Liberal Arts Faculty
Julie Longo
Julie Longo is a cultural historian specializing in 20th-century United States Urban History and the relationship between history and memory.
Brian Baker
A 25 year veteran of the automotive design community, Baker has worked at GM Design in the Detroit area and in Europe at General Motors Opel studios.
Molly Beauregard
Molly Beauregard’s courses, which include Intro to Sociology, Media Studies and Cultural Semiotics, explore the relationship between art, advertising and popular culture.
Laura Bernstein-Machlay
An author and poet, Laura Bernstein-Machlay has been published consistently in a number of national literary magazines throughout the last 10 years. Her work has appeared most recently in Michigan Quarterly Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Bellingham Review and Poetry.com.
Ted Bott
Ted Bott has been involved with advanced product design and development for more than 25 years.
Joy Burnett
Specializing in American literature, film and visual culture, Joy Burnett has taught writing in Detroit since 2000.
Vincent Carducci
Vince Carducci is a contributing writer on the arts for Metro Times, Detroit's leading weekly newspaper, and a staff writer for PopMatters.com, a webzine of global culture.
Lisa Catani
An instructor of college English for nearly 30 years, Dr. Lisa Catani has taught composition and literature courses at the College for Creative Studies since 1997.
Tim Dugdale
Although he holds a Ph.D. in communication/anthropology from Wayne State University, Dugdale's principal area of interest and teaching is creative writing, particularly the social realist novel and new journalism in all its various glories.
Mary Duncan
Mary Duncan was granted her Ph.D. in Political Theory and American Culture from Wayne State University and has taught liberal arts classes at the CCS for 12 years.
Kathleen Garrett
Kathleen Grimm Garrett is a literature and writing instructor who believes that skill in reading is necessary for acquiring skill in writing.
Roger Green
Roger Green has spent most of his professional life writing about art and architecture for newspapers and magazines.
Christine Lahey
Christine Lahey has been teaching at CCS for 25 years, specializing in interdisciplinary studies and fairy tales.
Christine McCauley
Chris McCauley is a fine artist whose paintings focus on portraits and landscapes.
Mary McNichols
A professor of Art History, Mary McNichols has held a variety of academic and administrative positions at the College for Creative Studies. S
Mike Mokdad
An adjunct faculty member who teaches mathematics, science, and engineering at CCS and Baker College, Mike Mokdad earned his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Wayne State University in 1989 with an emphasis on environmental engineering and air quality.
Edith Montgomery
Edith Renee Montgomery, Ph.D, is a fully licensed clinical psychologist. She earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1983 from Wayne State University and a Master of Science Degree in 1985 from Eastern Michigan University. Montgomery completed doctoral training at Wayne State University.
Dennis Nawrocki
Dennis Nawrocki has been a faculty member at CCS, Wayne State University, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago from the mid-1970s until the present, in both full-time and adjunct capacities.
Dorene OBrien
Dorene O’Brien was born and raised in Detroit, where she can still be seen taking photos of the UA Theater Building on Bagley or dining at Lafayette Coney Island after researching her latest story.
Jeffery Powell
Jeffrey Powell is a social historian and Ph. D. candidate at Wayne State University.
Mary Prouty
Mary Prouty came to CCS with more than 20 years experience as an Adult English as a Second Language teacher, administrator, and presenter of ESL teaching techniques.
Naomi Seedberg
Naomi Seedberg has significant teaching experience at both the high school and college levels. In addition to teaching courses in the Liberal Arts Department, she created the CCS Continuing Education courses “Writing your Life” and “Poetry as Art,” and is a faculty member at Macomb Community College.
Beverly Smith
Gilda Snowden
Gilda Snowden, a native Detroiter and award winning artist, has works in many corporate museums and private collections including the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Andrea Springer
Andrea Springer has a hybrid career as an artist, designer, and educator. She began her professional career as an architect, designing for the industrial and commercial sectors, later moving into the high-end residential sector.
Michael Stone-Richards
Michael Stone-Richards works on comparative literature, philosophy and critical theory of art and the avant-garde.
Jennifer Townsend
An adjunct faculty member at CCS and Wayne State University, Jennifer Townsend has channeled her passion for film into her research and teaching.
Susan Trudeau
Susan Trudeau has focused her teaching career upon improving the skills and enthusiasm of beginning composition writers.
Diana Veselka
Diane Veselka is a registered and board certified art therapist and licensed professional counselor. An adjunct faculty member, she also supervises the art therapy minor at CCS.
Kate Vicars
Diane Voss
Diane Voss is a Harvard-trained historian of science, specializing in the history of perception and the brain.
Pamela Weinstein
Pamela Weinstein is a writing instructor who focuses on teaching students to be better writers.
Leela Wood
Leela Aditi Wood has a Ph.D. in the History of Art from the University of Michigan. Her areas of specialization are South Asia and Buddhism.
Laura Zimmerman
With more than 25 years experience in graphic arts, marketing communications, and advertising, Laura Zimmerman has provided print production expertise to agencies including Campbell-Ewald, FCB, and Doner.
