2010 Newsletter - Saint Leo University

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Saint Leo University
School Of Arts & Sciences
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Dean’s Report
2010
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S a i n t
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School of Arts & Sciences
Dean’s Report 2010
Teaching
Marilyn Mallue, Ph.D.
Scholarship
Astrid Vicas, Ph.D.
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Kurt Van Wilt, Ph.D.
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Academic Journals – 2010...... 8
London, Paris, and Rome...... 16
Service
Experiencing “Immersion” Learning
Dr. Miller’s Rainforest
Adventures.............................. 10
Morgan Mander ’06................. 12
The Honors Program............ 18
Passing the Baton
She was told it couldn’t be done.
Celebrating Black History..... 19
Sabrina Green, Ph.D. ’97....... 14
About the School of
Arts & Sciences..................... 20
An Outstanding Graduate
International Research......... 15
Consortium on the Diaconate
Faculty Publications &
Conference Presentations...... 22
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disability, or veteran status in administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship
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A Message from the Dean
As a diverse and eclectic school serving the entire university, the School of
Arts and Sciences offers 21 undergraduate majors, a graduate program in
theology, the university’s honors program, and the university’s general
education program: LINK (Learning INterdisciplinary Knowledge).
Employing 51 dedicated full-time faculty members and a team of
experienced adjunct faculty and staff, the school serves students from
their first-year to their graduate studies, offering student-centered,
innovative curricula for both traditional on-ground classes and online
courses, reaching students through the Center for Online Learning and
at our military and civilian centers.
In the School of Arts and Sciences, we continue to believe that a strong liberal arts foundation
informs and deepens our students’ educational experiences. The study of the natural and social
sciences, the humanities, and the fine arts creates in students an appreciation for enduring
knowledge while preparing them to be interdisciplinary thinkers to take their place in a
complex world.
As you read our annual report, you will find a common theme: learning takes place in and out of
the classroom. Whether students are enrolled in our travel immersion courses in the humanities
and natural sciences or whether they attend the many events sponsored by the School and its
departments, we believe in providing our students and the wider community with a series of
opportunities for learning. This year our faculty and students hosted a school-wide commemoration
of Black History Month, a panel discussion on Constitution Day, guest writers and performers,
and even a series of talks called “Giving Away Psychology,” all of which contribute to the practical
model of learning at the heart of a Saint Leo education. You will also read about three journals
that are the products of our faculty: Sandhill Review, our literary magazine; Empiricus, an online
journal of undergraduate research, and The International Journal of African Catholicism, an
ecumenical, interdisciplinary, academic, peer-reviewed on-line journal that promotes discussion
within the African Catholic community and dialogue between African and
international scholars. We are proud of our graduates and their accomplishments, and you will read about two of our
many alumnae who are doing some wonderful things. Our graduates take their places in
education, business, law school, medical school, and graduate study in fields ranging from
peace studies to theology.
This inaugural annual report of the School of Arts and Sciences is the product of the school’s
Faculty Council, a group of faculty members from across disciplines and locations. Many thanks
to them for helping to make this report possible.
We hope you enjoy reading this report and getting to know our students, our faculty, and
our programs.
Mary T. Spoto, Ph.D.
Dean, School of Arts and Sciences
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TEACHING
Marilyn Mallue, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Dr. Marilyn Mallue, professor of psychology, is a remarkable Saint Leo
University professor. She would be
a remarkable professor anywhere.
She epitomizes scholarly integrity,
teaching excellence, and service to
our “one university” model. She has
dedicated her professional life, unstintingly, to Saint Leo University for
almost 30 years, insisting on high
academic standards in all of her
classes and mentoring many psychology students. Indeed, the psychology department and the entire
university have benefited through
her work as psychology department
chair, University Senate president,
member of the Board of Trustees,
and many other responsibilities that
she has taken on with distinction
over the decades. She truly models
excellence and what it means to be
a professor.
A Phi Beta Kappa member with
dual bachelor’s degrees in English
literature and psychology, she has
always been enthusiastic about
“writing across the curriculum” and
is a great supporter of the liberal
arts interdisciplinary curriculum
(LINK). She focuses on teaching.
Her keen intellect and kind and
gentle manner are evident as she
talks about teaching, stressing the
central importance of the studentteacher relationship. The diversity
of adult learners in the university’s
continuing education centers has,
in her words, “made me become a
teacher,” and she finds it fascinating
to hear her students intentionally
share how SLU’s core values are expressed in their lives. She says she
still enjoys preparing for class. Dr.
Kevin Keiffer, psychology department chair remarks “how excited
she gets about content in PSY121, a
course that she has been teaching
for more than 25 years.”
Dr. Maribeth Durst, vice president
of Academic Affairs, notes the
“high standards she sets in her
classroom while always reaching
out to assist students to meet those
high standards.” Dr. Mallue is
academically firm, yet flexible and
kind with students. One psychology student said of Dr. Mallue, “In
the end you benefit by not being
able to avoid the hard teachers.”
The student says she was mentored by Dr. Mallue at many critical points, gently yet firmly, even
while working on her Ph.D.
One of the cornerstones of the
psychology department, she has
contributed substantially to “every
single thing we have been or are
doing,” says Dr. Keiffer, who says,
“Dr. Mallue selflessly takes on additional responsibilities without
even batting an eye.”
Dr. Mallue is highly respected at
Saint Leo’s regional education
centers for her high academic standards, leadership, and collegiality.
For many years she has read aloud
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commencement ceremonies in a
clear steady voice. She also helps
the graduates rehearse. “Marilyn
has a calming presence and quietness about her…she always has
a story to share,” Dr. Keiffer says.
“She is caring, funny, intellectual,
and generous.” And all who know
her would agree. For center faculty, she helped establish both the
Shirley Jo Geoffroy Professional
Development Fund, and the faculty
“brown bag” symposia to discuss
exciting academic and intellectual
ideas with colleagues. All center
faculty members consider her a
role model.
Dr. Mallue, who will retire next year,
expresses “joy to see Saint Leo University develop into an institution
from which I am proud to retire.”
University President Arthur F. Kirk,
Jr., sums it up by saying, “Marilyn
has been the standard of excellence
for Saint Leo faculty. She teaches
brilliantly, works tirelessly outside
the classroom with her students,
and has an extraordinary record of
service to the university. Marilyn
demonstrates the university’s values
in action in every role and at every
moment. She embraced our vision
12 years ago to be truly one university and led the effort to realize
that vision. Marilyn has blessed our
university in countless ways for
30 years.”
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SCHOLARSHIP
Astrid Vicas, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of PhilosophY
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rofessor Astrid Vicas
has developed a program of research that
is interdisciplinary and
examines the philosophical underpinnings of works and ideas rarely
examined in the philosophical
tradition. She has accomplished
this while being a busy teacher in
philosophy, the Honors Program,
and the Master of Arts in Theology
program. She has taught full-time
for 18 years, 15 of which have been
here at Saint Leo University.
Previously she taught at the
University of British Columbia,
the University of Toronto, and
University of Ottawa.
Her own educational background
includes a top-tier francophone
primary and secondary education
in Quebec, some schooling in
Germany, a B.A. and M.B.A. from
the University of Ottawa, and an
M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from
Canada’s premier university, McGill.
Professor Vicas’s range of competencies is daunting: logic, ethics,
aesthetics, and the philosophies
of mind, agency and narrative,
culture, media, and technology.
She is able to approach these subjects using the techniques of analytic
and continental philosophy, and this
itself is a rare accomplishment.
Professor Vicas is one of the few
thinkers whose work is informed
by a truly global perspective. In
addition to presenting papers in
the U.S. (including Princeton and
Berkeley), she has made presentations in Canada, France, Italy, Finland, Romania, Switzerland, the
Netherlands, Russia, and China.
Of her interdisciplinary approach,
Professor Vicas says: “I examine
philosophically non-philosophical
texts, documents, and practices
that come from a variety of traditions, cultures, historical periods,
and disciplines. This includes all
sorts of things, from the work of
some European artist-activists of
the 1950s, to marketing theorists of
the 1960s, to current work by computer scientists in pervasive and
organic computing, to ancient nonWestern approaches to describing
action. My chief aim in doing so,
for the moment, is in questioning
our conceptions of agency and its
relation to values.”
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read a paper focusing on Shang
Dynasty oracle bones and their
relevance to an alternative conception of agency. Western conceptions, she argues, often rely
on an idea of an internal, driving
force of some kind, like appetite
(Aristotle), will (St. Augustine),
or affect (Martin Heidegger).
But “configurational” or “stark”
agency—the kind illustrated by
the Shang oracle bones, suggests
rather a non-subjectivist conception (like Heidegger wanted)
where a grouping of specifications appears itself as a complex
individual and not as a property
of something else (as appetite
or will can be considered the
property of a subject), but which
also resists the notion of mood
or affect as an internal driver of
action. There is, moreover, the
possibility that this configurational conception of agency will
shed light on contemporary
issues in pervasive computing
and robot action.
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SERV CE
Kurt Van Wilt, Ph.D.
Professor of English
S
ince 1981, Dr. Kurt Wilt
has lived the core value of
community at University
Campus and beyond. As
a poet, playwright, and professor
of creative writing, Kurt Wilt
works continuously to bridge his
students with the local, state,
and national communities.
Locally, he collaborates on community-building projects with
area schools, businesses, and the
media. In Pasco County, Florida,
he and his students have mentored high school students studying drama and verse by bringing
in performers and writers, and
by helping them organize their
own poetry readings. A project
with Wesley Chapel High School
resulted in a co-enrollment program that allowed students to earn
college credit in a special creative
writing course Dr. Wilt helped
organize. With other Saint Leo
University faculty, he promoted
the value of higher education by
hosting “Academic Jeopardy” for
both Pasco and Hernando counties
and regional parochial schools.
In addition to his frequent poetryreading events at these venues
and public libraries, along with
creative writing faculty member
Dr. Patrick Crerand, Dr. Wilt partnered with the Barnes and Noble
Bookstore in Wesley Chapel to
create the “SLU Writer’s Circle,” a
support group of area writers and
enthusiasts who meet weekly to
learn and share their work.
This community service has been
a great promotion for Saint Leo
University, and the group’s members regularly attend University
Campus fine arts events. The
2009 edition of Sandhill Review,
Saint Leo’s literary journal, was
celebrated in a co-sponsored event
at Barnes and Noble, featuring
several noted Florida poets.
Dr. Wilt also has worked to increase
literacy and to promote the
importance of education in the
local community through his
20-year relationship with the farm
worker’s self-help group in Dade
City, Florida. As a volunteer,
he worked with children of
immigrant Mexican and MexicanAmerican migrant farm workers
to encourage creativity and development of the English language
through creative writing and drama. Not long ago, a play that he
wrote especially for the children
was published and performed.
Also recently, Dr. Wilt initiated
a new partnership between the
university and the renowned
St. Petersburg Times that was
inaugurated with a writing competition open to the community that
highlighted “work,” a theme that
incorporates several of Saint Leo’s
core values. Contest winners were
w w w. s a i n t l e o.e d u published in both the St. Petersburg Times and in the 2010 edition
of Sandhill Review. At Dr. Wilt’s
invitation, a fall semester campus
event was hosted by two awardwinning St. Petersburg Times
journalists, attended by university
students and faculty, and by
members of the local community,
including many high schools
students—a standing room
only event.
Dr. Wilt’s devotion to community
extends beyond Florida and into
the western United States. A
30-year friendship with Pueblo
storyteller, artist, and writer
Joseph Rael has produced a book
about Rael’s life and work, The
Way of the Vast Self. This summer,
Dr. Wilt will spend communitybuilding time with Zuni reservation students and teachers at Twin
Buttes High School in Zuni, New
Mexico, sharing his expertise in
Native American literature, mythology, and creative writing. He
anticipates the creation of a mentoring program between reservation high school students and our
talented creative writing students
at Saint Leo.
The School of Arts and Sciences is
enriched by Dr. Wilt’s extraordinary commitment to community.
His commitment is an inspiration
to everyone who knows him.
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Academic Journals
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The International
Journal of African
Catholicism
Western and white lens. The journal will be one small way of opening a door so the genius of African
scholars can shine through. The first issue of the International
Journal of African Catholicism
(IJAC) was published this past
spring semester at Saint Leo University. About a year in the making,
the IJAC is the result of a collaborative effort by six founding scholars
from Uganda, Kenya, Ivory Coast,
Tanzania, and the United States.
The journal is an important addition to the variety of theological
journals already in existence for
two distinct reasons: First, the IJAC
will open doors for many scholars
by providing a platform for outstanding African theologians to
share their research, and second,
it will attempt to help the world see
the global face of Christian faith.
Catholicism is a world phenomenon
which is frequently viewed from a
Founding Editorial team
Philomena Njeri Mwaura, Ph.D.
Kenyatta University, Kenya
Rev. Joseph Healy, MM, Superior
Maryknoll Society House, Tanzania
Rev. Paul Bere, Ph.D., S.J.
Institut de Théologie de la
Compagnie de Jésus, Côte d’Ivoire
Rev. Agbonkhianmeghe
Emmanuel Orobator, Ph.D., S.J.
Hekima College Jesuit School of
Theology, Kenya
Rev. William Komakech, Ph.D.
Gulu University Centre for Peace
Studies, Gulu, Uganda.
Randall Woodard, Ph.D.
Purpose
The International Journal of
African Catholicism (IJAC) is an
ecumenical, interdisciplinary,
academic, peer-reviewed online
journal to promote discussion
within the African Catholic
community and to promote
dialogue between African and
international scholars. Supported by the Department of
Religion, Theology, and Philosophy at Saint Leo University,
IJAC seeks to publish scholarly
articles that reflect on the African experience of Catholicism
and promote discussion among
writers around the globe. IJAC
will appeal to those interested
in the religious life of continental Africa and its dialogue with
the world. Articles and book
reviews are accepted.
Petersburg Times Sunday Journal
column. Writers from the TampaSt. Petersburg vicinity and beyond
sent more than 250 creative nonfiction essays on the pleasures
and pains of the working life,
which were then narrowed down
to 16 finalist essays, including one
student submission from Saint Leo
University. In addition to the print
edition (released in mid-April), an
online journal is in development.
It is anticipated that this version of
the journal will be a great avenue
for publishing art in a variety
of media.
Sandhill Review
Sandhill Review is Saint Leo University’s annual literary magazine,
featuring prose, poetry, drama,
and artwork by students, faculty,
staff, and external members of the
Saint Leo community. Currently,
Dr. Kurt Wilt serves as its editorin-chief, with Dr. Patrick Crerand
as prose editor, Anna Crerand
as poetry editor, and student
Chris Azzolini as editorial intern.
Professor Wilt co-founded the
magazine more than 20 years ago
with Thomas Abrams, whose work
appeared in the 2009 issue themed
on gulf-coast writers. This issue
also featured the winners of the
university’s first short-short fiction contest in which students from
all locations—University Campus,
continuing education centers, and
the Center for Online Learning—
submitted stories of 500 words
or less.
This year, Sandhill Review is
focused on the theme of “work.” The idea emerged from a creative
non-fiction essay contest co-sponsored by the university and the St.
Empiricus: The Sunshine
Journal for Collaborative
Undergraduate Research
Empiricus: The Sunshine Journal
for Collaborative Undergraduate
Research offers students an opportunity to publish empirical
research articles, both qualitative
and quantitative in nature. Director of Undergraduate Research
for the Department of Psychology
Patrick Draves created the journal
not just for psychology majors, but
for students in all majors.
the university’s various disciplines
and centers to communicate with
and learn from one another, striving to bring together—ideologically at least—geographically disparate locations as “one university.”
The editorial staff includes main
campus and continuing education
center faculty members, as well
as community representatives
and faculty from the University of
South Florida, Tennessee Technical University, and the University
of Southern California. A goal of
the journal is to illuminate the
good work being done by students
and their faculty mentors who may
be far from the main campus and
whose efforts and progress may
otherwise go unnoticed. This new
journal will foster student research
as a powerful pedagogical tool and
method of inquiry.
The experience of publishing in a
journal will give Saint Leo University students a competitive edge
when applying to graduate school,
says Dr. Draves. Exposure to the
publishing process will better prepare students for the tribulations
of publishing a thesis or dissertation, and this makes the endeavor
of creating an undergraduate
research journal a valuable tool.
The journal provides a forum to
encourage scholarly research
among undergraduates in a supportive and developmental environment. It is meant to encourage
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Dr. Miller’s
Rainforest Adventures
Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Science
Chris Miller and a group of Saint Leo students traveled earlier
this year to the rainforest of the Peruvian Amazon. Here are
Dr. Miller’s reflections on his (and his students’) journey.
Slipping, tripping, and sliding
down a muddy trail, I’ve managed
to keep my footing thus far. I forgot to mention this part of the trip
to my students. I cautioned them
about the bugs, the heat, the humidity, the spiny plants and stinging ants, the burning hot sun and
the pouring rain. I think I mentioned the unique culinary choices
we will be served and I’m sure I
told them about the unlikely-but-itcould-happen-to-you diseases, like
malaria and yellow fever. They
got their shots back in the United
States. But, I forgot to mention the
trails slick with mud and muck,
the swamps and the creeks we
have to cross using logs as bridges.
They seem to take it in stride,
however, and are even enjoying
their trip to the tropical rainforest of the Peruvian Amazon. We
are near the Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo
Communal Reserve, a one-million
acre wilderness with jaguars,
monkeys, and all the wildlife associated with rainforests. We are
staying in relative luxury (running
water and some electricity) at the
Rainforest Conservation Fund’s
From front to back; Guide David, Student Katie Vecchi, Student Caitlin Quraishi
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(RCF) field station to help sample
and census plant species used by
local residents in constructing
the everyday materials they use
for everything—from palm thatch
roofing to food to baskets. Many
of these materials, like leaves
from the Irapay Palm, they also
will sell in local markets for some
extra cash. My students and I just
want to make sure they are not
over-harvesting the plants and
that they can continue extracting
so-called nontimber forest products from nature in a sustainable
manner. To do this, we have to get
into the forest to count plants and
see if they are being harvested
properly. Another thing I might
have forgotten to warn my students
about is that this is tedious work.
It’s not that Indiana Jones and
great discoveries aren’t part of the
plan: just more heat and bugs and
counting plants.
Some of the students are premedical professionals like Chad
Kucharski. He loves the plants and
has a green thumb back home in
Florida. I’ve never seen someone
(besides myself) so excited by the
many exotic fruits we find down
in Peru. But the real reason Chad
and the others are here is to bring
medical supplies from the U.S. to
the only clinic in a vast wilderness.
People have to get here by boat, as
they do throughout this region of
the Amazon, because there are no
roads. The clinic staff, a full-time
local paramedic and his assistant
who is hired by RCF, is very grateful for the basics: gauze, some sutures, and bandages. During our
brief visit, the clinic services a boy
with a machete gash, a woman with
malaria, and a kid with a bad tooth.
Patients with more complicated
medical problems have to travel by
boat at least three hours to Iquitos,
but last year 53 women (I am told)
gave birth at the little palm thatch
clinic. The students and I are agape
at the dedication and toughness of
the staff and people.
My students are members of Saint
Leo University’s SERVE (Students
Engaged in Rewarding Volunteer
Experiences) program. They are a
wonderful bunch, enduring all the
hazards and discomforts a rainforest can throw at the uninitiated. I
laugh at Caitlin Quraishi’s mosquito net headgear, but even after
20 years of doing this kind of thing,
I can still learn: I have bug bites on
my face and she doesn’t. Matthew
Posey is seemingly enthusiastic
about enduring the conditions, and
loves the opportunity to travel and
see something besides his home
in Ocala, Florida. Katie Vecchi
slips and slides into a creek. “Oh
well, I’m already soaking wet from
the rain,” she giggles. Brandy
Group photo (starting at top left going across); Guide Javier, Staff Alicia Ridley, Guide David,
Student Katie Vecchi, Guide Esekiel, Student Jessica Moreria, Faculty Chris Miller,
Student Chad Kucharski, Student Caitlin Quraishi, Student Brandy Lopez
Lopez becomes extremely adept at
smooshing mosquitoes on people’s
faces in an effort to alleviate their
chances at getting malaria at
worst and a big red bump at best.
She’s also pretty good at Spanish,
which really helps in communicating with the local people. Jessie
Moreira is an environmental science student who has worked with
big animals before, but there’s
nothing so cuddly as a baby Paca (a
forest rodent). Saint Leo employee
Alicia Ridley is visiting this area
for the second time, her first time
was as a student. She’s helped me
coordinate the whole thing and
has laid the ground work for much
of the trip.
When we get back to the States, I
informally survey everyone about
their favorite part of the trip: they
vote the local guides as the most
astounding feature of the trip.
w w w. s a i n t l e o.e d u “Not the wildlife (which admittedly
seems scarcer than normal) or
eating Paca or seeing big rainforest trees or visiting the local shaman?” No. None compares to the
heroes of the trip: our rainforest
guides, who are local people from
nearby Chino village. They are
friendly, helpful, courteous, and
even kind. More important, they
know the Amazon rainforest very
well and they ensure we do not get
lost, help us identify plants, and
conduct our work. I’ve asked local
people from Brazil to Ecuador to
Peru, “How do you know where
to go in the forest so you don’t get
lost?” They all shrug their shoulders, say the same thing and point
to the sun as their compass, which
today is barely visible because of
an impending rainstorm. That
will make the trail even more slippery, but I guess my students like
this kind of adventure.
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Morgan Mander ’06
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couldn’t be done.
both varsity volleyball and tennis
throughout her four years at Saint
Leo. She graduated with honors in
May 2006.
As an athlete, biology major, and
member of the Saint Leo University Honors Program, Morgan
Mander was warned that she
would never make it into veterinary school as she would be undertaking way too much. Majoring in
biology and minoring in chemistry
was very challenging, but she managed to balance this with playing
In the fall of the same year, Morgan enrolled at the University of
Tennessee College of Veterinary
Medicine, the last step toward
achieving her childhood dream to
become a veterinarian.
Recalling her time as a Saint Leo
student, Morgan says that one of
the most important things for her
was the student-professor bonds
she developed. She says her professors cared and were genuinely
interested in her as a person. The
fact that they emphasized the
university’s core values also made
a lasting impression on her. One
of these values, community, was
especially important to her, and
she showed that by volunteering
during Saint Leo’s community
service days and at Morning Star
Fishermen, a non-profit organization that teaches people here and
around the world to maintain an
ecologically sound, sustainable
food source to help overcome
malnutrition and hunger. Morgan
also worked to make a difference
in the lives of the feral cats at
Saint Leo.
When Morgan was a senior she
was awarded the Elaine Evans
Spirit of Saint Leo Award for
outstanding leadership and
sportsmanship. This was one of
Morgan’s proudest accomplishments while a Saint Leo student.
Morgan has been able to expand
her experiences beyond the
typical veterinarian student at
the University of Tennessee. She
has had wonderful opportunities to
explore some of the many unique
facets of this profession. In 2007,
Morgan participated in the Envi-
rovet Program, and was exposed
to the trans-disciplinary cooperation necessary for maintaining
global systems’ healthy balance.
This program provided her the
opportunity to treat wildlife
and promote public health in
South Africa.
The following summer, Morgan
was chosen as her school’s representative to the Smith-Kilborne
program, where she studied
foreign animal diseases, like
Foot-and-Mouth Disease, at the
Plum Island Animal Disease
Center located off the northeastern tip of Long Island, N.Y. Most
recently she worked on a research
project with elephants in Thailand as part of an externship with
international exposure to veterinary medicine.
w w w. s a i n t l e o.e d u Morgan was graduated from
veterinary school in May 2010 and
will earn a master’s degree in
public health in December 2010.
Her post-graduate plans include
the F. Edward Hebert Armed
Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program with the United
States Army. Upon completion
of her degrees, she will serve as
a captain in the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps. She will be part
of a group providing veterinary
medical services and preventative
public health programs stateside
and abroad.
Morgan Mander has shown that
she could indeed combine athletics, a rigorous major, honors classes, and the Saint Leo core value of
excellence!
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Sabrina Green, Ph.D. ’97
An Outstanding
Graduate
Sabrina Green, Ph.D., Instructional
Systems Specialist, U.S. Army
Training and Doctrine Command
(TRADOC), earned her B.A. in
psychology at Saint Leo University’s
Fort Eustis Center in 1997. She
started life in the projects of Mount
Vernon, New York, where she was
chosen as a student with promise to
participate in a special liberal arts
and humanities program starting
in junior high school and continuing through high school. She never
looked back.
After her high school graduation,
Dr. Green joined the U.S. Army in
order to get an education, and that
she did, starting at (then) Saint Leo
College at Fort Eustis in the 1980s.
“In the end you benefit by not being able to avoid the hard but fair
teachers,” she says, sharing her
memories of Dr. Marilyn Mallue,
14 professor of psychology, who was
an important mentor during Dr.
Green’s formative years in higher
education. She recalls being
“urged” and nurtured into thinking, learning, and writing at “higher levels of Bloom’s taxonomy” by
Dr. Mallue—an initially shocking
and confusing experience which
led to dramatic intellectual growth.
Dr. Green, who was a transportation and cargo specialist in the
Army’s 7th Transportation Group
at Fort Eustis while a Saint Leo student, was repeatedly deployed all
over the world during her education. She took part in operations
“Dessert Storm” in Iraq, “Restore
Hope” in Somalia, “True Democracy” in Haiti, “Enduring Freedom”
in Afghanistan, and “Iraqi Freedom” in Turkey. Her professors at
Saint Leo allowed her to mail her
assignments to them, so she could
complete the courses. Deployments
in dangerous situations around the
world did not stop her.
Dr. Green, who loves education,
spent time during her Army career
teaching advanced individual
training for cargo specialists and
a primary leadership development
course at the NCO Academy at Fort
Campbell, Kentucky. She began
her graduate studies at Tarleton
University in 2003 while stationed
at Fort Hood, Texas. Although she
found it intimidating to be one of
few minorities and military students in the program when she
started, she soldiered on to successfully earn a Master of Science
degree in counseling psychology.
Her practicum was completed
in the Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry Department of the
Fort Hood Hospital.
Dr. Green retired from the Army in
2006 and recently earned her Ph.D.
in educational psychology from
Capella University. She was complimented by her major professor
during her dissertation defense for
the intellectual rigor of her work.
Dr. Green currently teaches soldiers how to become instructors for
TRADOC’s Army Basic Instructor
Course at Fort Eustis in Virginia.
She hopes to become a psychology professor one day and perhaps
even teach at Saint Leo University
as an adjunct. She says she would
like to give back some of what she
was given so long ago and perhaps
even be one of those “hard but fair
teachers you can’t avoid.”
Dr. Green is married to current
Saint Leo University student Ivan
Green. They are the parents of
two children.
International Research
Consortium on the Diaconate
For three years now, Deacon William
Ditewig, director of the graduate
program in theology, has been
working with two colleagues,
Enzo Petrolino, president of the
Comunita del Diaconato in Italy,
and Deacon Rob Mascini, former
president of the International
Diaconate Center, to establish an
International Research Consortium on the Diaconate in Rome.
The colleagues’ vision for the
consortium will have international
scholars gathering in Rome each
summer to teach a variety of intensive seminars. The consortium
itself would serve as an archival
repository of research on the diaconate from around the world. It
will be the kind of place to which
scholars can turn to find the
latest research. Founding institutes for the project include the Patristic Institute
“Augustinianum,” the Pontifical
Gregorian University, and the Pontifical Biblical Institute. Support
for the Center was given by Zenon
Cardinal Grocholewski, Prefect
for the Vatican’s Congregation
for Catholic Education. Founding
organizations in the U.S. include
Saint Leo University, The Catholic
University of America, the Center
w w w. s a i n t l e o.e d u for the Applied Apostolate in
Washington, DC, and the
Paulist Press.
Last October the three men met
with the head of the Vatican’s
Congregation for Catholic Education and briefed him on the
project. He expressed enthusiastic support, and so in March,
they returned to the Vatican to
finalize their plans. They hope to
have the consortium’s first seminars (including at least one of our
own graduate courses) taught at
various locations in Rome during
the summer of 2011.
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London, Paris, and Rome
Experiencing “Immersion” Learning
Under the course title IDS 340:
International Influences in Arts and
Humanities in the Western World,
instructors Elisabeth Aiken and
Karen Bryant team-teach three
rotating classes that focus on the
United Kingdom and Ireland,
France, and Italy. These courses
seek to help students understand
both British and American perceptions of themselves and Europe. The
two faculty members accomplish
this by having students study the
artwork and historical events that
inspired British and American
authors. After 13 weeks in the classroom studying the destination country’s art and literature, the class
travels to London, Paris, or Rome for
nine days of cultural immersion.
“An immersion education experience is more than just going on a
trip and staring, mouths agape, at
monuments,” says Karen Bryant.
16 “It is being prepared by challenging
and thorough coursework that
reflects both the dynamic nature of
the class and the host country. Each
of these courses strives to provide
students with the knowledge and
sensitivity needed to be informed
travelers, wholly open to new experiences. The goal of each academic
experience is to make not just
Paris but every destination a
moveable feast.”
Our creative process is now
focused on “La Dolce Vita,” she
says, the Italian immersion course
that will take place in the fall of
2010. As we walk in the footsteps
of Michelangelo, Bernini, Lord
Byron, Edith Wharton, and George
Eliot, we will build memories that
forever will lead us back through
the winding, narrow streets to
the ancient cities of Rome
and Florence.
This unique approach to learning
marries the world and its cultures
to daily lessons and skills taught in
the classroom. Masterpieces and
lesser-studied works in British and
American literature and art are
explored with the aim of promoting
creative engagement with the
international community. Armed
with the contributions of influential
writers and artists, students develop
an understanding of the traditions,
historic achievements, and the
challenges that shaped these
cultures. These travel-embedded
courses prepare students to be
global citizens equipped with the
tools of analysis, expression, and
cultural understanding required
in today’s world.
Both instructors are quick to point
out that the courses provide unique
opportunities for students to
encounter and appreciate other
cultures through travel and
interdisciplinary coursework, and
that the program supports the
university’s Catholic traditions by
encouraging global understanding
and instilling in their students the
university’s focus on social justice.
“The particular learning styles
and lifestyle preferences of the
millennial generation and the
changing demographics of the
United States in general, and
Florida in particular, demand that
we as educators change with the
times in order to maintain retention rates and preserve the quality
of education we provide,” says Ms.
Bryant. “Teachers have taught
in group scenarios since ancient
Greece, but they never spent their
time exclusively in the classroom.
In America we are hampered to a
degree because we simply do not
have Roman arenas and medieval
cathedrals mere footsteps away. It
is precisely because of this disadvantage that American educators
must immerse their students in
other cultures. It is imperative
in this broken and increasingly
shrinking world that we expose
our students to the full spectrum
of our shared human history in
order that they may develop
empathy and a sense of community.”
seasoned travelers with a talent for organizing people and
trips. Creating, organizing, and
supervising an immersion education experience is challenging in
every imaginable way.
In constructing the “Vive la
France” trip and class, instructors Aiken and Bryant were in
constant contact. “We sent text
messages and phoned each other
on the way into work, we met
at least twice a week to discuss
various ideas and update one another on what we had been doing
separately, and we e-mailed ideas
and sent links to various helpful websites,” Bryant says. “In a
sense, this kind of working relationship is like a marriage. We
approach every idea and every
chore together. Luckily, we are of
one mind on so many things that
we find working together to be a
great source of satisfaction.”
During the 2008 Thanksgiving
holiday, the two instructors
took 40 travelers to London and
Dublin. This gave students the
chance to study first-hand the
material they had covered in
class. The experiment was a
total success. “Through four
different airports, one Irish ferry,
the London Tube, Dublin’s Luas,
four buses, countless cabs, and
hundreds of walked miles, we
stayed safe and had a wonderful
active learning experience,”
says Bryant.
The coursework surrounding
such trips must be challenging
and thorough; the required
assignments must reflect the
dynamic nature of the classes;
and the instructors must be
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The first course he taught in the
honors program was “Classical
World View.”
The Honors Program
Passing the
Baton
Dr. Hudson Reynolds, associate
professor of political science,
stepped down at the end of the
spring semester from the honors
program he created more than 20
years ago. “It’s time,” he said recently,
“to let younger faculty lead the way.”
The new director of the Honors Program is Dr. Patrick Crerand,
assistant professor of English.
In the late 1970s, Reynolds says, he
discovered that the best students
at the college were often lonely and
had a difficult time finding each
other. At that time there was no
18 mechanism to bring these students
to each other’s attention. As a
result, they often were socially isolated and vulnerable to dropping
out. An honors program seemed
the perfect remedy to bring these
star students together. In 1982, the
college admitted its first honors
students, and by 1986 the first wave
of approximately 15 students were
graduated from the program.
Reynolds notes that the honors
program originally functioned
much like our general education
courses do today. It served to give
students strong skills in reading,
writing, and critical analysis.
In order to accomplish these skills,
honors students studied the
ancient thinkers, says Reynolds.
The honors program has grown
under Dr. Reynolds’ direction.
There are now about 150 students
in the program, with a retention
rate of about 70 percent. This
is, Reynolds says, a good record
relative to other honors programs
across the nation. The attractive
feature of the honors program
for potential Saint Leo students,
he points out, is its blend of the
traditional and the cutting-edge.
The “great thinkers-great books”
aspect, the traditional side of the
program, is combined with high
technology—each honors student
receives a personal computer
from the university—and a strong,
collaborative series of courses in
which the student is encouraged to
understand the long-term sweep
of Western ideas. Seeing the big
picture and integrating ideas
from the ancient to contemporary
times, Reynolds explains, is
the program’s core intellectual
challenge. The close interaction
between honors faculty and students, he emphasizes, is the
program’s strength. It is this
aspect that keeps the program
alive and attractive to students
who want as close an intellectual
journey with the faculty as
possible, he says.
Reynolds has praise for the honors faculty, who he says make the
program work by their willingness
to transcend the usual academic
boundaries. This love of ideas
on the faculty’s part, he says, is
what makes the program attract
Celebrating
Black History
Dr. Patrick Crerand, new director of the
Honors Program
students. He extends a special
thanks to Dr. Jacquelyn White,
assistant director of the honors program and a professor of
mathematics, who he says has
made an invaluable contribution to the program in the past
several years.
Perhaps the last word on Hudson
Reynolds’ contribution to the
honors program comes from
Dr. Tyson Anderson, professor of religion and philosophy,
and himself a one-time director of the program. “Hud is a
philosopher in the tradition of
the great political thinkers like
John Locke and Leo Strauss.
He is as much at home discussing Plato and Martin Heidegger
as he is Machiavelli or Thomas
Jefferson. He brought this
‘philosophic habit of mind,’ as
Cardinal Newman called it, to
bear on the honors program and
gave it depth and definition at
a time when American higher
education was losing much of its
traditional direction.”
As for the future, Reynolds is
certain the honors program
will continue to flourish under
the leadership of Dr. Crerand.
And, of course, he will always
be down the corridor in Saint
Edward Hall, ready to lend a
helping hand.
Throughout the month of February,
the School of Arts and Sciences
presented “Celebrating Black
History,” a series of events marking
contributions and achievements of
African Americans.
A History Department panel
discussion kicked off the month.
The topic was “The Black Athlete
in America.” A showing of the
film Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson
Story followed on February 4. Oscar
Award winning actor Cuba Gooding, Jr., starred in the title role of
Dr. Ben Carson, who overcame
numerous obstacles to become a
pediatric neurosurgeon. On February 11, Arts and Sciences students
presented a poster exhibition: “Celebrating Black Achievements in the
Arts and Sciences.”
African-American population and
workforce.
The final event for the monthlong celebration took place on
February 24, when British actor
Cedric Liqueur performed his
original one-man play, Buffalo
Soldier: Sergeant George Jordan,
1847-1904, Medal of Honor. The
term “buffalo soldier” refers to the
African-Americans who served in
cavalry regiments of the U.S. Army
following the Civil War. These
soldiers included both Civil War
veterans and former slaves recruited into military service. The
performance incorporated slave
songs, narratives, and writings
from contemporary authors.
On February 16, the school continued its celebration of Black History Month with a presentation by
Florida poet and non-fiction writer
Valada Flewellyn. For more than
20 years, Ms. Flewellyn has lived in
the town of Sanford, Florida, and,
in cooperation with the Sanford
Historical Society, she collected
photographs and chronicled many
family and personal stories for the
2009 publication of African Americans of Sanford, a volume from the
Images of America series issued
by Arcadia Publishing. The town
of Sanford has a rich past that
dates back to its founding in the
1870s. Its development included
the contributions of a significant
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About the School
of Arts & Sciences
Faculty Council
Leland T. Anderson, Ph.D.
Professor of Religion and Philosophy
Corey R. Anthony, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
William Ditewig, Ph.D.
Director, Master of Arts in Theology
William T. Poyner, M.Div.
Assistant Director, Graduate Theology
Linda L. Bergen-Losee, M.A.
Laboratory Director and
Instructor of Biology
School of Arts and
Sciences Staff
Karen M. Bryant, M.A.
Instructor of Fine Arts
Penny Freeman
Executive Coordinator
Anthony V. Esposito, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
Tamra Hunt
Student Services Coordinator
Leilani B. Goodmon-Riley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Emma Tadeo
Mathematics and Sciences
Academic Coordinator
Allyson D. Marino, M.A.
Instructor of English and
Fine Arts Events Director
Jane Bracken
Philosphy, Theology and Religion
Academic Coordinator
Robin F. Van Tine, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Full-Time Faculty
Department Chairs
Elisabeth C. Aiken, M.A.
Instructor of English
Burgsbee L. Hobbs, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of
English and Fine Arts
Siamack Bondari, Ph.D.
Mathematics and Science
Anthony B. Kissel, Ph.D. (S.T.D.)
Philosophy, Theology and Religion
Kevin M. Kieffer, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Psychology
Heather R. Parker, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Social Sciences
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Graduate
Program Directors
Karen M. Bryant, M.A.
Instructor of Fine Arts
Patricia Campion, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology
Howard F. Carey, D.C.M.
Assistant Professor of Biology
Michael W. Cooper, S.J., S.T.D
Assistant Professor of Religion
Patrick J. Crerand, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Christopher J. Cronin, Ph.D.
William T. Ditewig, Ph.D.
Professor of Religious Studies
Patrick R.A. Draves, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Iain Duffy, Ph.D.
William L. Ellis, Ph.D.
Anthony V. Esposito, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
Assistant Professor of Psychology,
University Campus
June C. Hammond, D.M.
Associate Professor of Music
Burgsbee L. Hobbs, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Professor of Philosophy and Religion
Robert L. Imperato, Ph.D.
Professor of Religion
Corey R. Anthony, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Valerie E. Kasper, M.A.
Instructor of English
Douglas M. Astolfi, Ph.D.
Professor of History
Associate Professor of Psychology
Frank J. Barthel, M.Ed.
Instructor of Mathematics
Anthony B. Kissel, S.T.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of
Religious Studies
Linda L. Bergen-Losee, M.A.
Instructor of Biology
Professor of Mathematics
Richard G. Bryan, Ph.D.
Marilyn M. Mallue, Ph.D.
Allyson D. Marino, M.A.
Instructor of English and Fine Arts
Events Director
David A. McGinnis, M.F.A.
Assistant Professor of English Theatre
Michael T. McLaughlin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Religion
John J. McTague, Ph.D.
Professor of History
Christopher J. Miller, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biology and
Environmental Science
Leo E. Ondrovic, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Physics
Heather R. Parker, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
Donald B. Pharr, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Randall J. Woodard, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of
Theology/Religion
Academic
Majors
Tammy L. Zacchilli, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Visiting Faculty 2009-2010
Anthony Carboni, Ed.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor
of Psychology
Biology
English with
specializations in:
Sofia Kraevska, D.M.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
Phyllis Zagano, Ph.D.
Visiting Professor of Theology
and Religion
Marco Rimanelli, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science and
International Studies
Armira Shkembi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Mary T. Spoto, Ph.D.
Kathryn L. Stasio, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Michael J. Tkacik, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of
Religious Studies
Robin F. Van Tine, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Astrid M. Vicas, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Monika Vo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Jacquelyn A. White, Ph.D.
Professor of Mathematics
Ernie M. Williams, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
Jerome K. Williams, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Kurt V. Wilt, Ph.D.
New Faculty
Patricia
Campio n
joined the
School
of Arts and
Sciences
this year
as an associate professor of
sociology. She earned her
master’s and doctoral degrees
at Louisiana State University.
Dr. Campion came to Saint Leo
from a teaching post at Tennessee Technological University.
A rmira
S hkembi
came to the
School of Arts
and Sciences
as an assistant professor
of mathematics after completing her doctorate in the subject
earlier this year at Wayne State
University in Detroit, where
she also earned her bachelor’s
and master’s degrees.
Interdisciplinary
Arts
• Theatre
International
Studies
Mathematics
English with minor
in Secondary
Education
Middle-East
Studies
Certificate/Minor
Environmental
Science
Music
History
International
Studies
Liberal Studies
Mathematics
Medical
Technology
Political Science
Music Ministry
Philosophy
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology
Theatre
Theology/Religion
Psychology
Special Areas
of Study
Religion
Honors
Sociology
Pre-professional
Studies
Theology/Religion
• Dentistry
Academic
Minors
Art
Biology
Chemistry
English
w w w. s a i n t l e o.e d u History
• Advanced
Literary Study
• Professional
Writing
Hudson G. Reynolds, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science
Ethics and Social
Responsibility
• Law
• Medicine
• Veterinary
Undergraduate
Certificate in
Pastoral Studies
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Faculty Publications and
Conference Presentations
Professor, Philosophy and Religion
“The World Won—Now What?” International Journal of the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences (2008).
Professor, Mathematics
Student Guide to Statistics with Writing Assignments. With M. Daunis. Pearson Hall (2010).
“Need for the Design of a Math Technology Course at a Liberal Arts College.” Electronic Proceedings of the
21th Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (2009).
“Mathematics Supplements that Include Technology and Writing Across the Curriculum.” Electronic Proceedings of the 21th Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (2009).
Patrick J. Crerand, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, English
“The Legend of Dutchy the Chicken.” Harpur Palate 9-2. SUNY Binghampton (2010) 56-57.
“Arthur’s Theme (Best that You Can Do) Unabridged.” Barrelhouse (2009).
http://www.barrellhousemag.com/word/?p=1884
“A Man of Vision.” Conjunctions 52 Bard College (2009): 322-30.
Christopher J. Cronin, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology
Forensic Psychology: An Applied Approach. 2nd Edition. Kendall Hunt (2009).
William T. Ditewig, Ph.D.
Professor, Religious Studies
Forming Deacons: Ministers of Soul and Leaven. With M. Tkacik. Paulist Press (2010).
Patrick R.A. Draves, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Psychology
Developmental Guide to Research: A student / faculty handbook. With J.E. Coll, and R. Park. Kendall Hunt (2008).
“Attitudes towards Doula Support during Pregnancy by Clients, Doulas and Labor-and-Delivery Nurses:
A Case Study from Tampa, Florida.” With L.M. Deitrick. Human Organization, 67(4) (2008) 397-406.
“Traditional Age Students: Worldviews and Satisfaction with Advising; A Homogeneous Study of Students and
Advisors.” With J.E. Coll. College Student Affairs Journal, 27 (2), (2009) 215-223.
“An Examination of the Relationship between Optimism and World View.” With J.E. Coll. College Student
Journal, 42, (2008) 395-401.
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“An Examination of Underage Drinking in a Sample of Private University Students.” With J.E. Coll and
M. Major. College Student Journal, 42 (2008) 985-990.
“Reported Levels of Satisfaction and Frustration by Arizona School Counselors: A Desire for Greater Connections with Students in a Data-Driven Era.” With P. Kolodinsky, V. Schroder, C. Lindsey, and M. Zlatev.
Professional School Counseling, 12, (2009) 193-199.
William L. Ellis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biology
“Tidal Influence on a Fringing Mangrove Intertidal Fish Community as Observed by In Situ Video Recording:
Implications for Studies of Tidally Migrating Nekton.” With S.S. Bell. Marine Ecology Progress Series (2008)
370:207-219.
Assistant Professor, Psychology
“Oh, Honey, I Already Forgot: Strategic control of directed forgetting in older and younger adults.”
With L. Sahakyan and P.F. Delaney. Psychology and Aging, 23 (2008) 621-633.
Robert L. Imperato, Ph.D.
Professor, Religion
Christian Footings (revised) University Press of America (2009).
Valerie E. Kasper, M.A.
Instructor, English
“Sunsets, Sunglasses, and Celebrities in the Small Screen.” Florida in the Popular Imagination.
Steve Glassman (Ed.) MacFarland and Company (2009) 98-116.
Associate Professor, Psychology
“Measurement of Test and Study Worry and Emotionality in College Students: A Psychometric Evaluation of
the Test and Study Attitudes Inventory.” With R.J. Reese. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 69,
(2009) 303-321.
Reliability Generalization (RG) Methods in the Context of Giftedness Research. With R.J. Reese and T. VachaHaase. B. Thompson and R. Subotnik (Eds.), Research Methodologies for Conducting Research on Giftedness. American Psychological Association (2010).
Kathryn L. Stasio, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, English
Religion in the Age of Reason: A Transatlantic Study of the Long Eighteenth Century. Edited under the name
Kathryn Duncan. AMS Press (2009).
Michael J. Tkacik, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Religious Studies
Pneumatic Correctives: What is the Spirit Saying to the Church in the 21st Century? University Press (2008).
Forming Deacons: Ministers of Soul and Leaven. With W. Ditewig. Paulist Press (2010).
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Astrid M. Vicas, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Philosophy
“Games at the Crossroads of Art and Technology: Pervasive Games as Laboratories for Understanding the
Possible Impact of Pervasive Technologies on Agency and Narrative,” International Journal of the Arts in
Society 4 (2009) 161-172.
“Shang Oracle Bone Agency: Its Contemporary Philosophical Significance.” International Journal of the
Humanities 7:4 (2009) 121-131.
Jacquelyn A. White, Ph.D.
Professor, Mathematics
“Reducing the Number of Prerequisites Courses Results in an Equal Success Rate.” With S.B. White.
Florida Scientist, Volume 73 Supplement 1 (March 2010).
“Instructor Interactions are Critical for Increased Student Success in Online Elementary Algebra.” With S.B.
White. Florida Scientist, Volume 72 Supplement 1 (March 2009).
The Value of Thinking Mathematically. Pearson Education, Inc. (2008).
2009 Mathematics Professor for Addison Wesley tutorial video series that accompanies “Introduction to Statistics” 11th Edition by Mario Triola.
Kurt V. Wilt, Ph.D.
Professor, English
The Way of the Vast Self. Council Oaks Books (2010).
Dr. Wilt was Florida Southern College’s featured writer during the past year, with six of his poems appearing
in the college magazine, Cantilever.
Tammy L. Zacchilli, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Psychology
“Temptation Bias: Can Self-Enhancement Limit the Influence of Gender Stereotypes?” With S. Garos, A. Kluck,
J.K. Geggan, J. Martindale, and A.E. Wheeler. Sex Roles, 58 (5-6), (2008) 311-329.
“Romantic Conflict and its Resolution. With S. Hendrick and C. Hendrick. Positive psychology. Exploring the
best in people, S. J. Lopez (Ed.), Greenwood Publishing Group (2008).
“The Romantic Partner Conflict Scale: A New Scale to Measure Conflict in Dating Relationships.” With S.
Hendrick and C. Hendrick. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 26, (2009) 1073-1096.
Phyllis Zagano, Ph.D.
Visiting Professor, Theology and Religion
Dr. Zagano is a Catholic columnist for the nationally syndicated Religious News Service. Among her recent
columns are:
“Lets Call ‘Emergency Contraception’ What It Really Is,” RNS 2/17/10.
“Don’t Bother Opening Pandora’s Box (on ‘Avatar’),” RNS 2/3/10.
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