Stephanie DeLuse

Stephanie R. deLusé is a teaching professor and honors faculty fellow in Barrett. She is an experienced educator and administrator, such that she was invited as one of three international experts to a symposium in Japan on nurturing talents for global citizenship in regard to the possibilities and challenges of small liberal arts programs inside big research universities, and to work with faculty around a new interdisciplinary degree at Okayama University. As a psychologist, her experience includes designing, implementing, disseminating, and evaluating divorce education programs via grant-driven work and an NIMH-funded pre-doctoral fellowship in prevention and intervention science at the Prevention Research Center (now REACH, Research and Education Advancing Children's Health) at Arizona State University.

Her writing appears in literary journals including The MacGuffin, Rougarou, The Griffin, Gemini Magazine, Emrys, Wild Violet Magazine, The Legendary, and TRIVIA: Voices in Feminism, in popular press books (e.g., The Psychology of Survivor, The Psychology of Joss Whedon, and The Psychology of Superheroes), and in academic journals including in press or in Issues in Integrative Studies, Family and Conciliation Courts Review, Family Processes, and International Journal in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. She edited and wrote the foreword for My Four Worlds: An Autobiography by Rudy E. Campbell and Nightwing: Reflections of a Traditional Shaman, and her authored books include two public history books, one on the history of ASU aptly named "Arizona State University" and Legendary Locals of Tempe, among other finished or in-progress projects, including pieces on using Marguerite de Navarre's The Heptameron as a springboard for gender-related discussions.

Before joining Barrett, Professor deLusé served three years as associate faculty director in the Interdisciplinary Studies program (now Leadership and Integrative Studies) at Arizona State University, her academic home for eight years. While there, among other things, she was the Faculty Senator and served on the senate's Personnel Committee, as well as chaired both the Personnel Committee and the Annual Evaluation Committee in her unit. She also lead study abroad programs to London, England that involved students completing internships there. She also developed new courses such as “Theories and Applications of Organizational Studies” and “Diversity and Organizations” to help anchor new degree programs in Organizational Studies and Leadership, and her signature senior seminars of “Money and Meaning” and “Money, Medicine, and Morals,” in addition to teaching the core courses of “Foundations of Interdisciplinary Studies,” “Interdisciplinary Inquiry,” and “Applied Interdisciplinary Studies.”

Her current teaching focus is “The Human Event” sequence, as well as the “Internship” course, History of Ideas, and senior seminars (like "Money & Meaning" and "Civilization and the Human Sense of Self") and the Organizational Thesis pathway. Her service work at Barrett has included serving on numerous student thesis committees, every faculty standing committee at one time or another (like Admissions, Curriculum, Personnel, Travel Programs) and various ad hoc committees or work groups, as well as chairing the Promotion Committee for five years, helping over 22 junior faculty members secure promotion. She has also led study abroad programs in which students also completed internships to London, and helped shepherd students on study abroad program to Ireland. Dr. Stephanie earned her doctorate and master's in psychology, and her bachelor's communication (multi-focal emphases on interpersonal, organizational, and intercultural), with a minor equivalent in business. In addition, she holds certificates and licenses in other fields.