Faculty & Staff

Meet Our Interdisciplinary Studies Faculty

Our faculty bring a wide range of talents and expertise across the fields of American studies; Communication studies; History; Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights; Humanities; Philosophy; Religious studies; and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality studies.

We value teaching and offer engaging and innovative courses in all of UMA’s teaching modalities–in person on both campuses, online asynchronous, and in a variety of hybrid forms.

INT faculty conduct research, write and publish books and articles, present their work at local, national, and international conferences, and serve our communities in a variety of ways.

We also work with students to design courses and curriculum, research projects, and other opportunities to further individualized learning.

Please feel free to reach out to any of our faculty if you have questions about their work and/or about the opportunities in the rich terrain of interdisciplinary studies!

Lisa M. Botshon

English Program Coordinator, Professor of English

Lisa Botshon is a Professor of English who teaches a wide variety of courses, including American literature, graphic storytelling, and women’s and gender studies. Her research interests include women writers; issues of gender, race and ethnicity; American popular culture; and early 20th-century back-to-the-land narratives.  She has published articles in a range of collections and scholarly journals,…

Sarah Hentges

Professor of Transdisciplinary Cultural Studies
Coordinator of Interdisciplinary and Liberal Studies

Courses Taught INT 208 Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies INT 495 Capstone in Interdisciplinary Studies AME/INT/WGS 420/TEM 528 Feminist Praxis for Radical Self and Community Care AME/INT/WGS 430/TEM 530 Embodied Social Justice: Racialized Trauma and Community Transformation AME/ENG/WGS 318 Cultural Criticism and Theory: The Arts of Social Change NUR/INT 331 Integrative Yoga: Theory and Practice for…

Robert B. Bernheim

Associate Professor of History

Matthew P. Dube

Associate Professor in Data Science, Computer Information Systems, and Applied Mathematics

I am a native of the mountains of Western Maine. I am a first-generation interdisciplinary scholar with data at my very core. My work has its foundation at the intersection of data science with geography, specifically the development of formal representations of spatial linguistics/language toward the development of spatial artificial intelligence. I also do applied…

Gregory M. Fahy

Associate Professor of Philosophy

I teach most of the philosophy courses that UMA offers, including Introduction to Philosophy and Ethics. I also teach the Interdisciplinary Course that is required for Liberal Studies majors. I always like to have a good discussion going in class. Don’t feel bad if you leave my class more confused than you arrived because one…

Ann Kennedy

Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies

Courses Taught WGS 101 Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies WGS 305 Intersections of Gender, Race, Class and Sexuality  WGS 345  Abolition Feminism: Gender Violence and the Carceral State WGS 349 The Female Body in Western Culture Bio Her teaching and research fields include critical time studies, feminist activism and social movement theory, and U.S….

Lorien T. Lake-Corral

Professor of Sociology

Lorien Lake-Corral is a Professor of Sociology. She earned a B.A. from SUNY Geneseo in Sociology and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Arizona (also in Sociology). Dr. Lake-Corral’s primary interests are in teaching and learning in sociology and her research interests include culture, deviance, and symbolic interaction. Her current research explores the…

Chelsea D. Ray

Professor of French Language and Literature

Chelsea Ray received her doctorate in Comparative Literature at UCLA, where she focused on nineteenth and twentieth-century French and Russian literature. She completed her B.A. in Comparative Literature and Russian at Beloit College. Her classes at UMA range from French language and composition courses to international literature courses. Most recently, she taught “Francophone Literature,” “The…

Rebecca White

Associate Professor of History

Teaching Philosophy My central focus in all of my history courses is to introduce students to a social history of ordinary people in US History, to examine critical turning points from multiple points of view, and to think about the ongoing consequences of events into the present day. I also actively train students in the…

Jennie Woodard

Lecturer of Communication