UMass Amherst STPEC

STPEC Instructors

Fall 2009

James Fiorentino
STPEC Junior Seminar Instructor
E-mail: jdfioren@history.umass.edu
Master's student in History; B.A. History, UMass Amherst (2007)

Sreela Sarkar
STPEC Junior Seminar Instructor
ssarkar@comm.umass.edu
Ph.D. student in Communication; M.A. Communication, University of Illinois (2004); B.A. English Literature, St. Stephen's College (1997)

Ethan Myers
STPEC Junior Writing Instructor, Writing for Critical Consciousness
E-mail: ecmyers@english.umass.edu
B.A. Environmental Studies and Earth Studies, Guildford College (2002), M.A. American Studies, English Department, UMass Amherst (2007)

Paula Chakravartty
Fall 2009 Instructor for STPEC 491H: Media and Politics in the Global South
Office: Machmer Hall
Phone: 545-6346
E-mail: pchakrav@comm.umass.edu
Associate Professor of Communication at UMass Amherst

David Mednicoff
Fall 2009 Instructor for STPEC 492H: International Human Rights -- Legal Global Universalism or Western Hegemony?
Office: 438 Thompson Hall
Phone: 577-1238
mednic@legal.umass.edu
Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Public Policy at UMass Amherst

Anna Schrade
Fall 2009 Instructor for STPEC 493H: Black Paris
annaschrade@web.de
Lecturer, STPEC Program, UMass Amherst

Katherine Mallory
Instructor for STPEC 498Y Internship and STPEC 494A Praxis
Office: E-27A Machmer Hall
Phone: 545-0043
E-Mail: stpecinternship@sbs.umass.edu
STPEC Chief Academic Advisor and Internship Director. B.A. Religion, Davidson College (1989), M.Ed. Social Justice Education, UMass Amherst (2006).

Spring 2009

Antonia Carcelén
STPEC Junior Seminar Instructor
E-mail: antoniac@acad.umass.edu
Phone: 545-3085
Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature; B.A. in Philosophy.

Christopher Hamilton
STPEC Junior Seminar Instructor
Office: E-27A Machmer Hall
Phone: 545-0043
E-mail: hamilton@educ.umass.edu
Master's Student in the Social Justice Education Program in the School of Education; BA in Philosophy

James Boyce
Spring 2009 Instructor for STPEC 491H: The Political Economy of the Environment
Office: Thompson Hall
Phone: 545-0915
E-mail: boyce@econs.umass.edu
Professor of Economics at UMass Amherst

Águstin Lao-Montes
Spring 2009 Instructor for STPEC 492H: Decolonizing Knowledge-Power: Afro-American & Native American Critical Theories and Social Movements
Office: Thompson Hall
Phone: 545-0577
E-mail: lao@soc.umass.edu
Professor of Sociology at UMass Amherst

Ramón Borges Méndez
Fall 2008 Instructor for STPEC 493H: Research Methods and Social Change
Office: UMass Boston, Public Policy, McCormick Hall, Room 419, 3rd floor
Phone: 617 287-5550
E-mail: ramon.borges@umb.edu
Professor of Public Policy at UMass Boston

Katherine Mallory
STPEC 498Y Internship, STPEC 494A Praxis and STPEC 197I Intro to STPEC Instructor
Office: E-27A Machmer Hall
Phone: 545-0043
E-Mail: stpecinternship@sbs.umass.edu
STPEC Chief Academic Advisor and Internship Director. B.A. Religion, Davidson College (1989), M.Ed. student in Social Justice Education, UMass Amherst (2006).

Fall 2008

Antonia Carcelén
STPEC Junior Seminar Instructor
E-mail: antoniac@acad.umass.edu
Phone: 545-3085
Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature; B.A. in Philosophy.

Sayres Rudy
Fall 2008 Instructor for STPEC 491H: The Neo-Colonial Present: Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine
Office: E-27A Machmer Hall
Phone: 545-0043
E-mail: srss@hampshire.edu
Visiting Lecturer, has taught previously for the School of Social Science at Hampshire College, for the Political Science Department at Amherst College, and for the STPEC Program.

Michael D. Ford
Fall 2008 Instructor for STPEC 492H: Black Politics: Cartographies of Race and Class
Office: School of Social Science, Hampshire College
Phone: 559-6176
E-mail: michaeldford@comcast.net
Professor of Social Science at Hampshire College

Susan Shapiro
Fall 2008 Instructor for STPEC 493H: Religion, State, Secularization: Negotiating jewish Modernities
Office: Judaic and NE Studies, Herter Hall, UMass Amherst
Phone: 545-4464
E-mail: shapiro@judnea.umass.edu
Associate Professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at UMass Amherst

Katherine Mallory
STPEC 498Y Internship and STPEC 494A Praxis Instructor
Office: E-27A Machmer Hall
Phone: 545-0043
E-Mail: stpecinternship@sbs.umass.edu
STPEC Chief Academic Advisor and Internship Director. B.A. Religion, Davidson College (1989), M.Ed. student in Social Justice Education, UMass Amherst (2006).

Spring 2008

Katherine Mallory, STPEC 498Y Internship and STPEC 494A Praxis Instructor
Office: E-27A Machmer Hall
Phone: 545-0043
E-Mail: stpecinternship@sbs.umass.edu
STPEC Chief Academic Advisor and Internship Director. B.A. Religion, Davidson College (1989), M.Ed. student in Social Justice Education, UMass Amherst (2006).

Geert Dhondt, STPEC Junior Seminar Instructor
Office: 822 Thompson Hall
E-mail: geert@econs.umass.edu
B.S. Aerospace Engineering/Science, Technology and Globalization with Environmental Concentration, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (2000), Ph.D. student in Economics, UMass Amherst

Mirangla Buggs, STPEC Junior Seminar Instructor
E-mail: negracimarrona@yahoo.com
B.A. Interdisciplinary and Women’s Studies, Friends World College/Program, Long Island University (1993), M.A. Gender Studies and Feminist Theory, New School for Social Research (1998), Ph.D. student in Social Justice Education, UMass Amherst

Ethan Myers, STPEC Junior Writing Instructor, Writing for Critical Consciousness
E-mail: ecmyers@english.umass.edu
B.A. Environmental Studies and Earth Studies, Guildford College (2002), M.A. American Studies, English Department, UMass Amherst (2007)

Falguni Sheth, Spring 2008 Instructor for STPEC 491H: Post September 11 World: An Exception or Business as Usual?
Office: Franklin Patterson Hall G-9, Hampshire College
Phone: ext 6103
E-mail: fsheth@hampshire.edu
Assistant Professor in Social Sciences at Hampshire College

Michael D. Ford, Spring 2008 Instructor for STPEC 492H: Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism: Identity and the Political Order
Office: School of Social Science, Hampshire College
Phone:
E-mail:
Professor of Social Science at Hampshire College

Darcy C. Buerkle, Spring 2008 Instructor for STPEC 493H: Thinking Sexuality and Gender in History
Office: Hillyer 308, Smith College
Phone: 585-3724
E-mail: dbuerkle@email.smith.edu
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Smith College

Karen Lederer, Spring 2008 Instructor for STPEC 294A: Career Planning for STPEC Majors
Office: 208 Bartlett Hall, UMass Amherst
Phone: 545-1922
E-mail: lederer@wost.umass.edu
Advisor/Fieldwork Coordinator, Women’s Studies, UMass Amherst

Fall 2007

Sangeeta Kamat, Fall 2007 Instructor for STPEC 491H: Gender and International Development
Office: Hill House South, UMass
Phone: 545-4586
E-mail: skamat@educ.umass.edu
Associate Professor in Educational Policy Resource and Administration at UMass Amherst

Martha Ackelsberg, Fall 2007 Instructor for STPEC 492H: Anarchism and Revolution: The Spanish Civil War
Office: 10 Prospect St., #104, Smith College
Phone: 585-3533
E-mail: mackelsb@smith.edu
www.smith.edu/gov/fac_mackelsberg.html
Professor of Government at Smith College and a Five College Fortieth Anniversary Professor

Myrna Breitbart, Fall 2007 Instructor for STPEC 493H: The Crafted City: Urban Regeneration and the New Cultural Economy
Office: Franklin Patterson Hall Room 206, Hampshire College
Phone: 559-5457
E-mail: mbreitbart@hampshire.edu
Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at Hampshire College.

Spring 2007

Joseph Rebello, STPEC Junior Seminar Instructor
E-mail: jrebello@econs.umass.edu
Ph.D. student in Economics, UMass Amherst

Mirangela Buggs, STPEC Junior Writing: Writing for Critical Consciousness
E-mail: negracimarrona@yahoo.com
B.A. Interdisciplinary and Women’s Studies, Friends World College/Program, Long Island University (1993), M.A. Gender Studies and Feminist Theory, New School for Social Research (1998), Ph.D. student in Social Justice Education, UMass Amherst

Roberto Márquez, Spring 2007 Instructor for STPEC 491H: Comparative Caribbean Literature
Office: Latin American Studies Program, Skinner Hall 106, Mount Holyoke College
Phone: 413-538-2385
E-mail: rmarquez@mtholyoke.edu
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Latin American & Caribbean Studies

Anny Rivera-Ottenberger, Spring 2007 Instructor for STPEC 492H: Government and Society: Contemporary Latin America/ Global Markets and Local Resistance
Office: W- 05- 93 Wheatley Hall, Department of Political Science, UMass Boston
Phone: (617) 287-6933
E-mail: anny.rivera@umb.edu
Adjuct/Lecturer, Political Science Department, UMass Boston

Ginetta Candelario, Spring 2007 Instructor for STPEC 493H: Blackness in the Americas
Office: Sociology and LAS, Smith College
Phone: 585-3454
E-mail: GCANDELA@email.smith.edu
Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American & Latina/o Studies at Smith College

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