Past Instructors
Here are the excellent past instructors we have featured over the years. We hope many of them will teach with us again in the future, and we’ll keep you posted when they decide to do so. We are so proud of the academic courses we have sponsored over the last eleven years.
John Dennis Anderson
John Dennis Anderson holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in Communication Studies from Baylor University and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.A native of Texas, he moved to South Wellfleet in 2016 after retiring from teaching Communication and Performance Studies…
Janis Bergman-Carton
Janis Bergman-Carton is a retired art history professor from Southern Methodist University where she taught modern European art and published books and articles about French urban modernity and cultural memory in Postwar Europe. Presently, she resides in Austin, Texas, dividing her time between a research-focused studio practice and teaching for Free Minds…
Betsy Bray
Betsy Bray is a self described Frank Lloyd Wright enthusiast. She is a member and a volunteer for the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, based in Chicago. In pursuit of that interest, she has volunteered for the Cape Modern House Trust. Betsy was a student at Yestermorrow in Waitsfield, Vermont, a building and design school, where she designed two homes and learned to build them…
Barbara Brennessel
Barbara Brennessel, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita of Biology at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. She taught Biochemistry, Microbiology and other courses at Wheaton for 33 years. She currently lives on Cape Cod in Wellfleet. Her recent research is focused on the Diamondback Terrapin…
Bill Burke
A wash-ashore from Western Massachusetts, Bill Burke is a National Park Service employee who serves as the Historian for the National Seashore. He has worked there in a number of roles over the past 20 years. He assists researchers and educators…
Dwight Estey
Dwight Estey is currently the president of the Wellfleet Historical Society and Museum. Prior to being on the board of directors he could be found giving historical walking tours of Wellfleet or helping museum visitors with research. Mr. Estey graduated in 1974 from the University of Connecticut …
Nathalie Ferrier
Nathalie Ferrier is a sculptor who was born in France and arrived in the USA when she was 29. She has lived on the Cape for the past twenty years.She teaches French language and leads several conversational groups on the Cape. Besides French language, she and her students explore …
Rhoda Flaxman
Rhoda Flaxman taught British and American Literature, first at the high school level, and then at Brown University(1987-2007), where she also directed Brown’s writing-across-the curriculum program and published on Victorian literature. She presently serves…
Deborah Forman
Deborah Forman is the author of four books, all published by Schiffer Publishing: Perspectives on the Provincetown Art Colony, a two-volume history (2011); Contemporary Cape Cod Artists: Images of Land and Sea (2013); Contemporary Cape Cod Artists: People & Places (2014); Contemporary Cape Cod Artists: On Abstraction (2015)…
Ed Golden
Ed Golden, Professor Emeritus of performance, American and Irish theater at UMass/Amherst, has won many awards, most notably for outstanding teaching. He has directed more than one hundred professional and university productions, including The Playboy of the Western World in 1991, which won …
Elissa Greenwald
Elissa Greenwald was a member of the fourth class of undergraduate women at Yale, where she received her B.A. in 1976 and her Ph.D. in English Literature in 1981. She taught American Literature at Rutgers University for seven years and Advanced Placement English Literature…
Megan Hinton
Megan Hinton is a visual artist based in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Hinton assembles materials in painting, printmaking, sculpture, and photography to reassemble personal and public narratives. Megan recently received her MFA from Mills College in Interdisciplinary…
Tracey Barry Hunt
Tracey received her BA in Drama and History from Vassar College in 1994. She then spent a decade based in New York City working with Partisan Pictures as a documentary television writer, producer and director for National Geographic, PBS and the History Channel…
Alice Iacuessa
Alice Iacuessa spent thirty years as a social studies teacher, 21 years at the American School in London including 10 years as Social Studies Department Chair. Since her retirement she has been active in local …
Maurice Isserman
Maurice Isserman, who has been visiting Wellfleet since 1969, is the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History at Hamilton College, where he has taught since 1990, following stints in the history departments of Smith College,…
Fred Magee
Fred is a Wellfleet-based singer/songwriter/musician. In his former life, he spent nearly 30 years as an analyst covering a range of topics from the structure of modern organizations to the future ability of…
Mary Maxwell
Mary Maxwell has been a winner of the Discovery/The Nation Award, the recipient of a fellowship from the Camargo Foundation, and a visiting artist/scholar at the American Academy in Rome. The author of five collections…
Jennifer McCrickerd
Jennifer McCrickerd was born in California and graduated from Wellesley College with a degree in Philosophy. While in graduate school pursuing a doctorate in Philosophy, she realized that what she…
Jeanne McNett
Jeanne McNett’s interests include international business, higher education for women, environmental sustainability, reading and writing, and time on the water. Her training is in English literature (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst) and international business (MBA, Cass School of Business, University of London, UK). She was most recently a senior academic researcher …
Patricia Miller
Patricia Miller served as the Chief of the Special Federal Litigation Division of the New York City Law Department for 10 years. Special Fed is responsible for the defense of NYC law enforcement personnel in Federal Civil Rights actions…