Disciplinary Interests: teaching with technology
Lynne Adrian
Member, American Studies Association. Member., Member Southeast American Studies Association., Treasurer, Southeast American Studies Association, Executive Committee, Southern American Studies Association, 1992 to present., President, Southern American Studies Association, 1997 to 1999., Representative, Southern American Studies Association, on Regional Chapters Committee, American Studies Association, 1997 to 1999., Vice President, Southern American Studies Association, 1996 to 1997
"Active and Collaborative Learning in a large introductory American Studies Class.", Reprinting with introduction the "Hobo News/Review" 1915-1930, book manuscript., "The Gulf Coast Disaster and the Values of America, " book manuscript.
Lynne M. Adrian is Chair of the Department of American Studies, and an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama. She was a principle investigator in both the American Studies Crossroads Project, 1995-1998 and the Visible Knowledge Project, 2000-2005.
Paula Berggren
Plague in Shakespeare, The representation of domestic space and intimacy in Renaissance English Drama
Paula Berggren is Professor of English at Baruch College of the City University of New York.
Dr. Ludmila Smirnova
Ludmila Smirnova is Associate Professor of Education at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, N.Y. Prior to coming to the U.S., she was professor of education at Volgograd State Pedagogical University, Russia, where she also served as Dean of the School of Foreign Languages. During her 25-year Russian career, Dr. Smirnova was known for her work in innovative approaches to teaching. She played a key role in creating a model Ecological Gymnasium and other experimental “charter schools” in Southern part of Russia. A number of her Ph.D. students and scores of Masters students worked with her to produce comparative studies of successful innovative efforts in education. Dr. Smirnova has been a Montessori trainer, and has run seminars and training programs for Montessori teachers in Russia, Holland and the U.S.
Moving to the U.S. in 2000, she brought this focus on innovation into the realm of emerging Web technology, where she quickly became recognized for her leadership in Web applications to education. She has used her own teaching to drive her learning, regularly offering such courses as Curricular Planning, Methods of Teaching, Nature of Schools and Society and Teaching with Technology.
