University Honors faculty are committed to both teaching and mentoring. The faculty listed below work primarily within the department of their specialty, and we are proud to welcome them to Honors classrooms.
2009-2010 Honors Teaching Faculty
Robert Boeckmann - HNRS A292 (Associate Professor, Psychology Department) 786-1793, afrjb@uaa.alaska.edu
Steve Colt - HNRS A292 (Associate Professor, Institute of Social & Economic Research, Geography & Environmental Studies Department, Economics Department) 786-1753, afsgc@uaa.alaska.edu
Diane Erickson - HNRS A209 (Faculty Associate, University Honors College) 786-4874, dianeerickson@uaa.alaska.edu
Steve Haycox - HNRS A291 (Professor, History and Geography, Honors/Forty-Ninth State Fellows Program)
786-1776, afswh1@uaa.alaska.edu
Stephen Haycox is an American cultural historian specializing in the history of the American West and Alaska. He teaches Alaska history, American West and American environmental history. He has recently published Frigid Embrace: Politics, Economics and Environment in Alaska (Oregon State University Press, 2002) and a new Alaska history: Alaska - An American Colony (University of Washington Press, 2002). His articles on the history of the Alaska Native Brotherhood, the most powerful and effective Native group in Alaska before the claims settlement act, led to his appearance in the award-winning PBS documentary on Alaska Native land claims, “This Land is Ours,” produced in 1996. In 2002 the University of Alaska honored him with the Edith R. Bullock Prize for Excellence, the system's highest annual faculty award.
Diane Hirshberg - HNRS A 292 (Professor, Institute of Social & Economic Research; Associate Professor, Center for Community Engagement & Learning) 786-5413, hirshberg@uaa.alaska.edu
William Jacobs - HNRS A191 (Professor Emeritus, History Department) 786-1055, afwaj@uaa.alaska.edu
John Kennish – HNRS A392 (Professor, Chemistry)
786-1236, afjmk@uaa.alaska.edu
Dr. Kennish is an environmental analytical chemist who studies the activation of cytochrome P-450 in fish exposed to low levels of persistent organic pollutants (POP), movement of ultra trace levels of metals in the environment, the role of fatty acids in diseases of Native Alaskans, the fatty acid composition in some wild foods of Native Alaskans, and the impact of fatty acids on Native Alaskan and marine mammal diets. Dr. Kennish has 30 publications in refereed journals many of which have student co-authors.
Mary Logan - HNRS A192, 348-8868, marylogan@uaa.alaska.edu
Dennis McMillian HNRS A310, 743-1202, dmcmillian@forakergroup.org
Francisco Miranda – HNRS A192 (Associate Professor, Languages)
786-4035, affm1@uaa.alaska.edu
Dr. Miranda is an Associate Professor of Spanish in UAA's Department of Languages. He received his B.A. from California State University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University.
James Muller - HNRS 191/192 (Professor, Political Science, Honors/Forty-Ninth State Fellows Program)
786-4740, afjwm@uaa.alaska.edu
Dr. Muller earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University and specializes in the life and times of Winston Churchill.
Honors Faculty
Julie Decker (Adjunct Professor)
Julie Decker, Ph.D., is the director of the International Gallery of Contemporary Art and a frequent guest curator at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art. She also works as an artist and a freelance writer. Decker has authored numerous articles and publications on the art and architecture of Alaska, including John Hoover: Art & Life, Icebreakers: Alaska's Most Innovative Artists, Found & Assembled in Alaska, and Quonset: Metal Living for a Modern Age. She has taught courses on art appreciation, art history, contemporary arts and culture, and enduring books such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Frankenstein.
Claudia Lampman (Professor, Psychology)
786-1619, afcbl@uaa.alaska.edu
Dr. Lampman's specialty is in social psychology. She is the Chair of UAA's Institutional Review Board and is actively involved in the Kids Count Alaska Project. Her current research interests involve the way images of male and female sexuality are portrayed in the media. She recently concluded a content analysis of sexuality in magazine advertisements and is currently working on a content analysis of sexual behavior and verbal sexual reference in the workplace as portrayed on television.
Randy Magen (Associate Professor, Social Work)
786-6901, afrhm1@uaa.alaska.edu
Dr. Magen's research has been in two areas: social work group work and domestic violence. He is currently completing a federally funded research project which examined the incidence and prevalence of domestic violence in one Native Alaskan region. Past work has examined the overlap of domestic violence and child maltreatment.
John Petraitis (Professor, Psychology)
786-1651, afjmp@uaa.alaska.edu
Dr. Petraitis' research focuses on substance use. He has written empirical and theoretical papers on factors that lead some youth to experiment with alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco. He has done research on substance use by adolescents and tobacco use by Alaska Natives and is currently doing research on the biological causes of substance abuse.
Darren Prokop (Associate Professor, Logistics)
786-1992, afdjp1@uaa.alaska.edu
Dr. Prokop specializes in transportation economics as well as its effect on international trade. He also undertakes research in the area of government policy as related to transportation service provision and infrastructure. His research in logistics concerns: the "microfoundations" of logistics theory; the role of customer service along the supply chain; and transportation regulation as a non-tariff barrier to international trade.
Frank von Hippel (Associate Professor, Biological Sciences)
786-4783, affvh@uaa.alaska.edu
Dr. von Hippel was born and raised in Alaska, received his A.B. in Biology from Dartmouth College and his Ph.D. in Integrative Biology from the University of California Berkeley. His research interests are in conservation biology and evolutionary biology, including research on African primates, international trade in threatened species, and work on rapid evolution and contaminants using the threespine stickleback fish. Frank has taught throughout the U.S. and in Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Japan, China, Vietnam, Malaysia, India, Turkey, Croatia, Italy, and Morocco.
