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September 28, 1998
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New Faculty and Staff Join Southampton College for 1998-99
Jane Finalborgo
Joe Dionisio
(516) 287 8313
Fax: (516) 283 4081
- Southampton, NY-- A $10 million academic center is not the only addition on campus for the 1998-99 academic year. Southampton College of Long Island University also welcomes 10 new faculty-- three in the Friends World Program and seven in the regular curriculum -- as well as many new staff members.
"We are pleased to announce these new appointments. We expect all of them to strengthen and enrich the intellectual life of Southampton College and the community," said Lewis Greenstein, Acting Academic Dean.
Three professors join Friends World, a program that stresses "Global Education for Social Change." Trichur Ganesh, born in Tamil Nadu, India, earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Binghamton University. Carol Maurice McClain has a Ph.D. in Education and Human Development from Vanderbilt. Neil Parsons, who is a native of Montana's Blackfeet Indian Reservation, earned an M.A. from Montana State University. He has worked at Evergreen College in Washington, and was a founding faculty member at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, N.M.
The Natural Science division has three new faculty. Steve Liebling, Assistant Professor of Physics, comes to Southampton with a Ph.D. and M.A. in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin. Eric Hirschmann, also an Assistant Professor of Physics, earned a Ph.D. in Physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He comes to Southampton from the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught physics. Hirschmann's work has been cited by renowned researcher Stephen Hawking. William Schutt, who earned his Ph.D. in Zoology from Cornell University, arrives from Bloomfield College in New Jersey. From 1995-97, Schutt was on a fellowship at The American Museum of Natural History. He is an associate professor of biology.
By adding Liebling and Hirschmann to a staff that includes noted physicist Dr. Arvind Borde, Matthew Choptuik, Physics professor at University of Texas at Austin, said Southampton College has "a truly formidable relativity group-- ranking with the best in North America."
New to the Education Division is Susan Voorhees, an assistant professor. She earned a Ph.D. in Reading, Language and Cognition at Hofstra.
The Humanities Division welcomes Jonathan Haynes, associate professor of English, who earned a Ph.D. and M.A. at Yale. In 1996-97, he did a Fulbright Fellowship (his second) in Nigeria. He has taught at Columbia, New York University and Bennington College, where he was chair of the division of language and literature. His books include The Social Relations of Jonson's Drama and Cinema and Social Change in West Africa.
Charles Drexel has a one-year appointment in the Business Division as visiting assistant professor.
Joining the Social Science faculty as associate Professor of Psychology is John Neill. He comes from Boston where he was Research Associate in Neurology at Children's Hospital Boston and Instructor in Neurology at Harvard Medical School. Neill, who recently completed research funded by the March of Dimes, earned a Ph.D. and M.A. at Boston University. He has published in the areas of developmental brain research and auditory discrimination. A licensed clinical psychologist in Massachusetts, he has conducted behavioral and neurophysiological evalutations and treatments for hundreds of people with developmental disabilities.
In addition to the new faculty, many administrative staff members have joined Southampton College:
In Friends World, Janet Davidson of East Quogue joined the staff as Associate Director. Joyce Tuttle of East Hampton was named Assistant Director of Enrollment. Stephanie Pollack of Hampton Bays is a new admissions counselor.
New to the Multicultural Programs and Higher Education Opportunity Program office are MaryAnne Duffy of Southold, the Learning Resource Tutor, and Lydia Zendejas of Southampton, a counselor. Anne Algieri is the new Study Center Director.
In Career Development/Co-op, Melvyn Morris of Mattituck joins the staff as the Natural Science Co-op Coordinator, and Deborah Hare of Southampton is clerk-typist.
In the Admissions Office, the new counselors are three Southampton College alumni: Amanda Mills '96 of Hampton Bays, Wendy Dyer '94 of Southampton, and Melten Erol '96 of Holbrook. Tara Burst of Hampton Bays is office manager. Rachael Rose of Mastic Beach is an inquiry processor.
In Residence Life, Warren Newton of Jay, Maine, is area coordinator, while Lauri Haines of Philadelphia and Bevin Szoloki of Huntington are Hall Directors.
The Office of Continuing Studies has added Margaret Hultzberg, a clerk typist, and Paula Godfrey, secretary. Both reside in Hampton Bays.
Jenelle Close of Towanda, NY, is now the Business Division secretary.