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Executive
Raymond Scupin, Ph.D., Director, is a Professor of Anthropology and International Studies. He specializes in the study of religion, ethnicity, and globalization. He is a Fulbright Fellow who has conducted ethnographic research on Islam and Muslim-Buddhist relations in Southeast Asia.
Ryan Guffey, Ph.D., Associate Director, is an Assistant Professor of International Studies. He is a comparative institutionalist who focuses on globalization and global governance. His interests lie in governance beyond the state, the impact of globalization on education, and comparative education systems.
Rebecca Goulart, Assistant Director, is an English as a Second Language (ESL) instructor with eight years of teaching experience. She is an experienced curriculum designer and has created both integrated skills courses and focused skills elective courses at the University of Pennsylvania. She currently coordinates the English Preparedness Business Program at the Lindenwood School of Business & Entrepreneurship, where she is developing courses for international MBA students. Ms. Goulart is also a certified International English Language Testing System (IELTS) examiner.
Researchers & Affiliates
John Bell, Ph.D. is a Professor of English and German. He teaches courses in British and World literature and writing as well as in German language and literature. Additionally he serves as liaison officer for students in the exchange program with Bochum, Germany and leads the January term study trip to Germany. His interests include the culture and literature of the former Democratic Republic of Germany.
Joseph Cernik, Ph.D. is a Professor of Political Science, International Business, and International Studies. He has published on a variety of topics including nuclear weapons, health care reform, and the Negro League Baseball. In addition, he has been a recipient of two fellowships: one to study military history through the United States Army’s Training and Doctrine Command (TRACDOC) and the other through the Alfred Sloan Foundation to study nuclear weapons. He serves as a frequent political analyst on CW 11.
Nancy Cloutier-Davis M.A. , M.S.T. is an Associate Professor of Spanish and French. She currently teaches courses in Spanish language, culture, history and literature. She is the Coordinator of the Semester Abroad Program in Costa Rica, and also leads January Term study trips to Spanish-speaking countries such as Guatemala, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Peru. She advises Spanish majors as well as students majoring in Education, Social Work and International Business. She specializes in contemporary Latin American women writers and Translation Studies.
Nancy Durbin, Ph.D. is a Professor of French. She teaches courses in French language as well as French and Francophone culture and literature. She specializes in eighteenth-century literature, but has research interests in many periods of French literary history. In addition to advising French majors, she also advises many undergraduates majoring in International Studies as well as native French speaking students on the LU campus.
Betty Heyder, Ph.D. is a Professor of Humanities (Spanish) and Chairperson of the Foreign Language Department. She earned a B.A. (triple major: History, Government, and Economics, with emphasis on Latin America and the Soviet Union) at the University of Oklahoma. She lived in Germany for 23 years, where she pursued studies in Germanistik and Anglistik . While in Germany, she was a project participant and a member of the coordinating committee for two UNESCO publications on lifelong learning, as well as other publications, and a member of the German national and regional steering committees and workshop leader for conferences on foreign-language teaching in the Waldorf Schools. She earned the M.A. in Spanish with New York University in Spain (Madrid and Salamanca) and the Ph.D. at NYU in New York City. Before coming to Lindenwood in 2000, she taught college-level Spanish, German, and developmental English in New Jersey (1986-2000), was Director of the Summer Work Program in the German Department of Princeton University for 4 years, and taught at the University of Vermont for 2 years as a Visiting Professor of Spanish. At Lindenwood she teaches courses in Spanish language as well as Spanish and Spanish-American culture and literature.
Lynda Leavitt, Ed.D. is an Assistant Professor of Education. She teaches courses on Educational Leadership; Instructional Improvement Strategies and 21st Century Issues in Education. Her interests include globalization and the effects on education curriculum and instruction, school reform initiatives and the 21st century learner. She specializes in the area of global leadership competencies and is currently completing an interdisciplinary comparative analysis of global leadership competencies of International and American students on the LU campus.
Meredith Marsh, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Geography. She teaches courses on world regional geography, economic geography, the geography of food, and various courses related to geography education. Her research interests include geography education, geospatial literacy, as well as local and global agricultural and food production processes.
Lucy S. Morros, Ph.D. is the Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Lindenwood University. Previously she served as the President of Barat College, an historically French institution in Illinois. Before that Morros was the Vice President of the American University of Paris in France. A professor of French she teaches courses in French language. Morros specialized in Romance Languages with an emphasis on the Enlightenment. Her interest in comparative education systems led her to work internationally in Europe and in Japan and Vietnam. She served on the National Commission of Women in Higher Education, paying particular attention to higher education issues in a global context.
Keith Russell, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Humanities. He teaches courses for non-native speakers of English, world literatures and literary theory. His interests include cross cultural communication, regional identity and the history of Asia. He has lived, taught and performed research in South Korea and Vietnam.
Chryssa Sharp Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of International Business in Lindenwood University’s School of Business and Entrepreneurship. She earned a PhD in Management from the University of Calgary in Canada and an MBA in International Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management. Dr. Sharp’s industry experiences encompass aspects of marketing, strategic planning and cross-cultural communications. She has also been involved with developing programs to support small business exporting. Dr. Sharp’s academic interests include the intersection of organizational behavior and strategic decision making, corporate discrimination and the globalization of higher education. Dr. Sharp has lived in Europe and Asia and has travelled in over thirty countries.
Sue Tretter, Ph.D. is a Professor of American Studies and English. She teaches courses for non-native speakers, The American Promise (the introduction to American Studies), Baseball: A Story of American Culture, and American Literature: novels, autobiography, the American West, African American, baseball, and nature writing. Her focus is introducing her topics to a cross cultural class to stress the homogeneity of the American story and its importance to globalization. She is a Fulbright Fellow who taught at the Universität Leipzig.
Michael Whaley, Ph.D. is a Professor of History and Director of the Lindenwood Honors College. He is also faculty advisor to Phi Alpha Theta, the National History Honors Society, and the campus History Club. His recent research is on the U.S. Civil War. Along with the upper division American History courses, he teaches the History of Latin America. In summer 2010 he is teaching this course as part of the Study Abroad Program for Lindenwood students at The City of Knowledge in Panama.
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