Faculty

Many of our faculty have been involved in publications. Take a look at them here.

Core Faculty

• Frances Bernstein

  Frances Bernstein is associate professor of history at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. She received her doctorate in Russian history from Columbia University in 1998. She teaches courses in Russian and European history, with a special focus on the history of sexuality, history of disease, history of medicine and the body. In 2007 she published The Dictatorship of Sex: Lifestyle Advice for the Soviet Masses (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007). She is currently editing a collected volume on the history of Soviet medicine, which will include her article "'Behind the Closed Door': The Politics of Doctor-Patient Confidentiality in Early Soviet Medicine." Her current research focuses on the culture and politics of disability in the Soviet context. Projects include: Empire of Broken Men: Disability and Medicine at the End of World War Two; "The 1937 Trial of the Deaf-Mutes: Purging Disability During the Great Terror"; and "All the Ward's a Stage: Disabled Veterans and their Doctors in World War Two Health Plays."

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• Luis Campos

  Luis Campos (Ph.D. Harvard University) is a historian of science specializing in the history of the life sciences in the twentieth century, especially the history of genetics. He is currently engaged in a study of the newly emerging field of contemporary biological engineering known as synthetic biology, viewing it as the most recent iteration of a century-long quest to control and understand life by attempting to recreate it in the laboratory. Integrating archival research with fieldwork among contemporary communities of synthetic biologists, Campos seeks to relate the claims of this newest of fields to its institutional and disciplinary forebears, its varied local and transatlantic contexts, and to larger ongoing intellectual and cultural themes in the history of the quest to engineer life. In earlier work integrating science and literature, Campos explored the "prehistory" of radiation genetics as he unpacked the metaphors surrounding the study of radioactivity and life in the early twentieth century ("Radium and the Secret of Life"). Prof. Campos has served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

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• James M. Carter

  James M. Carter (Ph.D. University of Houston) specializes in American foreign relations, the Vietnam War, the United States and East Asia, the Cold War, modernization theory, political economy, and nation building. His book Inventing Vietnam: The United States and State Building, 1954-1968 was published by Cambridge University Press in 2008. He has also written articles on war profiteering in Vietnam and Iraq and the US advisory effort in Vietnam, and he has published reviews and essays in The Journal of Military History, Peace & Change, Education About Asia, Itinerario, History News Network, The Asia Times, and the BBC. Currently he is pursuing two research projects: the first focuses on US-China relations during the Boxer Rebellion, the second examines the relationship between the government and private corporations in the realm of foreign policy from World War II through the 1960s.

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• Lillie Edwards

  Lillie Edwards (Ph.D. University of Chicago) is a Professor of History and Director of the Pan-African Studies and American Studies programs. She specializes in African- American history, American studies, and African history. She is currently working on two manuscripts, "Civilizing Missions: African-Americans, Christianity, and Colonialism," and an edited book of essays, "The Fire and the Faith: The Oppugnant Tradition in African-American Religious Life." She has published articles in A Historical Dictionary of Civil Rights in the United States, The Dictionary of Christianity in America, Black Women in the United States: An Historical Encyclopedia, and The Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History. She has also served as Co-Chair of the Curriculum Committee of the New Jersey Amistad Commission.

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• C. Wyatt Evans

  Wyatt Evans returned to academics following stints as a Peace Corps volunteer and U.S. Army civil affairs officer. Trained as an intellectual and cultural historian, his main areas of interest included collective memory and the interaction of the modern state and the individual. His first book, The Legend of John Wilkes Booth (Kansas, 2004), won the Organization of American Historians’ Avery O. Craven Award in 2005 and Drew University’s Bela Kornitzer Prize in 2007. He is currently at work on a study of Civil War domestic security for Oxford University Press as well as a longer-range project on the “memory of the good” in American history. He is a distinguished lecturer from the OAH speaker series.

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• Richard Greenwald

  Richard Greenwald is Dean of the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, the Director of the Business, Society & Culture Program and Associate Professor of History at Drew University in Madison, NJ. He is the author of The Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era NY (2005), co-editor of Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective ( 2003) and editor of Exploring America's Past: essays in Social and Cultural History (1996). He is finishing a book entitled The World in a Box: Containerization, the Port of New York and the Postwar Global Economy, under contract for The University of Pennsylvania Press. He serves as Associate Editor for the journal, Enterprise and Society, the International Journal of Business History, is a member of the editorial board for the journal Working USA and is series editor of the book series “Work in the Americas” Published by University Press of Florida.

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• Christine Kinealy

  Christine Kinealy is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, where she completed a PhD on the introduction of the Poor Law to Ireland. She has published extensively on the impact of the Great Irish Famine and has lectured on the relationship between poverty, famine, and emigration in Ireland, India, Spain, Canada, France, Finland, the United States, and New Zealand. In 1997 she was invited to speak on the Irish Famine in both the United States Congress and the British Parliament. Her other areas of specialization are nineteenth-century Ireland, the 1848 revolutions, Daniel O’Connell, Young Ireland, Irish-American nationalism, and memory and commemoration in Irish history. Her book This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845-52 (2nd ed. 2006) was named the Irish Post book of year in 1995. Her other publications include Lives of Victorian Politicians: Daniel O’Connell (Pickering and Chatto, 2008); A New History of Ireland (2nd ed. 2004); 1848: The Year the World Turned?, ed. with Kay Boardman (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007); Teaching and Learning History (with Geoff Timmins and Keith Vernon; Sage Publications, 2005); The Great Famine in Ireland: Impact, Ideology and Rebellion (Palgrave, 2002); Ireland: A Photohistory 1840-1940 (with Sean Sexton; Thames and Hudson, 2002); Memory, Silence and Commemoration: Ireland’s Great Hunger (ed. with David Valone; University Press of America, 2002); The Forgotten Famine: Hunger and Poverty in Belfast 1840-50 (with Gerard MacAtasney; Pluto Press, 2000); A Disunited Kingdom: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1800-1949 (Cambridge University Press, 1999), and A Death-Dealing Famine: The Great Hunger in Ireland (Pluto Press, 1997). Her latest book, Repeal and Revolution: The 1848 Uprising in Ireland, is forthcoming from Manchester University Press. Currently she is exploring the role played by the Irish nationalist Daniel O’Connell in the antislavery movement in Europe and North America.

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• Cassandra Laity

  Cassandra Laity (PhD University of Michigan) is Associate Professor of English and Coeditor of the journal Modernism/Modernity.  She specializes in Anglo-American Modernisms, modern poetry, feminist criticism/theory, critical theory, and late-Victorian poetry and fiction.  She wrote H.D. and the Victorian Fin-de-Siecle: Gender, Modernism, Decadence (Cambridge University Press, 1996; reissue 2009), edited H.D., Paint it Today (New York University Press, 1992), and coedited (with Nancy Gish), Desire, Gender, and Sexuality in T.S. Eliot (Cambridge University Press, 2004).  She was a cofounder and Vice President of the Modernist Studies Association, President of the H. D. International Society, and a member of the MLA Delegate Assembly.  She has held an NEH Research Fellowship and a Mellon Assistant Professorship at Vanderbilt University.

• John Lenz

  John Lenz (Ph.D. Columbia University) is Chair of the Department of Classics. He teaches ancient Greek history, literature, language, philosophy, archaeology, myth, and religion. He is interested in the history of ideas and the legacy of Classical thought in succeeding centuries, the “Classical tradition.” He has presented numerous papers on intellectuals and society in ancient Greece, the transition from paganism to Christianity, and the use of Classics at the time of the founding of the modern Greek state. His interest in the history of ideas led him to utopianism, or the study of how ideas may or may not change history. He has served as a Fulbright Scholar in Greece and as president of the Bertrand Russell Society. His published articles include “Bertrand Russell and the Greeks,” "Deification of the Philosopher in Ancient Greece," and contributions to The Dictionary of Art (now Grove Art Online).

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• Robert Ready

  Robert Ready (Ph.D. Columbia University) is Donald R. and Winifred B. Baldwin Professor of Humanities and Convenor of the Arts and Letters Program in the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies. His fields are British Romantic and Victorian literature, interdisciplinary humanities, and creative writing. He is the author of Hazlitt at Table and of essays published in The Wordsworth Circle, Studies in Romanticism, Prose Studies, Modern Language Studies, The Columbia History of British Poetry, and the Keats-Shelley Journal. He has also published fiction in such journals as Antaeus, West Branch, Gargoyle, Princeton Arts Review, WaterSedge, and Water~Stone Review. Teaching, he believes, is getting students doing.

• Jonathan Rose

  Jonathan Rose (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is the William R. Kenan Professor of History. His fields of study are British history, intellectual history, and the history of the book. He served as the founding president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, and as the president of the Northeast Victorian Studies Association. His book The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (2001) won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, the Longman-History Today Historical Book of the Year Prize, and the British Council Prize. He has also published A Companion to the History of the Book (2007), The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation (2001), The Revised Orwell (1992), British Literary Publishing Houses 1820-1965 (1991), and The Edwardian Temperament 1895-1919 (1986). He is coeditor of the journal Book History, which won the Council of Editors of Learned Journals award for the Best New Journal of 1999. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Cambridge and Princeton University, and he reviews books for the Times Literary Supplement and the Daily Telegraph (London). Currently he is writing a study of Winston Churchill’s literary career.

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• Sharon Braslaw Sundue

  Sharon Braslaw Sundue (Ph.D. Harvard University) is an Associate Professor of History and chair of the History Department. Her areas of specialization include early American history, American women's history, American social history, the history of childhood, and the origins of inequality. She is about to publish Industrious in Their Stations: Young People at Work in Urban America, 1720—1810 (University of Virginia Press).

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• Jeremy Varon

  Jeremy Varon (Ph.D. Cornell University) is an Associate Professor of History, whose fields of study are modern European intellectual and cultural history, German history, the Holocaust, the 1960s, and social movements and political violence. In 2004 he published Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies (University of California Press). He co-edits The Sixties, a new academic journal that features interdisciplinary and international research on the “long Sixties” (1954-1975). He has written articles and given numerous talks on the social movements of the 1960s and the politics and ethics of violence. His work in intellectual history concerns the relationships between modernity, knowledge, representation, and power. He is currently working on a book about Holocaust survivors who studied in German universities in the American Zone of occupied Germany just after World War Two. He is involved in various social justice causes, which inform his scholarship and teaching.

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Affiliated Faculty

• Erik Anderson

  Erik Anderson works in metaphysics, aesthetics, and the philosophy of science. He earned his PhD from the University of Colorado and spent year as a Fulbright Scholar at Monash University in Australia. His publications include “Kant, Natural Kind Terms, and Scientific Essentialism” (History of Philosophy Quarterly 11), “Dispositional Essentialism: Alive and Well” (Philosophical Papers 26), and “Philosophical Essentialism Meets Scientific Essentialism” (Contemporary Philosophy 29).

• Marc Boglioli

  Marc Boglioli (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison) is Assistant Professor of Anthropology. His research focuses on human-nature relations, gender, and modernity. His book A Matter of Life and Death: Hunting in Contemporary Vermont (forthcoming 2009, University of Massachusetts Press) explores a wide range of issues, including masculinity at homosocial Vermont deer-hunting camps, the role of Euro-Vermonter representations of Western Abenaki history in the construction of contemporary Vermont identity, controversial coyote-hunting tournaments in central Vermont, and theorizations of the “West”. “In the broadest sense,” he observes, “my work in Vermont has been a long meditation – in all its cultural, historical, and ethical complexity - on what historian Bill Cronon refers to as ‘the unending task of struggling to live rightly in the world’”.

• Darrell Cole

  Darrell Cole (Ph.D. University of Virginia, MAPhil Ohio University, MAR Yale Divinity School, ThM Duke Divinity School) is Associate Professor of Religion. He joined the Drew University faculty in 2002. Dr. Cole teaches courses in Religious Ethics, Philosophy, and Theology. His primary areas of specialization are religious engagement with politics, business, and medicine. He is the author of When God Says War Is Right (Waterbrook Press, 2002) and the coauthor of The Virtue of War: Reclaiming the Classical Christian Traditions East and West (Regina Orthodox Press, 2004). Dr. Cole's articles and essays have appeared in scholarly and popular journals such as The Journal of Religious Ethics, Pro Ecclesia, Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy, and First Things.

• Linda E. Connors

  Linda E. Connors is Senior Librarian at the Drew University Library and has a doctorate in British history from Rutgers University. She has published articles on nineteenth-century periodical publishing and the role of periodicals in shaping national identity. She is currently finishing a book (with Mary Lu MacDonald) examining the national identity messages in the periodicals of the United Kingdom and Canada from 1815 to 1851.

• Morris L. Davis

  Morris L. Davis (Ph.D. Drew University) is Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity and Wesleyan/Methodist Studies. His general teaching and research interests include race, nationalism, Christian missions’ religious experience, and material culture. He is currently researching the use of photography by North American missionaries and mission groups.

• Joshua Kavaloski

  Joshua Kavaloski (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is Assistant Professor and Director of the German Studies Program. His areas of specialization are modernism, literary theory, and twentieth-century German literature and film. He has published scholarly articles on authors ranging from Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka to Jurek Becker and Philip Roth. His current book project examines the artifice of high modernism in literary history.

• Wendy Kolmar

  Wendy Kolmar is Director of Women's Studies, Professor of English and Associate Dean for Curriculum and Faculty Development. She teaches courses on feminist theory and the history of feminist thought, Victorian literature, women and literature, gothic and supernatural literature, film and literary criticism. She serves regularly as a consultant and reviewer for women’s and gender studies programs and also served for many years on various governing bodies of the National Women’s Studies Association. Her publications include Haunting the House of Fiction: Feminist Perspectives on Ghost Stories by American Women (with Lynette Carpenter, 1991), Creating an Inclusive College Curriculum: A Teaching Source Book from the New Jersey Project (edited with Ellen G. Friedman, Charley B. Flint, and Paula Rothenberg, 1996); A Selected Annotated Bibliography of Ghost Stories by British and American Women Writers (with Lynette Carpenter, 1998), Feminist Theory: A Reader (with Fran Batkowski, now entering its third edition.), and a special issue of Women’s Studies Quarterly, entitled Looking Across the Lens: Women’s Studies and Film.

• Seung-Kee Lee

  Seung-Kee Lee is Associate Professor of Philosophy. His Ph.D. is from the Catholic University of America, where he was the recipient of the Centennial Scholarship and the Diamond Jubilee Scholarship. His areas of specialization are epistemology, early modern philosophy to Kant, and German idealism. His areas of competence are metaphysics and ancient philosophy. His publications include “The Determinate-Indeterminate Distinction and Kant’s Theory of Judgment” (Kant-Studien) and “The Principle of Determinability and the Synthetic A Priori in Kant and Maimon” (in Rethinking Kant [Cambridge Scholars Publishing]). He is a contributor to the new Kant-Lexikon (Walter de Gruyter).

• Neil Levi

  Neil Levi (Ph.D. Columbia University), Associate Professor of English, specializes in twentieth-century British and comparative literature, critical theory, and the Holocaust. He was a Sesquicentenary Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Sydney. His publications include Modernism, Dirt, and the Jews (Fordham University Press, forthcoming), and The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings, with Michael Rothberg (Edinburgh University Press/Rutgers University Press, 2003).

• Jonathan Levin

  Jonathan Levin is the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Drew University. Dr. Levin has a distinguished record as a teacher, scholar and administrator. He came to Drew from Purchase College SUNY, where he was dean of humanities and professor of literature and culture. He received his bachelor’s degree in English and French from the University of Michigan, his master’s degree in English from UCLA, and his doctoral degree in English from Rutgers University.

• Thomas Magnell

  Thomas Magnell, Professor of Philosophy, received his doctorate from Oxford University as a member of New College, with A. J. Ayer, R. M. Hare, and Anthony Quinton as his tutors. For several years he was Lecturer on Medical Ethics in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He has held visiting appointments at several Chinese universities, including Beijing Normal University, Renmin University of China, Nanjing Medical University, Shanghai Normal University, Xi’an Jiaotong University, the University of Science and Technology of Suzhou, Hubei University, Peking University, and Donghua University. He has been president of the International Society for Value Inquiry, the American Society for Value Inquiry, the Conference of Philosophical Societies, and the American Society for Philosophy, Counseling, and Psychotherapy. He also serves as Executive Director of the Conference on Value Inquiry. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Value Inquiry, a six-hundred page international quarterly now in its fortieth year of publication. He is also Coeditor of Axiology and Ethics (the first joint Chinese-American journal in moral philosophy) and a member of the Editorial Board of Frontiers of Philosophy in China. He has given more than 180 invited lectures and presentations. His work was the subject of an invited session at the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy in Istanbul. He was the 2003 Wayne A. R. Leys Memorial Lecturer at Southern Illinois University, and in 2004 he received Chancellor’s Medal as a Distinguished Lecturer at Louisiana State University. He has edited three books and is the author of over sixty papers, dialogues, editorials, introductions, and forewords, many of them having to do with ethics and, more broadly, matters of value. His most recent book is Values and Education. Four of his most recent articles are “Collapsing Goods in Medicine and the Value of Innovation,” “Privilege, Responsibility, and Dimensions of Value with Liberal Education,” “Life and Liberty on a Global Scale,” and “Harvard Ethics Consortium Case: The Burden of Moral Decision in Traumatic Treatment.” Several of his papers have been translated into Chinese.

• Patrick McGuinn

  Patrick McGuinn is Assistant Professor of Political Science. He earned a Master’s degree in education policy and a PhD in government from the University of Virginia, where he was a fellow at the Miller Center for Public Affairs. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University, and was a visiting scholar at Teachers College, Columbia University. Patrick’s research interests are in national politics and institutions, education and social welfare policy, American political development, federalism, and the policymaking process. His work on education policy has been published in Publius: The Journal of Federalism, The Public Interest, Teachers College Record, Educational Policy, Journal of Policy History, The Great Society and the High Tide of Liberalism, Educational Entrepreneurship, Conservatism and American Political Development, and No Remedy Left Behind. His first book, No Child Left Behind and the Transformation of Federal Education Policy, 1965-2005, was published by the University Press of Kansas in 2006 and was honored as a Choice "outstanding academic title."

• Kesha Moore

  Kesha Moore is an Assistant Professor of Sociology. She received her BA degree in Cross-cultural Psychology from Franklin and Marshall College, a MSW in Community Organizing from the University of Michigan, and her MA and PhD degrees in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania, with a Certificate in Urban Studies. Her areas of interest include race and class stratification, urban neighborhoods, and the symbolic construction of identity. Dr. Moore has published numerous scholarly articles on the relevance of class and racial identities for urban community development, and is currently preparing her manuscript Creating the Black American Dream: Race, Class and Neighborhood Development for book publication. Dr. Moore’s research has earned her recognition and recent awards from the National Science Foundation and the National Academy of Sciences. At Drew University she teaches a variety of courses including Introduction to Sociology, Urban Sociology, The Politics of Beauty, Engendering Prisons, Race and Ethnicity, Comparative Perspectives on Race: U.S. and South Africa, and Critical Race Theory."

• Allan Nadler

  Allan Nadler (Ph.D. Harvard University) is Professor and Director of Jewish Studies. Prior to his appointment at Drew University in 1998, Dr. Nadler was the Director of Research at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York City, and Dean of YIVO's Graduate Training Program, the Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies. He has also taught at Cornell University, New York University, the Spertus Institute for Jewish Studies in Chicago, and McGill University. An ordained rabbi, Dr. Nadler has published articles, reviews, and essays in Commentary, The New Republic, The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Judaism, Tradition, Modern Judaism, The New York Times, Newsday, Forward, The Jewish Week, and The Baltimore Jewish Times. He is the author of Faith of the Mithnagdim: Rabbinic Responses to Hasidic Rapture (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), The Hasidim in America (American Jewish Committee Monograph, 1995), and The Heretic as Hero: Spinoza in the Modern Jewish Imagination (forthcoming).

• Frank Occhiogrosso

  Frank Occhiogrosso (BA St. John's University, MA and PhD Johns Hopkins Uuniversity) is Professor Of English, and has served as chair of the English department and convenor of the English Graduate Area. He won the Presidential Citation for Scholar-Teacher of the Year (1997) and the Thomas H. Kean/Caspersen School of Graduate Studies Professor of the Year Award (2006). He ran a seminar on Close Reading of Shakespeare at the International Shakespeare Conference, Stratford-upon-Avon (2008) and is editing those papers for publication. He is the editor of Shakespeare in Performance: A Collection of Essays (University of Delaware Press, 2003) and Shakespearean Performance: New Studies (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2008). His articles and reviews have appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Bulletin, Shakespeare Newsletter, Literature/Film Quarterly, Modern Language Studies, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Journal of Popular Culture, The New York Times, and The New Republic. He teaches courses on Shakespeare, the Renaissance, Elizabethan Poetry, Elizabethan Drama, Modern Drama, and American Drama. He has also worked as a dramaturge for the Paper Mill Playhouse and the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey.

• L. Dale Patterson

  L. Dale Patterson (Ph.D. Drew University) is Archivist-Records Administrator at the the United Methodist Archives and History Center on the Drew University campus. Dr. Patterson has worked on the staff of the General Commission on Archives and History of the United Methodist Church since 1994. Prior to that he was Associate Archivist and Co-Director of the Oral History Center at the University of Louisville. He has taught courses on the history and methods of archives, American religious history and United Methodist history. He is the New Jersey Caucus chair of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference and a past chair of the Archivists of Religious Collections Section of the Society of American Archivists. His publications include “The United Methodists and their Open Records Policy,” in Privacy and Confidentiality Perspectives: Archivists and Archival Records, ed. Menzi L. Behrnd-Klodt and Peter J. Wosh (Society of American Archivists, 2005), as well as articles and reviews in Methodist History.

• Virginia Phelan

  Virginia Phelan (Ph.D. Rutgers University) taught at Rutgers, Monmouth Universisty, and Princeton University before coming to Drew. She has served as director of the Caspersen School’s Arts and Letters Program and presided over the institution and development of the Doctor of Letters degree. Her special interests include the links between ancient and modern literatures and mythology, especially in its contemporary manifestations, such as in “The Journey Back to Self.” She also created “Writing to Heal” for Medical Humanities and several courses for the Irish Studies Concentration, including “Joyce’s Journey,” and “The Importance of Being Witty.” Publications include her dissertation, Two Ways of Life and Death (Garland, 1990), Praying in Your Own Voice through Writing (Liguori, 1994), and articles in journals such as the Yeats-Eliot Review, America, and The New York Times. Current projects include a manuscript of “Writing to Heal” and ongoing research on mythology and the journey and Charles Williams.

• Jonathan W. Reader

  Jonathan W. Reader (Ph.D. Cornell University), the Baker Professor of Sociology, has authored or coauthored twenty articles, grants, research reports, reviews, and speeches on public policy issues. Over the past four decades, he has done extensive consulting for organizations in the private, nonprofit, and public sectors, including labor unions, local governments, local health departments, news organizations, school districts, universities, a Wall Street law firm, and wildlife conservation organizations. He also was a consultant for a novel by Jane Shapiro, A Dangerous Husband, and starred as a supporting actor in the film Meeting the Beautiful People (1994). His teaching specialties include sociological theory, mass communications, political sociology, and the sociology of health and illness. In 2004 he received the Drew University President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. His current research interests include the state, the foundations and the concept of race, and US Presidents and their illnesses.

• William Rogers

  William Rogers (Ph.D. Drew University) is Associate Dean of the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies. He teaches nineteenth-century American history (particularly antebellum reform movements and the Civil War), the impact of war on American society, and Irish/Irish-American history and literature. His publications include “The Great Hunger: Act of God or Acts of Man,” in Ireland’s Great Hunger: Silence, Memory and Commemoration (2002); “Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and the Prophetic Tradition in Nineteenth Century America,” in Let Justice Roll (1996); and “We Are All Together Now”: Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison and the Prophetic Tradition (1995).

• Peggy Samuels

  Peggy Samuels (Ph.D. CUNY) teaches seventeenth-century English literature and mid-twentieth-century American poetry. Her areas of research include biblical interpretation and literary responses to cultural conflicts in the seventeenth century. She has published on Milton's Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, and Andrew Marvell's lyrics. More recently, she has worked on Elizabeth Bishop's use of experiments in the visual arts to construct a new poetics, a project in intellectual history that focuses on the mid-century reception of Paul Klee and Kurt Schwitters. Her book, Deep Skin: Elizabeth Bishop and Visual Art is forthcoming from Cornell University Press (2009). She is working on Drew University's partnership with the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation to create and make accessible an archive of a wide range of contemporary poets in performance and conversation.

• Bernard Smith

  Bernard Smith, Associate Professor of Economics, is an economic historian with research interests in late nineteenth-century industrial history and labor relations. Prof. Smith is the author of “Market Development, Industrial Development: The Case of the American Corset Trade, 1860-1920,” published in Business History Review, and “The Ready-Made Menswear Industry of Rochester, New York 1848-1900,” forthcoming in A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry (Texas Tech University Press). He was assistant curator for business and economic history for the Yeshiva University Library-Museum’s 2005 exhibition “A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry”. Prof. Smith teaches courses in American economic history, microeconomic theory, macroeconomic theory and policy, and European economic integration. He is also co-director of Drew University’s European Union Semester.

• Leslie Sprout

  Leslie Sprout is Assistant Professor of Music. Before coming to Drew, she was an assistant professor of musicology at the University of Iowa. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in music theory from the Eastman School of Music, and MA and PhD degrees in musicology from the University of California at Berkeley. In her research, Dr. Sprout addresses issues about music, modernism, and national identity, and the ways composers in the twentieth century have come to terms with their nineteenth-century heritage. Her publications include “The 1945 Stravinsky Festival, the German Occupation, and the Early Cold War in France” (currently under review at the Journal of Musicology); “Messiaen, Jolivet, and the Soldier-Composers of Wartime France” (Musical Quarterly, 2004); and "Les commandes de Vichy: aube d'une ère nouvelle?" (in La vie musicale sous Vichy, edited by Myriam Chimènes, Paris: Éditions Complexe, 2001). Dr. Sprout’s research has been supported by an Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship from the American Musicological Society, the Chancellor’s Dissertation Fellowship at UC Berkeley, a Fulbright fellowship to France, and travel grants from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris.

• Leonard Sweet

  Leonard Sweet (Ph.D. University of Rochester) is the E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism at Drew Theological School and Visiting Distinguished Professor at George Fox University. He is the author of more than one hundred articles, 600 published sermons and thirty books, most recently The Gospel According to Starbucks (2007). He has served a term on the council of the American Society of Church History, and was an associate editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion for ten years.

• Andrea Talentino

  Andrea Talentino joined the Drew faculty in 2005, after spending six years in the political science department at Tulane University. She received her PhD in political science from UCLA in 1998, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University's Center for International Studies in 1999. Her research focuses on international security, specifically military intervention, civil conflict, and peacemaking and peacekeeping. She is the author of numerous journal articles and a book: Military Intervention After the Cold War: The Evolution of Theory and Practice. She has done extensive field research in the Balkans and West Africa, and is working on a project analyzing the links between nation-building efforts and political violence.

• J. Terry Todd

  J. Terry Todd (Ph.D. Columbia University) is Associate Professor of American Religious Studies. Prof. Todd's research and teaching focus on the history of American forms of Christian faith and practice, particularly as they developed in twentieth-century urban contexts. He is especially interested in the influence of religious ideas on US nationalism and representations of Jesus produced by American media. He is the author of numerous articles on topics in American religion.

• Robert Weisbuch

  Robert Weisbuch is the President of Drew University and a distinguished scholar of American literature. Prior to coming to Drew, Dr. Weisbuch spent eight years as president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, where he promoted initiatives to connect higher education to the social sectors beyond academia. He joined the foundation after 25 years at the University of Michigan, where he served as chair of the Department of English, associate vice president for research, associate dean for faculty programs, and interim dean of the Rackham School of Graduate Studies. Dr. Weisbuch is a graduate of Wesleyan University and holds a PhD in English from Yale University. He received awards for both teaching and scholarship at Michigan, and is the author of books on Emily Dickinson and the stormy relations between British and American authors in the nineteenth century.