Faculty & Staff

Emily Alicia Affolter, PhD, is the director of and faculty for Prescott College’s Sustainability Education Ph.D. Program, working with doctoral scholars on the nexus of social and environmental justice as enacted in teaching, leading, and learning. She earned her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on Multicultural Education from the UW working alongside Dr. Geneva Gay, founder of culturally responsive teaching. Emily’s current scholarship, dissemination, and facilitation highlight culturally responsive, equity literate, and sustaining pedagogies for teachers, faculty, and leaders in K-16 settings and STEM higher education. Additionally, Emily’s latest endeavors explore decolonizing research praxis and critical climate justice initiatives.

Dr. Dan Baker is a creative educator and author who has used personal connection, learning-centered course design, and innovative technology to teach over 6,000 future engineers at Colorado State University. Dan loves to teach and works to optimize student learning through engaging learning activities, the use of artificial intelligence, and a supportive classroom environment. Dan also co-authored an open educational resources (OER) textbook, Engineering Statics: Open and Interactive, which is viewed by around 300,000 users each year. He learned to love teaching as a tour boat captain in Glacier National Park during his college summers.

Christopher Berry (Ph.D., University of Arkansas) is an Associate Professor of Marketing at Colorado State University. Chris’s expertise and interests are in marketing and public policy, consumer health and well-being, and sustainable consumption. Chris has taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate marketing courses over the past ten years and delivered seminars and doctoral workshops at international institutions. His research is published in leading marketing and interdisciplinary journals and has received recognition for its contributions to policy and society. Beyond research and teaching, Chris enjoys spending time with his wife, Tara, and two beautiful kids.

David Borgo is an ethnomusicologist, jazz saxophonist and composer, and Professor in the Department of Music at UC San Diego. He joined the faculty in 2002 and served as the Department Chairperson from 2017-2020. David is affiliated faculty in Ethnic Studies and Cognitive Science, and he received a 2020 Diversity Equity and Inclusion Teaching Award. David’s book, Sync or Swarm: Improvising Music in a Complex Age (2005, 2022 rev. ed.), won the Alan P. Merriam Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology in 2006. David also won the International John Coltrane Competition in 1994. He has concertized extensively, including performances in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North, Central, and South America. David has published numerous academic articles and released 14 CDs and one DVD of original music.

Ed Boyer is Department Chair and Director of Environmental Studies and Sustainability Programs at Prescott College. He was the founding director of the college’s field station in Kino Bay, Sonora, Mexico on the Gulf of California. He has lead hundreds of field courses and expeditions in the USA and the Gulf of California, Mexico, and Baja California. On the Spring 2023 SAS voyage he taught Oceanography and Coastal Environmental Ecology.
His research interests include diversity, complexity, and stability of ecological communities. Dr. Boyer has worked at many field stations and he has worked with the Organization of Biological Field Stations, NSF and with members of the federal government. He is currently Director of the Walnut Creek Center for Education and Research in Arizona.

Roz brings to the voyage nearly twenty years of experience in academic and public libraries with additional experience in service-learning, civic education, and municipal administration. She began her library career at Williams College and has worked in the libraries of UMass Amherst, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Berkshire Community College (MA), Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, and the towns of Williamstown and Topsfield (MA). She is deeply committed to the field of librarianship and its ability to fight misinformation, create community, address systemic issues, and offer pathways to success and personal growth. Roz will also be bringing her extensive knowledge of MacGyver and the Golden Girls and will happily discuss them with you at length.

Dr. Keeling is a rhetoric scholar with research interests in rhetoric of race, gender and science. She collaborates and publishes with evolutionary biologists, marine ecologists, geologists, chemists and physicists. Students describe Keeling as engaging and enthusiastic, and her classes as activity-based and community-oriented. Keeling is a past president of the Organization for Research on Gender and Communication and the faculty producer of the USD podcast There’s More. She serves on the editorial boards of Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Communication, Feminist Pedagogy, Women’s Studies in Communication, and Enculturation.

Professor Kehbuma Langmia is a double Fulbright Scholar/ Professor and Chair in the Department of Communication Studies, School of Communications, Howard University. A graduate from the Communication and Media Studies Program at Howard University. He has extensive knowledge and expertise in Information Communication Technology (ICT), Intercultural, Cross Cultural and International Communication, Black Diaspora Communication Theory, Decolonial Media Studies, Social Media and Afrocentricity. Since earning his PhD in Communications and Media Studies from Howard University, he has published 18 books, 21 book chapters and 15 peer-reviewed journal articles nationally and internationally.
Website: drlangmia.net

María del Mar López-Cabrales, Full Professor at Colorado State University’s Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, specializes in Latin American and Spanish cultures and literatures. Her student-centered teaching approach emphasizes discussion and presentations, fostering active participation and personal connection to course materials. With a research focus on women and gender studies, she has authored seven books and numerous articles exploring female experiences in Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, and Spain. Editor of Confluencia since Fall 2018, she brings a deep commitment to advancing scholarly discourse. López-Cabrales participated in the Semester at Sea program in Fall 2000 and Fall 2017 and she is from Cadiz, Spain where she likes spending summers with family and friends.

Dr. Ashley Harvey is a professor and Director of Undergraduate Academic Affairs in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at Colorado State University (CSU). Since 2007, she has taught more than 10,000 students across 15 different courses in 150 undergraduate and graduate sections, on topics such as parenting, couples and families, lifespan development, therapeutic techniques, grant writing, and dying and grieving. Dr. Harvey has spoken at TEDx, is a licensed marriage and family therapist, and earlier in her career worked at the CSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital as a grief counselor and educator.

I am an anthropologist who studies how and why societies change and evolve. I do this by reconstructing the organization of prehistoric societies to see how they arranged their economic, political, and religious institutions. My current research compares the roles that religion played in different populations to get a better sense of which facets of religious behavior are universal to all humans, and which result from the specific needs of each society.

I’m currently the Associate Director of the Center for Comparative Archaeology of the University of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Crestcencia Ortiz-Barnett (she/her) is a Detroit native and newly appointed Assistant Professor and Theatre Historian at North Carolina A&T State University. She is an ASU Gammage Scholar, Catalyst Award Winner, JEDI award recipient for 2023 and 2024, Presidential Graduate Assistant, and founder of the ASU Black Theatre Organization and the UNLV African American Student Association for Theatre and Film. Ortiz-Barnett has a Ph.D in Education, an MFA in theatre Directing, and MA in Theatre Arts and a BA in Theatre Studies. Her research focuses heavily on the sense of belonging and impostor syndrome in undergraduate students and students of color in theatre. Dr. Ortiz-Barnett is excited to join the SAS Staculty and even more excited to meet and teach some amazing students!

Chilean video and installation artist Magaly Ponce, with a Graphic Design background from Universidad de Valparaíso, has received Creative Video Grants from the Rockefeller-MacArthur-Lampadia Foundation and Fundación Andes. She earned an M.F.A. via a Fulbright grant at Syracuse University and is a tenured Professor of Art at Bridgewater State University. Ponce’s work in video, performance, digital printing, and drawing explores emotional landscapes through metaphor, blending whimsical and political themes. She emphasizes portability: her video pieces are “made of light and light in weight,” and her material works are compact and versatile. Exhibited in Chile, the U.S., Denmark, Cape Verde, Lisbon, and the Azores, her art reflects 25 years of impactful and adaptable creativity.

Dr. Schiffman worked for more than 30 years as a reporter and editor — for United Press International, The Asian Wall Street Journal, The Wall Street Journal and CNN — before turning to teaching at Georgia College & State University from 2012 to 2021. During his career as a working journalist, Schiffman served as a resident correspondent for the AWSJ in Hong Kong, Seoul, and Beijing before transferring to the WSJ in Atlanta, Georgia. At CNN, he worked mostly for the international network, finishing his tenure as chief copy editor for CNN International. At Georgia College, Schiffman supervised the student-run television newscast in addition to teaching journalism and other media courses.