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.
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General Education
202-885-3879
Fax: 202-885-1069
gened@american.edu
Leonard, Room 101F
Marechal, Nathalie R
Program Coordinator, Undergraduate Studies
Program Administration
Virginia Stallings
,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]
202-885-3166
CAS - Math & Statistics
CAS - Math & Statistics
Nathalie Marechal
,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]
202-885-3879
General Education
General Education
Curriculum Committee
Chair
Kiho Kim
,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]
202-885-2181
CAS - Environmental Science
CAS - Environmental Science
Area One Subcommittee: The Creative Arts
Cara Gabriel
,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]
202-885-3410
CAS - Performing Arts
CAS - Performing Arts
Andrea Pearson
,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]
202-885-3428
CAS - Art
CAS - Art
Anita Sherman
,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]
202-885-2985
CAS - Literature
CAS - Literature
Area Two Subcommittee: Traditions That Shape the Western World
Evan Berry
,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]
202-885-2493
CAS - Philosophy and Religion
CAS - Philosophy and Religion
Daniel Dreisbach
,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]
202-885-2380
SPA - Justice, Law and Society
SPA - Justice, Law and Society
Mary Giandrea
,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]
202-885-2752
CAS - History
CAS - History
Area Three Subcommittee: The Global and Cross-Cultural Experience
Kimberly Cowell-Meyers
,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]
202-885-6223
SPA - Government
SPA - Government
Nuria Vilanova
,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]
202-885-2393
CAS - World Languages and Cultures
CAS - World Languages and Cultures
Wanda Wigfall-Williams
,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]
202-885-2632
SIS - School of International Service
SIS - School of International Service
Area Four Subcommittee: Social Institutions and Behavior
Andrea Malkin Brenner
,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]
202-885-2478
CAS - Sociology
CAS - Sociology
Jill Klein
,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]
(202) 885-1856
KSB - Information Technology
KSB - Information Technology
John Willoughby
,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]
202-885-3759
CAS - Economics
CAS - Economics
Area Five Subcommittee: The Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Matthew Hartings
,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]
202-885-1778
CAS - Chemistry
CAS - Chemistry
Teresa Larkin
,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]
202-885-2766
CAS - Physics
CAS - Physics
Zehra Peynircioglu
,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]
202-885-1713
CAS - Psychology
CAS - Psychology