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Faculty

Full-time Faculty

Marsha Alibrandi

Elizabeth Langran

Sandra Billings

Paula-Gill Lopez

Patricia Calderwood

Bogusia Molina

Faith-Anne Dohm

Sr. Julianna Poole, SSND

Daniel Geller

Rona Preli

Jennifer S. Goldberg

Tracey Robert

Ingeborg Haug

Christine Siegel

Diana Hulse-Killacky

Emily Smith

Virginia Kelly

Anibal Torres Bernal

Hyun uk Kim

David Zera

Wendy Kohli

Visiting Full-time Faculty 2007-08

Yvel C. Crevecoeur

William Kaplan


Marsha Alibrandi

Marsha Alibrandi

Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction
Ed.D., University of Massachusetts

Office: Canisius Hall Room 117

Ext. 2586 

malibrandi@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Geographic education and spatial cognition; learning and teaching with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and teacher education; integrating instructional technologies; collaborative research.

Sandra Billings

Director, Secondary Education Program
Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction
Ph.D., University of Connecticut

Office: Canisius Hall Room 119
Ext. 3262 sbillings@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Teacher education; Connecticut's BEST (Beginning Educator Support Training) program; professional development; diversity issues; high-risk youth.

Patricia Calderwood

Chair, Curriculum and Instruction Department
Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Office: Canisius Hall Room 109
Ext. 3017 pcalderwood@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Social construction of community; teacher education; ethnographic research.

Faculty Publications:

The Conversation of Critical Practice: Pre-service Teachers As Educators for Social Justice


Faith-Anne DohmDirector, Applied Psychology Program
Associate Professor of Psychology and Special Education
Ph.D., University of Maryland Baltimore County

(2007-2008 - Interim Assistant Dean)

Office: Canisius Hall Room 221
Ext. 2414 fdohm@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Risk factors for psychological disorders; research mentoring; judgment of food amounts; the process of research.

Daniel Geller

Chair, Psychology and Special Education Department
Professor of Psychology and Special Education
Ph.D., Yeshiva University

Office: Canisius Hall Room 102
Ext. 2324 dgeller@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Disabilities; families with disabled members; parent/child relationships; parent/school collaboration; clinical and diagnostic; premarital and divorce relationships.


Jennifer S. Goldberg

Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Office: Canisius Hall- contact Dean's Office in CNS 102
jgoldberg@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Research design and methods; classroom discourse; socio-cultural views of learning and development.

Ingeborg Haug

Associate Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy
D.Min., Andover Newton Theological School

Office: Canisius Hall Room 223
Ext. 2540 ihaug@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Couple therapy; professional ethics; parenting issues.

Diana Hulse-KillackyDiana Hulse-Killacky

Chair, Counselor Education Department
Professor of Counselor Education
Ed. D. Indiana University

Office: Canisius Hall Room 122
Ext. 2245 dhulse-killacky@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Role of corrective feedback in success of groups, enhancement of classroom instruction in group work and counselor education, conceptual models promoting group work practice, collaborative teaching teams.

Virginia A. Kelly

Associate Professor of Counselor Education
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Office: Canisius Hall Room 118
Ext. 3228 Vkelly@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Spirituality and counseling; assessment and treatment of chemically dependent women; domestic violence; psychological abuse; familial alcoholism.

Hyun uk Kim

Hyun uk Kim

Assistant Professor of Psychology and Special Education
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Office: Canisius Hall Room 113
Ext. 3024 hkim@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Autism spectrum disorders, brain and language development, language development in children with developmental disabilities.
Wendy Kohli

Wendy R. Kohli

Professor of Curriculum and Instruction
Ph.D., Syracuse University

Office: Canisius Hall Room 110
Ext. 2286 wkohli@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Philosophy of education; urban school reform; critical pedagogy; feminist theory; curriculum theory.

Elizabeth LangranElizabeth Langran

Director, Educational Technology Program
Assistant Professor of Educational Technology
Ph.D., University of Virginia

Office: Canisius Hall Room 115
Ext. 3123

elangran@mail.fairfield.edu

Scholarly Interests: K-12 technology integration; technology leadership; copyright in the classroom; international education; digital storytelling.

Paula Gill Lopez

Director, School Psychology Program
Associate Professor of Psychology and Special Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley    

Office: Canisius Hall Room 219
Ext. 2632 plopez@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: School drop-out prevention; clinical supervision of pre- and in-service school psychologist; violence prevention; cultural competence; emotional intelligence; bullying intervention.

Bogusia Molina

Associate Professor of Counselor Education
Ph.D., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale 

Office: Canisius Hall Room 111
Ext. 2759 bmolina@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Group processes; lifespan human development; clinical supervision.

Sr. Julianna Poole, SSNDChair, TESOL, Foreign Language and Bilingual/Multicultural Education Department
Principal Investigator, Project TELL

Assistant Professor of TESOL, Foreign Language and Bilingual/Multicultural Education

Office: Canisius Hall Room 225
Ext. 2873 jpoole@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: English as a second language; teacher education; bilingual and multicultural education.

Rona Preli

Chair, Marriage and Family Therapy Department
Associate Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy
Ph.D. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Office: Canisius Hall Room 121
Ext. 2475 rpreli@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Addictions and family therapy; supervision; accreditation; diversity issues.

Tracey Robert

Assistant Professor of Counselor Education
Ph.D., Mississippi State University

Office: Canisius Hall Room 120
Ext. 2421 trobert@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Work and spirituality; career development; clinical supervision.

Christine Siegel

Christine Siegel

Assistant Professor of Psychology and Special Education
Ph.D., SUNY, Albany

Office: Canisius Hall Room 220
Ext. 3125

csiegel@mail.fairfield.edu

Scholarly Interests: Implementation and treatment acceptability of evidence-based interventions in schools, application of qualitative methods to school-based intervention research, and early elementary prevention programs.


Emily R. Smith

Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction
Ph.D., Michigan State University

Office: Canisius Hall Room 114
Ext. 2396 esmith@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Teacher education; teacher learning, mentoring, English education.

Torres

Anibal Torres Bernal

Assistant Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy
Ph.D., Syracuse University

Office: Canisius Hall Room 116B
Ext. 3236 atorres@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Meta-theoretical and normative analysis of couple and family therapies, self-conceptualization of underrepresented populations, study and utilization of democratic and social justice principles in family/couple therapeutic intervention.

David Aloyzy Zera
Director, Special Education Program and Principal Investigator, Project SETTELL

Associate Professor of Psychology and Special Education
Ph.D., University of Connecticut

Office: Canisius Hall Room 102
Ext. 2528 dzera@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Learning disabilities; attention; bilingual special education; self-organizing systems.

Visiting Full-time Faculty - 2007-2008

Yvel C. Crevecoeur

Visiting Instructor of Special Education
Ph.D. (ABD), University of Connecticut

Office: Canisius Hall Room 102 (Fall 2007)
Ext. 3189

ycrevecour@mail.fairfield.edu

Scholarly Interests: Learning disabilities, second language aquisition and literacy, educational policy, educational administration/leadership.

William Kaplan

Visiting Instructor of Curriculum and Instruction
SYC, Southern Connecticut State University

Office: Canisius Hall Room Room 391
Ext. 2383

wkaplan@mail.fairfield.edu

Scholarly Interests: Educational leadership, mentoring in professional development of educators, teacher preparation.

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