Faculty and Staff Profiles

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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

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

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

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

Professor and Associate Chair of Education

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

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

Lecturer

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

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

Marion Girard-Dorsey

Assistant 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

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

Mardi Kidwell

Assistant Professor of Communication

110 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-3036
Fax: (603) 862-1913
E-mail: mkidwell@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

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

Assistant 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

Mary Fran T. Malone

Assistant 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

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

Cesar Rebellon

Associate Professor of Sociology

416 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-4850
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

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 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

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

Murray Straus

Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Family Research Lab

126 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-2594
Fax: (603) 862-1122
E-mail: murray.straus@unh.edu

Website

Education:
B.A., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1948
M.S., ibid., 1949
Ph.D., ibid., 1956

Courses Taught:
SOC 695: Research, Family, Violence
SOC 776: Family Violence Research Seminar
SOC 797: Spc Top/Family Violence
SOC 902: Sociological Methods II
SOC 976: Violence in the Family

Fields of Research:
family, criminology, methodology, comparative institutional analysis

James Tucker

Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Sociology Department

425 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-1814
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 VanGundy

Associate Professor of Sociology

417 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-1896
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

Additional Faculty