Faculty
The Bachelor of Arts in Integrated Social Sciences features leading faculty from a variety of academic departments at the University of Washington. Our faculty members are experienced teachers and scholars at the forefront of their fields, dedicated to student growth and learning.
The ISS program also offers helpful support from a team of academic advisers, specialists who help you plan your schedule, choose the courses that best meet your needs and make sure you’re ready to succeed academically.
ISS Program Directors
Meg Spratt
Meg Spratt is the program co-director and a teaching professor in UW's Department of Communication. Before moving to Seattle, she taught journalism and media studies at Menlo College in Atherton, California; worked as a reporter and editor for Scripps League Newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area; and covered police, courts and local government for City News Service and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. With 30 years’ experience as a journalist and journalism educator, Sprattʼs research interests include news coverage of tragedy, media representations of race and gender, and influences of photojournalism on our perceptions of identity. Her work has been published in American Journalism, Visual Communication Quarterly, Journalism, The Howard Journal of Communication, Popular Communication, and Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. Spratt earned her doctorate in communication at the UW.
Mel Wensel
Mel Wensel is the program co-director and director of academic services for the online Integrated Social Sciences degree. She has worked in academic advising for more than 25 years, serving the majority of that time as director of academic services for the UW Department of English. A former Fulbright fellow, Wensel came to the UW in 1985 as a doctoral student in English before transitioning to a career as an adviser a few years later. She joined the ISS program in 2013. Wensel has received a number of awards for her advising work, including UW Adviser of the Year.
ISS Faculty
Mary Callahan, Associate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies
Leah Ceccarelli, Professor, Department of Communication
Kam Wing Chan, Professor, Geography
Rachel Chapman, Associate Professor, Anthropology; Global Health; African Studies; Gender Women & Sexuality Studies
Rachel Cichowski, Associate Professor, Political Science; Law, Societies & Justice; Gender Women & Sexuality Studies, European Studies
Karam Dana, Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell; Political Science, UW Seattle; Near and Middle Eastern Studies, UW Seattle
Madeleine Yue Dong, Professor, History and Jackson School of International Studies
Amanda Friz, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
Alexes Harris, Professor, Sociology
Jelani Ince, Assistant Professor, Sociology
Ralina Joseph, Professor, Communication
Sunila Kale, Associate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies
Justin Lawson, Lecturer, Department of Philosophy
Celia Lowe, Professor, Anthropology and Jackson School of International Studies
José Antonio Lucero, Associate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies
Matt McGarrity, Principal Lecturer, Communication
Rebakah Daro Minarchek, Core Faculty, Integrated Social Sciences; Assistant Teaching Professor, Jackson School of International Studies
Lynn Hankinson Nelson, Professor Emerita, Philosophy
LeiLani Nishime, Professor, Communication
Christian Novetzke, Professor, Jackson School of International Studies
Dennis O'Dea, Associate Teaching Professor, Economics
Robert Pekkanen, Professor, Jackson School of International Studies
James Pfeiffer, Professor, Global Health
Deborah Porter, Professor, Jackson School of International Studies
Vicente Rafael, Professor, History
Janine Slaker, Core Faculty, Integrated Social Sciences; Assistant Teaching Professor, Communication
Meg Spratt, Co-Director, Integrated Social Sciences; Teaching Professor, Communication
Timeka Tounsel, Assistant Professor, Black Studies in Communication
Jack Turner, Associate Professor, Political Science
James Wellman, Professor, Jackson School of International Studies