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ABOUT YUCATAN FACULTY

 

Greg Dorr  is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maine at Augusta selected to present this course in large part because of his longtime interest in Mayan culture and history and years of travel in the area. He first travelled to the Yucatan, Belize and Guatemala in 1983 and has revisited almost yearly since. In 1990 he and his wife and 6 year old  son befriended a family in the village of Dzitnup. In 2001 his son's age mate in the village, Jose Roman Poot Moo, live with the Dorrs in Camden Maine for a year to attend school.  Jose is now a leader in  Dzitnup, married with 3 charming daughters and looking forward to sharing his culture with students from Maine.

 

In 1972 Mr. Dorr graduated from the City College of New York with a major in Anthropology, began a doctoral program but took a year off to travel overland from Ireland to Nepal. On his return he entered Rutgers Law School and thereafter began a diverse 30+ year career in the legal profession to include being a prosecutor in mid-coast Maine and the Rockland City Attorney all the while continuing to explore his interest in the world through bike trips to Vietnam and Newfoundland, a service project in Guatemala, olive harvesting in Sicily, and walking the Portuguese Camino. On retirement he served in the Peace Corps in Malawi, Africa for 2 years. He holds a one hundred ton merchant Mariners license and captains boats in Penobscot Bay and does boat deliveries to Florida and the Caribbean and remains fascinated by the diversity of human culture.
 

Dr. Ellen Taylor  is a Professor of English at the University of Maine at Augusta. She and professor Rainey have collaborated on four travel courses, including Guatemala, Cuba, and Nicaragua.


Taylor has her Masters in Writing from the University of New Hampshire, and her Doctoral Degree from Harvard University, where she studied language, literature, and culture.  Her work on narrative development also informs her current teaching.
 

At UMA, Taylor teaches Creative Writing, as well as a number of literature courses, and Women and Gender Studies.  She has three collections of poetry, Humming to Snails, Floating, and Compass Rose, and her poems have been published in national and regional journals, including the North American Review and the New England Review.  Taylor chairs the Plunkett Maine Poetry Festival held in Augusta each April.

 

Central and Latin American have been a draw since she spent one year as a teaching fellow in Montevideo, Uruguay.  Since then, she has been a frequent traveler to our southern borders, and enjoying their literature and language.

 

Robert Rainey is the Associate Professor of Photography at the University of Maine at Augusta. Rainey has lead over a 140 UMA students and faculty over the past nine years to such destinations as Cuba, Nicaragua and Guatemala. 

 

In 1986 he completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. In 2002., Rainey left a seventeen-year career in the corporate world of marketing and entertainment, where from 1993 to 1998 he worked as Executive Vice President of Creative Advertising at Miramax Films, directing marketing campaigns for movies such as Basquiat, Pulp Fiction, The English Patient and Good Will Hunting. He now pursues a career as an artist, working on conceptual portrait projects. In 2004 Rainey was an adjunct professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, focusing on photography, film and electronic arts. 

 

Rainey's photographs are intended to subvert conventional implications of identity. His portraits become a means for critically commenting on issues relevant to contemporary life. Rainey's work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions including Raised by Wolves, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (2007); TwoWay, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois (2005); Relative: Photographing Domesticity, ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, Georga (2004); and the Southeastern Juried Exhibition, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama (2004).

 

www.RobertRainey.com

 

Education

B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design, 1986

5th year program, Otis School of Design, 2003

M.F.A., University of New Mexico, 2008

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