Program Faculty
Faculty & Program Directors
Below is a list of faculty at Goddard College. To filter this list by program, check the appropriate box.
BA in Health Arts and Sciences, BA in Individualized Studies, BA in Sustainability, MA in Individualized Studies, MA in Health Arts and Sciences
Faculty in Plainfield, VT, Port Townsend, WA
Karen Campbell, MA
I started life in a rather tight, island-nation that thought itself “white,” was translated through various cultures (mostly "Eastern"), and languages, and spent twenty-odd years working in another, s...
BA in Health Arts and Sciences, BA in Individualized Studies, BA in Sustainability
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
Neema Caughran, PhD, MDiv, MA
What I call “radical inclusivity” is my commitment to life. I seek to break down the walls that separate “us” and “them:” one from another, culture from culture, religion from religion, community fro...
BA in Health Arts and Sciences, BA in Individualized Studies, BA in Sustainability, MA in Individualized Studies, MA in Health Arts and Sciences
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
Francis Xavier Charet, PhD, MA
Like many who grew up in the ‘60s and ‘70s, I experienced the shift from an understanding of life based on traditional values to one more directly related to personal experience. This shift turned me...
BA in Health Arts and Sciences, BA in Individualized Studies, BA in Sustainability
Program Director in Plainfield, VT, Port Townsend, WA
Ann Driscoll, EdD, MST
While I have lived nearly half of my life in New England (the New Hampshire and Maine seacoasts and western Massachusetts) I think of myself as a Southerner. I grew up in Louisville, Kentucky – a pret...
BA in Health Arts and Sciences, BA in Individualized Studies, BA in Sustainability
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
Newcomb Greenleaf, PhD
After spending much of my life teaching mathematics in mainstream academia, I am utterly delighted to find myself at home at Goddard, where, instead of looking for mistakes to mark wrong, I can focus...
BA in Health Arts and Sciences, BA in Individualized Studies, BA in Sustainability
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
Bethe Hagens, PhD, MA
My best skill is asking questions, both of others and myself. My academic training is cultural anthropology, music, and design. I’m now in just my fifth calendar year at Goddard, but I have wanted to...
BA in Health Arts and Sciences, BA in Individualized Studies, BA in Sustainability
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
Catherine Lowther, PhD, MA
Sustainability has become the focus of my life and grows out of a lifetime of living simply in close relationship with the natural world and seeing the increasing impacts we are having on the earth. I...
BA in Individualized Studies, BA in Sustainability, MA in Individualized Studies
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
Ralph H. Lutts, EdD
How did I arrive here and what do I have to offer students? It all happened through a series of accidents and opportunities as I pursued my many interests and efforts to do something in the world. I s...
BA in Health Arts and Sciences, BA in Individualized Studies, BA in Sustainability
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
Sara Norton, MA
I love working with Goddard students, for like you, experiential learning has been a life-long passion for me. I enjoy helping students find ways to use the world around them as the classroom. I also...
BA in Health Arts and Sciences, BA in Individualized Studies, BA in Sustainability
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
Suzanne Richman, MSPH
I work with a range of students focused on creating healthy personal, social and ecological spaces. I am keen to advise those interested in multiple perspectives-- from sacred ways of knowing to crit...
BA in Health Arts and Sciences, BA in Individualized Studies, BA in Sustainability
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
Muriel Shockley, MA
I was born a teacher and a student and have come to know organically that learning is an act of liberation and teaching an act of love. I believe learning is both emancipatory and subversive. Since 19...
BA in Health Arts and Sciences, BA in Individualized Studies, BA in Sustainability
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
Karen Stupski, PhD
I am passionate about creating a sustainable, cooperative culture. To me this means working for social and ecological justice, restoring damaged ecosystems, and creating modes of production and living...
BA in Health Arts and Sciences, BA in Individualized Studies, BA in Sustainability
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
Eva Swidler, PhD
My 'highest' academic degree, a PhD, is in history. Thinking about the location of the present as part of a continuum between the past and the future best explains for me how this world came to look a...














