Franklin & Marshall College

Laurie T. Baulig

US History

Laurie T. Baulig joined Franklin & Marshall in 2008 as a faculty member in business, organizations and society, as well as women and gender studies, and was named director of CLAS in 2009. She holds an undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Florida as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and is an honors graduate of the University of Florida College of Law. Baulig spent more than 20 years in Washington, D.C., counseling clients on complex legal and public policy matters, achieving a breadth of experience that few lawyers can claim. She has served as an advocate before all three branches of government; she co-chaired a successful business coalition in Washington; and she participated as a member of senior management in two leading business trade associations. She is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar, the District of Columbia Bar, the Florida Bar, the Bar of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and the Bar of the U.S. Supreme Court. Eloquent about how her liberal arts education informed her own professional life, Baulig brings firsthand exposure to the intersection of the liberal arts and society to CLAS.

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Literature

Deborah Linder is an adjunct instructor of English at Franklin & Marshall, and also teaches at Elizabethtown College and Harrisburg Area Community College. She has taught courses ranging from "Victorian Novel" to "Introduction to Literature", and "English Composition" and "Reading and Writing About Place."

Linder earned her bachelor's degree in French and international studies from Macalester College, and her master's in writing from The Johns Hopkins University. She has also attended the Book Passage Travel Writers' Conference, the Ropewalk Writers Retreat, and the Iowa Summer Writing Festival. She is a founding member of the Writers House Fiction Workshop in Lancaster.

Linder currently serves as a discussion leader for the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, leading and facilitating book discussion groups in conjunction with the public library. She has also worked as a creative writing instructor for elementary school children, as a freelance writer and communications consultant, and as vice president of a public relations firm.

She has published pieces in Elysian Fields Quarterly, Central PA Magazine Onlline, Washington Post, What Works, and Rapportage.

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Writing

Marci Nelligan has an M.F.A. in creative writing from Mills College. She is a freelance writer and poet, whose writing has appeared in Dusie, the Tiny, Moria, Kulture Vulture, Foursquare, Hangman, Eratio, Word For/Word, Chain, Outside Voices and other journals.

She has published two chapbooks with Dusie Press, "Dispatch," and "Specimen," and is co-editing a book on the use of public space, due out in 2008. She has worked as a magazine editor for many years, and has taught writing at Mills College, the Ink People in Eureka, Calif., and ESL in Greece.

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Art History

Eliza Jane Reilly is the director of The Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin & Marshall and also teaches in the American Studies program. She previously served as the director of the Center for Liberal Arts & Society for six years. Prior to joining F&M in 2003, she was the executive director of the American Conference of Academic Deans, a national organization of chief academic officers committed to advancing liberal education, and was Director of Programs at the Association of American Colleges and Universities where her work focused on the improvement of undergraduate science education. She is currently a senior scholar at the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement.

Reilly received an M.A. in the History of Art, and a Ph.D. in American History from Rutgers University. Her scholarly work focuses on modernist art, and in particular on the influence of the philosophers William James and John Dewey on painters in both the US and Europe. She serves on the editorial boards of two peer-reviewed journals, The Radical History Review (Duke University Press), and William James Studies (University of Illinois Press).

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Moral Philosophy

Scott Vine has worked as the Reference Services Librarian at Franklin & Marshall since 2003, and will serve as Deputy College Librarian from 2009 to 2012. He has also been a librarian at Carnegie Mellon University and Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies. He earned his bachelor's in English and philosophy at Hiram College, his master's in philosophy from the University of Memphis, and his M.L.S. from Kent State University.

Vine coordinates the Franklin & Marshall library's reference services, including all electronic databases and various methods of research assistance, from the traditional desk to text/instant messaging. He acts as the library's liaison to the Philosophy, Psychology, Math and Computer Science departments, and the programs in Biological Foundations of Behavior (BFB), Scientific and Philosophical Studies of the Mind (SPM), and Science, Technology and Society (STS). He is also involved in redesigning parts of the library, managing the electronic and print reference collection, GoPrint, LibQual, and teaching library workshops to F&M classes and organizations. He serves on the editorial board of College & Research Libraries News, and has given talks on delivering traditional and virtual reference services at national and international library conferences.

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Director, Clemente Course

Marcy Dubroff is associate director of the Center for Liberal Arts and Society and the director of the Seachrist Institute's Clemente Course in the Humanities. She has spent more than 20 years in higher education, working in various capacities including sports information and public relations. She joined Franklin & Marshall in 1993 as the manager of the news bureau and also served as the associate director of College communications. She earned her B.S. with distinction from Cornell University, where she majored in communications.

Dubroff has also worked as a photographer, and has had her images published in numerous publications, and exhibited in several group shows. In addition, her articles have appeared in numerous publications, including LaxPower Newsletter, and several NCAA championship programs. She was the co-founder of the groundbreaking website College Lacrosse USA, which was purchased by Street & Smith's Sport Annuals, a division of Conde Nast Publications, in 2000. She has also taught courses in science writing and introductory photography.  She currently edits CLAS's award-winning newsletter Liberales and also serves  as the managing editor for Science Education and Civic Engagement: An International Journal.