IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI: Faculty & Staff Directory

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Faculty & Staff Directory

Emeritus/Retired Faculty

Betty J. Anderson (Retired)

Appointments: Lecturer in English (Retired)
Academic Interests: Using innovative techniques to teach non-traditional students, assessing the value of remediation at the college level,faculty development in working with University college students, and letter writing as stimulus for basic writers
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Clayton Baker (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emeritus of Spanish
Academic Interests: Spanish language and composition, foreign language pedagogy, teaching foreign language to the adult learner
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W. Kenneth Barger (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Academic Interests: Applied social change, anthropology of health, immigration and immigrant rights, inter-ethnic relations, population-based field research, the farm labor movement, Mexican Americans, North American Indians and Eskimos
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John D. Barlow (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emeritus of English and German
Adjunct Professor of Philanthropic Studies, Women's Studies, and Communication Studies
Dean Emeritus of the School of Liberal Arts
Academic Interests: Literature and the arts in the 20th century, translation, philanthropy and literature
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James G. Beaudry (Retired)

Appointments: Assistant Professor Emeritus of French
Academic Interests: The "Essais" of Montaigne, and French-speaking Canadian literature and civilization
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Dominic J. Bisignano (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emeritus of English
Academic Interests: Victorian literature, romantic literature, the nineteenth-century British novel, the modern British novel, world masterpieces,poetry and literature of imperialism
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Mary V. Blasingham (Retired)

Appointments: Assistant Professor Emerita of English
Academic Interests: drama, fiction, Shakespeare, and creative writing
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Bernard Bogar (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emeritus of Economics
Academic Interests: Macroeconomics, industrial organization, law and economics, child support guidelines for the State of Indiana and the value of home productions
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Leon H. Bourke (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emeritus of French
Founder, I.U. Dijon Academic Summer Program, Dijon, France.
Started the Latin program at IUPUI.
Academic Interests: Nineteenth and twentieth-century French literature, the French Revolution, and methodology of teaching languages, Latin and French translation.
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Marian S. Brock (Retired)

Appointments: Associate Professor Emerita of English
Academic Interests: Film (especially genre film such as action-adventure and westerns),
Russian Literature in translation, nineteenth-century British poetry and fiction,
and film criticism
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John C. Buhner (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Public and
Environmental Affairs.
Chancellor Indiana University Northwest (1967-69),
Vice Chancellor and Dean of Faculties IUPUI (1969-76)
Academic Interests: American government, public health policy, American presidency,
and American constitutional development
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Michael B. Burke (Retired)

Campus Address: CA 344B
Phone: 317-274-3957
Appointments: Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
Academic Interests: Metaphysics, logic, epistemology, and philosophy of religion
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David G. Burns (Retired)

Appointments: Associate Professor Emeritus of Communication/Theatre
Academic Interests: Business and professional communication, speech education, argumentation and debate,
and history of rhetoric and public address
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Edmund F. Byrne (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and
Adjunct Professor Emeritus of Philanthropic Studies
Academic Interests: Social and political philosophy
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Edwin F. Casebeer (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emeritus of English
Academic Interests: Shakespeare, popular culture, and creative writing
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C. Conrad Cherry (Retired)

Campus Address: CA 341
Appointments: Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies
Academic Interests: American religious history, and the teaching and practice of religion in American colleges and universities
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Sheila M. Cooper (Retired)

Appointments: Assistant Professor of History and
Associate Dean of the University Graduate School
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Richard K. Curtis (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emeritus of Communication/Theatre
Academic Interests: Communication/information theory, universal values and peace/order, ethology/ecology, evolution, future studies/forecasting, chaos theory, and higher education in the twenty-first century
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Kenneth E. Cutler (Retired)

Campus Address: CA 503Q
Appointments: Associate Professor Emeritus of History
Academic Interests: Ancient Rome and medieval Europe (especially medieval Scandinavia)
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Donna Kay Dial (Retired)

Appointments: Associate Professor Emerita of Economics
Academic Interests: History of economic thought, economics and religion, and church resource planning. Interest in program development and not-for-profit agencies
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Robert C. Dick (Retired)

Campus Address: CA 307B
Appointments: Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies
Academic Interests: Persuasion/public address, nonverbal/ interpersonal communication, reasoning/argumentation, and international/intercultural communication
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Anne Donchin (Retired)

Campus Address: CA 331
Appointments: Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies and Philanthropic Studies
Academic Interests: Biomedical ethics, feminist theory and related interdisciplinary studies
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Richard A. Fredland (Retired)

Campus Address: CA 503K
Appointments: Professor Emeritus of Political Science
Academic Interests: international relations, African politics, and U.S. foreign policy
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Bernard Friedman (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emeritus of History
Academic Interests: American history, American colonial and Revolutionary history, and American culture
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Robert E. Frye (Retired)

Appointments: Associate Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
Academic Interests: philosophy and culture
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Ralph D. Gray (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emeritus of History
Academic Interests: American history, early nineteenth century transportation history, Indiana history, and history of IUPUI
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Giles R. Hoyt (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emeritus of German and Philanthopic Studies
Director Emeritus of the IUPUI Max Kade German-American Research and Resource Center
Academic Interests: Early modern German literature and language, German culture studies and German-American studies
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Barbara D. Jackson (Retired)

Campus Address: UC 3149
Phone: 274-8923
Appointments: Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies and
Associate Dean of University College
Academic Interests: variations in concepts of gender and gender roles across cultural and ethnic groups with a focus on women and work in North America and Latin America, and ethnographic field research
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Sabine Jessner (Retired)

Academic Interests: French, European and women's history
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Monte E. Juillerat (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emeritus of Economics
Academic Interests: economic theory and economic development
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Robert J. Kirk (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emeritus of Economics
Academic Interests: regional-urban economics and public finance
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Shou-Eng Koo (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emeritus of Economics
Academic Interests: international trade and finance, economic theory, and Chinese economy
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Miriam Z. Langsam (Retired)

Campus Address: CA 401
Appointments: Professor Emerita of History
Academic Interests: American social and women's history, nineteenth-century, and history of science and technology
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Justin H. Libby (Retired)

Campus Address: UL3135F
Phone: (317)274-3981
Appointments: Associate Professor Emeritus of History
Academic Interests: American diplomatic history, Japanese history, and naval war in the Pacific 1941-1945
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Patrick J. McGeever (Retired)

Campus Address: CA 503M
Appointments: Professor Emeritus of Political Science
Academic Interests: American politics, public opinion, and elections
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Lucila Inés Mena (Retired)

Appointments: Associate Professor Emerita of Spanish
Academic Interests: all aspects of language teaching, modern Latin American prose, Latin American culture and civilization, and Hispanic Art
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Paul J. Nagy (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
Senior Fellow, Institute for American Thought
Academic Interests: ethics, American philosophy, pragmatism, question of American identity, America in the 1960s and 1970s, John Dewey,Michael Polanyi, and pragmatism and American culture
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Nancy A. Newton (Retired)

Appointments: Associate Professor Emerita of Spanish and Adjunct Associate Professor of Women's Studies
Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish; Chair of Spanish Department 1991-97
Resident Director of Indiana-Purdue-Wisconsin Program in Madrid 1986-1987; Resident Director of Indiana University Summer Program in Salamanca multiple times.
Academic Interests: modern Spanish and Latin American literature, feminist theory and literary practice, orality, literacy, and the creation of "voice"; women writers in the Spanish-speaking world; literature and art of Hispanic artists in the U.S.; the teaching of literature and culture.
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Larbi Oukada (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emeritus of French
Adjunct Professor of Education
Director of Strasbourg Summer Program
Academic Interests: International Eduation, French linguistics, pedagogy, French grammar, and curricular and methodological issues
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Melvin L. Plotinsky (Retired)

Appointments: Associate Professor Emeritus of English
Academic Interests: Shakespeare, Milton, twentieth-century British and American literature, American Jewish writers, creative writing, and literary criticism
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Berthold P. Riesterer (Retired)

Appointments: Associate Professor Emeritus of History
Academic Interests: European intellectual history, German history, world history, and history of philosophy (with emphasis on twentieth-century thinkers such as L. Wittgenstein, M. Heidegger, and K. Jaspers)
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Stephen M. Sachs (Retired)

Campus Address: CA 504C
Appointments: Professor Emeritus of Political Science
Academic Interests: political philosophy, constitutional law and judicial process, public policy, public administration, work-place democracy,poverty, consciousness and social change and American Indian politics and policy
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Phyllis J. Scherle (Retired)

Appointments: Assistant Professor Emerita of English
Academic Interests: American literature, fiction, and poetry, American and British poets, and English education
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Peter J. Sehlinger (Retired)

Academic Interests: Latin America, Iberia, historiography, and Chile, Peru, and United States relations with Latin America and Spain
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Mary Elisabeth Seldon (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emerita of History
Academic Interests: Europe in the twentieth century, history of the Far East, and ancient and medieval Celtic history
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Jan Shipps (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emerita of History and Religious Studies and
Senior Research Associate for the POLIS Center 1995-present
Academic Interests: history of American religion, religions in the making, religion in urban America, and Mormonism
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John Knox Stevens (Retired)

Appointments: Associate Professor of History (Retired)
Academic Interests: nineteenth-century Europe, modern Britain, modern Ireland, American military history, and the Civil War in the West
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Robert F. Sutton, Jr. (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies Program
Academic Interests: classical art and archaeology, ancient Greek and Roman civilization, ancient Greek language and literature, Greek history, iconography, Greek ceramics and painting, archaeological surface survey and excavation, social history and gender studies
Teaching: Classical Archaeology, Art & Archaeology of Greece, Art & Archaeology of Rome, Myth & Reality in Greek Art, Greek History, Golden Age of Athens, Discover an Ancient Polis: Ancient Greece on Site (taught in Greece), Classical Mythology
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Rosalie A. Vermette (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emerita of French and Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies
Founding faculty member of University College
Academic Interests: French culture and civilization, medieval French language and literature, general French language and literature, and first-year experience courses
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Jim Wallihan (Retired)

Campus Address: CA 503G
Phone: 274-5029
Appointments: Professor Emeritus of Labor Studies and Political Science
Academic Interests: Labor and employment politics; negotiation and dispute resolution; associations and interest groups; Third World and Southeast Asian politics.
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Dorothy L. Webb (Retired)

Campus Address: CA 309D
Appointments: Professor Emerita of Theatre
Academic Interests: youth theatre, directing for the stage, playwriting, scenic design, nineteenth and early twentieth-century American theatre,and Indiana theatre history
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