Program Faculty
Faculty & Program Directors
Below is a list of faculty at Goddard College. To filter this list by program, check the appropriate box.
MA in Individualized Studies, MA in Health Arts and Sciences
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
Sarah Bobrow-Williams, MA
I have twenty+ years experience working as a community and regional planner for nonprofits; community-based organizations, social enterprises and government agencies. My work emphasizes social, econom...
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, 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...
MA in Individualized Studies, MA in Health Arts and Sciences
Program Director in Plainfield, VT
Ruth Farmer, MS, MFA
My activism took root in North Carolina during the turbulent, liminal 50’s and 60’s. Fighting for social change and seeing it come into fruition – of a sort – gave me hope as well as faith. I have alw...
MA in Individualized Studies, MA in Health Arts and Sciences
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, PhD, MA
I write. And help others write through the blank or overflowing page, through what we know to what we don't know. I know what my students know all through my body: writing is hard and holy, mysterious...
MA in Individualized Studies, MA in Health Arts and Sciences
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
Susan Pearson, PhD, MTS, MA
I treasure the opportunity to be a part of the HAS program at Goddard, where creativity, passions, ways of knowing, and dreams and concerns for our world and ourselves meet in vibrant collaboration. T...
BA in Health Arts and Sciences, BA in Individualized Studies, MA in Health Arts and Sciences
Faculty in Plainfield, VT , Trustee in Plainfield, VT
S. B. Sowbel, PhD, MS
Do call me Sowbel (rhymes with global), those who know me well do, and I expect after working together, we will indeed know each other well. If the spelling trips you up a bit, think in terms of “sowi...
MA in Individualized Studies, MA in Health Arts and Sciences
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
James Sparrell, PhD, MA
All my life I have been drawn to books and stories. I see my work in clinical psychology as helping people to tell their stories, and to tell them in new ways, with new metaphors, new words, and somet...
MA in Individualized Studies, MA in Health Arts and Sciences
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
Sarah L. Van Hoy, PhD, MA, MA, MTCM
I am here at Goddard because of Love. We might as well start there. There are few places where we can study what we love, where we can share what we love, where we can long for the world to unfold in...
MA in Health Arts and Sciences
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
Lori Wynters, PhD, MFA, MEd
I am intrigued how we meet each other with full presence, especially in those moments when we forget where our ‘center’ is. I am curious how we 'flow' energy in our bodies and in our lives. I am inter...