College of Liberal Arts - The College Letter

New Talent

A remarkable group of new faculty has joined the College this year. Liberal Arts welcomes four assistant professors, all with impressive credentials, and a number of lecturers, including faculty members who are teaching the inaugural class of international students participating in Navitas at UNH and faculty from China joining the Confucius Institute.

Katie Edwards Department of Psychology	Tom Haines Department of English, Journalism Program
Katie Edwards earned a B.S. at the University of Georgia, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Ohio University. She holds a graduate certificate in women and gender studies, also from Ohio University. Her dissertation is titled “Leaving an abusive relationship: An analysis of the investment model and theory of planned behavior.” Edwards’s teaching and research bridge social/personality psychology and clinical psychology. Her research broadly focuses on the causes, consequences, and prevention of interpersonal violence among adolescents and young adults. Her courses include abnormal psychology and counseling. Edwards has published nearly 20 articles in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of American College Health, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, and Feminism and Psychology, as well as several invited book chapters.	Tom Haines earned a B.A. at Dartmouth and an M.J. at the University of California at Berkeley. Haines spent 18 years as a reporter, including as a staff writer at The Boston Globe and the Seattle Times. He has reported in more than 40 countries and on 5 continents, on topics ranging from coal to cricket, art to revolution. He served for a year as a fellow at the Fondation Journalistes en Europe in Paris. Most recently, Haines was associate editor for multimedia and print at the Big Bend Sentinel in Marfa, Texas, where he led the design and operation of the Sentinel’s website, bigbendnow.com. He was three times named Travel Journalist of the Year in North America by the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation. At UNH, Haines teaches multimedia reporting, newswriting, editing, and creative nonfiction.
Jason Sokol Department of History	Scott Weintraub Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; Spanish Program
Jason Sokol earned a B.A. at Oberlin College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in history at the University of California at Berkeley. His dissertation is titled “There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975.” Published by Knopf in 2006 as a book by the same name, There Goes My Everything received the Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award in 2007 and was included in the Top 10 Books of 2006 by Jonathan Yardley of the Washington Post Book World. Sokol has taught at U-Cal Berkeley, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard. His research and teaching fields include 20th-century U.S. history, the Civil Rights movement, political history, and African American history. His current book project, under contract with Basic Books, is called “The Northern Mystique: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn.”	Scott Weintraub earned an A.B. at Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. in Spanish at Emory University. His dissertation is titled “Reading the Crisis, Crisis of Reading: Politics, Ethics, and Poetics in Néstor Perlongher, Osvaldo Lamborghini, and Raúl Zurita.” His teaching and research are in the fields of 20th- and 21st- century Spanish and Latin American literature; critical theory and cultural studies; poetry; cyberliterature and cyberculture; and the relationship between literature, philosophy, science, and technology. He is coeditor of the e-book Huidobro’s Futurity: 21st Century Approaches and has published articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies and the Revista chilena de literatura, among others. He has taught at Dartmouth, Emory, and the University of Georgia. At UNH, Weintraub teaches advanced Spanish conversation and composition, Hispanic cultural studies, and cyberliterature.

Lecturers

Thomas Anderson Education: B.A., Hamilton College, 2001; M.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2004; Ph.D., Binghamton University, 2009 Courses: World History to 16th Century, World History in Modern Era, Explorations	Rhyannon Bemis Education: B.A., Maryville College, 2004; M.A., University of New Hampshire, 2008; Ph.D., ibid., 2011 Courses: Introduction to Psychology, Statistics in Psychology	John Berst Education: B.A., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1989; M.F.A., Purdue University, 1999 Courses: History of Musical Theatre in America; Musical Theatre Voice I; Topics/Intro to Musical Theatre	Mary Marshall Campbell Education: B.A., Swarthmore College, 2003 Courses: Elementary German, The Novella	Molly Campbell Education: B.A., University of New Hampshire, 2006; M.A.T., ibid., 2007 Courses: Professional and Technical Writing
Thomas Anderson Department of History	Rhyannon Bemis Department of Psychology	John Berst Department of Theatre and Dance	Mary Marshall Campbell German Program, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures	Molly Campbell Department of English
Lesley Curtis Education: B.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1999; M.A., Middlebury College, 2003; M.A., Duke University, 2007; Ph.D., ibid., 2011 Courses: Intensive Review of French, Intermediate French	Jared Del Rosso Education: B.A., Brandeis University, 2003; M.A., Boston College, 2007 Courses: Applied Research Methods, Crime and Conflict	Jennifer Esala Education: B.A., Augsburg College, 2004; M.A., Boston College, 2006 Courses: Statistics, Sociology of Gender, Medical Sociology	Nathaniel Freedman Education: B.B.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2006; M.A., University of New Hampshire, 2011 Courses: English as a Second Language	Mark Hungerford Education: B.A., Emory University, 1992; M.A., University of Texas at Austin, 2005; Ph.D., University of Washington, 2011 Courses: Introduction to Media Studies, Seminar/Public Opinion and Mass Communication
Lesley Curtis French Program, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures	Jared Del Rosso Department of Sociology and Justice Studies Program	Jennifer Esala Department of Sociology	Nathaniel Freedman ESL Program, Department of English	Mark Hungerford Department of Communication
Rachel Lachance Education: Education: B.A., Boston University, 2004; M.A.T., ibid., 2006 Courses: English as a Second Language	Leticia Mantilla-Clavijowski Education: B.A., Universidad Veracruzana, 1998; M.A., University of New Hampshire, 2010 Courses: Review of Spanish, Intermediate Spanish I	Addis Mason Education: B.A., Princeton University, 1993; M.A., Stanford University, 1997; Ph.D., ibid., 2007 Courses: Western Civilization, 20th Century Europe	Stephanie McSherry Education: B.A., Trinity College, 1992; M.A.T., Simmons College, 1998 Courses: Exploring Teaching, Teaching Reading Through the Content Areas	Jeannie Nguyen Education: B.A./B.S. University of Florida, 2004; M.A., ibid., 2006 Courses: Classical Mythology, Elementary Latin, Intermediate Latin I
Rachel Lachance ESL Program, Department of English	Leticia Mantilla-Clavijo Spanish Program, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures	Addis Mason Department of History	Stephanie McSherry Department of Education/Teacher in Residence	Jeannie Nguyen Classics Program, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Zorana Ivcevic Pringle Education: B.A., University of Zagreb, Croatia, 1999; M.A., University of New Hampshire, 2001; Ph.D., ibid., 2005 Courses: Health Psychology, Counseling	Alison Rheingold Education: B.A., Hampshire College, 1993; M.Ed., Lesley College, 1999 Courses: Contemporary Educational Perspectives	Jessica Robles Education: B.A., University of San Francisco, 2004; M.A., University of Essex, England, 2005; Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, 2011 Courses: Introduction to Language and Social Interaction, Analysis of Language and Social Interaction	Elissa Scogland Education: B.A., Bentley College, 1992; M.Ed., Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1993 Courses: English as a Second Language	Mary Wallace Education: B.A., Mt. Holyoke College, 2000; M.A., Brown University, 2006; Ph.D., ibid., 2010 Courses: International Perspectives, Global Issues in International Affairs, International Affairs Seminar
Zorana Ivcevic Pringle Department of Psychology	Alison Rheingold Department of Education	Jessica Robles Department of Communication	Elissa Scogland ESL Program, Department of English	Mary Wallace International Affairs
Sara Withers Education: B.A., Bowdoin College, 1999; M.A., Brandeis University, 2002; Ph.D., ibid., 2009 Courses: Global Perspectives: Introduction to Anthropology, History of Anthropological Theory	Marjorie Wood Education: B.A., Arkansas Tech University, 2000; M.A., University of Arkansas, 2004; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2011 Courses: Modern United States, Advanced Explorations, Vietnam War	Ruirui Zhang Education: B.A., Beijing Normal University, 2005; M.A, ibid., 2008 Courses: Conversational Chinese, Intermediate Chinese, Advanced Chinese	Zhou Yiqiao Education: B.A., Chengdu University of Technology, 2003; M.A., Sichuan University, 2010 Courses: Elementary Chinese	Jay Zysk Education: B.A., Stonehill College, 2005; A.M., Brown University, 2007; Ph.D., ibid., 2011 Courses: Introduction to Literary Analysis, Shakespeare
Sara Withers Department of Anthropology	Marjorie Wood Department of History	Ruirui Zhang Asian and Arabic Program, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures	Zhou Yiqiao Asian and Arabic Program, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures	Jay Zysk Department of English