Paul E. Jackson grew up in Phoenix, when his family moved there after World War II. He graduated from ASU in 1959 with a degree in journalism. After five years of working in that field, he returned to ASU to earn a doctorate in English. He taught in South Dakota before returning to Arizona, where he enjoys landscape painting, especially in the desert.
Llewellyn D. Howell earned his doctorate at Syracuse University and, most recently, taught at the ASU Thunderbird School of Global Management. He has also taught at the American University in Washington, D.C., and at the University of Hawaii. He has been a Peace Corps volunteer and has worked for the U. S. State Department and the Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of Defense, in addition to work for the Malaysian Prime Minister's Office and for Singapore Technologies. He lives in Glendale with his wife, Suzy.
Nicole Herbots was born in Watermael, a small municipality near Brussels, Belgium. In 1991, she was appointed to the Department of Physics faculty at ASU. She specializes in condensed matter physics, but wears many hats. She is a physicist, engineer, researcher, mentor, inventor, entrepreneur, wife, mother, grandmother and catechist.
Randel McGraw Helms retired from the Department of English at ASU in 2007. He taught courses on the Romantic poets and on The Bible as literature. He is the author of five books of literary criticism including “Tolkien’s World,” “Gospel Fictions,” and “The Bible Against Itself.” Making poems has been his lifelong secret vice.
John Stuart Hall is Emeritus Professor of public affairs and Emeritus co-director of the Resilience Solutions Group at ASU. He has written extensively about local public policy and is particularly interested in community resilience. Most recently he co-edited the “Handbook of Adult Resilience” (Guilford Press, 2012).
J. Richard Haefer is Emeritus Professor of music at ASU. His areas of study are musicology and ethnomusicology, in which he has researched Colonial music in Mexico and Colombia.
Don Haberman is Emeritus Professor of English literature. His books include “The Plays of Thornton Wilder” and several works about G. B. Shaw.
Anthony Gully received his master’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and his doctorate from Stanford University. He is the author of “French Clocks in the Age of Napoléon” and co-author of “The Art of Seeing: John Ruskin and the Victorian Eye.” He served as editor of Studies in Iconography from 1982 to 1993. He has published articles and exhibition catalogs on William Blake, Francisco Goy, Thomas Rowlandson and the Pre-Raphaelites.
Aleksandra Gruzinska grew up in Poznan, Poland, and studied in Barcelona, Spain, before immigrating to the United States in 1951. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in French from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She joined ASU in 1973 as an assistant professor of French, and served as director of the graduate program in French during her tenure and as head of the French section.
Christine Uber Grosse earned a bachelor’s degree in geography and spanish from the University of Mary Washington and a doctorate in Romance languages from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After 20 years as an English as a second language instructor at Florida International University in Miami, she joined the faculty at ASU Thunderbird School of Global Management, where she taught Spanish and managerial communication. Since retirement, she has lived in South Africa, Mexico and the United Arab Emirates. Her hobbies include painting, ping-pong and hiking.