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Read about the talented faculty in the AUS-AEA B.A. in Liberal Studies Degree Completion program.
In addition to the faculty listed below, faculty and experts from around the world also teach on AEA programs. If students opt to spend a semester at one of Antioch University's partner universities abroad, they will have access to a wide range of other faculty members.
Marcia Tate Arunga (AUS Faculty), M.A., Pacific Oaks College. Arunga is an international/community activist and a cultural custodian. With her background in sociology and human development, she specializes in intercultural communication, social justice and global topics research.
George Callan (AUS Adjunct Faculty), Ph.D., Pacifica Graduate Institute; M.A., Santa Clara University; B.A., Immaculate Heart College. Callan is a depth psychologist and licensed marriage and family therapist whose clinical and academic interests include archetypal psychotherapy, dream work and initiatory and alchemical processes as they relate to the individual, communal and global psyche. She practices psychotherapy and mentorship in Seattle where she works with individuals, couples and families and supervises therapists and interns in the fields of clinical and depth psychology.
Nada Elia (AUS Faculty), Ph.D., Purdue University. Elia is a scholar-activist whose interests include local and transnational grassroots activism, community organizing around alternatives to social services, and resistance to institutionalized systems of oppression.
Mary Lou Finley (AUS Faculty), Ph.D., University of Chicago. Finley's professional experience includes work with community organizing and social-service organizations, particularly organizations serving the needs of homeless women.
Candace M. Harris (AUS Faculty), M.A., Antioch University Seattle. Harris studies the intersections of education and spirituality, whole-person learning, education as liberation and the theory and practice of feminist pedagogy.
Talal S. Hattar (AUS Adjunct Faculty), M.A., University of Washington; M.A., Georgetown University; B.A., University of Texas at Austin. Hattar is presently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington. His dissertation deals with violent identity conflict in the Levant. He has an extensive background in political economy.
Alexandra Hepburn (AUS Adjunct Faculty), Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania; M.Ed., Columbia University, Teachers College; B.A., Sara Lawrence College. Hepburn has extensive experience in the area of death, dying, loss and grief, and founded a hospice program in the 1980s. Her private therapy practice focuses on such themes as identity, loss, life transition and psycho-spiritual growth and incorporates EMDR and hypnotherapy. She leads workshops and groups that center on her passion for exploring the interconnections of spirituality, psychology and transformation.
Nicholas Hockin, (AEA Faculty), M.A. Music (Ethnomusicology), Wesleyan University. Currently a Ph.D candidate at Wesleyan University, Hockin has extensive experience teaching Malian and Guinean djembe and dunun repertoire and Senegambian kuotiro, as well as some Shona mbira music from Zimbabwe. Over the last ten years he has developed an extensive network of contacts both in and outside of the Malian culture industry, including visual and performing artists and artisans who personify Mali's unique bridging of historical and contemporary cultural elements.
Gwendolyn Jones (AUS Faculty), Ph.D., University of Washington. Jones is primarily interested in the study of racial and gender stereotypes, the psychological impacts of sexual coercion and racial discrimination and the application of cultural understanding to the counseling process.
Iveta Jusová (AEA Faculty), Ph.D., Miami University; M.A., Palacky University (Czech Republic). Her book The New Woman and the Empire (Ohio University Press, 2005) examines the ways in which late nineteenth-century British women writers approached national, racial and ethnic difference. Her current research project examines the possibilities and challenges entailed in the present-day encounters between European feminist discourses and the growing immigrant population into Europe from former colonies.
Suzanne Kolb (AEA Faculty), Ph.D., University of Georgia's Institute of Ecology. Kolb has conducted field research on habitat restoration in Brazil and Costa Rica, which has been funded by the World Wildlife Fund, the Smithsonian Institution and the National Science Foundation. Her work in this area has been cited in graduate-level textbooks published by both Cambridge University Press and John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Daria Lucka (AEA Faculty), Ph.D., Jagiellonian University. Assistant Professor at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, her main academic interests include sociological theory, sociology of social change, political sociology (civil society, political systems, etc.) and history of ideas. In her research, she focuses on the issues of socio-political transformation in Central Europe.
Lisa Lynch (AUS Adjunct Faculty), Ph.D., Union Institute & University. Lynch is the program coordinator of the Ecopsychology concentration of the Integrated Studies program in the School of Applied Psychology, Counseling and Family Therapy.
Randy Morris (AUS Faculty), Ph.D., Emory University. Morris did his doctoral studies in human development and phenomenological philosophy, and maintains a private practice as a Jungian-oriented counselor.
Robert Pryor (AEA Faculty), M.A.T., Antioch University; Graduate Theological Union, Berkley. After spending several years in India doing research on Buddhist history, culture and meditation, Pryor designed the Antioch Buddhist Studies program. He served as consultant for the BBC documentary, "In the Footsteps of the Buddha." His interests include: South Asian cultures, pilgrimage, the history of Indian Buddhism, meditation and Buddhism in the West.
Phoenix Raine (AUS Adjunct Faculty), ABD, Pacifica Graduate Institute; M.Ed., Antioch University Seattle; B.A., Fairhaven College, WWU. Raine's focus on intercultural and interdisciplinary education has led her to a depth psychological methodology that enhances her pedagogical approach to social justice. To explore her belief that there is a need for a therapeutic sensibility to address oppression and that educators can also be considered cultural healers, her dissertation is focused on the Confluence Project memorials along the Columbia River as places of cross-cultural healing.
Ormond Smythe (AUS Faculty), Ed.D., Harvard University. Smythe's interests include experiential learning, ethics, philosophy of religion, philosophy of race and gender and interdisciplinary studies.
Kenneth O. Turner (AUS Adjunct Faculty), M.Ed., University of Georgia-Athens; B.S., Georgia Tech. Turner has a wide range of science teaching experience, from health/physical education to Outward Bound, ropes courses and mountaineering. He is a member of National Ski Patrol, Seattle Mountain Rescue and the Association for Experiential Education.
Cynthia Updegrave (AUS Adjunct Faculty), M.S. University of Washington; B.A., West Chester University. Updegrave has enthusiasm for designing and leading interdisciplinary field and seminar curricula with a bioregional focus, facilitating learning community development, mentoring student research and experiential learning, as well as diverse field experiences in ecology, paleoecology and restoration.
Brian Victoria (AEA Faculty), Ph.D., Temple University; M.A., Komazawa University (Tokyo). Victoria trained at the Sôtô Zen monastery of Eiheiji and is an ordained priest in that sect. He is also the author and co-author of numerous books and articles on Zen including Zen Master Dôgen, Zen at War, and Zen War Stories. The Japanese language edition of Zen at War served as one catalyst for Myôshinji, the largest branch of the Rinzai Zen sect, to publicly apologize for its role in support of Japanese militarism during WWII. His more recent research focuses on the broader issue of the relationship of religion to violence in the world's major religious traditions.
Mark Wicks (AUS Adjunct Faculty), Ph.D., University of Washington; M.S.W., University of Washington. Wicks works as a medical student counselor and as clinical faculty at the UW School of Medicine and the UW School of Social Work. He is an experienced therapist for persons facing loss associated with chronic illness, life-threatening illness, trauma and bereavement. His other interests include the integration of spirituality, cross-cultural awareness and personal death awareness.
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