Craig Arnold is Assistant Professor of Poetry in the English Department, where he runs the MFA Program's Visiting Writers Series. His first book of poems, Shells, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets for 1999. His poems have been selected for three volumes of the Best American Poetry series (1998, 2004 and 2006), and have been published widely elsewhere. Among his numerous honors are a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and a residency at the Macdowell Colony. He has just returned from a year as the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, where he worked tirelessly to perfect his recipe for pasta carbonara.

Peter Parolin is Associate Professor and Assistant Chair of English with research interests in Shakespeare, early modern drama and culture, and theatre history.  He teaches for the English and Theatre Departments as well as the Honors Program.  His Honors course shave included Freshman Colloquium, Political theatre, and Shakespeare in England and Italy.  When he is not teaching, he can be found playing nice guys on UW stages – he has appeared as nice guys in Book of Days, Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Christmas Carol, and Dead Man Walking.  He hopes some day to play a real nasty character.

Ruben Gamboa joined UW's faculty in January of 2002 -- a remarkable time to move North from his longtime home in Central Texas -- and he is very excited to participate in the UW Honors Program this year.  His research interests are in the area of automated theorem proving, the use of computers to construct or verify mathematical proofs.  As a computer scientist, he is excited and concerned about the ways computers may be used to enrich or impoverish our lives, not just to prove mathematical theorems.  Outside of the classroom, Ruben is a voracious reader, a lover of science fiction conventions, and an erstwhile pilot.

You may also check out his webpage which has much more info: http://www.cs.uwyo.edu/~ruben

Dr. Logan received her Ph.D. in Greek and Latin from the literature department of the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her dissertation addressed the early Christian response to Hellenistic ethics expressed in Stoicism, Cynicism, and Epicureanism. As someone with a focus in Late Antiquity, Dr. Logan’s interests go back to the pre-Socratics and forward to the high Middle Ages.  She has taught courses whose topics included classical rhetoric; the medieval church; Scholastic philosophy; Christian judeophobia; gender in history; hagiography; early Islam; and medieval drama.   Before coming to UWY, Dr. Logan taught ancient and medieval history for two years at Pacific Collegiate School.

Rob Godby was born to a poor destitute family living in the wilds of Northern Ontario.  Discriminated against since he can remember, he became a very bitter man.  Determined to take his wrath out on society, he has since been thinking of ways to get his revenge.  Several plans have failed (stupid matches were supposed to be waterproof) but he persists in his efforts.  Most recently he has decided that being a professor in economics is the optimal way to warp young minds and similarly hatch the plan that will allow him to take over the world. 

Heather Rothfuss is a consultant in science education, specifically teaching biology to engineering students with little or no background.  Her interest is bringing disparate fields of science together for improved research. She is also interested in improving communication and boosting public and political understanding of emerging technologies. Heather obtained her Ph.D. In Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington in 2004 with much of her work being applied molecular biology and genetic engineering. Her B.S. in Chemical Engineering was from the University of Wyoming in 1996.

Peter Shive:  After more than twenty years as a research professor in Geology and Geophysics (continental drift, geomagnetic reversals, potential field interpretation), I reoriented my career into a mode in which undergraduate teaching has been the dominant theme.  Most of this has been done in the Honors Program.  I formally retired in the Spring of 2006, but I continue to teach because it is fun for me and because interaction with students energizes me in important ways.  I would teach more except that other passions (professional disc golf, didgerido and panpipe playing, and furniture building) compete effectively for my time.   

Dr. Robert Kitchin, Emeritus Associate Professor of Zoology and Physiology. received his Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of California at Berkeley. He was the General Biology Coordinator for twenty years and taught General Biology, General Genetics, Human Genetics, Population Genetics and Evolution, and Cell Genetics. His research interests are in human and animal cytogenetics, cancer genetics and genetic toxicology. He has taught HIV/AIDS: the Disease and the Dilemma for the Honors Program for the past ten years.

Beth Loffreda grew up in Audubon, Pennsylvania, and attended the University of Virginia (BA) and Rutgers (PhD in English).  At UW, she teaches courses in non-fiction for the MFA program and in recent American literature and culture for English, African-American Studies, American Studies, and the Honors Program.  She has written about Wyoming in Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder (Columbia University Press), and has been invited to speak about queer politics at universities around the country.  Since arriving at UW in 1998, she has won the Ellbogen Meritorious Teaching award, the Jason Thompson Commitment to Diversity award, and Top Ten Teacher, among other honors.  She’s usually outside.

Clifford Marks:

Educational Background

PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1992
MA, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1989
AB with distinction, University of Michigan, 1983

Academic Positions

2001-2005 Assistant Chair, Department of English, University of Wyoming
2000-present Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Wyoming
1993-2000 Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Wyoming
1992-1993 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Wyoming
1989-1992 Lecturer, Department of English, University of Wyoming

Robert Torry:

Educational Background

PhD, New York State University of New York at Buffalo
BA, Hiram College
Academic Positions

Associate Professor of English
Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies

Adrian H. Molina aka Mo Brown

Adrian was born in Rawlins, Wyoming in 1980.  He is an artist, educator, and activist. 

Adrian graduated from the University of Wyoming in 2003 with B.A.’s in Sociology and Criminal Justice and a Minor in Chicano Studies.  He received the Tobin Memorial Award for Outstanding Male Graduate in recognition of academic and leadership achievements and community involvement.  He was the founder and director of Students for Progressive Action and has taught high school summer courses for the Daniels Fund, Upward Bound, and Wyoming High School Institute. Adrian then attended law school at UW and received his Juris Doctor in 2006.  He is currently a lecturer at the University of Wyoming.  Adrian teaches the following courses: Introduction to Chicano Studies, Hip-Hop & American Society, Juvenile Delinquency, and Politics and Judicial Process. 

Adrian is independently releasing two music projects this year: The Representin (4 Life) EP and Up Before the Sunrise, a full length album.  Adrian has also written, and is directing and acting, in a play titled Phantom Discourse: Life, Death, and Chicanism@.  Phantom Discourse is about Chicano / Mexican-American identity and the struggle for social justice.  It will debut in Laramie in April, 2006 and will then show in various cities in Wyoming and Colorado.  Adrian is also actively seeking an agent and publisher for his book, titled Up Before the Sunrise: Reflections on Struggle. 

For information about Adrian’s artistic endeavors, visit:

www.upbeforethesunrise.com 

www.myspace.com/adrianhmolina.

Scott R. Shaw
Professor of Entomology and Curator of the U.W. Insect Museum
Department of Renewable Resources
E-mail: braconid@uwyo.edu
Web Sites: http://uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu/RenewableResources/entomology/shaw.htm

My research focuses on the systematics, ecology, and behavior of parasitoid wasps, especially the hyper-diverse insect family Braconidae (with an estimated 50,000+ species worldwide). Braconid wasps are among the most economically-beneficial of all insect groups. Their larvae feed on (and kill) the larvae of other insects, especially plant-feeding moths, beetles, and flies. The insect family Braconidae has been more successfully utilized in classical biological control programs than any other beneficial insect group. My research on Braconidae in Wyoming studies the systematics and ecology of wasp species that suppress populations of caterpillars and bark beetles in western forests. Other current research is an NSF-funded project to study the tri-trophic interactions of plants, plant-feeding caterpillars, and caterpillar-feeding wasps at the Yanayacu Research Station in Ecuador, a hyper-diverse cloud forest site on the eastern slope of the Andes.