STPEC

To accommodate students' broad interests and diverse backgrounds, course requirements are flexible.

Executive Committee

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MEMBERS OF STPEC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

I. STPEC STAFF

Sara Lennox, Director
Professor of German and Scandinavian Studies, Ph.D Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin Madison (1973), UMass faculty since 1974, STPEC Director since 1981

David Mednicoff, STPEC Associate Director
Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Public Policy, A.B. in Public and International Affairs, Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, J.D, A.M. and Ph.D., Harvard University

Deborah Reiter, Program Coordinator
B.A. Theatre, Point Park University (1983), UMass staff since 1988, STPEC Program Coordinator since 1991

Katherine Mallory, Chief Academic Advisor and Internship Director
B.A. Religion, Davidson College (1989), M.Ed. student in Social Justice Education, UMass Amherst (2006)

Danielle Nelson, Assistant Academic Advisor
B.A. Social Thought and Political Economy (2010)

Tyler Rocco-Chaffee, Office Assistant
Social Thought and Political Economy student (2010)

STPEC Seminar I (391H) Instructor

STPEC Seminar II (392H) Instructor

Junior Writing Instructor

II. STPEC ASSOCIATED FACULTY

Arlene Avakian, Professor of Women’s Studies and Director of Women’s Studies Program, UMass Amherst

Dan Clawson, Professor of Sociology, UMass Amherst

Barbara Cruikshank, Associate Professor of Political Science, UMass Amherst

Sangeeta Kamat, Associate Professor of Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Research and Administration, School of Education, Umass Amherst

Dean Robinson, Associate Professor of Political Science, UMass Amherst

Eve Weinbaum, Associate Professor of Labor Relations, UMass Amherst

Robert Paul Wolff, Professor Emeritus of African-American Studies, UMass, Amherst, founder of STPEC Program

III. STPEC STUDENTS

One student elected by and responsible to students in each regularly-scheduled STPEC class: STPEC 197I, Intro to STPEC; STPEC 391H, STPEC Seminar I; STPEC 392H, STPEC Seminar II; STPEC 393, Junior Writing; STPEC 491H, Senior Seminar I; STPEC 492H, Senior Seminar II; STPEC 493H, Senior Seminar III; STPEC 298Y, Office Staff Practicum; and one student elected by first-year STPEC students.
Elections of student members of the Executive Committee are held at the beginning of each semester