Faculty choose to participate in the Community Service Learning program and design their CSL classes to increase awareness of societal issues and how individuals can take their knowledge and skills to improve society. The faculty and classes can change year to year, but the strong commitment to this type of learning is reflective of the Assumption community overall. All faculty listed here have taught a CSL class.
Community Service Learning
Mike Land. Assistant Professor of English (2000). B.A., University of Alabama, 1981; M.A., University of Missouri: Columbia, 1994; Ph.D., University of Missouri: Columbia, 1999. Director of CSL.
Susan Perschbacher. Professor of Sociology (1990), B.A., Denison University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1981.
Art, Music, Theatre
Barbara Beal-Fofana. Associate Professor of Art History (2000). B.A., Bard College; M.Ed., Clark University; M.A., University of Massachusetts; A.M., Brown University; Ph.D., Brown University.
Carrie Nixon. Associate Professor of Art. B.A., Yale University, M.F.A., Wayne State University.
Edith Read. Visiting Assistant Professor of Art (2001). B.A., Boston University; M.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art.
Business Studies
Arlene DeWitt. Assistant Professor of Marketing and Organizational Communication (2005). B.A. Elmira College; M.B.A., Clark University, 1987.
Carol Harvey . Professor of Management (1990). A.B., Anna Maria College, 1965; M.A., Assumption College, 1973; M.B.A., Northeastern University, 1982; C.A.G.S., Northeastern University, 1986; Ed.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1991.
Jennifer M. Niece . Associate Professor of Accounting (2001). B.A., College of the Holy Cross, 1994; M.B.A., Boston College, 1998; Certified Public Accountant, 1998 (Massachusetts).
Economics
Smriti Rao. Assistant Professor of Economics (2006) B.A. Birla Institute of Technology M.A., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2005.
Education
Nanho Vanderhart . Assistant Professor of Special Education (1999). B.A., Ewha Woman's University, Seoul, Korea, 1987; M.A., University of Northern Colorado, 1991; Ph.D., The University of Iowa, 1998.
English
Paul Ady. Associate Professor of English (1987). B.A., M.A., Florida State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1984.
Lucia Knoles . Professor of English (1984). B.A., St. Mary's College, 1972; M.A., Rutgers University, 1976; Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1979.
Jim Lang. Associate Professor of English (2000). B.A., University of Notre Dame, 1991; M.A., St. Louis University, 1993; Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1997.
History
Carl Keyes. Assistant Professor of History (2008). B.A., University of Michigan, 1996; M.A., The American University, 1999; M.A., Johns Hopkins University, 2001; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2007.
Human Services and Rehabilitation Studies
Robert Caron. Visiting Instructor of Human and Rehabilitation Studies (2010).B.A., Assumption College, 1999; M.A., Assumption College, 2000.
Cinzia Pinca-Smith.Assistant Professor of Human Services and Rehabilitation Studies (2008), B.A., M.S.Ed., The College of Saint Rose; Ed.M., Harvard University; Ed.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2008.
Susan Scully-Hill. Associate Professor of Human Services and Rehabilitation Studies (1998), Chairperson of the Human Services and Rehabilitation Studies Department. B.A., Michigan State University, 1985; M.A., Michigan State University, 1988; Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1996.
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Languages
Juan Carlos Grijalva. Assistant Professor of Spanish (2004). B.A., Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador (Quito, Ecuador), 1994; M.A., Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar (Quito), 1997; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2004.
Arlene Guerrero. Associate Professor of Spanish (1999), Director of Latin American Studies. B.A, Amherst College, 1993; M.A., Brown University, 1996; Ph.D., Brown University, 2000.
Maryanne Leone . Assistant Professor of Spanish (2005). B.S., University of Connecticut; M.A., Middlebury College; Ph.D., University of Kansas, 2003.
Esteban Lousteneau . Associate Professor of Spanish (2008). B.A., Carleton College, 1992; M.A., The Ohio State University, 1994.; Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1998.
Natural Sciences
Heather Connors*
Philosophy
Gavin Colvert. Associate Professor of Philosophy (2000). B.A., Santa Clara University, 1987; M.A., University of Toronto, 1988; Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1995.
Christian Gobel. Assistant Professor of Philosophy (2008). B.A., Munich School of Philosophy, 1997; Ph.L., Pontifical University of Sant'Anselmo (Rome), 1999; M.Phil., Cambridge University, 2000; Ph.D., Sant'Anselmo, 2001
Psychology
Regina Edmonds . Associate Professor of Psychology (1976). A.B., Elmira College, 1968; M.S., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1974.
Sociology
Robert Biggert . Assistant Professor of Sociology (1998). B.A., Denison University, 1979; M.A., University of Michigan, 1983; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1992.
Steve Farough . Assistant Professor of Sociology (2001). B.A., Western Michigan University, 1990; M.S.W, University of Michigan, 1992; Ph.D., Boston College, 2001.
Amy Gavin-Schwartz. Associate Professor of Anthropology (1998). A.B., Vassar College, 1974; M.A., University of Durham (England), 1974; Ph.D., UMass Amherst, 1999.
Rich Gendron . Assistant Professor of Sociology (1996), Chairperson of the Sociology and Anthropology Department. B.A., University of Massachusetts; M.A., University of California: Santa Cruz, 1989; Ph.D., University of California: Santa Cruz, 1998.
Theology
Gerald McCarthy. Visiting Assistant Professor of Theology (1994). A.B., St. Peter's College, 1967; M.A., University of San Francisco, 1969; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1976.
Ellen White. Assistant Professor of Theology (2009). B.A., York University; M.Div., Tyndale Seminary; Th.M., Tyndale Seminary.