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American Puppetry Academics and University Artist/Instructors
This list, maintained by the UNIMA-USA board of trustees, was created to support the proliferation of research, teaching and creative works in the field of puppetry at the college and university level in the United States.
Conference organizers, potential students, publishers and others may wish to use this resource for the dissemination of calls for papers/articles, connecting with like-minded researchers/instructors, or potential reviewers for academic promotion and the like.
The 38 names (arranged alphabetically) on this list include any scholars, instructors, and/or artists involved with teaching, researching, and/or creating in any area of puppetry who have an ongoing affiliation with an institute of higher education/training.
If you have edits, or would like to be added to the list, please contact the UNIMA-USA Academic Liaison Colette Searls: csearls@umbc.edu.
Please note this alphabetical list is for individuals with ongoing, non-terminal relationships with institutes of higher education (for example, the list includes returning adjunct instructors, but not doctoral students without permanent positions).
Loyce Arthur
Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies costume design mask and puppetry
University of Iowa
loyce-arthur@uiowa.edu
319-353-2409
Tim Avrill
Associate Professor; Scenic and Lighting Design
Muhlenberge College
averill@muhlenberg.edu
484-664-3331
John Bell
Director, Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry
The University of Connecticut
Jonathan Berger
Studio Faculty; Department of Art and Art Professions
New York University
Eileen Bluementhal
Professor of Theatre Arts
Rutgers University
eileenblumenthal@earthlink.net
732-932-9891 x26
Adrienne Macki Braconi
Assistant Professor; Dramatic Arts
University of Connecticut
adrienne.macki@uconn.edu
860-486-0285
Fan Pen Chen
Associate Professor; East Asian Studies
SUNY-Albany
fanchen@albany.edu
518-442-2600
Bradford Clark
Professor; Theatre and Film
Bowling Green State University
bclark@bgsu.edu
419-372-7174
Matthew Isaac Cohen
Professor, Department of Dramatic Arts
University of Connecticut
Matthew.i.cohen@uconn.edu
Allison DeFren
Assistant Professor, Art History and the Visual Arts
Occidental College
adefren@oxy.edu
Tim Dugan
Assistant Professor; Communications Arts
St. Francis College
tdugan@sfc.edu
718-489-5299
Erik Ehn
Head MFA in Playwriting; Department of Theatre Arts
Brown University
Erik_Ehn@brown.edu
Kathy Foley
Professor of Theater Arts (Drama)
University of California, Santa Cruz
kfoley@ucsc.edu
831-459-4189
Janie Geiser
Director, Cotsen Center for Puppetry and the Arts
California Institute of the Arts
jottay@sbcglobal.net
Ariel Goldberger
Faculty
Evergreen State College
360-867-6729
Jennifer Goodlander
Assistant Professor; Theatre
University of Kentucky
jgoodlan@indianal.edu
Kenneth Gross
Professor of English
University of Rochester
kenneth.gross@rochester.edu
585-275-4098
Dan Hurlin
Faculty
Sara Lawrence College
dhurlin@sarahlawrence.edu
Brian Jones
Theater Department Chair and Professor of Scenery and Lighting Design
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
theater-info@iup.edu
Alisa Sckora Kleckner
Adjunct Professor; Theater Arts
Arcadia University
Jane Marie Law
Associate Professor; Japanese Religions, Department of Asian Studies
Cornell University
jml16@cornell.edu
607-255-7777
Ralph Lee
Adjunct Instructor; Educational Theatre
New York University (NYU)
Lisa Morse
Assistant Professor; Theatre
Morehead State University
l.morse@moreheadstate.edu
606-783-2694
Claudia Orenstein
Associate Professor; Department of Theatre
CUNY Hunter
corenste@hunter.cuny.edu
212-772-4228
Gina Pavlova
Lecturer; Theater Arts
California State University, San Bernadino
Valeska Populah
Instructor; Fibers
MICA, Maryland Institute College of Art
Dassia Posner
Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre
Northwestern University
d-posner@northwestern.edu
847-467-0469
Steven Ritz-Barr
Visiting Professor, Animation; School of Theater, Film and Television
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
lapuppet@gmail.com
Bart Roccobarton
Professor of Puppet Arts; Director of the Puppet Arts Program
University of Connecticut
bp.roccoberton@uconn.edu
860-486-2842
Miguel Romero
Professor of Theater, Scenic Design
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
mromero@theater.umass.edu
413-545-4649
Colette Searls
Associate Professor; Department of Theatre
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
csearls@umbc.edu
Joann Spencer Siegrist
Professor of Puppetry & Creative Dramatics
West Virginia University
Joann.Siegrist@mail.wvu.edu
304-293-7443
Susan Simpson
Faculty, Cotsen Center for Puppetry and the Arts
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)
ssimpson@calarts.edu
661-253-7864 x2
Johanna Smith
Professor of Theatre Arts
California State University, San Bernadino
johanna@csusb.edu
909-537-5881
Robert Smythe
Instructor, Puppetry
Temple University
Jungmin Song
Adjunct Faculty, School of Fine Arts
University of Connecticut
s_jungmin@hotmail.com
Jane Taylor
Professor; Creative Writing
University of Chicago
Blair Thomas
Adjunct Associate Professor; Performance, Sculpture
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
blair@blairthomas.org
262-374-4904
Steve Tillis
Professor
Saint Marys College of California
Paula Vogel
Professor; Playwriting
Brown University
Paula_Vogel@Brown.edu
401-863-3282
Courtney Weida
Assistant Professor; Art and Art History
Adelphi University
cweida@adelphi.edu
516-877-4105
F. Elaine Williams
Professor of Theatre, Scenographer
Bucknell University
ewilliams@bucknell.edu
570-577-3916
