Isabelle Rucks Petersen joined the Faculty of Leadership and Integrative Studies in 2018 after teaching three years as a Faculty Associate in Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication at the Polytechnic Campus. A passionate advocate for interdisciplinary humanities education, she has taught a wide variety of courses spanning a multitude of humanities and social science topics for over two decades, both in traditional classrooms and online. Her research and teaching interests have been as diverse as Native American literature, medieval love poetry, comparative religion, cultural history, media studies, and creativity studies. In a previous position, she co-developed a cross-curricular critical thinking program for a major university. She is the recipient of multiple teaching awards from various institutions.