The faculty who teach in the All-College Honors Program are talented teachers and accomplished scholars. Several have been honored as "Professor of the Year" at Canisius. Occasionally, teaching assignments change, thus introducing or returning faculty to Honors.
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Bruce J. Dierenfield, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of St. Olaf College, holds a PhD in American history from the University of Virginia. Since 1986, he has been professor of history at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, where he specializes in 20th century American politics, society, and law and directs the All-College Honors Program. He is also Peter Canisius Distinguished Teaching Professor, and coordinates the college's program in the African American Experience. In 2004, he received the college’s Martin Luther King, Jr. award for fostering human rights. He is the recipient of the 2007 Langum Prize in American Legal History. Dr. Dierenfield has also taught at the University of Helsinki (Finland), at Nanjing University (China), and, as a senior Fulbright scholar, at the Universities of Cologne and Bonn (Germany). He is the author or coauthor of four books, including The Federal Role and Activities in Energy Research and Development, 1946-1980: An Historical Summary (1983), Keeper of the Rules: Congressman Howard W. Smith of Virginia (1987), The Civil Rights Movement (2004), and The Battle over School Prayer: How Engel v. Vitale Changed America (2007). His next books are on the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union and African American Leadership.
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George Boger, PhD professor, Philosophy George Boger received his graduate training at SUNY Buffalo and is chair of the Philosophy department at Canisius. He specializes in ancient philosophy (esp. Aristotle), Marxism, and the history of logic. He has often taught a capstone Honors seminar on "The Philosophy of Human Rights." | |
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Robert Butler, PhD professor, English Dr. Butler's recent publications include "Richard Wright and the Second Chicago Renaissance," which will appear in The Dictionary of Literary Biography book The African American Renaissance in Chicago, edited by Steven Tracy of the University of Massachusetts. He is continuing his work on The Richard Wright Encyclopedia, co-authored with Jerry Ward at Dilliard University. Dr. Butler's teaching interests include modern American literature, especially realism and naturalism, African-American literature and culture, 19th-century Russian literature, and such authors as Mark Twain, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Theodore Dresier, James T. Farrell, and Toni Morrison. From the Honors Post-Journal Dr. Robert Butler By Thomas Robb, Freshman Staff When I first stepped into Dr. Butler’s office for the interview, I was immediately overwhelmed by the passion this man has for his craft. Books, posters, artwork, photos, and all the other trappings of a working office are lovingly placed out about. Dr. Butler is a man whose dedication is to his students and to the Honors Department first and foremost. Dr. Robert Butler grew up in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the town where Herman Melville wrote Moby Dick. Dr. Butler earned his undergraduate degree from St. Michael’s University in Vermont. Continuing his education, he received his doctorate from the University of Notre Dame. At first he had planned on getting a degree in journalism, but he decided on teaching English, and he gives credit to his high school teachers for giving him the inspiration to teach young people. He came to Canisius College in 1966, and has been teaching here ever since. This is his twentieth year as head of the Honors Department, and he has no plans for retirement. “I absolutely love working with the Honors students and I love working at Canisius. It has a great Liberal Arts program and the college is so supportive of the Honors Department.” He is also motivated to teach because of the creativity brought to the classroom. “Most people say their jobs drain them, I say that teaching replenishes my humanity. When you stop learning, you stop teaching.” Dr. Butler lives in Tonawanda, NY and rides his bike to school on most days. He has four children; three grown and one still at home. During the summer, he does research and writes. He has seven books to his credit, all pertaining to African Literature, which is his specialty. He is currently at work on his third book about Richard Wright, the African-American writer and poet. He also has taught in the Wyoming, Collins, and Attica Correctional Facilities, and currently teaches at the Wyoming Correctional facility part-time. During the end of our conversation, Dr. Butler said one last thing that speaks for his extraordinary character: “Give me a choice between talking to a human being and writing an email, and I’ll pick talking to a human any day!” | |
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Henry C. Clark, PhD professor, History Hank Clark (BA Marquette, PhD Stanford in History and Humanities) is professor of early modern European history, and has taught courses for social-science credit in the Honors Program. In stints at Norwich University, Lawrence University, Tulane University and Dartmouth College in addition to his years at Canisius, he has taught more than 30 courses - teaming along the way with faculty in English, Modern Language and Political Science - and received a citation for teaching excellence from Di Gamma sorority at Dartmouth. His students have often graciously played guinea pig to his ongoing quest for the perfect jambalaya. Dr. Clark, who was a resident scholar at Liberty Fund in 2005-06, has published La Rochefoucauld and the Language of Unmasking in Seventeenth-Century France (1994) and Compass of Society: Commerce and Absolutism in Old-Regime France (2006); has edited Commerce, Culture, and Liberty: Readings on Capitalism Before Adam Smith (2003) and Ideas and Institutions in an Age of Atlantic Revolution (in 1650-1850 [2005]); and has written articles on topics ranging from aristocratic culture to the grain trade for The Journal of Modern History, French Historical Studies, and other journals. He is finishing up a translation of Montesquieu’s intellectual diary Mes Pensées (My Thoughts), has done much of the editorial work on an anthology of political articles from Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie, and has projects underway on French consular institutions and on Adam Smith. His main recreational activity has been driving up and down Highway 90 for hours while listening to Dvorák, Léo Ferré and SportsCenter. | |
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Mick Cochrane, PhD professor, English Mick Cochrane is a native of St. Paul, MN, and a graduate of the University of St. Thomas. He earned his PhD in English literature from the University of Minnesota, and since 1985 has been a member of the Canisius College English Department. His interests include eighteenth-century literature, biography, contemporary fiction, and creative writing. He compiled Boswell’s Literary Art: An Annotated Bibliography, and has published critical essays in Biography, Eighteenth-Century Life, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Aethlon, and The Dayton Review. Dr. Cochrane is the author of two novels, Flesh Wounds (Nan Talese/Doubleday, Penguin paperback), which was named a finalist in Barnes and Noble’s Discover Great New Writers Competition in 1997, and Sport (St. Martin’s Press, Univ. of Minnesota Press paperback). His short stories and essays have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Kansas Quarterly, Northwest Review, and Scoring From Second: Baseball from Life. With the support of a Peter Canisius Distinguished Teaching Professorship, he established and still coordinates the Canisius Contemporary Writers Series. | |
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Sandra Cookson, PhD professor, English Sandra Cookson is professor of English and currently chair of the English department. She received her PhD in English from The University of Connecticut. Dr. Cookson has taught both Modern and Contemporary Poetry seminars in the All-College Honors program, and will teach a freshman Honors seminar in Fall 2007. She teaches regularly in the English department’s creative writing minor, and she offers the Advanced Creative Writing Poetry Seminar in that program, as well as American Women Poets: Reading and Writing. She also teaches a range of British poetry, from medieval to modern, including a seminar in the English Romantic poets. Dr. Cookson also teaches women’s literature and film courses as well as freshman seminars in English. She has published critical essays on twentieth-century American poets in the MasterPlots Series (Salem Press). Her essay on the poetry of Louise Bogan, the subject of her dissertation research, was published in Critical Essays on Louise Bogan, edited by Martha Collins. Her essay on Handel’s musical settings of Milton’s L’Allegro and Il Penseroso appeared in The Milton Quarterly. Her own poetry has been published in a number of literary journals, including Common Ground, (Springfield, MA), July Literary (Buffalo, NY), Out of Line (Trenton, OH), and Rhino (Evanston, IL). | |
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Dave Costello, PhD professor, History Dave Costello received his PhD from the University of Virginia, and has taught at Canisius for more than 40 years. His specialties include 20th century Russian history and World War II. A perennially popular teacher, Dr. Costello participated in and directed several NEH seminars in Russian and European history. Among his many roles at Canisius, he has chaired the History Department, filled in as acting director of the All-College Honors Program, and served on too many committees to mention. He is well known for his ready wit, affability, and willingness to mentor students and junior faculty, not to mention his passion for novels, theatrical performances, and poker, not necessarily in that order. In recognition of his many contributions to the college, Dr. Costello received the Kenneth L. Koessler Distinguished Faculty Award. | |
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Jack D’Amico, PhD professor, English Dr. D'Amico's interest in the arts came from his family, particularly music and literature, and from his undergraduate studies at the University of Buffalo. Before settling in at Canisius, he taught at a number of institutions from Berkeley to Beirut. His areas of research and publication have been English Renaissance theater, Shakespeare, Italian Renaissance theater and Machiavelli. For relaxation, he swims, walks, plays the piano, cooks, and travel, more or less in that order. | |
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René de la Pedraja, PhD professor, History Dr. De la Pedraja has been at Canisius College since 1989. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1977. Throughout his life he has been passionately concerned with Latin America and its many problems. He has spent over two decades living in Latin America, primarily in Colombia and Cuba. Although his research requires considerable travel, he always looks forward to visiting many interesting places in Europe, Latin America, and the United States. He is particularly fond of large cities with their culture and rich history. He loves to explore the vast collections of famous museums. Whether traveling or at home, he appreciates architecture and likes to visit historic houses. Hollywood has been very effective in diminishing his earlier interest in movies. Reading books and old documents remains his favorite pursuit. He is a prolific writer who has published eight books and many articles. Students in his Revolutions in Latin America course will read many chapters of his most recent book, Wars of Latin America, 1899–1941. | |
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Betsy Dellebovi, PhD associate professor, Linguistics Dr. DelleBovi is an associate professor in the department of Linguistics. Her training is in Composition Instruction and American Literature. Ancillary training includes various areas of education including English Education and the history of American education. Dr. DelleBovi is the director of Canisius’ Tutoring Center where much of her research is derived. Her interests include The Beatles, barns and golden retrievers as well as the aging processes of tennis players. | |
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Jennifer Desiderio, PhD assistant professor, English Dr. Desiderio grew up in Rochester. She received her B.A. in English and History from Marquette University and her Ph.D. in English from Ohio State University. She enjoys cooking, gardening, and reading contemporary fiction. Her major teaching area is early American literature to 1900. Some of her interests include sentimental and sensational literature, American Romanticism, authorship in America, women's literature, epistolarity, and the novel in 18th- and 19th-century America. She especially enjoys Herman Melville, Charles Brockden Brown, Hannah Webster Foster, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. | |
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David Devereux, PhD associate professor, History David Devereux is originally from London, Ontario. He earned degrees in Canada and his PhD in Britain at the University of London. He teaches a range of courses in the History Department including Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Canada. He does research on the relationship between the end of empire and the cold war. | |
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Frank J. Dinan, PhD professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry From the Honors Post-Journal Frank J. Dinan, PhD By Kathy Liebner, Junior Staff Writer Simple, honest, and sincere. These are words that could be used to describe one of the most recognizable teachers on campus, Dr. Frank Dinan. A native of Buffalo, Dr. Dinan attended City Honors High School and continued to study at U.B. where he earned a B.A. and Ph.D. in chemistry. Always interested in chemistry, Dr. Dinan discovered his love for teaching after having several excellent teachers in high school and college in the subjects of history, English, sociology, and anthropology (no less a testament to his varied interests). Following his UB graduation, Dr. Dinan completed several years of post-doctoral research in Cornell University on organic chemistry. Realizing that his passion was to educate students, in 1965, Dr. Dinan settled at Canisius College as a chemistry professor. Despite his love of chemistry, Dr. Dinan is not limited by it. In fact, he first became involved in the Honors program in 1976 when the head of the Honors department, asked him to put together a course that incorporated his dual interests of literature and science. That done, Dr. Dinan taught the course himself for nine years before partnering with his good friend Mel Schroeder to teach what is now known as Honors Tech and Lit. His favorite part of teaching Honors classes? The students. He loves interacting, getting to know them, and “watching them learn.” Outside of school, Dr. Dinan’s life is as just as busy. A father of three children—a trained lawyer, a Congressional environmental worker with a Ph.D. in economics, and a geographer involved in satellite mapping—he now enjoys the company of several grandchildren. Some of his hobbies include bicycling and baseball, and he even coached a Little League team for six years. As a die-hard Yankees fan, he plans to attend the Yankees’ spring training camp with his wife next semester. Dr. Dinan also loves literature. He is active in a Canisius-based book club which often travels to Europe and his love of literature often leads him to enjoy sipping frappuccinos while perusing books at Barnes & Noble. After serving Canisius well for 40 years, Dr. Dinan is completing his first year of a five-year graduated retirement program. Upon retiring, he plans to write a book called Flying Blind. This book, inspired in part from his Honors course, centers on scientists’ advances of technology, but often without understanding the implications of their research or the full possible effects on society. So as you’re enjoying a sweet frappuccino at Barnes & Noble, look around for Dr. Dinan’s newest book. Or, better yet, look for Dr. Dinan and spend some quality time with a great man. | |
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Marianne Djuth, PhD professor, Philosophy Marianne Djuth completed her doctorate at the University of Toronto. Her teaching and research have revolved around Augustine, medieval philosophy, and the philosophy of religion. | |
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Paul Dowling, PhD professor, English Paul Dowling holds a PhD in English from Indiana University. He has also taken post-doctoral courses in political philosophy and classical Greek at SUNYAB. His Honors seminars combine literature and political philosophy, such as "Shakespeare's Politics" and "Quarrel of Ancient and Modern Philosophers and Poets." He has published books on John Milton and Herman Melville. Other than follow the St. Louis Cardinals, he recreates by walking, singing, and reading. | |
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Martha Dunkelman, PhD professor, Fine Arts Chair of the Department of Fine Arts, Dr. Dunkelman has been studying art history, especially the art of the Italian Renaissance, since her freshman year at Wellesley College. She went on to earn M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, and taught at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio and SUNY at Buffalo, before coming to Canisius on a permanent basis in 1997. She also consulted for many years for the Educational Testing Service's Advanced Placement Program in Art History and spent several summers at Rutgers with a National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar on the World of Leonardo da Vinci. She is particularly interested in the art of Donatello and Michelangelo and has published a book entitled Central Italian Painting 1400-1465, as well as numerous articles and reviews. | |
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Michael Forest, PhD associate professor, Philosophy Dr Forest is a native of Detroit and graduated from fellow Jesuit institutions: the University of Detroit and Marquette University. He teaches HON 120 every fall semester. His scholarly interests are in theories of knowledge and cognition especially relating to the American philosophical tradition. | |
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Peter Galie, PhD professor, Political Science Dr. Galie received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 1970. He has published numerous articles in the area of state constitutional law, two books entitled The New York State Constitution: A Reference Guide (Greenwood Press, 1991) and Ordered Liberty: A Constitutional History of New York (Fordham U. Press, 1996). He has participated in three NEH seminars on ancient, biblical and medieval law, respectively. In addition, he has directed an ABA Foundation supported seminar on “Constitutional Government” in 1978 and an NEH seminar for high school teachers on “The Federalist and the Constitution” in 1987. He is the recipient of a John R. Oishei Foundation Three Year Teaching Professorship, “Rewriting the New York State Constitution,” 1999-2002. He is currently working on a collection of bills of rights before the Bill of Rights. | |
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Julie Gibert, PhD Dr. Gibert’s research interests center on the social history of Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She has published articles and delivered conference papers on a variety of topics including the admission of women to British universities, the effect of the “servant crisis” on British home life. Her current project is an analysis of the depiction of British history in reality-television programs such as 1900 House and 1940s House. In the honors program Dr. Gibert has taught “Problems in European History” at the sophomore level, and upper-level seminars on “War and Society in 17th Century England” (with Timothy Wadkins), “The British Monarchy,” and on the evolution of British national identity as it is expressed in politics and in popular culture. She has also enjoyed supervising a wide variety of honors theses on topics in British and Irish history. As an enthusiastic cook, Dr. Gibert hopes someday to offer an honors course on the history of food. | |
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Joe Grossi, PhD assistant professor, English A native of Providence, Rhode Island, Dr. Grossi was educated at Providence College and Ohio State University (M.A., '94; Ph.D., '99). His area of specialization is medieval English literature, especially of the 14th and 15th centuries, on which he's written articles and conference papers. A book-in-progress explores regional identity in the literature of East Anglia, i.e. the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, from the 9th to the 16th century. Outside of work, Dr. Grossi reads, travels (especially to England and Italy, the latter his wife's native country), and treats his two children to lightly sanitized stories from Chaucer and 14th-century Arthurian poets. He has taught various thematic renderings of Honors English 101, most recently on Italy as seen through the eyes of British and American authors. | |
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Kevin Hardwick, PhD associate professor, Political Science Kevin R. Hardwick joined the Department of Political Science at Canisius College in the fall of 1989. His involvement in politics and the policy process dates back to his senior year in high school when he was elected to a seat on the Susquehanna Valley Board of Education in the Binghamton area. After serving his three-year term on the school board, Dr. Hardwick was elected councilman in the Town of Binghamton, New York; a post he held for eight years. In 1986 he was appointed Administrative Assistant to the Majority Leader of the New York State Senate, Warren M. Anderson. He served in this capacity until Senator Anderson's retirement in December of 1988. Dr. Hardwick received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Binghamton. His research interests include state legislative politics and the politics of municipal service distribution. In addition to teaching introductory American government courses, he also teaches courses in public policy, public administration, state & local government, the presidency, American Catholics in the Public Square and urban politics. He is a former chair of the Political Science Department and currently serves as the Director of the Urban Studies Program. He also hosts Hardline with Kevin Hardwick, a weekly WBEN radio program on local politics. Dr. Hardwick was a member of the City of Tonawanda Charter Review Commission and was elected First Ward Councilmember in the City of Tonawanda in 1995. He was re-elected to this post twice. He did not seek reelection in 2001 so that he could challenge the Chairman of the Erie County Legislature for a seat on that body. In that race, he suffered his first defeat in seven tries for elected office. In 2003, he again challenged the Chairman of the Legislature. After winning the Republican primary, Dr. Hardwick lost by a narrow margin in the general election. His unique blend of formal training and practical political experience contributes to lively discussions in all of his classes. | |
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Fr. Dan Jamros, S.J., M.A. associate professor, Religious Studies & Theology Born in Massachusetts, Fr. Jamros majored in English at Holy Cross, and pursued his interest in English literature with an M.A. from Boston College. After three years as a lay missionary helping New England Jesuits at Al-Hikma University in Baghdad, he joined the Jesuits in 1967. He then obtained an M.A. in Philosophy from Boston College before going to Lebanon for two years of Arabic study, followed by seminary studies in France. Ordained a priest in 1976, Fr. Jamros went to Vanderbilt University in Nashville for his Ph.D. in Theology, where he wrote a dissertation on “Religion in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.” He has taught theology at Canisius College since 1985, with a special interest in the Christian doctrine of God as it intersects with modern thought. During that time, he has continued to research and write about Hegel’s philosophy of religion. He has also been active in the Canisius College Faculty Senate. When on sabbatical, he goes to Germany to pursue his research on Hegel. During summers he does pastoral work at parishes in Massachusetts and Nashville. A loyal and avid Red Sox fan since his boyhood, Fr. Jamros supports his team in good times and bad. For enjoyment, when he is not reading about the Sox, he likes to see a good film. | |
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Larry Jones, PhD professor, History Born and raised in the Kansas heartland, Larry Eugene Jones received his BA and MA from the University of Kansas and his PhD from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He has taught in the Department of History at Canisius College since 1968 and was department chairman from 1995 to 2002. He is currently director of the International Relations Program at Canisius. Professor Jones has published seven books, including his magnum opus German Liberalism and the Dissolution of the Weimar Party System, 1918-1933, which received the 1989 prize of the German Studies Association for the best book in the field of history and political science. Professor Jones has held a two-year Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Bonn in Germany as well a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for two years of study at the University of the Ruhr in Bochum, West Germany. He has also received research fellowships from the American Council of Society, the National Humanities Center, the German Marshall Fund, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars as well as a number of smaller grants from the German Academic Exchange Service, the American Philosophical Society, and the Canisius College Summer Faculty Fellowship Program. | |
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John Kelly, PhD professor, Philosophy Dr. Kelly has been a member of the philosophy faculty at Canisius since 1966. A native of Buffalo, Dr. Kelly graduated from St. Joseph Collegiate Institute and received his undergraduate education at the University of Toronto. He earned his advanced degrees in the School of Philosophy, the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Dr. Kelly’s major academic interest is in metaphysics and ethics. His publications have focused on ancient Greek philosophy, the philosophy of medicine, and social political philosophy, with special emphasis on modern catholic social thought. He has presented numerous papers in the United States and at many international conferences in England at both the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford. In his courses in the philosophy of medicine and medical ethics, Dr. Kelly’s goal is to demonstrate to students that ethical analysis must play an integral role in the education and practice of the contemporary physician. To this end he has served on the Ethics Board at the Buffalo General Hospital for over twenty-five years. Dr. Kelly has sought to show his students that being a Canisius student means being the beneficiary of a “double inheritance” – the intellectual tradition of Catholic social thought and the Jesuit humanistic tradition. He incorporates this through his teaching on Catholic social thought, demonstrating that philosophy must play an important role in providing a “human face” to the science of economics. Besides the classics, Dr. Kelly enjoys the poetry of the contemporary Irish poet Seamus Heaney and historical biography. He enjoys traveling, sailing, cross country skiing and walking the beaches of the Delaware seashore in all seasons. | |
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Edward Kisailus, PhD professor, Biology Dr. Edward C. Kisailus is a professor of biology. After receiving his Ph.D from Columbia University, he began his career at Canisius in 1981. He is an accomplished sailor, and can be seen sailing a 27 foot Coronado on Lake Erie. True to his height at six foot four inches the boat is appropriately named “Tall Order”. He is a sailing instructor at Seven Seas Sailing School in Buffalo. | |
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Rebecca Krawiec, PhD assistant professor, Religious Studies & Theology Becky Krawiec grew up in eastern Pennsylvania, attended college at Brown University, and got her graduate degrees at Yale University. She arrived at Canisius College in 2000 and has offered a variety of courses including New Testament, Western Religious Traditions, History of Christian Community I, and a class on women and religion. Her research focuses on the early history of Christianity, especially the role of women in monasticism. | |
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Christopher Lee, PhD associate professor, Religious Studies & Theology Professor Lee earned his doctoral degree at Syracuse University. His areas of expertise include anthropology of religion, religion in South Asia, Islam and Hinduism. He is currently working on his book Banaras, Urdu, Poetry, Poets on Muslim weaver-poets in the Hindu pilgrimage city of Banaras, India. | |
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Larry Lichtenstein, PhD associate professor, Economics & Finance Received the Donald E. Calvert Outstanding Professor Award in 1998. Much of his research involves the housing market. He has presented papers on such topics as rent control and housing cost estimates for members of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, and articles that he has written or co-authored have appeared in such publications as the Journal of Urban Economics, New York Economic Review and the Western New York Economic News. He is a past recipient of a Canisius College Faculty Fellowship, a Wehle School of Business Faculty Fellowship, and a research grant from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. Attorneys rely on Dr. Lichtenstein as an expert witness for providing valuation in cases involving wrongful death and disability, divorce, pensions, and closely held business enterprises. He has also been called upon to perform statistical analysis in employment discrimination cases. | |
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Tanya Loughead, PhD assistant professor, Philosophy Dr. Loughead’s specialties include: contemporary continental philosophy, philosophy of literature, postmodernism and phenomenology. She earned her master’s and doctoral degrees in Belgium at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Recent papers delivered by Dr. Loughead include, “The Uselessness of Art to the Revolution: Marcuse and Blanchot,” “'Brotherly Love' in Postmodern Times,” “Levinas and Weil on the demand of social justice” and “The Energy of Failure: on Revolution.” She is currently researching the work of Enrique Dussel in reference to postmodernism, religion and social justice. She is also working on a book entitled, Ethics from the Concrete: Essays in Global Phenomenology. She looks forward to a research and service trip to El Salvador and Guatemala during the Summer of 2007. Dr. Loughead teaches HON 120 (Philosophy). She arrived at Canisius College in the Fall of 2005. | |
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Fr. Patrick Lynch, S.J., PhD associate professor, Religious Studies & Theology Fr. Lynch has a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He teaches courses in the areas of Catholic social ethics, religion and politics, and Jesuit spirituality and history. He has published articles on secularization, Catholic ecclesiology, and war and peace. | |
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John Occhipinti, PhD professor, Political Science John D. Occhipinti is Professor of Political Science and Director of the European Studies Program at Canisius College. He received his B.A. from Colgate University, was a Fulbright Scholar in Tübingen, Germany in 1989-1990, and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland at College Park. In addition to his Honors seminar, Dr. Occhipinti teaches on comparative politics, international crime, and the European Union (EU). Dr. Occhipinti has published articles and book chapters on internal security in the EU, as well as his first book, The Politics of EU Police Cooperation: Toward a European FBI? (Lynne Rienner, 2003). He has also lectured for the US Foreign Service Institute and spoken at the US State Department for the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. In August of 2005, Dr. Occhipinti was invited by the State Department to brief the newly appointed US Ambassador to the European Union on internal security policy in the EU. A Buffalo native, Dr. Occhipinti can be persuaded to engage in a discussion of the local sports scene. He also enjoys traveling to Europe. | |
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Philip Pfaff, PhD professor, Economics & Finance Philip Pfaff, a member of the Economics and Finance Department, has a PhD in Economics from Michigan State University. He teaches in the areas of financial modeling, corporate finance, statistics and quantitative methods. His publications include articles on forecasting the supply of money and a financial modeling text. In recent years he has also taught a course on the economics of sports—a course which has given his students ample opportunity to show off their knowledge of life on the playing field. | |
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Fr. James Pribek, SJ assistant professor, English Fr. Pribek is a native of Wisconsin. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a baccalaureate in Philosophy and a master's in English from Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA, and two graduate theology degrees from Weston School of Theology in Cambridge, MA. He earned an MA and PhD in Anglo-Irish literature and drama at University College Dublin, where his dissertation traced Cardinal Newman’s influence on James Joyce. He has been a Jesuit for 20 years and a priest for eight years. | |
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Tom Reber, PhD associate professor, English Professor Reber's main interests are in rhetoric and composition, science fiction, and the First-Year English program, which he directs. He also advises students in the English Department's Writing Minor. In 2005, he completed a three-year term as Director of the Core Curriculum. His recent research on the debate about what kind of new Peace Bridge should be built has led him to investigate the history of the bridge. Currently, he is writing a biographical article on Alonzo C. Mather, who tried in the 1890's to get government approval for an electricity-producing "power bridge" at the site of the current Peace Bridge. Reber enjoys using personal computers and has published an article on the use of electronic discussion in literature courses. | |
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Mel Schroeder, MA associate professor, English Mel Schroeder, associate professor English, did all his university education at The University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. He began teaching at Canisius in the fall of 1963. Starting then, and for a number of following years, his teaching included Honors freshman English sections, which were not a part of the College Honors Program. Some time in the late 1960s, Les Warren, professor of English, asked Dr. Schroeder to offer a modern novels course for the College Honors Program and since then he has taught a variety of Honors Program courses. And he taught these as the program took on a variety of forms, moving over the years toward the present program. While Dr. Schroeder has found much challenge and satisfaction in all the Honors courses he has taught, if he had to choose a favorite it would be the Science, Literature and Technology course he has team-taught for quite a few years with Dr. Frank Dinan of the Chemistry Department. Besides teaching excellent students and learning from them in all his Honors courses, Dr. Schroeder has learned more than he could possibly explain from Frank—about science and about teaching, and about friendship, too. Among Dr. Schroeder's favorite authors are Saul Bellow, E.M. Forster, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, W.B. Yeats, Albert Camus, Alan Sillitoe, Andre Malraux, Tom Stoppard, Joseph Conrad, Zadie Smith, Mick Cochrane, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, and Thomas Mann. He is addicted to many kinds of music, including the creations of Mozart and Beethoven, and all kinds of jazz, and many kinds of rock including, of course, The Kinks. He is also addicted to cartoons of all sorts, with New Yorker cartoons as his favorites. And he enjoys and admires the cartoons of Adam Zyglis, who was a student in the Honors Program and has been editorial cartoonist for The Buffalo News since he graduated from Canisius. And he cannot escape, it seems, his addiction to selected Seinfeld reruns, and all episodes of The Simpsons. (It might be no accident that The Simpsons Movie premiered on Dr. Schroeder's birthday.) | |
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Ken Sroka, PhD professor, English Dr. Sroka is a Canisius graduate who returned to the college by way of the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. 19th-Century British literature, especially Charles Dickens, the novel, drama, and myth and literature are among his interests. | |
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Timothy Wadkins, PhD associate professor, Religious Studies & Theology Dr. Wadkins is a historian of Christianity, and received his PhD from a joint program of the Graduate Theological Union and University of California at Berkeley. His research and publishing ranges widely from theological controversies in the years leading up to the English Civil War (1640), to the history of American Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism, to modern third world theological issues. His latest publication (Christian Century, November 14, 2006) is a study of Pentecostal growth in modern El Salvador and he is preparing an anthology on the history of global Pentecostalism. For the past six years, as part of his Peter Canisius Distinguished Professorship, Dr. Wadkins has led a series of summer immersion programs on the history and modern manifestations of Christianity in the Philippines, Mexico, El Salvador, and India. Dr. Wadkins is also the director of the Canisius Center for the Global Study of Religion and facilitates the lecture series, Conversations in Christ and Culture. When he is not teaching, writing, and leading seminars in third world countries he is busy helping his wife Tracy raise two young children and playing golf whenever and wherever the opportunity presents itself. | |
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Amy Wolf, PhD assistant professor, English Dr. Amy Wolf is an assistant professor in the English department. She teaches Honors 101 and Honors 102 as well as English courses in the field of eighteenth-century British literature. Dr. Wolf has recently published articles on Henry Fielding in The Eighteenth-Century Novel and Jane Austen and Bernard Mandeville in Eighteenth-Century Fiction. Recent courses include Women Writers, History of the Novel I, and The Coffeehouse Culture of Eighteenth-Century England, for which she won an award for innovative course design in 2005 from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. | |
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John Zeis, PhD professor, Philosophy Dr. Zeis received his A.B. from the University of Notre Dame, his M.A. from Niagara and his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests are in the Philosophy of Religion, Theory of Knowledge, and Ethics, and he has numerous professional publications. He teaches Honors Philosophy II in the Honors Program every spring semester. He is also the Faculty Advisor for the Canisius College Equestrian Club and Team, which you can visit at http://www2.canisius.edu/~ihsa. You can find out more about Dr. Zeis by visiting his homepage at http://www2.canisius.edu/~zeis. |