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    Marechal, Nathalie R
    Program Coordinator, Undergraduate Studies

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The General Education Program is the cornerstone of AU's undergraduate curriculum, and draws on the expertise of faculty and staff from throughout the university. The program is administered by the Office of the Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Studies, with curricular oversight from the General Education Curriculum Committee, chaired by Dr. Kiho Kim.

Program Administration

Virginia Stallings

Virginia Stallings

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Interim Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies

Lyn Stallings is Interim Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies and an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at American University. She served as chair of the Faculty Senate in 2009 and Past Chair in 2010. She received the American Un... [More]

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202-885-3166
CAS - Math & Statistics


Nathalie Marechal

Nathalie Marechal

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Program Coordinator, Undergraduate Studies

A native of Louisville, KY, Nathalie Marechal grew up in Paris, France and has lived in Washington, DC since 2002. She is a two-time AU alumna and has held full-time and part-time positions throughout the University, currently serving as Undergraduat... [More]

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202-885-3879
General Education


Curriculum Committee

Chair

Kiho Kim

Kiho Kim

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Associate Professor

Dr. Kim is a marine ecologist specializing in tropical coral reefs. His research focuses on understanding the role of diseases in marine ecosystems and the synergistic effects of environmental factors, such as nutrient pollution and climate change, i... [More]

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202-885-2181
CAS - Environmental Science


Area One Subcommittee: The Creative Arts

Cara Gabriel

Cara Gabriel

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Assistant Professor

Cara Gabriel has worked as a theatre practitioner throughout Vermont, Illinois, Michigan, New York, and the Washington, DC, area. Directing credits at American University include Thoroughly Modern Millie, Machinal, The Hundred Dresses, Skin, The Cher... [More]

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202-885-3410
CAS - Performing Arts


Andrea Pearson

Andrea Pearson

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Professorial Lecturer

Professor Pearson is a specialist in northern Renaissance art, with research interests in women, gender, and sexuality in the southern Low Countries. Her book, Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350-1530: Experience, Authority, Resista... [More]

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202-885-3428
CAS - Art


Anita Sherman

Anita Sherman

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Associate Professor

Anita Gilman Sherman studies 16th and 17th century literature, specializing in works that have problems of knowledge and interpretation at their thematic center. Her book, Skepticism and Memory in Shakespeare and Donne (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), exp... [More]

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202-885-2985
CAS - Literature


Area Two Subcommittee: Traditions That Shape the Western World

Evan Berry

Evan Berry

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Assistant Professor

Evan Berry is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion at American University and Co-Director of the Ethics, Peace, and Global Affairs master's program. His research interests focus on ideas of nature in modern western culture, particularly the... [More]

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202-885-2493
CAS - Philosophy and Religion


Daniel Dreisbach

Daniel Dreisbach

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Professor

Professor Dreisbach's principal research interests include American constitutional law and history, First Amendment law, church-state relations, and criminal procedure. He has written extensively on these topics. He has authored or edited five books ... [More]

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202-885-2380
SPA - Justice, Law and Society


Mary Giandrea

Mary Giandrea

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Assistant Professor

Mary Frances Giandrea is the author of Episcopal Culture in Late Anglo-Saxon England, the first full-length study of the many roles, both secular and religious, of bishops in tenth and eleventh-century England. Her research interests include Anglo-Sa... [More]

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202-885-2752
CAS - History


Area Three Subcommittee: The Global and Cross-Cultural Experience

Kimberly Cowell-Meyers

Kimberly Cowell-Meyers

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Assistant Professor

Kimberly Cowell-Meyers is Assistant Professor of Government. An AU alumna, she has taught at AU, St. Mary's College of Maryland and Christopher Newport University in Newport News, VA. She is the author of Religion and Politics in the Nineteenth Centu... [More]

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202-885-6223
SPA - Government


Nuria Vilanova

Nuria Vilanova

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Assistant Professor

Núria Vilanova has devoted her research to Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies, in particular the Andean region and the Mexican-US border. Her main interests are the impact of migration on cultural production and narratives of violence and... [More]

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202-885-2393
CAS - World Languages and Cultures


Wanda Wigfall-Williams

Wanda Wigfall-Williams

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Assistant Professor

Dr. Wanda Wigfall-Williams has negotiated with terrorists, facilitated dialogues and focus groups with paramilitary groups, and worked to develop anti-human trafficking campaigns in Eastern Europe and Asia.She has taught at George Mason University in... [More]

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202-885-2632
SIS - School of International Service


Area Four Subcommittee: Social Institutions and Behavior

Andrea Malkin Brenner

Andrea Malkin Brenner

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Assistant Professor

Dr. Brenner received her BA in Sociology from Brandeis University, her MA in Education from Boston College, and her PhD in Sociology from American University. She joined the faculty at American University and has been teaching Sociology to Undergradu... [More]

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202-885-2478
CAS - Sociology


Jill Klein

Jill Klein

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Executive in Residence

Professor Klein brings more than 30 years of IT and banking management experience to the classroom. She currently directs the Professional MBA program and serves as an Information Technology Executive in Residence at the Kogod School of Business. She... [More]

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(202) 885-1856
KSB - Information Technology


John Willoughby

John Willoughby

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Professor

Professor Willoughby has recently returned from a two-year stay in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates where he helped create an undergraduate economics program at the new American University of Sharjah. He has also taught at the American University in Cai... [More]

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202-885-3759
CAS - Economics


Area Five Subcommittee: The Natural and Mathematical Sciences

Matthew Hartings

Matthew Hartings

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Assistant Professor

Matthew Hartings is striving to develop new uses for metals in biological systems. He currently oversees two research projects—the first entails designing metal-based anti-cancer drugs, and the second involves creating artificial photosynthetic prote... [More]

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202-885-1778
CAS - Chemistry


Teresa Larkin

Teresa Larkin

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Associate Professor

Teresa Larkin is an Associate Professor of Physics Education in the Department of Physics. She also serves as Faculty Liaison to the Pre-engineering Program at American University.Dr. Larkin received her BS and MS degrees in Engineering Physics from ... [More]

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202-885-2766
CAS - Physics


Zehra Peynircioglu

Zehra Peynircioglu

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Professor

Zehra Peynirciolu received her undergraduate degree in psychology from Stanford. Dr. Phil Zimbardo drew her into psychology, Dr. Ewart Thomas advised her, and Dr. Roger Shepard directed her honors thesis. She started graduate studies in cognitive psy... [More]

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202-885-1713
CAS - Psychology