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 ”Anthony Forster, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
“Frontiers of Bioscience"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”
“Picturing the Bible: Visual Scriptures in Jewish and Christian Art”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”
“Ethics in Literature”
“Philosophy and Literature: A Dialogue”Jeremy Atack, Professor of Economics
“American Economic History”
“American Economic Growth and Developent”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”Konstantin Kustanovich , Professor of Slavic Languages
“Twentieth Century Russian Prose”
“Russian Cinema”
Barbara Tsakrigis, Associate Professor of Classics
“Sport and Spectacle in the Classical Era”
“The Golden Age of Augustus”Edward Friedman, Chancellor's Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature
“Don Quioxte and the Development of the Novel”Michael Aurbach, Professor of Art
“Drawing and Composition: From Concept to Artifact”
“Found and Fabricated: Sculpture”Richard Blackett, Jackson Professor of History
“History and Biography”
“American Slavery and Slave Resistance”
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”
“Poetry Workshop”
Thomas Schwartz, Professor of History
“America and the Vietnam War”James Lovenheimer, Assistant Professor of Musicology
“Twentieth Century American Musicals in Context”Cecelia Tichi, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English
“Gilded Age Chicago: White City, Hog Butcher, Seat of Empire”Holly Tucker, Associate Professor of French
“Early Medicine and Culture: From Aristotle to the Enlightenment”Robert Talisse, Professor of Philosophy
“Socrates, Plato, and the Good Life”Charles Scott, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
“Human Existence, Faith, and the Question of Ethics”
