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![]() Assistant Professor of Writing and Communication Phone: 907-228-4550 Email: spflorian@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Humanities Paul Bldg, 506, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus OtherSteve Florian comes to Ketchikan from sunny southern California, where he taught composition, business writing, and academic first year experience classes at California State University Northridge for five years; he also received his MA in Rhetoric and Composition from CSUN. He has also taught composition and critical thinking at Los Angeles Valley College and New York Film Academy. At one time a returning student himself, Steve’s main area of research interest is in retention and persistence among college students. He is currently working on a dissertation in that field through the Composition and Applied Linguistics PhD program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He has presented papers at academic conferences across the United States and in Australia, on such diverse topics as protest rhetoric, the rhetoric of surfing, and the commerce of virtue in Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews. Steve was an actor in Los Angeles for many years before joining the ranks of academia. He still enjoys watching movies, as well as fishing, hiking, reading, traveling, and playing tee ball with his wife and young daughter. | |
![]() Assistant Professor of Welding Phone: 228-4571 Email: rchoutcooper@alaska.edu Career Education: Welding Ketchikan Regional Maritime and Career Center, 104, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus | |
![]() Associate Professor of Mathematics Phone: 228-4502 Email: clianuzzi@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Natural Sciences Paul Bldg, Rm 509, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus EducationB.S. in Wildlife Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks; M.S. in Statistics, University of Alaska Fairbanks OtherColleen began working at the UAS Ketchikan Campus in 2006. She teaches Math 105, Math 107, Math 108, Math 200 and Stat 273. Outside of academics, Colleen enjoys hiking, cross-country skiing and skiijoring with her dog. | |
![]() Assistant Professor of Maritime Studies Phone: 228-4572 Email: mslabarge@alaska.edu Career Education: Marine Transportation Ketchikan Regional Maritime and Career Center, 107, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus EducationBA The College of Saint Rose 200grt/500gt Near Coastal Master OE in Marine Transportation UAS Ketchikan | |
![]() Professor of English Phone: 228-4547, Fax: 225-3624 Email: rslandis@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Humanities Paul Bldg, Room 507, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus EducationM. Litt., Middlebury College, Bread Loaf School of English; M.A., University of Georgia. Rod specializes in Victorian and American nineteenth-century literature. His research focuses on the way Gothic themes and figurations transform texts from the Victorian century. BiographyRod began teaching at UAS Ketchikan in 1992, became visiting faculty in 1995 and was hired as Asst. Professor of English in 1996. He was the sole English faculty at that time; today Rod heads a local Humanities department of three full-time and half a dozen adjunct faculty. In addition, Rod is senior faculty for the regional English department and is in his third year of serving as Director of Composition and Assessment for all of UAS. Rod teaches an upper-division literature course online every semester, and also teaches composition, humanities and theatre courses, both online and locally. | |
![]() Instructor of General Studies Phone: 228-4549 Email: bgmorgan@alaska.edu Ziegler Bldg, 106, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus | |
![]() Assistant Professor of Marine Transportation Phone: 796-6153, Fax: 796-6577 Email: nlnickerson@alaska.edu Career Education Technical Education Center, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus Education1996: Master of Arts, Naval War College, Newport RI USCG Licenses: Courses TaughtMaster 100T/OUPV BiographyCaptain Nickerson is our Juneau based Maritime Professor. He brings a wealth of experience and expertise to our program and through his efforts has expanded the UAS Maritime presence in Juneau immensely. Captain Nickerson is a retired USCG officer and has many years of command experience aboard a variety of USCG Cutters. Upon his retirement from the USCG, he worked as a Mate aboard towing vessels with Crowley Maritime in Valdez and as a relief Mate/Chief Mate for the Alaska Marine Highway System. Captain Nickerson also was the owner/operator of Alaska Sailing Charters, commanding a 49 ft ketch on expedition, sightseeing and dinner charters. In his spare time, Captain Nickerson enjoys surfing, kayaking and travel - especially to destinations with big waves! | |
![]() Assistant Professor of Power Technology Phone: 228-4566, Fax: 228-4564 Email: ltoloane@alaska.edu Career Education: Marine Transportation Ketchikan Regional Maritime and Career Center, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus EducationA.A.S., Oregon Institute of Technology Calhoon MEBA Engineer School USCG Licensed Marine Engineer | |
![]() Assistant Professor of Sociology & Political Science Phone: 228-4518 Email: kmpolanska@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Social Sciences Paul Bldg, Room 517, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus EducationPh.D. in Sociology from University of Minnesota M.A. in Latin American Studies, Stanford University B.A. in Journalism, San Francisco State University BiographyKasia has worked at UAS Ketchikan as an Adjunct Instructor of Government and Sociology since 2007. She has also taught sociology and political science at the University of Minnesota, MN; Sacred Heart University, CT; and American Public University System, WV. Her past professional experience includes working for 7 years within the United Nations human rights treaty system as a Research Director of a non-governmental human rights organization. Her teaching and research interests are wide-ranging and include general and political sociology, institutions, social problems, social psychology, race and ethnicity, ethnic conflict, human rights, Europe, Latin America | |
![]() Professor of History Phone: 228-4541 Email: jtradzilowski@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Social Sciences Paul Bldg, Room 503, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus EducationPh.D., 1999, Arizona State University, specializing in Modern U.S. History, Russia/Eastern Europe, and Public History. Certificate in Scholarly Publishing, 1994, Arizona State University. BA, 1989, History, Southwest Minnesota State University. BiographyHello! Welcome to my faculty homepage! I have taught history, art history and geography at UAS on the Ketchikan campus since 2007. Prior to moving to Alaska, I taught history courses at University of St. Thomas, Hamline University, and Anoka-Ramsey College in Minnesota. I also served as assistant project director at Center for Nations in Transition, at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota where I helped design and administer USAID and State Department-sponsored training programs for business, economics, and political science faculty and NGO leaders in Ukraine and east central Europe. My research and teaching interests are wide-ranging and diverse: immigration and ethnicity, military history, war and genocide, the impact of technology on the history and geography of the Great Plains and Midwest, local and regional studies, and the history of Poland, Russia, Ukraine and central and eastern Europe. | |
![]() Ketchikan Campus Director, Professor of Anthropology/Sociology Phone: 228-4515, Fax: 225-3624 Email: pmschulte@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Social Sciences, Ketchikan Director's Office Ziegler Bldg, Room 116A, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus http://www.uas.alaska.edu/ketchikan EducationPh.D., University of New Mexico. Dr. Schulte specializes in multicultural education, Alaska Native cultures, sociocultural change, and archaeology of southeast Alaska. BiographyPriscilla Schulte has been teaching on the Ketchikan campus since 1980 and has been teaching distance classes for over ten years. Most of her students are in southeast Alaska, but some are from as far away as Connecticut. Priscilla has taught summer classes on the Juneau campus as well as distance delivery classes by video and audio conference to the Juneau campus. She teaches primarily lower division anthropology and sociology classes, as well as multicultural education classes. Priscilla started her teaching career by teaching anthropology at Dine College (formerly Navajo Community College) now located in Tsaile, Arizona. Her anthropological fieldwork in Arizona and Chicago sparked her interest in completing an M.A. in anthropology at the University of Connecticut. During her years of living and teaching on the Navajo Nation, she began her doctoral work at the University of New Mexico which she completed after her move to Alaska in 1980. Priscilla’s research and teaching interests are in multicultural education, Alaska Native cultures (primarily of southeast Alaska), and Native American culture change. She produced the video, “The Bear Stands Up,” which has aired on public television. Her most recent research has focused on the totem pole carvers of the CCC era. She is an adopted member of the Tongass Brown Bear clan of the Tlingit people. She is the mother of two daughters who have inspired and encouraged her in her research and teaching. One of the most exciting events of Priscilla’s teaching year is the annual fieldtrip coordinated with the Forest Service to do archaeological and ethnographic fieldwork with local Native elders, cultural teachers, and UAS students. The field trips focus on the survey and inventory of important cultural sites located in southern southeast Alaska. | |
![]() Associate Professor of Sociology Phone: 228-4527, Fax: 225-3624 Email: wlurquhartii@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Social Sciences Paul Bldg, Room 505, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus Education
BiographyBill Urquhart teaches courses in sociology, general social science, humanities, and multicultural education. As a sociologist, his teaching interests include social problems, deviant behavior, social psychology, education, and criminology, with special focus areas in juvenile delinquency, domestic violence, and social problems relevant to Alaska. Dr. Urquhart primarily teaches online and serves as the Distance Coordinator for the online Bachelor of Arts in Social Science degree program. He is also the Project Director for a Title III grant for Alaska Native Serving Institutions titled "Strengthening Arts & Sciences eLearning Communities." Dr. Urquhart was born and raised in Ketchikan, Alaska, from a family long involved in commercial fishing. After graduating high school, he continued on to Oregon Institute of Technology, Oregon State University, and eventually to Tulane University, where his PhD focused on bullying and conflict resolution among high school students in New Orleans and in a village in Western Alaska. Bill enjoys spending time with his wife, Frankie, who is a high school science teacher, and their four children, Liam, Neila, Torran, and Kinsey. Bill plays the bagpipes with Ketchikan's Misty Thistle Pipes & Drums, and spends spare time fishing, hunting, and gathering with family. OtherAdvising contact for all distance-based students in the Bachelor of Arts in Social Science degree | |
![]() Associate Professor of English & Communication Phone: 228-4514, Fax: 225-3624 Email: twhalen1@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Humanities Paul Bldg, Room 513, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus EducationM.F.A., Northern Michigan University; B.A., University of Michigan. Teague Whalen specializes in creative writing, composition, communication, and literature. BiographyRaised by two passionate educators and two feisty younger sisters, Teague quickly learned that summers meant time to travel America's blue highways and to romp through small towns and national forests by bicycle, canoe, skis, and foot, followed by nights spent sleeping in a tent and usually with close friends in tow. Teague's college teaching ventures have transformed the classroom into kitchens, lakes, mountain tops, and tents when he was a Lecturer I for the University of Michigan's New England Literature Program for two spring terms in rural Maine. While a teaching fellow for Northern Michigan University, he pioneered an outdoor ecocomposition course in the wild Upper Peninsula (U.P.). When he could no longer "Say yeah to the U.P., eh?" he wondered how Alaska compared to the great-lake state. Used to two-tracks and lakes, pine-riddled hills, and weather that could change any minute, he found his mother was right (as a good mother tends to be) when she said that Alaska was like the U.P. on steroids. He has not been disappointed yet, and when he finds Ketchikan raining too much, he keeps his fingers busy composing lofty poems of a bluer heart or stories of longing for a drier hue. When that doesn't work, he takes up his axe planed out of Sitka spruce and gets down to picking away the steel strings in search of a cloudy love song. | |
![]() Associate Professor of Psychology Phone: 228-4563 Email: aaziegler@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Social Sciences Paul Bldg, room 508, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus EducationB.A., M.S., Ph.D. University of Michigan | |
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![]() Ketchikan Campus Director, Professor of Anthropology/Sociology Phone: 228-4515, Fax: 225-3624 Email: pmschulte@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Social Sciences, Ketchikan Director's Office Ziegler Bldg, Room 116A, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus http://www.uas.alaska.edu/ketchikan EducationPh.D., University of New Mexico. Dr. Schulte specializes in multicultural education, Alaska Native cultures, sociocultural change, and archaeology of southeast Alaska. BiographyPriscilla Schulte has been teaching on the Ketchikan campus since 1980 and has been teaching distance classes for over ten years. Most of her students are in southeast Alaska, but some are from as far away as Connecticut. Priscilla has taught summer classes on the Juneau campus as well as distance delivery classes by video and audio conference to the Juneau campus. She teaches primarily lower division anthropology and sociology classes, as well as multicultural education classes. Priscilla started her teaching career by teaching anthropology at Dine College (formerly Navajo Community College) now located in Tsaile, Arizona. Her anthropological fieldwork in Arizona and Chicago sparked her interest in completing an M.A. in anthropology at the University of Connecticut. During her years of living and teaching on the Navajo Nation, she began her doctoral work at the University of New Mexico which she completed after her move to Alaska in 1980. Priscilla’s research and teaching interests are in multicultural education, Alaska Native cultures (primarily of southeast Alaska), and Native American culture change. She produced the video, “The Bear Stands Up,” which has aired on public television. Her most recent research has focused on the totem pole carvers of the CCC era. She is an adopted member of the Tongass Brown Bear clan of the Tlingit people. She is the mother of two daughters who have inspired and encouraged her in her research and teaching. One of the most exciting events of Priscilla’s teaching year is the annual fieldtrip coordinated with the Forest Service to do archaeological and ethnographic fieldwork with local Native elders, cultural teachers, and UAS students. The field trips focus on the survey and inventory of important cultural sites located in southern southeast Alaska. | |
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![]() Information Systems Technician Phone: 228-4570 Email: bayersjr@alaska.edu Ziegler Bldg, 107, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus | |
![]() Academic Support Specialist / Library Manager Phone: 228-4522, Fax: 228-4573 Email: kjbolling3@alaska.edu Ziegler Bldg, 202, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus | |
![]() Weld/Power Tech/Marine Trades Assistant Phone: 228-4568 Email: acgoffredi@alaska.edu Career Education Ketchikan Regional Maritime and Career Center, 102, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus | |
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![]() Records and Registration Clerk Phone: 228-4513, Fax: 225-3624 Email: blhurley@alaska.edu Ziegler Bldg, Room 101, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus | |
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![]() Information Systems Technician Phone: 228-4531 Email: jplong@alaska.edu Ziegler Bldg, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus | |
![]() Registration and Business Office Assistant Phone: 228-4511, Fax: 907-225-3624 Email: trnelson4@alaska.edu Ziegler Bldg, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus | |
![]() Academic Support & Testing Center Supervisor / CIOS Adjunct Faculty Phone: 228-4507 Email: kcschulte@alaska.edu Learning and Testing Center Ketchikan Campus EducationAssociate of Arts from Seattle Central Community College Bachelor of Science in Business Management from University of Alabama Birmingham Courses TaughtCIOS 100, CIOS 101A & 101B, CIOS 110A, CIOS 105, CIOS 132A, CIOS 135, CIOS 193A, ACCT 100 and ACCT 222 BiographyKimberly Schulte has been teaching and working in computer/technology related fields throughout the past 10 years. After completing a Bachelor’s of Science in Business Management at the University of Alabama, Kimberly worked for several years in Business Management. In the evenings Kimberly managed the computer lab at UAS-Ketchikan and was hired as Computer Lab Instructional Technician in 2003. Today she supports UAS faculty, students, & staff with technology needs. Currently Kimberly supervises the Ketchikan campus Computer Lab, Testing Center, Academic Support, and is an Adjunct instructor for Computer Literacy, Word and Excel courses. Kimberly has lived in New Mexico, Washington, & Alabama, but has spent most of her life in Ketchikan. She has traveled to all of the continental United States, been to a handful of European Countries, attended school in Japan on the exchange program, and vacationed several times in South American countries. Kimberly is married and has two children that add vibrancy to her life. | |
![]() Human Resource Technician Phone: 228-4509, Fax: 228-4540 Email: gjrichardson@alaska.edu Ziegler Bldg, Room 116B, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus | |
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![]() MT Program Assistant Phone: 228-4568 Email: astabb@alaska.edu Career Education Ketchikan Regional Maritime and Career Center, 102, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus EducationB.A. English, Creative Writing Emphasis BiographyBefore moving to Ketchikan, I lived in Boise, Idaho. I worked for a small, independent bookstore called Rediscovered Books. Mostly, I spent my time raising my five wonderful children with my husband Jordan, training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and reading voraciously. In 2015, I began working as a substitute library assistant at the Ketchikan Public Library before transitioning to working at the UAS Ketchikan campus library until 2019. I now support students and faculty in our Career and Technical programs. I enjoy history, poetry, powerlifting, grappling, and a good strong cup of coffee. | |
![]() Administrative Assistant Phone: 228-4558, Fax: 225-3624 Email: ljwilliams6@alaska.edu Ziegler Bldg, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus | |
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![]() Academic Support Specialist / Library Manager Phone: 228-4522, Fax: 228-4573 Email: kjbolling3@alaska.edu Ziegler Bldg, 202, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus | |
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![]() Library Assistant Phone: 228-4538 Email: mlampton@alaska.edu Ziegler Bldg, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus | |
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