ALL classes are led by Volunteers
If you would like to volunteer to lead a course, send your name, contact information and course description to:
assocforll@hotmail.com
If you would like to volunteer to lead a course, send your name, contact information and course description to:
assocforll@hotmail.com
Meet the Course Leaders
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Todd Becker is a retired US Foreign Service Officer and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Conflict Resolution, and Honors Courses at Salisbury University.
Dale Godfrey graduated from St. Mary’s College of Maryland with a bachelor’s degree. Since 1974 he has been employed in the communications industry, adult education, IT, and elections with the State of Maryland. Nancy Hesser Ph.D., has taught literature in the US, DR Congo, and Mali. She lives with her husband and canine companions in the salt marshes of south Dorchester County. Her ALL short story courses have focused on American regionalism, the Roaring 20s, religious diversity, African voices, Central America, the Caribbean, and flash fiction, among other subjects. Phillip Hesser has taught in the US and Africa and served as protection and education officer with the UNHCR and program director with the Academy for Educational Development. Having received his B.A. degrees at the University of California - Santa Barbara and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Binghamton University, he has continued his work in education as an Adjunct Professor of History at Salisbury University. Pursuing his interests at the intersection of landscape, life & livelihood in Delmarva and on the Bay, he wrote What a River Says: Exploring the Blackwater River and Refuge (Cambridge: Friends of Blackwater, 2014) and in 2021 will publish The Old Home Is Not There: The Native Land of Harriet Tubman with co-author Charlie Ewers. Phillip LeBel is Professor Emeritus in Economics, Montclair State University. He has taught Economics and related courses over a period of 30 years, at institutions in the U.S. and abroad, including the Perdue School of Business at Salisbury University. A recipient of two Fulbright Senior Fellowships (Dakar, Senegal and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia), he has published in the fields of energy, natural resources, economic development, and risk management, along with periodic work as an international economics consultant. He is author, most recently, of A Brief Relation of the State of Delmarva (Maryland History Press, 2016), and Risk and the State (forthcoming, 2021). This course is his eighth offering via ALL. Nancy Mitchell, Salisbury’s inaugural Poet Laureate, is a Pushcart Prize Winner and the author of three acclaimed collections of poetry: The Near Surround, Grief Hut and The Out-of-Body Shop. Mitchell publishes widely, and has been awarded numerous residency fellowships including two in Auvillar France. A featured guest at the Library of Congress’ The Poet and The Poem 2019 podcasts, she taught in the English and Environmental Studies Departments at Salisbury University and has worked extensively in community outreach. With the City of Salisbury she hosts national and local poets on her Poets and the Plaza Reading Series, and is the Associate Editor for Special Features for Plume Poetry. |
Eleanor Mulligan began giving talks on American and European history and travel after spending over a decade in Europe, and wrote articles for the Baltimore Sun evening edition during the 1980s and 90s. For a number of years she has given visual presentations on American historical subjects and a variety of related topics. She holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and from UMBC.
Michael J. Roberts holds a bachelor’s degree, with a major in History, from Duke University and a Juris Doctor Degree from the Washington College of Law, American University, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the American University Law Review. He served as an officer in the U.S. Navy, with two tours of sea duty in the Mediterranean fleet, and shore duty with the Naval Security Group in Washington. For over 30 years he practiced law in Washington, specializing in aviation and international law. While still in the Navy he attended graduate school at the University of Maryland, and studied under Professor Gordon Prange, the foremost authority on the Pearl Harbor attack. This led to a lifelong interest in and study of the subject matter of this course. Mike taught a course similar to this in 2011, and has taught several other courses, principally involving World War II. Sophia Sonen: is a retired teacher/counselor of 37 years, from the state of Maryland. She earned a MLA and an MS from Johns Hopkins University. Definitely a life-long learner, with a strong interest in creativity, she completed 4 semesters of the Artist’s Way classes with Diane Thomas Mitchell where she became more creative, which was quite complementary to her spiritual practice, and expanded consciousness. Dr. G. Ray Thompson has taught Bronze Age Civilizations on the university level since 1972. He holds a PhD in ancient Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations. He has taught a variety of Ancient Mediterranean courses, holds a graduate certificate from both the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece and the American Academy for Classical Studies in Rome, Italy. Dr. Thompson also has a minor in Colonial American history. He was co-founder of the Edward Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture at SU and its former director. He was the chair of the History Department at SU and creator of an MA program in local history. |