Are you a member of GLEAM and do you want to show that you are out to the Miami community and the world? If so, send an E-mail and a picture to Dan Meyers. Please include your name, your department/institute/program, your professional and social interests, and your E-mail address.
James Creech is a professor in the Department of French & Italian. He finds his professional interests in gender, queer history, and memory. Outside of Miami, James enjoys time with his partner and being at home, spending time with friends, enjoying fine dining and music, theater, and travel.
Eloiza Domingo-Snyder is the Director of Diverse Student Development within the Miami Office of Diversity Affairs. She is also the Head Coach for the nationally ranked Miami University Dance Team. She resides in Hamilton with husband, Travis, and twin boys, Frederick Luciano and Travis Izaac.
Kris Jacobson works in the in the A/A library at Miami University. In her spare time, she is the director of WOVEN, the Oxford Women's Chorus.
Jean M. Lynch works in the Department of Sociology, Gerontology, and Anthropology. She is an associate professor and holds affiliate status in the Women's Studies Program. Jean's concentrations are in Social Deviance, Sociological Perspectives, Women and the Media, Research Methodology, and Social Psychology. Her research interests are lesbian and gay families, applied sociology, and disability. Outside of Miami, Jean enjoys living with her partner of 16 years, playing with her two wonderful boxers and a cat, gardening, learning, and visiting Rhode Island.
Dan Meyers is the Director of the Interactive Language Resource Center at Miami University. His main duties involve integrating technology into foreign language education and to assist foreign language professors in the uses and incorporation of new technologies into their classroom instruction. He is also a liasion to MCIS, the College of Arts and Sciences, and to Applied Technologies.
Ted Peters is a 1994 graduate of Miami University (English Literature and Creative Writing) and re-joined the university community as a visiting faculty member in January of 1998 after receiving his MA in 19th-Century British Literature from the University of London (King’s College). Since then he has held a number of positions at the university. He created the Celebrate the Arts living-learning community in the 1999-2000 school year for the Office of Residence Life and New Student Programs and directed that program for two years as the First-Year Academic Adviser. At the same time, he taught English Composition and Literature courses in the residence hall that explored issues of art, creativity, and personal expression. After a year of living in San Diego, where he was self-employed as a photographer for The House Of Blues, he returned yet again to Miami as an Academic Adviser in the College of Arts and Science. Ted’s interests include: art, travel, literature, cinema, and writing.
Lisa J. M. Poirier can be found in the Department of Comparative Religion. She is a visiting instructor in the department of Comparative Religion. Lisa teaches courses in Native American religions and on the topic of religion and colonialism in North America. Her research currently focuses on meetings between First Nations peoples and Jesuit missionaries in seventeenth- century New France.
Roy Bowen Ward is a professor emeritus from the Department of Comparative Religion,, but continue to teach "Homosexual and Lesbian Experience" every Fall semester. This course was established in 1986, the same year that the undergraduate gay and lesbian group, the GLBA, was established. He was the first faculty adviser of that student group. Roy does research and publishs in the area of gay studies. When not involved with Miami, Roy travels annually to Pompeii to do research and to visit Western and Eastern Europe. He likes to travel to the Middle East for vacations. Roy enjoys dancing as well as listening to classical music, jazz, the Beetles, and the like.
Liz Wilson is an professor in the Department of Comparative Religion and an affiliate in Women’s Studies. She teaches classes in Asian religions with a focus on the role of gender and the body in religious identity. Liz's research focuses on religion and fashion, the role of food in religious ceremonies, and death and dying.
Andrew Zeisler is the Assistant Director of Affirmative Action for Disability Resources and has been employed at Miami University since 1988. His responsibilities include: overseeing the program objectives of the Office of Disability Resources; determining and delivering services and accommodations for faculty, staff, and students with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and University policy; counseling and directing individuals with disabilities to the appropriate offices and departments within the University and/or outside state agencies; and being the Institution’s general liaison and advocate relative to disability issues to the Miami community and beyond. His graduate school research is in the area of Blind-Gay identity within Miami’s Department of Educational Psychology. He is also involved in the gay sports community in Cincinnati and has competed in two Gay Games: Vancouver in 1990 (Volleyball) and Amsterdam in 1998 (Softball).