Stuart Tanner

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Communications and Media
Co-director of the Communications and Media program
M.A., Balliol College, Oxford

Professor Tanner is an acclaimed producer and director of documentary films for the BBC, National Geographic, the Discovery Channel, and others.

His 1996 documentary The Mahogany Trail, on the plight of Amazonian Indians whose reserves are invaded for mahogany wood for export to foreign markets, won the Bill Travers Insight Award at the London International Environmental Film Festival. His account of the effects of nuclear testing in China, Death on the Silk Road, won the Rory Peck Award for Journalism in 1999. His 2001 documentary Profits of Doom, an investigation into the policies of the World Bank and IMF in developing nations, was chosen for viewing at the North South film festival. His 2002 BBC documentary on the Arab-Israeli conflict, Children of Vengeance. won the Foreign Press Association's Story of the Year award. His 2004 hour-long archaeological program for the Channel Four/Discovery series Time Team uncovered the mysteries of one of the first man-made monuments built on the British landscape.

Gurdon Leete

Assistant Professor of Art
Co-director of the Communications and Media program
B.F.A., M.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute

Professor Leete has worked as a freelance artist in Web design, graphic design, and 3-D animation. He is also an award-winning graphics software engineer, and is a co-author of the Multitile plug-in for generating complex symmetric imagery in the free GNU image manipulation program, the GIMP.

Professor Leete is the co-author of nine books on popular software applications, including six books on the Web animation software package Flash, and he has published 19 essays about the frontiers of computing. His books have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Russian and Spanish. Professor Leete has also been a pioneer in using GNU/Linux applications in undergraduate art and design classes, and he edits a blog on free software for art, music and personal creativity. More

Kenneth West

Assistant Professor of Management
B.A., Maharishi International University
M.B.A., Maharishi International University

Professor West has extensive knowledge and experience of almost every aspect of commercial photography and printing. He worked for many years for Hallmark Cards, has previously been Director of the MUM Press, and is the photographer for many of the University's projects. He learned photography from his grandfather, a portrait photographer who won top prizes at international competitions, and his father, a Senior Vice President at Hallmark who was a pioneer of leading-edge photographic and printing systems.

Gillian Brown

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art
B.A., Brown University
M.A.E., Rhode Island School of Design
M.F.A., University of California at Los Angeles

Professor Brown received her M.F.A. in photography from the University of California. Her work has been exhibited at the Center George Pompideau, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Santa Fe Museum of Fine Arts, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Des Moines Art Center, and numerous other venues. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, and other publications, and has been reproduced in numerous books and catalog. Professor Brown was a Bunting Fellow in Visual Arts at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in 1999-2000. More

Terry Fairchild, Ph.D.

Professor of Literature
B.A., University of Nevada
M.A., University of Utah
Ph.D., University of Iowa

Dr. Fairchild teaches courses in the art and history of film. In addition to film history, his research interests include modern drama, twentieth-century literature, and media studies.

James Fairchild, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Literature and Writing
B.A., Brigham Young University
M.A., University of Utah
Ph.D., University of Iowa

Dr. Fairchild has extensive experience as a journalist, photographer, writer, and publications editor, and teaches courses in photojournalism and screenwriting.

Nynke Passi, M. A.

Assistant Professor of Literature and Writing
B.A., Maharishi International University
M.A., San Francisco State University

Professor Passi is a distinguished writer and poet whose work has been published in numerous anthologies and literary magazines, including The Gulf Coast Review, The Anthology of New England Writers, Ink, and The Dryland Fish. Her story "The Kiss" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She also works as a freelance editor and translator and is a member of the board of the New England Writers' Association. Professor Passi teaches courses in travel writing, poetry, advanced fiction writing, and essay writing.

David Goodman

Assistant Professor of Management
B.A., McGill University (Canada)
M.B.A., Ph.D., Maharishi International University

Dr. Goodman is a board member of the Fairfield Entrepreneurs Association and is a consultant to firms helping them write business plans and raise capital. He teaches courses in principles of business success and marketing research.

Jessica Keen

Instructor of Communications and Media

Susan McGuire Romero

Instructor of Communications and Media
BFA, Virginia Commonwealth University
TESOL certificate, ITT Online

Gabriel Romero

Instructor of Communications and Media
A.A., Santa Barbara City College
A.S., Santa Barbara City College