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Saint Michael's College announced the promotion of four faculty members to full Professor and five to Associate Professor, effective in the coming fall 2008 semester.
To full Professor:
Dr.
Valerie Banschbach, biology, department chair, resident of Jericho, Vt., whose research interests include conservation biology, ecology and evolution of social behavior, especially of insects, community ecology of ants, foraging behavior and pollination biology. She has conducted biology courses on a study-tour of Costa Rica. Professor Banschbach earned her doctorate from the University of Miami.
Dr.
Adrie Kusserow, sociology/anthropology, department chair, resident of Underhill, Vt., whose recent books include
American Individualisms: Child Rearing and Social Class in Three Neighborhoods and
Hunting Down the Monk, BOA Editions, New American Poets Series. She was the 2002 Vermont Professor of the Year sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation and won the 2001 Society for Humanistic Anthropology Poetry Prize. Professor Kusserow earned her doctorate in cultural anthropology from Harvard University.
Dr.
Susan Ouellette, history, department chair, resident of Ferrisburg, Vt., who developed a course titled "Edmundites in the Era of Civil Rights," through which she took ten students to Selma, Ala., to study the Saint Michael's connection to that historic movement. Professor Ouellette earned her doctorate from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Dr.
Patricia Siplon, political science, resident of Burlington, Vt., 2003 Vermont Professor of the Year, has published three books on AIDS policy, including
AIDS and the Policy Struggle in the United States and
AIDS Treatment Activism in the Era of Globalization. She earned the 2001-2002 Rotary International Grant for University Teachers to support her teaching and research at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and received a Fulbright Fellowship in 2005. Professor Siplon earned her doctorate from Brandeis University.
To Associate Professor:
John Paul Devlin, fine arts/theater, resident of Bolton, Vt., teaches scenic and lighting design and technical direction, is also resident designer and production manager for the Saint Michael's Playhouse. He also designs stages for Vermont Stage Company, Lost Nation Theatre, Northern Stage, and others. Associate Professor Devlin earned his MFA degree from Syracuse University.
Dr.
Bret Findley, chemistry, resident of Winooski, Vt., has carried out NIH and Vermont Genetics Network funded research projects with a number of students, while doing his own research on Electron Donor-Acceptor Complexes among other areas. Associate Professor Findley earned his doctorate at Dartmouth.
Dr.
Traci Griffith, journalism and mass communication, resident of Williston, Vt., teaches Media Law and Ethics and Mass Communications and Society, and has created a course on Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Media and a course in Cyber Law. Associate Professor Griffith, a former AP reporter, earned a master's degree in journalism from Florida A&M University and a law degree fromNotre Dame Law School.
Dr.
Nathaniel Lew, fine arts/music, a resident of Burlington, Vt., directs the Saint Michael's College Chorale. His research focuses on post-war British musical life. He is a member of the Vermont-based professional vocal ensemble Counterpoint. Associate Professor Lew earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University; bachelor's and master's degrees from Cambridge University; and master's and doctoral degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr.
Declan McCabe, biology, a resident of South Burlington, Vt., describes his current research interests as macroinvertebrate diversity in Vermont streams. He teaches hands-on, laboratory and field-based courses taking advantage of the natural resources of the Champlain Valley, and has published widely on zebra mussels and other aspects of the Lake Champlain basin. Associate Professor McCabe earned his doctorate from the University of Vermont.
Saint Michael's College, founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, is identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nation's
Best 368 Colleges. A liberal arts, residential, Catholic college, Saint Michael's is located just outside of Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top college towns and less than two hours from Montreal. As one of only 270 institutions nationwide with a prestigious Phi Beta Kappa chapter on campus, Saint Michael's has 2,000 full-time undergraduate students, some 500 graduate students and 200 international students. In recent years Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Science Foundation and other grants, and Saint Michael's professors have been named Vermont Professor of the Year in four of the last eight years. The college is currently listed as one of the nation's Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the 2008
U.S. News & World Report rankings.