INGRID BIANCA BYERLY Ph.D.Seminar Leader 

Dr. Byerly is currently Research Scholar and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology and the Pre-Major Advising Center at Duke University, USA.  She has conducted courses in literature, anthropology, ethnomusicology, study skills, public speaking and intercultural communication in South Africa, England, Russia and the United States. She has also held the position of Course Director of the International Regent Courses in Oxford, England, for ten summer sessions. 

A fellow of Sigma Xi and the American Council of Learned Societies, her interests include filmmaking, for which she was awarded the Panasonic Individual Videomakers’ Award in London for When Nations Meet, and the protest music of Apartheid South Africa, for which her research received the Charles Seeger Prize in Toronto, Canada by the Society for Ethnomusicology. Dr. Byerly is presently completing her book on ‘The Music Indaba,’ as well as a guide for students entitled ‘To a Certain Degree: The Art of Graduating’, and a biography and documentary film on the life of jazz singer Dolly Rathebe.

http://www.duke.edu/~ingrid/ 

W.BOYCE BYERLY Ph.D.
Academic Consultant and Editor

Dr. Boyce Byerly is an interdisciplinary research scientist with a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Duke Universtiy. Following postgradutate studies in lieterativer and computational linguistics, he received his Master Degree in Computer Science from Rutgers University. His research areas include measuring human learning and the technological representation of knowledge, and he has held a long-standing interest in the intersection between cognition and computer science and memory. His publications and conference presentations include work on training evaluation, spatial cognition, expert systems, and computer-supported cooperative work, as well as inquiry into how alternative representations of information affect memory and problem-solving in corporate, social and political environments. He is a fellow of Sigma Xi, and Chair Emeritus of the Triangle Human-Computer Interaction Society. He lived in South Africa in the time leading up to and including Mandela’s release, and has lectured in universities in the USA and Oxford, England.  He is currently serving as Chief Technology Officer at Capital Analytics (USA).

KELLIE M. HAMILTON BA. DBS
Marketing / Publication Consultant

Ms. Hamilton attended UNC-Chapel Hill and graduated from East Carolina University with a major in English and minor in Art. She went on to enjoy a long career in technical communication and project management at Burroughs Wellcome/GlaxoSmithKline before leaving her professional career for a time to fully enjoy parenthood. Now that her children are in school, when she is not managing the practical aspects of the Art of College seminars, she juggles her time between freelance positions in technical writing, project management consultation, miniature donkey farming, painting, photography, and of course, motherhood. When her children are old enough, they will attend the seminar, though she is currently thinking 6 and 9 might be a good age. She certainly wishes she had.