Faculty
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...
W. A. Bland Addison, Jr.
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 238
Phone: +1-508-831-5190
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
addison@wpi.edu
Website
W. A. Bland Addison, Jr.
- Associate Professor, Humanities & Arts
I believe it is important for American students to understand the philosophical and intellectual foundations of their way of viewing the world and how those cultural perspectives are different from other peoples of the world. Read more...
Ulrike Brisson
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 333
Phone: +1-508-831-5742
ubrisson@wpi.edu
Ulrike Brisson
- Assistant Teaching Professor of German Studies
- Humanities & Arts
Coming from a family with a long teaching tradition, teaching has always been fundamental to Professor Brisson’s well being. Being a German professor at WPI has been a great privilege because the students are motivated, hardworking, and eager to learn. 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...
David B. Dollenmayer
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 35
Phone: +1-508-831-5939
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
dbd@wpi.edu
David B. Dollenmayer
- Professor, Humanities & Arts
Professor Dollenmayer's primary area of scholarly interest is teaching German as a second language and translating contemporary literature of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. He has also written critical books and articles on a number of German writers. Read more...
Laureen Elgert
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 310E
Phone: +1-508-831-5452
Fax: +1-508-831-5896
lelgert@wpi.edu
Laureen Elgert
- Assistant Professor, Social Science & Policy Studies
Laureen Elgert is interested in the relationship between the environment and development, examining how politics shapes global environmental policy that can, and often does, have profound impacts on local livelihoods. Read more...
Arthur "Art" Gerstenfeld
Contact Information:
50 Prescott, 1317
Phone: +1-508-831-5471
Fax: +1-508-831-5720
ag@wpi.edu
Website
Arthur Gerstenfeld
- Professor, School of Business
Teaching gives me an opportunity to influence young minds and encourage them to think critically. The WPI projects allow me to work with students who are transitioning from the classroom to a place in society. My research interests include industrial engineering applications, decision analysis, and management applications. I am currently serving as director of the Wall Street Project Center. 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...
Aarti S. Madan
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 03
Phone: +1-508-831-6587
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
amadan@wpi.edu
Website
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...
Ingrid E. Matos-Nin
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 5
Phone: +1-508-831-5356
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
imatos@wpi.edu
Ingrid E. Matos-Nin
- Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish
- Humanities & Arts
WPI students have highly inquisitive minds, making Professor Matos-Nin’s job a rewarding, challenging, and pleasant undertaking. Her classes are small communities of learning, where her role is to guide and facilitate the process. 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...
Michael Radzicki
Contact Information:
Phone: +1-508-831-5767
Fax: +1-508-831-5896
mjradz@wpi.edu
Michael Radzicki
- Associate Professor, Social Science & Policy Studies
Professor Radzicki created WPI’s program in system dynamics in 1990. His research focuses on automated trading system development, predictive analytics, and the application of system dynamics and machine learning tools to macroeconomic problems. 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...
Angel A. Rivera
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 016
Phone: +1-508-831-5779
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
arivera@wpi.edu
Website
Angel A. Rivera
- Associate Professor, Humanities & Arts
Professor Rivera has been conducting research on 19th- and 20th-century Spanish Caribbean literature and theories related to the exploration of limits or borders (i.e., the edges or places where multiple cultures touch or come into contact). 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...
Jennifer M. Rudolph
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 408B
Phone: +1-508-831-6739
jrudolph@wpi.edu
Jennifer M. Rudolph
- Associate Professor, Humanities & Arts
Professor Rudolph incorporates her research into her teaching, because she says doing so helps students realize that scholarship should be part of ongoing debate, and "it's just fun to merge teaching and research." Read more...
Khalid Saeed
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories
Phone: +1-508-831-5563
Fax: +1-508-831-5896
saeed@wpi.edu
Khalid Saeed
- Professor, Social Science & Policy Studies
Khalid Saeed is professor of economics and system dynamics. Widely recognized for his work on computer modeling and experimental analysis of developmental, organizational, and governance-related issues, he has authored two books. 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...
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...
