Leadership

The Office of the Dean of Liberal Arts is home to key programs in the Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies that promote the interdisciplinary study of the liberal arts, support faculty development and collaboration leading to curricular innovation, and advance students’ theoretical and ethical understanding of communication and the arts. The dean is responsible for overseeing the Perspectives curriculum, Liberal Arts minors, the Institute First-Year Seminar Program, the Honors Program, and the Individually Designed Interdisciplinary Program. The Institute hosts events each semester—student forums, faculty book celebrations, outside lectures, and faculty panels—to foster civic engagement on issues and events both local and global.

She came to Emerson from Bard College, where she was Professor of Sociology (1992–2009), Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (1994–1996), and Associate Dean for International Programs (1996–1998). During her tenure at Bard, Professor Ansell helped spearhead both international and interdisciplinary initiatives in the curricular areas of human rights, democratization and international studies, Africana studies, and studies in race and ethnicity.

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Catalonia and Valencia investigating famines in the Western Mediterranean. A monograph based on that work is under contract with Pennsylvania State University Press. Currently, he participates in the Travelers Lab at Wesleyan University. The Lab uses computer-based analysis such as GIS to study patterns of mobility and communication. The Lab also invites undergraduates to participate directly in the research of the Lab. As part of this project, Dr. Franklin-Lyons led a group of Marlboro faculty members funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities in developing an undergraduate curriculum combining data science and humanities methods of research in the classroom and in projects addressing social questions in the local community.

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