Patrick Baliani

Patrick Baliani

PATRICK BALIANI is an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the UA Honors College and an acclaimed playwright. His teaching awards include the University of Arizona Foundation Leicester and Kathryn Sherrill Creative Teaching Award, the Honors College...
Greg Sakall

Greg Sakall

GREG SAKALL is a Guest Lecturer at the University of Arizona. He is also a Superior Court Judge in Pima County. He teaches undergraduate and law school courses. He has received a Professor of Practice teaching award from the students at the law school, as well as a...
Grace Fielder

Grace Fielder

Grace E. Fielder is a professor emerita in the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies at the University of Arizona. She holds a Ph.D. from UCLA in Slavic Linguistics and her current research and teaching interests deal with language, identity, culture, and ideology...
Paul Ivey

Paul Ivey

PAUL IVEY, a winner of three Humanities Seminar Superior Teaching Awards, teaches modern and contemporary art in the School of Art at the University of Arizona. He is also a recent recipient of the James Anthony Award for Sustained Teaching Excellence from the College...
Dr. Bella Vivante

Dr. Bella Vivante

Honored to receive 2018’s Ted & Shirley Taubeneck Superior Teaching Award, Bella brings her enthusiastic love of Ancient Greek poetry and culture to her HSP classes: Homer’s brilliant epics, select themes in Greek drama, Ancient Anatolia, more. See this dynamic...
John Wilson

John Wilson

JOHN WILSON is Professor Emeritus in Dance and International Studies from the University Arizona, where he taught for 26 years, developed the dance committee into a degree program in the College of Fine Arts, and created new courses, including the psychology of...
Jay Rosenblatt

Jay Rosenblatt

JAY ROSENBLATT earned his B.A. in Piano Performance and M.A. in Musicology from UCLA and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, also in Musicology. He joined the School of Music at the University of Arizona in 1995. For the past twenty-eight years, he has taught...
Barbara Atwood

Barbara Atwood

BARBARA ANN ATWOOD is the Mary Anne Richey Professor of Law Emerita at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, specializing in family law and civil procedure.  After graduating from the University of Arizona College of Law in 1976, she clerked for...
David Soren

David Soren

DAVID SOREN is Regents Professor of Anthropology, Classics, and Art History. He is a Fellow of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He was named Honorary Italian Citizen for his contributions to Italian archaeology and Honorary Philhellene by...
Peter Medine

Peter Medine

PETER E. MEDINE is Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona, where he served in the English Department from 1969 to 2014. He has written, edited, or coedited seven books in Early Modern English studies. His most recent coedited book is Visionary Milton: Essays...
Malcolm Compitello

Malcolm Compitello

Malcolm Alan Compitello is Emeritus Professor of Spanish and former Program Director for the Humanities Seminars Program. He regularly taught classes in modern and contemporary Spanish culture and literature including the work of García Lorca. Professor Compitello is...
Scott Lucas

Scott Lucas

SCOTT LUCAS is an associate professor of Islamic Studies at the UA whose research explores Islam’s legal, theological, and spiritual traditions in the premodern period. He has been working with Arabic manuscripts from Yemen written by scholars in the Zaydi...
David Cuillier

David Cuillier

DAVID CUILLIER, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism who focuses on press rights, data journalism, and access to government information. A former newspaper editor and reporter, he joined the UA in 2006 and was director of the school 2011-2018....
E. Charles Adams

E. Charles Adams

E. CHARLES ADAMS, Curator Emeritus, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona. Adams has lived and worked in the Four Corners region for more than 50 years, the last 35 with the Arizona State Museum (ASM). While at ASM, Adams directed research at ancestral Hopi...
Jiang Wu

Jiang Wu

JIANG WU is a Professor in East Asian Studies and Director of the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Arizona. He holds a PhD from Harvard, and his research focuses on 17th-century Chinese Buddhism. Specifically, Professor Wu has focused on Chan/Zen...
Christie Kerr

Christie Kerr

CHRISTIE KERR is an Associate Professor of Musical Theatre at the University of Arizona. She has worked as Director and/or Choreographer on the following Arizona Repertory Theatre productions: Jesus Christ Superstar, Legally Blonde, Pippin, Sister Act, The Pajama...
Praise Zenenga

Praise Zenenga

PRAISE ZENENGA is Associate Professor and Director of the Africana Studies Program at the University of Arizona. His teaching and research focus on the intersection of theater and performance with politics, history, culture, aesthetics, and identities in Africa...
Don Traut

Don Traut

Don Traut is a music theory professor at the University of Arizona where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in musical theory, structure, and analysis.  His research focuses primarily on the music of Igor Stravinsky, popular music, and on the patterns...