Recommendation
Create a single, interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts degree program in the School of Arts and Sciences.
Benefits
A single, interdisciplinary B.A. degree program would:
• Establish a distinctive baccalaureate identity for UAS within the UA system.
• Facilitate a truly interdisciplinary (methodologically & theoretically) and transdisciplinary (holistic) curriculum.
• Provide yet another opportunity to integrate decolonization and indigenous knowledge into our academic programs.
• Increase clarity about how an interdisciplinary course of study works.
• Strengthen innovative approaches to social issues and community engagement.
• Provide more opportunities for students to draw directly upon faculty academic and research expertise.
• Provide more flexibility for students to craft a program of study.
• Provide a clear pathway to high impact learning.
• Better incorporate experiential learning and fieldwork opportunities into a student’s degree program.
• Create a student sense of common identity (pride in UAS).
Committee Members
Robin Walz chairs this committee:
 Professor of History Phone: 796-6433, Fax: 796-6406 Email: rrwalz@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Social Sciences Whitehead Bldg, Rm 228, Juneau Campus Juneau Campus EducationPh.D. History, University of California at Davis (1994) PublicationsCurriculum VitaeBiographyBonjour! I’m pleased that you have found your way to this page. Teaching is my life vocation, and I’m pleased to have found my way to a public university such as UAS. I teach a wide array of courses, including surveys in World History, lower-division orientation seminars in the Humanities and Social Sciences, upper-division courses in the Holocaust, Modern European Intellectual History, and the History of Gender and Sexuality, and senior-level seminars on History and Popular Culture. My areas of research specialization are modern European intellectual history and the history of popular culture in modern France. Recently, Routledge published my Modernism textbook (2nd ed., 2013) in its “Seminar Studies in History” series. I wrote “Surrealism and Film” for Oxford Bibliographies (Oxford University Press, last updated 2015). The University of California Press published my Pulp Surrealism: Insolent Popular Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Paris (2000), a groundbreaking work that bridges high-low cultural divides between French avant-garde movements and popular culture. I write scholarly essays on French crime fiction, most notably “The Rocambolesque and the Modern Enchantment of Popular Fiction” on the criminal-turned-avenger Rocambole in The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age (eds. Joshua Landy and Michael Saler, Stanford University Press, 2009). I am also a great fan of bande dessinée (French comics) and recently published the article, “Putain de guerre! Teaching Jacques Tardi’s WWI Graphic Novels”, for Fiction and Film for French Historians (2014). My current book project is “Shady Detectives, Elegant Criminals, and Dark Avengers,” a cultural history of French crime writing, 1815-1950. As a scholar of popular culture, I also make periodic contributions to trade press publications. I translated “Death of Nick Carter,” a crime parody by Surrealist Philippe Soupault, from French into English for the literary review McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, issue 24 (2007). I have also written introductions to French crime book reissues, “The Genius of Crime” for the classic 1911 French crime thriller, Fantômas by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain (Dover, 2006), and “Vidocq: Rogue Cop” for the Memoirs of Vidocq: Master of Crime (AK Press, 2003). I also devour contemporary French crime fiction. Some of my favorite French polar (“hardboiled” crime) writers are Léo Malet, Didier Daeninckx, Jean-Claude Izzo, and Fred Vargas. I also have a special fondness for the St. Cyr/Kohler crime series by Canadian author J. Robert Janes, set during the Nazi Occupation of France. Professionally, I am an active member in French historical societies, currently the Vice-President of the Western Society for French History, previously co-editor of the Journal of the Western Society for French History (2011-2015), and currently the Assistant Editor of H-France Forum (Society for French Historical Studies). I also share my scholarly interests in history and popular culture with the Juneau community, through the UAS “Evening at Egan” and “Sound + Motion” lecture series, recently “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Borg? The Ecological Imperative in the Age of Cybernetic Organisms” (2014) and “Viewing the Elephant Man” (2016). When not engaged in academic matters, for musical pleasure I play cello in the Juneau Symphony Orchestra. |
 Professor of Philosophy Phone: 796-6362 Email: kjkrein@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Humanities Soboleff Bldg, 214, Juneau Campus Juneau Campus BiographyIn addition to working as academic director of Outdoor Studies, Kevin also teaches philosophy at UAS. Kevin's primary philosophical work is in the areas of philosophy of nature and the environment and philosophy of mind. His outdoor interests are centered around alpine skiing and ski mountaineering. Kevin brings over 10 years of experience of backcountry skiing and ski mountaineering in the Chugach, Alaska, and Coast ranges of Alaska. His accomplishments include a ski descent of Denali from summit to base camp. |
 Associate Professor of Psychology Phone: 228-4563 Email: aaziegler@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Social Sciences Paul Bldg, room 508, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus EducationB.A., M.S., Ph.D. University of Michigan |
 Assistant Professor of Humanities, Geography and Environmental Studies BA Coordinator Phone: 796-6437, Fax: 796-6406 Email: rfsimpson@alaska.edu |
 Associate Professor of Political Science, USUAS-JC Advisor Phone: 796-6115, Fax: 796-6406 Email: gdwright@alaska.edu |
 Associate Professor of Social Sciences, Social Sciences Department Chair Phone: 796-6152, Fax: 796-6406 Email: levess@alaska.edu |
 Professor of Biology Phone: 796-6599, Fax: 796-6447 Email: sltamone@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Natural Sciences Anderson Bldg, 205A, Juneau Campus Juneau Campus Education
Ph.D research conducted at the Bodega Marine Laboratory ResearchMy studies are concerned with the role of hormones in regulating physiological processes in decapod Crustacea (crabs and lobsters). Hormones are chemical mediators that regulate physiological processes such as growth, reproduction, and osmoregulation. I am interested in the mechanism by which hormones such as ecdysteroids, methyl farnesoate, and molt-inhibiting hormone regulate growth and reproduction in decapod crustaceans. The majority of crustaceans that I study are commercially important crabs. These include Dungeness crab, Cancer magister, snow crab, Chionoecetes opilio, and king crab, Paralithodes camtschaticus. Ecdysteroids are crustacean hormones that function to regulate the molt cycle and therefore the growth of these animals. Methyl farnesoate is a sesquiterpenoid hormone derived from the mandibular organ that functions in both reproduction and growth. Methyl farnesoate also may be critical during crustacean larval development and morphogenesis. Methyl farnesoate is structurally similar to the insect juvenile hormones, which regulate insect development. Other studies related to crustacean physiology involve the effect of endogenous crustacean hormones on ectoparasites. Specifically, I have an interest in how hormones (ecdysteroids, methyl farnesoate) can be exploited by certain parasites. The model for these studies is the infection of the Dungeness crab, Cancer magister by the nemertean worm, Carcinonemertes errans. Courses Taught
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 Provost & Dean of Graduate Studies Phone: 796-6147, Fax: 796-6469 Email: ktcarey@alaska.edu Provost Office Hendrickson Bldg, 209, Juneau Campus Juneau Campus Education
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