Founding Donor Susan Locke

Susan Locke is Professor Emerita of the Department of Psychology.  In her 48-year career at the college, she also served as Director of the Baruch College Honors Program, Chair of the WSAS Curriculum Committee, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, Interim Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and as chair or member of several other committees.  She was twice awarded the Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Teaching, as well as the Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Service. She is a graduate of Vassar College and the Adelphi University Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies.  Her first camera was a Kodak Duaflex II, given to her by her dad when she was eight years old.  Since then, she has had a lifelong love of photography and exploration of the natural world.  This gift to Baruch students represents her hope that they too will have the opportunity to explore, protect, and enjoy nature and pass along these values and opportunities for many generations to come.

 

 

Program Director Steven Swarbrick

Steven Swarbrick is an associate professor of English at Baruch College. He received his Ph.D. in English from Brown University. At Baruch, he teaches courses on Shakespeare, early modern poetry, and critical theory, as well as courses in the environmental humanities. He is the author of The Environmental Unconscious: Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milton (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) and The Earth Is Evil (University of Nebraska Press, 2025). He is a coauthor, with Jean-Thomas Tremblay, of Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern University Press, 2024).

 

 

 

Student Assistant Kyle Morales

Kyle Morales is the Locke program’s student assistant.