Mike Ballen
Mike is an Instructional Technology Resource Specialist for Santa Clara University, where he works for Media Services. Established in 1985, through the merger of Audio Visual and Television Services, Media Services supports and facilitates the application of media technology and non-print media resources by providing a broad range of equipment and technology support services.
Simone Billings
Simone J. Billings, Assistant to the President and Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, received her Bachelor of Arts and Masters in English Literature from San Francisco State University and her Ph.D in Language Literacy and Culture from Stanford.
Rebecca Black
Rebecca Black teaches literature and writing at Santa Clara University. She received her B.A. from Tulane University and an M.F.A from Indiana University. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her first book of poetry, Cottonlandia, won the 2004 Juniper Prize for poetry. She enjoys teaching adult learners and has frequently taught in Stanford’s Continuing Education program.
Kelly Bulkeley
Kelly Bulkeley, is a Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Theological Union and teaches in the Dream Studies Program at John F. Kennedy University. He earned his Ph.D in Religion and Psychological Studies from the University of Chicago Divinity School, and is a former President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. He has written and edited several books on dreaming, religion, psychology, culture, and science, including: The Wilderness of Dreams, An Introduction to the Psychology of Dreaming, Visions of the Night, The Wondering Brain, Dreaming Beyond Death, and Soul, Psyche, Brain: New Directions in the Study of Religion and Brain-Mind Science.
Brigitte Charus
Brigitte Charaus is a lecturer of SCU’s History Department. She received a B.A., and soon her PhD, from Marquette University and her M.A. from Duquesne University. She is currently finishing her dissertation focusing on the public health conditions in Milwaukee, WI at the turn of the last century. A volume of historical articles, Milwaukee Stories, for which she was a co-editor, was published last year. Brigitte has been a contributor to a number of historical encyclopedias and has published journal articles in her field.
Verle Waters Clark
Verle Waters Clark was, before retirement, a Dean at Ohlone College in Fremont, CA. Retirement has meant the opportunity to read more books, to pull more weeds, and to travel far and wide. She made three trips to the Himalayan region, including travel in Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, and Jammu-Kashmir on the border between India and Tibet. Keeping a detailed journal of travel experiences has added to her pleasure. Verle will be happy to share memorable experiences and show slides of trekking experiences, remote villages and villagers, and awe inspiring mountains.
Diane Dreher
Diane Dreher, Professor of English as Santa Clara University, has a Ph.D in English from UCLA as well as credentials in spiritual counseling and holistic health. She has written three books on the Tao: The Tao of Inner Peace, the Tao of Personal Leadership, and The Tao of Womanhood.
Marilyn Edelstein
Dr. Edelstein is an Associate Professor of English and also a faculty member in the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Santa Clara University, where she has been teaching since 1987. She teaches courses on contemporary American literature, feminist theory and criticism, literary and cultural theory, postmodernism, and multicultural literature and theory. She has published articles and book chapters on contemporary fiction, feminist theory, postmodernism, and literature and ethics. She is working on a book on the ethics and intersections of feminism, postmodernism, and multiculturalism.
Bill Eisinger
Bill is a Professor of Biology at Santa Clara University. Professor Eisinger received his Bachelor of Science at Hiram College in Ohio, his Masters in Science at Perdue University, and his Ph.D at the University of Miami. He has done his postdoctoral research at Stanford University. He teaches courses in light and life, plant physiology, plant development and aroecology.
Father James Felt
Professor Emeritus James Felt is a Jesuit priest who has taught at Santa Clara University since the fall of 1965, and after forty one years retired from regular teaching in June of 2006. In addition to his doctorate in philosophy he holds master’s degrees in both theology and physics, has published three books in philosophy (with more on the way), and enjoys discussing philosophical issues in a non-technical way.
Barbara Means Fraser
Dr. Fraser is an Associate Professor of Theater. She has written eight plays including Breast Entanglements and her musical, Family. Her directing repertoire includes: The Laramie Project, Twilight of the Golds, Parallel Lives: The Kathy and Mo Show, and Paul Robeson. Her latest endeavor in theatrical activism was as Artistic Director of SCU's Dead Man Walking in collaboration with the SCU law school and Bannan Institute for Jesuit Education in which Sis. Helen Prejean (writer) was a guest panelist.
Fred Foldvary
Fred Foldvary's main areas of research include public economics, social ethics, real estate economics, and private communities. Foldvary’s classes on microeconomics include an analysis of financial markets and investing. His books include: Soul of Liberty, Beyond Neoclassical Economics, Public Goods and Private Communities, Dictionary of Free-Market Economics, and (co-edited) The Half-Life of Policy Rationales.
Dorothea French
Dorothea French, a SCU History Professor Emeriti, received her Ph.D. in Medieval European History from U.C. Berkeley. She has been a past Director of the Medieval/Renaissance Studies Minor Program, and has taught and written about aspects of Ancient and Medieval European History. She and her husband Wes have traveled throughout France for the past ten years taking language and cooking lessons, as well as exploring various nooks and crannies of the country by train, car and on foot. During the course you will view their own experiences as well as commercial travelogues, movie clips, and read travel literature and fiction placed in France.
Andrew Garavel
Andrew Garavel, S.J. is an Assistant Professor of English at SCU, where he teaches courses in Irish literature. He received his M.A. in English from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from New York University, where he studied with the noted Irish critic Denis Donoghue. His current research is on two of Wilde’s contemporaries, the Irish writers Edith Somerville and Violet Martin, who wrote as Somerville and Ross.
George Giacomini
George Giacomini is an Associate Professor of History as well as an Assistant to the President at Santa Clara University. He is an alumnus of Santa Clara University. He received his Master’s degree from UC Berkley. His courses include: The United States: The 19th Century, Western Civilization (Medieval and Early Modern), European Diplomatic History and Civil War and Reconstruction among others.
Janet Giddings
Janet Giddings is a lecturer in Religious Studies at Santa Clara University, and a lecturer in Philosophy at San Jose State University. In Religious Studies she teaches courses in the Christian Tradition and Religions of the Book. In philosophy she teaches Ethics and Philosophy of Religion. Her interests are in both disciplines and teaching is her passion. She is working on two books, one on the Gospel of John, and the other on Ethics and Gambling. Her recent article Ethical Issues in Pedagogy: Wikipedia (SBL) demonstrates her passion and respect for scholarship in higher education.
Joseph Grassi
Joseph is a Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University. He received his Bachelor of Science at Maryknoll College; B.D., 1948, Maryknoll Seminary; STL, 1949, Angelicum; SSL, 1951, Pontifical Biblical Institute. He has taught the Synoptic Gospels, Johannine Writings and Spirituality among others.
Ron Hansen
Ron has taught fiction and screenwriting at such institutions as Stanford, Michigan, Cornell, Iowa, Arizona, and is now the Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Santa Clara University, where he earned an M.A. in Spirituality in 1995. He teaches courses in the following areas: Fiction Writing, Screenwriting, Writing in the Community, The Bible as Literature, Contemporary Literature and The 20th Century American Short Story.
Tim Healy
Tim is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Santa Clara University. Professor Healy received all of his degrees in Electrical Engineering. BSEE: Seattle University, 1958; MSEE: Stanford University, 1959; Ph.D.: University of Colorado, 1966. He is now in his 30th year as a member of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Santa Clara University. He teaches communications theory, electromagnetics, radio frequency and microwaves. He holds the Thomas J. Bannan Chair, and in that capacity teaches and does developmental work in the areas of Humanities for Engineers. He is also a Scholar and a member of the Steering Committee of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
Linda Hylkema
Linda Hylkema has been a cultural resources manager and archaeologist for the past twenty-two years. Although trained as a late-Holocene prehistoric archaeologist, she has also conducted and worked on numerous historic excavations including the Woolen Mills Chinatown in San Jose. She has co-authored county ordinances pertaining to the treatment of cultural resources and has written a fourth-grade Archaeology/Native American curriculum for the Fresno County Unified School District. She has been an archaeological contractor for many state agencies and was employed as an archaeologist by both the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. She has been managing the archaeology lab at SCU for the past eight years.
Tracey Kahan
Tracey Kahan is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Santa Clara University. She teaches courses in Psychology as a Natural Science, Cognitive Psychology, Psychology of Sleep and Dreams, and Perceptions. She has many books and publications including: Consciousness in dreaming: A metacognitive approach, Effects of melatonin on dream bizarreness among male and female college students and Similarities and differences between dreaming and waking cognition: An exploratory study. Tracey has set up a “sleep lab” here at Santa Clara University to conduct her studies on sleeping and dreaming.
Michael Kevane
Michael Kevane is an Associate Professor of Economics at Santa Clara University. Professor Kevane teaches courses on African Economic Development, the Economics of Emerging Markets, International Economics, and has taught the Environmental Studies Capstone course. He has published articles on the performance of Sudanese rural institutions and markets in journals such as Review of Development Economics, World Development, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and Africa.
Nancy Wait Kromm
Nancy Wait Kromm is a soprano who began her music studies as a violinist at age eight, joining the California Youth Symphony at age ten and touring with them internationally at age twelve. This early performing experience, along with the rigors and discipline of learning an instrument, set the stage for her long-term association with music and musicians. A graduate of the University of Illinois, she holds a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Music degree from that institution. She also was granted a teaching fellowship to Stanford University to pursue further graduate studies leading to the doctoral degree. She has toured extensively in the U.S. and in Germany, Italy and Austria.
Kristin Kusanovich
Kristin Kusanovich has been teaching dance to all ages for over twenty years. She enjoys working with people who call themselves non-dancers, as well as people who have not had a chance to dance in a while. She is currently on the faculty of the Department of Theatre and Dance and the Liberal Studies Program at Santa Clara University. She is a professional choreographer and performer. She founded and was the Artistic Director of Kusanovich Dance Company of Minneapolis for ten years. She received her B.A. from Santa Clara University and her M.F.A from New York University.
Dale Larson
Dale G. Larson (B.A., University of Chicago; Ph.D., U. C. Berkeley) is Professor of Counseling Psychology at Santa Clara University. A national leader in end-of-life care and training, he is the author of the award-winning book, The Helper's Journey: Working With People Facing Grief, Loss, and Life-Threatening Illness, and was Senior Editor and a contributing author for the national newspaper series, Finding Our Way: Living with Dying in America. A Fulbright Scholar, he has published extensively on caregiver stress, grief counseling, bereavement, and other end-of-life issues.
Mark Larson
For over 30 years, Mark Larson has produced and directed works for the stage and screen in a variety of countries. Most recently, his film work was seen at the Wildlife Vaasa festival in Finland. He directed the opera Dido and Aeneas at Santa Clara University. Mr. Larson is also a film historian and educator, specializing in Silent Film and the Western.
Cynthia Mei
Violinist and the founder of Adorno Ensemble. She was formerly a member of the violin and piano duo, Chiaroscuro, which toured nationally and recorded a CD by Deva Productions featuring sonatas by Corigliano and Beethoven. She has performed in orchestras including the San Francisco Symphony and the New Century Chamber Orchestra, and has soloed with local groups such as the Tahoe Festival Orchestra. Cynthia earned both her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Manhattan School of Music.
Joseph Morris
Joe is a Lecturer for Religious Studies at Santa Clara University. He teaches courses on Media and Religion and Narratives: Christian Scripture.
Bill Pezzaglia
Dr. Bill Pezzaglia is a lecturer for the Physics Department at Santa Clara University. He received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from UC Davis. He teaches courses mainly on astronomy. Bill offered wonderful and popular astronomy classes for Osher this past summer and fall.
David Pinault
David Pinault received his PhD in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. He has lived and worked in Egypt as a student, researcher, and tour guide on Nile cruises. An associate professor of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University, he is the author of The Shiites: Ritual and Popular Piety in a Muslim Community, and Notes from the Fortune-Telling Parrot: Islam and the Struggle for Religious Pluralism in Pakistan (forthcoming.) David has also been a research consultant and “acting curator” at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum.
Jody Pinault
Jody Pinault received her PhD in classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania and studied spinning and weaving at the Penland School of Crafts. For many years she has brought spindles and looms to her college literature classes and has conducted workshops on ancient spinning and weaving in schools, community programs, meetings of the Junior and American Classical Leagues, and the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum.
David Popalisky
David Popalisky directs the Dance Program in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Santa Clara University where he teaches dance history, modern dance and choreography. He has a MFA in Choreography from Mills College and an M.A. in Theatre Arts/Dance Emphasis from San Jose State University. Former artistic director of DaaPo based in New York City, David has choreographed, performed and taught throughout the United States.
Boo Riley
Philip Boo Riley is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University. Dr. Riley joined the faculty at Santa Clara University in 1978, and in 2003 returned to the Religious Studies Department after eleven years as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Learning.
Edward Rooks
Professional Wildlife artist, Lecturer and nature tour leader, Edward Rooks will help you uncover your unknown artistic talent. A naturalist with an artist’s eye, he teaches drawing workshops in Trinidad and Tobago for Santa Clara University’s International Programs Department, in Costa Rica for Santa Clara University’s Environmental Studies Program, and in Antarctica for Cheeseman’s Ecology Safaris. He also leads an eco-tour and watercolor tour for Cheeseman’s Ecology Safaris to Trinidad and Tobago.
Allison Rottmann
Allison Rottmann is a Lecturer in Chinese History and East Asian Studies in the History Department at Santa Clara University. She is writing her Ph.D. dissertation about the Chinese revolution of 1949 at UC Berkeley and also has a law degree from Duke University. She first lived in China in 1985 and has returned many times for extended and shorter stays over the past twenty years.
Margaret Russell
Professor Margaret M. Russell has been a member of the Santa Clara Law School faculty since 1990. Her scholarship and teaching emphases are in constitutional law (individual rights and liberties), civil procedure, and social justice. She has long been active in the American Civil Liberties Union on both the Northern California and national boards; she was vice-president of the national organization and chair of the Northern California board for many years. Her other social justice background includes being a board member of the Equal Justice Society and the Oakland Museum of California. A fuller biography can be found on the law school's website, www.scu.edu/law.
Thomas Russell
Thomas Russell is an Associate Professor of Economics at Santa Clara University. Professor Russell teaches courses in macroeconomics, microeconomics, and decision-making under uncertainty. His more than 30 scholarly articles have appeared in such publications as the Journal of Economic Theory, American Economic Review, Economic Letters, the Journal of International Money and Finance, and the Journal of Mathematical Economics. His current research interests include applying differential geometry to the study of rational and non-rational behavior, and the analysis of the relationship between capital markets and insurance markets.
Catherine Sandoval
Assistant Professor Catherine J.K. Sandoval has taught Communications Law, Antitrust and Contracts at Santa Clara University School of Law since the Fall of 2004. Prior to her appointment at Santa Clara, she served under Governors Schwarzenegger and Davis as Undersecretary of the State of California’s Business, Transportation and Housing Agency. Before her state service, she was the General Counsel of Z-Spanish Media Corporation for two years, negotiating mergers, acquisitions and regulatory approvals for radio and billboard transactions. For six years she served as a senior manager at the Federal Communications Commission and was the Director of the FCC’s Office of Communications Business Opportunities. Ms. Sandoval received her B.A. from Yale College, was a Rhodes Scholar and received a Master’s from Oxford University, and earned her J.D. from Stanford Law School. She hails from East Los Angeles and is the first person in her family to graduate from college.
Edward Schaefer
Ed Schaefer is a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Santa Clara University. He has written several publications for journals in mathematics, computer science and psycholinguistics. He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1992. He spent July 2005 to August 2006 as a Fulbright Scholar in Malawi. Having already been exposed to cultures from several continents, he went to Malawi to learn from Africans. He continues to direct the research of five Malawian graduate students in computer security.
Russ Skowronek
Russ is an Associate Professor in Anthropology at Santa Clara University. Russ teaches Introduction to Archaeology, Vanished Peoples and Civilizations, Native American Cultures, Historical Archaeology, and Perspectives on the Spanish and Native American Experience to name a few. Santa Clara's location, on the site of a Spanish Colonial period mission as well as within the San Francisco Bay area, offers unique options for students to learn and apply anthropology outside the classroom. Students also may choose to focus on specific areas within anthropology including three special emphases: Law and Society, Applied Anthropology, and Archaeology.
Robert Senkewicz
Robert Senkewicz is a professor of the History Department. He received a B.A. at Fordham University and his M.A. and Ph.D. at Stanford University. He has written many books including "Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California," and "The History of Alta California: A Memoir of Mexican California." He has also written articles and essays for numerous publications.
Farid Senzai
Farid Senzai was a research associate at the Brookings Institution where he researched U.S. foreign policy towards the Middle East. In addition he was a research analyst at the Council on Foreign Relations where he worked on international politics. He has also served as a consultant for Oxford Analytica and the World Bank. Dr. Senzai received his M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in Political Science at Oxford University.
Shauna Shapiro
Dr. Shapiro is Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology at Santa Clara University. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Arizona and served as adjunct faculty for Andrew Weil's Program of Integrative Medicine. She began her study of psychology and spirituality at Duke University, graduating summa cum laude. She developed a specific interest in meditation and traveled to Thailand and Nepal to deepen her understanding and practice. Dr. Shapiro has published over two dozen articles and book chapters in the area of meditation and has presented her research findings nationally and internationally.
David Shortt
David Shortt is a physicist with an interest in optics, astronomy, geology, and the natural world in general. He holds bachelors’ degrees from M.I.T in Physics and Electrical Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Physics from Stanford. He currently works at KLA-Tencor Corporation as director of technology development. David is an avid traveler, a keen observer, and a talented photographer.
Susan Spittler
Susan Spittler graduated from the University of Boston, Massachusetts, with a Bachelor of Arts and went on to receive her Juris Doctorate from Santa Clara University School of Law. After several years in the career field she decided to take the knowledge she gained and work for an international marketing and business growth company. She began as an Account Manager and was quickly promoted to Director of Training. Internally, she co-wrote the business modules and training program, and was responsible for training the entire staff on each of these systems.
Jeremy Taylor
A Unitarian-Universalist minister who is the co-founder and former President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. He has worked with dreams for over thirty years and blends the values of spirituality with an active social conscience and a Jungian perspective. He teaches at many different universities and seminaries in the Bay Area.
Michael Thorburn
Michael Thorburn has been an adjunct lecturer in the Electrical Engineering Department at Santa Clara University since 2005. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Oregon State University. He developed and taught a special topics class on alternative energy systems for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in engineering which was offered in 2006 and 2007. This is the first course Michael has offered for OLLI Santa Clara.
Fred Tollini
Fred Tollini, S.J., associate professor in the department of theater and dance, has been teaching at Santa Clara University since 1971. The acting director of the Center for Performing Arts, Tollini has directed more than 50 plays and musicals, and acted in productions both at Santa Clara and in regional theater.
Byron Walden
Byron Walden, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, uses his knowledge of number analysis to fashion a hobby as a creator of newspaper puzzles. He has had his puzzles published in the New York Times and The New York Sun and recently took first place in the “B” division at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in March 2007. Walden did his undergraduate studies in mathematics at Vanderbilt University and earned a Ph.D. in Mathematics at Yale. His primary research interest is in complex analysis.
Megan Williams
Megan Williams is a lecturer in the English Department at Santa Clara University. She received her Ph.D. in American Literature from Temple University and is a graduate of Haverford College. In addition to teaching at Santa Clara for the past three years, she has taught at Bryn Mawr College, Temple University, and Lafayette College. Her areas of specialization are American Literature and Film. This is the second course Megan has offered for OLLI Santa Clara.
Judith White
Judith White teaches business ethics and business and public policy in the undergraduate and MBA programs at Santa Clara University. In addition she has taught courses on organizational behavior, organizational theory, human resource management, team development, and leadership. She does research in the areas of corporate social responsibility, business ethics, and management learning and development. Dr. White has a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University.
Michael and Eleanor Willemsen
Michael Willemsen received his B.A. and M.A. in Economics and J.D. degree from Stanford University (J.D. ’62). The majority of his legal career has been spent as a staff attorney for the California State Supreme Court where he has served on the staff of three different justices, currently Justice Joyce Kennard. He has authored several law review articles and, with Eleanor, a social policy article dealing with child custody. In his leisure time, Michael enjoys hiking, choral singing, reading, playing an Asian strategy game called GO and spending time with is wife, Eleanor, and their Seattle family. Eleanor Willemsen received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, finishing her doctorate in 1964. Eleanor has taught at SCU since 1970, specializing in Child Development. She regularly joins Michael to teach Psychology and Law to undergraduates. Eleanor has published articles on early childhood, parent-child relationships, policy regarding contested adoptions and child custody generally. In her leisure time, she enjoys hiking, working out, reading and spending time with family, especially the Seattle family: daughter Karen, Son-in-law, Matt and granddaughter, Bridget.
Adam Wright
Adam Wright recently completed his Ph.D. in Medical Informatics at Oregon Health & Science University. His research focuses on healthcare information technology and clinical decision support. He worked in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the US Department of Health and Human Services, and has done research at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
Jeff Zorn
Dr. Jeff Zorn attended Boston Latin School, Dartmouth College (B.A. 1967). Cambridge University, Harvard University (M.A.T. 1971), and Stanford University (Ph.D. 1980). He has taught at Miles College (1968-1974) and Santa Clara University (1974-present). Dr. Zorn has published over eighty articles on topics ranging from English composition instruction to whether public money should be spent on building the SF 49ers a new stadium (correct answer: No). He lives in San Francisco with his wife Ann, mother-in-law Sophie, two teenage children, two cats, and an aging but lovable dog. Dr. Zorn is still looking for a new purpose in life after the Red Sox won the World Series in the fall of 2004.
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