Welcome Additions
Martin A. Summers
Before arriving at Boston College, Assoc. Prof. Mark Bradshaw (CSOM) taught at the universities of Chicago, Michigan and Georgia and Harvard University, in addition to working as an auditor at Arthur Andersen & Co. He earned his doctorate from Michigan and remains a certified public accountant. Author of the book Analysis, Lies and Statistics: Cutting through the Hype in Corporate Earnings Announcements, Bradshaw is a popular speaker, most recently presenting at seminars at Indiana University, University of British Columbia and the University of Chicago. His current research focuses on differential target price forecasting and long-term forecasting.
Andrew Beauchamp
Asst. Prof. Andrew Beauchamp (Economics), who earned his doctoral degree from Duke University this year, pursues research in such areas as applied microeconomics, labor economics and industrial organization, and currently teaches Graduate Labor Economics. While at Duke, he conducted an undergraduate seminar, “The Economics of Vice: Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll,” was named a Bass Endowed Instructor, and presented “Competing for the Opposite Sex” to the International Econometric Society, of which he is a member.
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Usha Tummala-Narra
Asst. Prof. Usha Tummala-Narra (Psychology), a licensed psychologist in Massachusetts and Michigan, studies multicultural psychology, psychological trauma, ethnic and racial discrimination among immigrant communities, and the role race and ethnicity in the psychotherapeutic process. Prior to joining the faculty at Boston College, Tummala-Narra was director of integrative research at the Michigan School of Professional Psychology and a member of the clinical faculty at the University of Detroit Mercy. She earned a doctorate from Michigan State University and completed pre- and post-doctoral internship and fellowships through Harvard Medical School. She has published work in the American Journal of Psychoanalysis and American Journal of Community Psychology.
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Nancy Allen
A certified adult nurse practitioner, Asst. Prof. Nancy Allen (CSON) currently practices endocrinology at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield. With a doctorate from the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester and a postdoctoral certificate from Yale, Allen researches use of technology in counseling interventions to change physical activity behavior in individuals with Type 2 diabetes. Her current work, funded by the National Institute of Nursing, explores ways to increase activity levels of women with Type 2 diabetes through continuous glucose monitor feedback, problem-solving
and physical activity counseling.
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Hugh P. Cam
Asst. Prof. Hugh P. Cam (Biology) is focused on the small: studying and teaching the latest ways to decipher genome sequences. A graduate of Harvard University’s Molecular Biology PhD program, Cam’s fields of interest include epigenetics, functional genomics, gene regulatory networks and molecular mechanisms of genome plasticity. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the NYU School of Medicine and at the Center for Cancer research at NCI/NIH. Previously published in Nature and Cell, Cam is currently researching factors and mechanisms that allow cells to maintain their overall epigenetic profiles when stressed.
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Martin A. Summers
Assoc. Prof. Martin A. Summers (History), who teaches classes in history and the African and African Diaspora Studies Program, brings a unique focus on race and mental illness. His current research work examines the social and cultural history of medicine at the federal mental hospital in Washington, DC, as a case study to explore the intersections of racial formations, medical and cultural understandings of insanity, and the exercise of institutional power. His other research topics include African-American intellectual and cultural history, gender and masculinity, and race and sexuality. Summers holds degrees from Rutgers University and Hampton Institute in Virginia who received his doctorate in history from Rutgers University.
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Spencer Harrison
Asst. Prof. Spencer Harrison (CSOM), a member of the Organization Studies Department, looks at the role individual vitality plays within with workplace. He uses two unique lenses into the subject: the energizing force of individual curiosity within an organization, and individual organizational connections, particularly how they form from passion and ideology. Harrison earned his doctorate in business administration from Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business. He has worked as a consultant and instructional designer for Franklin Covey and as a change consultant for Maxcomm Inc.
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Erkurt Sonmez
Operations and Strategic Management faculty member Asst. Prof. Erkut Sonmez (CSOM) uses models and theoretical tools to examine decision-making by individuals and organizations, focusing on applications in the areas of energy, finance and banking and the pharmaceuticals industry. He employs tools such as Queuing Theory, a quantitative study of waiting in lines, and Stochastic optimization, which takes into account random elements of data used in mathematical efforts to make the best choice. A native of Turkey, Sonmez earned a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering at Middle East Technical University in Ankara and a doctorate in Operations Management from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.
Lian Fen Lee
Asst. Prof. Lian Fen Lee (CSOM), who is on the Accounting faculty, pursues research in managerial incentives, financial reporting choices and the economic impact of accounting information. She has taught classes on the subjects of financial accounting, financial statement analysis and managerial accounting. A native of Singapore, Lee studied at Nanyang Technological University before earning her PhD at the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business, where she was one of 10 doctoral students from across the country to receive the Deloitte Foundation’s Doctoral Fellowship Award for her dissertation project.
Scott Fulford
Asst. Prof. Scott Fulford (Economics), who earned his doctorate from Princeton University last year, has a joint appointment in the International Studies Program. He examines changes in access to financial markets in developing countries, particularly in India, and how financial access affects poverty, fertility and education. He is the co-author of United States Government Debt and International
Financial Adjustment. Fulford is currently teaching a course on development policy in which he asks students to select a particular program in a developing country, evaluate its effectiveness and recommend whether it should be funded.
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Lauri Johnson
Assoc. Prof. Lauri Johnson (LSOE) is a former administrator with the New York City Board of Education, specializing in professional development on issues of diversity, and taught for 10 years in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Johnson’s research interests include how white educators conceptualize race, school district policies that promote educational equity, historical and contemporary studies of community activism in urban school reform, and culturally responsive leadership in international contexts. She has published articles in numerous journal articles and co-authored three books, including Multicultural Policies in Canada and the United States, which won the 2008 American Educational Studies Association Critics Choice Award.
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Andrea Staiti
Asst. Prof. Andrea Staiti (Philosophy), a native of Italy, is conducting research on Edmund Husserl’s idea of a scientific philosophy and its importance in the current philosophical debate. This academic year he is offering a graduate seminar on Husserl’s seminal text, Ideen II (Ideas II), as well as an elective course on 19th and 20th century philosophy, and he also teaches in the Perspectives in Western Culture Program. Staiti received his doctorate from Albert Ludwigs Universität in Germany, and his dissertation on Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology will be published in early 2010. He has presented his work at several international conferences in Germany, Finland and France, among other countries.
Sara Moorman
Asst. Prof. Sara Moorman (Sociology) pursues research on older persons’ health and well-being in long-term marriage and other close personal relationships. She has written about women’s romantic relationships following widowhood and about sexual frequency among older married couples. Her doctoral dissertation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison addressed older adults’ perception of having been
understood by the spouse following discussion of end-of-life, preferences regarding the spouse’s involvement in medical decision making, and concern about burdening the spouse while dying. She is teaching the courses Aging and Society and Social Gerontology.
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Zhipeng Zhang
Asst. Prof. Zhipeng Zhang (CSOM), a member of the Carroll School of Management Finance Department faculty, earned a doctorate in finance from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he was also a graduate research assistant and instructor. As a high school student in his native China, he won a silver medal in the 1999 international physics Olympics. Zhang has broad research interests in corporate finance and financial institutions, including distressed firm restructuring, bankruptcy and liquidation, capital structure, banking, and credit risk. His ongoing research projects study determinants of default recovery rates, strategic bankruptcy decisions, and the incremental financing choices of REITs.
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Heather Rowan-Kenyon
Asst. Prof. Heather Rowan-Kenyon (LSOE) specializes in a field of key interest to families of college-age students: college access and student success. Rowan-Kenyon, who taught for three years in the Student Affairs Practice in Higher Education Program at the University of Virginia, earned a doctorate in education policy and leadership from the University of Maryland. A 1995 graduate of Scranton University, where she majored in secondary education, Rowan-Kenyon also holds a master’s in college student personnel from Bowling Green State University. A former administrator with the Office of Student Conduct at Maryland, Rowan-Kenyon won an Emerging Scholar Award from the American College Personnel Association in 2008.
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Paulo Barrozo
Asst. Prof. Paulo Barrozo (Law) was among a group of experts who made a presentation to the Inter-American Commission on the right of children without parents to grow up in a nurturing family. The testimony developed out of Barrozo’s expertise in the fields of international and comparative law, constitutional criminal justice, criminal law and jurisprudence. Barrozo, who holds graduate degrees from the Rio de Janeiro University Research Institute and Harvard Law School, where he was a 10-time recipient of the distinction in Teaching Award and the first recipient of the annual The Stanley Hoffman Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
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Sean MacEvoy
An expert in the study of neuroscience, Asst. Prof. Sean MacEvoy (Psychology) was a postdoctoral fellow for three years at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. MacEvoy holds a doctorate in neuroscience from Brown University, where he received the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Procedural Fellowship, and studied as a postdoctoral fellow in the Duke University Medical Center’s Department of Neurobiology. He has done extensive research in the fields of vision and perception.
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Melissa Sutherland
A former practitioner at an STD clinic in New York, Asst. Prof. Melissa Sutherland (CSON) teaches and does research on intimate partner violence, STDs/HIV and health consequences of violence. She completed her doctoral dissertation at the University of Virginia in 2008, researching lifetime violence, dissociative experiences and safer sex practices in a sample of women. Sutherland also worked as a maternal/child nurse and a community health nurse before studying for a master’s degree in community health nursing at Binghamton University. She is a graduate of Cornell University.
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Jerome Taillard
Instr. Jerome Taillard (CSOM), who teaches corporate finance, risk management and international finance, has served as an consultant to one of the largest Swiss online brokerage firms, where he assessed trading behavior and client performance. Taillard holds a graduate degree in economics from the Study Center in Gerzensee, Switzerland, and an undergraduate diploma in mathematics applied to finance from the University of Neuchatel. He is on track to receive his doctorate in finance from the Ohio State University this year. Taillard has taught international finance at the Fisher College of Business and served as a teaching assistant at both the graduate and undergraduate level for US and foreign institutions.
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—Reid Oslin, Sean Smith, Ed Hayward and Melissa Beecher