Interdisciplinary Studies
Administrative Assistant: Sandra G. Larock
TEL: (315) 267-2206 FAX: (315) 267-3337 103A Morey Hall
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James J. DonahueAssociate Professor, Coordinator of Native American Studies minor and Disability Studies minor English & Communication, Interdisciplinary StudiesJames J. DonahueAssociate Professor, Coordinator of Native American Studies minor and Disability Studies minorMorey Hall 130
donahujj@potsdam.edu
View CVJames J. Donahue is primarily interested in exploring the complex literary and cultural tensions of twentieth century America. In particular, he is endlessly fascinated with the Beat Movement, Modernism/Postmodernism, Historical Fiction, and Native American fiction. He also collects books by British sci-fi/fantasy author Michael Moorcock, and has been told on more than one occasion that he reads more Ezra Pound than is healthy. More Info |
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Christine M. DoranAssociate Professor, English & Communication, Interdisciplinary Studies / Director, Potsdam Pathways General Education Interdisciplinary Studies, English & Communication, General Education Program / Potsdam PathwaysChristine M. DoranAssociate Professor, English & Communication, Interdisciplinary Studies / Director, Potsdam Pathways General EducationMorey Hall 233
dorancm@potsdam.edu
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Libbie J. FreedAssociate Professor History, Interdisciplinary Studies
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Julie E HunterAssociate Professor: Ethnomusicology Interdisciplinary Studies, Crane School of Music
Julie E HunterAssociate Professor: EthnomusicologyBishop Hall C317
hunterje@potsdam.edu
Julie Hunter is an Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music. She has a secondary appointment in Interdisciplinary Studies and teaches courses in the Africana and Women's and Gender Studies programs. Hunter founded the Crane West African Drum and Dance Ensemble in 2013-an inclusive and dynamic group dedicated to performing traditional music from Ghana and Togo. Hunter joined the faculty at SUNY Potsdam in 2012 after previously teaching at Boston College (2008-2012) and Bryant University (2010). She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in ethnomusicology from Brown University, and B.M. in Music History and Literature from Vanderbilt University. Hunter's major research interests include music in Africa, Ewe music, Ghanaian dance-drumming, music and gender, highlife, the African diaspora, postcolonial studies, world music pedagogy, and applied ethnomusicology. Hunter's dissertation research explored the rise of women's drumming in West Africa through the lens of Ewe female drummers, singers, composers, and dancers and their unique expressions of gender, and musical innovations, in Ewe associations known as habobo. This was the first in-depth ethnographic study on female drummers in Africa or the diaspora. She co-organized an African Music Festival at Brown University with Kwaku Kwaakye Obeng, and edited an extensive digital collection of African field recordings by James Koetting which highlights Kasena music and culture of Northern Ghana in collaboration with the Brown University Library. At SUNY Potsdam, Hunter teaches music and liberal arts majors in a range of courses, supervises undergraduate ethnomusicology projects, and organizes global music events. She has served on numerous committees including the President's Taskforce on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (contributing to the university's DEI Strategic Plan for 2016-2021); the Diversity Attribute Review Committee; Connecting Globally Committee for Potsdam Pathways; and the Crane Undergraduate Program Committee. Hunter has been fortunate to study from expert artists in West Africa and the United States including Kwaku Kwaakye Obeng, Manavi Deku, Kwabena Boateng, Daniel Atiso, Stephen Atiso, and Kwasi Dunyo with a focus on Ewe, Akan, and Ga music traditions from southern Ghana. Hunter has presented at regional and national conferences since 2008. She's been an active member of the Society for Ethnomusicology since 2000 and served as student representative on the organization's council. She has received research funding from SUNY Potsdam, the West African Research Association, Brown University, and the U.S. Department of Education. |
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Sandra G. LarockAdministrative Assistant 1 Interdisciplinary Studies, Women's and Gender Studies Program, Computer Science, Modern Languages
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Matthew J LaVineAssistant Professor Interdisciplinary Studies, Environmental Studies
Matthew J LaVineAssistant ProfessorDunn Hall 309
lavinemj@potsdam.edu
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Linghong (Lily) LiProfessor, Master Advisor for Physics Physics, Interdisciplinary Studies
Linghong (Lily) LiProfessor, Master Advisor for PhysicsTimerman Hall 214
lil@potsdam.edu
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Sergio D LopezAssistant Professor / Director, Exploratory Program Modern Languages, Interdisciplinary Studies
Sergio D LopezAssistant Professor / Director, Exploratory ProgramMorey Hall 218
lopezsd@potsdam.edu
Sergio Lopez, (PhD, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2008) is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in indigenous communities in Mexico and business anthropology. Sergio has been a professor and visiting researcher in the Universities of UCLA (California 2005-2006), the University of Virginia (2009-2013), and Southern Methodist University (Texas, 2013-2014). He lived in Chiapas, Mexico, where he conducted long-term fieldwork among the Chol Mayan. Sergio is the president and founder of AIBR (Network of Iberoamerican Anthropologist), a Society that connects more than 8,000 anthropologist of Spain, Portugal and all the Latin American countries. He organizes every year an internship for students who like to travel as volunteers to the AIBR International Conference of Anthropology. Every year the conference takes place in a different city, such as Madrid (Spain), Vila Real (Portugal), Puerto Vallarta (Mexico) or Granada (Spain). Courses at SUNY Potsdam Anthropology, Film, and Modern Literature in Spain Spanish Modern Culture, Literature and Film Spanish Culture. Literature and History Spanish intermediate conversation Contemporary Spanish 101, 102, 103 Recent publications The crossroads of time (co authored with Lydia Rodriguez). In The Culture of Invention in the Americas, 2019. P. Pitarch. and J.A. Kelly, eds. 158-184. Books: Antropologìa de la Empresa (2017). Eds Bellaterra. More Info |
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Derek C. MausProfessor / Lead Advisor / Chair, Interdisciplinary Studies English & Communication, Interdisciplinary StudiesDerek C. MausProfessor / Lead Advisor / Chair, Interdisciplinary StudiesMorey Hall 244
mausdc@potsdam.edu
View CVWho me? A description?!? Yeah, well...I guess you could say at root I'm just a guy who likes comparing things, especially if those things happen to be literary in some way. I got my start back in the early 1990s, comparing medieval history and postmodern literature under the tutelage of amazing professors like Lynda Coon, William Tucker, Keith Booker, Margaret Bolsterli, and Janet Tucker at the University of Arkansas. Got my introduction to the practice of comparing Russian and American literature there as well and ended up writing an undergraduate honors thesis that, with many twists and turns, additions and cuts, elaborations and simplifications, ended up turning into both my doctoral dissertation and my first book (see below). After a few years (unintentionally) comparing being in academia with not being in academia, I went to the University of North Carolina, where I got both my M.A. and my Ph.D in English, in the process getting the chance to work with such amazing mentors as Linda Wagner-Martin, Madeline Levine, Christopher Putney, Julius Rowan "Jack" Raper, and many others. My mania for comparison broadened to include not only cross-cultural comparisons of Russian and American literature during the Cold War, but also inter- and intra-cultural comparisons within American (and especially African American) literature. I published my first scholarly articles while at UNC, on such diverse topics as devilish figures in the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Nikolai Gogol, paternalistic colonialism in novels by Thomas Pynchon and J. M. Coetzee, religious satire in works by Nikolai Gogol and Flannery O'Connor, as well as editing several collections of essays for introductory-level scholars on topics including Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Albert Camus, Russia, postmodernism, and the Cold War. I was fortunate to land a job at SUNY Potsdam in 2001 and started teaching a wide range of courses in September of that year. In ten years at SUNY Potsdam, I've taught over seventy sections of thirty-two different courses, ranging from introductory-level composition and literature surveys to graduate-level seminars. Most of my courses look at how writers from a variety of backgrounds approach similar topics, looking for how and why a careful reader can gain insight from noting both the similarities and the differences among such writers. A full list of the courses I've taught can be found by clicking the link for my CV above. While at SUNY Potsdam, I've managed to find time to continue my scholarly work as well, producing several articles and conference presentations, almost all of which are products of my desire to compare things. For example, I published an article on teaching war fiction by Tim O'Brien and Duong Thu Huong side-by-side and I gave a conference presentation comparing the satirical techniques of Herman Melville and Nikolai Gogol. I also had the pleasure of working with my friend and colleague Owen Brady of Clarkson University in co-editing a collection of scholarly essays on Walter Mosley (http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1150) that was published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2008. My own book on Russian and American satirical fiction during the Cold War (http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/books/2011/3985.html) was published by the University of South Carolina Press in 2011. I am currently working on two book-length projects: a collection of scholarly essays on contemporary African American satire that I am co-editing with my colleague James J. Donahue, and a monograph on Colson Whitehead for the University of South Carolina Press's Understanding Contemporary American Literature series. Finally, I was fortunate enough to be selected for a Fulbright Lecturing Award for the spring 2010 semester, during which I taught three courses in the American Studies program at Karl-Franzens Universitaet in Graz, Austria. In addition to getting to compare the cultures of Austria and the United States while on this grant, I also got to give lectures to academic audiences in Turkey, Croatia, Italy, and Germany, as well as to (re)visit Switzerland, Belgium, Hungary, Slovenia, and the Czech Republic. In short, it was a dream come true for an ardent comparer like me and I am grateful to everyone that made it possible. More Info |
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Anna M SorensenAssistant Professor Interdisciplinary Studies, Sociology & Criminal Justice, Women's and Gender Studies ProgramAnna M SorensenAssistant ProfessorSatterlee Hall 311-5
sorensam@potsdam.edu
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Gaylynn J. WelchLecturer History, Interdisciplinary Studies
Gaylynn J. WelchLecturerSatterlee Hall 323
welchgj@potsdam.edu
View CVI received my master's degree from the University of Nebraska at Kearney in 1998, and in 2001 I moved east to continue my graduate work at Binghamton University. Beginning in the summer of 2003, I have enjoyed teaching U.S. survey and New York State history courses at SUNY Potsdam. My main area of interest is U.S. women's history. While working on my master's degree, I discovered that Nebraska had an interesting and active suffrage movement, and devoted my thesis to the topic. As my dissertation title "The Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States: National and Local Perspectives, 1870-1890" suggests, the scope of my current project is much broader. I use local and state suffrage movements, including the Nebraska campaign of 1882, to compare two rival "national" organizations: the American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association. When I am not teaching or writing, I enjoy spending time with friends. More Info |
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John D. YoungbloodAssociate Professor Interdisciplinary Studies, English & Communication
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