computer companies, including DEC, SUN, and IBM, in all aspects of the product development cycle. Since 1990s, Laurie has trained with Native American healers and Peruvian shamans in their earth way traditions. She completed her Ph.D. in Cultural Ecology with a specialization in Spiritual Ecology. Her focus was on the dynamic relationship between people and the culture and environment in which they live. She brings these studies and practices to her teaching at UWB.
Robin Angotti earned her Ph.D. in mathematics education with a minor in statistics from North Carolina State University. Her research interests include online learning and distance professional development for teachers; statistics education; utilizing technology in math education; and fostering algebraic thinking. In her free time, Robin is an avid whitewater kayaker, mountain biker, and downhill skier.
Candace Barlow earned a PhD in English from the University of Washington. She also holds a degree in German literature and was a research fellow in Germany. In addition to her teaching at Bothell, she is an Instructor in the Program on the Environment at the UW Seattle. Her research focuses on interdisciplinary literature and environment studies, autobiography, and twentieth-century U.S. literature and culture. She is interested in critiques of contemporary food systems as well. Candace returned to Washington - her home state - for graduate school, and hasn’t yet been persuaded to leave again.
Olaniyi Balogun holds an MS degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering from Purdue University. He also has a background in Physics Engineering. Besides teaching, he is also an engineer involved daily in innovative technologies that will have a lasting impact on the Aero industries. Olaniyi's research interests include Application of Nanotechnology to Aerospace.
Dr. Arnold Berger, Associate Director and Senior Lecturer in the CSS Dept., received his BS and PhD from Cornell University. Prior to coming to UWB, he was the Director of R&D at Applied Microsystems Corporation, a manufacturer of hardware and software tools for embedded systems development.Before coming to Washington state almost ten years ago, Arnie was the Development Tools Manager at Advanced Micro Devices Inc., in Austin, Texas and an R&D Project Manager for Hewlett-Packard Corporation in Colorado Springs, CO. At HP, he was team leader that built the Teramac reconfigurable hardware computing machine. An avid cyclist, Arnie bicycles to UW Bothell from his home on the Samammish Plateau. His research interests include applications of reconfigurable computing to embedded systems and event-based software simulation in embedded systems. Finally, Arnie is the author of two books: Embedded System Design, published by CMP PressHardware and Computer Organization: The Software Perspective, published by Elsevier
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. 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. He is also Fellow and Life Member in the American Physical Society.
Tasha Buttler uses a variety of genres in the classroom to provoke students into questioning the politics of representation. She has a M.S. and has worked for years in environmental sciences and as a liaison between private industry, government, universities, and the public. Tasha is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Washington in the English department. Her classes explore how stories are presented, including government reports, government funded scientific studies, popular media, literary essay, memoir, and other fiction. She is interested in models of how people learn, in order to engage alternative methods of teaching writing skills. Her research investigates the role of exile and translation as forces of psychic and social change. She enjoys the translation of literature from Portuguese and Spanish.
Deborah Caplow is an art historian with a concentration in European and American art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She received her Master's Degree and Ph.D. from the Division of Art History of the University of Washington, where she wrote her master's thesis on twentieth-century Mexican photography and her doctoral dissertation on Leopoldo Mendez, a Mexican political printmaker (now a full-length book). Her specialty is in Mexican art and culture, and she has a taught a variety of courses at UW Bothell, including Mexican art, American art and architecture, art and politics, nineteenth and twentieth-century art, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, women in art, history of photography, and Renaissance and Baroque art. Since 2008 she has been teaching in CUSP, and is inspired by the enthusiasm and dedication of the freshmen and sophomores at UWB. In addition to teaching, she visits Mexico often, especially Mexico City and Oaxaca, two cities that have rich visual cultures. She loves to experience the ancient ruins, colonial churches, village markets, and museums in Mexico, and also photographs street art and graffiti there.
Caren Crandell a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Washington and conducts research in plant ecology and ethnobotany in the estuaries of coastal Washington. This research led her to develop a course that explores the intersection of ecology and culture and guides students through original research in this interdisciplinary area. An educator for more than 20 years, she holds a Washington State Teaching Certificate and is committed to serving students of diverse learning styles, fostering a sense of ownership in their work, and building skills that will serve them academically and professionally long into the future.
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.
Matt DePies will receive his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Washington in June 2009. His current research is on the potential gravitational wave signal from cosmic strings, and he has been teaching physics, math, and astronomy classes since 2002. He is fond of the pacific northwest and has spent much time hiking and skiing the local mountains. As a US army veteran of the first gulf war, Matt would like all veterans to know that they can accomplish anything that they dedicate themselves to.
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.
Alexandra Filutowski received her J.D. from Seattle University School of Law and her B.A. from the University of Washington School of Business. After working in international marketing and negotiating sales contracts for General Electric in Italy, Alexandra dedicates herself to practicing law in Washington, with a focus on representing individuals in civil litigation. She also researches developments in corporate social responsibility and international human rights. Alexandra enjoys international travel, biking, kayaking and hiking.
Alla Genkin received her M.S. in Statistics and M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Purdue University. At Purdue Alla also taught math courses ranging from Algebra to Differential Equations. Before joining UW, she worked as a quantitative analyst for an investment firm in downtown Seattle. Alla's teaching philosophy is to combine theory and practical applications while inspiring students to treat math as a necessary foundation for all their future work.
Ben Gonio has a B.F.A. in Drama from Carnegie Mellon University. He attended the Moscow Art Theatre Exchange Program. He has an M.F.A. in Acting from The University of Washington Professional Actor Training Program, where he also taught in the undergraduate program (top 5 graduate programs in Actor Training based: U.S. News & World Report, 2004). Besides having taught at University of Arizona School Of Theatre Arts, where he lead workshops in Suzuki Training and Viewpoints Training, he has also taught at various local studios including, Broadway Bound, Studio East, Northwest Actors Studio, Youth Theatre Northwest, and The Connection Performing Arts Center. Credits include film, television, and commercials. He continues to work for regional theatre companies such, Tony Award winning Minneapolis Children's Theatre, Houston's Arena Theatre, Sierra Repertory Theatre, Guthrie Theatre and local Seattle companies including Seattle Repertory Theatre, 5th Ave Theatre, ACT Theatre, Seattle Children's Theatre, Empty Space Theatre, Village Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company and Alice B. Theatre. He is a proud member of SAG/AFTRA/AEA. Ben was one of the recipients of the 2007 Artist Trust Grant for his new solo show: "As Boundless As The Green Earth." Ben is also a freelance director, producer, playwright and the president and founder of /fee-nix/ Productions (bengonio.com)
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.
Erica Gunn is a PhD candidate in chemistry at the University of Washington, where she studies crystal growth and pattern formation. She is committed to helping students to understand the "big picture" of science, and how it applies to their everyday lives. Erica received a chemistry department teaching award in 2005.
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.
Panos Hatziandreas is currently a full time psychology professor at Cascadia Community College and a lecturer at University of Washington in Bothell. He is originally from Ethiopia and comes from a biracial family background (Ethiopian and Greek). He earned his first MS degree in Clinical/Community psychology from the California State University in Long Beach, and his second MS degree in Organizational psychology from Alliant International University in Los Angeles, California. He has over ten years of experience as a therapist counseling a wide range of clients from children, adolescents, and couples, to families, and chronically ill adults from various cultural and racial backgrounds. In addition, Mr. Hatziandreas has years of project management experiences in Information Technology and Mental Health.
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 is currently the chair of the Math Association of America’s Special Interest Group on Quantitative Literacy and the Treasurer/Secretary for the National Numeracy Network, two organizations that work nationally to promote quantitative literacy education.
Steve Holland has taught at the University of Kentucky, the University of Michigan, the University of Colorado, and Texas State University and served as Economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Previous administrative appointments include Vice President of the Economics Institute at the University of Colorado and Chair of the Department of Finance and Economics at Texas State University. His primary teaching and research interest is financial economics and his publications dealing with inflation, interest rates, and real estate have appeared in such journals as American Economic Review; Journal of Business; Review of Economics and Statistics; Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking; Real Estate Econo2mics; and Economic Inquiry.
Charles Jackels is a graduate of the University of Washington where he earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. His recent activity has involved collaboration in an international project to conduct service-based chemistry research for improvement of coffee quality with Nicaraguan small-holder coffee farmers. This project has involved field work on farms in Nicaragua and laboratory studies in both Seattle and Managua. This project is being accomplished through partnership with students, faculty, and staff of Seattle University (SU), the University of Central America Managua, and Catholic Relief Services/Nicaragua (CRS/NI).
Prior to the initiation of the coffee chemistry research, work in his laboratory primarily focused on application of computational science methods to chemical and physical problems involving the ground and excited state properties of small molecules, especially those that are of importance in Earth's atmosphere. Recent ab initio quantum chemical studies have focused on the overtone vibrational spectrum of ethanol and the photolysis of Cl2O2. The studies have employed large-scale CASSCF, configuration interaction, and perturbation theory calculations.
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 metals and 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. Many UWB students have been involved with this research. He also enjoys teaching chemistry (and blowing things up!).
Karrin Klotz is an attorney with over 20 years of experience in litigation and general business law matters. After completing a judicial clerkship for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, she served as a litigator on complex business litigation issues with Pillsbury, Madison and Sutro (now Pillsbury Winthrop); a litigator on software piracy issues at Donahue, Gallagher, Thomas and Woods; as corporate counsel for Amdahl Corporation and Microsoft Corporation; and as Associate General Counsel for Wall Data Inc. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School, and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently a lecturer on business law and ethics matters at the University of Washington Foster School of Business Administration and the University of Washington-Bothell, and an adjunct professor at Seattle University Law School where she specializes in intellectual property law issues. She also has her own legal practice, specializing in representing entrepreneurs on the wide range of issues faced by small businesses operating on a worldwide level. She is the past chairman of the Public Information and Media Relations Committee of the Washington State Bar Association, and recently published a paper on intellectual property audits at the Ninth World Congress on Intellectual Capital and Innovation.
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 cultural analysis--he earned a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies from Emory University. The author of Narcissus Transformed, Starting Time, and TechnoLogics, The recipient of two teaching awards, Gray will, in 2009-10, be on leave from UW Bothell, serving as a Fulbright General Education Fellow in Hong Kong. The Fellowship will help to support the creation of cross-disciplinary curriculum in a consortium of Hong Kong Universities, which in 2012 are transitioning from 3 to 4 year degrees. Hosted by the University of Hong Kong, Gray will teach one course per semester and organize workshops coordinated by the Hong Kong-America Center on the first year experience and integrated learning initiatives in General Education.
Erin Gayton earned her Ph.D in Literature from the University of California, San Diego. She has served as Associate Director for the University Writing Program (now the Thompson Writing Program) at Duke University, where she was also a Mellon Fellow. Her teaching has emphasized introducing first-year students to critical inquiry, academic writing, and literary and cultural studies. Erin’s research interests include marriage and property discourse in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, and gender in the American West.
Alan Leong, who holds an M.S.E. from the University of Washington, is the Director of Research for Biotech Stock Research, a service forlife science investors. He also serves as an adviser or board memberfor various start-ups and is currently associated with teaching inentrepreneurship, interactive media, and technology management. His work focuses on developing businesses from idea to start-up toscale-up. Alan serves as the Director of the Center for StudentEntrepreneurship.
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.
Katy Masuga earned her Ph.D. in 2007 from the University of Washington, Seattle in the Department of Comparative Literature with a dissertation on Henry Miller, Maurice Blanchot and Gilles Deleuze. She works on Anglo, American, French and Germanic 20th century literature and visual culture. She teaches from an interdisciplinary approach, developing courses across the humanities: in literature (predominately 20th century and modernism but also 17th, 18th and 19th century), literary theory and criticism, Continental philosophy, history, art history, film studies, visual culture and language acquisition (English, German, French).
Doug Mercer, Ph.D. (University of Washington, Geography) explores the relationship between society and the environment. His courses include environmental history, policy, perception and ethics. His consulting and research efforts focus the role of science and public process in the management of environmental risks. He is the University of Washington delegate to the Hanford Advisory Board.
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 aesthetics. David is also a performing artist, a musician, a painter, 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.
Pete Richardson works with work. An ethnographer by training, he received his Ph.D. in Culture, History, and Theory from Emory University in 2003. Pete’s participant-observation based research has included fieldwork on Alaska's fishing boats and in Idaho sawmills. As a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research (while also a fellow with the Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life and the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations), he studied the cultures of factories and unions in the Detroit area with the cooperation of the UAW and the ‘Sylvania’ Local. A Senior Researcher with Ethnographic Solutions, he worked on a corn farm as a kid; later in life as a DJ, bouncer, and a commercial fisherman. Pete has published on diverse topics, including forests, Wittgenstein’s builders, the imaginary, familism in unions, rules, fantasy, and fetishism.
Leonard Rifas holds a Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle, Department of Communication. He has created educational comic books on various issues, and works as a comics scholar, comics critic, teacher and cartooning instructor. His interests include information visualization, film, underground comix, and climate change.
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 critical development studies. She has won several writing and teaching awards and is the author of The Revolution Question: Feminisms in El Salvador, Chile, and Cuba. (Rutgers, 2004). She is currently working on a book called *They Used to Call Us Witches: Feminism, Culture, and Resistance in the Chilean Diaspora* about Chilean women exiles in Canada. (Lexington Books).
Linda Watts holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. She teaches courses that span the fields of history, literature, and the arts. Her research addresses include 19th- and 20th-century United States literature and culture; visual art practice, production, and exhibition; women's studies; multicultural education and curriculum revision; HIV/AIDS education; critical and alternative pedagogy; institutional change and educational leadership.
Dr. Carol Zander received an M.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Colorado and a M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from Colorado State University. She has worked in the software industry at Hewlett-Packard and IBM, and her many interests include object-oriented programming and design,programming languages, but her current focus is on computer science education research. She has spent many years shaping the minds of students, teaching mathematics and computer science at the University of Maine, Colorado State University, and Seattle University. At Seattle University her students rewarded her efforts by voting her outstanding faculty awards. In 2002, she received the University of Washington's highest teaching honor, the Distinguished Teaching Award.
Part-time Faculty:
Deborah Birrane - Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Bill Seaburg -Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Academic Services:
David Goldstein is the Interim Director for the Teaching and Learning Center for 2008-2010. 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.
Erin Hill received her PhD in Physics from the University of CA, Irvine. Her research focused on avian magnetoreception, i.e., how birds detect the Earth's magnetic field and use it for positional/directional information. She returned to the northwest to be near her close-knit family and to be among the greenery, mountains, and clean air of Washington. An avid reader, she also enjoys skiing, snowshoeing, hiking, and spending time with family and friends.
Karen Rosenberg directs the Writing Center and is passionate about writing, writing pedagogy, and capable and creative programadministration. She holds a B.A. in Literature from Swarthmore Collegeand an M.A. and Ph.D. in Women Studies from the University of Washington. She teaches and conducts workshops on the reading andwriting process. She supports faculty through consultations on coursedesign topics such as creating effective writing assignments,appropriate assessments, and innovative ways of integrating writing into courses.