Program Faculty
Margarete Arndt, D.B.A.
Professor, Graduate School of Management
Specialization: Management
Tel: 1-508-793-7668
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Robert Boatright, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
American political behavior, political parties, campaigns and elections, interest groups, political participation, and political theory
Tel: 1-508-793-7632
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Halina Brown, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of International Development, Community, and Environment
Professor of Environmental Science and Policy
Tel: 1-508-751-4611
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John L. Crawley, M.S., J.D.
Visiting Lecturer, Business Law
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Judith DeCew, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy
Chair of Philosophy; Director, Ethics and Public Policy concentration, Theoretical and applied ethics, philosophy of law, social and political philosophy
Tel: 1-508-793-7326
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Patrick Derr, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Philosophy
Research Professor, Marsh Institute
Director of Peace Studies Concentration; Environmental ethics, philosophy of science, biomedical ethics, ethical issues in hazards management
Tel: 1-508-793-7128
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Susan Hanson, Ph.D.
Urban/social/economic geography, feminist geography
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Douglas Johnson, Ph.D.
Cultural geography, land degradation, animal agriculture and nomadic pastoralism
Tel: 508-793-7336
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Bruce London, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Sociology
Enviroment and society, community, sociology of the Third World, social demography
Tel: 1-508-793-7242
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Deborah Merrill, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
; Research methods, family, aging, medical sociology, social demography
Tel: 1-508-793-7284
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Mark Miller, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Political Science;
Adjunct Professor, Department of History
Director of Law and Society Concentration; American government, politics of law and the judiciary, Congressional politics, lawyers and politics
Tel: 1-508-793-7233
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Edward J. Ottensmeyer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor; Dean Emeritus & Senior Development Advisor
Graduate School of Management
Specialization: Ethics
Tel: 1-508-793-7463
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Gary Overvold, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Philosophy
Contemporary continental philosophy, interdisciplinary studies, epistemology, philosophy of the human sciences, cultural history, philosophy of culture, modernism
Tel: 1-508-793-7416
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Colin Polsky, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, School of Geography; Associate Dean for Undergraduate Research and Active Pedagogy
Associate Professor of Geography—climate impacts, human-environment vulnerability to global environmental change, spatial statistics, mixed methods
Tel: 508-421-3828
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Paul W. Posner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Dr. Posner's current research focuses on democratization and political participation in developing regions, particularly Latin America. He is also interested in the impact of economic globalization and related state reforms on social organization and collective action in both developing and developed countries, and in comparative environmental policy and democratization in developing countries. Dr. Posner is also affiliated with the Latin American and Latino Studies Concentration.
Tel: 1-508-793-7253
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Robert Ross, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Sociology
Director, International Studies Stream
Director of the International Studies Stream
Dr. Ross has worked on the political economy of urban development and the analysis of global capitalism. He still does occasional work on the social movements of the 1960s, and is frequently interviewed about his role in those movements. Dr. Ross has worked as a speechwriter and policy advisor, and he writes occasional commentary for magazines. Dr. Ross is among the founders of the program in Urban Development and Social Change, and is also an affiliate of the Community Development and Planning program.
Tel: 1-508-793-7376
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Nathaniel C. Seale, M.Ed.
Human Services Program, School Psychology Program
Tel: 1-508-421-3788
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Kristen Williams, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science; Chair of the Faculty
Chair of Women's Studies; International relations theory, arms control and international security, nationalism and ethnic politics, U.S. foreign policy
Tel: 1-508-793-7446
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Walter Wright, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Philosophy
Associate Provost and Dean of the College
Associate Provost and Dean of the College; 19th-century philosophy, ethics, philosophy of religion, metaphysics, German idealism
Tel: 1-508-793-7671
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