President (10/20-2024)
Jennifer J. Dellner
Professor, English and Literature
Program Chair, Liberal Arts
Ocean County College
Toms River, NJ 08754
jdellner@ocean.edu
jjdellner@mac.com (preferred)
Immediate Past President (10/20-2024):
James Welch IV
Independent Scholar
james.welch@interdisciplinarystudies.org
Past President (10/20-2024):
Machiel Keestra
Assistant Professor, Natural and Social Sciences Program and Interdisciplinary Honors Program
Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies
University of Amsterdam
Science Park 904
1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
m.keestra@uva.nl
www.uva.nl/en/profile/m.keestra
Vice-president, relations (10/20-2024)
IIS Co-editor:
Khadijah O. Miller, PhD
Professor and Department Chair
Department of History and Interdisciplinary Studies
Norfolk State University
Norfolk, VA 23504
komiller@nsu.edu
Vice-President, Development (10/20-2024):
Evan Widders
Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV 26506
Evan.Widders@mail.wvu.edu
Director of Digital Initiatives &
Executive Director, Alpha Iota Sigma
Marcus N. Tanner, Ph.D., LMFT-S
HealingChoice Family Therapy
marcus@healingchoice.org
At Large Members
(10/19-10/23):
Kirsi Cheas
President of FINTERDIS – The Finnish Interdisciplinary Society
kirsi-mari.cheas@fulbrightmail.org / kirsi.cheas@finterdis.fi
(10/20-10/23):
Frédéric Darbellay
Associate Professor, Inter- and Transdisciplinary Studies
University of Geneva
(10/20-10/23):
Allison Upshaw
Assistant Professor, Music
Stillman College
Tuscaloosa, AL 35401
AllisonUpshawPhD@gmail.com
(10/19-10/23):
Dr. Heidi Upton
Associate Professor – Institute for Core Studies, Discover New York
St. John’s University
Jamaica, NY 11439
uptonh@stjohns.edu
Ex-Officio Members
Conference liaison:
Roslyn Abt Schindler
Associate Professor Emerita
Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures,
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202
roslyn.schindler@wayne.edu
IIS Co-editor:
P. Sven Arvidson
Professor and Director, Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies
Associate Appointment, Philosophy
Senior Fellow, Center for Faculty Development
Seattle University
901 12th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
arvidson@seattleu.edu
Integrative Pathways Newsletter-editor:
Noah Millman
University of Amsterdam
PPLE
Postbus 15575
1001 NB Amsterdam
In Memoriam
Executive Director Emeritus:
Bill Newell
Emeritus Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
Western Program
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
IIS Co-editor:
Gretchen Schulz
Professor Emerita, English/Humanities
Oxford College of Emory University
100 Hamill St.
Oxford, GA 30054
