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Recent Faculty Accomplishments

Dr. Ashley M. Appleby, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, published a review article in The British Journal of Criminology titled, “Unlocking Learning: International Perspectives on Education in Prison” in October 2024.

Allison Hamner, MSN, RN, CNE, Professor of Nursing, and Dr. Bethany Nasser, RN, CNE, VERB were selected for a poster presentation at the Massachusetts and Rhode Island League for Nursing Fall Conference entitled “Fostering a Growth Mindset in Nursing Education: Empowering Students Through Changing Mindset” on October 25, 2024.

Dr. Jessica Kaufman, Associate Dean of Science and Technology,  presented two panels at WE24, the Society of Women Engineers' annual conference, in Chicago, IL.  “Starting a Research Program on Shoestring Budget” showed how to leverage low-cost research resources with Dr. Diane Peters and Dr. Jennifer Bastiaan (Kettering University).  “Faculty Advisors, SWE is for You, Too!” highlighted SWE faculty development opportunities with Dr. Marie-Pierre Delisle(US Naval Academy), Dr. Jacquelyn Nagel(previously, James Madison University), Ms. Nichole Neal (Chandler-Gilbert Community College), and Ms. Beth McGinnis-Cavanaugh (Springfield Technical Community College). 

Dr. Jessica Kaufman, Associate Dean of Science and Technology, was approved to serve as one of two special senators along with Ayomide Zul Kazeem by a motion of the SWE Senate on October 7, 2024. Both special senators are part of the Senate Sub-team to look at systemic workplace structures in academia that are barriers to advancement for women in engineering.

Dr. Anna Linnehan, Assistant Professor Applied Behavioral Science, Dr. Sheila Klick, Adjunct Professor, Institute for Applied Behavior Analysis, Jillian Baldwin, Adjunct and Doctoral Student, Institute of Applied Behavioral Science, presented at two symposia titled, “Advancing the Understanding and Application of Assent in Behavior Analysis” and “How's Everyone Really Feeling? Teaching autistic learners to identify emotions”, at the Massachusetts Professionals in Behavior Analysis (BABAT). 

Dr. Anna Linnehan, Assistant Professor Applied Behavioral Science, presented in a symposium, “The Integration of Technology in Behavior Analytic Pursuits”  at the Massachusetts Professionals in Behavior Analysis (BABAT) conference.

Dr. Anna Linnehan, Assistant Professor Applied Behavioral Science, and Jillian Baldwin, Adjunct and Doctoral Student, Institute of Applied Behavioral Science, presented in a symposium, “Behavioral Innovations in Emotion Education for Children on the Autism Spectrum” at the Gulf Coast ABA conference, Louisiana.

Dr. Kathleen Dyer, Associate Professor, Applied Behavioral Science, and Dr. Anna Linnehan, Assistant Professor, Applied Behavioral Science, presented a workshop, "Fostering Belonging through Collaborative Practices using Person-Centered Assessment, Strength-Based Treatment, and Compassionate, Assent-Based Practices” at the Massachusetts Professionals in Behavior Analysis (BABAT) conference.  

Dr. Anna Linnehan, Assistant Professor Applied Behavioral Science,  and Dr. Sheila Klick, Adjunct Professor, Institute for Applied Behavioral Science,  presented a symposium “Assent and Compassionate Care: The Constructional Approach” at the Autism New Jersey Annual Conference. 

Dr. Anna Linnehan, Assistant Professor Applied Behavioral Science, was an invited speaker for the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Network (PaTTAN) Emotional Support Teachers Networking Series.

Dr. Kelsey Taylor, ATC, Director of Clinical Education in the School of Sport Science,  wrote an article for CEIA Experience Magazine highlighting how our internship model helps exercise science students confidently find their career paths.

Josie Dawes, RN, Assistant Professor of Nursing, was awarded the MARILN Nurse Educator (Doctoral) Scholarship award. The award recognized the value of her dissertation work and will support incentivizing participants to aid in the investigation of power as a concept in professional nursing practice. 

Dr. David Cox, Assistant Director of Research, Applied Behavioral Science, gave an invited address on using artificial intelligence to understand human language communities at the ABAI Theory & Philosophy Conference.

Dr. Semahagn Abebe, Associate Professor of International Studies,  gave a presentation to U.S. Foreign Service Officers at the Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State, on Ethnic Federalism and the Challenges of Inclusive Governance in Ethiopia on October 16, 2024. 

PTC Education is promoting the Tower Truss Project that Dr. Jessica Ventura, Associate Professor of Engineering, created with Onshape's Education team. She originally developed the Tower Truss Project to teach finite element analysis to engineering students in the context of structural calculations they were learning in Statics. The project is now freely accessible on PTC’s website

Katie Clarke-Robertson, M.A., Coordinator of Theater, won 3rd Place in the Stage Directors Theater/Musical Theater Division of the prestigious American Prize contest on November 8th, 2024 for the 2023 Endicott College production of Head Over Heels the musical. 

Dr. Krystal Demaine, Professor of Expressive Therapies, has co-authored a new book with her colleague in Israel titled, "Expressive Therapeutic Writing: Guiding Transformation and Restorative Care through Intermodal Arts, Word by Word", published in October 2024 by Routledge. The book revisits the authors’ journeys as expressive therapists, integrating writing and other art forms—note by note, word by word—into their teaching, clinical work, and personal lives. 

Dr. Anna McAlister, Professor of Marketing,  gave a talk to the Digital Strategy class at University of Missouri. The talk was titled, “Why Ethics Now? The Urgent Need for Advertising Ethics Education”. 

Dr. Ashley M. Appleby, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, was on an invited panel, with collaborators Dr. Sara Wakefield, Chris Agans, and Anthony Landers, titled “NJ-Step and transformational education in prison and beyond” at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA in November 2024. 

Dr. Ashley M. Appleby, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice,  presented her paper titled, “Higher education in prison across the globe: An international study of instructor experiences” at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology in San Francisco, CA in November 2024.

Dr. Ashley M. Appleby, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, published an article in Corrections: Policy, Practice, and Research titled, “Access to technology for higher education in prison programs: Implications from a mixed-methods study” in November 2024. 

Dr. Robert Logan, Assistant Professor of Biology and Biotechnology, had an article titled,  “R-Spondin 1 Suppresses Inflammatory Cytokine Production in Human Cortical Astrocytes” published in Neuroglia. This  study explores the impact of R-Spondin 1 (RSpo1) on astrocytic inflammation in the central nervous system. Using stem cell-derived astrocytes, the research reveals that RSpo1 modulates cytokine release, suppressing inflammatory markers like IL-10 and IFN-γ while increasing TNF-α and CXCL12. This work highlights RSpo1’s potential to influence immune signaling pathways, offering new insights into neuroinflammation and therapeutic strategies for neurodegenerative diseases. 

Dr. Anna McAlister, Professor of Marketing, served as one of two international judges for the Australian Advertising Educator Awards as part of 50 Years of Advertising Education in Australia.

Dr. Mary Jane Weiss, Dean of the Institute for Applied Behavioral Science, , received the prestigious Beth Sulzer-Azaroff Award for Distinguished Teaching at the Massachusetts Professionals in Behavior Analysis (BABAT) conference, held October 16-18 in Worcester, Mass.. This award recognizes faculty who have shown exceptional commitment to educating the next generation of behavior analysts.

David Cox, Assistant Director of Research for the Institute for Applied Behavioral Science, presented an Invited Address at BABAT (Massachusetts Professionals in Behavioral Analysis) Conference in Worcester MA on October 18th titled Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Patient Outcomes in ABA

 

Lisa Tereshko, Assistant Dean of Research for the Institute for Applied Behavioral Science, and Carly Thibodeau, Director of Sustainability, presented an Invited Panel at BABAT (Massachusetts Professionals in Behavioral Analysis) Conference in Worcester MA on October 17th titled  An interdisciplinary approach to establishing career paths in sustainability.


Dr. Kathryn Webster Rogers, Associate Professor of Athletic Training, presented at the International Ankle Symposium 2024 in Strasbourg, France titled, "Clinical application of missing factors involved in return to performance after ankle injury".

 

Dr. Vitaly Kozyrev, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, authored a chapter in Engaging North Korea titled "Russia and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the 21st Century". 


Dr. Krystal Demaine, Professor of Expressive Therapies, co-authored a book titled Expressive Therapeutic Writing Guiding Transformation and Restorative Care through Intermodal Arts, Word by Word which was released by Routledge on October 2, 2024. 


Dr. T.V. Joe Layng, adjunct faculty in the Institute for Applied Behavioral Science,  has been awarded the Louisiana Behavior Analysis Association’s 2024 Award for Distinguished ABA Advocacy. This was awarded at the Annual LBAA Conference held in New Orleans on October 4, 2024.

Dale McLennan, Dean of the Internship and Career Center, authored an editorial titled, “Viewpoint: Internships create a stronger workforce” in the Boston Business Journal on October 11, 2024. 


Dr. Anna Suranyi, Professor of History, published a book review of Household Servants and Slaves: A Visual History, 1300–1700 by Diane Wolfthal, Yale University Press, 2022 in Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal.


Dr. Anna Suranyi, Professor of History, published a book review of Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England, by Urvashi Chakravarty,  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022, in The Sixteenth Century Journal. 


Dr. Charlotte Gordon, Distinguished Professor of Humanities, was interviewed by the podcast Lit Talk* for an episode titled "*Frankenstein | E3: A Tale of Two Marys" about Mary Wozencraft and Mary Shelley.


Dr. Jessica Ochs, Professor in the Cummings School of Nursing and Health Sciences, published an article for the Specialty Spotlight in the peer-reviewed American Journal of Nursing, highlighting the important role of Nurse Educators. 


Dr. Jessica Ochs, Professor in the Cummings School of Nursing and Health Sciences, was elected to serve as a Board Member of the Technical Advisory Group of MedBiquitous through June of 2025.  MedBiquitous is the standards development program of the Association of American Medical Colleges and offers health professions educators a centralized place for guidelines, best practices, and collaborations around data and technology advancement and innovation.


Professor of Marketing, Dr. Anna McAlisterwas an invited speaker at the Health & Risk Communication Center at Michigan State University. Her talk was titled "Ethical issues in communication and conscious attention: Impacts on stress". 


Dr. Randall Livingstone, Associate Professor of Communication,  presented the audio project "Loud and sweaty: O’Brien’s role in the Boston-area Rock music community" at the 2024 Northeast Popular Culture Association Conference.


Dr. Charlotte Gordon, Distinguished Professor of Humanities, authored a book review for the Washington Post titled “T.S. Eliot’s letters reveal the details of his secret romance”. 


Together with colleagues from CMI Media Group, Mercedes Benz, and SPARC Worldwide, Professor of Marketing, Dr. Anna McAlister, published an article on conscious attention titled “Sustainable, ethical, and profitable attention use” in  I-COM Attention Forum Snapshot Series


Dr. Jessica Ventura
, Associate Professor of Engineering, Chloe Cher Harrington, Assistant Professor and Internship Coordinator, and Dr. Gina Deschamps, Director of the Angle Center for Entrepreneurship have been invited to participate in the workshop phase of the NSF Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity (EPIIC) grant this fall. Through participation in EPIIC, Endicott College seeks to strengthen all stages of development in the STEM workforce pipeline on the NorthShore, contribute more graduates to life science and technology fields, and serve as a model for other institutions.


Dr. Charlotte Gordon, Distinguished Professor of Humanities, recorded videos and conversation about Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for a new literary site called REBIND AI.


Dr. Charlotte Gordon, Distinguished Professor of Humanities, published an encyclopedia article on Mary Shelley in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Romantic-Era Women's Writing.


Dr. Amy Damico, Professor of Communication, and Dr. Melissa Yang, Professor of Communication, edited a book titled News Literacy Across the Undergraduate Curriculum, which features seven chapters authored by Endicott faculty in addition to Damico and Yang: Kristine Kelly, Elizabeth Matelski, Lara Salahi, Randall Livingstone, Kelsey McNiff, and Sam Alexander. The idea for the book emerged from the News Literacy Across the Curriculum Initiative (NILAC), a two year project supported by the Davis Educational Foundation. 


Steve Steinberg, adjunct faculty in the Gerrish School of Business,  published the article “Column: AI — checking for a pulse”  in The Salem News on August 23, 2024.


Dr. Kathryn Webster Rogers, Associate Professor of Athletic Training , had an article titled, “The Current State of Prerequisite Coursework in Health Professions Education: Function, Assumptions, and Best Practices for a Path Forward” published in the Journal of Allied Health in June 2024. Dr. Rogers  collaborated with colleagues to examine current practices in prerequisite requirements in allied health professionals with the goal of encouraging those in admissions of allied health professions to simplify this process to help with diversifying the future of healthcare providers.  


Dr. John Kelley, Distinguished Professor of Psychology,  was interviewed on WBZ NewsRadio on the program “Nightside” hosted by Dan Rea. The program aired on September 19, 2024 and focused on the nocebo effect in healthcare.


Dr. Ashley M. Appleby, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, was invited to Pitzer College, one of the Claremont Colleges in California, to host a lecture with their Justice Education Initiative, titled, “Navigating Teaching at the Intersection of Higher Education and Corrections.” 


Dr. Ashley M. Appleby, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, was invited to guest lecture inside the CDCR California Rehabilitation Center. The lecture was an Inside-Out style course, which included currently incarcerated students at the Center along with current students enrolled in the Claremont Colleges.


Administrators and faculty from the Institute for Applied Behavior Science (Dr. Kathleen Dyer, Dr. Mary Jane Weiss, Dr. Lisa Tereshko, Dr. Anna Linnehan) have published an edited book titled "Perspectives on Neurodiversity and Belonging Reflections for Behavior Analysts." The book introduces frameworks for behavior analysts to engage with and support neurodiverse individuals and communities.

 

Dr. John Kelley, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, was recently quoted in a Washington Post article titled “Think you are sick? It may be the nocebo effect.” The article appeared in the August 7, 2024 issue of the paper.


Dr. Vitaly Kozyrev, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, gave a public talk at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, entitled "Fumio Kishida’s “Realism Diplomacy for a New Era” and the Crisis of Japan-Russia Relations: Implications for the Regional Order," on July 24, 2024. 

Dr. Vitaly Kozyrev, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, participated in a paper presentation at the International Convention of Asia Scholars, Surabaya, Indonesia, on July 29, 2024 titled, "Preliminary Assessment of U.S. Efforts to Re-Engage with the Southeast Asian Region: New Connotations of the “ASEAN Centrality Narrative." 


Dr. Vitaly Kozyrev, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, held a leadership role at the Strategic Roundtable Discussion on U.S.-China-Russia relations, with the leading Singapore experts on international security and foreign policy, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, August 2, 2024. 


Dr. Vitaly Kozyrev, Distinguished Professor of Political Science  authored a blog post for Norwich University's op-ed column titled, "The U.S. Needs to Fully Realize the Strategic Significance of a New Russia-North Korea Pact" on Jul 31, 2024.

Allan M. Glass, Associate Professor of Business, was selected to present his dissertation research at the Communication, Digital Technology, & Organization (CTO) Doctoral Consortium on August 9, 2024 during the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Chicago. This event showcases work from promising doctoral candidates in technology and organizational studies. 

 

Dr. Elizabeth Matelski, Associate Professor of History, presented her ongoing research on Robin Mingo and Mingo Beach at History Camp Boston on August 10, 2024. Her presentation, "Slavery's Legacy in a New England Town," focused on celebrating Robin Mingo's history alongside other early founders of Beverly.

 

Allison Hamner, MSN, RN, CNE, Professor of Nursing, and Dr. Bethany Nasser, RN, Assistant Professor of Nursing, published a teaching tip in Nurse Educator Journal entitled "Embracing the Growth Mindset: Shifting From Pass or Fail to Pass or Practice in Practice Assessments" in July, 2024.

Dr. Dina Gentile, Professor of Sport Management, organized and facilitated a city wide event to promote girls in the game of soccer for the Boston Soccer Unity Project which is affiliated with major professional sport teams in Boston, FIFA World Cup Committee, and political advocates. 

 

The article "Combinators as Presheaves," co-authored by, Dr. Rocco Gangle, Professor of Philosophy and Dr. Gianluca Caterina, Professor of Mathematics along with Fernando Tohme (UNS, Argentina), was published in the Logic Journal of the IGPL’s August 2024 edition.

Dr. Rocco Gangle, Professor of Philosophy, presented "Modeling Autopoietic Systems with Presheaves" at the Emily Harvey Foundation conference on Logic, Methodology of Science and Its Applications in New York City on August 17, 2024.

 

Dr. Alana Tiemessen, Associate Professor of Political Science and Security Studies, presented a paper, titled "Comparative Cultural Genocide: An Analysis of Canada and China" at the International Studies Association Virtual Conference on August 1, 2024.

Dr. Jessica Ochs, Professor of Nursing, co-authored an article with her colleagues from the National League of Nursing and Walden University’s Institute for Social Determinants of Health & Social Change Leadership Academy, titled “Microaggressions in Nursing”, in the American Journal of Nursing in May 2024.

 

Larry Volk, M.F.A., Professor of Photography, had his body of work,  “Les Souvenirs” selected in the Critical Mass Top 200 of 2024. Critical Mass is an annual online program that includes selections of photographic work from all over the world, and juried by 150 esteemed international photography professionals and curators on August 14, 20214.


Larry Volk, M.F.A., Professor of Photography, had his book “Visual Larder: Hope and Expectations” included in the 30th Annual Juried Members Exhibition of the Griffin Museum of Photography and the accompanying published exhibition catalogue. His book was one of 60 works selected from over 1400 submissions on June 18, 2024.

Dr. Steven Bruso, Associate Professor of English, presented a paper, "What Happened to King Esclabar in Malory?" at the 60th Annual International Congress of Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in May 2024. 

 

Dr. Jessica Ochs, Professor of Nursing, co-authored an open education resource textbook, Population Health for Nurses, published in June 2024. 


Dr. Chris McDaniel, Professor of Mathematics, presented a talk on his research titled "Weighted path matrices and Almkvist's conjecture in codimension two" at a workshop on Lefschetz properties in Poland this summer.  He also had three of his conference proceedings papers published, to appear in two separate book volumes later this year.  


Dr. Jessica Ochs, Professor of Nursing, Dr. Cindy Mitsakis, Associate Professor of Nursing, and Dr. Richard Ochberg’s research, “A Correlational Study Measuring Burnout and Resilience Among Nurse Educators”, was published in the peer-reviewed journal Nursing Education Perspectives in June 2024.


Dr. Vitaly Kozyrev, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, traveled to South Korea South Korea on June 23-27 on the tail of Putin's visit to North Korea which included a presentation at the ASAN Institute for Policy Studies, briefing at the Korea Risk Group on "The Russo-Chinese Quasi-Alliance and the Korean Peninsula", meeting with the commander at the U.S. military base headquarters in Seoul, presentation at the Korea National Diplomatic Academy, lecture at the U.S Embassy, and visit to the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses.


Dr. Vitaly Kozyrev, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, was interviewed by the Hankook Daily Newspaper for an article titled, "Putin Sets Out to Build Anti-Western Security Organization... North Korea Will Be a Great Asset" on July 1, 2024. 


Dr. Kyungseok Choo,
Director of Homeland Security Studies and Associate Dean of the School of Social Sciences, Communication, and Humanities, presented at the International Congress on Law, Criminology, and Forensic Sciences sponsored by the University of La Gran Colombia and InterCenter in Bogota, Colombia. His presentation focused on financial crime investigations, specifically the complexities of cryptocurrency demands in cybercrime.

 

Dr. John KelleyDistinguished Professor of Psychology, delivered a talk entitled Pills, Placebos, and Panaceas: Can the Art of Narrative Medicine Survive in a Technological Age? at the 40th International Conference on Psychology and the Arts, Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 26-30, 2024.

Dr. Allison Muise, Internship Faculty and Assistant Professor of Experiential Learning, and Dr. Matt Heiser, Associate Dean of Students and Honors Adjunct Faculty, co-authored a chapter titled "Climate Change as a Pervasive Environmental and Social Justice Issue" in Social Justice Through a Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity, and Fairness Framework. 

Dr. Ashley M. Appleby, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, was featured on Episode 103 of The Criminology Academy Podcast, to talk about the transition from Ph.D. student to faculty member. In the episode, she discusses the helpful role of the Endicott Center for Teaching and Learning New Faculty Luncheon and New Faculty Orientation as resources for new faculty.

Dr. Ashley M. Appleby, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, was invited to facilitate an online workshop for the Inside-Out International Prison Exchange Program titled, "Prison Education Programs and Inside-Out in the Age of Pell".

 

Dr. Lara Salahi, Associate Professor of Broadcast & Digital Journalism, was quoted in a Boston Globe article urging Massachusetts legislators to take action to protect the local news industry.

 

Dr. Rocco Gangle, Professor of Philosophy, gave an invited talk at the Hammond Castle Museum in Gloucester, MA, entitled "Science and Spirit in Italian Renaissance Painting" on May 13, 2024.

Dr. Jeremy Bechelli, Assistant Professor of Biology, co-authored an article entitled "Development of a SYBR Green-Based RT-qPCR Assay for the Detection and Quantification of Lone Star Virus" in a peer-reviewed open-source journal, Zoonoses in April 2024.


Brenda Campbell, Senior Director of Employer Relations, and Dale McLennan, Dean, of the Internship and Career Center, along with Michelle Collins, Lecturer and Industry Placement Manager at Munster Technological University (Cork), presented at the International Internship Conference in Dublin Ireland on June 19. Their session was titled, "Developing Global Citizens through Internships: Maximizing Study Abroad Partnerships for Opportunities" and highlighted Endicott's unique partnership with MTU. Brenda and Dale also presented on the same topic at the Annual CEIA (Cooperative Education & Internship Association) conference in Tampa, FL on April 8, 2024.


In addition to her role serving as an artist advisory committee for the Society of Arts and Crafts since 2021, Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Kyungmin Park, has been officially invited to serve as a collection committee for the Fuller Craft Museum for the next three years. 


Dr. John Kelley, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, published a chapter entitled "How the Mind Creates Nocebo Effects" in a peer-reviewed book titled, The Nocebo Effect: When Words Make You Sick.


Dr. John Kelley, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, co-authored a presentation at the 2024 Social and Affective Neuroscience Society conference in Toronto entitled, "Exploring the patient-clinician relationship in chronic pain treatments: A naturalistic longitudinal study using real-time dual-brain fMRI."


Dr. Ashley M. Appleby, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, was invited to join the Normalizing Education Collective, a community of practice designed to support postsecondary partners nationwide as they build or expand high-quality postsecondary pathways in prisons that will lead to opportunities for economic advancement. The collective is a timely initiative aimed at fostering increased collaboration and capacity-building among postsecondary leaders who are driving transformative change in prison education. 

 

Dr. Jessica Ventura, Associate Professor of Engineering, co-authored a paper with Rob De La Espriella, Adjunct Faculty, in ASEE PEER called “Developing Critical Thinking Skills in the Context of Causal Analysis”. Dr. Ventura  presented the paper at the ASEE North East Section conference in Fairfield, Connecticut on April 20, 2024.

 

Dr. Krystal Demaine, Professor of Expressive Therapies, has joined the undergraduate education committee of the American Art Therapy Association;  has been sworn into the Beverly Cultural Council for a two year term; and was appointed as North American Regional Director of the International Association of Creative Arts in Education and Therapy, based in Beijing, China.

 

Dr. Charlotte Gordon gave a talk about her book-in-progress, I Speak of Wrongs, to the League of Women Voters in DeKalb County, Illinois (via zoom) on March 28, 2024, She also gave a talk about “I Speak of Wrongs” to the Jewish Federation of Raleigh, North Carolina on April 2, 2024.


Dr. Anna Suranyi, published an article titled “Indentured Servitude in Colonial America” in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, March 20, 2024. 


Dr. Jessica Ochs, Professor in the Cummings School of Nursing and Health Sciences, had a chapter on head trauma published in the nurse practitioner textbook, "Primary Care: Interprofessional Collaborative Practice".


Dr. Jessica Ochs, Professor in the Cummings School of Nursing and Health Sciences, participated in the National Academies of Practice (NAP) interprofessional concussion management team panel on 4/22/24. She was a part of a 9-person panel consisting of nursing, sports medicine, athletic training, speech/language pathology, audiology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and optometry. On this panel, she represented the nursing academy by sharing her expertise in the nursing role of concussion care.


Dr. Sergio Inestrosa, Professor of Spanish, had a poem published in EL GUARDATEXTOS titled “LA NOCHE SIN PRETEXTO NINGUNO” on March 31, 2024.


Professor of Marketing, Dr. Anna McAlister, was a guest speaker at Tufts University. Her talk "Consumer Behavior and CSR" was delivered to graduate students in NUTR278: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Food Industry.


Professor of Marketing, Dr. Anna McAlister, has been invited to join the Executive Board of the Institute for Advertising Ethics.


Dr. Paul Antonellis, Jr., Director of Institutional Planning & Assessment,  was selected to present two presentations at the AAC&U Conference on General Education, Pedagogy, and Assessment in Providence, RI. The fist presentation was a poster session, “Creating a standard guide for conducting external program reviews” on April 11th. The section presentation was a breakfast roundtable discussion “Revisiting: Curriculum map as an assessment tool” on April 12th.

Curtis L. Gerrish School of Business Internship faculty Dr. Allison Muise, Kate Nessen, MEd, MS, Marie Wilson, MBA and Mariellen Fidrych, MA presented "Empowering Futures: Bringing Employers into the Experiential Learning Classroom" as a best practice at the Annual CEIA,Cooperative Education and Internship Association, Conference in Tampa Florida on April 9th.

 

Dr. Steven Bruso, Associate Professor of English, had his monograph, “Harde Bodies: Knightly Subjectivity and Violent Selfhood in Late Medieval England” under contract with Brill's Explorations in Medieval Cultures series in January 2024. 

 

 Dr. Steven Bruso, Associate Professor of English published the article, "George R. R. Martin's Muscular Medievalism: Masculinity, Violence, and Fantasy,” in Studies in Medievalism 32 (2023) as well as “Contesting Royal Power: The Ethics of Good Lordship, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the March of Wales” in Ethics in the Arthurian Legend, eds. Evelyn Meyer and Melissa Ridley Elmes, D. S.  Brewer (2023).


Assistant Professor, TV/Film Production, Dan Frank, co-founder and co-director of The Lowell Film Festival for Future Filmmakers, completed its inaugural event in April. The two-day festival featured screenings of 29 short films, from regional and national high school and college programs, plus films from Canada, Serbia, Israel, Iran, and France. Two films were made by Endicott graduates. The event featured the panel,  “Equity, Diversity and Representation for Women in Filmmaking.” LFF is already funded for the next two years. 


Dr. Dina Gentile, Professor of Sport Management, authored a chapter in Handbook of Esports titled “Future Direction and Research Practice Chapter in Critical Perspectives of Esports” in March of 2024. 

 

Dr. Dina Gentile, Professor of Sport Management, reviewed chapter contents for the highly coveted Handbook of Esports in spring 2024.

Dr. Dina Gentile, Professor of Sport Management, presented at the Club to Club Summit in February 2024. Her talk was titled, “Reimagining Soccer Club Deliverables: Best Practices for Leveraging Transformational Programming”. 


Dr. Anna Suranyi, Professor of History, published a chapter entitled "‘Be sure thou stay at home’: Indentured Women in the British Atlantic,” in a peer-reviewed book, Women in Exile in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, eds. Linda Levy Peck and Adrianna Bakos, Manchester University Press, in April 2024. 

Past Faculty Accomplishments

  • 2023–2024

    Dr. John Kelley, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, has reached a major publishing milestone: the 80+ peer-reviewed papers he has published have been cited more than 10,000 times by other peer-reviewed journal articles. This includes 62 papers with 10 or more citations, 23 papers with more than 100 citations, and three papers with more than 1,000 citations each. Over the past five years he is averaging between 800 and 1,000 citations per year.

     

    Dr. David Parry, Professor of Criminal Justice, was recognized for 25 years of service as the faculty advisor to Endicott College’s Criminal Justice Honor Society, Alpha Pi Sigma, at their annual meeting in Chicago on March 22, 2024.


    Dr. Jessica Ventura, Associate Professor of Engineering, was selected to participate in a NSF-funded Concept-Based Instruction Workshop hosted at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez February 29th - March 2nd. She joined a cohort of 24 instructors who introduced a web-based active learning tool in their courses with the goal of promoting students’ understanding of core mechanical engineering concepts. 


    Dr. Jessica Ochs, Professor of Nursing, presented a webinar for the One Nursing Education (ONE) Summit, sponsored by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and OpenStax on February 28th, 2024.  The presentation “Population Health Nursing” highlighted the vision, approach, and unique features of the open-education resource community and population health textbook that Dr. Ochs co-authored. This book will be available in June of this year.


    Dr. Rocco Gangle, Professor of Philosophy, published an essay "Infinity and Infinitesimals" as part of a collaborative online project between philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists and the German-Egyptian sculptor Dr. Gindi.


    Dr. Anna McAlister, Professor and Faculty Lead in the Gerrish School of Business, has been appointed to the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Advertising Education.


    Dr. Anna McAlister, Professor and Faculty Lead in the Gerrish School of Business, andAileen Torrance, J.D., Associate Dean and Professor in the Gerrish School of Business, presented research at the American Academy of Advertising Conference in Portland, OR. Their session involved collaborators from Queensland University of Technology (Australia), Swinburne University (Australia), University of Colorado, and Southern Methodist University. 


    Dr. Ashley M. Appleby
    , Professor of Criminal Justice, presented a co-authored paper with Dr. Patrick Conway of Boston College's Prison Education Program titled "Thinking beyond Pell: Next steps to strengthen the quality of higher education in prison programs " at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences in Chicago, Illinois in March 2024.

     

    Dr. Rimonda R. Maroun, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, presented the co-authored paper "Juvenile Court Processing: Does School Status Play a Role?" at the American Society of Criminology Annual Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on November 17, 2023.

     

    Dr. Paul Antonellis, Director of Institutional Planning and Assessment, has been selected by the Commission for Assessment & Evaluation (CAE) to serve as a mentor for the 2024 CAE Mentorship Program. 

     

    Dr. Paul Antonellis, Director of Institutional Planning and Assessment, presented at the 11th Annual Student Learning Symposium (Online - January 26, 2024). The presentation was titled, “Creating a standard roadmap for conducting external program reviews”.

     

    Dr. Joy Dangora Erickson, Assistant Professor of Education, and colleague, Seth Parsons, published an article in Kappan, titled "Where is motivation in the science of reading?" in January 2024.

     

    Dr. Joy Dangora Erickson, Assistant Professor of Education, gave an invited talk titled, "Reading Motivation: Understanding and Supporting Children's Willingness to Read," at Learning & the Brain's sold out winter conference, Teaching Engaged Brains, in San Francisco, California on February 22. 

     

    Dr. Vitaly Kozyrev, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, authored an article in the fall 2023 edition of the North Korean Review titled, “The Bipolarity Paradox: A Preliminary Assessment of the Implications of the Strengthening China-Russia "Quasi-Alliance" for the Korean Peninsula”.

     

    Dr. Vitaly Kozyrev, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, authored a chapter in Europe in an Era of US-China Strategic Rivalry titled, “The War in Ukraine and Its Impact on the US Perspective of Europe” in February 2024. 

     

    Dr. Vitaly Kozyrev, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, served as a speaker for a special presentation titled “China-Russia Relations Two Years into Putin’s Ukraine War: How Strong, For How Long?” on February 20, 2024 at Harvard University.

     

    Dr. Gianluca Caterina, Professor of Mathematics, and Dr. Rocco Gangle, Professor of Philosophy, (with colleague Fernando Tohme) published an article titled "A category theory approach to the semiotics of machine learning" in Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence in February 2024.

     

    Dr. Lisa Tereshko, BCBA-D, LABA, Director of Quality Assurance and Research in the Institute for Applied Behavioral Science, and Dr. Mary Jane Weiss, Dean of the Institute for Applied Behavioral Science, authored two articles in the Journal of Behavioral Education: “The Effect of Choice on Student Performance in Online Graduate Classes” and “The Perceptions and Experiences of Professionals Collaborating with Behavior Analysts” in February 2024. 

     

    Dr. Traci Freeman, Dean of the Endicott Center for Teaching and Learning, and colleague Steve Getty co authored an article “An Exploratory Study of Mindsets, Sense of Belonging, and Help-Seeking in the Writing Center” in The Writing Center Journal in January 2024.

     

    Dr. Ashley M. Appleby, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, co-authored an article in the Journal of Crime and Justice titled “On The (Zoom) Record: The Role of Videoconferencing in Detention Hearing Proceedings” in February 2024. 

     

    Dr. Ashley M. Appleby, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, presented her paper “The digital divide and higher education in prison programs: An exploration of instructor experiences” at the American Society of Criminology Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA in November 2023.

     

    Dr. Ashley M. Appleby, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, was invited to serve as a member of the Justice Education Collaboratory, a dynamic community committed to generating impactful tools for educators and students nationwide. The efforts of the Collaboratory aim to influence the fabric of our nation's understanding of justice, extending beyond traditional educational realms into the corridors of the justice system and the hearts of our communities.

     

    Dr. Ashley M. Appleby, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, was invited to Durham University in the United Kingdom as a panel discussant. The panel was titled: “Teaching in Prison: International Reflections on the Value of a Critical Pedagogical Approach” (with Drs. Hannah King, Kate O’Brien, and Fairleigh Gilmour) and was discussed at an interdisciplinary workshop with the Criminal Justice, Social Harms, and Inequalities Research Group in February 2024.

     

    Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Kyungmin Park, was interviewed for the podcast, Tales of a Red Clay Rambler in January 2024.

     

    Dr. Anna R. McAlister, Professor of Marketing, and colleagues published an article titled “Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT: Exploring Current and Potential Future Roles in Marketing Education” in Journal of Marketing Communications.


    Dr. Anna R. McAlister, Professor of Marketing, and another group of colleagues published an article titled “Using Coupons to Encourage Healthier Child Snack Purchases in Corner Stores: Results from the CHOMPS Study” in Frontiers in Nutrition.


    Dr. Vitaly Kozyrev, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, authored a chapter titled “The War in Ukraine and Its Impact on the U.S. Perspective of Europe” in January 2024 in the Springer's Global Power Shift Series study entitled Europe in an Era of US-China Strategic Rivalry: Challenges and Opportunities from an Outside-in Perspective.


    Dr. Sergio Inestrosa, Professor of Spanish, had a poem published in World Poetry Anthology, a collection celebrating the 25th anniversary of Shabdaguchha, an international bilingual poetry magazine in December of 2023. 


    Dr. Gina Deschamps, Chair and Executive Director of the Angle Center for Entrepreneurship, was invited as a judge for the Harvard Rock Center for Entrepreneurship Student 2024 New Venture Competition. 


    Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Dr. John Kelley and colleagues have written a chapter called “Placebo and nocebo effects in depression: Implications for treatment and clinical design” in an edited volume of Placebo Effects Through the Lens of Translational Research.


    Dr. Allison Muise, Internship Faculty and Assistant Professor of Experiential Learning, authored a chapter titled “How to use Andragogy to engage adult learners in the higher ed classroomin Enriching the Adult Learner's Experience in Higher Education.

    Dale McLennan, Dean of the Internship and Career Center, was featured in the article “Students’ Biggest Career Influences” in Inside Higher Ed.


    Dr. Michael Kilburn
    , Professor of Political Science, authored
    a chapter titled “Living in post-truth: anti-politics and the power of the powerless in the twenty-first century” in Science, technology and society for a post-truth age: Comparative dialogues on reflexivity.

     

    Dr. Daniel Sklar, Professor of English, has two poems titled "I Mean It" and "What I Want" published in Shabdaguchha: An International Bilingual Magazine’s 25th Anniversary Issue. 

     

    Dr. Anna Suranyi, Professor of History, has published an article, “In forma pauperis: Indentured Servitude, the Right to Counsel, and White Citizenship in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake”  in the American Journal of Legal History, October 2023.


    Drs. Elizabeth Matelski and Anna Suranyi presented research at the Omohundro Institute for Early American History & Culture on October 27th, 2023 on a panel titled, “Slavery, Freedom, and Memory in Eighteenth-Century New England.” Dr. Matelski presented her on-going research about Robin Mingo and Mingo Beach while Dr. Suranyi presented a paper titled, “The Limits of Freedom Suits: Enslavement and Emancipation in Revolutionary Massachusetts.”


    Dr. Michael Kilburn, Professor of Political Science, presented his paper “Geosophy: the science and art of geohumanistic practice,” at NESTVAL 2023 (New England and St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society), at the University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME on October 28, 2023.


    Dr. Charlotte Gordon, Distinguished Professor of Humanities, taught a three class mini-course on Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Frankenstein at the 92nd St Y in New York City.


    Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Kyungmin Park’s artwork was featured on the cover of the November issue of Ceramics Monthly Magazine, parallel to an article “In the Middle: The Changing Face of Kyungmin Park” by Joey Quiñones.


    Dr. Anna R. McAlister, Professor of Marketing, delivered a Masterclass on Ethics in Advertising at Cranfield School of Management. This Marketing Communications module was produced as part of the MSc Marketing and Leadership program, comprising mid-level managers from UK institutions and advertising agencies.


    Dr. Beverly Dolinsky, Professor of Psychology was awarded SeniorCare's Rosemary F. Kerry Community Service Award for her volunteer work over the past decade supporting the health and well-being within the nine communities SeniorCare supports..


    At the 8th international meeting of the Crime Observatory Network in early November, Director of Homeland Security Studies and Associate Dean of the School of Social Sciences, Communication, and Humanities, Dr. Kyungseok Choo, received a medal for his pioneering research in cyber law enforcement training and cybercrime development from General Jose Luis Ramirez, head of the Colombia National Police. Read the full story here.


    Dr. Jessica Ochs,
    Professor of Nursing, was an oral presenter this November at the Sigma Theta Tau Biennial Convention discussing her work, Fostering Inclusivity in Nursing Education.

     

    Sara Johnson Allen, M.F.A., Professor of Communication, has published a new book entitled Down Here We Come Up with Black Lawrence Press. The book was a Small Press Distributors (SPD) Best Seller for July-August and was featured or reviewed in The Wilmington Star News, Deep South Magazine, Poets & Writers, and Southern Review of Books among other literary magazines. Johnson Allen was also interviewed on several podcasts and on Coastline on WHQR, an NPR affiliate in N.C.

     

    Dr. Charlotte Gordon, Distinguished Professor of Humanities, was awarded a grant by National Endowment for the Humanities for her project titled, “The Talk Circuit: Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Lucy Stone, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and the Fight for Freedom”.  She was also featured on The History Channel’s HISTORY This Week podcast. The episode is entitled “Mary Shelley Brings Frankenstein to Life" this past June. 

     

    Dr. Jessica Ochs, Professor of Nursing, as part of the working group of the Public Policy Committee of the National Academies of Practice, published the following article, ”Interprofessional collaboration: A public policy healthcare transformation call for action” in the Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice. She also presented a poster, “Increasing nursing student’s understanding of the social determinants of health” at Sigma Theta Tau’s 34th international nursing research congress this past August.

     

    The Tadler Center for the Humanities has received a major philanthropic investment from an anonymous donor. The grant will support the Center's work in promoting the arts and humanities by providing funding for research, creative and interdisciplinary projects, guest speakers, innovative programming, student scholarships, and an annual fellowship.

     

    Dr. Rocco Gangle, Professor of Philosophy, published an article titled, "Semiotic and Subjective Modalities: The Logic of Possibilization in Guattari's Lines of Flight" which was included among the featured content in the Bloomsbury 20th Century French Thought Philosophy Library.

     

    Sarah Bischoff, M.A., Professor of Interior Design, was elected as the Vice President of Education for the Planning and Visual Education Partnership (PAVE Global). PAVE Global’s mission is to forge vibrant and meaningful connections between design students, educators, and industry professionals from around the world.

     

    Dr. Jessica Ventura, Professor of Engineering, has been appointed the FY '24 Chair of the Women in Academia Committee for the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and was accepted into SWE's Academic Leadership for Women in Engineering (ALWE) program. As part of this program, she will join a cohort of 50 academic professionals participating in ALWE's interactive workshops and professional coaching designed to foster their professional growth and address the need for more women in academic leadership positions in engineering.

     

    Dr. Michael Kilburn, Professor of Political Science, presented two papers: "There Is a Spectre Haunting the International System: An Anarchist Critique of State Sovereignty and the Human Rights Regime” at the International Political Science Association’s 27th World Congress of Political Science in Buenos Aires, Argentina this past July and “Bohemian Rhapsodies: towards an oral history of Czechia from post-totalitarianism to post-democracy” at the AMPS conference on culture, history, art and design in Prague, Czechia this past June. 

     

    Dr. Michael Kilburn, Professor of Political Science and Michael Miller, Professor of Photography, were both participants at the the New Directions in the Humanities conference at Sorbonne University in Paris this June. Dr. Kilburn chaired their panel "Geography of Art and Art of geography of landscape" and also presented a paper, "Anthroposcenes: the art and geography of cultural landscapes." Michael Miller's paper for that panel was titled, "Genius Loci and Photographic Framing: An analysis of Christian Norberg-Schult's three paradigms of place applied to photography visualization and framing".

     

    Aileen Torrance, J.D., Associate Dean and Professor in the Gerrish School of Business, has been appointed to the editorial review board of the Journal of Marketing Communications

     

    Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Dr. John Kelley, and his colleagues at Harvard Medical School have recently published two articles in peer-reviewed journals: "Placebos in pediatrics: A cross-sectional survey investigating physicians’ perspectives" in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research and "Brain-to-brain mechanisms underlying pain empathy and social modulation of pain in the patient-clinician interaction" in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

     

    Dr. Ashley Appleby, Professor of Criminal Justice, recently published three articles: Pedagogy, Course Design, and Student Engagement: Instructor Preparations for Teaching in the Correctional Environment in the Journal of Criminal Justice Education; “The History and Operation of Prison Education Programs Today” in Mass Incarceration in the 21st Century; and “Pell Implementation for Incarcerated Students: An Evaluation of Regulations and Recommendations for Metrics to Inform Higher Education in Prison Programs” in College & Community Fellowship.


    Dr. Mary Jane Weiss, Dean of the Institute for Applied Behavioral Science, has co-authored and published two recent articles. The first article titled, "Supporting Behavior Analysts in Providing Compassionate Care: The Development of the Parent Partnership Questionnaire (PPQ)” was published with a graduate of the doctoral program, Nancy Marchese. The second article titled “Parents’ Emotional Responses to Behavior Analysis Terms: A Comparative Analysis” was co-authored with ABA doctoral graduate Kimberly Marshall (and another colleague in the field).

     

    Dr. Alana Tiemessen, Associate Professor of Political Science and Security Studies, published an article titled, "Cultural Genocide in Law and Politics" in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies. She will continue this area of research during her current sabbatical. 

     

    Dr. Rimonda R. Maroun, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, published a co-authored textbook, Corrections Today with Cengage Publishing. This edition is updated with new professional profiles and coverage of the latest insights into restorative justice, recidivism, special offender populations, the use of private prisons, COVID-19 impact, and more.

     

    Dr. Anna McAlister, Professor and Faculty Lead in the Gerrish School of Business, has been appointed to the editorial review board for the Journal of Advertising Education.

     

    Professor Danielle Currier, Interim Chair of Visual Communications, presented "A Course That Offers A More Inclusive Retelling of Graphic Design History" at the 2023 UCDA Design Education Summit: SAME/DIFFERENCE, which highlighted research and pedagogical approaches that explore accessibility, disability justice, belonging, and inclusivity toward integrative systemic change. The conference was held at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, OH.

     

    Dr. Anna Linnehan, Director of Academic Operations for the Institute of Applied Behavioral Science, published an article titled, “Can There Be Compassion without Assent? A Nonlinear Constructional Approach” in the publication Behavior Analysis in Practice

     

    Lara Salahi, Associate Professor of Broadcast & Digital Journalism, was invited to speak at Syracuse University’s Institute for Veterans and Military Families on my journalism series on suicide in the National Guard. The discussion was titled, “Supporting National Guard & Reserve: Realities, Resources, and Reintegration”. She also presented a research paper titled, "Sustaining local news: An analysis of student contributions to a news-academic partnership” at the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in Washington, DC this past August.

     

    Dr. James T. Daley, Adjunct Faculty in the School of Sport Science, Assistant Director of Athletics- Athletic Performance, and two students in the MSAT program presented to members of the medical staff at Beverly Hospital Emergency Department on the topic of "Equipment removal of a football athlete in the Emergency Department setting" this September. 

    Haikus written by Dr. Sergio Inestroza, Professor of Spanish, appeared this June in Micros, a Spanish-language magazine that features the work of writers from the Dominican Republic and Latin America.

    Distinguished Professor of Psychology Dr. John Kelley gave an invited plenary lecture entitled “Open Label Placebos: Confessions, Critiques, and Correctives” at the 4th International Conference of the Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies (SIPS) in Duisburg, Germany this May. 

    Myoung Joo Chun, M.F.A., Director, Graduate Interior Architecture Program, and Associate Professor of Interior Architecture, presented the paper "Architecture Back to Square One: Design with Earth, Wind and Sun" at the Thirteenth International Conference on The Constructed Environment, which was held at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. (May 2023)

  • 2022–2023

     

    Dr. Anna McAlister, Professor in the Gerrish School of Business, now serves on the Academic Advisory Board for a joint venture between the Better Business Bureau and the Association of National Advertisers Educational Foundation. In this role, she helps create educational materials on advertising self-regulation for use in the classroom, including cases, tools, and interviews with industry experts. (July 2023)


    Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Dr. Charlotte Gordon was featured on The History Channel’s HISTORY This Week podcast. The episode is entitled “Mary Shelley Brings Frankenstein to Life.” (June 5, 2023)


    Haikus written by Dr. Sergio Inestroza, Professor of Spanish, appeared in Micros, a Spanish-language magazine that features the work of writers from the Dominican Republic and Latin America. (June 1, 2023)


    Distinguished Professor of Psychology Dr. John Kelley gave an invited plenary lecture entitled “Open Label Placebos: Confessions, Critiques, and Correctives” at the 4th International Conference of the Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies (SIPS) in Duisburg, Germany. (May 12, 2023) 


    Myoung Joo Chun, Director, Graduate Interior Architecture Program, and Associate Professor of Interior Architecture, presented the paper "Architecture Back to Square One: Design with Earth, Wind and Sun" at the Thirteenth International Conference on The Constructed Environment, which was held at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. (May 2023)

     

    Dr. Sergio Inestroza, Professor of Spanish, read his poetry in four cities in Cuba -- Havana, Holguín, Ciego de Ávila, and Guáimaro -- as part of "Encuentro La Isla en Versos" (“Meeting the Island in Verses”). (May 1-8, 2023)


    Dr. Annabelle Estera, Assistant Professor of Education, along with colleagues Dr. Emiko Blalock, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Dr. Leslie Duhaylongsod, Assistant Professor of Education, Salem State University, and Autumn Hendrickson (Endicott '24), presented a paper titled "A Decolonial Practice? Unpacking Power and Positionality in Ungrading" at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association. (May 4, 2023)

     

    Dr. Sergio Inestroza, Professor of Spanish, read his poetry at the Five Ponds Festival at Gordon College. (April 29, 2023) 


    Dr. Jessica D. Ventura, Associate Professor of Engineering, and Bert Hodges, Senior Research Scientist, University of Connecticut, published the article “Carrying Children, Groceries, and Water Across Varying Terrain: Changes in Gait and Comfortable Walking Speed” in the peer-reviewed journal Gait and Posture. (April 2023)


    Dr. Annabelle Estera, Assistant Professor of Education, and Leslie Duhaylongsod, Assistant Professor of Education, Salem State University, co-presented the poster "Where Are All the Filipinas? Finding Each Other and Affirming Space in the Academy" at the Faculty Women of Color in the Academy annual conference. (April 21-22, 2023) 


    Dr. Paul Antonellis, Jr., Director of Institutional Planning and Assessment, Office of the Provost, was selected to present at the Ohio Association for Institutional Research and Planning (OAIRP) virtual conference. The presentation, “Creating a Standard Roadmap for Conducting External Program Reviews,” focused on the new format that Endicott College now uses for external program reviews. (April 21, 2023)


    Dr. Paul Antonellis, Jr., Director of Institutional Planning and Assessment, Office of the Provost, gave an invited talk entitled "Revisiting: Curriculum Map as an Assessment Tool" at the 11th Annual Conference of the Assessment Network of New York, which was held in Albany, NY. (April 18, 2023)


    Dr. Dennis Camacho, Assistant Dean for Organizational Leadership and Learning, Marlin Nabors, Assistant Vice President and Dean of Students, Dr. Matt Heiser, Associate Dean of Students, and Dr. Annabelle Estera, Assistant Professor of Education, presented a workshop entitled "Student Engagement and Instruction Delivery During COVID-19: Lessons Learned and Lessons To Be Learned" at the NASPA Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education annual conference. (April 3, 2023)

     

    Dr. Annabelle Estera, Assistant Professor of Education, Dr. Dennis Camacho, Assistant Dean for Organizational Leadership and Learning, Sarah Hope, Assistant Director of Academic Coaching, Juanita Lambe, Coordinator of Teacher Education, and Emma-Cate Rapose, M.Ed. '22, presented a workshop entitled "Understanding and Supporting Online Adult Learners" at the NASPA Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education annual conference. (April 3, 2023)


    Anna McAlister, Professor and Faculty Department Lead in the Gerrish School of Business, now serves as Director of Curriculum and Assessment at the Institute for Advertising Ethics. (April 2023)


    Down Here We Come Up, the debut novel of Professor Sara Johnson Allen, M.F.A., is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in August 2023. 


    Dr. Jessica Ochs, Associate Professor of Nursing, presented a roundtable discussion, “Actions to Advance the National Academies of Practice (NAP) Position on Interprofessional Collaboration,” with her fellow public policy teammates at the National Academies of Practice Annual (NAP) Forum.  The roundtable featured the position paper and subsequent white paper on interprofessional collaborative practice and interprofessional education that the team wrote for NAP. (March 30, 2023)

     

    Dr. Maria Wong, Associate Dean, School of Social Sciences, Communication, & Humanities, and Professor of Psychology, delivered the keynote address for the Developmental Science Teaching Institute at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development in Salt Lake City, Utah.  Her talk was entitled “Both/And Thinking for Teaching, Research, and Professional Development: Embracing Tensions and Welcoming Creativity.” (March 22, 2023)

     

    Professor Rich Nastasi, Ed.D., gave an invited presentation, “Office Hours: The Epicenter of Student-Faculty Engagement,” at the Adult Higher Education Alliance Annual Conference in Tampa, Florida. This presentation, which was especially targeted for adult learners, emphasized how office hours can be transformational, providing a forum for students to develop and share their personal voices, and for faculty to demonstrate passion for their discipline. (March 16, 2023)

     

    Associate Professor of Journalism Lara Salahi has been named a “faculty champion” by the Center for Community News at the University of Vermont.  As part of this program, Salahi received a grant to expand the news-academic partnership she founded at Endicott College. (March 13, 2023)

     

    Dr. Annabelle Estera, Assistant Professor of Education, was selected to serve on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice (JSARP) for the 2023-2026 term. (February 8, 2023)


    Professor Cindy Caruso, J.D., C.P.A., presented at the American Tax Association Teaching and Curriculum Conference. Professor Caruso shared her introductory tax course activity, "Lessons from Presidential Tax Returns,” in a session aimed at teaching tips for courses on taxation. (February 23, 2023)


    Dr. Charlotte Gordon, Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, published a review of Carmela Ciuraru’s Lives of Wives: Five Literary Marriages in The Washington Post.  (February 11, 2023)

    Dr. Krystal Demaine, Professor of Expressive Therapies, gave a talk and read from her book, The Roots & Rhythm of the Heart (2022), at the Gloucester Writers Center.  The event can be viewed here.  (February 2, 2023)

    Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Dr. Charlotte Gordon was interviewed on the Hot and Bothered podcast episode “Live from Pemberly: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft.” (February 2, 2023)

    Dr. Krystal Demaine, Professor of Expressive Therapies, was featured on the Creative Psychotherapist Podcast episode "On Being a Heart-Centered Therapist."  (February 1, 2023)

    Associate Professor of Broadcast & Digital Journalism Lara Salahi’s three-part series on suicide in the Army National Guard as a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Fellow was published by The War Horse.  The series was republished by Military Times. Read the series here: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3. (February 2023)


    Distinguished Professor of Psychology Dr. John Kelley and his colleagues at Harvard Medical School and the University of Marburg in Germany published the article “Adverse Events in the Placebo Arms of Covid-19 Vaccination Trials: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis” in the peer-reviewed journal JAMA Network Open. (January 18, 2023)

     

    Hong Hong, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, was awarded a 2023 USA Fellowship by United States Artists.  The USA Fellowships, which are $50,000 unrestricted awards, recognize “the most compelling artists working and living in the United States today.” (January 2023)

    Dr. Krystal Demaine, Professor of Expressive Therapies, was a featured practitioner in Spirit of Change Magazine: Holistic New England, where she considers new meaning for the music of heartbeat.  (January 2023)

    Kyungmin Park, Associate Professor of Fine Arts, was featured in the American Craft Council article, “The Queue.” This article appeared in connection with her participation in the “Figuring Space” exhibition, which is on view through April 16, 2023 at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, PA.  (December 2022)

     

    Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Dr. John Kelley, and his colleagues at Harvard Medical School have published an article titled “Are They Side Effects? Extra-Intestinal Symptoms Reported During Clinical Trials of IBS May Be More Severe at Baseline” in the peer-reviewed journal Gastroenterology and Hepatology. (December 2022)

     

    Dr. Vitaly Kozyrev, Professor of Political Science and International Studies, delivered a public lecture at Yonsei University (Korea) entitled “The Current Situation and Future Development of Sino-Russian Relations—From the Perspective of Russia.”  (November 17, 2022)

    Dr. Paul Antonellis, Jr., Director of Institutional Planning and Assessment gave an invited talk entitled "Lessons Learned: Curriculum Map as an Assessment Tool" at the New England Educational Assessment Network 2022 Fall Forum, which was held at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA.  (November 4, 2022)

    Dr. Joy Dangora Erickson, Assistant Professor of Education, published Reading Motivation: A Guide to Understanding and Supporting Children's Willingness to Read (Rowman & Littlefield). (December 14, 2022)

    Sara Johnson Allen, Professor of Communication and Larry Volk, Professor of Photography, were featured storytellers at the Fish Tales event, “Ancestors,” held at the Gloucester Stage Company.  Fish Tales is a storytelling series sponsored by the Gloucester Writers Center and curated by storyteller-in-residence, Dr. Gabrielle Watling, Professor of English. (December 8, 2022)


    Dr. Jessica Ochs, Associate Professor of Nursing, published "Addressing Health Disparities by Addressing Structural Racism and Implicit Bias in Nursing Education" in Nurse Education Today. (December 5, 2022)

    Representing the Endicott Center for Diagrammatic and Computational Philosophy, Professor Rocky Gangle gave an invited talk on diagrammatic reasoning in philosophy of science at the Emily Harvey Foundation in New York. (December 3, 2022)

    Dr. Elizabeth Landers, Associate Professor of Nursing, published “Transition to Pandemic: Reality Shock and Role Development for the Novice Nurse,” which she co-authored with D. Glynn, M. Cook, and M.L. Cullen, in The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing. (December 1, 2022)


    Endicott professors and lawyers Michelle Mustone, Director of Advising and Licensure in the School of Education, Dylanie George, Assistant Professor of Experiential Learning, and Ken Riaf, Adjunct Faculty, discussed the role of strategic narrative and storytelling in law and the courtroom at the Endicott College Narrative Studies Group. (December 1, 2022)


    Dr. Lara Salahi, Associate Professor of Broadcast and Digital Journalism, and Dr. Christina Smith co-authored the article, “Supporting Local News Ecosystems: Faculty Motivations in Maintaining News-Academic Partnerships,” which appeared in Teaching Journalism and Mass Communication. (December 2022)


    Michael Miller, Coordinator of Digital Imaging and Professor of Photography, has a solo show in Ipswich, MA at New England BioLabs entitled "The Quiet Light: Photographs from Cape Ann to Cape Cod.” He also exhibited his work in the Seacoast Artisans 23rd Annual Holiday Fine Arts Show in Portsmouth, NH in November and is in a local Beverly popup show, "Art in the Alley", with another local artist in December. (November - December 2022)


    Kyungmin Park, Associate Professor, Fine Arts, was an artist-in-residence at A.I.R. Vallauris, in Vallauris, France, where she undertook art-making based research and led a public workshop. (November - December 2022)


    The Glasgow Guardian featured an interview with Dr. Charlotte Gordon, Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, about her book Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. The article appeared in its print and online editions. (November 20, 2022)


    Dr. Rimonda Maroun, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, presented the paper "Exploring the Relationship Between School Status and Juvenile Court Outcomes" at the American Society of Criminology annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia. (November 18, 2022) 


    Professor Cindy Caruso, JD, CPA was an invited speaker at an event entitled "Invested Women: Personal Finance Seminar" hosted by DECA of Danvers High School. Professor Caruso spoke on key aspects of personal financial well-being, including budgeting, financial services, consumer credit, taxes, and investing. (November 10, 2022)

     

    Dr. Allison Muise, Assistant Professor of Experiential Learning and Internship Faculty, Business, published the article “Building a Coaching Relationship,” in the National Tutoring Association’s quarterly newsletter, The Tree. (November 2022).

     

    Dr. Randall Livingstone, Associate Professor of Communication, published the article "Trump Bots and Algorithmic Experimentation" in the peer-reviewed journal First Monday. (November 7, 2022)

     

    Dr. Maria Wong, Associate Dean, School of Social Sciences, Communication, & Humanities, and Professor of Psychology delivered an invited developmental brown bag talk at the University of California, Riverside entitled, “Finding Your True Calling: When Your “Deep Gladness Meets the World’s Deep Need.” (November 7, 2022)

     

    Dr. Sam Alexander, Associate Professor of English and Department Lead for the Humanities, presented at the Modernist Studies Association conference in Portland, Oregon.  His paper was entitled “Teaching James Baldwin and the Problem of Allyship.”  (October 29, 2022)

     

    Dr. Kelsey McNiff, Associate Professor of English/Composition, presented the paper, “Origin Stories and Untold Stories: Recovering of the Life of Françoise Robin,” at the fall 2022 conference of the New England Historical Association. (October 29, 2022)

     

    Dr. Rich Nastasi, Professor of Sport Science, led a session entitled “The Epicenter of Faculty/Student Engagement” at the Teaching Professor Online Conference.  Dr. Nastasi’s session engaged participants in dialogue about how the traditional goals of office hours (remediation and clarification) should be expanded to embrace celebration and innovation.  He introduced an office hour preparation template that empowers students through faculty/student collaboration, and peer tutor Emmerson Hayes (Endicott ‘24) joined the conversation to answer questions from a student perspective. (October 28, 2022)


    Dr. Anna Suranyi, Professor of History, chaired the panel “Law, Commerce, and Colonialism” at the Northeast Conference on British Studies. (October 22, 2022)

     

    Dr. Annabelle Estera, Assistant Professor of Education, and Dr. Dennis Camacho, Assistant Dean for Organizational Learning, presented a roundtable titled "Teaching Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Undergraduate Education Courses: Understanding Faculty of Color Experiences" at the annual conference of the Northeastern Educational Research Association. (October 20, 2022)

     

    Dr. Bethany Nasser, Assistant Professor of Nursing, gave a poster presentation at the Massachusetts/Rhode Island League for Nursing (MARILN) conference at the College of the Holy Cross. Her poster, “Modified Escape Room: Innovative way to Study for Fundamentals Final Exam,” discussed a teaching method she developed with adjunct faculty member Adriana Flanagan, MSN, RN, in which a modified escape room utilized the flipped classroom teaching method and active learning strategies to help students with diverse learning styles study for their comprehensive fundamentals final exam. (October 14, 2022)

     

    Dr. Jessica Ochs, Associate Professor of Nursing, was an invited presenter at the Sigma Theta Tau Region 15 Nursing Symposium conference, “Be Bold! Be Brave! Inspire Inclusion, Resilience, and Innovation.”  Her paper, "Integrating Service-Learning in Nursing Education to Inspire a More Inclusive Nursing Workforce," was related to the service-learning requirement that she has integrated into the community and population health nursing course at Endicott.  (Oct. 14, 2022)

     

    Dr. Krystal Demaine, Professor of Expressive Therapies, coordinated the Endicott College Expressive Therapies Symposium: Contemplative Practices, a conference that was held for the second time at the Walter J. Manninen Center for the Arts. (October 14, 2022)

     

    Dr. Michael Kilburn, Professor of Political Science, gave two talks at international conferences during the summer of 2022.  He presented the paper “The Art of Geography/the Geography of Art” at the Twentieth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, which was held at the University of the Aegean in Rhodes, Greece, and “The Society of the Spectacular The Social Practice of the Atlanta Arts Collective, 800 East, 1990-1998” at History/Histories: From the limits of representation to the boundaries of narrative, the 17th International Conference on the Arts in Society held at San Jorge University in Zaragoza, Spain. (June and July 2022)

     

    Dr. Joy Dangora Erickson, Assistant Professor of Education, presided over the annual convening of the North Eastern Philosophy of Education Society (NEPES) at Villanova University, where she gave the welcoming address.  She also presented multiple papers at the conference, including “On Reading Interventions and Flourishing: Considering Children's Present and Future Freedoms” with W. C. Thompson and “Teaching for Freedom in Today’s Early Childhood Spaces” with K. Rousseau. (October 8, 2022) 

     

    Dr. Gianluca Caterina, Professor of Mathematics, Dr. Rocco Gangle, Professor of Philosophy, and Dr. Fernando Tohme co-authored the paper “Observability in the Univalent Universe,” which was published in the Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics. (October 2022)

     

    Dr. Charlotte Gordon, Distinguished Professor of Humanities, spoke about Anne Bradstreet at the Ipswich Museum and at the Pingree School. (October 2022)


    Dr. Maria Wong, Associate Dean, School of Social Sciences, Communication, & Humanities, and Professor of Psychology, recently co-authored two articles. “The Moderating Effects of Growth Mindset on Perceived Discrimination and Behavior Problems Among Chinese Migrant Children,” which she authored with S. Joo et al., appeared in Asian American Journal of Psychology.  In addition, she published “Conceptual Comparison of Constructs as First Step in Data Harmonization: Parental Sensitivity, Child Temperament, and Social Support as Illustrations,” which she co-authored with M. L. Verhage, et al., in MethodsX. (October 2022)

     

    Dr. Charlotte Gordon gave a talk on Mary Wollstonecraft's legacy for Chawton House in England. Chawton House, formerly owned by Jane Austen’s brother, supports research on early women writers through its programs and collections, and her talk was to help raise money for the purchase of a Wollstonecraft first edition. (September 2022)

     

    Dr. Elizabeth Matelski, Associate Professor of History, joined the Advisory Committee of Suffrage100MA, a non-profit organization that commemorates the adoption of the 19th Amendment. Suffrage100MA tells the story of Massachusetts suffragists, including the essential contributions of women of color, who were often excluded by white women’s suffrage organizations, and whose role in the movement has largely been overlooked. (September 2022)

     

    Dr. Maria Wong, Associate Dean, School of Social Sciences, Communication, & Humanities, and Professor of Psychology, was appointed to serve as a board member for the American Council on Education (ACE) Women’s Network Massachusetts.  (September 2022)     

     

    Dr. Randall Livingstone, Associate Professor of Communication, presented the paper "Broadcasting Bias? Content and Network Analysis of U.S. Senators’ Retweets of National Media Sources" virtually at the 12th International Conference on Social Media & Society. (July 2022)


    Dr. Gianluca Caterina spent the month of June 2022 as an invited Visiting Scholar at Politecnico di Milano where he gave a series of talks and started a collaboration with META, an interdisciplinary group of researchers from various fields of mathematical and social sciences. (June 2022)

     

    Dr. Charlotte Gordon published Mary Shelley: A Very Short Introduction with Oxford University Press. (June 2022)