Master of Liberal Arts & Science
MLAS Faculty
All MLAS courses are taught by current Vanderbilt faculty members and, on occasion, emeritus faculty. All instructors are selected for their recognized abilities as teachers and their special interest in MLAS students and the MLAS program. By any measure, be it their publications, teaching awards, community involvement, academic background, and scholarly honors, Vanderbilt’s faculty is one of the most distinguished in the nation. Above all their many honors and acclaim, they are committed and eager to share their knowledge with the remarkable students in this program. They too are energetic and enthusiastic lifelong learners who value the MLAS experience.
Here are just a few of the acclaimed professors who have recently taught in the program:
John Lachs, Centennial Professor of Philosophy
“Ethical Issues in Everyday Life ”
“Optimism and Pessimism ”
“Medical Ethics ”Joy Calico, Associate Professor of Musicology
“The Opera”Robin Jensen, Luce Chancellor's Professor of the History of Christian Art and Worship
“Building for Worship: Form and Function of Religious Architecture”Mark Jarman, Professor of English
“The Poetry of Frost and Stevens”Ljubica Popovich, Professor Emerita of Art History
“Manuscripts from Late Antiquity through the Gothic Period”Gregory Barz, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology and Anthropology
“Music and Global Health”Leah Marcus, Mims Professor of English
“In Search of Gandhi”Susan Wiltshire, Professor Emerita of Classics
“The Classical Tradition in America”David Weintraub, Professor of Astronomy
“Theories of the Universe”Andrei Maneschi , Professor of Economics
“History of Economic Thought ”Phillip Franck , Associate Professor of Theatre
“The Story in Pictures: Visual Design in Film”
“Setting the Stage: Design for the Theatre”Michael Hodges, Professor of Philosophy
“Religion and Values in the Philosophical Tradition”
“Ethicals in Literature”Jeremy Atack, Professor of Economics
“American Economic History”Jo-Anne Bachorowski, Associate Professor of Psychology
“Perspectives in Abnormal Psychology”Frank Robinson , Associate Professor of History
“History of the Caribbean”
“Crossroads of the World: The Panama Canal”Marshall Eakin, Professor of History
“Visions of Amazonia”Kassian Kovalcheck, Associate Professor of Communication Studies
“Irish and Scots-Irish in Ireland and America”Konstantin Kustanovich , Professor of Slavic Languages
“Twentieth Century Russian Prose”Barbara Tsakrigis, Associate Professor of Classics
“Sport and Spectacle in the Classical Era”
“The Golden Age of Augustus”Edward Friedman, Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature
“Don Quioxte and the Development of the Novel”Mechael Aurbach, Professor of Art
“Drawing and Composition: From Concept to Artifact”
“Found and Fabricated: Sculpture”Richard Blackett, Jackson Professor of History
“History and Biography”Leonard Folgarait, Professor of the History of Art
“Art and Politics”Roy Gottfried, Professor of English
“James Joyce and the Best Novel of the 20th Century”Maclom Getz, Associate Professor of Economics
“Urban Growth and Public Policy”Henry Teloh, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
“Foundation of Ethics”Michael Kreyling, Gertrude Conway Vanderbilt Professor of English
“American Experience in the Crime Novel”
“Southern Literature”Kate Daniels, Associate Professor of English
“Why Write? Perspectives on Literary Creativity”
