Faculty & Staff

Full-Time Faculty

Leslie Ashbaugh: Political and Economic Anthropology, Gender, Race and Family Studies

Constantin Behler: Literature, Intellectual History, Cinema Studies, German Studies

Warren Buck (joint appointment with Science & Technology): Physicist, Visual Artist, Higher Education Administration

Bruce Burgett (IAS Director): American Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender and Queer Studies, Critical Race Studies, Public Culture

Kenyon Chan (UW Bothell Chancellor)

Steve Collins (joint appointment with Science & Technology): Science, Technology and Society, Political Economy, East Asian History, Culture, Economy and Politics

Colin Danby (IAS Associate Director for Undergraduate Education): Political Economy, Gender, Latin America

Nives Dolšak: Public Policy, Environmental Policy, International Relations

JoLynn Edwards: Art History, Dance History, Comparative Arts

Ben Gardner: Global, Cultural and Environmental Politics, Africa, Development, Cultural Geography

Diane Gillespie: Race/Ethnicity, Gender Studies, Cognitive and Educational Psychology

Warren Gold: Ecology, Environmental Science, Restoration Ecology

Michael Goldberg: American Studies, U.S. Political and Cultural History, Cinema, Gender

David Goldstein: Ethnic Literature, Race, Cinema Studies

Martha Groom: Conservation of Biodiversity, Ecology, Plant-Animal Interactions

Susan Harewood: Communication Studies, Caribbean Studies, Cultural Studies

Jeanne Heuving: Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cross Genre Writing

Ted Hiebert: Photography and Digital Arts, Media, Technology and Society, Interdisciplinary Arts

Cinnamon Hillyard: Undergraduate Mathematics Education, Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, Ethnomathematics

Charles Jackels: Computational Science, Environmental and Atmospheric Chemistry

Dan Jacoby: Political Economy, Labor and Education

Dan Jaffe: Global Atmospheric Chemistry, Air Pollution and Environmental Chemistry

Gray Kochhar-Lindgren: Literature, Philosophy, and Cultural Analysis

Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren: Performance Studies, Disability Studies, Cross-Cultural Performance, Creativity

Bruce Kochis: Policy Studies, Human Rights, East European Studies

Ron Krabill: Social Movements, Media, Postcolonial Studies, Southern Africa

Kari Lerum: Gender, Sexuality, Organizations, Culture, Visual Studies

Joe Milutis: Media Production, Literary and Cultural Studies, Experimental and Hybrid Art Forms; Sound and Radio

Keith Nitta: Education Policy, Comparative Politics, Leadership and Management

Becca Price: Evolution, Paleobiology, Invertebrate Zoology

John Rasmussen: Interdisciplinary Mathematics, Finance, Computer Modeling

Bill Seaburg: Native American Cultures, Oral Traditions, History of Anthropology, Narrative Theory

Eric Stewart: Community Psychology; Prevention and Promotion; Theories of Change; Queers; Cultural History of HIV/AIDS; Research Methods

David Stokes: Conservation Biology, Animal Ecology, Conservation Planning

Elizabeth Thomas (IAS Associate Director for Graduate Education): Community and Cultural Psychology, Childhood and Adolescence, The Arts and Social Change

Robert Turner: Earth and Environmental Science, Hydrogeology, Sustainability

Wadiya Udell: Adolescence, Cognitive and Social Development, Sexual Health Behavior

Linda Watts: Literature, History, Visual Arts

Alan Wood: Chinese History, Asian History, World History

Part-Time Faculty

Jennifer Atkinson: American Literature, Environmental Criticism, Utopian Studies

Deborah Caplow: Art History, Art and Politics, Photography

Shauna Carlisle: Approaches to Social Research, Race, Public Policy and Inequality

Robert Farkasch: Globalization Processes, Political Economy of National Security

Erin Gayton: American Literature, Academic Writing, Gender Studies, the American West

Michael Gillespie: Philosophy of Art, Environmental Philosophy, and Social Philosophy

Chuck Henry: Environmental Chemistry, International Sustainable Practices, Environmental Problem Solving

Anna Maria Hong: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Cross-Genre Writing, Collaborative Media

Deborah Illman: Science, Communication, Media Coverage of Science

Nader Nazemi: International Relations, Comparative Politics, Middle East Politics and Historical Sociology

Timothy Olson: History, Tradition and Aesthetics of Chado

Robin Oppenheimer: Creative Collaboration Across Arts & Sciences, Image Design and Media Studies

Georgia Roberts: Global hip hop culture; American and Comparative Cultural Studies; Critical Race Theory; Lat 19th Century American Literature

Jeanette Sanchez: Theatre, Performance Studies, Chicana/o Feminism and Performance

Julie Shayne: Feminism and Revolution in Latin America, Social Movements and Culture, Political Exile, Diaspora, and Critical Development Studies

Andrea Stone: Statistics, Research Methodology, Drug Dependence and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Stuart Streichler: Law and Society, Civil Liberties, Criminal Justice

PIP Teaching Fellows

The Project for Interdisciplinary Pedagogy (PIP) provides an opportunity for 4-6 University of Washington doctoral students to develop their teaching skills. Learn more about current and past PIP Fellows.

Adjunct Faculty

Cherry Banks, Education

Tom Bellamy, Education

Susan Jeffords, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

Mark Kochanski, Computing and Software Systems

Peter Littig, Science & Technology

Marc Servetnick, Science & Technology

Crispin Thurlow, Communication (UW Seattle)

Jane Van Galen. Education

Affiliate Faculty

Miriam Bartha: Assistant Director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities (UW Seattle)

Jackie Belanger: Reference & Instruction/Arts and Humanities Librarian

Karen Ericson: Community Partnership Coordinator for the Teaching and Learning Center

Erin Hill: Manager of the Quantitative Skills Center

Suzan Parker: Social Sciences Librarian/Reference and Instruction Coordinator

Karen Rosenberg: Director of the Writing Center

Kim Sharp: Manager of the Writing Center

Randy Spaulding: Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board

Research Faculty

Dan Goldhaber, Center on Reinventing Public Education

Paul Hill, Center on Reinventing Public Education

Staff

Undergraduate Office

Kathryn Cavil, Assistant Director of Academic Services

Christy Cherrier, Science Lab Coordinator

Pam DePriest, Administrative Coordinator

Rachel Foote, Academic Adviser

Bettina Katz, Program Coordinator

Lindsey McCarthy, Academic Adviser

Rachel Pulver, Office Assistant III

Graduate Office

Andrew Brusletten, Program Manager

Joy MacTavish-Unton, Graduate Student Assistant

Lisa Olason, External Relations Coordinator

Leslie Schiffman, Program Assistant