Originally from Long Island, New York, He received his PhD from the Department of Comparative Literature at SUNY Stony Brook in 1993. He is a Professor in the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology at the University of Tokyo.
Dr. Williams is a professor in forest biology and has also worked in the US State Department and at Weyerhaeuser Company. Her research interest is asks how forests interact with climate, with a specific interest in the role of atmospheric life.
Seth Gorden has been tutoring high school students in science for more than 20 years in Australia. With a vast career in Scientific and Engineering roles, he brings a sense of perspective to classes that not many tutors can have.
Katherine Wood is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology. Her research focuses on how immigration, race and place contribute to population-level inequality in the United States and Latin America. Current projects include a study of the association between state-level immigration policies and health care utilization among immigrants.
Associate Professor Drake Easton is a game developer and theorist and his research is aimed at finding new approaches for interpretation and expression of meaning within videogames and computational media, and is a founding member of Switherland CV Lab Center.
Jennifer Watson is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University of Birmingham Dubai. As a researcher, she is currently working on developing counternarratives in moral psychology, normative ethics, political philosophy, the philosophy of education, and the philosophy of gender.
Ford Hamilton obtained a bachelor's in Mathematics and Molecular Genetics, followed by a master's in Statistics at Columbia University before pursuing a PhD in Statistics at the University of Chicago. He has developed a growing interest in polyploid genetics, where there are a lot of potential uses of hierarchical modeling and multivariate analysis.
Alisa Kelly is a Set and Costume Designer with a strong interest in the development of new work. She is the recipient of a 2006 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Costume Design Fellowship as well as a 2019 Princess Grace Foundation Theatre Honoraria.
Ashley Myers spents her early life in upstate New York before migrating west to Oregon to complete her undergraduate work in social science at Portland State University. She taught writing and literature courses for four years at Duke University. Her short stories have been published in Gargoyle Magazine and Abundant Grace.
Professor Anderson is an atmospheric scientist focused on the role of aerosols in the climate system. Her focus is stratospheric aerosol, mostly from volcanic eruptions but also from pollution, forest fires, and geoengineering, i.e. human intervention in the climate system to offset the impacts of climate change.
Professor John Harris has recently returned from a two-year stay in Abu Dhabi University, United Arab Emirates where he helped create an undergraduate economics program. He has also taught at the American University in Dubai as a visiting professor.
His teaching interests are mainly European Economic History and American Economic History.
