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Les
Alder
Hutchins Center for Interdisciplinary Learning
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Les Adler was a faculty member in the Hutchins School from
1970-2002, serving also as Provost from 1977-1979 and from 1987-1997.
Additionally, he spent a half-year teaching in England in 1983 for
the American Institute for Foreign Study, and a year in Southeast
Asia as Fulbright Professor of American history and foreign policy
as the National University of Singapore in 1991-1992. He earned
his BA degree in Russian and European history from the University
of New Mexico in 1963 and his MA (1965) and Ph.D. (1970) degrees
in American history from the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently the Dean of Extended Education at SSU.
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His original research interests dealt with the cultural origins of the
Cold War, culminating in several articles and a book, The Red Image: American
Attitudes Toward Communism in the Cold War Era, published in 1991. Most
recently, his research has focused on the multi-faceted life and career
of the political activist, writer, historian, philosopher of science and
innovative interdisciplinary thinker, Arthur Koestler.
A book reviewer on subjects in East European and American history, culture
and foreign affairs for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1987, he has
also contributed articles and essays on issues related to the Persian
Gulf War, Sikh religious traditions and Nuclear Accidents during the Cold
War era to several national newspapers and National Public Radio.
In addition to teaching both lower and upper division interdisciplinary
classes in Hutchins, he is currently Director of the newly-created Hutchins
Center for Interdisciplinary Learning which manages a variety of projects
designed to share the nearly thirty-years of innovative teaching and learning
experience of the Hutchins School with the larger regional, statewide
and national communities.
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