Barrett Deans, Faculty Fellows, and Visiting Lecturers

Honors Faculty Fellow
Location: Sage South Hall, Room 163
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Dr. Beggs earned his bachelor’s degree in philosophy from UC Berkeley and his PhD (dissertation on Plato) from UC Santa Cruz. He came to Barrett in 1999 and became a Department of Philosophy Faculty Affiliate in 2001.
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Visiting Lecturer
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Please learn more about Dr. Benjamin at: https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/252069

Honors Faculty Fellow
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Lenore Brady earned her PhD in Literature from Arizona State University. Her area of specialization is twentieth century American literature with a focus on fictions of social change centering on ethnic and women’s writing. Other recent research interests include contemporary African American and Diasporic literature, epistolary writing, and autobiography.

Dr. Brady is the current director of Barrett, The Honors College at the ASU Polytechnic campus.

Honors Faculty Fellow
Location: Sage South Hall, Room 161
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Karen Bruhn, a Principle Lecturer in Barrett, earned a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her field is late medieval and early modern European religious development, with an emphasis in Tudor and Jacobean England. In addition to her Human Event Classes she teaches classes on world religions, the history of Christianity, and the relationships between literary and theological discourses in Europe and the Americas. Recently, she has published articles on how England turned from Roman Catholicism to Protestantism during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and her current research centers on how the Protestant and Catholic disputes figure in the plays of Shakespeare. (continue reading…)

Associate Dean for National Scholarship Advisement and Internships
Location: Sage North Hall, Room 107C
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Janet M. Burke, PhD, is an historian whose research focuses on intellectual and social history in Europe and Latin America. Many of her publications have concentrated on the effect of the Enlightenment on women’s sociability in eighteenth-century France (continue reading…)

Honors Faculty Fellow
Location: Sage South Hall, Room 171
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Kevin Dalton joined the Barrett faculty in 1994 and has offered over 100 sections of Barrett’s signature introductory seminar, “The Human Event.” He came to Barrett from Millsaps College, where he taught English literature and film. He received his B.A. in English Literature from Columbia University and his Masters of Philosophy in Shakespearian Drama from Oxford University; he attended the University of Virginia for his doctoral work, receiving the PhD in 1992. (continue reading…)

Honors Faculty Fellow
Location: Sage South Hall, Room 155
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Dr. Diane Facinelli joined the Barrett faculty in 1993 and was promoted to the rank of Principal Lecturer during the first year this position was available at ASU. She also was the first recipient of ASU’s Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Student Mentoring and has been a finalist for the Professor of the Year Award. In 2001, she served as Barrett’s Assistant Dean for Academic Advisement and currently is the thesis contact person for students and faculty. Prior to joining Barrett, (continue reading…)

Honors Faculty Fellow
Location: Sage South Hall, Room 168
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Joseph P. Foy earned his Bachelor’s at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where he also conducted research in space and solar physics at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. He subsequently earned his PhD at Arizona State University studying and modeling the dynamics of the Crab Nebula supernova remnant. His current research interests focus on understanding the physics of the pulsar wind nebulae and certain aspects of the interstellar medium. He entered Barrett Honors College after completing a visiting professorship at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia.

Joseph Foy at the Arecibo National Radio Observatory in Puerto Rico, where he attended the Radio Astronomy School during summer of 2005.

 Honors Faculty Fellow
Location: Sage South Hall, Room 172
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Achim Herrmann earned a Ph.D. in Geosciences from the Pennsylvania State University. Before joining Barrett, The Honors College in 2005, Dr. Herrmann taught classes on environmental sciences, historical geology, climate change, and paleontology at the George Washington University. He is currently teaching science-focused ‘Human Event’ seminars in the Honors College and interdisciplinary science seminars in the School of Earth and Space Exploration. His research interests are in the fields of earth systems science and environmental geochemistry. Dr. Herrmann has published several peer-reviewed articles and is continuing his research in the W.M. Keck Foundation Laboratory for Environmental Biogeochemistry (http://kfleb.asu.edu/) at the Arizona State University. (continue reading…)

 
Barrett Professor, President’s Professor
Location: Sage South Hall, Room 149
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Ted Humphrey is affiliated with the Lincoln Center as a Lincoln Professor of Ethics, the program in Philosophy, Politics, and Law and the Department of Philosophy. His current scholarly focus is Latin American intellectual history. With Dr. Janet M. Burke, he is developing for Hackett Publishing Company an anthology of Latin American intellectual history that comprehensively represents the several traditions of thought central to Latin America’s intellectual development and self-understanding. The first volume of that anthology appeared in March, 2007, as “Nineteenth Century Nation Building and the Latin American Intellectual Tradition.” They are now developing the second volume, The Rise of American Consciousness.” In addition, they are working on a new translation of Bernal Díaz de Castillo’s “True History of the Conquest of New Spain.” Simultaneously, with José Antonio Aguilar-Rivera, they are preparing a volume entitled “Liberty in Mexico,” to be published in 2010 by the Liberty Fund. They have other projects in various stages of preparation, including of volume with the working title The Moral Voices of Latin America and a new translation of Hernan Cortés’s “Cartas de Relación.” (continue reading…)

Honors Faculty Fellow
Location: Sage South 152
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Dr. Hunter joined the faculty of Barrett Honors College in 2008. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology (1990) and worked in the power generation industry and environmental consulting whilst completing his Master’s degree in philosophy from Georgia State University (1998). He formed his own environmental consulting business in 1996 specializing in the design and construction of remediation systems. He completed his PhD in philosophy from the University of Kentucky in 2008 (dissertation on phenomenology and physics). Since 1999, he has taught a wide spectrum of undergraduate philosophy courses. (continue reading…)

Honors Faculty Fellow
Location:Sage South Hall, Room 154
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Dr. Mary Ingram-Waters joined the faculty of Barrett, the Honors College, in January, 2009, after the birth of her second daughter. Mary completed her PhD in Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2008. Her thesis, “Fictions of New Biological Sciences: Exploring Cultural Sites of Knowledge Production,” (continue reading…)

Dean
Location: Sage North Hall, Room 124
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Dr. Mark Jacobs is the Dean of Barrett Honors College and Professor in the School of Life Sciences at ASU. He came to ASU in the fall of 2003 from Swarthmore College, where he had held an endowed chair in biology and had been both Chair of the Biology Department and Associate Provost of the College. He received his BA magna cum laude from Harvard in biology and earned his Ph.D. at Stanford University in biological sciences. A Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, Jacobs is the author of more than 50 publications on the physiological and molecular control of plant development, and for 12 years was associate editor-in-chief of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, an international plant science journal. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Cambridge University, the University of California Santa Cruz and Universitat Freiburg in Germany, where he held a NATO postdoctoral fellowship. He teaches an honors seminar on “The History and Evolution of Human Food.”

Honors Faculty Fellow
Location: Sage South Hall, Room 167
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John M. Lynch (PhD, University College Dublin, 1993) has been at ASU since 1994 and specializes in scientific, theological and cultural responses to evolutionary ideas. He is affiliated with ASU’s Center for Biology & Society, the History and Philosophy of Science Program, and the graduate program in Human & Social Dimensions of Science & Technology. (continue reading…)

 Honors Faculty Fellow
Location: Sage South Hall, Room 169
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Tom Martin holds a PhD in Molecular Biophysics from UVA, and a master’s in History and Philosophy of Science from Pitt. He is former Chief Scientific Officer of Diffusion Pharmaceuticals, a small biotech company with drug candidates now entering Phase II FDA trials. He has published research articles in journals such as Structure and Nature Structural Biology, as well as popular essays in Seed magazine and The Christian Science Monitor. He is currently interested in technology/social issues surrounding implementation of renewable energy sources, and works with students in the Sustainability House on ongoing projects.

Mark Montesano, Ph.D. has been teaching at the college level for over twenty years. His varied interests have led him to earn graduate degrees in psychology (M.C.), religious studies (M.A.) and rhetoric (Ph.D.). Before becoming a full-time teacher, he had been a counselor and therapist for almost 20 years.

Dr. Montesano has taught primarily in the Department of Religious Studies at Arizona State University for 13 years. During his time there, he spent two years leading the undergraduate fellowship program for The Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict. He has also taught classes in rhetoric and ethics for the Departments of English, Communications, Master of Liberal Studies. (continue reading…)

Vice Dean
Location: Sage North Hall, Room 122
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Margaret Nelson is Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change and Vice Dean of Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University. She has been recognized for her teaching excellence as ASASU Centennial Professor, Parents Association Professor of the Year, and ASU President’s Professor. Her teaching addresses critical thinking, research skills, and collaboration across traditional academic disciplines. In addition she includes undergraduate and graduate students in her archaeological research. She has conducted research in the Mimbres region of southwest New Mexico for over 30 years, collaborating for the past 20 years with Dr. Michelle Hegmon. Their work focuses primarily on the Classic to Postclassic transformation. Nelson’s 1999 book Mimbres During the 12th Century: Abandonment, Continuity, and Reorganization derives from that research. Her upcoming book Mimbres Lives and Landscapes, edited with Hegmon, brings many specialists together in a popular book about archaeology and Mimbres culture. Most recently she leads an interdisciplinary research team addressing a range of social-ecological issues concerning resilience and sustainability for prehistoric small-scale farmers in the US Southwest (600-1500 CE) and the lessons learned from this research for contemporary issues of resilience and sustainability. Their work has been submitted as a Special Feature for the journal Ecology and Society. Nelson was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2008.

Honors Faculty Fellow
Location: Sage South Hall, Room 151
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Introduction
David Pickus is from Chicago. He received a B.A. in history from Lawrence University and earned his Ph.D. in German intellectual history from the University of Chicago in 1995. His academic interests cover central Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East and China. An expanded version of this thesis was published as a book “Dying with an Enlightening Fall: Poland in the Eyes of German Intellectuals, 1764-1800 (Lexington Books, 2001).” In the academic year 2007-08 David was a Fulbright scholar in Belgrade, Serbia. David is currently working on a study of the German-American philosopher, Walter Kaufmann, as well as researching intellectual life in Yugoslavia and the Balkans. (continue reading…)

Honors Faculty Fellow
Location: Sage South Hall, Room 164
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Laura Popova (PhD in Anthropology, University of Chicago, 2006) has been at ASU since 2006 and specializes in the archaeology and paleoecology of Russia. She is affiliated with the School of Human Evolution and Social Change (http://shesc.asu.edu/) and the Melikian Center of Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Studies (http://melikian.asu.edu/). (continue reading…)

Honors Faculty Fellow
Location: Sage South Hall, Room 159
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Fall 2009 Office Hours: T 12:00-1:30, W 10:30-12:00, and by appointment

Jacquelyn Scott Lynch joined the Barrett faculty in 2001. She holds a B.A. in Economics and English from Kalamazoo College and a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Arizona State University. In 2002, she received a Learner-Centered Education Grant from the Arizona Board of Regents to develop and pilot the the Barrett Writing Center, which she directed until 2004. From 2004-2007, she chaired the Barrett faculty, and from 2005-2009, she served on the executive planning committee for the new Barrett campus, which opened in August 2009. (continue reading…)

Honors Faculty Fellow
Location: Sage South Hall, Room 165
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Dr. Eric Susser joined Barrett in 1997. He earned his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia.
Dr. Susser’s doctoral scholarship focuses on 19th and 20th century intellectual thought, primarily aestheticism and the transitional moments between the Victorian and Modern periods. He has developed two courses on the “decadent” movement, which he teaches in Paris during the summer semester. Dr. Susser is also interested in how scientific discourse has shaped our understanding of ourselves as human beings, a question explored in his course “Science and the Modern Self.” (continue reading…)