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Program Coordinator

Ellen Cohn

Professor of Psychology and Coordinator of the Justice Studies Program

202F Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3197
Fax: (603) 862-2966
E-mail: ellen.cohn@unh.edu

See profile below

 

 

Core Faculty

Mary Banach

Associate Professor of Social Work

Pettee Hall
Phone: (603) 862-4302
E-mail: mbanach@cisunix.unh.edu

 

 

 


Education:
B.A., University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, 1975
M.S.W., New York University, 1978
D.S.W., Columbia University, 1995

Courses Taught:
Social Work Practice
Social Work in the Law

Fields of Research:
social work and law

 

 


Victoria Banyard

Victoria Banyard

Professor of Psychology

306 Contant Hall
Phone: (603) 862-2869
E-mail: vlb@cisunix.unh.edu

 


Education:
B.A., Brown University, 1988
M.A., University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1990
Ph.D., ibid., 1994

Courses Taught:
PSYC 401: Introduction to Psychology
PSYC 402: Statistics in Psychology
PSYC 763: Community Psychology
PSYC 991: Prac and Sem/ Teaching Psychology

Fields of Research:
developmental psychology, social psychology/personality

 

 


Rene Bergeron

Associate Professor of Social Work

Pettee Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1786
E-mail: lb@cisunix.unh.edu

 

 

 


Education:
B.A., University of New Hampshire, 1973
M.S.W., University of Connecticut, 1981
Ph.D., Boston College, 1997

Courses Taught:
Introduction to Social Work
Human Behavior and Social Environment
Social Work Practice
Field Seminar
Women and Aging
Intervention with Groups

Fields of Research:
women and aging

 

 


John Cerullo

Professor of History, UNH-Manchester

227 University Center
Phone: (603) 641-4109
E-mail: jcerullo@unh.edu

 

 

 


Education:
B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1971
M.A., ibid., 1976
Ph.D., ibid, 1980

Courses Taught:
The "Rights Revolution"

Fields of Research:
modern European intellectual history, especially the history of moral thought, legal theory

 

 


Andrew Christie

Drew Christie

Associate Professor and Department Chair of Philosophy 

50A Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3078
E-mail: drew.christie@unh.edu

 


Education:
B.A., Princeton University, 1974
M.S.L., Yale University Law School, 1978
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983

Courses Taught:
PHIL 412: Beginning Logic
PHIL 450: Ecology and Values
PHIL 530: Moral Philosophy
PHIL 635: Philosophy of Law
PHIL 780: Special Topics/James and Buddha

Fields of Research:
contemporary environmental issues, legal issues, and pragmatism (especially William James and John Dewey)

 

 


Ellen Cohn

Ellen Cohn

Professor of Psychology and Coordinator of the Justice Studies Program

202F Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3197
Fax: (603) 862-2966
E-mail: ellen.cohn@unh.edu

 


Education:
B.A., Clark University, 1974
M.A., Temple University, 1976
Ph.D., ibid., 1978

Courses Taught:
PSYC 755: Psychology and Law
PSYC 756: Psychology of Crime and Justice
PSYC 954: Advanced Seminar/Social Psychology

Fields of Research:
social psychology of law, particularly legal socialization, and rape and dating violence attitudes and behaviors

 

 


Todd DeMitchell

Todd DeMitchell

Professor

306 Morrill Hall
Phone: (603) 862-5043
Fax: (603) 862-2174
E-mail: tad@cisunix.unh.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Known sources using Dr. DeMitchell's research

 

 


Education:
B.A., LaVerne College, 1969
M.A.T., University of LaVerne, 1973
M.A., University of California at Davis, 1990
Ed.D., University of Southern California, 1979

Courses Taught:
EDUC 700/800A: Educational Structure and Change
EDUC 967: School Law
EDUC 968: Collective Bargaining in Public Education
EDUC 973: Policy, Politics, and Planning in Education

Fields of Research: 
the impact of legal mechanisms including court cases, statutes, and collective bargaining on schools and colleges including such topics as sexual abuse and legal remedies, school uniforms and free speech, affirmative action, educational malpractice, and collective bargaining and educational reform

 

 


Elizabeth Dolan

Associate Professor and Department Chair of Family Studies 

218 Pettee Hall
Phone: (603) 862-2137
E-mail: emd@cisunix.unh.edu

 

Education:
B.A., University of California at Santa Barbara, 1971
M.A., Michigan State University, 1973
Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1980

Courses Taught:
Personal and Family Finance
Management and Decision-making
Family Economics
Family Internship
Families and the Law

Fields of Research: 
economic implications for families of various life changes, including remarried families, unmarried families, and implications of welfare reform

 


Robert Eckstein

Robert Eckstein

Senior Lecturer

202C Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1242
Fax: (603) 862-2966
E-mail: robert.eckstein@unh.edu


Education:
B.S., City University of New York, 1998
M.S., Loyola University, 2000

Courses Taught:
JUST 601: Internship
JUST 897: Culminating Project
JUST 950: Internship
PSYC 553: Personality
PSYC 591: Forensic Psychology
PSYC 595: Applications of Psychology

 


David Finkelhor

David Finkelhor

Professor of Sociology

126 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-2761
Fax: (603) 862-1122
E-mail: david.finkelhor@unh.edu


Education:
B.A., Harvard University, 1968
M.Ed., Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1971
Ph.D., University of New Hampshire, 1978

Courses Taught:
SOC 525: Juvenile Crime and Delinquency
SOC 650: Family Violence
SOC 773/873: Sociology of Childhood
SOC 797/897: Spc Top/ Research Methods in Crime and Justice

Fields of Research: 
youth and crime, family violence

 


Molly Girard Dorsey

Marion Girard-Dorsey

Associate Professor of History

438 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-3014
Fax: (603) 862-1502
E-mail: mlgirard@unh.edu


Education:
B.A., Stanford University, 1993
J.D., Harvard University, 1997
Ph.D., Yale University, 2002

Courses Taught:
Hist 422: World History in the Modern Era
Hist 444: Wartime Propaganda
Hist 537: History of Espionage

Fields of Research:
European history, history of law, diplomatic and military history, history of medicine in the United States

 


Mardi Kidwell

Mardi Kidwell

Associate Professor of Communication

110 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-3036
Fax: (603) 862-1913
E-mail: mardi.kidwell@unh.edu

Curriculum Vitae


Education:
B.A., University of California at Santa Cruz, 1986
M.A., University of California at Santa Barbara, 1998
Ph.D., ibid., 2003

Courses Taught:
CMN 457, Introduction to Interpersonal Communication
CMN 572, Language and Social Interaction
CMN 666, Conversation Analysis
CMN 698, Seminar/Studying the Police

Fields of Research:
language and social interaction, child social behavior, and police-citizen communication

 


John T. Kirkpatrick

John T. Kirkpatrick

Clinical Professor of Sociology, Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Co-Director of Justiceworks

110 Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-2062
Fax: (603) 862-3443


Education:
B.A., Colby College, 1977
M.A., University of New Hampshire, 1979
Ph.D., ibid., 1983

Courses Taught:
SOC 515: Introductory Criminology
SOC 535: Homicide

 


Michelle Leichtman

Michelle Leichtman

Associate Professor of Psychology and Lamberton Professor in the study of criminal justice and society

307 Conant Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3806
Fax: (603) 862-4986
E-mail: michelle.leichtman@unh.edu


Education:
B.A., Wellesley College, 1985
M.A., Cornell University, 1991
Ph.D., ibid., 1994

Courses Taught:
PSYC 502: Research Methods in Psychology
PSYC 581: Child Development
PSYC 785: Social Development
PSYC 982: Adv Sem/ Developmental Psychology

Fields of Research:
memory development, often focusing on social and environmental factors that influence memory processes during infancy, childhood, and adulthood

 


Alynna Lyon

Alynna Lyon

Associate Professor of Political Science 

315 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-0881
Fax: (603) 862-0178
E-mail: alynna.lyon@unh.edu


Education:
B.A., New Mexico State University, 1991
M.A., ibid., 1993
Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1999

Courses Taught:
POLT 403: US and World Affairs
POLT 560: World Politics
POLT 571: International Politics of the Middle East
POLT 660: Selected Topics in International Politics
POLT 778/878: International Organization
POLT 900: Pro-Seminar

Fields of Research: 
peacekeeping, conflict resolution, international organizations, ethnic identity and nationalism, political violence, U.S. foreign policy, Middle East politics

 


Andrew Macpherson

Andrew Macpherson

Lecturer in Political Science, Director of the Technical Analysis Group in Justiceworks

212 Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 868-1145
Fax: (603) 862-7040
E-mail: Andrew Macpherson


Education:
B.A., Mercyhurst College, 1999
M.A., London School of Economics, 2000

Courses Taught:
POLT 568: Intro to Intelligence
POLT 798B/898B: Security Intelligence Study

 


Mary Malone

Mary Fran T. Malone

Associate Professor of Political Science 

314 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-1406
Fax: (603) 862-0178
E-mail: mary.malone@unh.edu


Education:
B.A., St. Joseph's College, 1995
M.A., University of Pittsburgh, 2000
Ph.D., ibid., 2004

Courses Taught:
POLT 403: U.S. and World Affairs
POLT 544: Pathways to Democracy
POLT 550: Comparative Government and Society
POLT 553: Politics in the Developing World
POLT 554: Latin American Politics
POLT 565: United States/Latin American Relations
POLT 750/850: Politics of Poverty
POLT 905: Introduction to Statistical Analysis

Fields of Research: 
Latin American politics, democratization, legal socialization, rule of law, judicial reform, crime control policy, political and interpersonal trust, public opinion

 


Courtney Marshall

Courtney Marshall

Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies
 

120 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-0676
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: courtney.marshall@unh.edu

Education:
B.A., Rutgers University, 2000
M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 2005
Ph.D., ibid., 2009

Courses Taught:
ENGL 935: Seminar/Studies in American Literature
WS 798: Colloquium

Fields of Research:
African-American literature, critical race feminism, queer ethnic studies, law and popular culture

 


Mary Moynihan

Affiliate Associate Professor of Women's Studies, Prevention and Evaluation Coordinator for Prevention Innovations

203 Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 862-2675
Fax: (603) 862-4721
E-mail: marym@unh.edu

 


Education:
B.A., University of Akron, 1970
M.A., ibid., 1974
Ph.D., Kent State University, 1979

 


Sharon Murphy

Sharon Murphy

Assistant Professor of Social Work

Hewitt Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3826
E-mail: sharon.murphy@unh.edu

Education:
B.A., State University of New York at Plattsburgh, 1973
M.S.W., Adelphi University, 1985
Ph.D., Arizona State University, 1998

Courses Taught:
SW 550/850: Human Behavior and Social Environment I
SW 551/851: Human Behavior and Social Environment II
SW 711: Understanding Mental Illness
SW 897: Intimate Partner violence

Fields of Research:
violence against women, criminal justice response to adult female sexual violence

 


Kevin O'Shea

Kevin O'Shea

Adjunct Faculty in Justice Studies, Project Director for Justiceworks

Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 996-1826
Fax: (603) 862-7040
E-mail: Kevin O'Shea

Education:
B.S., University of Connecticut, 1995
M.A., University of New Hampshire, 2007

Courses Taught:
JUST 405: Technology, Crime & Society

 


Donna Perkins

Donna Perkins

Clinical Assistant Professor of Justice Studies

202B Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 862-7012
Fax: (603) 2966
E-mail: donna@cisunix.unh.edu

Education:
B.A., University of Southern Maine, 1997
M.A., University of New Hampshire, 2000
M.S., ibid., 2003
Ph.D., ibid., 2003

Courses Taught:
JUST 501: Research Methods
JUST 701: Bullying in Schools
JUST 901: Proseminar
JUST 907: Applied Research Methods

 


Danielle Pillet-Shore

Danielle Pillet-Shore

Assistant Professor of Communication

109 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-2362
Fax: (603) 862-1913
E-mail: danielle.pillet-shore@unh.edu

Website

 

Education:
B.A., University of California Los Angeles, 1998
M.A., ibid., 2001
Ph.D., ibid., 2008

Courses Taught:
CMN 598, Talk and Social Institutions
CMN 666, Conversation Analysis
CMN 698, Openings of Everyday Interactions

Fields of Research:
language and social interaction, conversation analysis, communication in everyday life, face-to-face interaction, sociolinguistics, verbal and non-verbal communication, social psychology, qualitative methods, ethnomethodology, interaction in education and medical settings, family-school communication, social norms, social control and service providing institutions
 

 

 


Charles Putnam

Charles Putnam

Clinical Associate Professor of Justice Studies, Co-Director of Justiceworks

208 Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 862-7041
Fax: (603) 862-7040
E-mail: Charles Putnam

 

Education:
B.A., Yale University, 1979
J.D., University of Connecticut School of Law, 1985

Courses Taught:
JUST 401: Introduction to Justice Studies
JUST 530: Inside the Courtroom
JUST 550/551: Mock Trial

 

 


Cesar Rebellon

Cesar Rebellon

Associate Professor of Sociology

416 Horton Social Science Center
Fax: (603) 862-3558
E-mail: cesar.rebellon@unh.edu


Education:
B.A., Rice University, 1996
M.A., Emory University, 1999
Ph.D., ibid., 2002

Courses Taught:
SOC 515: Introduction to Criminology
SOC 525: Juvenile Crime and Delinquency
SOC 697: Special Topics/Perspectives On Terrorism
SOC 715: Criminological Theory
SOC 797/897: Special Topics/Criminological Theory
SOC 921: Crime and Conflict

Fields of Research: 
criminological theory, social psychology, quantitative methods

 


Lucy Salyer

Lucy Salyer

Associate Professor of History

409 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-3021
Fax: (603) 862-1502
E-mail: les@cisunix.unh.edu


Education:
B.A., University of California at San Diego, 1979
M.A., University of California at Berkeley, 1983
Ph.D., ibid., 1989

Courses Taught:
HIST 406: History of Modern U.S.
HIST 509: Law in American Life
HIST 609/809: Special Topics/American Legal History

Fields of Research:
American legal history; Modern American and Progressive era history; race, ethnicity and immigration

 


Susan Siggelakis

Susan J. Siggelakis

Associate Professor of Political Science

320 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-1780
Fax: (603) 862-0178
E-mail: sjs2@cisunix.unh.edu


Education:
B.A., Rutgers University, 1979
M.A., Johns Hopkins University, 1983
Ph.D., ibid., 1988

Courses Taught:
POLT 407: Law and Society
POLT 508: Supreme Court and Constitution
POLT 558: Government and Politics of Canada
POLT 798B/898B: Seminar in American Politics
JUST 601: Field Experience

Fields of Research: 
public law, criminal justice

 


Nicholas Smith


Nicholas Smith

Associate Professor of Philosophy 

30 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1329
E-mail: nick.smith@unh.edu


Education:
B.A., Vassar College, 1994
J.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1997
Ph.D, Vanderbilt University, 2002

Courses Taught:
PHIL 421: Philosophy and the Arts/ Honors Section
PHIL 620: 20th Century European Philosophy
PHIL 660: Law, Medicine, and Morals
PHIL 740: Adv Top/ Philosophy and the Law
PHIL 799: Senior Thesis

Fields of Research: 
philosophy of law, politics, and society, particularly as considered through contemporary continental philosophy; aesthetics

 


Rick Trinkner

Rick Trinkner

Lecturer in Justice Studies and Sociology

202A Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1476
Fax: (603) 862-2966
E-mail: rick.trinkner@unh.edu


Education:
B.A., Northern Michigan University, 2005
M.A., University of Northern Iowa, 2007
Ph.D., University of New Hampshire, 2012

Courses Taught:
JUST 701: Senior Seminar
JUST 865: Criminological Theory
JUST 901: Proseminar
SOC 515: Introductory Criminology
SOC 525: Juvenile Crime and Delinquency

 


James Tucker

 

James Tucker

Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Sociology Department

425 Horton Social Science Center
Fax: (603) 862-3558
E-mail: jetucker@unh.edu

Website


Education:
B.S., University of Virginia, 1981
M.A., ibid., 1987
Ph.D., ibid., 1992

Courses Taught:
SOC 655: Sociology of Law and Justice
SOC 670: Sociology and Non-Fiction Film
SOC 715/815: Criminological Theory
SOC 780/880: Social Conflict
SOC 797/897: Sociology of Suicide
SOC 912: Contemporary Sociological Theory

Fields of Research: 
social conflict, crime and deviance, law and social control, sociology of religion, documentary film

 


Karen Van Gundy

 

Karen VanGundy

Associate Professor of Sociology

417 Horton Social Science Center
Fax: (603) 862-3558
E-mail: karen.vangundy@unh.edu

Website


Education:
B.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1994
M.A., University of Cincinnati, 1998
Ph.D., University of Miami, 2001

Courses Taught:
SOC 502: Statistics
SOC 599: Sociological Analysis
SOC 620: Drugs and Society
SOC 720/820: Sociology of Drug Use
SOC 740/840: Sociology of Mental Health
SOC 901: Sociological Methods I

Fields of Research: 
sociology of mental health, substance use, life course, gender

 

Staff

Debbie Briand

Debbie Briand

Academic/Student Support

202C Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1716
Fax: (603) 862-2966
E-mail: justice.studies@unh.edu


Brianna Michaud

Administrative Assistant

202E Huddleston Hall
E-mail: justice.studies@unh.edu

Robert Skilling

Administrative Assistant

202E Huddleston Hall
E-mail: justice.studies@unh.edu

 

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