Our faculty members participate in conferences around the world, conduct groundbreaking research, and publish books and journal papers that contribute to their field and highlight their expertise. We feature those accomplishments and more in this section. Tenure and Promotion The following faculty were granted tenure or promotion effective fall 2013 Dana Belu, tenure and promotion to associate professor, philosophy Dawn Berlin, promotion to professor, teacher education Michele Bury, promotion to professor, art John Davis, promotion to professor, teacher education Kara Dellacioppa, promotion to professor, sociology Kate Fawver, promotion to professor, history Michael Galant, ... Read More
Faculty Highlights
Faculty Highlights: July 2013
Our faculty members participate in conferences around the world, conduct groundbreaking research, and publish books and journal papers that contribute to their field and highlight their expertise. We feature those accomplishments in this section. College of Arts and Humanities Don Hata, professor emeritus of history, has been appointed to the Distinguished Lectureship Program of the Organization of American Historians through 2016. His lecture topics will include Nikkei (Japanese American) history, 19thcentury to the present, and U.S.-Japan relations in war and peace. Gilah Hirsh, professor of art, has been invited to become a member of the International Kepes Society, which seeks to ... Read More
Faculty Highlights: May 2013
Our faculty members participate in conferences around the world, conduct groundbreaking research, and publish books and journal papers that contribute to their field and highlight their expertise. We feature those accomplishments in this section. College of Arts and Humanities Nancy Cheever, chair and associate professor of communication co-wrote with Mark Carrier, chair and professor of psychology, Larry Rosen, professor of psychology, “Facebook and Texting Made Me Do It: Media-induced Task-switching While Studying” which was published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior, 29, no. 3 (May 2013). The article is based on their research of students as they studied. Jonathon Grasse, ... Read More
Faculty Highlights: April 2013
Our faculty members participate in conferences around the world, conduct groundbreaking research, and publish books and journal papers that contribute to their field and highlight their expertise. We feature those accomplishments in this section. College of Arts and Humanities Mario Congreve, lecturer of digital media arts and staff producer of mediated instruction and distance learning, was cinematographer and co-producer with director Glen Gebhard and writer Frank Turano on the documentary “Greetings from Fire Island, Long Island, NY,” which has been awarded the J. Stuart Blackton Award for Best Documentary at the Long Island Film Festival. Gilah Hirsch, professor of art, is among ... Read More
Faculty Highlights — March 2013
Our faculty members participate in conferences around the world, conduct groundbreaking research, and publish books and journal papers that contribute to their field and highlight their expertise. We feature those accomplishments in this section. College of Arts and Humanities M. Keith Claybrook, Jr., lecturer of Africana studies, chaired two undergraduate student sessions at the 37th Annual Conference of the National Council for Black Studies held March 13-16, “Healing the Hurt and Addressing the Rupture: Addressing the Disconnect in Africana Communities” and “Revealing the (Mis)-Representation and Implications of Popular Notions in Africana Communities.” The sessions' panelists included ... Read More