Faculty
Michael
Flower, Professor of Interdisciplinary Science
Studies
Research interests: original training and research/teaching
in developmental and molecular biology; political, moral,
social and economic understandings of natural science;
science education reform
Phone: 503/725-5362
flowerm@pdx.edu
Kathleen
Merrow, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies,
Social Sciences
Research interests: modern European intellectual
history—France and Germany; Rhetoric and Politics:
Nietzsche Rewriting the History of Modernity; history of
rhetoric
Phone: 503/725-5365
merrowk@pdx.edu
Lawrence
Wheeler, Director, Professor of Humanities and Applied
Linguistics
Research interests: history/theory of autobiography;
comparative classical traditions; history/theory of writing
systems; word/image studies
Phone: 503/725-4928
wheelerl@pdx.edu
William
H. York, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies,
Humanities
Research interests: Medieval and early modern European
science and medicine; history of the body; history of the
family
Phone: 503/725-5215
why@pdx.edu
