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September 5, 1997
New Faculty and Staff Join Southampton College

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As the new academic year begins, Southampton College of Long Island University welcomes ten new faculty members -- five in the Friends World Program and five in the regular curriculum -- as well as a number of new staff members. "We are pleased to announce these new appointments. All will strengthen and enrich the intellectual life of Southampton College and the community," said Academic Dean Wayne Miller who introduced the new faculty at the second annual Faculty Convocation Thursday, September 4.

New faculty are as follows:

John Moison, a physical oceanographer, joins the Marine Science faculty. His research is funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation. He begins teaching in January.

Indira Ganesan, William Hathaway and Robert Hullot-Kentor join the Humanities Division to support the growing programs in English and Writing including a new Master of Fine Arts in Writing. Ganesan, is the author of two highly acclaimed novels published by Alfred A. Knopf, The Journey (1990) and Inheritance (1997) as well as numerous short stories. She will teach writing and literature on both the undergraduate and graduates levels beginning next summer. She is currently a Fellow of the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College.

Hathaway is the author of six books, including A Wilderness of Monkeys (1975), Looking into the Heart of Light (1988) and Churlesgrace (1992), as well as numerous stories, essays and reviews. He has taught at Cornell, Union College, Skidmore and L.S.U.

Dr. Hullot-Kentor, who has taught at Harvard and Stanford, will have a primary assignment of teaching French and German. He is internationally known as a scholar of the German philosopher and critic Theodor Adorno.

In the Division of Arts and Media, Brian O'Doherty, the internationally-respected artist, writer and media arts professional who paints under the name Patrick Ireland, joins the faculty as University Professor of Fine Arts and Media. O'Doherty becomes the second University Professor at the College joining the essayist and public television commentator Roger Rosenblatt.

New Friends World Faculty are as follows:

N. Robert Glass joins Friends World as Director of the Program in Comparative Religion and Culture. He has taught at Alfred University, Sarah Lawrence College and St. Olaf and he has lived for seven years in a Buddhist monastery. His Ph.D. is from Syracuse University.

Eileen McGurty, who has most recently taught at the University of Iowa, is author of Trashy Women: Gender and the Politics of Garbage. She holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois and will teach a seminar in enironmental studies focused on Long Island issues.

Nancy Pagh, a poet and scholar of literature, has done extensive research on women travelers in the Pacific Northwest. She will teach a seminar in which students will be asked to consider what is special about living on an island through a study of literature and their surroundings. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia.

Wini Mary Edwina Warren holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University in the History of Science. Her dissertation on African-American women scientists is under consideration for publication by Indiana University Press.

Rafael Bolanos, a senior faculty mmber in the Latin American Center, will teach a seminar in contemporary Latin American politics as a visiting professor in the North American Center.

In addition to the new faculty the following new administrative staff members will join the college:

Anthony Fitchue is the new Director of the Office of Multicultural Programs and the Study Center. With experience in the Foreign Service, as well as relevant teaching and administrative roles in higher education, he holds master's degrees from Columbia and Harvard and a doctorate from Columbia. He comes to Southampton from a position as Director of Multicultural Affairs at LeMoyne College

Wallace Smith, manager of KUSC at the University of Southern California for 26 years and one of the founders of American Public Radio, is the new manager of WPBX, 88.3 FM, Long Island's public radio.

Michael Damm of Farmingville, and Daniel O'Shea of East Moriches, a 1997 graduate of Southampton College, are new counselors in the Admissions Office.

Maggie Marcincuk of Southampton is the new director of counseling. She worked for three years with the counseling service unit for the New York City Fire Department. She holds a masters in psychology from St. John's University and will receive her master's in social work from Hunter College in December. She lives in Noyac with her husband Robert, a deputy town attorney for Southampton Town.

Jacqueline Farrell of Bellmore joins the Cooperative Education and Career Development Office as a job developer/coordinator. She is a 1997 summa cum laude graduate of the College.

Stephanie Pollack joins Friends World as an admissions counselor. She has worked for Interlocken Campus in New Hampshire which sends high school students on educational travel experiences.