Anne Butler
Associate Professor, (2003). B.A. Eastern Kentucky University; M.S., Kansas State University; Ph.D., Kansas State University: Curriculum and Policy Studies.
Dr. Anne S. Butler serves as Director of the Center of Excellence for the Study of Kentucky African Americans, and is also an Associate Professor in the Honors Program. Her career spans over 25 years of higher education experience in administration, teaching, research and service. Since coming to Kentucky State in 1996, Dr. Butler has been very active in professional and community service. Among the groups that she has worked with as a board member are the Kentucky Historical Society and the Kentucky History Center, the Kentucky Historic Preservation Review Board, the Kentucky Book Fair, and the Kentucky African American Heritage Commission. Dr. Butler's office is 103 Jackson Hall; her phone is (502) 597-6720; her email is anne.butler@kysu.edu .
Edwin Conner
Associate Professor (1988). B.A. University of the South; M.A., Vanderbilt University; Ph.D., Vanderbilt University: English Literature
Dr. Conner regularly teaches seminars and courses in the language sequence. He has offered a series of elective courses in the major religions of the world and in literature of the quest. Since 1990 he has been a Trustee and campus representatives at KSU for the Co-Operative Center for Study Abroad, through which he has taught and directed many study-abroad programs in England, Ireland, and Australia. He has served five terms as Faculty Senate Secretary and President, and he is KSU’s Faculty Regent from AY 2010 through 2013. He has published essays on Chaucer and on the medieval literature of mysticism, and he has delivered a series of papers on the English Romantic poets. Dr. Conner's office is 128A Carver Hall; his phone is (502) 597-6732; his email is edwin.conner@kysu.edu .
J. Gary Elliott
Associate Professor of English (2005); B.A., St. John’s College; M.A., The University of Louisiana–Lafayette; Ph.D., The University of Louisiana–Lafayette
Dr. Elliott comes to the Whitney Young School from the division of Literature, Languages, and Philosophy, which he joined in 1999. As a member of the English Department, he taught courses in Developmental English, Composition, and Introduction to Literature, as well as upper level survey courses, Integrative Studies courses, and Special Topics. He has developed and taught courses in Folklore, Oral Tradition, and Comparative Mythology. His graduate degrees are in English with concentrations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology. Dr. Elliott is dedicated to the ideals of liberal and interdisciplinary education. His research interests include art, film, oral literature and history, cultural studies, popular culture, and folk and popular music. He lives outside of Frankfort with his wife, Anne, a potter, and his daughter Ellie. His office is Carver Hall 130A; his phone is ext. 6721; his email is gary.elliott@kysu.edu.
Tucker Landy
Associate Professor, (1988). B.A. University of Massachusetts; M.A., University of Chicago; Ph.D., University of Chicago: History of Culture
Dr. Landy has taught almost all courses in the Honors Program, but most often teaches the freshman sequence of language courses (HON 141, 142, 143, 144, Latin and English Composition) and the sophomore Liberal Studies Seminar (HON 201, 202). He has published several articles on the dialogues of Plato, but his interests extend to the study of short fiction and modern physics as well. He has published a paper on Einstein and relativism, and has recently given public lectures on Joyce’s fiction, on the Schrodinger equation, and on the "dialectic" of scientific revolutions. Dr. Landy has served as Faculty Senate President and has been recognized three times in Who's Who Among America's Teachers. He lives in Frankfort with his wife, Brenda. Dr. Landy's office is 127 Carver Hall; his phone is (502) 597-6596; his email is tucker.landy@kysu.edu.
Ronald Mawby, Ph.D.
Professor, (1986). B.A., St. John's College; M.A., Clark University; Ph.D., Clark University: Cognitive and Developmental Psychology
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Dr. Mawby earned a B.A. degree in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Psychology from Clark University. He has taught all the courses in the Honors Program except the freshman language sequence. His intellectual interests are wide and include mathematics, poetry, and philosophy. Earlier in his career he wrote on language development, educational uses of computers, the art of questioning in inquiry, and non-standard logics. More recently he has written on teaching and learning, and has published a few poems. Before coming to KSU he worked in educational research, human factors, and artificial intelligence. While at KSU he has occasionally taught in the psychology department. One of his long-standing concerns is the relevance of liberal education to the contemporary world. His current focus is mathematics as a part of liberal education. He lives in Lexington with his family.
Contact:
129A Carver Hall
Kentucky State University
400 East Main Street
Frankfort, KY 40601
Phone: (502) 597-6723
E-mail: ron.mawby@kysu.edu
Dr. Thomas J. McPartland
Professor, (1988). B.A., University of Santa Clara; M.A, University of Washington; Ph.D., University of Washington: Intellectual History
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Dr. Thomas McPartland received an interdisciplinary Ph.D. degree in history at the University of Washington in 1976, combining fields in history, philosophy, classics, and bio-medical history. Prior to coming to Kentucky State University he taught in both philosophy and history departments. Currently, Dr. McPartland is director of the Whitney Young School of Honors and Liberal Studies, which houses the honors programs at Kentucky State University, the Integrative Studies Program, the Endowed Chair of the Humanities, and the International Studies minor. Dr. McPartland has taught special topic seminars on the philosophy of law, the history of revolutions, African history and culture, and Lonergan's Insight. He has delivered numerous papers and published articles on the twentieth century thinker Bernard Lonergan, whose philosophy emphasizes the process of questioning, an approach at the heart of the seminar-based learning of the honors programs in Whitney Young School. He has two book, Lonergan and the Philosophy of Historical Existence and Lonergan and Historiography: The Epistemological Philosophy of History, published by University of Missouri Press. He has made presentations at the American Political Science Association annual conference and at international conferences at Rome, Mainz, Germany, Toronto, and Hong Kong. Dr. McPartland initiated participation of the Whitney Young School honors programs in the National Collegiate Honors Council, Southern Regional Honors Conference, Kentucky Honors Roundtable, and the Association of Core Texts and Courses. He taught for four years in the Kentucky Governor’s Scholars Program. Dr. McPartland was Kentucky State University Distinguished Professor of 2002-2003 and faculty senate president in 2003-2004, and he has been twice recognized in Who’s Who among America’s Teachers.
Contact:
133 Carver Hall
Kentucky State University
400 East Main Street
Frankfort, KY 40601
Phone: (502) 597-6677
Fax: (502) 597-7018
E-mail: tom.mcpartland@kysu.edu
Sam Oleka
Professor/Dean (1996). B.Th., Igbaja Theological Seminary; B.A., Bryan College Dayton Tennessee; M.A., Wheaton College Graduate School; M.A., Michigan State University; Ph.D., Michigan State University: Curriculum and Instruction in Teacher Education
Dr. Oleka is the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He holds a doctorate and a master of arts in education and another master of arts in religion and theology. Before coming to KSU he served as an Associate Professor of education at Eastern Kentucky University, a Vice President for Academic Affairs at William Tyndale College in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and a radio broadcaster and Head of the English Programs Department at Radio ELWA in Jos, Nigeria. His research interests include cross-cultural communication, education and culture, moral development and value education, African-American Experience, conflict resolution and diversity issues. His most recent papers are “Global technologiesand global communications’ influence on African economies: Whose interests arethey really serving?” ”The Importance of ‘the Idea of the Middle-ground’ in the Igbo Community’ and Its Implications for Conflict Resolutions”;"Africa's Search for Identity and Quest for an African Theology" and"African and African-American Perceptions of Each Other." He serves on the National Planning Committee of the Emerging Leaders Workshop (ELW),Roanoke, Virginia, and on the National Collegiate Honors Council Assessment and Evaluation Committee (NCHC). He is a member of the National Council of Deans of Colleges of Arts and Sciences (CCAS). Dr. Oleka has also been active in the African Christian Fellowship, USA, and also serves on the curriculum committees of several local schools. Dean Oleka's office is in Hathaway Hall, Suite 424.His phone is (502) 597-6411; his email is sam.oleka@kysu.edu .
Dr. Mark Shale
Professor of Liberal Studies, (1988). B.A., University of Wisconsin; M.A., University of Wisconsin: American History; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin: History of Science
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Mark Shale came to Kentucky State University from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. An award-winning teacher at the UW, where he taught courses in integrated liberal studies, the history of science, dance, and continuing education in the arts, Mark found Kentucky State to be one of the few institutions in the country that offered him the opportunity to continue an integrative and multidisciplinary approach to education and teaching. Mark splits his teaching between the Honors Program, where he regularly engages students in math/science courses, and the Integrative Studies Program (IGS), where he most often teaches two sections of IGS 201 each semester. He has written and edited several texts tailored for use in the Honors Program and IGS classes. He serves on the Kentucky State University Senate and many university-level committees. For fourteen years he served as co-chair of the Kentucky State University Institute for Liberal Studies (ILS) Annual Conference on Science and Culture and edited its Proceedings. In 1994, Dr. George Shields and he co-edited Science, Technology, and Religious Ideas (University Press of America), a book which grew from the ILS conference. Over the years he has pursued his interests in the historical relations between religion and science, biblical interpretation, the development of evolutionary biology, and classical and modern astronomy. A former assistant dean in the Kentucky Governor’s Scholars Program, Mark lives in Richmond with his son, Brendan.
Contact:
128 Carver Hall
Kentucky State University
400 East Main Street
Frankfort, KY 40601
Phone: (502) 597-6730
E-mail: mark.shale@kysu.edu
Cynthia Lynne Shelton
Assistant Professor, (2005). B.A., Wayne State University; M.P.A., Kentucky State University; M.A., University of Kentucky; Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Dr. Shelton is, among other things, a historian with research interests in the twentieth century American civil rights movement. Over her career at KSU she has taught a variety of courses in Public Administration, Africana studies, and Integrative Studies. Dr. Shelton's office is Hathaway Hall 422; her phone is (502) 597-6113; her email is cynthia.shelton@kysu.edu
George Weick
Professor/Coordinator of IGS and ILS, (1988). B.A., University of Kentucky; M.A., University of London; Ph.D., University of London: English Literature
Dr. Weick serves as Director of the Institute for Liberal Studies (ILS) and the Integrative Studies Program (IGS). Most of his teaching is done in IGS courses. His research interests are in the field of Modern British Literature, and he has published numerous articles and essays in that field, most recently "The Crucial Antithesis: Orality/Literacy Interaction in the Poetry of Dylan Thomas," appearing in Time, Art, and Memory: Essays on the Thought of Walter J. Ong. (New York: Susquehana University Press, 1998). Dr. Weick's office is 313 Hathaway Hall; his phone is (502) 597-5913; his email is
george.weick@kysu.edu