Environmental Studies
Constance Clark
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 408D
Phone: +1-508-831-5712
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
cclark@wpi.edu
Constance Clark
- Associate Professor, Humanities & Arts
In addition to teaching the history of science and technology, I have raised baby birds at the Bronx Zoo and the Baltimore Aquarium, curated and inventoried mammal skeletons in attics at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum, designed biology teaching labs at the University of Colorado, and collected dinosaurs and other fossils while camping in the Wyoming badlands with paleontology field crews. Read more...
Jim Cocola
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 26
Phone: +1-508-831-5104
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
jcocola@wpi.edu
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Jim Cocola
- Assistant Professor, Humanities & Arts
Jim Cocola teaches courses in literary studies, along with those in American studies, creative writing, film studies, and media studies. Teaching at WPI allows him to be in thought with a unique set of creative, dynamic, and innovative students. Read more...
Roger S. Gottlieb
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 04
Phone: +1-508-831-5439
gottlieb@wpi.edu
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Roger S. Gottlieb
- Professor, Humanities & Arts
Professor of philosophy Roger S. Gottlieb combines intense analytic intelligence, a personal and humorously engaging style, and an inspiring message of personal responsibility, social change, and spiritual vision as a lecturer. Read more...
Peter H. Hansen
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 107
Phone: +1-508-831-5481
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
phansen@wpi.edu
Peter H. Hansen
- Director of International Studies
- Associate Professor, Humanities & Arts
Peter Hansen has published widely on colonialism, cross-cultural encounters, documentaries, and western encounters with Tibet. He is also working on a cultural history of Everest in the 20th century and historical perspectives on climate change and the "Anthropocene." Read more...
Aarti S. Madan
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 03
Phone: +1-508-831-6587
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
amadan@wpi.edu
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Aarti S. Madan
- Assistant Professor, Humanities & Arts
Though Professor Madan’s primary area of research includes Latin American literary and cultural studies, particularly the intersection of literature and geography in 19th-century narrative, at WPI she teaches all things Spanish. Read more...
Wesley T. Mott
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 236
Phone: +1-508-831-5441
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
wmott@wpi.edu
Wesley T. Mott
- Professor, Humanities & Arts
Professor Mott particularly enjoys WPI’s opportunities to blend teaching, scholarship, and professional and public service on the writers who matter most to him. He sometimes teaches Emerson and Thoreau in his wide range of literature courses. Read more...
Svetlana Nikitina
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 35
Phone: +1-508-831-5939
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
svetlana@wpi.edu
Svetlana Nikitina
- Assistant Teaching Professor of English
- Humanities & Arts
Professor Nikitina teaches a variety of English, American, and comparative literature courses and is involved in the First-Year Experience Program, teaching Grand Challenges Seminar: Sustainable Development for the 21st Century. Read more...
Tom Robertson
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 234
Phone: +1-508-831-5871
tbr@wpi.edu
Tom Robertson
- Associate Professor, Humanities & Arts
Professor Robertson specializes in American environmental history, the history of American foreign relations, and 20th-century America. He is particularly interested in American relations with the developing world. Read more...
John Sanbonmatsu
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 23
Phone: +1-508-831-5226
js@wpi.edu
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John Sanbonmatsu
- Associate Professor, Humanities & Arts
John Sanbonmatsu is interested in critical social theory and political philosophy. He would love to talk about philosophy and the meaning of life with anyone who wants to give him a call or sit down with him over coffee. Read more...
David I. Spanagel
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 239
Phone: +1-508-831-6403
spanagel@wpi.edu
David I. Spanagel
- Assistant Professor, Humanities & Arts
In both his teaching and research, Professor Spanagel enjoys exercising the unique capability history gives us: to ask questions about how the world ever changes. He also likes interacting with students and colleagues in various forms of project work. Read more...
John M. Sullivan
Contact Information:
Higgins Laboratories, 109
Phone: +1-508-831-5199
Fax: +1-508-831-5680
sullivan@wpi.edu
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John M. Sullivan
- Associate Department Head
- Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Students completing their projects under Professor Sullivan’s guidance have received more than two dozen awards and honors in the forms of undergraduate publications, provost awards, national competition awards, and ME design of year awards. Read more...
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