Boston College Faculty Sources

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   Philip Altbach
Monan Professor of Higher Education
Department of Educational Administration and Higher Education
Lynch School of Education
Director, Center for International Higher Education
B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. University of Chicago

International higher education; comparative education; university-society relationships; impact of federal and state government on higher education; student activism; the academic profession. Author/editor of the books Comparative Higher Education, Student Politics in America, International Higher Education: Reflections of Policy and Practice and African Higher Education: An International Reference Handbook, among others. Director of BC's Center for International Higher Education. Former North American Executive Editor of the International Journal of Educational Development. A regular contributor of articles to the Japan Times and Times of India;. Courses have included: "Global and Comparative Systems in Higher Education" and "Issues in Contemporary Higher Education."

617.552.4236
altbach@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/altbach.html

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Angela Frederick Amar
Assistant Professor, Psychiatric/Mental Health Department
Connell School of Nursing
BSN, Louisiana State University
MN. Louisiana State University
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
    
Effects of trauma and violence; mental health responses to traumatic experiences; forensic nursing; dating and domestic violence; help seeking behaviors. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Forensic Nursing.

617-552-0180
angela.amar.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/son/faculty/amar.html

    

James Anderson
William B. Neenan, SJ Millennium Professor, Economics Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Oberlin College
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin

International trade policy; international economics; international trade agreements (NAFTA, GATT); political economy; economic history and development; globalization. Editorial board member of the Review of International Economics. Author of the book The Relative Inefficiency of Quotas and of numerous articles. Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research. Courses have included: "International Trade" and "Political Economy of Trade and Development."

617.552.3691
james.anderson.1@bc.edu
http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec/Anderson.php

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Anthony Annunziato
Professor, Biology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.S. Boston College
M.S. and Ph.D. University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Cloning; DNA issues; genes and gene regulation; chromosomes; cell division and control; cancer. Author of numerous related articles in scientific journals. Courses include: "Biology of the Nucleus."

617.552.3812
anthony.annunziato.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/biology/facadmin/annunziato.html

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   Karen Arnold
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Administration and Higher Education
Lynch School of Education
B.A. and B. Mus. Oberlin College
M.A. and Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Success of high school valedictorians in college and after college; gifted and talented students;  women in higher education. Co-investigator of the Illinois Valedictorian Project–a study tracking 81 high school valedictorians and salutatorians since their graduation in 1981. Author of the books Lives of Promise: What Becomes of High School Valedictorians and Remarkable Women: Prospectives on Female Talent Development. Courses have included: "Symposium in Higher Education" and "College Student Development."

617.552.2649
karen.arnold.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/arnold.html

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Hugh Ault
Professor, Law School
B.A. and LL.B. Harvard University

International tax law; federal income tax; taxation of business organizations. One of the world's foremost experts on tax law. Special Advisor to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Cemtre for Tax Policy and Administration in Paris, where he played a leading role in designing tax systems for several former Soviet countries. Served as Distinguished Visiting Professor at Gakushuin University in Tokyo and as a Fulbright Exchange Professor at the University of Stockholm. Courses include: "International Aspects of US Income Taxation (International Tax)."

617.552.4398
hugh.ault.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/aulth.html

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Ali Banuazizi
Co-director, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program
Professor, Political Science Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.S. University of Michigan
M.A. The New School for Social Research
Ph.D. Yale University

Political cultures of the Middle East; religion, ethnicity and politics in the Middle East and Central Asia. Co-editor of the book Myths About the Powerless: Contesting Social Inequalities.  Courses have included: "History and Theories of Psychology"; "Research Workshop in Cultural Psychology."

617.552.4124
banuazia@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/psych/faculty_staff/banuazizi.html

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Charles Baron
Professor, Law School
B.A. and Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
LL.B. Harvard University

Bioethics; medicine and the law; patients' rights; constitutional law. Author of numerous related articles in law journals. A past president of the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. Courses have included: "Life and Death Decisions."

617.552.4376
charles.baron.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/baronc.html

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Lisa Feldman Barrett
Professor, Psychology Department
College of Arts & Sciences

Emotion; gender differences in emotion; perception of anger, sadness, fear; relationship of language and emotion. Winner of the National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award and the Independent Scientist Research Award from the National Institute of Mental Health. Co-editor of the books The Wisdom of Feelings: Processes Underlying Emotional Intelligence and Emotion: Conscious and Unconscious.

617.552.4111
barretli@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/psych/faculty_staff/barrett.html

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Ann Marie Barry
Associate Professor, Communication Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.S. and M.A. Salem State College
M.S. and Ph.D. Boston University

Media violence; advertising, including gender-related communication and use of religion, sex and violence in ads; visual communication; the role of mythic images, icons within society; conflict resolution and mediation. A certified arbiter and mediator, with professional training in dispute resolution; has served as arbitrator for the American Association of Better Business Bureaus and as a mediator for the Massachusetts Districts Courts. Author of the books Visual Intelligence: Power and Logic in Visual Communication and The Advertising Portfolio. Author of a mediation reference manual and numerous articles on media, advertising and conflict resolution. Courses include: advertising at all levels and visual communication theory.

617.552.4293
barrya@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/communication/faculty/fulltime/barry.html

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Martha Bayles
Faculty Member, Arts & Sciences Honors Program
College of Arts & Sciences

Trends in American popular culture; American television, music and film; the Humanities; Greek literature. Former TV and arts critic for the Wall Street Journal. Author of the book, Hole in Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music. Writes "Serious Popcorn" a weblog for Artsjournal.com. Courses have included: "Democracy & Art."

617.552.0512
martha.bayles@bc.edu

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Albert Beaton
Augustus Long Professor, Department of Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation
Lynch School of Education
B.S. State Teacher's College at Boston
M. Ed. and Ed.D. Harvard University

Standardized testing; national and international assessment; statistics; the SAT decline; math and science curricula; influence of education and ability on salary. Former International Study Director of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study, the biggest international testing study ever undertaken, involving 45 countries, five grades, two school subjects and more than a half million students. Co-author of the book The Effect of Changes in the National Assessment: Disentangling the NAEP 1985-86 Reading Anomaly; author of Expanding the National Assessment: the NAEP 1985-86 Technical Report. A consulting editor of the Placement Testing Journal. Courses have included: "Seminar on Issues in Testing and Assessment."

617.552.4521
albert.beaton.1@bc.edu

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Pamela Berger
Professor, Fine Arts Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. and M.A. Cornell University; Ph.D. New York University

Independent filmmaking, scriptwriting, preproduction, production and distribution; historical filmmaking; art history: notably the early medieval, late Byzantine, Romanesque and Gothic periods; American musical theater. Writer/director of the historical feature film "Kilian's Chronicle," which tells the story of an Irish slave who was one of the first recorded Europeans to set foot on the shores of North America. Also writer/producer of the films "Sorceress," about a medieval woman healer whose practices displeased the officials of the Inquisition, and "The Imported Bridegroom," about the assimilation of Jews into the American mainstream at the turn of the century. Has adapted a musical version of "The Imported Bridegroom" as well. Courses center on: art from prehistoric time to the high middle ages; great art capitals of Europe; early medieval art; the process of transforming history and art history into film.

617.552.8588
berger@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/finearts/faculty/arthistory/berger.html

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Robert Berry
Professor, Law School
B.A. University of Missouri; LL.B. Harvard University

Sports and entertainment law; professional sports regulation, including contract negotiation and endorsement agreements; salary arbitration; collective bargaining; movement of teams from city to city; owner-players disputes/strikes. Served as a member of the Governing Committee of the American Bar Association's Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries. Author of the book Representation of the Professional Athlete; co-author of the books Law and Business of the Entertainment Industries: Labor Relations in Professional Sports and Law and Business of the Sports Industries. Courses include: "Regulation of Professional Athletics" and "Entertainment Law."

617.552.4340
robert.berry.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/berryr.html

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Sheila Blair
Norma Jean Calderwood Professor of Islamic and Asian Art (Jointly Held)
Fine Arts Department, College of Arts and Sciences

Ph.D, Harvard University

Islamic art and architecture, especially the arts of Iran and Central Asia; the Silk Road; calligraphy and books. Served as artistic consultant to PBS documentary "Islam: Empire of Faith." Co-author of the books, Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power and The Art and Architecture of Islam: 1250-1800.

617.552.8595
sheila.blair@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/finearts/faculty/arthistory/blair.html

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Rev. Richard Blake, SJ
Co-director, Film Studies Program
Professor, Fine Arts Department, College of Arts and Sciences

Ph.D Northwestern University

American films; film criticism; religious themes and imagery in mainstream filmmaking; movie directors; images of New York City in American film. Film reviewer for America magazine. Author of the books Street Smart: The New York of Lumet, Allen, Scorsese and Lee and Afterimage: The Indelible Catholic Imagination in the Works of Six American Film Makers.

617.552.4532
blakeri@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/finearts/faculty/filmstudies/blake.html

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Jonathan Bloom
Norma Jean Calderwood Professor of Islamic and Asian Art (Jointly Held)
Fine Arts Department, College of Arts and Sciences

Ph.D., Harvard University

Islamic art and architecture; the history of paper; art in the medieval Mediterranean world; the history of the city of Jerusalem; medieval Spain; the art and architecture of North Africa and Egypt. Served as artistic consultant to PBS documentary "Islam: Empire of Faith." Co-author of the books, Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power and The Art and Architecture of Islam: 1250-1800.

617.552.8595
jonathan.bloom@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/finearts/faculty/arthistory/bloom.html

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Robert Bloom
Professor, Law School
B.S. Northeastern University; J.D. Boston College

Criminal and civil trials; court system; civil rights law; police abuse; police use of informants; Fourth Amendment; police interrogation; lawyers' strategies during trial; judges' procedural decisions; jurors and jury composition. A former civil rights attorney and assistant district attorney; frequent media commentator on criminal trials. Author of the book Constitutional Criminal Procedure. Co-author of Moore's Federal Practice, a major treatise on federal civil practice. Courses have included: "Judicial Process"; "Criminal Procedure."

617.552.4374
robert.bloom.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/bloomr.html

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Irwin Blumer
Research Professor, Department of Educational Administration and Higher Education
Lynch School of Education
B.S. and M.A. Northeastern University; D. Ed. Boston College

Education from kindergarten through 12th grade, including administration, teaching, curriculum, special education, etc.; education reform; teacher assessment; union issues. Former superintendent of schools in Newton and Concord, Mass. Former classroom teacher, guidance counselor, and principal in various public school systems. Editor and contributor to issue paper "School Culture and Leadership: The Role of the Superintendent." Courses include: "The Principalship" and "Theories of Leadership."

617.552.1956
irwin.blumer.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/blumer.html

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David L. Blustein
Professor, Department of Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology
Lynch School of Education
B.A. SUNY Stony Brook; M.S. CUNY Queens College; Ph.D. Teachers College/Columbia University

Career development–including adolescent employment, career decision making and indecision, career exploration and vocational adjustment; school-to-work transition, particularly for students who do not go on to college; work-related issues in general–job shifts, unemployment, psychological consequences of work challenges; socioeconomic class issues in psychology; group psychotherapy. Author of more than 50 articles and chapters on these topics. Courses have included: "Seminar in Group Counseling and Group Therapy"; "Career Counseling and Development."

617.552.0795
david.blustein.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/blustein.html

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Andy Boynton
Dean, Carroll School of Management

Dean Boynton is an expert in elements of successful management; leadership and business ethics. He is the co-author of Virtuoso Teams: Lessons from Teams that Changed Their Worlds.

617.552.4107
andy.boynton.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/csom/faculty/bios/boynton.html

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Benjamin Braude
Associate Professor, History Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. Harvard University

Middle East; Ottoman history; history of Islamic civilization, religion, political and military trends, social and economic tensions; anti-Semitism through history; Jewish history; religious, racial, and ethnic identities in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim culture. Author of the book The Jews of Trieste and the Levant Trade in the Eighteenth Century; co-author of the book Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire: The Functioning of a Plural Society. Courses have included: "Modern History I: Europe in the World"; "Islamic Civilization in the Middle East"; "Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire."

617.552.3787
benjamin.braude.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/history/faculty/alphabetical/braude_benjamin.html

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Mark Brodin
Professor, Law School
B.A. and J.D. Columbia University

Constitutional criminal procedure; use of evidence in trials; litigation; civil rights; employment discrimination; fair employment laws. Co-author of the books Handbook of Massachusetts Evidence and Criminal Procedure: Examples and Explanations. Former Special Assistant District Attorney. Author of numerous articles in law journals. Courses have included: "Civil Procedure"; "Evidence"; "Scientific Evidence Seminar."

617.552.4420
mark.brodin.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/brodinm.html

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George Brown
Robert Drinan, S.J., Professor, Law School
B.A. and LL.B. Harvard University

Government ethics; political corruption; special prosecutors; federal-state relations. Served as chairman of the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission and Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts. His proposal for the use of state law in mail fraud prosecutions was adopted by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in a major anti-corruption decision. Author of numerous articles in law journals. Courses have included: "Federal Courts Seminar", "Federal Criminal Law", "Constitutional Law."

617.552.4375
george.brown.2@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/browng.html

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Stephen Brown
Professor, Theology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. St. Bonaventure University; M.A. Franciscan Institute; Ph.L. and Ph.D. Universit de Louvain

Medieval church history; medieval theology and philosophy, including works of Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent and William of Ockham; the development of theology in the Middle Ages; man's knowledge of God; man's freedom. Has served as editorial board member, Medieval Philosophy and Theology. Author of the books Christianity and Judaism. Courses have included: "Theology of St. Bonaventure"; "Development of Theology as a Scientific Discipline."

617.552.0436
stephen.brown.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/theology/faculty/sbrown.html

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Ann Wolbert Burgess
Professor, Psychiatric/Mental Health Department
Connell School of Nursing

The impact of trauma on victims; forensic nursing; cyberstalking; Internet sex crimes; abuse in nursing homes; serial offenders; links between child abuse, juvenile delinquency and later criminal activity. An internationally recognized pioneer in the assessment and treatment of victims of trauma and abuse. Courses have included: "Victimology"; "Forensic Science"; "Forensic Mental Health"; and "Stress and Trauma."

617.552.6133
ann.wolbertburgess@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/son/faculty/burgess.html

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Patrick Byrne
Professor, Philosophy Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Ph.D. State University of New York, Stonybrook

Philosophy of science; philosophy of religion; evolution; intelligent design; Aristotle. Author of the book Analysis and Science in Aristotle. Courses have include: "Foundations of Ethics."

617.552.3874
patrick.byrne.1@bc.edu
http://fmwww.bc.edu/pl/fac/byrne.fac.html

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Lisa Sowle Cahill
Monan Professor of Theology
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. University of Santa Clara; M.A. and Ph.D. University of Chicago

Catholic Church; Catholic Church and women and gender issues; ordination of women; analysis of pastoral letters and public statements by the Pope; Catholic Church stance in relation to medical/health issues; bioethics; sex, gender and the family; marriage and divorce; "just war" theory. Past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America and the Society of Christian Ethics. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Author of the books Sex, Gender and Christian Ethics; Love Your Enemies: Discipleship, Pacifism and Just War Theory; and Between the Sexes: Toward a Christian Ethics of Sexuality; co-author of the book Religion and Artificial Reproduction: Inquiry into the Vatican Instruction on Human Life. Courses have included: "Christian Perspectives on Bioethics"; "Christian Ethics: Contemporary Figures" and "Ethics of Sex and Gender."

617.552.3890
lisa.cahill.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/theology/faculty/lcahill.html

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Donnah Canavan
Associate Professor, Psychology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Emmanuel College; Ph.D. Columbia University

Fear of success; sabotaging success; self-defeating behaviors; famous politicians/historical figures who had a fear of success; psychological separateness; narcissism; the psychology of self-esteem; personality profiles of children of alcoholics; self-doubt in children of alcoholics. Co-author of the book The Success-Fearing Personality: Theory and Research. Courses have included: "Dynamics of Success."

617.552.4116
donnah.canavan.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/psych/faculty_staff/canavan.html

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Mary Ellen Carter
Associate Professor, Accounting Department
Carroll School of Management

Carter is a CPA and has studied the effects of financial reporting and regulation on incentives and executive compensation. Her research has been published in leading academic journals and has been featured in Forbes and other business media. Prior to her teaching career, she was a senior associate on the audit staff at Coopers & Lybrand.

617-552-2144
carterma@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/csom/faculty/bios/carter.html

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R. Michael Cassidy
Professor & Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Law School
B.A. University of Notre Dame; J.D. Harvard University

Criminal law; criminal procedure; prosecutorial ethics. Former member of the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission and Governor's Commission on Corrections Reform. Former Chief of the Criminal Bureau in the Office of the Attorney General of Massachusetts. Author or co-author of "Public Education and Crime: Supreme Court Backs States' Rights" and "The Massachusetts Drug Asset Forfeiture Law: A Dialogue." Courses have included: "Prosecutorial Ethics" and "White Collar Crime."

617.552.4343
michael.cassidy.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/cassidyr.html

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John Cawthorne
Associate Dean of Undergraduate Student Services
Lynch School of Education
B.A. Harvard University; M.A.T. Antioch-Putney Graduate School of Education

Testing; student assessment; student-faculty relationships; education reform; equity in education. Former vice president for education, National Urban League. Former director of Chapter I for the Massachusetts Department of Correction, where he was responsible for educational programs for inmates in the Commonwealth's prisons and jails under the age of 21. Courses have included: "Family, School and Society."

617.552.4200
cawthorn@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/cawthorne.html

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   Richard Clifford, SJ 
Dean 
School of Theology & Ministry 
AB, MA, STL, PhD Harvard University

Old Testament, biblical languages ancient Near Eastern religion and culture, and the literary and theological appreciation of biblical texts. The author of seven books, including Psalms 1-72; Psalms 72-150 and Proverbs: A Commentary. Courses have included: "Great Themes of the Bible" and "The Prophets."

617.552.6501
richard.clifford.1@bc.edu

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Seamus Connolly
Director of Music, Song, and Dance Programs 
Sullivan Family Irish Artist in Residence, Irish Studies Program
College of Arts & Sciences

A 10-time Irish National Fiddle Champion widely recognized as one of Ireland's leading traditional musicians, he has made numerous recordings and has played in concerts and tours around the world. Named "Traditional Musician of the Year" by The Irish Echo. Selected by Irish America Magazine as one of their "Top 100" Irish Americans.

617.552.0490
seamus.connolly.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/centers/irish/studies/facstaff/connolly.html

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Daniel Coquillette
J. Donald Monan, SJ, Professor of Law
Law School (former dean)
B.A. Williams College; B.A. and M.A. Oxford University; J.D. Harvard University

Lawyers' professional responsibility; legal ethics; legal education; legal history in Massachusetts; legal history in England; philosopher Francis Bacon. Author of the book Lawyers and Fundamental Moral Responsibility and The Anglo-American Legal Heritage. Former chairman of the Massachusetts Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics. He also served on the American Bar Association Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, the Board of the American Society of Legal History, the Massachusetts Task Force on Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the Massachusetts Task Force on Professionalism. Courses have included: "English Legal History"; "American Legal Education"; "Lawyering and Professional Responsibility."

617.552.8650
daniel.coquillette.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/coquilletted.html

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Louis Corsini
Associate Professor, Accounting Department

Carroll School of Management
B.A / B.S. and M.B.A. Boston College; Ph.D. Louisana State University

Financial reporting and disclosure. Named the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants, "Educator of the Year." Courses have included: "Financial Accounting Standards and Theory."

617.552.3951
corsini@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/csom/faculty/bios/corsini.html

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Donald Cox
Professor, Economics Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.S. Boston College; M.S. and Ph.D. Brown University

Economics of the family; intergenerational transfer of wealth; motives for inheritances; financial care of aged parents by adult children; labor market issues; economic development; consumer theory. Former economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. A consultant to the World Bank. Courses have included: "Labor Economics" and "Economic Psychology."

617.552.3677
donald.cox.1@bc.edu
http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec/Cox.php

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Victoria Crittenden
Associate Professor, Marketing Department
Carroll School of Management
B.A. Arkansas College; M.B.A. University of Arkansas; D.B.A. Harvard University

Marketing strategy: pricing, promotion, product decisions and distribution; direct selling; ethics and corruption; industrial marketing; product line planning. Co-author of the book Strategic Marketing Management Cases. Recipient of the Outstanding Marketing Teacher Award by the Academy of Marketing Science. She has published her research in journals such as Psychology & Marketing, Journal of Business Research, Industrial Marketing Management, and Journal of Strategic Marketing, among many others. Courses have included: "International Marketing."

617.552.0430
victoria.crittenden.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/csom/faculty/bios/crittenden.html

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Mary Cronin
Professor, Information Systems Department
Carroll School of Management
B.A. Emmanuel College; M.L.S. Simmons College; M.A. and Ph.D. Brown University

Electronic commerce; Internet business strategy; global competition. Author of a series of books on business and the Internet, including: Doing Business on the Internet: How the Electronic Highway is Transforming American Companies and Global Advantage On the Internet: From Corporate Connectivity to International Competitiveness. Editor of the book The Internet Strategy Handbook. Courses have included: "International Perspectives on Information Management"; "Electronic Commerce."

617.552.3925
cronin@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/csom/faculty/bios/cronin.html

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Paul Davidovits
Professor, Chemistry Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.S, M.S. and Ph.D. Columbia University

Environmental and atmospheric chemistry; acid rain formation; chemistry of ozone depletion; gas-liquid interactions in clouds and fog. A pioneer in the effort to understand the phenomena of acid rain and ozone depletion; has devised several accurate experimental techniques which make it possible for scientists to understand how gases interact with rain droplets. The results of his experiments led to the first fundamental understanding of how acid rain forms. Fellow of the American Physical Society. Author of articles including "Entry of Gas Molecules into Liquids"; "Development of an Aerosol Mass Spectrometer for Size and Composition Analysis of Submicron Particles," and "Gas Phase Diffusive Transport to a Train of Moving Droplets."

617.552.3617
paul.davidovits.1@bc.edu
http://chemserv.bc.edu/faculty/davidovits.html

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David Deese
Associate Professor, Political Science Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Dartmouth College
M.A., M.A.L.D. and Ph.D. Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

International political economy and international trade; International Monetary Fund; World Bank; OPEC; oil markets; international and US energy policy; world energy markets; United Nations; wars, crises, conflicts, bargaining and negotiations; US foreign policy toward the Middle East; relations between the US and Russia and other former Soviet republics; US defense policy; arms control; the American presidency. Editor of and contributor to the book The New Politics of American Foreign Policy; author of the book World Trade Politics: Power, Principles and Leadership. Courses have included: "Politics and International Economic Relations"; "Limits & Promise of Cooperation in World Politics."

617.552.4585
david.deese.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/polisci/facstaff/deese.html

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Rosanna DeMarco
Associate Professor, Community Health Department
Connell School of Nursing
B.S. Northeastern University
M.S. Boston College
Ph.D. Wayne State University

Women of color living with HIV/AIDS; gender and cultural issues affecting health behavior; health intervention for vulnerable populations; community health; palliative care; nurses in the workplace. Prof. DeMarco is a board certified public/community health clinical nurse specialist with additional certification as an AIDS care registered nurse from the national Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC). A fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. Winner of the Mass. Association of Registered Nurses Nursing Research Award. Co-producer of the prevention education film Women's Voices, Women's Lives, which has been translated in Vietnamese and Spanish.

617.552.8718
rosanna.demarco.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/son/faculty/demarco.html

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Charles Derber
Professor, Sociology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Yale University
M.A. and Ph.D. University of Chicago

Socioeconomic issues in America; American economic and political policy; global economy; Word Trade Organization; labor issues; social justice; corporate downsizing; corporate social responsibility; contemporary cultural issues; inequality in American society; American capitalism; greed and violence in America. Author or co-author of a number of books, Pursuit of Attention: Power and Ego in Everyday Life; Corporation Nation: How Corporations Are Taking Over Our Lives and What We Can Do About It; The Wilding Of America: Greed, Violence, and the New American Dream, among many others. Leader of the Global Justice Project. Courses include: "Peace or War?"; "Introduction to Social and Political Economy"; "Economic Crisis and Social Change."

617.552.4048
derber@bc.edu
http://www2.bc.edu/~derber/

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Donald Dietrich
Professor, Theology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.S. Canisius College
M.A. and Ph.D. University of Minnesota

Christianity in Europe and how Europeans have dealt with scientific advances such as: the Newtonian universe; eugenics and genetics; political developments including democracy, Nazism and communism; theological issues such as atheism, war and the Holocaust; the modern Catholic Church; the roots of anti-Semitism and European racism; the eugenics movement; the road to Auschwitz; the Shoah; contemporary Jewish-Christian relations. Author of the books God and Humanity in Auschwitz: Jewish-Christian Relations and Sanctioned Murder and Catholic Citizens in the Third Reich: Psycho-Social Principles and Moral Reasoning.  Courses include: "Hitler, the Churches and the Holocaust."

617.552.4799
donald.dietrich.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/theology/faculty/ddietrich.html

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Peter A. Donovan
Professor Emeritus, Law School
B.A. and J.D. Boston College
LL.M. Georgetown University
LL.M. Harvard University

Torts; anti-trust matters; products liability. Co-author of four chapters of Massachusetts Corporation Law. Co-author or consultant to the production of educational videos on "Testifying in Court"; "The Deposition," and "According to Hoyle" --a video on selected pricing and marketing problems under US anti-trust laws. Serves as faculty advisor to the J. Braxton Craven National Moot Court Competition in Constitutional Law, one of the most respected competitions in the country. Courses include: "Tort and Anti-Trust Law."

617.552.4383
peter.donovan.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/donovanp.html

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John Ebel
Professor, Geology and Geophysics Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Director, Weston Observatory
B.A. Harvard University
Ph.D. California Institute of Technology

Analysis of earthquakes worldwide; seismology in general and Northeast seismology in particular; the distribution and causes of New England seismicity and the potential for major earthquakes in the area; geomagneticism; weather, climate and the environment. A seasoned commentator on earthquakes, Ebel is director of Boston College's Weston Observatory, an interdisciplinary research facility in the fields of geophysics, geology, energy and environmental sciences, which operates a large network of seismic stations throughout New England. Has served on the Seismic Risk Analysis subcommittee of the Massachusetts Civil Defense Agency Earthquake Project Advisory Committee; the Metropolitan Boston Earthquake Loss Study Evaluation and Selection Committee; the Seismic Hazard Assessment Panel of the National Research Council; and on the Board of Directors of the Seismological Society of America, among other memberships. Editor of Seismological Research Letters. Courses have included: "Exploration Seismology"; "Physics of the Earth"; "Weather, Climate and the Environment."

617.552.3399 (Campus Office)
617.552.8319 (Weston Observatory Office)
john.ebel.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/geo/people/faculty/ebel.html

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Harvey Egan, SJ
Professor, Theology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.S. Worcester Polytechnic Institute
M.A. Boston College
A.M Catholic University
Th.M. Woodstock College
Th.D. University of Munster (Germany)

Theology of Christian mysticism in Old and New Testaments; Christian mysteries and apparitions; saints and miracles; works of theologian Karl Rahner. Author of the book Ignatius Loyola the Mystic, Christian Mysticism: The Future of a Tradition. Author of articles including "Bernard Lonergan and the Future of Spiritual and Mystical Theology." Courses have included: "Theology of Christian Mysticism"; "Introduction to Catholicism."

617.552.8109
harvey.egan.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/theology/faculty/hegan.html

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Donald Fishman
Associate Professor, Communication Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Co-Director, Jewish Studies Program

B.A. University of Minnesota
M.A. Northwestern University
Ph.D. Northwestern University

Communication law, freedom of speech and First Amendment issues; trademarks and copyrights; public relations and crisis communication; media history; broadcast regulation; the changing nature of journalism. Courses include: mass communication; public relations; crisis communication; media law; history of freedom of speech; public speaking.

617.552.4285
donald.fishman.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/communication/faculty/fulltime/fishman.html

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John Gallaugher
Associate Professor, Information Systems Department
Carroll School of Management

Technology and information systems; electronic commerce; outsourcing technology jobs; Microsoft; Google; the Internet; podcasts; business uses of digital technology; classroom use of technology. Publishes an online digest of technology news called the Week in Geek.

617.552.4285
john.gallaugher@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/csom/faculty/bios/gallaugher.html

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Jorge LA Garcia
Professor, Philosophy Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Fordham University
Ph.D. Yale University

Virtue; racism; bioethics; race and cultural identity. Courses have included: "Philosophy & Race."

617.552.3853
jorge.garcia.1@bc.edu
http://fmwww.bc.edu/pl/fac/garcia.fac.html

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James Gips
John R. and Pamela Egan Professor of Computer Science, Information Systems Department
Carroll School of Management
B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D. Stanford University

New technologies that expand the computer-human interface; new methods of interaction between the computer and the user; future trends in computers; challenges posed by "automated ethical reasoning": how to program robots to behave ethically, questions involved in developing computer systems for ethical reasoning and in trying to create ethical robots; interactive television/interactive multimedia; robotic wheelchairs; computer-assisted learning for the disabled; computer control through eye movement via a series of electrodes attached around the eyes: "EagleEyes"– a process designed by Gips in collaboration with two BC faculty colleagues. In 1994, "EagleEyes" was selected as a finalist in Discover magazine's annual Awards for Technological Innovation. Author of books, including Mastering Excel: A Problem-Solving Approach; Mastering Lotus 1-2-3: A Problem-Solving Approach; and numerous other publications.Courses include: "Robotics" (Gips directs Boston College's Robotics Laboratory); "Computer Organization and Assembly Language"; "Computers and Management."

617.552.3981
james.gips.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/csom/faculty/bios/gips.html

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Judith Gordon
Professor, Organization Studies Department
Carroll School of Management
B.A. Brandeis University
M.Ed. Boston University
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Career development of professional women; women in management; organizational behavior; organizational restructuring; the study of effective performance by organizations and their members; the interaction of technical, economic, structural, interpersonal and personal factors within an organization and its environment, and the influence of these factors on the organization's behavior; human resources management; employee appraisal and compensation systems; the balance of work and family; women with successful careers and family lives; implications for the workplace with increasing numbers of working mothers; the mid-life of professional women; role models for women in their 20s; information systems and the workplace; the trend toward telecommuting. Author of the books A Diagnostic Approach to Organizational Behavior and Organizational Behavior: A Diagnostic Approach, 6th edition; and Human Resources Management: A Practical Approach and co-author of the books Successful Women at Mid-life: How Organizations Can More Effectively Understand and Respond to the Challenges; Information Systems: A Management Approach; and Management and Organizational Behavior. She is currently involved in research on the midlife experiences of professional women with families. Courses include: "Human Resources Management"; "Managing Change and Quality"; "Micro-Organizational Theory."

617.552.0454
gordonj@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/csom/faculty/bios/gordon.html

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Peter Gottschalk
Professor, Economics Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. George Washington University
M.A. George Washington University
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

An expert in the area of poverty and income distribution; intergenerational transmission of welfare dependency; economic mobility; low-wage labor markets; relation of low- and high-wage incomes to family life and the shifts in and causes of economic inequality; social insurance and public assistance programs. Research is in the area of labor and human resource economics and includes an examination of wage trends among adult male heads of households in the 1980s; a study of women and welfare dependence during the same period; and a calculation, based on Current Population Surveys over several decades, of how many families would be rich, poor, or in between if no wives worked. Co-author of the book America Unequal; co-editor of the book Uneven Tides: Rising Inequality in America; and Changing Patterns in the Distribution of Economic Welfare and author of numerous journal articles. Courses focus on labor economics; applied econometrics; poverty and discrimination.

617.552.4517
peter.gottschalk.1@bc.edu
http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec/Gottschalk.php

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Pamela Grace
Associate Professor, Adult Health Department
Connell School of Nursing
BSN, MSN,  West Virginia University
PhD University of Tennessee

Medical ethics; nursing ethics, justice and advocacy in healthcare.Prof. Grace is a critical care nurse and a primary care nurse practitioner. She is a nurse scientist at the Munn Center for Nursing Research at Massachusetts General Hospital. She also serves on the Human Research and Investigation Committee of Newton-Wellesley Hospital and on Beacon Hospice's Ethics Committee. Recipient of a Fulbright Senior Scholarship grant.

617-552-1246
gracepa@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/son/faculty/grace.html

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Paul S. Gray
Associate Professor, Sociology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Princeton University
M.A. Stanford University
Ph.D. Yale University

Business and society; corporate social responsibility and corporate community relations; Contemporary Africa (formerly lived and worked in West Africa). In recent years, he has conducted two studies on the impact of higher education on the economy of Massachusetts. Serves as faculty chair of "Leadership for Change," an executive training program offered in conjunction with the Carroll School of Management and as a senior consultant to the Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College. Co-author of a study of family dynamics and the college choice-making process. Courses include: "Comparative Social Change"; "Sociology of the Third World."

617.552.4140
http://www2.bc.edu/~gray/

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Kent Greenfield
Professor, Law School
B.A. Brown University
J.D. University of Chicago

Corporations and workers; corporate social responsibility; constitutional law; separation of powers; First Amendment; Supreme Court cases. Author or co-author of the publications, "From Rights to Regulation in Corporate Law"; "Our Conflicting Judgments About Pornography"; "Cameras in Teddy Bears: Electronic Visual Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment," and "Ultra Vires Lives! A Stakeholder Analysis of Corporate Illegality (with Notes on How Corporate Law Could Reinforce International Law Norms)." Former clerk to David H. Souter, associate justice of the US Supreme Court. Member of board of directors of Political Asylum/Immigration Representation Project of Boston. Courses have included: "Corporations"; "Administrative Law"; "Issues in Corporate Decision Making"; and "Foundations of Business Law."

617.552.3167
kent.greenfield@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/greenfieldk.html

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Thomas Groome
Chair, Institute of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry Department
School of Theology & Ministry 
B.A. St. Patrick's College, Ireland
M.A. Fordham University
Ed.D. Columbia Teachers College
Ph.D. Columbia University/Union Theological Seminary

General issues of church, theology and religious education; Catholic education. Director of the Boston College Institute for Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry, which offers graduate degree programs for individuals pursuing academic or professional careers in religious education or pastoral ministry. Author of the books What Makes Us Catholic: Eight Gifts for Life and Educating for Life: A Spiritual Vision for Every Teacher and Parent. Author of textbooks, including a series titled Coming to God, used in elementary and secondary religious education. Courses include: "Catholic Identity and Postmodernity"; "Education of Christians: Past, Present and Future"; "Sharing Faith in Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry."

617.552.8449
thomas.groome.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/stm/irepm/community/facstaff/tgroome.html

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Jeanne Guillemin
Professor, Sociology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Harvard University
Ph.D. Brandeis University

Biological warfare, including anthrax research; prevention in health care; inequalities in health care; epidemics; medical technology; newborn health care. Author of the books Biological Weapons: From the Invention of State-Sponsored Programs to Contemporary Bioterrorism and Anthrax: The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak, a study of the 1979 Sverdlovsk chemical disaster. Also has written "Soldiers Rights and Medical Risks: The Protest Against Universal Anthrax Vaccinations," and made numerous presentations on the subjects of bioterrorism and other weapons of mass destruction. Also an expert on health care and the new information technologies, she has co-authored "Linking Health Education and Health Care Service Information via the WWW: The HealthAware Project." Courses include: "Danger and Risk: The Politics of Bodily Harm."

617.552.4133
jeanne.guillemin.1@bc.edu
http://www2.bc.edu/%7Eguilleje/No_Frames/Homepage.html

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Donald Hafner
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs
Associate Director, Center for Human Rights and International Justice
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Kalamazoo College
M.A. University of Chicago
Ph.D. University of Chicago

International politics; international relations; US foreign policy; national security policy issues; post-war European international politics; American military. Former advisor with the US Salt II delegation. Co-editor of the books Weapons In Space and ATBMs and Western Security: Missile Defenses for Europe; author of publications, including "Presidential Leadership in Foreign Policy Bureaucracy"; and "Ronald Reagan's European Policy." Courses include: "International Politics of Europe"; "International Studies"; "American Foreign Policy." He is the associate director of Boston College's Center for Human Rights and International Justice.

617.552.4173
donald.hafner.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/centers/humanrights/about/directors/hafner.html

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Dennis Hale
Associate Professor, Political Science Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Oberlin College
M.A. Brooklyn College
Ph.D. City University of New York

Local government; Massachusetts state politics; American national government, political parties and elections; state and local tax revolts; Federalism and federal policies toward states and cities; comparative political institutions; the American Constitution and its authors; citizenship; evolution of juries as a civic and judicial institution. Research projects include "Taking Citizenship Seriously" and "Jurors and Citizens: The Contemporary Jury System and Republican Government." Editor of the books Economics and the Good Life: Essays in Political Economy and The Nature of Politics: Selected Essays of Bertrand de Jouvenel. Author of articles including "Proposition 2 1/2 a Decade Later: The Ambiguous Legacy of Tax Reform in Massachusetts" and "Massachusetts: William F. Weld and the End of Business as Usual." Courses include: "American Political Thought"; "Public Administration"; "Fundamental Concepts of Politics."

617.552.4165
dennis.hale.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/polisci/facstaff/hale.html

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Walter Haney
Professor, Department of Counseling, Developmental Psychology, Research Methods
Lynch School of Education
Senior Research Associate, Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation and Educational Policy (CSTEEP)
B.S. Michigan State University
Ed.M Harvard University
Ed.D. Harvard University

Educational evaluation and assessment and educational technology; fairness in standardized testing, including state-wide assessment examinations; problems with Scholastic Aptitude Tests–e.g., whether or not they predict future academic performance and whether or not they are fair to women and linguistic and cultural minorities; educational applications of the Internet; cheating on tests. Has offered expert testimony on testing policies and procedures. Senior research associate of Boston College's Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation and Educational Policy. Co-author of the books The Fractured Marketplace for Standardized Testing, which presents an analysis of the testing industry in the United States, and Testing and Evaluation: Learning from the Projects We Fund. Courses have included: "Management Uses of Computers in Education"; "Expectations and Evidence for Educational Technology"; "Design of Research."

617.552.4199
walter.haney.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/haney.html

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Andy Hargreaves
Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education
Teacher Education/Special Education, Curriculum and Instruction Department
Lynch School of Education

Leadership in education; education reform and change; international education; the emotions of teaching; effects of educational reform on secondary schools and their teachers; relationship between teacher effectiveness and teacher development. Author or editor of more than 25 books, including the award-winning Teaching in the Knowledge Society: Education in the Age fo Insecurity and Sustainable Leadership.

617.552.4078
andrew.hargreaves@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/Hargreaves.html

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Daniel J. Harrington, SJ
Professor 
School of Theology & Ministry 
A.B.; M.A.; B.D.; PhD.,  Harvard University

Old Testament; New Testament; biblical interpretation in antiquity, modern biblical interpretation, and the relation between exegesis and preaching. Author or coauthor of many publications, including How do Catholics Read the Bible?; Jesus and Virtue Ethics, and Why Do We Suffer? A Scriptural Approach to the Human Condition. Editor of New Testament Abstracts and a regular contributor to America magazine. Courses have included: "The Gospel of Matthew" and "New Testament and Ethics."

617.552.6501
daniel.harrington.1@bc.edu

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Dean Hashimoto
Associate Professor, Law School
B.A. Stanford University
M.S. University of California at Berkeley
M.D. University of California at San Francisco
J.S. Yale University
M.P.H. Harvard University

Law and science; constitutional law; law and medicine; asbestos contamination; exposure of workers to chemicals; workers' compensation; legal aspects of multiple Chemical Sensitivity (allergic reactions to chemicals); indoor air pollution; environmental litigation; patent and trademark law; issues related to intellectual property. Expert on the use of scientific and empirical evidence in court and Asian-American issues–including Japanese-American internment during World War II. Holds both law and medical degrees; licensed to practice both law and medicine in Massachusetts. Also serves as chief of occupational and environmental medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and at Brigham and Women's Hospital and chair of the Health Care Services Board of the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents, which oversees the quality of care provided for work-related injuries and diseases. Author of articles including "The Proposed Patients' Bill of Rights and Managed Care: The Case of the Missing Equal Protection Clause"; "The Future Role of Managed Care in Workers' Compensation"; "Should Asbestos in Buildings be Regulated on an Environmental or Occupational Basis?"; "Justice Brennan's Use of Scientific and Empirical Evidence in Constitutional and Administrative Law," and "Occupational Skin Disease in Newspaper Pressroom Workers." Courses include: "Constitutional Law"; "Torts"; "Environmental Litigation"; "Patent and Trademark Law."

617.552.4617
dean.hashimoto.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/hashimotod.html

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Penny Hauser-Cram
Professor, Department of Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology
Lynch School of Education
B.S. Denison University
M.A. Tufts University
Ed.D. Harvard University

Inclusion of children with disabilities in typical classrooms; the need for early education programs; child growth and development; children and their families living in poverty. Directed follow-up study on the Brookline (MA) Early Education Project (BEEP) of 185 young adults and their parents who participated in an early education project from 1973-1980. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, she has co-authored the books Development of Infants with Disabilities and Their Families; Early Education in the Public Schools: Lessons from a Comprehensive Birth-to-Kindergarten Program; and Essays on Educational Research: Methodology, Testing and Application. Courses have included: "Seminar in Theories of Child Development"; "Seminar in Counseling, Developmental Psychology and Research Methods."

617.552.8664
penny.hauser-cram.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/hauser-cram.html

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John Havens
Associate Director, Center on Wealth and Philanthropy (CWP)
B.A. Yale University
M.A. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Economic analysis and economic impact analysis–e.g., impact of private colleges and universities on the state of Massachusetts. The sociology of religion and other aspects of the cultural and spiritual dimensions of everyday life. Philanthropy, including patterns of giving as determined by income and wealth and the factors that induce charitable giving. Has contributed to a number of major studies conducted by BC's Center on Wealth and Philanthropy, a multidisciplinary center specializing in research on the social and political implications of economic relations.

617.552.4070
john.havens.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/research/swri/about/staff/havens/

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Kenji Hayao
Associate Professor, Political Science Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Ph.D. University of Michigan

US-Japan trade and political relations; contemporary Japanese domestic and foreign policies; Japanese domestic politics; Japanese prime ministership; Japanese government and economy. Author of the book Japanese Prime Ministers and Public Policy. Courses have included: "Government and Politics of Japan"; "Comparative Politics of Leadership."

617.552.4096
kenji.hayao.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/polisci/facstaff/hayao.html

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Charles Hefling, Jr.
Associate Professor, Theology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Harvard College
B.D., Th.D. Harvard Divinity School
Ph.D. Boston College

Systematic understanding of The Redemption and The Incarnation–the interrelation of the work and person of Jesus Christ in light of contemporary exigencies and doctrinal development. Member of the university's interdisciplinary seminar "God and the World of Science," which explores links between theological and scientific disciplines. Co-author of the book Bernard Lonergan's Essay in Circulation Analysis, and editor of Our Selves, Our Souls, Our Bodies: Anglican Essays Continuing the Dialogue on Sexuality. Courseshave  included: "On the Incarnation"; "Humanity as a Theological Problem"; "Lonergan's Method in Theology."

617.552.3547
charles.hefling@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/theology/faculty/chefling.html

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Raymond Helmick, SJ
Adjunct Faculty, Theology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Weston College
Hochschule Sankt Georgen
Union Theological Seminary

Conflicts in Northern Ireland and the Middle East; conflict negotiation techniques; the history and concept of "just war"; general United Nations history and issues. Founder and senior associate member of the Conflict Analysis Center. Involved in mediating international conflicts, including the Middle East and Northern Ireland, and instrumental in securing the release of three American prisoners of war during the 1999 Kosovo conflict. Courses include: "Principles of Conflict Resolution"; "Two Peoples, Three Faiths: Religions and Ethnicity in the Middle Eastern Conflict"; "Lebanon: Focal Point of Conflict"; "The Northern Ireland Conflict."

617.552.3880
raymond.helmick@bc.edu

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Dale Herbeck
Professor, Communication Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Augusta College
M.A., Ph.D. University of Iowa

Debate and public argument, including analysis of political debate; freedom of expression; cyber law; libel and defamation; plagiarism; communication ethics; political communication; media law, notably as it pertains to free speech. Intercollegiate debate coach; former director of BC's Fulton Debate Society, including its national championship season; recipient of the American Debate Association Service Award and the Robert M. O'Neil Award for Research on Freedom of Expression. Editor of Free Speech Yearbook, associate editor of Communication Quarterly and The Forensic Educator. Courses have included: argumentation, communication law, cyber law; debate, and freedom on expression.

617.552.4281
dale.herbeck.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/communication/faculty/fulltime/herbeck.html

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Sharlene Hesse-Biber
Professor, Sociology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. University of Michigan
M.A. University of Michigan
Ph.D. University of Michigan

Relationship between body image and self-esteem; eating disorders; anorexia nervosa; bulimia; obsessions with weight, body image and exercise; body art--tattoos and piercings; technological gender gap; women's studies; feminism in the classroom; women and work; dual-career families; gender earnings gap; integrating work and family. Founder and national director of the National Association of Women in Catholic Higher Education. Former director of Women's Studies at Boston College. Author of the book Am I Thin Enough Yet? The Cult of Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity. Co-author of the books Aging in Society; Politics of Aging; and Women at Work. Courses have included: "Women and Work."

617.552.4139
sharlene.hesse-biber.1@bc.edu
http://www2.bc.edu/~hesse/

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Charles Hoffman
Professor, Biology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D. Tufts University

Gene expression; gene cloning; molecular biology; activation of cellular function. Research includes work with yeast cells, which closely mimic human cells, to determine how information crosses cellular walls and activates specific functions inside. Currently working under a National Institutes of Health First Award, which recognizes him as one of the nation's foremost young scientists. Author of articles and chapters including "Preparation of Yeast DNA"; "A Transcriptionally Regulated Expression Vector for the Fission Yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe"; "Isolation and Characterization of Mutants Constitutive for Expression of the fbp1 Gene of Schizosaccharomyces Pombe," and "The git5GB and git11 Form an Atypical Gby Dimer Acting in the Fission Yeast Glucose/cAMP Pathway." Courses include: "Recombinant DNA Technology"; "Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics."

617.552.2779
charles.hoffman.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/biology/facadmin/hoffman.html

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David Hollenbach, SJ
University Chair in Human Rights and Internationa Justice, Theology Department
Director, Center for Human Rights and International Justice
College of Arts & Sciences
B.S. St. Joseph's University
M.A. Ph.L. St. Louis University
M.Div. Woodstock College
Ph.D. Yale University

Catholic ethics; moral theology; religion and politics; Christian ethics of war and peace; economic justice; nuclear war and deterrence; interaction of religious beliefs and politics; role of the Catholic Church in society (US and globally); role of Christianity in the US. Served as the principal consultant for the US Catholic Bishops' 1986 report "Economic Justice for All." Has served as president of the Society of Christian Ethics and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Religious Ethics and The Human Rights Quarterly. Editor of and co-contributor to the book Catholicism and Liberalism: Contributions to American Public Philosophy. Author of books including Justice, Peace, and Human Rights: American Catholic Social Ethics in a Pluralistic World; Nuclear Ethics: A Christian Moral Argument; and Claims in Conflict: Retrieving and Renewing the Catholic Human Rights Tradition. Courses have included: "Contemporary Theories of Justice"; "Christian Ethics and Social Issues"; "Christian Ethics: Major Figures." Director of Boston College's Center for Human Rights and International Justice.

617.552.8855
david.hollenbach.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/theology/faculty/dhollenbach.html

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Rudolph Hon
Associate Professor, Geology and Geophysics Department
College of Arts & Sciences
M.S. Charles University (Prague)
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Radon; radon emissions from granites, particularly those found in New England, which he has found emit more of the radioactive gas than previously had been suspected; subsurface geology [via a recent project, he created the first subsurface database of the Boston area. The information is valuable to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and private developers, who gain one-stop access to detailed information about soil conditions, water tables and rock formations under the Greater Boston area]. Geology of New England; Cape Cod groundwater quality. Courses include: "Environmental Geology"; "Chemistry of Natural Water Systems"; "Petrology."

617.552.3656
rudy.hon.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/geo/people/faculty/hon.html

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June Andrews Horowitz
Professor, Psychiatric/Mental Health Department
Connell School of Nursing
B.S. Boston College
M.S. Rutgers University
Ph.D. New York University

Postpartum depression; mother-infant relationship; parenting; family health; issues facing interfaith couples, particularly in a Jewish/Christian mix. Registered nurse. Co-author of the book Parenting Reassessed: A Nursing Perspective. Author of the articles "Postpartum Depression: Issues in Clinical Assessment"; "Identification of Risk Factors and Symptoms of Postpartum Depression: Linking Research to Practice," and "A Conceptualization of Parenting: Examining the Single Parent Family." Principal investigator for March of Dimes Foundation on "Promoting Healthy Responsiveness between Depressed Mothers and their Infants." Courses have included: "Advanced Practice and Theory in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing."

617.552.4258
june.horowitz.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/son/faculty/horowitz.html

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Amir Hoveyda
Joseph T. and Patricia Vanderslice Millennium Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Columbia University
Ph.D. Yale University

Pharmaceutical design and development; chemistry of medicine; science education. Has developed unique ways of catalysis to design cost-effective drugs for the treatment of fungal infections that plague cancer and AIDS patients. Recipient of numerous grants recognizing his work and its potential, including the National Science Foundation's National Young Investigator Award, the American Cancer Society's Junior Faculty Research Award and Boston College's Distinguished Faculty Research Award (2000). A leader in introducing undergraduates to advanced chemical research, through the creation of a laboratory devoted solely to undergraduate chemistry honors students. Author or co-author of numerous related articles, including "Zr-Catalyzed Electrophilic Carbomagnesation of Aryl Olefins. Mechanism-Based Control of Zr-Mg Ligand Exchange" and Efficient and Recyclable Monomeric and Dendritic Ru-Based Metatheses Catalysts." Courses include: "Principles of Modern Chemistry"; "Mechanistic Organic Chemistry."

617.552.3618
amir.hoveyda.1@bc.edu
http://chemserv.bc.edu/faculty/hoveyda.html

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Demetrius Iatridis
Professor, Graduate School of Social Work
B.A. Washington & Jefferson College
M.S.W. University of Pittsburgh
Ph.D. Bryn Mawr

Social policy and social welfare; social welfare and urban development issues; social, health care and mental health policies of Cuba; social policy planning in Cuba; social policy in Eastern Europe. Author of books including Social Policy: Institutional Context of Social Development and Human Services; and Social Policy Planning: Theory and Practice. Author of articles including "Social Policy and Health in Six Nations," and "Health and Social Work." Courses have included: "Change and Development of the Urban System: Urban Developmental Planning."

617.552.4041
demetrius.iatridis.1@bc.edu
https://htmldbprod.bc.edu/pls/htmldb/f?p=1127:3:4188328341513209::NO::P3_FACULTY_ID:291

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Rev. Robert Imbelli
Associate Professor, Theology Department
College of Arts and Sciences

Catholic Church; spirituality. Studied in Rome during the years of the Second Vatican Council. Member of the Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue USA.

617.552.8298
robert.imbelli@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/theology/faculty/rimbelli.html

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Alan Kafka
Associate Professor, Geology and Geophysics Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. New York University
M.S. State University of New York at Stony Brook
Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook

Earthquakes; earthquakes in the Northeast; nuclear testing detection; science education; relationship between science and religion; science and public policy. A geophysicist and researcher at BC's Weston Observatory, he is the first scientist to link Massachusetts' Quabbin Reservoir to increased seismic activity in central Massachusetts. [He believes the stress created by the weight of billions of gallons of water is responsible for several significant earthquakes in the region since the reservoir was created in the 1930s.] Participant in a US government project aimed at detecting nuclear explosion tests in the former Soviet Union using seismic techniques. Author or co-author of articles including "Earthquake Activity in the Northeastern United States"; "Corrections to Rg Group Velocity Dispersion in Southwestern New England"; "Earthquake Activity in the Greater New York City Area: A Faultfinder's Guide"; "Shear Wave Velocity and Attenuation Structure of the Shallow Crust in Southeastern New England From Dispersion of Rg Waves," and "Rg as Depth Discriminant for Earthquakes and Explosions: a Case Study in New England." Courses have included: "Theoretical Seismology"; "Introduction to Geology and Geophysics"; "Geoscience and Public Policy"; "Geophysical Data Processing"; "Our Mobile Earth."

617.552.3650
alan.kafka.1@bc.edu
http://www2.bc.edu/%7Ekafka/me.html

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Gerald (Jerry) Kane
Assistant Professor, Information Systems Department
Carroll School of Management

Kane is an expert in the intersection of corporate information systems and social networks. Social media, electronic medical recordkeeping.

617-552-0214
gerald.kane.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/csom/faculty/bios/kane-g.html

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   Edward Kane
Cleary Professor of Finance, Finance Department
Carroll School of Management
B.S. Georgetown University
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

An internationally recognized expert in the fields of banking and deposit insurance issues, and financial institutions; financial markets; financial regulations; financial globalization; S&Ls; credit unions; interest rates. Author of several books, including The S&L Insurance Mess: How Did It Happen? and The Gathering Crisis in Federal Deposit Insurance; author of numerous related articles. Member of several editorial boards of finance and banking-related publications, including the Journal of Money and Credit and Banking; served 11 years as a charter member of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee; research associate of the National Bureau of Research; former president of the American Finance Association. Has testified numerous times before Congressional committees and has served as an expert witness in financial services litigation. Courses have included: "Commercial Bank Management"; "Management of Financial Institutions."

617.552.3986
edward.kane.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/csom/faculty/bios/kane.html

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Daniel Kanstroom
Clinical Professor, Law School
Associate Director, Center for Human Rights and International Justice
B.A. State University of New York at Binghamton
J.D. Northeastern University
LL.M. Harvard University

Immigration law in the US and Europe (especially Germany); citizenship, asylum and refugee law; criminal law, especially issues of bail; criminal defense; self-defense for tenants. Author of a number of articles on topics including judicial review of amnesty denials, including "Immigration, Citizenship, Asylum and the Soul of the Western Nation-State" and "Surrounding the Hole in the Doughnut: Discretion and Deference in US Immigration Law." Founder of BC's Immigration and Asylum Project, in which students assist indigent Boston-area immigrants who seek political asylum in the US or are facing deportation. Courses include: "Immigration Law"; "International Human Rights." Associate Director of Boston College's Center for Human Rights and International Justice.

617.552.0880
daniel.kanstroom.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/kanstroomd.html

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David Karp
Professor, Sociology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Harvard College
Ph.D. New York University

Clinical depression; effects of depression on work, family and care-givers; the experiences of family care-giver to the mentally ill; physical and behavioral changes people experience in their 50s; family dynamics during child's senior year in high school and the college application process; urban life; social psychology. Author or co-author of the books The Burden of Sympathy: How Families Cope with Mental Illness; Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness; Sociology in Everyday Life; Experiencing the Life Cycle: A Social Psychology of Aging; Being Urban: A Sociology of City Life. Courses focus on sociology of mental health, sociology of emotions, life cycle studies, urban sociology.

617.552.4137
david.karp.1@bc.edu
http://www2.bc.edu/~karp/

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Sanford Katz
The Darald and Juliet Libby Professor of Law, Law School
B.A. Boston University
J.D. University of Chicago

Family law: marriage; divorce; adoption; child abuse and neglect; family violence; children's rights; child custody; marital property; judicial education; father's rights. Co-directing project on Anglo-American Family Law entitled "Cross Currents," which is co-sponsored by Oxford University. He is the only American law professor names as an international associate at the Family Law and Policy Center at Oxford University. He is the inaugural holder of the Darald and Juliet Libby Chair that was established in the memory of Michael G. Pierce, SJ. Credited with creating subsidized adoption, where public funds are used to offset the medical and care needs of disabled children, thereby enhancing their prospects for adoption. Former president of the International Society of Family Law; past chairman of the Family Law Section of the American Bar Association. Author of the book Family Law: Legal Concepts and Changing Human Relationships. Author of numerous articles, including "Historical Perspective and Current Trends in the Legal Process of Divorce"; "The Best Interests of the Child: A Re-Examination"; "'That They May Thrive' Goal of Child Custody: Reflections on the Apparent Erosion of the Tender Years Presumption and the Emergence of the Primary Caretaker Presumption," and "Massachusetts Rejects Professional Degree as Property." Courses have included: "Family Law"; "Family Law Seminar: Child Abuse and Neglect"; "Family Law Seminar: The Law of Child Protection."

617.552.4372
sanford.katz.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/katzs.html

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Karen Kayser
Professor, Graduate School of Social Work
B.A. Michigan State University
M.S.W. University of Michigan
Ph.D. University of Michigan

Psychological adjustment of women with cancer; causes of marital breakdown–how couples become disaffected; issues of intimacy in couples; intervention techniques to resolve marital problems; family therapy. Author or co-author of books including Seeking Closeness; When Love Dies: The Process of Marital Disaffection; Marriage and the Family: Studying Close Relationships; and The Love Exchange: Happiness Through Relationships. Author or co-author of numerous articles, including "Mothers with Cancer: An Examination of Identity During Illness" and "Women Coping with Cancer: The Impact of Close Relationships on Psychosocial Adjustment." Courses have included: "Advanced Couple and Family Therapy."

617.552.4020
karen.kayser.1@bc.edu
https://htmldbprod.bc.edu/pls/htmldb/f?p=1127:3:4188328341513209::NO::P3_FACULTY_ID:295

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Richard Kearney 
Charles B. Seelig Chair of Philosophy, Philosophy Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. University of Dublin
M.A. McGill University
Ph.D. University of Paris 

European philsophy; philosopher Paul Ricoeur. Author of numerous books, including Strangers, Gods, and Monsters: Interpreting Otherness; The God Who May Be: A Hermeneutics of Religion and Postnationalist Ireland: Politics, Literature, Philosophy. Courses have included: "Philosophy of Imagination."

617.552.3874
kearneyr@bc.edu
http://fmwww.bc.edu/Pl/fac/kearney.fac.html

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Michael Keith
Adjunct Associate Professor, Communication Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. University of Rhode Island
M.A. University of Rhode Island
Ph.D. University of Rhode Island

Contemporary radio issues; talk radio; the future of radio; radio and general electronic media history; members of minority population groups in broadcasting. Former broadcast programmer and manager. Author of several books, including Voices in the Purple Haze: Underground Radio and the Sixties; Signals in the Air: Native Broadcasting in America; and The Radio Station. Co-author of the books Global Broadcast Systems and Controls; The Broadcast Century: A Biography of American Broadcasting; and Selling Radio Direct. Co-authored Waves of Rancor: Tuning in the Radical Right. Recent articles include "Right Wing Extremist Radio"; "Hate.Com." Courses include: "Broadcast Century Issues"; "Radio in Culture and Society"; "Radio Operations and Production."

617.552.8837
michael.keith.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/communication/faculty/fulltime/keith/
http://www.michaelckeith.com

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Kevin Kersten, SJ
Professor, Communication Department
College of Arts & Sciences
M.A. San Francisco State University
M.A. St. Louis University
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison

International communication; communication and its relationship to culture and values; media ethics; documentary production and the use of video as a social justice tool. Producer/director of numerous video productions on a range of topics including religious values, issues of social justice and special education, including: "Growing with Disabled Children," a 13-episode series designed to help train parents and teachers for the special education of mentally disabled children, and "Sangaedong Olympics," a television documentary on Korea's homeless, distributed globally at the time of the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Former director of the Center for the Study of Communication and Culture, an international Jesuit organization, and of the Sogang University Communication Center, a research and media production center in Seoul. Courses include "Intercultural and International Communication"; "Producing Documentaries"; "Ethical Consideration in the Mass Media."

617.552.8065
kevin.kersten.2@bc.edu

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Peter Kreeft
Professor, Philosophy Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Calvin College
M.A. Fordham University
Ph.D. Fordham University

Spiritual and philosophical aspects of life and death; life after death; angels and demons; spirituality in society; spiritual warfare; philosophical aspects of morality–e.g. capital punishment, abortion, euthanasia, sexual mores; East-West religious dialogue; apologetics (arguments for and against the existence of God); Catholic theology and Catholic morality; modern philosophy; philosophy in literature (including Tolkein and Dostoyevsky); C.S. Lewis. Author of numerous publications, including the books Angels and Demons; The Angel and the Ant; Angel Wars: Facts vs. Fantasies About Angels and Demons; Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Heaven, But Never Dreamed of Asking; Women and the Priesthood; Your Questions, God's Answers; Back to Virtue; Yes or No? Straight Answers to Tough Questions about Christianity; C.S. Lewis for the Third Millennium. Courses include: "Thinking About Religion"; "Philosophy in Literature"; "Philosophy of World Religions."

617.552.3871
peter.kreeft.1@bc.edu
http://fmwww.bc.edu/pl/fac/kreeft.fac.html
www.peterkreeft.com

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Ronna Krozy
Associate Professor, Community Health Department
Connell School of Nursing
B.S., M.S. Boston College
Ed.D. Boston University

Community health nursing; visiting nursing and home health care; health care and education needs in Central America, especially in Ecuador and Nicaragua. A registered nurse. Participates in the Boston College Connell School of Nursing Global Health Initiative, a weeklong community health nursing clinical experience in Nicaragua. Named 1994 Por Cristo Volunteer of the Year.

617.552.8816
ronna.krozy.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/son/faculty/krozy.html

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George Ladd
Professor Emeritus, Department of Teacher Education, Special Education and Curriculum & Instruction
Lynch School of Education
Former Director, College Bound Program
B.S., State University College at Oswego, NY; M.A.T., D.Ed., Indiana University

Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment Systems examinations; mentoring and college preparation via school, business and university partnerships–combining academic and social support, mentoring and work experience–to support and encourage urban youth to pursue and succeed in higher education; school reform and charter schools; science and education technology. Coordinator of the Boston College Collaborative School/ University/Business partnership programs; former director of the university's College Bound program, a four-year enrichment and college preparatory effort for disadvantaged youths in Massachusetts' Brighton and West Roxbury high schools. Books include Health Elementary Science Textbook Series (K-6) (senior author); publications include numerous journal articles, monographs, research reports and curriculum manuals. Courses have include:d "Secondary and Middle School Science Methods"; "Teaching about the Natural World"; "Exploring Science and Social Studies through the Environment."

617.552.4229
george.ladd.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/ladd.html

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Marc Landy
Professor, Political Science Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Oberlin College, Ph.D. Harvard University

The American presidency; changing role of the president in influencing, affecting and balancing domestic and foreign affairs; American citizenship; American federalism. History of EPA; political and governmental influence on EPA and its effectiveness as an agency; government and environmental regulation. Co-author of the books Presidential Greatness and The Environmental Protection Agency from Nixon to Clinton: Asking the Wrong Questions. Courses include: "The American Presidency"; "Economic Freedom, Religious Freedom and Justice."

617.552.4172
marc.landy.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/polisci/facstaff/landy.html

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Ruth Langer
Associate Professor, Theology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Associate Director, Center for Christian-Jewish Learning
B.A. Bryn Mawr College, M.A.H.L., M.Phil., Ph.D., Hebrew Union College

Jewish religious life and thought; issues of prayer and practice; Jewish-Christian relations. Judaism: questions of ritual and liturgy. An ordained rabbi. Author of the book To Worship God Properly: Tensions between Liturgical Custom and Halakhah in Judaism; author or co-author of numerous publications. Memberships include: Association for Jewish Studies and Central Conference of American Rabbis. Courses have included: "Judaism: Practice and Belief"; "The Religious Quest: Comparative Perspectives"; "Holy Text in Comparative Perspective." Associate Director of BC's Center for Christian-Jewish Learning.

617.552.8492
ruth.langer.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/theology/faculty/rlanger.html

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Jonathan Laurence
Assistant Professor, Political Science Department
College of Arts & Sciences

European politics; the integration of Muslims into European politics and society. Co-author of the book Integrating Islam: Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France. He is an Affiliated Scholar with the Center on the US and Europe at the Brookings Institution.

617.552.8991
jonathan.laurence@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/polisci/facstaff/laurence.html

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Cynthia Lichtenstein
Professor Emerita, Law School
B.A. Radcliffe College, J.D. Yale University, M.C.L. University of Chicago

International economic law; international banking and securities (including derivatives) in a rapidly changing environment; regulation of financial institutions in the US; use of force in international relations; human rights; foreign relations and the US Constitution. A former president of the American Branch of the International Law Association. Author of articles published in law journals in America and abroad, including "International Jurisdiction Over International Capital Flows and the Role of the IMF: Plus Ca Change…"; "Current Developments in International Securities Regulation Co-operation"; "Do Globalized Financial Markets Need a New Architecture of Regulation?"; "Dealing with Sovereign Liquidity Crises: New International Initiatives for the New World of Volatile Capital Flows To and From Emerging Markets"; and "European Monetary Union and the European System of Central Banks." Courses include: "Contracts"; "International Trade Seminar"; "Regulation of Financial Institutions."

617.552.4384
cynthia.lichtenstein.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/lichtensteinc.html

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Ritchie Lowry
Professor, Sociology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A., M.A., Ph.D, University of California at Berkeley

Profitable socially and environmentally responsible investing and consuming; economic activity with ethical, moral and human dimensions; corporate social responsibility and performance; executive compensation: executive pay as a moral and social issue with economic implications; shareholder resolution movement; social problems and public policy; power in contemporary society; war and the military; the changing nature of warfare; intelligence and spying. Author of several books, including GOOD MONEY: A Guide to Profitable Social Investing in the '90s (including a paperback and a Japanese-language edition); author of numerous other publications. Founder and President of Good Money, Inc., which maintains web pages (and has published newsletters, reports, guides and other materials, and provides portfolio "social screens") for socially and environmentally concerned investors, consumers and businesses. Established a Good Money Industrial Average–dubbed "the Good Dow"–after analyzing the Dow Jones Industrial Average and identifying socially responsible alternative companies, which has outperformed the Dow. Courses include: "Power in Contemporary Society"; "Corporate Social Responsibility."

617.552.3346
ritchie.lowry.1@bc.edu

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   James Lubben 
Louise McMahon Ahearn Professor, Graduate School of Social Work 

Social support networks for older populations; health and welfare systems; gerontology; elderly Asian and Asian-American populations. Developed the Lubben Social Network Scale (LSNS), an abbreviated measure designed for both research and clinical use among older populations.  The LSNS has been translated into many languages and employed in studies in Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. Scores on the LSNS have been associated with many indicators of health including mortality, morbidity, psychological distress and loneliness, cognitive impairment, and various indicators of health care use.

617.552.1366
lubben@bc.edu
http://gabriel.bc.edu/gsswfaculty/FMPro?-db=gsswfaculty.fp5&-format=record%5fdetail.htm&-lay=weblayout&-max=200&-recid=32878&-findall=

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M. Brinton Lykes
Professor, Department of Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology
Lynch School of Education
Associate Director, Center for Human Rights and Intenational Justice
B.A, Hollins College, M.Div. Harvard University, Ph.D. Boston College

Effects of state-sponsored terror and organized violence; human rights policy and mental health interventions. Violence toward children in Central America; methods of intervention to help children cope with violence; expressive healing techniques–drawing, body movement, drama and music–for young victims of violence; psychological research within communities to bring about change; developing community responses to violence; alternative strategies for working with children affected by organized violence in US cities. Gender and racial issues in psychology; gender, culture and theories of the self. Associate director of BC's Center for Human Rights and International Justice. Co-editor of the book Myths about the Powerless: Contesting Social Inequalities. Author of numerous publications, including "Ethnic conflict in Latin America: Toward a psychology of liberation in Guatemala, Peru and Puerto Rico?"; "Activist participatory research among the Maya of Guatemala: Constructing meanings from situated knowledge"; "War Tears at Children's Emotions"; "Human Rights and Mental Health Work in the United States: Lessons from Latin America," and "Terror, Silencing and Children: International Multidisciplinary Collaboration with Guatemalan Maya Communities." Courses include: "Psychology of Adolescence"; "Culture and Society"; "Child in Society: Integrative Seminar."

617.552.4200
brinton.lykes.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/lykes.html

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Vincent Lynch
Adjunct Associate Professor and Continuing Education Program Director, Graduate School of Social Work
B.A. LaSalle University, M.S.S.S, Boston University, Ph.D. Boston College

AIDS and the social work profession; psycho-social aspects of AIDS; global aspects of AIDS; issues relating to access to appropriate medical care versus high cost of new medications. Founder (in 1988) and chair of an annual national conference on AIDS for social work and human services professionals. Has served as director of National Research and Training Center on Social Work and HIV/AIDS. Editor and/or co-editor of four books on HIV/AIDS and social work, including: The Changing Face of AIDS: Implications for Social Work Practice; Caring for the HIV/AIDS Caregiver; Social Workers Speak out on the HIV/AIDS Crisis: Voices From & To African American Communities; HIV/AIDS at Year 2000: A Sourcebook for Social Workers. 1998 recipient of the Council on Social Work Education's "Distinguished Recent Contributions to Social Work Education Award." Courses have included: "Social Work Response to the AIDS Epidemic"; "Introduction to Social Work Practice; "Basic Clinical Skills."

617.552.4038
vincent.lynch.1@bc.edu
https://htmldbprod.bc.edu/pls/htmldb/f?p=1127:3:4188328341513209::NO::P3_FACULTY_ID:313

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Richard Mackey
Professor, Graduate School of Social Work
B.A, Merrimack College, M.S.W., D.S.W. Catholic University of America

Long-lasting marriages; the impact of gender differences on handling interpersonal issues in long-lasting marriages; the impact of racial/ethnic differences on adaptability of married couples; long-lasting lesbian and gay relationships; factors in sustaining successful long-term relationships; adaptability and negotiation in long-term adult relationships; marital, family and group psychotherapies; psychotherapy as a valuable asset for professionals in the field of social work; psychotherapy as a tool to enhance social workers' knowledge of and training in the therapeutic process. Co-author of the books Lasting Marriages: Men and Women Growing Together and Gay and Lesbian Couples: Voices from Lasting Relationships. Courses have included: "Emerging Self"; Adult Relationships"; "Self-Psychology"; "Ego Psychology."

617.552.4047
richard.mackey.1@bc.edu
https://htmldbprod.bc.edu/pls/htmldb/f?p=1127:3:4188328341513209::NO::P3_FACULTY_ID:314

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Ray Madoff
Professor, Law School
B.A. Brown University, J.D., LL.M. New York University

Trusts and estates; estate planning; will disputes and undue influence; trust law. Lead author on the book An Estate Planner's Handbook; author of several articles, including "Taxing Personhood: Estate Taxes and the Compelled Commodification of Identity"; "Unmasking Undue Influence"; "Real Estate Workouts and Bankruptcies"; "Tax Implications of Chapter 11 Reorganizations"; "A Reappraisal of the Tax Consequences of Abandonments in Bankruptcy" and "United States Estate and Gift Tax Considerations." Appointed an academic fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates. Courses have included: "Estate and Gift Tax"; "Estate Planning"; "Trusts and Estates Survey."

617.552.0926
ray.madoff.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/madoffr.html

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James R. Mahalik
Professor, Department of Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology
Lynch School of Education
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. University of Maryland

Psychology of men; the socialization of men; gender roles. Editor of American Psychological Association's Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity Bulletin and editorial board member of Journal of Counseling Psychology and Journal of Counseling and Development. Courses have included: "Issues in Counseling Men"; "Principles and Techniques of Counseling"; "Counseling Theory and Process."

617.552.4077
mahalik@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/mahalik.html

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Kevin Mahoney 
Professor, Graduate School of Social Work
Aging; disability and long-term care policy. Director of BC's Center for the Study of Home & Community Life which seeks to improve the quality of supports and services for persons with disabilities through consumer direction and to foster the development of inclusive communities that recognize and value the roles of older people and persons with disabilities.

617.552.4039
kevin.mahoney@bc.edu
http://gabriel.bc.edu/gsswfaculty/FMPro?-db=gsswfaculty.fp5&-format=record%5fdetail.htm&-lay=weblayout&-max=200&-recid=32879&-findall=

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John Makransky
Associate Professor, Theology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Yale University, Ph.D, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Buddhist thought and practices; transcendental insight, compassion and devotion in Tibetan and Indian Buddhist traditions; Buddhism in America; Buddhist meditation; Buddhist-Christian dialogue; Tibet; Tibetan Buddhism. A Lama in the Nyingma order of Nyoshul Khenpo. Author of book Buddhahood Embodied: Sources of Controversy in India and Tibet. Organizer and participant in numerous Buddhist-Christian dialogue groups, panels, retreats and services. Courses have included: "Buddhist Scriptures and Commentaries"; "Tibetan Buddhist Traditions." 

617.552.4603
john.makransky.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/theology/faculty/jmakransky.html

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Michael Malec
Associate Professor, Sociology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.S. Loyola University, Chicago, M.S., Ph.D. Purdue University

The sociology of sports; connections between sports, politics and ideology; the effects of sports on children; sports and social issues; sports and the Internet; sociological aspects of sports in the Caribbean; Caribbean cultures. Editor of and contributor to the book The Social Roles of Sport in Caribbean Societies. Author or co-author of the publications including: "Baseball, Cricket, and Social Change"; "Robinson and Worrell: Athletes as Agents of Social Change"; "Gender Equity in Athletics"; "The Wonderful 'World Wide Web' of Sports: An Internet Resource"; "Gender (In)equity in the NCAA News?" and "Patriotic Symbols in Intercollegiate Sports During the Gulf War." Former editor of the Journal of Sport and Social Issues. Served as president of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport. Courses include: "Sports in American Society"; "Caribbean Cultures."

617.552.4131
michael.malec.1@bc.edu
http://www2.bc.edu/~malec/

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   Patrick Maney
Professor, History Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Ph.D. University of Maryland 

Prof. Maney is a political and presidential historian, with a particular focus on American history from 1865 to the present. He is author of a biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt titled The Roosevelt Presence:  The Life and Legacy of FDR. He is working on a book on Bill Clinton’s presidency.

617-552-2399
maneyp@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/history/faculty/alphabetical/maney_patrick.html

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Roberta Manning
Professor, History Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Rice University, M.A., Ph.D. Columbia University

Foreign policy; arms control; domestic politics; Russian history, politics, agriculture and economy; Stalin; the Great Russian Post-Communist Depression; the Cold War; the Gorbachev era; Yeltsin; conditions of women in Russia. Has traveled to Russia many times. Author of numerous books and articles on Russia and the Soviet Union, including The Crisis of the Old Order in Russia: Gentry and Government, which won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association; co-editor of Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives. Served for more than 15 years as managing editor of the publication Russian History. Courses include: "Modern History: Political and Intellectual History of Europe"; "Russia and the Cold War"; "Twentieth Century Russia"; "Stalin."

617.552.3795
roberta.manning.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/history/faculty/alphabetical/manning_roberta.html

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Alan Marcus
Professor, Finance Department
Carroll School of Management
B.A., Wesleyan University, Ph.D. MIT

derivatives; securities markets; asset allocation; risk management; investments; fixed income markets; equity markets; security markets; portfolio theory. Co-author of the books Fundamentals of Corporate Finance; Essentials of Investments and Investments. He has served as a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he participated in both the Pension Economics and the Financial Markets and Monetary Economics Groups, and spent two years at the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), where he helped to develop mortgage pricing and credit risk models. Courses have included: "Investments"; "Options and Futures Markets"; "Financial Theory and Capital Markets"; "Derivatives and Risk Management."

617.552.2767
alan.marcus.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/csom/faculty/bios/marcus.html

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Michael O. Martin
Co-Director, Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)
Research Professor, Department of Educational Research, Measurement and Evaluation
Lynch School of Education
B.A. University College, Cork, M.Sc. Trinity College, Dublin Ph.D. University College, Dublin

International comparisons of student achievement; large-scale assessment of student achievement. Co-director of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study, the biggest international testing study ever undertaken, involving 45 countries, five grades, two school subjects and more than a half million students. Co-director of the International Study Center at Boston College. Co-author of numerous publications evaluating and assessing the results of the TIMSS testing, including Third International Mathematics and Science Study: Technical Report Volume II. Other publications include "Are Girls Better Readers? Gender Differences in Reading Literacy," and "Reading Literacy in Irish Schools: A Comparative Analysis."

617.552.3172
michael.martin.3@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/martin.html

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Thomas Massaro, SJ 
Professor
School of Theology & Ministry 
BA, MaHum, MDiv, STL, PhD Emory

Catholic social ethics, theories of economic justice, and the history of Christian political thought. Courses have included: "Catholic Social Ethics"; "Christian Political Thought."

617.552.6524
thomas.massaro.1@bc.edu

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Marilyn Matelski
Professor, Communication Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Michigan State University, M.A., Ph.D. University of Colorado

Contemporary broadcast programming and ownership; news programming and competition; radio and television personalities and formatting; intercultural communication; media ethics; international radio, notably Vatican Radio; charismatic leaders; soap operas and daytime television. Author of the books Vatican Radio: Propagation By the Airwaves; TV News Ethics; Daytime TV Programming, and The Soap Opera Evolution: America's Enduring Romance with Daytime Drama; and co-author of Messages from the Underground: Transnational Radio in Resistance and in Solidarity. Courses include: "Intercultural and International Communication."

617.552.4988
marilyn.matelski.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/communication/faculty/fulltime/matelski.html

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Marina McCoy 
Fitzgibbon Professor of Philosophy, Philosophy Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Ph.D. Boston University

Plato; ancient Greek philosophy; feminist philosophy; philosophy of  vulnerability; philosophy of love and friendship; intersections between philosophy, public speaking, and rhetoric; philosophy of Pope John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Author of the book Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists. Courses have included: "Rhetoric: Truth, Beauty, Power."

617.552.3858
mccoyma@bc.edu
http://fmwww.bc.edu/PL/fac/mccoy.fac.html

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   John McDargh
Associate Professor, Theology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Emory University, Ph.D. Harvard University

Childhood and adult religious development; issues and problems of raising children in a religiously mixed marriage. Relationship between developmental psychology and faith; psychology of religious development; psychotherapy and spirituality; psychiatry, psychology and religion; sexuality and spirituality. The "Woodstock Generation." Author of the book Psychoanalytic Object Relations Theory and the Study of Religion: On Faith and the Imaging of God. Courses have included: "The Psychology of Religious Development"; "Psychotherapy and Spirituality."

617.552.3752
harry.mcdargh.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/theology/faculty/jmcdargh.html/

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John McGinty
Director, Church in the 21st Century Center

Faith and community; relationship between the Jewish and Roman Catholic communities in the United States between 1900 and the end of the second Vatican Council.

617.552.0470
john.mcginty.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/church21/about/staff.html

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   Rev. Richard McGowan, SJ
Adjunct Associate Professor, Operations & Strategic Management Department
Carroll School of Management
B.S. Widener University, M.A. University of Delaware, M.Div., Th.M. Weston School of Theology, Ph.D. Boston University

Economic, social and political issues regarding gambling, tobacco and alcohol; casino gambling; lotteries. Author of the books Government and the Transformation of the Gaming Industry; State Lotteries and Legalized Gambling: Painless Revenue or Painful Mirage?; Business, Politics and Cigarettes: multiple Levels, multiple Agendas, and The Search for Revenue and the Common Good: An Analysis of Government Regulation of the Alcohol Industry. Co-author of the book Defining the Competitive Environment: Industry as a Player in the Social and Political Environment. Courses have included: "Forecasting"; "Industrial and Social Policy"; "Business Policy."

617.552.3474
richard.mcgowan.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/csom/faculty/bios/mcgowan.html

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Larry McLaughlin
Professor, Chemistry Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.Sc. University of California at Riverside, Ph.D. University of Alberta

Nucleic acids; chemistry of DNA and RNA. One of the nation's leading biochemical scientists, his work is shedding light on the role of DNA and RNA and laying the groundwork for the possible development of drugs for the treatment of cancer and other diseases. In an extremely competitive environment, he continues to draw large research grants and regularly publishes his findings in chemistry journals. Recent articles include "On the Characteristics of Migration of Oligomeric DNA in Polyacrylamide Gels and in Free Solution"; "Minor Groove Functional Groups are Critical for the B-Form Conformation of Duplex DNA"; "Perylene and Naphthalene Linkers for Stabilization of Triplexes Containing DNA and RNA Targets"; Migration Effects for Small Phosphate-Labeled Single-Stranded DNA Fragments in Gels: Prediction and Experiment," and "The Importance of Specific Adenosine N7-Nitrogens for Efficient Cleavage by a Hammerhead Ribozyme. A Model for Magnesium Binding." Courses include: "Biochemistry Seminar."

617.552.3622
larry.mclaughlin.1@bc.edu
http://chemserv.bc.edu/faculty/mclaughlin.html

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Rev. Paul McNellis, SJ 
Adj. Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Ph.D. Boston College

Political philosophy; social ethics; just war. He served in the US Army during the Vietnam War. He also worked as a journalist and for Catholic Relief Services in Indochina. Courses have included: "Poets, Philosophers, and Mapmakers."

617.552.3871
mcnellis@bc.edu
http://fmwww.bc.edu/PL/fac/mcnellis2.fac.html

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   R. Shep Melnick
O'Neill Professor of American Politics, Political Science Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Harvard University

Welfare policy; environmental policy; Clean Air Act; Federal Courts; judiciary appointments; administrative law; statutory interpretation; bureaucracy; public policy. Co-editor of the book Between the Lines: Interpreting Welfare Rights. Author of the books Between the Lines: Interpreting Welfare Rights and Regulation and the Courts: The Case of the Clean Air Act. Author of many articles, including "An American Dilemma"; "Tobacco Litigation: Good for the Body, but not the Body Politic"; "Strange Bedfellows Make Normal Politics" and "The Political Roots of the Judicial Dilemma." Courses include: "Policy and Politics in the US"; "American Political Ideals and Institutions"; "US Supreme Court: A Political Perspective."

617.552.1896
shep.melnick.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/polisci/facstaff/melnick.html

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John Michalczyk
Professor, Fine Arts Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A., M.A. Boston College; M.Div. Weston College School of Theology; Ph.D. Harvard University

Documentary film; political fiction film; film as a propaganda tool; conflict resolution in South Africa, Northern Ireland, Bosnia and the Middle East; historical Christian-Jewish relations; anti-Semitism; the Holocaust; Holocaust and the arts; socio-political resistance to Nazism and the rescue of Jews during World War II; relationship between the Irish and Jews in Boston during the 19th and 20th centuries; filmmaker Costa-Gavras; European film. Director of documentaries, including: "South Africa: Beyond a Miracle"; "Prelude to Kosovo: War and Peace in Bosnia and Croatia"; "Out of the Ashes: Northern Ireland's Fragile Peace"; "Unexpected Openings: Northern Ireland's Fragile Peace"; "December's Dilemma: The Creche, the Dreidel and the Star"; "In the Shadow of the Reich: Nazi Medicine"; "The Cross and The Star: Jews, Christians and the Holocaust," and "Of Stars and Shamrocks: Boston's Jews and Irish." Co-Director of BC's Film Studies Program and BC's Salmanowitz Program for Moral Courage in Documentary Film for aspiring student filmmakers interested in producing films addressing issues of moral courage, human rights and social justice. Author of the books The French Literary Filmmakers; Costa-Gavras: The Political Fiction Film, and The Italian Political Filmmakers. Courses have included: "History of European Film"; "Political Fiction Film" and "Propaganda Film."

617.552.3895
john.michalczyk.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/finearts/faculty/filmstudies/michalczyk.html

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Elizabeth Miller
Assistant Professor, Marketing Department
Carroll School of Management
B.A., Cornell University
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Consumer behavior; market research; services marketing; brand loyalty; new product adoption; marketing ethics; international marketing; nonprofit marketing. Courses include: "Consumer Behavior" and "Marketing Principles."

617.552.2988
elizabeth.miller.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/csom/faculty/bios/miller-e.html

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Gilda Morelli
Associate Professor, Psychology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.Sc. University of Massachusetts, Boston, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Child development; the role of parents, family, community and daily routine in shaping infants' and young children's development–especially their social and emotional development. Cultural diversity in parenting practices; the relationship between parenting and the development of infants' emotional ties with caregivers; cultural construction of gender; children's developing sense of self as boys and girls. Child care in poor and working poor US families, with a special interest in public policy, welfare reform, and children's health and development. Specific child development patterns of natives of the Ituri Forest in northeastern Zaire. For research purposes, Morelli spent four years living in the Ituri Forest studying child development and family relationships among its inhabitants, which led to her establishment of the Ituri Fund, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the health and education of Efe foragers and Lese farmers in the Ituri Forest. Co-author of the articles "The Efe Forager Infant and Toddler's Pattern of Social Relationships: multiple and Simultaneous"; "Efe Fathers: One Among Many? A Comparison of Forager Children's Involvement with Fathers and Other Males," and "Coming of Age in the Ituri." Courses include: "Children, Families and Social Policy"; "Developmental Psychology."

617.552.4094
gilda.morelli.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/psych/faculty_staff/morelli.html

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Bruce T. Morrill, SJ
Associate Professor, Theology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. College of the Holy Cross, M.A. Columbia University, M.Div. Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, California, Ph.D. Emory University

Liturgy and sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church, including the Mass; forms of initiating believers; reconciliation in the Church; the role of the sacraments in the care of sick and elderly; the Roman Catholic approach to death and funeral rites. Author of the book Anamnesis as Dangerous Memory: Political and Liturgical Theology in Dialogue; Contributing editor of Bodies of Worship: Explorations in Theroy and Practice; contributing co-editor to Liturgy and the Moral Self: Humanity at Full Stretch Before God. Member of Catholic Theological Society of America. Courses have included: "Liturgy, Sacraments and Church"; "Divine Worship and Human Healing."

617.552.8447
bruce.morrill.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/theology/faculty/bmorrill.html

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Ina V.S. Mullis
Co-Director, Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)
Research Professor, Department of Educational Research, Measurement and Evaluation
Lynch School of Education
B.A., Ph.D. University of Colorado

International comparisons of student achievement; large-scale assessment of student achievement; US students' educational achievement in national and international contexts. Measuring complex student skills and understandings, evaluating progress in performance, analyzing achievement data; policy uses of assessment information to increase student learning. Co-director of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study, the largest international testing study ever undertaken, involving 45 countries, five grades, two school subjects and more than a half million students. Co-director of the International Study Center at Boston College. Co-author of numerous publications evaluating and assessing the results of the TIMSS testing, including "Analysis and reporting of context questionnaire data" in Third International Math and Science Study: Technical Report Volume II. Former director of the National Assessment of Educational Progress at the Educational Testing Service.

617.552.3173
ina.mullis.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/mullis.html

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Alicia H. Munnell
Drucker Professor of Management Sciences
Carroll School of Management
Director, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
B.A. Wellesley College, M.A. Boston University, Ph.D. Harvard University

All aspects of the domestic economy; the economic outlook; Federal Reserve Bank; the national budget; tax policy; Social Security; pensions; productivity. A former member of the President's Council of Economic Advisors (1995-97) and former assistant secretary for economic policy in the US Treasury Department (1993-95), where she contributed to nearly every aspect of Administration policy. She also served as senior vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. She is the author, co-author or editor of numerous books, chapters and journal articles on economic issues, including 2004's Coming Up Short: The Challenge of 401(k) Plans, and has provided expert testimony to US Senate and House Legislative Committees on many occasions. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science in 1998. Recipient in 1998 of a $5.25 million grant from Social Security Administration to direct the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, one of two such on-campus centers in the United States addressing this area of critical concern. Courses include: "Monetary and Fiscal Policy."

617.552.1934
alicia.munnell.1@bc.edu
http://crr.bc.edu/director/alicia_h._munnell_2.html

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Robert Murphy
Associate Professor, Economics Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Williams College, Ph.D. MIT

Macroeconomic policy of the US and other countries, specifically tax and spending policies; monetary and interest rate policies, budget and deficits and public debt, and social security and entitlement policies; macroeconomic conditions in the US and other countries, including economic growth, inflation, interest rates, unemployment, trade deficits and surpluses; exchange rates and general issues related to the value of the dollar. Trade policies, trade deficits, international financial markets. European integration, with pros and cons of a single currency in the European union; currency crises in emerging market economies; transition of former East Bloc countries to market economies; effects of oil and other natural resource discoveries on the macroeconomy of developing countries, specifically in managing consequences of oil discovery and exploitation in Columbia; stabilization policies in developing countries in Latin America; NAFTA, GATT and other issues related to international trade agreements and policies. Served a one-year appointment (1995-96) in the Clinton Administration as a senior economist on the Council of Economic Advisors; in that role, served as editor of the weekly economic briefing of the president of the United States. Recent articles include: "Accounting for the Recent Decline in the NAIRU"; "Macroeconomic Policy Implications of Oil in Colombia"; "Household Debt and Consumer Spending"; "Reputation and the Real Estate Brokerage Contract," and "Explaining the Term Structure of Interest Rates: A Panel Data Approach." Courses include: "Macroeconomic Policymaking"; "International Finance."

617.552.3688
robert.murphy.1@bc.edu
http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec/Murphy.php

 

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Nancy Netzer
Professor, Fine Arts Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Director, The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College
B.A. Connecticut College, M.A. Tufts University, M.A., Ph.D. Harvard University

European medieval art; cultural and historical censorship of art; government sponsorship of the arts; the historical role of museums in society, including contemporary issues such as acquisition, conservation, exhibition and cataloguing; educational mission of museums; role of the university museum versus the public museum; the art market; questions of authenticity of works of art. Director of BC's McMullen Museum of Art. Author of books including The Book of Durrow: a Manuscript in Context and Cultural Interplay in the Eighth Century: The Trier Gospels and the Making of a Scriptorium at Echternach. Co-editor of Fragmented Devotion: Medieval Objects from the Schnutgen Museum in Cologne and Memory and the Middle Ages. Author of numerous articles. Courses have include:d "Early Medieval Art in Ireland and Britain"; "The Museum of Art: History, Philosophy and Practice."

617.552.2378
nancy.netzer.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/finearts/faculty/arthistory/netzer.html

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Thomas O'Connor
University Historian
Professor Emeritus, History Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A., M.A. Boston College

Ph.D. Boston University

History of Boston–including its political history and its neighborhoods; the significance of immigration and the growth of ethnic politics and racial conflicts; the Irish in Boston; Irish-Brahmin relations; Puritanism; contemporary Boston politics set against a historical backdrop; the Irish famine. United States history, the age of Jackson, the Civil War. Dubbed "the dean of Boston History," he is author of many books, including The Hub: Boston Past and Present; Boston A to Z; Boston Catholics: A History of the Church and Its People; Civil War Boston: Homefront and Battlefield; The Boston Irish: A Political History; Lords of the Loom: The Cotton Whigs and the Coming of the Civil War; Bibles, Brahmins and Bosses: A Short History of Boston; Fitzpatrick's Boston; South Boston My Home Town: A History of an Ethnic Neighborhood; and Building a New Boston: Politics and Urban Renewal, 1950-1970. Course areas include American civilization and the Civil War.

617.552.4788
thomas.oconnor.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/history/faculty/alphabetical/oconnor_thomas.html

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Regina O'Grady-LeShane
Adjunct Associate Professor and Assistant Dean
Graduate School of Social Work
B.A. Caldwell College, M.A. New School for Social Research, Ph.D. Brandeis University

Elderly women in poverty; women and Social Security; women and employment; the earning gap between men and women; women's (even those in the labor force) dependence on their husbands' retirement benefits; economic status of never-married women. Population aging; gerontology; older workers; family caregiving. Co-author of the articles "The Effects of Caregiving on Women's Social Security Benefits" and "Family Provision in the Old-Age Pensions of Twenty Industrial Nations." Courses include: "Introduction to Social Work."

617.552.4762
regina.ogrady-leshane.1@bc.edu

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Joseph O'Keefe, SJ
Dean
Lynch School of Education
B.A. College of the Holy Cross, M. Div., STL Weston School of Theology, M. Ed., Ed.D. Harvard University

Urban and integrated service schools; the changing role of the principal, including new responsibilities–e.g., writing grants, coordinating health care, and external relations with the community: Catholic education; fiscal and administrative challenges facing Catholic schools in the US and United Kingdom; preparation of Catholic school teachers and administrators. International comparative education; ethics in administration. Co-author of the forthcoming book The Legacy and Future of Catholic Schools. Editor of the book including Catholic Education at the Turn of the New Century; co-editor of books including The Contemporary Catholic School: Context, Identity and Diversity. Co-editor of a series of books, Conversations in Excellence, published by the National Catholic Educational Association; author of numerous articles and book chapters. Courses include:
"Catholic Schools in the 2000s"; "Seminar in Educational Administration."

617.552.8426
joseph.okeefe.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/okeefe.html

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Philip O'Leary
Professor, English Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. College of the Holy Cross

Ph.D. Harvard University

Current cultural scene in Ireland, including music and theater; the politics of the republic; Ireland/Irish studies programs; Gaelic language issues. Early Irish saga literature; literature of the Irish cultural renaissance. Author of books including Ideology and Innovation: The Prose and Literature of the Gaelic Revival, 1881-1921. Director of BC's Abbey Theatre Summer Workshop in Dublin, Ireland. Courses include: "Introduction to Modern Irish"; "The Drama of Ethnic Renaissance: Theater and Society in Early 20th Century Dublin and Harlem"; "Irish Heroic Literature in Modern Adaptation."

617.552.3724
philip.oleary.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/centers/irish/studies/facstaff/oleary.html

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Kevin O'Neill
Associate Professor, History Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Marquette University, M.A. Loyola University of Chicago, Ph.D. Brown University

Modern Ireland (1700-resent); Irish social and political history; Ireland/Northern Ireland; European social and economic history; peasant studies, including the interaction between peasant and urban society and economy; social and economic determinants of demographic changes in rural Ireland during the 18th and 19th centuries; famine. Co-founder of the Boston College Irish Studies Program, which offers an interdisciplinary approach to the culture and society of Ireland; co-editor of the Irish Literary Supplement; historical advisor to the Famine Museum Project in Ireland. Author of the book Family and Farm in Pre-Famine Ireland. Author of articles including "The Bonds of Neighbourhood: Women and Rebellion n a Kildare Village: 1798"; "Almost a Gentlewoman: Gender and Adolescence in the Diary of Mary Shackleton," and "Looking at Pictures: Art and Artfulness in Colonial Ireland." Courses include: "Europe and the Atlantic Community"; "Famine and Social Crisis"; "Irish History."

617.552.3793
kevin.oneill.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/centers/irish/studies/facstaff/oneill.html

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Mary-Rose Papandrea
Assistant Professor, Law School
B.A. Yale University; J.D. University of Chicago

Supreme Court, civil procedure, constitutional law, defamation and privacy law, and national security and civil liberties. She clerked for Hon. John G. Koeltl of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Hon. Douglas H. Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and Hon. David H. Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court. Papandrea spent several years as a litigator, specializing in First Amendment and media defense cases. She is a member of the Connecticut, New York and District of Columbia bars.

(617) 552-0582
maryrose.papandrea@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/papandream.html

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John Paris, SJ
Walsh Professor of Bioethics, Theology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.S., M.A. Boston College, M.A. Harvard University, Ph.L. Weston College, M.A., Ph.D. University of Southern California,

Catholic ethics; medical ethics; bioethics; issues related to medical treatment termination; patient rights; research involving human subjects; "do-not-resuscitate" issues; death with dignity; definition of brain death; dilemmas in intensive care medicine; history of Vatican responses to termination of medical treatment issues; Catholic approaches to termination of life; compulsory medical treatment and religious freedom–specifically Jehovah's Witnesses or Christian Scientists; Catholic considerations of brain death and organ retrieval; Catholic tradition on use of nutrition and fluids to perpetuate life; physician refusal of requested treatment; health care policy. Frequently called as expert witness in legal cases involving termination of medical treatment; consultant and expert witness in many landmark biomedical cases. Served as consultant to the President's Commission for the Study of Ethics in Medicine, the United States Senate Committee on Aging, and the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. Author or co-author of more than 100 articles on the area of law, medicine and ethics, including "Ethics of Artificial Feeding"; "When the Doctor Says No: The Ethical Dilemma"; "Playing God and the Removal of Life-Prolonging Therapy"; "Ethical and Legal Issues in Intensive Care"; "Ethical Issues in Neotatology"; "Court Intervention and Diminution of Patients' Rights." Ethics Section Editor of The Journal of Perinatology. Courses have included: "Law, Medicine & Public Policy."

617.552.8434
john.paris.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/theology/faculty/jparis.html

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Francis Parker, SJ
Professor, Business Law Department
Carroll School of Management
B.S. College of the Holy Cross, J.D. Fordham University Law School, M.Th. Louvain University

African and South African business and politics; political, economic, physical, legal, cultural and religious influences on foreign businesses in South Africa; Third World debt; legal nature and forms of real estate interests; conveyance of property rights; brokerage options; appraisal process; mortgage financing; principles of real estate; tax aspects; land development; management of real estate properties; government involvement in public policy considerations of land use; legal and financial aspects of S&L real estate ventures. Member of the National Policy Forum's US Leadership in a Changing World Council. Author of a number of books, including Real Estate Investor's Deskbook; Institutional Real Estate Strategies and South Africa: Lost Opportunities; author of numerous articles. Former editor, Journal of RTC Real Estate. Courses include: "Real Estate Principles"; "Bermuda Law and Practice"; "African Business"; "Entertainment and Sports Law."

617.552.0412
francis.parker.1@bc.edu

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Alec Peck
Associate Professor, Department of Teacher Education, Special Education and Curriculum and Instruction
Lynch School of Education
B.A. University of San Francisco, M.S., Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University

Attention Deficit Disorder; special education; technology for people with disabilities; educational technology; rehabilitation; transit accessibility for the blind. Co-author of the books Access to Mass Transit for Blind and Visually Impaired Travelers and The Profession of Orientation and Mobility in the 1980s: The AFB Competency Study. Courses have included: "Management of the Behavior of Students with Severe Special Needs" and "Working with Families and Human Service Agencies."

617.552.3149
alec.peck.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/peck.html

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Joseph Pedulla
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Research, Measurement and Evaluation
Lynch School of Education
B.S. Tufts University, M.S. Northeastern University, Ph.D. Boston College

Educational testing in schools; statewide student testing programs; student assessment. Testing and public policy; alternative assessment techniques, especially their utilization in urban schools; teacher testing; college admission testing. Co-author of the book Minimal Competency Testing; author or co-author of numerous publications and specific reports on academic testing and assessment. Courses have included: "Classroom Assessment" and "Assessment and Test Construction."

617.552.0683
joseph.pedulla.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/pedulla.html

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Harold Petersen
Associate Professor, Economics Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. DePauw University, Ph.D. Brown University

Financial markets; the stock market; housing markets; regional economic growth; the Massachusetts economy; domestic economic policy; inflation and unemployment; politics and economics. Author or co-author of several articles, in addition to the book New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange: Its Role in the Marketing of Sugar. Faculty advisor to the Boston College Investment Club. Affiliations include the National Association of Forensic Economists and the Massachusetts Association of Assessing Officers. Courses have included: "Capital Theory and Finance" and "Business as a Calling."

617.552.4550
harold.petersen@bc.edu
http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec/Petersen.php

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Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes
Director, Center on Aging & Work
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Social Work
B.A. Tufts University, M.S.P. Boston College, Ph.D. Boston University

Olderworkers/baby boomers, flexible work options, aging, and work and family. She has conducted studies about workplace culture, supervisor-employee relationships, and the adoption of innovative employee policies. She founded the Sloan Work and Family Research Network which provides resources about working families to business leaders and state legislators as well as to academics around the world. She is a Research Fellow of the Work & Family Roundtable, a corporate membership group organized by the Boston College Center for Work & Family.

617-552-4033
pittcats@bc.edu
http://agingandwork.bc.edu/show_investigators_13

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   Zygmunt Plater
Professor, Law School
B.A. Princeton University; J.D Yale University; LL.M., S.J.D., University of Michigan.

Environmental law; legal aspects of environmental disasters; endangered species; land use issues, historic preservation, private property and public rights. One of the nation's leading environmental lawyers, Plater has handled national endangered species litigation -- including seven years spent litigating the case of the endangered snail darter fish vs. TVA's Tellico Dam up through the Supreme Court. He worked as chair of a legal task force for the State of Alaska responding to the Exxon-Valdez oil spill; was a consultant to plaintiffs in the Woburn toxic litigation, Anderson et al. v. W.R. Grace et al., which became the subject of the book and movie A Civil Action; has worked as a consultant on environmental and land use law initiatives in a number of foreign countries, and helped organize the first United Nations Conference on Individual Rights to be held in Africa. He is lead author of the national environmental law coursebook Environmental Law and Policy: Nature, Law, and Society (West). Courses have included: "Environmental Law and Current Politics."

617.552.4837
plater@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/platerz.html

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Stephen Pope
Professor, Theology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A., Gonzaga University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago

Roman Catholic social ethics; forgiveness and reconciliation; evolution and ethics; science and theology; moral theology and social ethics; meaning and interpretation of the Catholic preferential option for the poor; marriage and family; social and economic justice; the Church and politics; liberation theology; questions of ethics and human rights; war and peace; concern for the poor. Author of the books Human Evolution and Christian Ethics and The Evolution of Altruism and the Ordering of Love. Courses have included: "Prophets and Mystics"; "Science and Theological Ethics"; "The Ethics of St. Thomas Aquinas."

617.552.3892
stephen.pope@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/theology/faculty/spope.html

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Diana Pullin
Professor of Education Law and Public Policy
Coordinator, Joint Degree Program in Law and Education
Lynch School of Education (former dean)
B.A. Grinnell College; M.A., J.D., Ph.D. University of Iowa

Testing and the law; equity issues in testing; education law and policy; rights of students with disabilities; teacher performance assessment; public policy issues in education; professional education reform; Catholic schools; civil rights and education. Author of the book Special Education: A Manual for Advocates; co-author of several books, including Selling Students Short: Classroom Bargains and Educational Reform in the American High School and Educating One and All: Students with Disabilities and Standards-Based Reform. Author of book chapters, articles, law reports, bulletins, monographs and technical reports. Courses include: "Education Law and Public Policy."

617.552.8407
pullin@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/pullin.html

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Joseph Quinn
James P. McIntyre Professor, Economics Department,
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Amherst College; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Economics of aging; trends in retirement, Social Security and pensions; aging workforce; retirement of the baby boomers; how older workers are financially penalized for postponing retirement; economic status of the elderly. Former co-chair of the Technical Panel on Trends and Issues in Retirement Savings of the President's Social Security Advisory Council. Member of the Massachusetts Governor's Council on Economic Growth and Technology and Task Force on Tax Policy and Capital Formation; member of the Board of Governors, Foundation for International Studies on Social Security. Author or co-author of numerous articles, including "The Effect of Pensions on Labor Markets and Retirement", "New Paths to Retirement", "Criteria for Social Security Reform", "The Economic Status of the Elderly", "Employment and the Elderly"; "Economic Implications of an Aging Society"; "Retirement Trends and Patterns in the 1990s: The End of an Era?"; "Social Security: What Role for the Future?" and "The Future of Retirement." Courses include: "Aging and Social Policy."

617.552.2393
joseph.quinn@bc.edu
http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec/Quinn.php

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Larry Ritzman
Galligan Professor of Strategic and Operations Management
Operations & Strategic Management Department
Carroll School of Management
B.S., M.B.A., University of Akron; D.B.A. Michigan State University

Operations strategy; forecasting; process choice; competitive priorities; service sector
Operations; performance measures; total quality management; capacity and location decisions; layout; inventory positioning; inventory control systems; supplier relationships; scheduling systems. Former president of Decision Sciences Institute and recipient of its Distinguished Service Award in 1996. Co-editor of the book Disaggregation: Problems in Manufacturing and Service Organizations; co-author of the book Operations Management: Strategy and Analysis. Author or co-author of numerous publications and journal articles, including "Planned Lead Times in Multi-Stage Systems"; "Competitive Priorities: Measures and Relationships" and "Operations Strategy and the Environmental Effects on Performance." Serves in various editorial capacities for the Journal of Operations Management; Production and Operations Management and Managerial and Decision Economics. Courses include: "Operations and Competition"; "Operations Management: Strategy and Design Decisions"; "Managing Operations for Competitive Advantage."

617.552.0475
ritzman@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/csom/faculty/bios/ritzman.html

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Alan Rogers
Professor, History Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara

Early America, especially the American Revolution and US Constitution; murder and capital punishment in Massachusetts from 1630-present; analysis of the formation, organization and major decisions of the Supreme Court from 1788 to modern times, with emphasis on the court's relationship to social change; law and medicine in 19th century. He is chair of the Seminar in Early American History at the Massachusetts Historical Society, an officer of the Supreme Judicial Court Historical Society, and President of the New England Historical Association. Co-author of the books Boston: City on a Hill and This Momentous Affair: Massachusetts and the Ratification of the Constitution of the United States. Courses include: "Modern History: Europe and the Atlantic Community", "The Tradition of Law", "American Trials", "Capital Punishment and American Culture"; "American Constitutional History."

617.552.3782
alan.rogers@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/history/faculty/alphabetical/rogers_alan.html

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Robert Ross
Professor, Political Science Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Tufts University; M.A., Ph.D. Columbia University

Chinese history, politics and foreign policy; weapons and security issues in China and Asia; US-China relations; US policy toward China. US-Vietnamese relations; Vietnamese foreign policy; international political systems and decision-making between states; United Nations and world affairs; political and social issues; history of and conflicts in the Chinese-Indochinese region; US policy toward Asia; Cambodian war; US policy toward Cambodia; Indochina. Former Fulbright professor at the Chinese College of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, and member of the National Committee for US-China Relations. Author of the book Negotiating Cooperation: The United States and China 1969-1989; co-author of Great Wall and Empty Fortress: China's Search for Security; editor of and contributor to East Asia in Transition: Toward a New Regional Order, co-editor of and contributor to Engaging China: Management of an Emerging Power. Author of articles including "American China Policy and the Security of Asia." Courses include: "US-China Relations"; "The International Political System"; "Chinese Foreign Policy"; "Great and Local Powers in East Asia."

617.552.3259
robert.ross@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/polisci/facstaff/ross.html

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Robert Savage, Jr.
Co-director, Irish Studies Program
Adjunct Associate Professor, History Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Ph.D. Boston College

Irish political and cultural history; current events in Ireland and Northern Ireland; film and media in Ireland and Britain. Founder and curator of the Boston College Irish Film Series.  Co-director of the Boston College Irish Studies Program, which offers an interdisciplinary approach to the culture and society of Ireland. Author of the books Ireland in the New Century: Politics, Culture and Identity and Irish Television: the Political and Social Origins. Courses have included: "Unrest in Ireland", "Ireland Since the Famine", "19th Century Ireland," "Twentieth Century Ireland: A Political and Social History."

617.552.3966
savager@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/history/faculty/alphabetical/savage_robert.html

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Paul Schervish
Professor, Sociology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Director, Center on Wealth and Philanthropy (CWP)
B.A. University of Detroit; M.A. Northwestern University; M.Div. Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley; Ph.D. University of Wisconsin

Wealth and philanthropy; the effect of earning or inheriting wealth on personal goals, decision-making and self concept; the "swift rich" (such as lottery winners or new film stars); general cultural issues; general sociological issues including altruism and spirituality in society. Director of BC's Center on Wealth and Philanthropy, a multidisciplinary center specializing in research on the social and political implications of economic relations. Schervish directed the Study on Wealth and Philanthropy, an examination of the strategies of living and giving among 130 millionaires, the Bankers Trust Private Banking Wealth with Responsibility Study/2000, a study of 109 individuals with net worth in excess of $5 million regarding their charitable giving and volunteering, attitudes about social issues, socially responsible investing, trust and estate planning, and the transfer of values to heirs. With Havens, he published the landmark report "Millionaires and the Millennium: New Estimates of the Forthcoming Wealth Transfer and the Prospects for a Golden Age of Philanthropy", which estimates the wealth transfer over the next half-century to be between $41 trillion and $136 trillion. He also directed a multi-year, interdisciplinary study of Christmas, which addressed the social, cultural, psychological, spiritual and material aspects of American Christmas and its emulation in other countries. Schervish has published in the areas of philanthropy, the sociology of money, the sociology of wealth, labor markets, unemployment, biographical narrative, and sociology of religion. He is editor of and contributor to the book Wealth in Western Thought: The Case for and Against Riches; principal editor of Care and Community in Modern Society and principal author of Taking Giving Seriously and Gospels of Wealth: How the Rich Portray their Lives. Schervish also serves regularly as a speaker and consultant on how to surface and analyze the moral biographies of wealth holders, on the motivations for charitable giving, on the demographic patterns of wealth and charitable giving, and on the spirituality of financial life. Courses cover general sociology, social theory, the sociology of the inner life.

617.552.4040
paul.schervish@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/research/swri/about/staff/schervish/

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Fabio Schiantarelli
Professor, Economics Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.S. Universita Bocconi, Italy; M.S., Ph.D. London School of Economics

Macroeconomic policy; domestic monetary policy; the Italian economy; European Community; financial liberalization in less-developed countries. He has served as consultant on a number of projects to the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors/Division of International Finance. He was co-organizer of a conference on "International Perspectives on the Micro and Macro Implications of Financial Constraints" held in Italy. Co-author of numerous chapters and articles including "Monetary Instability, the Predictability of Prices and the Allocation of Investment", "Investment and Financial Constraints: A Switching Regression Approach for US Panel Data" and "Capital Market Imperfections Before and After Financial Liberalization: An Euler Equation Approach to Panel Data for Ecuadorian Firms." Courses include: "Macroeconomic Theory"; "Econometrics"; "Monetary Economics"; "Labor Economics."

617.552.4512
fabio.schiantarelli@bc.edu
http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec/Schiantarelli.php

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Kay Schlozman
J. Joseph Moakley Professor, Political Science Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago

American politics; political activism among Americans; citizens' voluntary activity in politics, charities and religion; women and politics; political parties and the electoral process; political behavior and public opinion; voter participation; special interest groups and lobbies. Co-developed the "Civic Voluntarism Model" to demonstrate the factors that foster participation. Co-author of the books Injury to Insult: Unemployment, Class and Political Response; Organized Interests and American Democracy and Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics. Editor of Elections in America. Winner of the American Political Science Association's Rowman and Littlefield Award for Innovative Teaching in Political Science. Courses have included: "Parties and Elections in America"; "The Citizen in American Democracy."

617.552.4174
kay.schlozman@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/polisci/facstaff/schlozman.html

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Juliet Schor
Professor, Sociology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts/Amherst

Consumerism; sustainable socety; trends in work and leisure, work and family; advertising and marketing to children. Schor is the author of books Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture; The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure; and The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting and the New Consumer. Schor teaches courses on consumer society, political economy, and gender. She is a founding member of the Center for a New American Dream, an organization devoted to making U.S. lifestyles more sustainable.

617.552.4056
juliet.schor@bc.edu
http://www2.bc.edu/%7Eschorj/

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Kenneth Schwartz
Associate Professor, Accounting Department
Carroll School of Management
B.S., M.S. University of Rhode Island; Ph.D. Syracuse University

Financial Accounting Standards Board and Securities and Exchange Commission rules; corporate governance; corporate bankruptcy, reorganization and liquidation; business restructuring; executive compensation; auditing; financial reporting; capital markets; financial statement analysis. Author or co-author of articles in publications such as Journal of Accounting Education, Journal of Financial Economics and The Accounting Review. Courses have included: "Financial Accounting"; "Managerial Accounting"; "Corporate Reporting"; "Financial Statement Analysis"; "Accounting Theory."

617.552.3942
kenneth.schwartz@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/csom/faculty/bios/schwartz.html

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Lawrence T. Scott
Professor, Chemistry Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Princeton University; Ph.D. Harvard University

Chemistry as it relates to environmental concerns; new materials from "Buckyballs" (or fullerenes). Has published more than 100 research papers in scientific journals. Former member of the editorial advisory board for the Journal of Organic Chemistry. Courses include: "Principles of Modern Chemistry"; "Organic Chemistry Seminar."

617.552.8024
lawrence.scott@bc.edu
http://chemserv.bc.edu/faculty/scott.html

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Kathleen Seiders 
Associate Professor
Carroll School of Management
PhD Texas A&M University

Retailing, marketing, service convenience, services marketing, food marketing. Her research has been published in Journal of Marketing and Journal of Retailing, among others. Seiders has been quoted in the New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Economist, Women's Wear Daily, and the Boston Globe, among other outlets. She has been a guest on BBC Radio, National Public Radio's Marketplace and All Things Considered, CBS This Morning, CBS 60 Minutes, and CNBC news.

617.552.0425
seiders@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/csom/faculty/bios/seiders.html

    

Thomas Seyfried
Professor, Biology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. St. Francis College; M.S. Illinois State University; Ph.D. University of Illinois

Epilepsy; brain tumors; genetics of epilepsy in mice [was the first to identify specific sites on the mouse genome related to epilepsy]; dietary therapies for brain tumors and epilepsy; role and potential role of certain neurochemicals in the development of brain tumors in mice. Author of numerous articles and book chapters, including "Perspectives on brain tumor formation involving macrophages, glia, and neural stem cells"; "Enhanced Aspartate Release Related to Epilepsy in (EL) Mice," and "Influence of Host Cell Infiltration on the Glycolipid Content of Mouse Brain Tumors." Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Neurochemistry. Courses include: "Neurogenetics"; "Developmental Neurobiology."

617.552.3563
thomas.seyfried@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/biology/facadmin/seyfried.html

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Francine Sherman
Clinical Professor, Law School
Director, Juvenile Rights Advocacy Project
B.A. University of Missouri; J.D. Boston College

Juvenile justice; treatment of violent offenders as juveniles or adults; juvenile violence; children's rights; child abuse and neglect. Author or co-author of articles including "Transforming Social Inquiry, Transforming Social Action: New Paradigms for Crossing the Theory/Practice Divide in Universities and Communities"; "What's in a Name? Runaway Girls Pose Challenges for the Justice System"; "Thoughts on a Contextual View of Juvenile Justice Reform Drawn from Narratives of Youth" and "Struggling for a Future: Juvenile Violence/Juvenile Justice." Directs the Juvenile Rights Advocacy Project at BC Law School. Appointed to the advisory board of the New England Juvenile Defender Center and the board of directors of the Children's Law Center of Massachusetts. Courses have included: "Juvenile Justice."

617.552.4382
francine.sherman@bc.edu

http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/shermanf.html

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Mary Sherman
Adjunct Faculty, Fine Arts Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Boston College, M.F.A. New York University

Contemporary art; current art exhibits; art criticism. Art critic for a number of newspapers and fine arts publications. Member of the International Association of Art Critics. Her artwork has appeared in numerous individual and selected group exhibitions across the United States. Courses include: "Studio Arts Foundation (Drawing)"; "Painting"; "Figure Drawing."

617.552.8527
mary.sherman@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/finearts/faculty/studioarts/sherman.html

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Judith Shindul-Rothschild
Associate Professor, Psychiatric/Mental Health Department
Connell School of Nursing
B.S. Boston College; M.S.N Yale University; Ph.D. Boston College

Health care policy and finance; nursing labor issues and job market; managed care; use of unlicensed assistive personnel in hospitals; consumers' health care rights; health care reform. Registered nurse and author or co-author of numerous articles and opinion pieces on managed care and health care reform. Served on several committees on health care financing for the Massachusetts Nurses Association and American Nurses Association. Conducted a survey of Massachusetts registered nurses which indicated a decrease in the quality of care in hospitals from 1989 to 1994, under managed care financing. Recipient of the 1999 Excellence in Academic Nursing Education Award, District V, Massachusetts Nurses Association. Appointed member of the American Nurses Association's expert panel on Principles for Staffing in Acute Care Hospitals. Courses include "Systems of Psychotherapy"; "Advanced Psychopharmacology."

617.552.4270
judith.shindul-rothschild@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/son/faculty/shindulrothschild.html

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Dennis Shirley
Professor, Department of Teacher Education, Special Education and Curriculum and Instruction
Lynch School of Education
B.A. University of Virginia, M.A. New School for Social Research; Ed.D. Harvard University

School reform; urban schools, teacher education, politics and history of education. Principal investigator and director of the Massachusetts Coalition for Teacher Quality and Student Achievement, whose work is to enhance the preparation of teachers whose work will focus on the improvement of urban education. Author of the books Organizing the Valley: Community Empowerment and School Reform in South Texas; Community Organizing for Urban School Reform and The Politics of Progressive Education: The Odenwaldschule in Nazi Germany. Courses include "Social Contexts of Education."

617.552.4202
dennis.shirley@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/shirley.html

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Maxim D. Shrayer
Professor, Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures Department; English Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Brown University; M.A. Rutgers University; M.A., M.Phil. Yale University;
Ph.D. Yale University

Modern Russian and Soviet literature and culture; modern Jewish literature in Diaspora; emigration and identity; literary translation; creative writing. A bilingual poet, prose writer, and translator, Shrayer was born in Moscow. He spent nine years as a refusenik with his family and immigrated to the United States in 1987. Founding co-director of Boston College's Jewish Studies Program. His books include The World of Nabokov’s Stories, Russian Poet/Soviet Jew, Genrikh Sapgir: An Avant-Garde Classic, and Waiting for America: A Story of Emigration, a literary memoir. Shrayer’s Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature won the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in East European Studies. He has been the recipient of a number of fellowships, including those from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Bogliasco Foundation. Courses have included: "Exile and Literature"; "Tolstoy and Dostoevsky"; "Nabokov"; "Jewish Writers in Russia and America"; "Classics of Russian Literature" and "Twentieth-Century Russian Literature."

617.552.3911
shrayerm@bc.edu
http://fmwww.bc.edu/SL-V/ShrayerM.html

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James Skehan, SJ
Professor Emeritus, Geology and Geophysics Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A., M.A. Boston College; M.A., Ph.D. Harvard University

Regional geology and tectonics of New England; the margins of the North Atlantic; metamorphic coal basins; the applications of geology to environmental and engineering projects; structural geology, especially in coal and anthracite basins, and plate tectonic modeling in four specific geographic areas–the eastern seaboard of North America, the southern British Isles, western Europe and northwest Africa. Creationism, notably the relationship between modern science and the Book of Genesis (including Creationism vs. evolution); Ignatian spirituality. Author of the books Modern Science and the Book of Genesis and the recently-published Roadside Geology of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. Former director of Boston College's Weston Observatory, an interdisciplinary research facility in the fields of geophysics, geology, energy and environmental sciences.

617.552.8312
skehan@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/geo/people/faculty/skehan.html

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Peter Skerry
Professor, Political Science Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Ph.D. Harvard University

Immigration; racial and ethnic politics. He is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington as well as a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. His writings have appeared in publications such as Society; Publius; The Journal of Policy History; The New Republic; Slate; The Public Interest; National Review; The New York Times; The Los Angeles Times; The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. He is the author of the books, Counting on the Census? Race, Group Identity, and the Evasion of Politics and Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority, which was awarded the 1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Courses have included: "Urban Politics in 21st-Century America," "Immigration: Processes, Politics, and Policies," and "Race and Ethnicity in the Administrative State."

617-552-3112
peter.skerry@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/polisci/facstaff/skerry.html 

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Gerald Smith
Associate Professor, Marketing Department
Carroll School of Management
B.A. Brandeis University; M.B.A. Harvard University; D.B.A. Boston University

Pricing and product management; marketing communication strategies, advertising; brands and branding; consumer behavior. Senior Fellow at the Strategic Pricing Group, Boston. Published articles include: "Prior Knowledge and the Effect of Suggested Frames of Reference in Advertising"; "The Impact of Direct Marketing Appeals on Charitable Marketing Effectiveness," and "Managerial Pricing Orientation: The Process of Making Pricing Decisions." A member of the national advisory board of the Pricing Institute of the Institute for International Research, and of the editorial boards of Marketing Management and the Journal of Advertising Research. Courses have included: "Marketing Communication and Promotion"; "Pricing Strategy and Policy"; "Marketing Operations Management"; "Consumer Behavior."

617.552.0427
gerald.smith@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/csom/faculty/bios/smith-g.html

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Billy Soo
Associate Professor, Accounting Department
Carroll School of Management
B.S. University of the Philippines; M.S. Northwestern University; Ph.D. Northwestern University

Impact of financial accounting standards and federal securities regulations on capital markets, managerial incentives and disclosure policies; public accounting industry; Securities and Exchange Commission disclosure regulations. Author or co-author of numerous publications, including "The Relevance of Form 8-K Reports"; "Managerial Response to Mandatory Accounting Principles"; "Evidence of Regulatory Noncompliance with SEC Disclosure Rules on Auditor Changes"; "Assessing the Quality of Earnings," and "Accounting for the Multinational Firm: Is the Translation Process Valued by the Stock Market?" Courses include: 'Financial Statement Analysis"; "Financial Accounting"; "Intermediate Cost and Financial Accounting."

617.552.3963
billy.soo@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/csom/faculty/bios/soo.html

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Eve Spangler
Associate Professor, Sociology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Brooklyn College; M.A. Yale University; Ph.D. University of Massachusetts/Amherst

Work and inequality; occupational health and safety, particularly for women workers. Occupational and environmental health hazards; policies in Eastern Europe and South Africa; sexual harassment as a work-life issue; work and inequality; women's stake in controlling their lives; the public's concern with environmental health. Courses include: "Social Theory" and "Inequality in America."

617.554.4146
eve.spangler@bc.edu
http://www2.bc.edu/~spangler/Homepage(Frames).html

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Elizabeth Sparks
Associate Professor, Department of Counseling, Developmental Psychology, Research Methods
Lynch School of Education
B.A. Wellesley College; M.Ed. Columbia University; Ph.D. Boston College

Issues related to youth, notably African American youth, and violence; youth and community-based violence; inner-city schoolchildren as victims/witnesses of violence; achievement in urban schools; preparing teachers and administrators for work in the "war zone" of inner-city schools; training students to be more aware of multicultural/diversity issues; sociopolitical conditions that impact individuals from ethnic and non-ethnic minority groups in the US; psychopathology and mental illness treatment. Author of articles and chapters including "Family Diversity and Family Policy"; The Integration of Feminism and Multiculturalism: Ethical Dilemmas at the Border"; "Human Rights Violations in the Inner-City: Implications for Moral Educators"; "The Role of Mother in the Black Cultural Context: A New Definition of Black Womanhood," and "The Challenges Facing Community Health Centers in the 1990's: A Voice From the Inner City." Courses include: "Multicultural Issues in Counseling"; "Psychopathology"; "Seminar in Counseling Supervision and Consultation."

617.552.0698
elizabeth.sparks@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/sparks.html

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Richard Spinello
Associate Research Professor
Carroll School of Management
B.A. Boston College; M.A., Ph.D. Fordham University; M.B.A. Boston College

Cyber-ethics (computer and information technology): privacy; intellectual property; security; free speech; business, social and ethical issues and the Internet. Author of the books Cyberethics: Morality and Law in Cyberspace; Corporate Instinct: Building a Knowing Enterprise for the 21st Century; Case Studies in Information and Computer Ethics; and Ethical Aspects of Information Technology. Author of numerous articles, including "Governing and Regulating the Internet"; "The End of Privacy"; "Human Rights and World Markets" and "Ethics and Leadership on Wall Street." Courses include: "Management Operations"; "Administrative Strategy and Policy."

617.552.1189
richard.spinello@bc.edu

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Philip Strahan
John L. Collins S.J. Chair in Finance
Carroll School of Management

His areas of expertise include the effects of deregulation on the structure and efficiency of the banking industry, the impact of consolidation on bank lending, the political economy of banking deregulation, and risk management practices in banking. He spent seven years in the Research and Market Analysis Group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

617-552-6430
philip.strahan.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/csom/faculty/bios/strahan.html

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Robert Taggart, Jr.
Professor, Finance Department
Carroll School of Management
B.A. Amherst College, S.M., Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Corporate finance and its application to financial institutions and other regulated industries; capital markets and financial innovation; debt and equity financing by US corporations; innovations in security design. Has served as president and trustee of the Financial Management Association. Author of the books Managing Investment: 25 Keys to Profitable Capital Investment and Quantitative Analysis for Investment Management. Former economist in the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's research department. Courses have included: "Corporate Finance"; "Economics of Regulation"; "Financial Institutions"; "Banking, Financial Intermediaries and Monetary Policy"; "Money and Capital Markets"; "Mergers and Acquisitions"; "International Finance."

617.552.4113
robert.taggart@bc.edu

http://www.bc.edu/schools/csom/faculty/bios/taggart.html

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Frank F. Taylor
Associate Professor, History Department
College of Arts & Sciences 
B.A., M.A. University of the West Indies; Ph.D. University of Geneva

Economic, social, political and diplomatic history of the Caribbean; history of the African diaspora; black social and political thought; tourism in the Third World; Cuban politics and foreign policy; African-American history. Author of the book To Hell with Paradise: A History of the Jamaica Tourist Industry. Courses have included: "Revolutionary Cuba"; "Slave Societies in Caribbean and Latin America"

617.552.3239
frank.taylor@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/history/faculty/alphabetical/taylor_frank.html

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Joseph Tecce
Associate Professor, Psychology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Bowdoin College; M.A., Ph.D. Catholic University of America

General psychological issues; fears and phobias; obsessions and compulsions; motivations and behavior; stress management; body language; meditation; Alzheimer's disease and aging; seasonal affective disorder. Developed the "hedonia hypothesis," which identifies an increased eye blink rate as an indicator of increased stress. He also has used it to analyze the stress levels of politicians and other high-profile individuals during public addresses, interviews or debates. Collaborated with two other Boston College faculty members on the development of "EagleEyes," a device which controls computers via eye movements that is currently being used to assist the disabled. Courses have included: "The Psychology of Mental Disorders"; "Health Psychology."

617.552.4121
joseph.tecce@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/psych/faculty_staff/tecce.html

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Richard Tresch
Professor, Economics Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A., Williams College; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fiscal economics; public sector; government spending and tax issues–particularly the level and composition of spending and taxes rather than the macroeconomic effects of spending and tax policy; state/local spending; tax issues; welfare economics. Past recipient of the Massachusetts Professor of the Year title awarded by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Education. Author of several textbooks, including Principles of Economics and Public Finance: A Normative Theory. Courses include: Principles of Economics, Public Finance, Welfare Economics

617.552.3671
richard.tresch@bc.edu
http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec/Tresch.php

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Judith A. Vessey
Carroll Professor
Connell School of Nursing
B.S.N. Goshen College
M.S.N. and Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
M.B.A. Johns Hopkins University

Bullying and teasing, particularly among middle school-aged children; cyber bulling; childhood pain; children with chronic conditions; economics and business practices of health care. Prof. Vessey is a certified pediatric nurse practitioner and a leading nurse researcher in the field of developmental pediatrics with a specialty in childhood pain. She co-developed CATS, Child-Adolescent Teasing Scale, to identify targets of chronic bullying. Courses have included: "Perspectives in Managed Health Care."

617.552.8817
vessey@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/son/faculty/carroll.html

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Sandra Waddock
Professor, Operations & Strategic Management Department
Carroll School of Management
B.A. Northeastern University; M.A. Boston College; M.B.A., D.B.A. Boston University

Corporate responsibility and performance; public/private partnership; corporate citizenship; business involvement in school reform; business-society relations; corporate social policy; leadership. Author of the books Leading Corporate Citizens: Vision, Values, Value Added and Not by Schools Alone: Sharing Responsibility for America's Education Reform. Her papers on corporate citizenship and responsibility have appeared in The Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Executive, Strategic Management Journal, and Business & Society, and The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, among others. Courses have include: "Social Issues in Management"; "Leadership for Change"; "Global Competitiveness."

617.552.0477
sandra.waddock@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/csom/faculty/bios/waddock.html

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Mary Walsh
Daniel E. Kearns Professor of Education and Innovative Leadership, Department of Counseling, Developmental Psychology, Research Methods
Director, Center for Child, Family and Community Partnerships
Lynch School of Education
B.A. Catholic University; M.A., Ph.D. Clark University

Developmental conceptions of illness (including AIDS) across the life-span; psychosocial functioning of homeless mothers and children; interprofessional collaboration/integrated services in urban schools and agencies. A leader of BC's innovative Gardner Extended Services School Project, which aims to join diverse professions in an effort to meet the social, educational, health and other needs of urban children and their families in school settings. Director of the Boston College Center for Child, Family and Community Partnerships. Author of the award-winning book Moving to Nowhere: Children's Stories of Homelessness, which chronicles 20 children's accounts of living in shelters due to poverty, family breakdown or parental substance abuse. Author of a number of publications on the developmental and socioemotional needs of homeless infants and preschoolers and on high school and college students' understanding, information and misconceptions of AIDS."

617.552.8973
mary.walsh.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/walsh.html

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Thomas Wangler
Associate Professor, Theology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.S., LeMoyne College; M.A. Ph.D., Marquette University

Major religious traditions and the ritual, faith, theology and ethical traditions that have had significant cultural impact in the US; history and culture of American Catholicism; beliefs and lifestyles of American Catholics from 18th century to present; American Catholic traditions expressed in catechisms, hymnals, liturgical, devotional and spiritual books, as well as sermons, church architecture and decoration, and heroic lifestyles; 20th century Boston Catholic religious life and traditions. Publications include "The First American Catholic Catechism" and "American Catholic Expansionism: 1886-1894." Co-author of "The Religious Life of Boston Catholics in the Era of William Cardinal O'Connell." Courses ihave ncluded: "A Religious History of American Catholicism"; "Religion in the United States."

617.552.3893
thomas.wangler@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/theology/faculty/twangler.html

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John Williamson
Professor, Sociology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ph.D. Harvard University

Comparative social welfare policies, particularly those dealing with the elderly, including
income inequality, welfare state spending levels, physical quality of life, life expectancy, infant mortality, suicide rates, and homicide rates; the debate over generational equity and justice; US Social Security policy; privatization of Social Security; comparative social security systems; pension policies; old-age security policies in Third World nations; South American old-age security policies; social, economic, and political determinants of cross-national differences in life expectancy. Author, co-author or editor of books including The Generational Equity Debate; The Senior Rights Movement: Framing the Policy Debate in America; Age, Class, Politics, and the Welfare State; Growing Old: The Social Problems of Aging; Politics of Aging: Power and Policy; and Old-Age Security in Comparative Perspective. Author of numerous articles and book chapters, including "Should Women Support the Privatization of Social Security?" and "Undermining Social Security's Basic Objectives." Courses include: "Inequality in American Society"; "Aging and Society"; "Social Gerontology"; "Death and Dying."

617.552.8530
john.williamson@bc.edu
http://agingandwork.bc.edu/show_investigators_33"

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G. Peter Wilson
Joseph L. Sweeney Professor of Accounting
Carroll School of Management
B.A., M.S. Florida Atlantic University; M.S., Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University

Taxes and economic behavior; financial statement analysis; the role of information in capital markets. A member of the Financial Executives Institute and former member of the Accounting Education Change Commission. He has served on the Editorial Boards of The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, The Financial Officer's Tax and Management Report, and Issues in Accounting Education.

617.552.1963
peter.wilson.2@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/csom/faculty/bios/wilson.html

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Ellen Winner
Professor, Psychology Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Radcliffe College; Ph.D. Harvard University

Gifted children; children and language, art and humor; children's understanding of figurative language; the social function of irony; the effect of handedness on development; visual-spatial abilities in art, math and science majors (notably the effects of sex, family, handedness and spatial experience). Psychology of the arts; arts education; metaphor and irony; theory of mind; development of talents. Author of the books Invented Worlds: The Psychology of the Arts; The Point of Words: Children's Understanding of Metaphor and Irony; and Gifted Children: Myths and Realities. Courses have included: "Psychology of Art and Creativity"; "Development of Giftedness and Creativity."

617.552.4118
ellen.winner@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/psych/faculty_staff/winner.html

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Barbara Wolfe
Professor, Psychiatric/Mental Health Department
Connell School of Nursing
B.S.N. Syracuse University
M.S.N. Yale University
Ph.D. Boston College

Symptoms, risk factors for, and psychobiology of eating disorders (anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa). She is co-author of the article "Caring for the hospitalized patient with an eating disorder." She has been published in Neuropsychopharmacology and International Journal of Eating Disorders.

617.552.1804
barbara.wolfe.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/son/faculty/wolfe.html

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Alan Wolfe
Professor, Political Science Department
Director, Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life
B.S. Temple University, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

Issues of religion and morality as they relate to the most pressing issues facing the nation; the relationship between religion and public policy. Director of BC's Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life. Renowned social scientist, author and teacher, considered among the most prominent public intellectuals in the United States. Author/editor of the books including Return to Greatness: How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What it Needs to Do to Recover It; The Transformation of American Religion: How We actually Practice our Faith; Moral Freedom: The Search for Virtue in a World of Choice; One Nation After All, which received international acclaim for its study of middle class opinions on issues ranging from God and family to racism and homosexuality; Marginalized in the Middle, and Whose Keeper: Social Science and Moral Obligation, co-winner of the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Both One Nation, After All and Moral Freedom were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. A contributing editor of The New Republic and The Wilson Quarterly, and frequent contributor to Commonweal, The New York Times, Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly and The Washington Post, among other publications.

617.552.1862
alan.wolfe.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/centers/boisi/about/meet_the_staff/alan_wolfe_bio.html

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Robin Wood
Associate Professor
Connell School of Nursing

Breast cancer screening and early detection: intervention programs with high-risk populations (older women); new media technology: computer video applications; Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR); consulting practice. Wood developed breast health kits for women over 60 to encourage breast self-exams and mammogram screenings. President of HealthWood, a health education consulting organization.

robin.wood@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/son/faculty/wood.html

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Arnold Wright
Andersen Professor of Accounting, Accounting Department
Carroll School of Management
B.S. University of Colorado: M.B.A., Ph.D., University of Southern California

Auditing: risk assessment and planning; international accounting standards/reporting. Author or co-author of numerous publications, including "Student Perspectives of Research in Accounting"; "An Exploratory Study of Auditor Evidential Planning Judgments," and "Accelerated Product Introductions and Emerging Managerial Accounting Perspectives: Implications for Marketing Managers in the Technology Sector." Past president, American Accounting Association Auditing Section. Served on the editorial boards of Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory; International Journal of Auditing; The Accounting Review, and Advances in Accounting. Co-editor of the book Auditing Practice, Research and Education: A Productive Collaboration. Courses have included: "Auditing Systems"; "Cost Accounting"; "Financial and Managerial Accounting"; "Accounting Principles and Problems."

617.552.0876
wrightar@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/csom/faculty/bios/wright.html

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Alfred Yen
Professor, Law School
B.S., M.S., Stanford University; J.D. Harvard University

Intellectual property; Internet, technology and law; copyright; Affirmative Action; Asian-American issues; Supreme Court appointments. Served as counsel of record/lead author for an amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court on behalf of 12 copyright scholars in the case of Campbell v.Acuff-Rose Music Publishing Co. Serves on the Intellectual Property Section of the American Bar Association and editorial board member for the Journal of Legal Education. Courses have included: "Copyright"; "Intellectual Property Seminar."

617.552.4395
alfred.yen@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/yena.html

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