Humanities Faculty

Name &Title

Credentials

Focus

At NAU

Joseph David Boles, Ph.D., Associate Professor. Department Chair

Joseph.Boles@nau.edu

(A.B., Rutgers College; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University 1983)

Film studies, popular culture, visual humanities, Romanticism, Modernism

NAU 1983  

Alison Leigh Brown, Ph.D., Professor

alison.brown@nau.edu

(B.A., University of Utah; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts 1989)

Social and political theory, recent French philosophy, feminist theory, women’s studies and philosophy

NAU 1989  

Victoria L. Enders, Ph.D., Associate Professor

Victoria.Enders@nau.edu

(B.A., Mills College; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of California–San Diego 1985)

Spanish culture, gender identity, and modern Europe

NAU 1985  

Marcus P. Ford, Ph.D., Professor

marcus.ford@nau.edu

(B.A., University of Puget Sound; M.A., School of Theology at Claremont; Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School 1978)

American philosophy, society and the environment, philosophy of education

NAU 1994  

Curtis M. Hinsley, Ph.D.

Regents' Professor

curtis.hinsley@nau.edu

(B.A., Princeton University; M. A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison 1976)

American cultural and intellectual history, history of anthropology and archaeology, cultural history of the American Southwest

NAU 1988

Max Oelschlaeger, Ph.D., Professor

max.oelschlaeger@nau.edu

(B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Southern Illinois University 1973)

Public humanities; ecological humanities

NAU 1998

George V. Speer, PhD

Assistant Professor

(BA, Wake Forest University;

MFA, Trinity University in San Antonio;

MA, Southern Methodist University;

PhD, Washington University in St. Louis)

Twentieth-century American art and culture, ; European art since 1945 and its influence on American

visual culture; European art

from 1789 to 1940; cultural politics of the avant-garde

NAU 2006

Gioia Woods, Ph.D., Associate Professor

Gioia.Woods@nau.edu

(B.A., University of Arizona; M.A., Arizona State University; Ph.D., University of Nevada–Reno 1999)

American studies, autobiography and memoir, environmental humanities

NAU 1999  

Faculty Emeriti

John C. Acker, M.A., Senior Lecturer

(B.A., M.A., Northern Arizona University 1975)

NAU 1989  (retired 2006)

Thomas J. Cleman, D.M.A., Professor

(B.A., Whitman College; M.A., University of California–Berkeley; D.M.A., Stanford University 1968)

Eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century arts, music composition, and criticism

NAU 1969 (retired 2007)

Vasant V. Merchant, Ph.D., Professor

(T.D., B.A., M.A., L.L.B., University of Bombay; M.A., University of Minnesota; Ph.D., University of Southern California)

NAU 1967 (retired 1996)

Julie A. Schimmel, Ph.D., Associate Professor

(B.A., Arizona State University; M.A., Ph.D., New York University 1983)

NAU 1989 (retired 1999)

Thomas J. Wenstrand, Ph.D., Professor

(B.A., University of Northern Iowa; M.M., Northwestern University; M.A., University of Chicago; Ph.D., Columbia University)

NAU 1960 (retired 1988)