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Humanities, Education, Justice & Social Sciences Faculty

Allison E. Butterfield, M.A., M.S.W.

Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

Expertise: community corrections, restorative justice, juvenile justice and delinquency, and substance use among offenders

Paul DeBole, J.D.

Assistant Professor of Justice Studies

Expertise: American government and politics, American political institutions, policymaking and the political process

Rebecca DeMello Egan, M.Ed.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology

Expertise: Mental health counseling, school adjustment counseling, clinical counseling

Charlotte Frazier, Ph.D.

Chair of Social Sciences; Associate Professor of Social Sciences

Dennis A. Frey Jr, Ph.D.

Director of Honors Program, Professor of History

Patricia Garcia, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Education

Expertise: school improvement, teacher leadership and social change, bilingualism and second language acquisition

Elizabeth Hartmann, Ph.D.

Professor of Education

Expertise: Universal Design for Learning (UDL), inclusive education, cultural competence, supporting learner variability

James William Lincoln, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, The Nancy Lawson Donahue '49 Professor of Ethics, and Coordinator of the Junior Ethics Program

Expertise: ethics, social philosophy, and epistemology

Amy J. Maynard, Ed.D.

Professor of Education

Expertise: early literacy, elementary literacy and assessment, elementary literacy

Lizbeth H. Piel, Ph.D.

Chair of Humanities; Associate Professor of Humanities

Claudia Rinaldi, Ph.D.

Dean of Curricular Integration and Director of the RoseMary Fuss Teaching and Learning Center

Expertise: response to intervention, issues related to English language learners, multiculturalism in education

Lori Rosenthal, Ph.D.

Assistant Provost; Professor of Psychology

Expertise: psychological perspectives, personality psychology, social psychology

Jesse Tauriac, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychology; Director of the Donahue Institute for Ethics, Diversity, and Inclusion

Expertise: transformative education, cultural competence, clinical psychology

Edward G. Weeks, Ph.D.

Graduate Chair of Criminal Justice; Associate Professor of Justice Studies

Expertise: criminology, corrections, research methods in the social sciences

Kellie Wallace, Ph.D., CAGS

Undergraduate Chair of Criminal Justice and Justice Studies; Associate Professor of Criminal Justice

Expertise: criminology, criminal justice, mental health, veterinary forensic science

Zane Zheng, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology and Chair of Academic Research at Lasell University; Research Director, Psi Chi

Expertise: cognitive neuroscience, speech perception, biological basis of behavior, psychological perspectives

Joseph Aieta III, M.A.

Professor Emeritus

Steven F. Bloom, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus, English

Felice Gordis, Ph.D.

Professor Emerita

Tessa LeRoux, Ph.D.

Professor Emerita

Sharyn Lowenstein, Ph.D.

Associate Professor Emerita, Humanities

Marsha Mirkin, Ph.D.

Professor Emerita

Joann Montepare, Ph.D.

Professor Emerita

James Ostrow, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

Thomas Sullivan, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

Catherine Zeek, Ed.D.

Professor Emerita