Robert Beck, Visiting Professor of Education and ArtsBridge Mentor for Picturing Peace

University of Chicago, Ph.D.
Courses: Participatory Democracy
Recent Tutorials: Educational Discussions
Interests: Tutorial Education; Diversity and Educational Discussions; ePortfolios
Phone: (920) 832-6605
E-mail: robert.beck@lawrence.edu

Donna Clementi, Instructor in Education

St. Olaf College, B.A.; University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, M.S.
Courses: Elementary and Secondary Foreign Language Methods
Interests: Foreign Language Instruction
Phone: (920) 993-6276
Email: donna.clementi@lawrence.edu

Cecile Despres-Berry, Director of the Waseda/TSA Exchange Program and Instructor in English as a Second Language (ESL)

Earlham College, B.A.; University of Texas at Austin, M.A.
Courses: Methods, Materials, and Assessment in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages; ESL - English in the American University; ESL - Experimental Language Learning; ESL - Advanced Communicative English; ESL - Speaking and Listening; Introduction to American Society I, II, & III
Interests: Second Language Writing
Phone: 920-832-7130
Email: cecile.c.despres-berry@lawrence.edu

Laura A. DeSisto, Lawrence Postdoctoral Fellow in Education

College of the Holy Cross, B.A.; Columbia University, M.Phil., Ph.D.
Courses: Philosophical Foundations of Education; School and Society; Ethics and Education; Education and the Liberal Arts; History of Education in the U.S.
Interests: Humanism and the Liberal Arts; Philosophy of Education; Continental Philosophy; Ethics; Social and Political Philosophy; Italian Renaissance Philosophy; International and Comparative Education
Phone: (920) 832-6928
Email: laura.desisto@lawrence.edu

Margaret Engman, Instructor in Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison, B.S.
Courses: Methods in Middle and Secondary Teaching
Interests: Teacher Education; Literacy Instruction Strategies; Instructional Development of Inservice Teachers
Phone: (920) 993-6714
Email: engmanm@kaukauna.k12.wi.us

Patricia Marinac, Instructor in Education

Lawrence University, B.A.; University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, M.S.; Cardinal Stritch University, M.S.
Courses: Methods in Middle and Secondary Teaching
Interests: Teacher Education; Teacher Induction; Environmental Education
Phone: (715) 572-6419
Email: pmarinac@hughes.net

Brigetta Miller, Music Education Chair, Associate Professor in the Lawrence Conservatory of Music

Lawrence University, B.M.; Silver Lake College, M.S.; University of Washington (doctoral candidate)
Courses: Introduction to Music Education; General Music Methods I & II; General Music Practicum; Student Teaching; Student Teaching Seminar
Interests: Multicultural Education, Women's Studies, American Indian Studies
Phone: (920) 832-7696
Email: brigetta.f.miller@lawrence.edu
Website: http://www.lawrence.edu/conservatory/bios/millerb.shtml

Stewart Purkey, Director of Teacher Education, Associate Professor of Education and Bee Connell Mielke Professor of Education

Stanford University, A.B.; Reed College, M.A.T.; University of Wisconsin–Madison, Ph.D.
Courses: Ethnicity, Cultural Diversity, and Education; Sociology of Education; Student Teaching; Student Teaching Seminar; Adolescent Literature; The Environment, Community, and Education
Recent Tutorial Topics: Education Policy; Sociology of Sport; “Green” Schoolyards; Alternative Education; Hollywood Goes to High School
Interests: Educational Reform; Environmental and Place-based Education; Multicultural Education; Social Justice Education; Film Studies
Phone: (920) 832-6715
Email: purkeys@lawrence.edu

Renee Ulman, Lecturer in Art Education

Lawrence University, B.A; Lesley University, M.A.
Courses: Art in the Elementary and Secondary Schools
Interests: Design Education; Community Art Education
Phone: (920) 997-1855
E-mail: ulmanrenee@aasd.k12.wi.us

Robert F. Williams, Assistant Professor of Education

Purdue University, B.S.M.E., B.A.; University of Colorado at Denver, M.A.; University of California, San Diego, M.S., Ph.D.
Courses: Psychology of Learning; Educating All Learners; Educating All Learners-Music; Student Teaching; Student Teaching Seminar; Distributed Cognition; Cognitive Linguistics
Recent Tutorial Topics: Motivation, Assessment, Second Language Acquisition, Bilingual Education, Computational Semantics and Language Emergence
Interests: Cognitive Science; Conceptual Processes, Instructional Discourse, Gesture Studies
Phone: (920) 993-6276
E-mail: robert.f.williams@lawrence.edu
Website: http://www.lawrence.edu/fast/williaro

Kenneth R. Sager, Professor Emeritus of Education

Lawrence College, B.A.; University of Wisconsin–Madison, M.A.; Harvard University
Interests: Psychology and Philosophy of Education; Music; Humanities
Phone: (920) 832-6713