Faculty & Staff
All courses in the program will be team taught to ensure that a variety of viewpoints and disciplines are represented. Faculty participation will vary, with some giving one or two lectures in their area of specialization and others serving as the primary instructor for a course.
Under the guidance of the Director, Mike Hardesty serves as the Chesapeake Semester administrator with logistical support from Ben Ford, Special Project Assistant, CES. They are joined by other Washington College faculty and a wide array of outside speakers and lecturers over the course of the semester.
Faculty involvement will vary from semester to semester, but the program will draw on the talents of the following Washington College faculty and staff:
Natural Sciences
Dr. Doug Levin*, Associate Director for Center for Environment & Society
Dr. Martin Connaughton*, Professor of Biology
Dr. Leslie Sherman, Professor of Chemistry
Dr. Christian Krahforst, CES fellow
Humanities
Dr. Sean Meehan*, Professor of English
Dr. Matthew McCabe, Professor of Philosophy
Dr. Donald McColl, Professor of Art and Art History
Prof. Heather Harvey, Professor of Art
Prof. Alex Castro, Professor of Art
Social Sciences
Dr. John Seidel*, Director Center for Environment & Society
Dr. Aaron Lampman, Professor of Anthropology
Dr. Bill Schindler, Professor of Archaeology
Dr. Christine Wade, Professor of Political Science
Dr. Jennifer Hopper, Professor of Political Science
Dr. Michael Harvey, Professor of Business Administration
Prof. Mark Wiest, Professor of Anthropology
Dr. Brian Scott, Professor of Economics
Integrated Lectures, Multi-Media Development, and Partners
Mike Hardesty*, Assistant Director for the Chesapeake Semester
Robert Forloney, Director of the Kerr Center Chesapeake Studies, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
Michael Buckley, C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience
Brian Palmer, Direct of the Multi-media Production Center
Partnerships
Over the semester you will have the opportunity to develop relationships and connections with professionals in any number of fields. You will be more than “a student on a field trip” when you participate in the Chesapeake Semester. You will be viewed and treated as a young professional and will be expected to engage your professors, lecturers, guides, and speakers in the same way that they will be engaging you. If you are especially interested in a specific field or the work of a certain professor, scientist, artist, musician, advocate, or waterman, you should look upon the Chesapeake Semester as a unique opportunity to make connections. We hope you will utilize these connections during your undergraduate career, during graduate school, and at the beginning of your professional careers. Our partners often offer internships to Chesapeake Semester students which can be viewed here.
An abbreviated list of partners is provided below:
- Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
- Chesapeake Bay Commission
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation
- Chesapeake Bay Trust
- Maryland Departments of Natural Resources and Environment
- Maryland Sea Grant
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
This list only touches on the breadth of the contacts you will make and does not include individual artists, politicians, musicians, lobbyists, farmers, and watermen who you will meet.
