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Humanities, Education, Justice & Social Sciences Faculty

Stephanie Athey, Ph.D.

Professor of Cultural Studies, Director of the Honors Program

Expertise: race, gender and literary studies, particularly women and gender studies and American literatures in transnational perspective

Linda Bucci, M.S., J.D.

Professor & Program Chair of Justice Studies, Graduate Chair of Criminal Justice

Expertise: criminology, study of violence against disenfranchised groups, criminal procedure, criminal law

Allison E. Butterfield, M.A., M.S.W.

Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

Expertise: community corrections, restorative justice, juvenile justice and delinquency, and substance use among offenders

Paul DeBole, J.D.

Assistant Professor of Justice Studies

Expertise: American government and politics, American political institutions, policymaking and the political process

Charlotte Frazier, Ph.D.

Chair of Social Sciences; Associate Professor of Social Sciences

Dennis A. Frey Jr, Ph.D.

Dean of Curricular Integration, Director of Rosemary B Fuss Teaching and Learning Center, Professor of History

Patricia Garcia, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Education

Expertise: school improvement, teacher leadership and social change, bilingualism and second language acquisition

Jose Guzman, Ph.D.

Professor of Humanities, Coordinator of World Language Program

Elizabeth Hartmann, Ph.D.

Professor of Education

Expertise: Universal Design for Learning (UDL), inclusive education, cultural competence, supporting learner variability

James William Lincoln, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, The Nancy Lawson Donahue '49 Professor of Ethics, and Coordinator of the Junior Ethics Program

Expertise: ethics, social philosophy, and epistemology

Melissa MacDonald, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Sociology

Expertise: DEI, social justice, anti-racism, and social inequality

Amy J. Maynard, Ed.D.

Professor of Education

Expertise: early literacy, elementary literacy and assessment, elementary literacy

Pamela Naab, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Expertise: counseling psychology, health psychology, play & art therapy, group therapy, and psychological testing

Michael Palmieri, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

Expertise: cybercrime, cybercrime offender decision making, terrorism, terrorist activity online

Lizbeth H. Piel, Ph.D.

Chair of Humanities; Associate Professor of Humanities

Claudia Rinaldi, Ph.D.

The Joan Weiler Arnow ’49 Professor/Professor of Education, Chair of Education

Expertise: response to intervention, issues related to English language learners, multiculturalism in education

Lori Rosenthal, Ph.D.

Assistant Provost; Professor of Psychology

Expertise: psychological perspectives, personality psychology, social psychology

Jesse Tauriac, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychology; Director of the Donahue Institute for Ethics, Diversity, and Inclusion

Expertise: transformative education, cultural competence, clinical psychology

Edward G. Weeks, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Justice Studies

Expertise: criminology, corrections, research methods in the social sciences

Kellie Wallace, Ph.D., CAGS

Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

Expertise: criminology, criminal justice, mental health, veterinary forensic science

Zane Zheng, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology and Chair of Academic Research at Lasell University; Research Director, Psi Chi

Expertise: cognitive neuroscience, speech perception, biological basis of behavior, psychological perspectives

Joseph Aieta III, M.A.

Professor Emeritus

Steven F. Bloom, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus, English

Felice Gordis, Ph.D.

Professor Emerita

Tessa LeRoux, Ph.D.

Professor Emerita

Sharyn Lowenstein, Ph.D.

Associate Professor Emerita, Humanities

Marsha Mirkin, Ph.D.

Professor Emerita

James Ostrow, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

Thomas Sullivan, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

Catherine Zeek, Ed.D.

Professor Emerita