faculty & staff

peter galie
Peter J. Galie, PhD, director, Raichle Pre-law Center; chair, Political Science Department, professor
Phone:
888-2699
E-mail: galie@canisius.edu

Peter J. Galie received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 1970. He came to Canisius College in 1972 as chair of the Political Science Department, a position he held until 1992. He returned to that position in the fall of 2003.

Galie is also the director of the Raichle Pre-Law Center at Canisius. His expertise is in the area of state constitutional law and New York constitutional law and history. He has published numerous articles and two books in these areas. The books are The New York State Constitution: A Reference Guide (Greenwood Press, 1991) and Ordered Liberty: A Constitutional History of New York (Fordham University Press, 1996).

robert klump
Robert A. Klump ‘79, associate director, Frank G. Raichle Pre-Law Center, adjunct professor
Phone:
888-2884
E-mail: klumpr@canisius.edu

A Buffalo attorney, Klump is a 1979 graduate of Canisius College. He earned his law degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law in 1983. He has taught constitutional law at Canisius since 1987.

In November 2002, Klump was presented with the New York State Bar Association (NSBA) Law-Related Education Distinguished Service Award for his years of dedicated teaching at Canisius, as well as his role as a faculty adviser to the Canisius chapter of Phi Alpha Delta, a pre-law organization. Klump is a member of the Canisius College DiGamma Honor Society, which recognizes Canisius alumni, faculty and staff who have distinguished themselves, over an extended period of time, through exemplary service to the college.

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James V. Jones, director, Career Center
Phone:
888-2475
E-mail: jones11@canisius.edu

A Buffalo native, Jim Jones is a graduate of Niagara University with more than 25 years experience in financial services, recruitment and training management, sales and marketing and mortgage lending. Currently, he is working on a degree in counseling at Canisius. He is an academic advisor for freshman students and is the president of the Western New York Association of College Career Centers.



pat erickson
Patricia Erickson, PhD, associate professor of Criminal Justice & Sociology
Phone:
888-2749
E-mail: ericksop@canisius.edu

Patricia Erickson, PhD is the chair of the Criminal Justice program. She is a sociologist and an attorney. She is especially interested in the areas of domestic violence and child abuse and neglect. Erickson also teaches inmates at local correctional facilities such as Anita and Collins through the Consortium of the Niagara Frontier, a program partially sponsored by Canisius College. She was an undergraduate at the State University of New York at Buffalo, did her graduate work in sociology at the University of Denver and received her law degree, cum laude, from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

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walter sharrow
Walter G. Sharrow, PhD, professor of history
Phone:
888-2155
E-mail: sharrow@canisius.edu

A graduate of the University of Rochester, teaching interests include U.S. Constitutional, New York State, Buffalo.