Faculty

MICHAEL BURKE
Michael Burke is a Professor of Mathematics at the College of San Mateo. He received an M.A. in Education from Stanford University and an M.A. in Mathematics from the University of Oregon. He has been teaching mathematics at the College of San Mateo since 1976. He is particularly fond of teaching both Liberal Arts Mathematics and Statistics. Michael was recently named a Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Foundation, one of twenty Carnegie Scholars in the nation. He spent his junior year of college at the University of Sussex in England, and remembers vividly the excitement of that year. Since then, Michael has returned to Europe many times, managing to visit Paris on every trip. Michael taught for the College of San Mateo London Semester in 1988, and is eager now to spend a semester in Paris to share the excitement of that beautiful city with his students.

DIANE RICHEY-WARD
Diane is a practicing visual artist and fulltime Professor of Art in the Los Rios Community College District at American River College. Her mixed-media drawings and video installations have been exhibited in Sacramento, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and in Europe. She has been the recipient of seven Artist-in-Residencies in the US, Amsterdam, Paris and Canada. These fellowships involve creating a body of work and exhibiting it at the conclusion of her stay. Her video/drawing installation entitled “Cinetique Procession”, was created near Paris in 2003, and was recently shown at the Center for Contemporary Art in Sacramento. Her 10-minute short film, “Origin of a Species” was screened at the Crest Theatre for the Sacramento Film Festival in 2001. Diane has also lectured about her artwork at many public venues including the Crocker Art Museum.

JUDY MYERS
Judy Myers has taught English for sixteen years, the last eleven at Diablo Valley College. She has lived in France several times, once when she taught in the Study Abroad Program in Paris in the spring of 2004 and once when she lived with her adopted French family during the academic year 1990 – 1991 in Rennes, the capitol city of the province Bretagne. She is a long-time admirer of French culture and is fluent in the language. In addition, she has traveled by foot, bicycle, train, bus, and automobile in many regions of France including Bretagne (Brittany), Provence, Haute Provence, Languedoc, the Lot and Dordogne, Normandy, the Loire, and throughout Paris and its environs. Both of her degrees are in English, her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and her M.F.A. from Mills College.

Monte Freidig
Monte Freidig has been an instructor at Santa Rosa Junior College since 1997. Prior to that time, he taught the American Presidency class at UC Davis while working on a doctorate in Political Science. His BA and MA degrees (with a minor in European History) are from UC Davis, where he specialized in American Government and Western political philosophy. He often travels to Paris to enjoy its history, culture, cuisine, and art; and lived there in 2004 while teaching in the study abroad program.