Project Directors:

George L. Scheper

Professor of English and Humanities, and Coordinator of the Artifacts of Culture interdisciplinary humanities program, Essex Community College; Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies for The Johns Hopkins University School of Continuing Studies; doctorate in English literature from Princeton University; Woodrow Wilson and numerous NEH fellowships; has also taught at University of Maryland Baltimore County, Goucher College, Peabody Conservatory, and Maryland Institute College of Art; has developed and coordinated program of over seventy team-taught interdisciplinary courses, and conducted numerous domestic and international travel/study courses; was co-director of NEH Institutes on "Center and Periphery in New Spain: 16th and 17th Century Spanish and Indigenous Cultures in Mexico and New Mexico" held in Mexico City and Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1995 and "Texts of the Pre-Columbian/Spanish Encounters 1492-1650" at Johns Hopkins University in 1992; has published widely in religion and culture, and phenomenology and literature, with articles on the New World encounters, Biblical images in literature, landscape architecture, and detective fiction.
 

Florence Starr Hesler

Professor of English, Essex Community College; has also taught at University of Baltimore and Loyola University, Chicago; holds degrees from Douglass College (B.A.), University of Chicago (M.A.) and University of Delaware (Ph.D.); in addition to courses in English and world literature, has taught courses in Pre-Columbian culture and the encounter of cultures in the New World, in early and modern Latin American literature in translation, renaissance and baroque Spanish culture, and the utopian tradition, has conducted travel/study courses to Brazil and Mexico, was co-director of NEH Institutes on "Center and Periphery in New Spain: 16th and 17th Century Spanish and Indigenous Cultures in Mexico and New Mexico" held in Mexico City and Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1995 and "Texts of the Pre-Columbian/Spanish Encounters 1492-1650" at Johns Hopkins in 1992, and has mentored and spoken on encounter studies at a variety of campuses and conferences.
 

Project Administrator:

David A. Berry

Executive Director of Community College Humanities Association; Professor of History, Essex County College (NJ), and adjunct faculty, General Studies Program, New York University; administrator of numerous regional and national education programs; frequent panelist, workshop leader and presenter at professional conferences.
 

The Community College Humanities Association (CCHA), a national professional association for humanities faculty at community colleges, is devoted to advancing the humanities in higher education and in the public sector; CCHA publishes the Community College Humanities Review and welcomes submissions from two-year and four-year college faculty.

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