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The Barfield School of Sunbridge College is guided by a Core Faculty who create the curriculum and serve as Common Core lead instructors:

			Arthur Zajonc, Ph.D. Director and Co-Founder; Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Physics, Amherst College
			Patti Smith, Ed.D. Program Director; Senior Director of the Center for School Design, National Academy Foundation
			Robert McDermott, Ph.D. Co-Founder; President Emeritus and Professor of Philosophy and Religion, California Institute of Integral Studies
			Gertrude Reif Hughes, Ph.D.; Professor Emerita of English and Feminist Studies, Wesleyan University
			Fred Amrine, Ph.D.; Academic Affairs, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature, The University of Michigan
			Kathy Gower, Ph.D. Student Affairs and IT Supervisor. Affiliate Sophia Project, Oakland, California; Founder, American Pilgrims on the Camino; Assistant Editor, Medieval Pilgrimage Encyclopedia; CFO, MESA Construction.

• Clopper Almon, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Maryland
• Paolo Carini, Ph.D.  Physicist and teacher, San Francisco Waldorf School
• Olivia Dreier, M.S.W., M.P.A. Psychotherapist, social worker and mediator; Karuna Center for Peacemaking
• Siegward Elsas, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Neurology, Oregon Health and Sciences University
• Douglas Gerwin, Ph.D. Chair, Waldorf High School Teacher Education Program, Center for Anthroposophy, Wilton, NH
• Michael Howard, M.A.; Director, Life Form Studio
• Katrin Kaeufer, Ph.D. Research Affiliate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founding research member of the Society of Organizational Learning (SoL)
• Alicia Landman-Reiner, M.D. Director, Anthroposophical Medical Seminar for Physicians
• Martin Levin, PhD.
• Maria C. Linder, Ph.D. Professor of Biochemistry, California State University at Fullerton
• Michael Lipson, Ph.D. Psychoanalyst and writer
• Don Melcer, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, Family and Child Ecology, Michigan State University
• Douglas Miller, Ph.D.  Professor of German and Art and former Vice-Provost, University of Michigan-Flint
• Michael Miller, Ph.D.; Classics, Harvard University, MA Fine Arts, Harvard University, B.Phil Classics, University of Oxford.
• James L. Ritchie-Dunham, Ph.D. Decision and Systems Sciences Associate, Psychology Department, Harvard University and President, Institute for Strategic Clarity
• George Russell, Ph.D. Professor of Biology, Adelphi University and Editor-in Chief, Orion Magazine
• Christopher Schaefer, Ph.D.; Program Director, Waldorf School Administration and Community Development, Sunbridge College
• Claus Otto Scharmer, Ph.D. Senior Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; founding co-director of ELIAS, a joint leadership development initiative of MIT, the UN Global Compact, and the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL).
• David Schultz, Ph.D.  Psychotherapist, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University
• Douglas Sloan, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus and Director of The Center For the Spiritual Foundations of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
• Tiemen M. Woutersen, Ph.D. Economics, Johns Hopkins University

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Michael Miller, Ph.D.; Classics, Harvard University, MA Fine Arts, Harvard University, B.Phil Classics, University of Oxford.

J. Eva Nagel Ph.D.; has been unknowingly following in the footsteps of her ancestors, working for young people and social justice most of her life.

William Irwin Thompson Ph.D.; is a poet and cultural philosopher who received his Ph.D. at Cornell University. 

Dr. Thompson's photo courtesy of Michelle Laporte

Claus Otto Scharmer, Ph.D.;  Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founding co-director of ELIAS, a joint leadership development initiative of MIT, the UN global compact, and the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL).

Janet Adler, Ph.D.;  earned her degree in Mystical Studies and currently teaches the discipline of Authentic Movement internationally and on Galiano Island, British Columbia, Canada, where she resides. She is the author of two books: Arching Backward: The Mystical Initiation of a Contemporary Woman and Offering from the Conscious Body: The Discipline of Authentic Movement, and of two films: Looking For Me, documenting her work with autistic children, and Still Looking, reflecting her work in the discipline of Authentic Movement. She was the founder and director of the Mary Starks Whitehouse Institute, the first school devoted to the study and practice of Authentic Movement.

“The teachers are superb and so accessible and the classes have depth and rigor.”