The Liberal and Integrative Studies Program (formerly INO Program) consists of four interdisciplinary faculty members whose area of specialization is in four different areas.
All Liberal and Integrative Studies faculty members teach an Introductory Liberal and Integrative Studies course, LNT 501, and a final LNT course, LNT 521. Given the interdisciplinary and integrative nature of the LNT program, LNT students take classes from different university departments and work with the faculty members throughout the entire university.
Annette Van Dyke 
Convenor, Individual Option Program
Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and English, Associated Faculty of Women's Studies
Ph.D. American Studies, University of Minnesota
Area of Specialization: Indian-American literature
Email : avand1 at uis dot edu
Phone: (217) 206-7420
Office : UHB 3025
Teaching Interests: multicultural American women's literatures; Native American literature and women's spirituality; African-American, Asian-American, Latina, and lesbian literatures.
Accomplishments: Dr. Van Dyke is widely published in the area of Native American literary criticism on such authors as Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Paula Gunn Allen. She is the author of The Search for a Woman-Centered Spirituality, which manages to combine most of her interests in one book. For fun, she has also written a feminist murder mystery, Hooded Murder. Her recent accomplishments include serving as President of the National Women’s Studies Association from 2000-2001 and receiving the Naomi B. Lynn Award in 2003.
Eric Hadley-Ives 
Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies and Liberal and Integrative Studies
Ph.D. Social Work, Washington University
Area of Specialization: Social Work
Email : hadleyiv at uis dot edu
Phone: (217) 206-6962
Office : UHB 3028
Teaching Interests: Social and economic development, social science research methods, human nature, community organizing, mental health and mental health services.
Karen Kirkendall
Associate Professor of Liberal Studies and Liberal and Integrative Studies
Area of Specialization: Psychology
Email : kkirk1 at uis dot edu
Phone: (217) 206-7248
Office : UHB 3039
Rosina Neginsky
Associate Professor of English (Comparative Literature) and Interdisciplinary Studies, Associated Faculty of Women’s Studies and Visual Arts
Ph.D. English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Area of Specialization: European Literature and Art History
Email : rnegi1 at uis dot edu
Phone: (217) 206-7431
Office : UHB 3038
Teaching Interests: European literature (English Pre-Raphaelites; French and Russian Symbolists), 1850-1920; contemporary French literature. Courses: Ancient Greek and Biblical Motifs in European Literature, 1880-Present; Dostoevsky; European Cinema; International Women Writers; Major Women Writers; Symbolist Movement in Europe.
Accomplishments: Dr. Neginsky has presented papers on “Methods in Teaching Literature online” and “Ekphrasis in the Age of Cervantes: Ekphrasis in Flaubert’s Short Stories”. She also has had multiple works published in Dictionary of Literary Biography, in The Rutledge Who’s Who in Twentieth Century World Poetry, and in Reference Guide of Short Fiction. Her poetry books include Under the Light of the Moon and Dancing Over the Precipice. Her cultural history/literary biography, Zinaida Vengerova In Search of Beauty: A Literary Ambassador between East and West, has begun its second printing (University of Heidelberg series, Peter Lang). She is also the recipient of a number of awards from NEH and IREX.
William Kline 
Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies and Liberal and Integrative Studies
Ph.D. Philosophy, Bowling Green State University
Area of Specialization: Economics, Business Ethics, Applied Ethics.
Email : wklin2 at uis dot edu
Phone: (217) 206 7418
Office : UHB 3031.
Teaching Interests: Ways of Knowing, Bio-Medical Ethics, Purposes and meanings of buisness and management, applied ethics, business ethics, philosophy, trade.
Accomplishments: Recent publications include “Collapsing Good and the Milieu of Innovation: An Examination of Mill’s principles of Liberty and Free Trade” in the Journal of Value Inquiry and “Business Ethics from the Internal Point of View” published in the Journal of Business Ethics. He also has recently had published a book chapter on flourishing and trade. An article on David Hume's theory of justice is now under review.
Peter Boltuc 
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Liberal Studies, and Individual Option
Ph.D.s: Moral and Political Philosophy, Bowling Green State University;
Philosophical Anthropology, Warsaw University
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Email : pbolt1 at uis dot edu
Phone: (217) 206-7422
Office : UHB 4026
Teaching Interests: Moral and political philosophy, philosophy of the mind.
Accomplishments: Dr. Boltuc was a Visiting Fellow at St. John’s College, Oxford; a Visiting Graduate Student at Princeton University; and a Visiting Assistant Professor at St. Olaf College. He has published in the area of social and political philosophy, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of economics. Those publications include: “Reductionism and Qualia,” Epistemologia. 4/1998; "Understanding Action" (with Edward McClennen) Economics and Philosophy vol. 11/2/1995; and "Why Russia is Needed for Regional Stability: an Application of Institutional Economics for Security Issues." in: Roger E. Kanet (ed.) Post-Communist States in the World Community Macmillan 1999.
Jan Droegkamp
Emerita Professor of Liberal Studies, Individual Option, Women’s Studies and African-American Studies
Ed.D., University of Massachusetts
Email : jdroe1 at uis dot edu
Teaching Interests: Women across cultures, South African women, and adult education and training.
Accomplishments: Dr. Droegkamp has spent 15 years working with international development agencies, in addition to her lifelong work in social justice movements and formal academic degrees in education. She has worked in education projects in Lesotho, Jamaica, Kenya, Thailand, Fiji Islands, Indonesia, and Zimbabwe. She is also active in anti-racism community dialogues, study abroad programs, and multicultural education.
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