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New Faculty Members
Fall 2002
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Adelphi University Appoints Thirty-nine New Faculty Members for Fall 2002
Twenty-four to fill new positions to reflect a dramatic increase in enrollment
Garden City, NY
September 24, 2002
Adelphi University is pleased to announce the appointment of thirty-nine new faculty members for the fall of 2002. Twenty-four are to fill new positions to reflect a dramatic increase in enrollment and the new academic programs devised under the administration of President Robert A. Scott, and demonstrate the growing international staff on the main campus and at the off-campus centers, including the new Hauppauge facility which opened last month. Dr. Scott officially introduced them at his State of the University Address on September 9, when he drew attention to current faculty members receiving recognition for scholarship and service from outside groups and the potential of the incoming faculty.
College of Arts & Sciences
In the College of Arts and Sciences there are ten new professors, including the distinguished author Jennifer Fleischner as Full Professor and Chair of English. The new assistant professors include Kris Fresonke as Associate Professor of English, a position she held at Iowa State University, and Lahney Preston-Matto as Visiting Assistant Professor in English, coming to Adelphi from a year's experience as Administrator of NYU's Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program.
Stephanie T. Lake has been appointed Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology. Dr. Lake's principal role will be to take charge of one of the newly devised majors, the Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice Administration. Adelphi University will be the only college on Long Island to offer this major,
The international reach of Adelphi's recruiting drive in the College of Arts and Sciences is evident in the appointment of Christopher Lyndon-Gee a British citizen, as Associate Professor of Music, and Sean McGuinness, a Canadian citizen who served as a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow in Italy and Denmark, as Associate Professor of Mathematics. Professor Lyndon-Gee was Chair of the Department of Musicology at the Australian National University, during which time he revamped the undergraduate music curriculum, developed Ph.D and Masters programs, led a full-time faculty of 14 and continued to add to his international reputation as a composer, conductor, teacher, and scholar of music.
Assistant Professor of Biology H. Seshardri Arathi specializes in Behavioral Ecology and taught courses in Animal Behavior, Biometry and Statistics, Ecology and Insect-Plant Interactions, and she has published eleven articles in peer reviewed journals and has been the recipient of an NSF Travel Grant, a Developing Nations Research Grant, and a Research Fellowship from the Indian Institute of Science, while Assistant Professor of Biology Peter Altman Cohen, fluent in ten languages, has most recently worked as a Research Biochemist and Microbiologist in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Ohio University, Athens and was the recipient of a DuPont Science and Engineering Fellowship, while his decade-long work on environmental issues in Asia will enhance the University's new Environmental Studies Program and international initiatives.
Assistant Professor of English Adam McKeown is a scholar of Renaissance literature and visual culture, while James C. Ross brings his expertise in Media Theory and Political Communication to the role of Assistant Professor of Communications, and Kellyann Monaghan will be a versatile addition as Visiting Assistant Professor in Art and Art History, with Terrence Ross as Visiting Assistant Professor of Communications.
Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies
The Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies features David Trueman, a Professor licensed in both Clinical Psychology and Law, who has published extensively in both fields. Assistant Professor Sarah E. Berger has received research grants from the American Association of University Women Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship and from the MacCracken Graduate Fellowship of New York University, and Assistant Professor Rosemary Flanagan has extensive experience as a school psychologist, having worked in a variety of Long Island school districts and served as a member of the editorial board of the journal Psychology in the Schools.
School of Education
The School of Education welcomes Assistant Professor of Sports Management Daniel Bedard who has been a professional ice hockey player/coach with teams in France and Sweden and currently serves as the Interim Director of the Sports Management Program at Adelphi and also as Leadership Trainer for Athletes Helping Athletes, while Mara Manson will be an Assistant Professor in Physical Education and Human Performance Science.
Leigh Benin is the new Assistant Professor of Social Studies, Department of Education Studies and his book The New Labor Radicalism and New York City's Garment Industry: Progressive Labor Insurgents in the 1960s, was published by Garland Press in 2000. Lyudmila Bryzzheva will be the Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education and brings a unique approach to her expertise in bilingual education because of her training in critical pedagogy, linguistics and comparative culture.
The School of Education has recruited three distinguished Associate Professors to meet the challenges ahead. Professor Sherrie Sugarman Douvre brings extensive international experience to her new role as Associate Professor of Literacy, having lived and worked in France as a consultant on curriculum design for the Business and Engineering Schools of Lyon, and has worked as an editor and consultant for major publishers such as Houghton-Mifflin. Adrienne Sosin from Pace University will also hold the title of Associate Professor of Literacy.
Its new commitment to Special Education is represented in the appointments of Anita Frey as Clinical Assistant Professor of Special Education and Crystal Kaiser as Associate Professor of Special Education. She served as Director of Clinical Practice and Training in the Early Intervention Program of New York City's Department of Mental Health and has received major grants from the United States Office of Special Education, among other agencies, and has numerous publications. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her production of a film on children with special educational needs. Assistant Professors have also been appointed in the fields of Special Education, Childhood Education and TESOL (Teaching English as a Second Language.) Professor Howard Weiner has served as District Administrator for Special Education with the New York City Board of Education for several years and will be the new Assistant Professor of Special Education; Professor Rebecca Tortello's international experience includes continuing to serve on the Jamaican National Council on Education.
Professor Lorraine Smith has been active at over 40 conferences, most of them dealing with issues related to teaching English as a Second Language. She is certified to teach ESL in New York and New Jersey and will expand the department's reach in this important new arena.
School of Business
In the School of Business, two new professors bring a strong record of scholarship to enhance the emphasis on applied research that characterizes the School of Business. Associate Professor Sebastian A. Sora has extensive teaching experience and Assistant Professor Rakesh Bali has co-authored research on ex-dividend day stock price behavior and has been frequently cited while working as an independent researcher in the fixed-income and equity areas of capital markets and in management
School of Nursing
The School of Nursing has added an Assistant Professor and an Associate Professor as it celebrates its 60th anniversary. Associate Professor Erica Kathryn returns to this region after three years as Director of Kentucky's Rural Health Clinic, and will teach Maternal-Infant Nursing and Community Health courses in the school; similar national experience in community health and maternal care nursing are brought to the school by Assistant Professor Bonnie M. Ewing, who co-founded the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Suffolk County, and was given a Congressional Award for the help given to children with life-threatening illnesses during her presidency thereof.
School of Social Work
The School of Social Work has benefited from the flourishing educational opportunities at Adelphi with an Associate and four Assistant Professors. Dr. Carol S. Cohen has been at the vanguard of curriculum design in generalist social work, creating the baccalaureate social work program at Fordham and leading it through its successful initial accreditation by the Council on Social Work Education; the professors include Diann Cameron Kelly, assistant to has been a consultant to the United States Department of Education and the Hampton Day School, made numerous presentations at professional conferences and published work in her specialty of adolescent identity formation and family practice.
Visiting Assistant Professor Alissa Mallow has served as the Coordinator of Women's and Children's Programs in the Behavioral Health Services Division of Addiction Treatment Services at North Shore University Hospital at Glen Cove, as well as Coordinator of Outreach, Education and Training at the same institution, while Professor Philip Rozario, a renowned expert on gerontology, will be Assistant Professor.
Assistant Professor Suzanne Michael has expertise in the culture of recent immigrants and extensive and successful experiences in program development and garnering grants. Since 1999 she has been the Director and Co-Principal Investigator of the Language Diversity Initiative for Hunter College's Center for the Study of Family Policy. Professor Michael has served as Interim Director of Hunter's Center for the Study of Family Policy, Director of the New York Schweitzer Fellows Program and as Director of the Community Interpreter Program, designed to train bi-lingual undergraduate students to be interpreters in public hospitals and clinics. She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Immigrant Health, a field in which she has published nine articles.
Assistant Professor Elizabeth Palley has taught at Tufts University and the University of Delaware, and was admitted to the Maryland Bar in 1996. She was the recipient of the Chaikin Endowed Fellowship for the Study of Family and Child Policy at Brandeis, has worked as a mediator and attorney, and served in a variety of social welfare positions for public and private agencies in Maryland.
With Barbara Skinner as Assistant Professor of History and Eloise Bellard as Assistant Professor and Reference/Instructional Services Librarian, and Theresa Ruyter as a Visiting Assistant Professor, Teaching Fellows, the breadth of Adelphi's thirty-nine appointments is unprecedented in its history.
Adelphi University, chartered in 1896, was the first institution of higher education for liberal arts and sciences on Long Island. Through its schools and programs -- The College of Arts and Science, the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, the Honors College, University College/ABLE Program, and the Schools of Business, Education, Nursing, and Social Work -- the co-educational university offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, as well as professional and educational programs for adults. Adelphi University currently enrolls over 7,000 students from 37 states and 60 foreign countries. With its main campus in Garden City and centers in Manhattan, Hauppauge, and Poughkeepsie, the University maintains a commitment to liberal studies in tandem with rigorous professional preparation.
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