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Introduction: Frodeman, Klein, Mitcham
    1. Prof. Dr. Peter Weingart studied sociology, economics and constitutional law at the universities of Freiburg, Berlin (Free University) and Princeton. He is presently Professor of Sociology, Sociology of Science and Science Policy at the University of Bielefeld, Germany and director of the Institute for Science and Technology Studies (IWT). He was director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) from 1989 to 1994, and is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. His current research interests are science advice to politics, science-media interrelation, and science communication. He assumed the editorship of Minerva in 2007.

    2. Julie Thompson Klein is Professor of Humanities at Wayne State University. An internationally recognized expert on interdisciplinary research, education, and problem solving, she received the Kenneth Boulding Award for outstanding scholarship on interdisciplinarity. Her authored and edited books include Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory, and Practice (l990), Interdisciplinary Studies Today (1994), Crossing Boundaries: Knowledge, Disciplinarities, and Interdisciplinarities (1996), Transdisciplinarity: Joint Problem Solving among Science, Technology, and Society (2001), Interdisciplinary Education in K-12 and College (2002), Mapping Interdisciplinary Studies (1999), and Humanities, Culture, and Interdisciplinarity: The Changing American Academy (2005).

    3. Robert Frodeman (PhD in Philosophy, MS in Geology) is chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies at the University of North Texas. He is also Director of the New Directions Initiative (http://www.ndsciencehumanitiespolicy.org/), which seeks to integrate the perspectives and insights of the humanities with those of science, technology, and policy making.  Publications include Earth Matters: the Earth Sciences, Philosophy, and the Claims of Community (Prentice Hall, 2000), Rethinking Nature (Indiana, 2004), and Geo-Logic: Breaking Ground between Philosophy and the Earth Sciences (SUNY, 2003).  He is currently co-Editing (with Baird Callicott) the Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy.

    4. Wolfgang Krohn, philosopher and social scientist, is Professor Emeritus of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Bielefeld. His research interests comprise studies on the relationships between science and technology, both historical and contemporary; the aesthetic dimensions of science and technology; and the spread of ‘real world’ experimentation outside the laboratories in social, ecological, and technological innovation projects. Recent publications: Groß, M./Krohn W.: Society as Experiment: Sociological Foundations for a Self-experimental Society (2005); Groß, M./Hoffmann-Riem, H/ Krohn, W.: Realexperimente (2005); Krohn, W., Ästhetik in der Wissenschaft (2006).

    5. Steve Fuller, originally trained in history and philosophy of science, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, England. Active in the interdisciplinary field of science and technology studies for the past quarter century, he is best known for the research program of 'social epistemology', which is the name of a journal he founded in 1987 and the title of his first of fifteen books. His most recent books include The Knowledge Book: Key Concepts in Philosophy, Science and Culture (Acumen and McGill-Queens, 2007) and New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies (Polity, 2007).

      6. PART 2:  PRODUCING KNOWLEDGE

    6. Robert P. Crease is historian of Brookhaven National Laboratory and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Stony Brook University. He has published widely on the history and philosophy of the physical sciences, with books that include The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in 20th Century Physics (1986, reprint 1996), Making Physics: A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1946-1972 (1999), The Prism and the Pendulum: The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments in Science (2003), and The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg (2009). He also writes a monthly column on science and society issues titled "Critical Point" for Physics World and is organizer of the Trust Institute, which seeks to carry out an innovative and interdisciplinary look at a central issue of modern social life.

    7. Paul Thagard is Professor of Philosophy, Psychology, and Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, where he directs the Cognitive Science Program.   His research is in  two interdisciplinary fields, cognitive science and philosophy and history of science. His most recent books are Hot Thought:  Mechanisms and Applications of Emotional Cognition,  and Mind:  Introduction to Cognitive Science (second edition).

    8. James Collins, is Professor of Natural History and Environment of Arizona State University’s School of Life Sciences, and assistant director for the biological sciences at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Collins’ research centers on understanding the origin, maintenance, and reorganization of morphological variation within species. A special focus of the research is host-pathogen biology and its relationship to the global decline of amphibians. Collins heads an international team of 26 investigators studying this issue under two grants from NSF’s Integrated Research Challenges in Environmental Biology program. The intellectual and institutional factors that have shaped Ecology's development as a science are also a focus of Dr. Collins’s research as well as Ecological Ethics. NSF, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Department of the Army, Arizona Game and Fish Department, National Geographic Society, and Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology have supported his research.


      9. Ann Kinzig is Associate Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. Kinzig's research focuses on urban ecology, the resilience of human-environment interactions across long time scales, and science policy. She received an M.A. in Physics from University of California at Berkeley (1989), and her Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from Berkeley (1994).

      Michael Crow became the 16th president of Arizona State University on July 1, 2002. He is guiding the transformation of ASU into one of the nation’s leading public metropolitan research universities, one that is directly engaged in the economic, social, and cultural vitality of its region. Under his direction the university pursues teaching, research, and creative excellence focused on the major challenges and questions of our time, as well as those central to the building of a sustainable environment and economy for Arizona. He has committed the university to global engagement, and to setting a new standard for public service. Since he took office, ASU has marked a number of important milestones, including the establishment of major interdisciplinary research initiatives such as the Biodesign Institute; the Global Institute for Sustainability; and MacroTechnology Works, a program integrating science and technology for large-scale applications, including the Flexible Display Center, a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Army. 

    9. Craig Calhoun is President of the Social Science Research Council and University Professor at NYU where he also directs the Institute on Social Theory and Public Affairs. Interdisciplinary throughout his career, Calhoun studied anthropology and history as well as sociology at Columbia, Manchester and Oxford, and has held joint appointments in those fields and in communications. He edited the Oxford Dictionary of Social Sciences (2002). His most recent book is Nations Matter (Routledge 2007) and his next is The Roots of Radicalism (Chicago 2008).

      Diana Rhoten is the Program Director of Knowledge Institutions at the Social Science Research Council and a Program Director in the Office of Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation. Her research focuses on the processes and outcomes of interdisciplinary knowledge production and innovation. She is particularly interested in how the emergence of collaborative research strategies and the growing significance of virtual communities are changing the structure and culture of science. Recent publications can be found in Annual Review of Law and Social Science (2007), Research Policy (2007), and Science (2004).

    10. Sheila Jasanoff is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.  Previously, she was founding chair of the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University.  Trained in law at Harvard Law School, she has published widely on the role of science and technology in modern democratic societies, with a particular focus on the use of science in legal and political decision-making.  Her books include Controlling Chemicals (co-authored, 1985), The Fifth Branch (1990), Science at the Bar (1995), and Designs on Nature (2005). 

    11. Uskali Mauki is an Academy Professor at the Academy of Finland, and formerly Professor at the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics at Erasmus University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands.  He is presently directing a collective research project on the philosophical foundations of interdisciplinary relations in the social and cognitive sciences. His publications include Fact and Fiction in Economics: Realism, Models, and Social Construction (Cambridge UP, 2002), “Explanatory Unification: Double and Doubtful” (Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 2001), and  “Reglobalising Realism by Going Local, or (How) Should our Formulations of Scientific Realism Be Informed about the  Sciences” (Erkenntnis, 2005).

    12. Richard Buchanan, is a professor and director of doctoral studies at the
      School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University. He teaches design theory in the traditional areas of communication design and industrial design, while extending design thinking into new areas of application such as interaction design and organization design. His work focuses on the rhetorical dimensions of design. He is an editor of "Design Issues", an international journal of design history, theory, and criticism published by the MIT Press. He is also President of the Design Research Society, a multi-disciplinary design research society based in the United Kingdom. Among his numerous publications are "Discovering Design: Explorations in Design Studies", "The Idea of Design", and "Pluralism in Theory and Practice". Buchanan holds AB and PhD degrees from the Committee on the Analysis of Ideas and the Study of Methods at the University of Chicago.

    13. Patricia Culligan, (BSc in Civil Engineering, MPhil and PhD in Soil Mechanics) is Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Columbia University, New York. Her interdisciplinary teaching and research focuses on geo-environmental engineering, sustainable urban development and engineering for developing communities, with an emphasis on community engagement. Dr. Culligan is the author or co-author of 2 books, 3 book chapters and over 60 publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings. Her recent book, Eco-Gowanus: Urban Remediation by Design (Plunz & Culligan, 2007), explores intersections of engineering and architectural design in the reclamation of contaminated urban land.

    14. Feniosky Peña-Mora (ScD Civil Engineering Systems) is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Associate Provost Fellow, and O’Neil Faculty Scholar at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  His interdisciplinary teaching and research is in Engineering, Information Technology, and Management.  Author of more than 100 publications in refereed journals, conference proceedings, book chapters, and textbooks, his publications include Introduction to Construction Dispute Resolution (2002) and Ad Hoc Distributed Shared Memory System for Disaster Relief Situations (2006). His research work has also resulted in three patents and two pending patents.

    15. Raymond C. Miller is Professor Emeritus of Social Science and International Relations at San Francisco State University.  He taught undergraduate and graduate courses in interdisciplinarity in the Social Science Program, and interdisciplinary political economy courses in the International Relations Program.  He was the first editor of Issues in Integrative Studies, and President of the Association for Integrative Studies in 1984-85.  He authored Varieties of Interdisciplinary Approaches in the Social Sciences and a forthcoming text book in international political economy.

    16. Cathy Davidson is the Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English and the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University. From 1999 to 2006, she was Duke's Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies, a position that spanned all nine schools of the University. She is the co-founder of HASTAC (pronounced "haystack," an acronym for Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) and writes on subjects ranging from eighteenth-century literacy and to contemporary digital learning.Duke University

    17. Anne Balsamo's work focuses on the relationship between the culture and technology. This focus informs her practice as a scholar, researcher, new media designer, and entrepreneur. She is a Full Professor of Interactive Media and Gender Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts. In 2002, she co-founded, Onomy Labs, Inc. a Silicon Valley technology design and fabrication company that builds cultural technologies. Previously she was a member of RED (Research on Experimental Documents), a collaborative research group at Xerox PARC who created experimental reading devices and new media genres. Her first book, Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women (Duke UP, 1996) investigated the social and cultural implications of emergent bio-technologies. Her new book project, Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work examines the relationship between cultural theory, interdisciplinary collaboration, and technological innovation.

    18. Mieke Bal, a well-known cultural critic and theorist, holds the position of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Professor (KNAW). She is also Professor of the Theory of Literature in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. Her books include A Mieke Bal Reader  (The University of Chicago Press, 2006), Traveling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough Guide (University of Toronto Press, 2002) and Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative (University of Toronto Press, 1997). She is also a video artist.

    19. Clifford Christians is Professor and Director of the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with joint appointments in Journalism and Media Studies.  His research focuses on communication ethics, interpretation analysis, and dialogic theory.  His co-edited book on Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning (first published, 1983; 7th edition, 2005) helped establish this interdisciplinary field.  Other publications include Jacques Ellul: Interpretative Essays (1981), Communication Ethics and Universal Values (1997), and Moral Engagement in Public Life (2002).

      20. PART 3: TAKING ACTION

    20. J. Baird Callicott is Regents Professor of Philosophy and Religion
      Studies at the University of North Texas. He is author of Earth's Insights: A Multicultural Survey of Ecological Ethics from the Mediterranean Basin to the Australian Outback, In Defense of the Land Ethic: Essays in Environmental Philosophy, Beyond the Land Ethic: More Essays in Environmental Philosophy, American Indian Environmental Ethics: An Ojibwa Case Study, and more than a hundred book chapters, journal articles, encyclopedia entries, and book reviews. He serves on various editorial boards of academic journals and university presses and is co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy.

    21. Carl Mitcham, with a PhD in Philosophy, is Professor of Liberal Arts and International Studies at the Colorado School of Mines as well as a faculty affiliate of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research (University of Colorado, Boulder) and the European Graduate School (Saas Fee, Switzerland).  His interdisciplinary teaching and research is in Science, Technology, and Society studies.  Publications include Thinking through Technology (1994) and the Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics (2005).

    22. Marilyn Averill is an attorney who currently is a doctoral student in Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she also is affiliated with the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research.  Her research and teaching interests focus on international environmental governance and the politics of science, particularly within the context of climate change.  Her publications include Climate Litigation: Shaping Public Policy and Stimulating Debate in Moser and Dilling, Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change (2007).

    23. Allan Best is a health systems researcher with the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, and Clinical Professor at the University of British Columbia. His research applies systems thinking to partnerships between interdisciplinary/intersectoral teams of academics and health system decision makers in the co-production of problem-based knowledge to guide systems change, with a particular interest in alternative models for putting knowledge into action. Key publications include a 2003 American Journal of Health Promotion article on the use of theory, and a 2007 article in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine focusing on systems thinking for population health.

    24. Jennifer Terpstra (MPH) is a population health researcher and doctoral student at the University of British Columbia in the Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program. Her research focuses on the integration of problem-based knowledge development and application as a means to improving the health system. She is particularly interested in the role that interdisciplinary teams play in both the development and application of evidence to inform practice and policy.  Her research aims to build system capacity to integrate research and theory to develop organizational and system level study methods and interventions to improve measurement and outcomes of knowledge translation.

    25. Carole L. Palmer is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research investigates how information systems and services can best support the research work of scientists and scholars. Her focus is on information technologies to improve interdisciplinary inquiry and scientific discovery, and use-based development of digital resources and tools. Her publications include Work at the Boundaries of Science: Information and the Interdisciplinary Research Process (1991) and numerous papers on scholarly information work in the digital environment.

    26. Saskia Sassen is now at Columbia University’s Committee on Global Thought, after a decade at the University of Chicago and London School of Economics. Her recent books are Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press 2006) and A Sociology of Globalization (Norton 2007). She has now completed for UNESCO a five-year project on sustainable human settlement for which she set up a network of researchers and activists in over 30 countries; it is published as one of the volumes of the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) (Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers) [http://www.eolss.net ].

    27. Sven Ove Hansson is Professor of Philosophy and head of the Department of Philosophy and the History of Technology, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He has led several interdisciplinary research programs in the areas of risk and environmental protection. He has also served on the board of the Swedish Natural Science Foundation and on the government’s advisory board of researchers. His books include Setting the Limit: Occupational Health Standards and the Limits of Science (Oxford UP 1998) and The Structures of Values and Norms (Cambridge UP 2001). He is editor-in-chief of Theoria [http://www.infra.kth.se/~soh].

    28. Clark A. Miller is Associate Professor in the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes and Department of Political Science at Arizona State University.  He holds a PhD in electrical engineering from Cornell and has held several positions at the intersection of science and technology studies, government, political science, international public affairs, environmental studies, and science and technology policy. His research and teaching focus on science, technology, and global governance, with an emphasis on the construction of policy reasoning in transnational policy debates. He is the editor of Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance (MIT, 2001).

    29. Deborah DeZure (PhD, Interdisciplinary Humanities and Education) is Assistant Provost for Faculty and Organizational Development at Michigan State University and Contributing Editor of Change Magazine.  Deborah is on the editorial board of four journals on college teaching and learning and the board of directors for the Association for Integrative Studies and About Campus. As a Senior Fellow at AAC&U, she was co-PI on a research project based on the Integrative Learning Project: Opportunities to Connect.  Publications include:  Learning from Change: Landmarks on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education from Change Magazine (1969-1999) (2000) and To Improve the Academy (1997).

    30. Daniel Callahan, a philosopher by training, was the co-founder of The Hastings Center in 1969, and its President from then until 1996. He now directs its international program. He is also a Senior Scholar at the Harvard Medical School and at Yale University. While he has written on most topics in bioethics, his recent focus has been on health policy. His most recent books are Medicine and the Market: Equity v. Choice (2006), and What Price Better Health: Hazards of the Research Imperative (2003).

      31. PART 4: OVERRIDING ISSUES

    31. Daniel Sarewitz received a Ph.D. in geosciences but since 1989 has been a practitioner and researcher in the interdisciplinary area of science policy, with particular interests in science and decision making, and the governance of science and technology.  He currently directs the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes at Arizona State University, where he is a Professor in the School of Life Sciences and School of Sustainability. He is the author of Frontiers of Illusion:  Science, Technology, and the Politics of Progress (1996) as well as numerous scholarly and general-interest articles about science and society.

    32. Johannes Lenhard received his PhD in mathematics. He works as a member of scientific staff at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) and at the philosophy department of Bielefeld University. A main focus of his research is on computer instrumentation and the diverse modifications of scientific and societal practice coming with it. Recent publications include Simulation: Pragmatic Construction of Reality, edited with G. Küppers and T. Shinn, Springer 2007.

    33. Katri Huutoniemi is a doctoral student in Science and Technology Studies at Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, as well as a visiting fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for the year 2007-2008. Her doctoral thesis investigates the role of interdisciplinarity in knowledge production and the challenges it poses to traditional research evaluation. Her publications include a report Promoting Interdisciplinary Research: The Case of the Academy of Finland (Bruun, Hukkinen, Huutoniemi, Klein, 2005.

    34. Sytse Strijbos, is affiliated with the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam and North West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa as a special professor. He is the founder and chairperson of the Centre for Philosophy, Technology and Social Systems (CPTS), an international network of researchers from different disciplines and universities. His interdisciplinary teaching and research is in systems thinking, philosophy and the ethical issues of our technological world.  Recent publications are In Search of an Integrative Vision for Technology: Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Systems (2006) and From Our Side:  Emerging Issues of Development and Ethics (forthcoming, 2007).

    35. Veronica Boix Mansilla (Ed.D. in Human Development and Psychology, MS in Education) is PI at the Harvard Interdisciplinary Studies Project, which she co-directs with Howard Gardner.   Standing at the cross-roads of cognitive/developmental psychology, epistemology and pedagogy as applied to disciplines such as history, biology and the visual arts, her research and publications focus on the nature of disciplinary and interdisciplinary understanding.  Over more than a decade, Veronica’s research at Harvard Project Zero has advanced knowledge and practical tools in areas such as the development of epistemological beliefs, learning and cognition in history and science, performance-based assessment, and education for understanding.

    36. Thomas Kowall, is Research Professor with the International MBA Program, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC), Paris. He has taught courses and given lectures on aesthetics, communication, management, philosophy, and strategy to audiences in Berkeley, Boston/Cambridge, Buenos Aires, Casablanca, Chicago, Nagoya, Orlando, Muscat, Paris, Reykjavík, Shanghai, Tokyo, Toronto, Tozeur (Tunisia), Vancouver, and Victoria.

    37. J. Britt Holbrook is Research Assistant Professor within the Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies at the University of North Texas.  His boundary-crossing teaching includes serving as a faculty member (teaming with a High School teacher) of the Texas Governor’s School.  His research focuses on the process of peer review, with special emphasis on the peer review of proposals for grant funding. His 2005 article Assessing the Science – Society Relation: The Case of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Second Merit Review Criterion, was named to Science Direct’s list of “Top 25 Hottest Articles” in Technology in Society. 

    38. Daniel Stokols is Professor of Planning, Policy, and Design and Psychology and Social Behavior in the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine.  He served as Director and Dean of Social Ecology at UCI from 1988-1998. His recent research has examined factors that influence the success of transdisciplinary research and training programs.  He is past President of the Division of Population and Environmental Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA). He is currently serving as Scientific Consultant to the National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, on Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives.

    39. Jessica K. Graybill, with a PhD in Geography and Urban Ecology, is an Assistant Professor in the Geography Department at Colgate University.  Her interdisciplinary pedagogy and research is in Urban Ecology, Urban Political Ecology, and Urban and Environmental Issues of the Former Soviet Union. Publications include The Rough Guide to Interdisciplinarity: Graduate Student Experiences (2006) and Continuity and Change: (Re)Constructing Geographies of the Environment in Late Soviet And Postsoviet Russia (2007).

    40. Gabriele Bammer (BSc, BA, PhD) is Professor at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, ANU College of Medicine and Health Sciences at The Australian National University and Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University. She is developing the new discipline of Integration and Implementation Sciences and testing its application in collaborative projects on illicit drug policy, natural resource management, and policing and security in Australia, and the impact of global environmental change on food systems in the Indo-Gangetic Plain. Publications include Uncertainty and Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, edited with Michael Smithson (Earthscan, forthcoming.

    41. Christian Pohl, with a PhD in Environmental Sciences, is Central Executive Officer of the transdisciplinarity-net of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences and lecturer at ETH Zurich. His research interest is in the analysis and design of transdisciplinary research in the field of sustainable development. Publications include Principles for Designing Transdisciplinary Research (2007) together with Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn and he has been a co-editor of the Handbook of Transdisciplinary Research (2008).

    42. Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn, with a PhD in Education and a habilitation in Philosophy, is a professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences at ETH Zurich, President of the transdisciplinarity-net of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the editorial board of the transdisciplinary journal GAIA. Her research interests actually include the philosophy of environmental and sustainability science, concepts and methodology of transdisciplinary research, environmental ethics and ethics of science. Her publications include the Principles for Designing Transdisciplinary Research (2007) together with Christian Pohl and she has been a co-editor of the Handbook of Transdisciplinary Research (2008)

    43. Beth A. Casey (PhD, English and Comparative Literature) is Associate Professor Emeritus of English and Canadian Studies at Bowling Green State University, where she also served as Director of General Education for 27 years.  She taught Canadian Studies, English Canadian Literature, and American Literature and frequently serves as a consultant on development for interdisciplinary studies and general education in colleges and universities across the United States. Her publications include: The Quiet Revolution: The Transformation and Reintegration of the Humanities, Developing and Administering Interdisciplinary Programs, Administering Interdisciplinary Programs: Creating Climates for Change.

    44. Stephanie Pfirman is Alena Wels Hirschorn '58 and Martin Hirschorn Professor and chair of the Barnard College, Columbia University, Department of Environmental Science, president-elect of the Council of Environmental Deans and Directors (CEDD), co-chair of CEDD's Interdisciplinary Scholars Career Development Committee, and co-PI of the National Science Foundation-sponsored Advancing Women in the Sciences initiative of the Columbia Earth Institute.  Current interests include understanding changes in Arctic sea ice, and development of women scientists and interdisciplinary scholars.

    45. Paula Martin, has chaired interdisciplinary environmental studies programs at Emory University and Juniata College where she is now Assistant Provost and Professor of Environmental Science. She has also served on the Pennsylvania Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy (PCIEP), on the PCIEP Sustainability Steering Committee, on the Executive Board of the Council for Environmental Deans and Directors (CEDD) and co-chaired CEDD's Interdisciplinary Scholars Career Development Committee.

    46. William Newell, is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies in Miami University's Western College Program. The founding president of the Association for Integrative Studies in 1979, he has served since 1983 first as its secretary-treasurer and then as executive director. An economist (Penn '74) and philosopher (Amherst '65) by training, he has taught interdisciplinary social science courses at Temple University (1969-70), St. Olaf College (1970-74), and Miami University (1974-present). He has served as consultant or external evaluator on interdisciplinary higher education over a hundred times, edited two books and two special issues of journal and published over thirty articles and chapters on interdisciplinary studies.