Faculty
Richard F. Vaz
Contact Information:
Project Center, 2nd Floor
Phone: +1-508-831-5344
Fax: +1-508-831-5491
vaz@wpi.edu
Richard F. Vaz
- Dean, Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division
- Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
While I enormously enjoyed teaching courses on signals, communication, controls, and design at the undergraduate and graduate levels, over time my interests in interdisciplinary teaching and learning and international education resulted in increasing involvement in WPI’s Student Project programs, both on campus and elsewhere. Read more...
Fabio Carrera
Contact Information:
Project Center, 205
Phone: +1-508-831-6059
Fax: +1-508-831-5485
carrera@wpi.edu
Fabio Carrera
- Associate Teaching Professor, Interdisciplinary & Global Studies Division
Professor Carrera is director of the Venice and Santa Fe Project Centers, as well as founder and director of City Lab, an interdisciplinary research laboratory dedicated to urban technology. His main research focus has been on emergent systems. Read more...
Corey Denenberg Dehner
Contact Information:
Project Center, 210B
Phone: +1-508-831-4959
cdehner@wpi.edu
Website
Corey Denenberg Dehner
- Assistant Teaching Professor, Interdisciplinary & Global Studies Division
Corey Denenberg Dehner is an assistant teaching professor in the Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division and Co-Director of the Worcester Community Project Center. A public interest lawyer in her previous life, Corey was drawn to academia by its capacity to help facilitate attitudinal changes both on campus and off. Read more...
Dominic Golding
Contact Information:
Project Center, 212
Phone: +1-508-831-6463
golding@wpi.edu
Dominic Golding
- Associate Teaching Professor, Interdisciplinary & Global Studies Division
Robert Hersh
Contact Information:
Project Center, 211b
Phone: +1-508-831-5522
hersh@wpi.edu
Robert Hersh
- Adjunct Teaching Professor, Interdisciplinary & Global Studies Division
At WPI, Bob directs the Sustainable Food Systems Project Center, advises off campus projects in Africa, and teaches a research methods course that prepares students for project work when they go abroad. He enjoys the collegiality of his IGSD colleagues and admires their commitment to student learning. In his own teaching and project advising, he enjoys working with students and seeing them progress as they become more engaged in the social, cultural, and intellectual demands of their projects. Read more...
Scott Jiusto
Contact Information:
Project Center, 210A
Phone: +1-508-831-5393
Fax: +1-508-831-5485
sjiusto@wpi.edu
Scott Jiusto
- Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary & Global Studies Division
Scott Jiusto's research & teaching lives have been closely intertwined in Cape Town, South Africa, where he & students work on sustainable community development projects in "informal settlements" & other historically disadvantaged communities. Read more...
Robert Krueger
Contact Information:
Project Center, 214
Phone: +1-508-831-5000
Fax: +1-508-831-5485
krueger@wpi.edu
Robert Krueger
- Director, Environmental and Sustainability Studies
- Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary & Global Studies Division
Robert Krueger is the founding director of WPI's Environment and Sustainability Studies Program. He has been a Co-Principal Investigator on two U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grants focused on environmental justice issues in Worcester. Read more...
Creighton R. Peet
Contact Information:
Project Center, 211A
Phone: +1-508-831-6730
Fax: +1-508-831-5485
cpeet@wpi.edu
Creighton R. Peet
- Associate Teaching Professor, Interdisciplinary & Global Studies Division
Creighton Peet loves teaching at WPI, sharing his experiences traveling around the world, immersing himself in different cultures, researching sustainable management of usable water, and watching his students grow intellectually and personally. Read more...
Kent J. Rissmiller
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 315
Phone: +1-508-831-5019
Fax: +1-508-831-5896
kjr@wpi.edu
Kent J. Rissmiller
- Associate Dean, Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division
- Associate Professor, Social Science & Policy Studies
Professor Rissmiller teaches government, law, and public policy; directs the Pre-Law program; and oversees the Law and Technology minor. He enjoys seeing the success of his students who have become accomplished public policy and legal professionals. Read more...
Ingrid K. Shockey
Contact Information:
Project Center, 209
Phone: +1-508-831-6635
ishockey@wpi.edu
Ingrid K. Shockey
- Assistant Teaching Professor, Interdisciplinary & Global Studies Division
Environmental sociologist Ingrid Shockey’s work focuses on natural literacy and interplay of human-wilderness boundaries. Her research concerns have grown to include the extent to which people rely on substitutions for authentic experiences in the wild. Read more...
Seth P. Tuler
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 334
Phone: +1-508-831-6444
stuler@wpi.edu
Seth P. Tuler
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary & Global Studies Division
Seth Tuler’s research focuses on ways to improve the management of environmental risks, primarily concerned with public participation, risk communication, long-term stewardship of contaminated sites, and defining human impacts to risk events. Read more...
Susan Vernon-Gerstenfeld
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 331
Phone: +1-508-831-3571
Fax: +1-508-831-5485
svg@wpi.edu
Susan Vernon-Gerstenfeld
- Adjunct Professor, Interdisciplinary & Global Studies Division
After having received my doctorate in social planning and after a career as a clinical social worker, I came to WPI in 1988 to develop the preparation activities (through ID2050) for the off-campus projects. The team approach to learning at WPI is what I love to foster and how I like to work. Read more...
Nicola Bulled
Contact Information
Project Center, 210A
Phone: +1-508-831-6059
nbulled@wpi.edu
Nicola Bulled
- Adjunct Teaching Professor
Nicola Bulled completed a BS in biology at Colorado State, and two masters degrees - in public health at BU (International Health Dept) and anthropology at UConn. She completed her Phd in medical anthropology at UConn in last spring. Nicola worked as an epidemiologist for Ma State Laboratory on studies of HIV/AIDs incidence and needle exchange programs for the Boston Public Health Commission. She also has extensive experience living and working in Lesotho, including a Fulbright supported study of HIV risk knowledge, perceptions and behaviors of young adults in Lesotho. She was involved in a variety of research grants at UConn and taught a variety of anthropology courses there, as well. She also enjoys teaching Jazzercise in her spare time at the Westborough Jazzercise Center.
Jim Chiarelli
Contact Information
Project Center, 211B
Phone: +1-508-831-5522
Jim Chiarelli
- Adjunct Instructor
Jim Chiarelli is a former colleague of Creighton Peet and Anne Ogilvie at Earthwatch. He has degrees in anthropology from BU and U of Missouri (MS) and is ABD at Brandeis. He was a lecturer in Anthropology at MIT for over 10 years and also taught at Tufts. He worked 5 years at Earthwatch including 5 field seasons in Nevis (Eastern Caribbean) among other duties. Following that, Jim worked at John Milner Associates as a senior project manager and principal archaeologist. Milner is a cultural resources management firm providing clients services in archaeology, architecture, conservation and historic preservation.
Thomas Webler
Contact Information
Project Center, 211A
Phone: +1-508-831-6730
twebler@wpi.edu
Thomas Webler
- Adjunct Teaching Professor
Thomas Webler is a Research Fellow with the Social and Environmental Research Institute in Greenfield, Massachusetts and adjunct faculty with the Doctoral Program in Environmental Studies at Antioch University New England. He specializes in the science of bringing local and expert knowledge together in collaborative, democratic ways to produce innovative solutions to problems of collective action in the areas of environmental and risk decision-making. He has a MS in Biomedical Engineering from WPI, a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary studies from Clark University and did post-doctoral research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He has been a Fellow of the Breuninger Foundation at the University of Stuttgart on the topic of environmental collaboration and a Fulbright teaching fellow in India on the topic of biodiversity conservation. His present research focuses on empowering communities to prepare for climate change.
