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Alefiya Albers is an Assistant Professor of Psychology, who joined the Arts and Sciences faculty in 2008. Dr. Albers's main research interests lie in the fields of physiological psychology and neuroscience. Her passion for exploring the connections between psychology and biology makes her an excellent resource for students interested in how scientific advancements can enhance our understanding of the brain and behavior. She received a B.A. in Psychology from Tufts University, and a M.S. and Ph.D. from the Department of Pharmacology at Columbia University. Her doctoral research was focused on understanding the genetic and neurobiological underpinnings of psychiatric diseases like schizophrenia. As a graduate student at Columbia University, Dr. Albers regularly trained both undergraduate and graduate students in the laboratory. She also collaborated extensively with science teachers in New York City public schools on projects designed to instill in students an active curiosity and excitement about research and science education.
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Samuel Alexander joined Endicott as an Assistant Professor of English in 2011. He received his B.A. with honors in Comparative Literature (English and French) in May of 2005 from Brown University. He received his Master of Philosophy in English Literature in December of 2009, where he is also completing his PhD (expected to be completed in 2012). While he was at Yale, he served as a Teaching Assistant and Instructor for several courses. Here at Endicott, he teaches courses such as Shakespeare, Introduction to Literature, and British Literature I. Professor Alexander co-founded and serves as a Faculty Advisor to Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honors Society. He is also a member of the Orientation Committee and Accountability Board.
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David N. Bader graduated from Salem State in 1990 with a BA in Psychology and a minor in Philosophy. He received the Jane Gray Psychology award and is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi National Academic Honor Society. In 1992, he received a Master of Science degree from Salem State in Marriage and Family Counseling and began a private practice in counseling in 1993. Before becoming a full time member of the Endicott College Psychology department in 1999 Professor Bader taught as an adjunct faculty member at Endicott College and Salem State and served as the Interim Coordinator for Salem State's Gloucester Center in 1996. Currently he is pursuing a Ph.D. in Academic Psychology at Walden University.
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Terri Beckett is a Professor of Mathematics and has been teaching at Endicott SINCE 1986. She has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Systems Analysis from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio; a Master of Science Degree in Mathematics from Salem State College; and an Ed.D. in Math Education from the University of Massachusetts. Her area of research is in the use of technology in the classroom to promote understanding of concepts in an Introductory Statistics course. Prior to coming to Endicott, Dr. Beckett taught computer programming and worked as a Systems Analyst at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
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Mari Butler is an Assistant Professor of Science and has been teaching at Endicott College since 2004. She has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Biology from Dartmouth College, a Master of Science Degree in Oceanography from the University of Connecticut, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from the University of Rhode Island. Her doctoral research involved the use of the mosquito larvicide methoprene and its effects on aquatic communities, and all aspects of mosquito ecology and vector-borne disease continue to interest her. Her broad interests also include biological oceanography and climate change. Prior to working on her Ph.D., Mari worked on numerous different oceanographic projects all over the world, including projects in the Arctic and Antarctic, the Indian Ocean, the Equatorial Pacific, and the North Atlantic while she was employed by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. At Endicott Dr. Butler teaches courses in Biology, Oceanography, Science and Society, and Environmental Field Sampling.
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Gianluca Caterina is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics and has been teaching at Endicott College since 2008. He received an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Tufts University in 2007, as wells as a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Salerno in Italy, the country where he grew up. Before joining Endicott, he was a Teaching Postdoctoral Associate at Northeastern University and held lecturer positions at Suffolk University and the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in Boston. He has taught a broad spectrum of courses, including several levels of Statistics, Calculus, Mathematical Reasoning, Geometry and Harmonic Analysis. While at Endicott, he designed a course on the Mathematics of Music. His research focuses on the study of Cellular Automata, which are a class of discrete dynamical systems that can be used to simulate physical processes efficiently on computers. More recently, he has been collaborating with Dr. Rocco Gangle in the field of Logics, focusing on the application of the technique of forcing in the context of Computational Philosophy. His works have been published in journals such as Theoretical Computer Science and Physicas. He advocates interdisciplinarity as the focal point of both his teaching and his research. In the spare time he enjoys playing his acoustic guitar.
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Mike Diehl joined Endicott as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science in 2007. He received a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.S. in Computer Science from Muhlenberg College, as well as an M.S. and Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He enjoys teaching courses in statistics, calculus, linear algebra and has designed and delivers the math content sequence for the EDU program. He has also taken an active role in developing Endicott's Learning Community Program. He designed and taught an LC called Sexy Logic, and has presented his findings at the MAA summer meetings. Away from the classroom, he is the faculty advisor for the math/computer science club. He has also participated in several Davis grant programs at EC. He has been chosen to receive a Project NExT Fellowship from the MAA, a program that is designed especially for new faculty in mathematics. He continues to engage in research, currently focusing on a statistical analysis of math placements and predicting performance. He has also presented on mathematics in politics and voting. His math interests lie in probability theory and modeling.
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Karen Edwards has been a faculty member at colleges and universities since 1972 including the University of Vermont, University of New Hampshire and Central Michigan University. She has been teaching Psychology at Endicott since 1990 and is a full professor. She is also a Licensed Individual, Marriage and Family Therapist and maintains a small private therapy practice in Newton, MA. She teaches courses on Counseling, Psychology of Gender, Intimate Relationships and Human Sexuality, Abnormal Psychology, Psychology of Spirituality, Positive Psychology, and Cultural Psychology. Dr. Edwards gives professional presentations at conferences such as the National Institute on Teaching Psychology and the National Education for Transformation Conference. She was co-director of the New England Institute for Neuro-Linguistic Programming for many years. She is currently engaged in research on the power of small groups to produce personal and spiritual transformation for individuals, and she recently published a book entitled Women of Wisdom: Celebrating the Passage into the Crone Years with co-authors Melody Lee and Dorothy Emerson.. She is an enthusiastic adventure traveler who has explored Africa, the South Pacific, Himalayan Kingdoms, India, Indonesia, Alaska and several countries in South America. In the summer of 2009, she journeyed to China as Fulbright-Hays scholar and established connections that will foster a cross-cultural project linking American and Chinese students in dialog about relationships. Dr. Edwards received her Ph.D. from Michigan State, M.S. from Penn State and B.S. from Purdue University.
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Rocco Gangle is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Endicott specializing in modern and contemporary Continental philosophy. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2007 and has taught modern religious thought, philosophy and interdisciplinary studies at Oberlin College and the University of California, Merced. His publications include work on religion and political philosophy, phenomenology and philosophy of science. He is co-founder of Synousia, a scholarly organization devoted to revitalizing the ancient ideals of philosophical practice and developing modes of dialogue between contemporary philosophy and religious traditions. He is a Spinozist and enjoys adventuring with his wife and son.
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Charlotte Gordon is an Assistant Professor of English and holds a M.A. in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in Literature and History from Boston University. She received her B.A. in English from Harvard College. Her publications include The Woman Who Named God: Abraham's Dilemma and the Birth of Three Faiths, a non-fiction retelling of the biblical story of Abraham, Sarah and Hagar from an interfaith perspective (Little, Brown, 2009); Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Story of America's First Poet, a biography of seventeenth-century poet, Anne Bradstreet (Little, Brown, 2005). Her newest book, Mary and Mary, the story of the famous mother and daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, will be published in Fall 2011 (Random House). Dr. Gordon has won many prizes for her non-fiction and poetry, including a Massachusetts Book Award and a Robert Penn Warren award. She has been interviewed by NPR and the CBC and has been invited to speak about her work at many different venues, including universities, religious institutions, historical societies, and secondary schools. She has been appointed a Senior Fellow at The Northeastern Humanities Center. Her essays have been published in More.com, Religion Dispatches, and many other publications. She has also published two collections of poetry, Two Girls on a Raft and When The Grateful Dead Came to St. Louis. Prior to coming to Endicott, Dr. Gordon taught at Boston University. She is a member of the Associated Writing Programs and the American Literary Scholars Association.
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William Harney is a Professor of English at Endicott College. In addition to teaching College Writing Seminar, he teaches Modern American Poetry, The Beat Generation, Shakespeare and other elective and required courses in the Humanities Department, including Power of Place and City Life: Historical and Cultural Perspectives on New England Cities (a Learning Community developed with Professor Herlihy). These last courses, together with themes explored in his World Literature sections, demonstrate his developing interest in cultural landscape studies and the politics of space.
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Mark Herlihy, Ph.D. is the Chair of Humanities and a professor of History at Endicott College. He received his B.A. in English from Tufts University in 1988. He received a M.A. in American Civilization from Brown University in 1995. Professor Herlihy did his doctoral work at Brown University and received his Ph.D. in American Civilization in 2000. He began his career in teaching as a high school teacher of English. In 1995-1998 he went on to work at Brown University as a Teaching Fellow in the Department of American Civilization. He has designed and taught upper-level undergraduate seminars focused on topics such as Urban Culture, the Automobile in American Life, and the Salem Witch Trials. During 1998-2000 Dr. Herlihy was a Teaching Fellow in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Brown where he developed a series of lectures and workshops on teaching; planning and conducting orientation for graduate students as well as working with individual departments to address discipline-specific pedagogical issues. He has been and continues to be a consultant to the Lowell National Historic Park in Lowell, Massachusetts. In 2000 Professor Herlihy conducted research for the Preservation Society of Newport County, Newport Rhode Island about the Vanderbilt family and the phenomenon of the millionaire in America. He has also worked with the Museum of Our National Heritage in Lexington, Massachusetts. Professor Herlihy continues to publish articles of interest to the history community such as "Urban Renewal and the Cultural Politics of Space in Boston: the Case of Scollay Square" and "A Beach for Greater Boston: Creating, Contesting Revere Beach". He is a member of the American Historical Association, the American studies Organization, the Organization of American Historians, and the National Council on Public History.
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Sergio Inestrosa received his PhD in Literature from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, Mexico in 1998. Sergio was a Jesuit student for 8 years in Central America, living in El Salvador, Panama and Nicaragua. While in El Salvador he studied with Ignacio Ellacuria, a well known Jesuit scholar who was killed in 1988 by the military. When Professor Inestrosa returned to Mexico, he studied to receive a Masters in Communication and became a professor and researcher in the Communication field. He has presented many research papers in Mexico, Latin America, USA and Asia, and has published 6 books in Mexico. In 1999 he taught Spanish at the Estrella Mountain College in Avondale, Arizona, and in 2000 he conducted Postdoctoral research at Harvard, focusing on the works of Octavio Paz. Since coming to Endicott, Professor Inestrosa has been teaching Spanish and Mexican Culture and has been busy organizing a Spanish Cine Club on campus. He has also developed the Spanish minor and designed many new courses, including Spanish for Professionals, Spanish Cinema, Spanish Translation, Spanish Composition, Latin American History and Culture, and a Latin American literature course. Professor Inestrosa loves to read, write, meet people, learn new languages, cook, and play soccer. He is married and has two children.
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Robert A. Jerin is a Professor of Criminal Justice at Endicott College. He has a B.S. in criminal justice from the University of New Haven, an M.S. in criminology from Florida State University, and received his Ph.D. in criminal justice from Sam Houston State University in 1987. He has published a textbook with Dr. Laura Moriarty entitled victims of Crime and edited another book with Dr. Moriarty entitled Current Issues in Victimology. He has published articles in the American Journal of Police, Criminal Justice Policy Review and Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture. Additionally, he has had chapters published in edited volumes on Media and Crime, Crime in the 21st Century, Crime Victims Services, Current Correctional Issues and the Juvenile Justice System. Dr. Jerin has worked as a crime victim's advocate, a battered women's and rape crisis counselor and a juvenile detention officer for the State of Connecticut. He is currently involved in research on Internet victimization, crime and the media, race and justice, international criminal justice issues and criminal justice pedagogy.
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Jessica Kaufman is an Assistant Professor of Biology/Biotechnology who began teaching at Endicott in 2008. She received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Chemical Engineering from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University. Dr. Kaufman has spent many years working closely with students of all ages - teaching and tutoring high school students in biotechnology and chemistry, assisting undergraduate students in physiology labs, and leading graduate students in material synthesis lab research. She is an active researcher in the fields of biomaterials and tissue engineering, bioinformatics, molecular biology, and other cutting-edge applications of modern biological research. She routinely publishes and presents her research findings, and she enthusiastically seeks funding and opportunities that benefit students who are training to be a part of the biotechnology revolution.
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John M Kelley, PhD is Associate Professor of Psychology at Endicott College, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School, and a licensed clinical psychologist in the Psychiatry Service at Massachusetts General Hospital. He also maintains a private practice in general psychotherapy. Dr. Kelley earned a bachelor’s degree with high honors from Harvard University, and MS and PhD degrees in Clinical Psychology from the University of Oregon. In addition to his expertise in psychotherapy, Dr. Kelley has expertise in statistics, research design, and psychometric measurement, and he has served as a co-investigator or consultant on eight National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grants. His current research interests include: (1) investigating the placebo effect in medical and psychiatric disorders; and (2) understanding how the doctor-patient relationship affects clinical outcomes in medicine and psychiatry. Dr. Kelley is the author or co-author of twenty-eight peer-reviewed publications in such journals as The New England Journal of Medicine, The British Medical Journal, Psychosomatic Medicine, Experimental Brain Research, and Social Science and Medicine.
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Michael Kilburn is an Associate Professor of Political Science and holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies from Emory University and a B.A. Honors from St. Thomas University in Fredericton, NB, Canada. His doctoral work was in the field of East European politics, history, and culture. He currently teaches courses in political theory and practice, human rights, and cultural studies, and he is the founder of the Endicott Center for Oral History, which supports oral history projects on campus and internationally. Prior to Endicott College, he taught at Emory University, the Atlanta College of Art, and abroad in Canada, Japan, and the Czech Republic. He is a member of the American Political Science Association, the International Studies Association, the World Society of Victimology, the International Human Rights Education Consortium, the Oral History Association, and the International Oral History Association. He is the faculty adviser for the International Studies honors Society Sigma Iota Rho and the campus representative for the Fulbright and Boren Programs.
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Vitaly Kozyrev is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations. He holds a Ph.D. in Global History, as well as B.A. and M.A. degrees in History from the Institute of Asian and African Studies at Moscow State University. He was an Associate Professor of the History of China at Moscow State University and has been a visiting professor at a number of institutions, including Amherst College, Yale University, University of Delaware, and Feng Chia University in Taiwan. Dr. Kozyrev has also been a member of the Russian think tank at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Analytic Center and an advisor to the Moscow City Government on Sino-Russian relations. His research focuses on contemporary politics of post-communist countries, and he is particularly interested in the socio-economic transformation of China in the 20th century.
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Christopher Latimer joined the School of Arts and Sciences in Fall 2012 as the Assistant Dean of Social Sciences and Associate Professor of Political Science. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the State University of New York at Albany and his J.D. from American University Washington College of Law. Dr. Latimer was an Associate Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Cortland. He also served as the university pre-law advisor and was the Associate Director of the Institute for Civic Engagement. Dr. Latimer has published a number of articles related to constitutional law, same-sex marriage, political communication, new media and civic engagement. His most recent book, Civil Liberties and the State, about the relationship between individual rights and government intrusion was published in 2010. Dr. Latimer has been recognized for his excellence in teaching by receiving the 2009 Outstanding Teaching in Political Science Award from the American Political Science Association and Pi Sigma Alpha and the 2009 Tenure-Track Excellence in Teaching Award at SUNY Cortland. He has received over $500,000 in research funding for his projects related to experiential learning.
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Bram Lutton is an Assistant Professor of Biology/Biotechnology who began teaching at Endicott in 2009, following a postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and a visiting Professorship at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. Dr. Lutton received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colby College and a Ph.D. in Physiology from Boston University. His research is focused on evolutionary, cellular, and molecular mechanisms of endocrine-immune interactions, and transplantation immunology. Dr. Lutton has supervised a number of undergraduate students and laboratory technicians pursuing Ph.D. and M.D. programs, and has served as a mentor in a Youth to Health Careers Program guiding underprivileged students toward possible careers in health care. He feels strongly about fostering interdisciplinary collaborations among colleagues and to this end has coordinated symposia focused on dismantling the barriers between investigators studying various model species from both basic science and clinical perspectives.
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Mel Manson has taught at Endicott College since September 1970 in the area of Sociology, (Introduction to Sociology, Social Problems, Cultural Anthropology, Marriage and Family, Social Psychology, Racial and Ethnic Diversity in America, and Urban Sociology) and Senior Seminar. As a member of the Endicott community he has served on the orientation, ranking, planning, curriculum and accreditation committees. He is most proud of his development of a core curriculum, chairing the curriculum committee during the transition to a Baccalaureate institution, and teaching the first interdisciplinary senior seminar course. His degrees and certificates are from Boston College, Dartmouth College, and Northeastern University. He was a recipient of a NIMH scholarship to study in the graduate social psychology/sociology department at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor Manson has attended many conferences on faculty development, organizational theory, student assessment, and teaching modalities. For the past several years, he has been presenting sessions on Critical Thinking in the Social Sciences at the international conferences held by the Foundation for Critical Thinking. Professor Manson was named Sociologist of the Year in 2009 by the New England Sociological Association, of which he is a past president.
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Chris McDaniel joined Endicott as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics in 2011. He received a B.S.in Mathematics from the University of Washington and his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Massachusetts. Prior to coming to Endicott, Professor McDaniel taught at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and at the University of Massachusetts (as a Teaching Assistant).
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Dana Monsein joins Endicott as an Assistant Professor of Spanish. She received a B.A. degree from the University of Vermont and an M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she is also currently completing her Ph.D. Her research focuses on the use of technology in foreign language education, and her doctoral dissertation investigates video production as a language learning tool. She attends academic conferences regularly, and recently presented her work at CALICO, Amherst College (2010), and ACH, Concordia University, Montreal (2010). Before coming to Endicott, Professor Monsein taught Spanish at the college level in western Massachusetts for eight years, and she worked with UMass's study-abroad programs in both Salamanca and Oviedo, Spain. In 2005 she was nominated by her students at UMass for a Distinguished Teaching Award.
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Sharon Morin has been a faculty member in the English Department at Endicott for ten years. She teaches English Composition, Speech, and various literature courses. As Chair of the Honors Program Task Force, she helped create the curriculum for a two-year honors program for Associate degree students and now serves on the Honor Council, which oversees the expanded four-year honors program. Prior to coming to Endicott, Professor Morin taught at Emerson College, UMass (as a Teaching Assistant) and at West Genesee Junior High School in Syracuse, New York. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts.
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(a name="Nichol" shape="rect">Jason Nichol joined Endicott in 2011 as Chair of Science, Math and Technology and Assistant Professor of Biology/Biotechnology. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering in 1998 and Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2000 from the University of Arizona working on finite element modeling of soft tissue biomechanics. He received his PhD in Bioengineering working on arterial remodeling and biomechanics at the University of Pennsylvania in 2005, supported by a Whitaker Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship. He then trained in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology working on an American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship from 2005-2008, and at Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School working on an Army/ORISE postdoctoral fellowship working on biomaterials development, microscale biomechanics and cardiovascular tissue engineering. Jason has co-authored over 25 peer reviewed articles, book chapters and reviews in biomechanics, biomaterials, cardiovascular disease and tissue engineering/regenerative medicine and is still actively pursuing research in these areas within nearby and international collaborators. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi (National Engineering Honor Society), Sigma Xi (Research Honor Society) and BMES (Biomedical Engineering Society) and is active in helping Endicott students explore biomedical research at all levels.
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Michael Ocean joined Endicott in 2008 as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. He received his B.S. in Computer Science from Rutgers and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Boston University. Before coming to Endicott, Professor Ocean was an instructor for the undergraduate CS department at BU. Prior to his Ph.D. work, Professor Ocean was a Research Scientist at Telcordia Technologies, where he worked in the areas of multimedia communications, wireless technologies and automated testing. His current research interests are in the fields of Sensor Networks, Distributed Systems and Software Engineering. His research work has been published in ACM and IEEE conferences; his paper at the 2008 ACM Conference on Wireless Security received their "Best Paper Award". Most recently he contributed a chapter to a textbook on Distributed Video Sensor Networks.
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Sharon Paradiso joined the Endicott faculty in 2008 as an Assistant Professor of English after spending many years teaching writing and literature at Holyoke Community College and University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her teaching interests include subjects that appeal to a broad range of students -- such as modern fiction, business writing, and race and gender in literature - and she regularly challenges students to develop an active curiosity about literature and life that propels them to ask good questions and seek out answers. Dr. Paradiso is a William Faulkner scholar who is especially interested in the narrative constructions of race in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century, in Faulkner's works as well as in the works of other writers of his era. She holds an A.A. in Business Administration and a B.A. in English from Albertus Magnus College, and she earned a Ph.D. in English from UMass, Amherst.
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David Parry has been a member of the Endicott faculty since 1996. In addition to teaching a wide range of courses in criminal justice and related areas, he is faculty advisor for Endicott's Law and Justice Club and for the Beta Pi chapter of Alpha Phi Sigma, the national criminal justice honor society. The editor of Essential Readings in Juvenile Justice (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005), Dr. Parry has directed research projects examining the interaction of police, court and correctional agencies with youth in numerous jurisdictions across the United States. His other research interests revolve around justice system inequities, problems related to handling of racial minorities in criminal and juvenile justice systems, and the role of law and legal systems in modern society. Before coming to Endicott, Dr. Parry taught criminal justice for many years at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He also holds an M.A. in criminal justice from the University at Albany and a B.A. in political science from UCLA.
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Nathalie Saltikoff is an Assistant Professor of Human Services and has been teaching at Endicott College since 2001. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Wellesley College, and a Masters of Social Work degree from Smith College. She is currently a PhD candidate at Boston College Graduate School of Social Work. Nathalie has worked in the human service field for over 20 years. She is the former Director of the North Shore Rape Crisis Center, and the former Executive Director of the Women's Crisis Center. Nathalie Saltikoff is a Licensed Clinical Independent Social Worker who specializes in crisis intervention, critical incident stress debriefing, and post traumatic stress disorder. She maintains a small practice providing clinical supervision and consultation. Nathalie's current research focus is on the impact of the victim/offender relationship on sentencing disparities in assault and battery case dispositions. Nathalie teaches crisis intervention, research methods, senior thesis, social policy and nonprofit management and philanthropy. She is the advisor for the Psychology and Human Services club, and Psi Chi, the Honor Society in Psychology.
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Anne-Marie Scholer has been a member of the Arts and Sciences Division at Endicott College since 1994. She has a B.A. in Biology from Smith College, a Master of Arts in Medical Sciences from Harvard University, and an Ed.D. in Science Education from Boston University. She teaches courses in Anatomy and Physiology, Pathophysiology, Human Embryology and Developmental Biology, and Gender and Women in Science. Dr. Scholer's areas of interest include gender issues in science, the history of women in science, sexuality in science education, and the areas of biology related to medicine and reproduction. She was instrumental in launching a chapter of the Sigma Xi research society at Endicott, in conjunction with colleagues at Gordon College and Salem State College.
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Joyce Shaw is an Associate Professor of Biology and has been teaching at Endicott College since 1999. She received her Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of New Hampshire, a Master of Science in Physical Therapy from Boston University and a Doctorate degree from Simmons College and is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Sigma honor societies. She is a practicing physical therapist in sub-acute care. Her physical therapy practice includes time spent in St. Elizabeth's Parish, Jamaica, and Port au Prince. Her research interests include incorporating technology such as podcasting into her classes and promoting student learning in the biological sciences. In 2010 she received a grant from the National Science Foundation to examine the effectiveness of technology on science education. Her work has been published by the BioSciEd Network, sponsored by NSF and AAAS, Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education, and the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science of the University of Buffalo. Dr. Shaw is an advisor for the Phi Sigma Biological Sciences Honor Society.
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Anna Suranyi is an Associate Professor of History who specializes in Atlantic and British History. Her research interests include colonialism, popular literature, national identity, and folk culture and belief. She received a B.S. in Biology from the University of Michigan, her M.A. in History from the University of Cincinnati, and she did her doctoral work at UCLA. She teaches courses on a wide range of subjects from World History to Magic and Belief. Among her publications are a recent book on seventeenth century English travelers to Europe and the Ottoman Empire. She joined the Arts and Sciences Faculty in 2009.
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Daniel Sklar received his B.A. in Communications form the University of Colorado in 1974, his M.A. in English from New York University in 1987. He was awarded his Ed.D. from Boston University in 1995. Professor Sklar has been with Endicott teaching English since 1987. Prior to his time at Endicott, Daniel taught at Salem State College, Northeastern University and North Shore Community College. He is a talented poet and playwright and has been published in The Harvard Review, The Art of the One-Act, The New York Quarterly, Stet Magazine, Manhattan Poetry Review, The Potomac Review and many others. He has also written short stories and a number of plays such as Demolition and Construction, which was a finalist in the Directors Project at La Ma Ma Theater in New York City. Dr. Sklar shares his knowledge and practical experience with his students as advisor to The Endicott Review.
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Steve Slocomb attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute from 1960 to 1962 as Chemistry Major achieving little if any academic success. After a year of "reflection", he enrolled at Northeastern University in1963 and majored in History. Professor/Dean Slocomb received his Bachelors Degree, Magna Cum Laude and Honors in History from Northeastern in 1966. From 1966 to 1971, Professor/Dean Slocomb attended graduate school at Clark University where he was the recipient of a National Defense Education Act Title IV Fellowship. He received his Masters Degree in 1971. Professor/Dean Slocomb has been continuously employed by Endicott College since September, 1971. He has been a Professor of History throughout his career, was the Dean of Faculty from 1989 to 1995 and has been an Assistant Dean/Professor from 1995 to 2002. In 1981 Professor/Dean Slocomb was the first winner of the Alumnae Excellence in Teaching Award, and in 1988 he became the first faculty member to win this award for a second time.
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Matthew Staffier is an Associate Professor of Chemistry and has been teaching at Endicott College since 1999. He has a BS degree in Chemistry from Merrimack College and holds a Masters of Science Degree and a Doctorate in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts. His area of research involves monitoring marine systems for toxic metal contamination using the indicator organism Mytilus edulis. At Endicott Dr. Staffier teaches courses in Chemistry, Forensics and Environmental Science. Prior to coming to Endicott Dr. Staffier taught at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, Merrimack College, Emmanuel College and University of Massachusetts.
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Christopher Tripler is an Assistant Professor in the science department at Endicott College; he has a B.S. degree in Biology from the University of Connecticut and a Ph.D. in Ecology from Idaho State University. His current research utilizes a combination of field experiment, quantitative natural history, and modeling approaches to understand the linkages between biogeochemistry, population, and community concepts in forested ecosystems across scales from stands to landscapes. His expanding interests include how human-dominated and distributed systems act a models for understanding community dynamics, food webs, forest diseases, and global climate change. Chris has published several articles in the ecological arena and was a two-time recipient of the Post-doctoral Minority Fellowship Extension from the National Science Foundation at the University of Louisville. He is very active within the National Science Foundation and is involved with research projects at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies.
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Anamika Twyman-Ghoshal is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Endicott College in Beverly, MA. Dr. Twyman-Ghoshal’s main research interests include governance, globalization and how these affect transnational crime, white collar crime, corruption, terrorism and maritime piracy. She holds a Bachelor’s degree with honors in Law from University of Wolverhampton (1995) and a Master’s degree in International Business Law from Queen Mary College, University of London (2002). In 2012 Dr. Twyman-Ghoshal received her Ph.D. from Northeastern University in Boston, MA. Her doctoral research created one of the most comprehensive contemporary maritime piracy databases available and focused on understanding the sociological context for maritime piracy in Somalia. Prior to joining academia, Dr. Twyman-Ghoshal worked for the International Maritime Bureau in London investigating international shipping, trade and finance fraud as well as maritime piracy. She is fluent in English, German, Polish, French and conversational Bengali.
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Dr. Yan Wang joined the Arts and Sciences faculty in 2010 as an Assistant Professor of Psychology. She holds a Ph.D. in Human and Community Development and an M.S. in Statistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also earned an M.A. in Psychology from East China Normal University in Shanghai and a B.E. in Finance from Zhongnan University in Wuhan, China. Prior to coming to Endicott, Dr. Wang taught at Northern Illinois University, the University of New England, and Tufts University. Her current research interests include cultural and developmental psychology, parent-child interactions, and the immigrant experience.
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Gabrielle Watling came to Endicott from Australia, via Mexico City, where she taught English for two years. She has a Ph.D. in Post-Colonial fiction from James Cook University (North Queensland, Australia), and teaches Introduction to Literature, Literary Criticism, Shakespeare, British Literature, World Literature, Senior Thesis I and II, and the 200-level Honors Seminar. Her research interests include feminist and Marxist literary criticism, literary and reading history, U.S./World relations, and world politics. She has just completed editing a two-volume series entitled Cultural History of Reading with the Dean of Education, Dr. Sara Quay. She enjoys working with international students, is active in the equestrian team and is a keen supporter of College and New England sports teams.
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Gene Wong joined the School of Arts and Sciences in Fall 2011 as the Dean and Professor of Biology. From the Department of Biological Sciences at The University of Calgary, he earned a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in Zoology, and holds a Ph.D. in Anatomy and Cell Biology from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Alberta. Dr. Wong was an Assistant Professor at Eastern Illinois University, and then an Associate Professor at Quinnipiac University, eventually becoming the Director of the Molecular Cell Biology graduate program, and Chair of the Pre-Health Professions Committee where he established the university-wide Pre-Medical Studies Program with the cooperation of the new School of Medicine. He has involved the use of technology in his teaching, including using student remote response systems and iTunes U that allows students to download pre-recorded lectures synchronized to a PowerPoint presentation for review at any time. His research involves actin cytoskeletal dynamics using sea urchin eggs as a model system, and the behavior of planaria. Dr. Wong is one of the executive members of the National Office of Phi Sigma Biological Sciences Honor Society, which is now based out of Endicott College.
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William Young is an associate professor of Humanities at Endicott College. He received his B.A. degree in English Literature with a minor in Religion from Swarthmore College, and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia. He has taught at James Madison University within the Department of Philosophy and Religion, Loyola College in the Department of Theology, and King's College in the Department of Theology. He advises the Student Peace Alliance, and directed the Voter Education Project as part of Endicott's Political Awareness Fund in 2007-08. His research interests include issues in philosophy and religious studies, with a central focus on the thematic of friendship. He participated in the 2009 NEH summer seminar at Boston College on Religious Diversity and the Common Good. He is the author of numerous articles and essays, ranging from the Journal of Religion and Philosophy Today to South Park and Philosophy. He is also the author of two books: The Politics of Praise: Naming God and Friendship in Aquinas and Derrida (Ashgate, 2007) and Uncommon Friendships: An Amicable History of Modern Religious Thought (Wipf & Stock, forthcoming fall 2009).
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