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LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT

Michael J. Cozzillio, J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• labor law
• administrative law
• sports law
• contract law
  Admitted to the Maryland and District of Columbia bars.

Stuart Eimer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Sociology
Expertise:

• social class
• social and economic inequality
• labor politics
• union organizing
• race and ethnicity
  Author, Central Labor Councils and the Revival of American Unionism

Michael J. Goldberg, J.D., LL.M.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• labor law
• union democracy
  Admitted to the Washington and Pennsylvania bars.

Dennis R. Laker, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Management
Expertise:

• human resource management
• organizational development
• employment issues: controlling employee turnover, training, alternative employment, job search
• organizational behavior and communication
• human resource services: temporary agencies, leasing firms, outplacement   firms, consulting companies
• inferential statistics

Mary Ellen Maatman, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law; Director, Legal Writing Program
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• federal employment discrimination law 
• torts
• legal writing
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar.

Glenn H. McAllister, M.B.A., C.P.A.
Director, Widener University Small Business Development Center
Expertise:

• small business
• business financing
• banking

Doretta M. McGinnis, J.D.
Legal Methods Professor; Associate Director, Legal Methods Program
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• legal writing
• employment discrimination
• labor law
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania bar.

Pamela L. Perry, J.D.
Visiting Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• employment law
• civil procedure
  Admitted to the New Jersey and Pennsylvania bars

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BUSINESS AND LABOR LAW

Larry D. Barnett, Ph.D., J.D. , M.S.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• Investment Company Act and Investment Advisers Act
  Author, Mutual Funds and Federal Regulation: Readings on the Investment Company Act and the Investment Advisers Act. Admitted to the Florida Bar.

Gregory P. Cermignano, J.D., M.B.A., C.M.A.
Associate Professor, Accounting
Expertise:

• financial and managerial accounting
• business combinations
• contingencies
• cost accounting
• business law
• sports law
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar.

Susan M. Chesler, J.D.
Legal Methods Professor
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• drafting contracts
• contracts
• legal writing
• litigation
  Admitted to the New York bar.

Ann E. Conaway, J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• business law
• LLC law
• partnership law
• corporate law
  Admitted to the Delaware bar. Member, Drafting Committee for the Uniform Liability Partnership Act.

Michael J. Cozzillio, J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• labor law
• administrative law
• sports law
• contract law
  Admitted to the Maryland and District of Columbia bars.

John L. Gedid, J.D., LL.M.
Director, Law and Government Institute; Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• administrative law/regulation
• contract law
• commercial law
• conflict of laws
• separation of powers
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar.

Michael J. Goldberg, J.D., LL.M.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• labor law
• union democracy
  Admitted to the Washington and Pennsylvania bars.

Russell A. Hakes, J.D.
Vice Dean, Delaware campus;  Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• commercial law: sale of goods, personal property leasing
• real estate
• commercial finance
• payment systems: checks, credit cards, letters of credit
  Admitted to the California Bar.

Lawrence A. Hamermesh, J.D.
Ruby R. Vale Professor of Corporate and Business Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• Delaware corporate law
• securities law
• business law
• mergers and acquisitions
  Admitted to the Delaware Bar.

Stephen E. Henderson, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• intellectual property
• cybercrime
• criminal law and procedure
• Fourth Amendment search and seizure issues
  Admitted to the Texas bar.

J. Patrick Kelly, J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• international law
• international organizations – WTO/IMF
• international business law
• international trade
• administrative law
• international environmental law: global warming/ozone/endangered species.
  Admitted to the District of Columbia Bar.

Mary Ellen Maatman, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law; Director, Legal Writing Program
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• federal employment discrimination law
• torts
• legal writing
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar.

Roberta F. Mann, J.D. , L.L.M., M.B.A.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• federal income tax
• international income tax
• individual income tax
• business income tax
• tax policy
  Admitted to the Arizona and District of Columbia bars

Doretta M. McGinnis, J.D.
Legal Methods Professor; Associate Director, Legal Methods Program
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• legal writing
• employment discrimination
• labor law
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania bar.

Robyn L. Meadows, J.D., LL.M.
Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• commercial law
• insurance
  Admitted to the Florida Bar.

Nicholas A. Mirkay, J.D., L.L.M.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• federal income tax, individuals and business entities
• nonprofit organizations
• business organizations
  Admitted to the Missouri bar and limited admission to the Delaware bar for pro bono representation.

Juliet M. Moringiello, J.D., LL.M.
Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• secured financing
• payment systems: checks and notes
• bankruptcy/creditors’ rights
• cyberspace law
  Chair, Pennsylvania Bar Association Uniform Commercial Code Committee. Admitted to the Pennsylvania and New York bars.

Loren D. Prescott Jr., J.D., LL.M.
Professor, Law
Vice Dean, Harrisburg campus
Expertise:

• federal income taxation
• nonprofit organizations
  Admitted to the Oregon and Washington bars

Paul L. Regan, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• corporate/business law and litigation
• contract law and litigation
  Admitted to New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware bars.

Andrew L. Strauss, J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• international law
• American foreign policy
• United Nations
• international trade and finance
  Executive Committee, Association of American Law Schools, International Law section. Co-author, International Law & World Order. Admitted to the New York Bar.

John Wladis, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• commercial law: sale of goods, checks, personal property leasing.
  Admitted to the New York Bar.

CIVIL LAW

Linda L. Ammons, J.D.
Associate Provost and Law Dean
Campus: Delaware and Harrisburg
Expertise:

• women and the law
• domestic violence
• administrative law
  Admitted to the Ohio bar.

Ann Hartwell Britton, J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• disability law: architectural barriers and employment discrimination
• elder law
• mental health law
• family law
• personal injury
  Admitted to the Virginia bar. Author, Delaware Law and Mental Health Professionals.

John J. Capowski, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• domestic violence
• evidence
• clinical legal education
• legislative process
• pro bono and legal services
• trial practice
  Admitted to the New York and Maryland bars.

Francis J. Catania, Jr., J.D.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• family law (marriage, divorce, child custody, child support, spousal abuse, adoption, etc.)
• professional responsibility/legal ethics
• clinical legal education
• judicial clerkships
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania State Bar.

John G. Culhane, J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• civil liability
• torts and tort reform
• product liability
• HIV and the law
• public health issues
• the law of sexual orientation
  Admitted to the New York Bar.

Jean Macchiaroli Eggen, J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• toxic substances litigation
• asbestos
• tobacco smoking and secondhand smoke
• prescription drugs
• contaminated blood products
• Agent Orange
• Gulf War syndrome
• chemical exposures
• hazardous waste sites/landfills
• radiation
• electromagnetic fields
• toxic exposures in the workplace
• reproductive hazards in the workplace
• medical device litigation
  Author, Toxic Torts in a Nutshell. Admitted to the New York Bar.

Amiram Elwork, Ph.D.
Director, Law-Psychology Program; Professor, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• law-psychology: jury instruction, patient confidentiality, mental competency, custody mediation
• psychological issues for lawyers
• cognitive psychology
• forensic psychology
• ethics
  Author, Success Briefs for Lawyers: Inspirational Insights on How to Succeed at Law and Life, Making Jury Instructions Understandable and Stress Management for Lawyers.

Jill Family, J.D., M.S.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• immigration
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bars.

Arlene Rivera Finkelstein, J.D.
Legal Writing Professor
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• balancing family and the law
• women in the law
• minorities in the law
• public interest law
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania bar. Former president, Hispanic Bar Association of Pennsylvania.

Susan L. Goldberg, J.D., LL.M.
Associate Professor, Law; Associate Dean, Student Affairs
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• bioethics
• assisted reproductive technology including in vitro fertilization
• genetic testing
• cloning
• organ transplantation
• informed consent
• end-of-life issues including advanced directives, assisted suicide, living wills, substituted decision-making
  Author, Medical Choices During Pregnancy: Whose Decision is it Anyway? and Of Gametes and Guardians: The Impropriety of Appointing Guardians Ad Litem for Fetuses and Embryos. Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar.

Patrick J. Johnston, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• professional ethics
• federal civil procedure
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar.

Mary Kate Kearney, J.D., L.L.M.
Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• family law
• children and the law
• child abuse
• domestic violence
  Author, The ADA, Smokers and Respiratory Ailments. Admitted to the Illinois Bar.

Greg Randall Lee, J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• tort or personal injury law
• lawyer professional responsibility
• defamation law
• disability law
• home schooling law
• law and religion
• constitutional law

J. Palmer Lockard II, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law;
Director, Harrisburg Civil Law Clinic
Expertise:

• family law
• civil practice
• prisoner litigation
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania and Massachusetts bars.

Edmund B. Luce, J.D.
Assistant Dean, Students; Administrative Director, Graduate Programs; Legal Writing Professor
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• Pennsylvania civil procedure
• civil litigation
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania bar.

Mary Brigid McManamon, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• federal courts
• state’s rights
• Federalism
• separation of powers
• sanctions in litigation
• complex litigation
• civil litigation
  Admitted to the Ohio Bar.

Katharine F. Nelson, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• federal civil procedure
• federal jurisdictional issues
• employment discrimination
  Admitted to the New York and Pennsylvania bars.

Nathaniel C. Nichols, J.D.
Director, Clinical Programs; Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• consumer bankruptcy law
• family law
• martial arts
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar.

Susan M. Raeker-Jordan, J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• torts
• products liability
• federal civil procedure
  Admitted to the Illinois Bar.

Thomas J. Reed, J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• trial practice
• evidence
• criminal law and procedure
• land use
• historic preservation
• Civil War history (military and legal)
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Indiana bars.

Christopher J. Robinette, J.D.
Visiting Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• legal ethics
• tort reform
• tort law and theory
• evidence
  Admitted to the Virginia Bar.

Verne R. Smith, J.D.
Assistant Dean, Administration
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• animal law: animal cruelty, animal rights, wildlife issues
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar.

Kathleen Turezyn
Visiting Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• torts
• privacy
• medical malpractice
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar.

Serena M. Williams, J.D., LL.M.
Assistant Dean, Student Affairs; Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• landlord/tenant law
• property law

Micah J. Yarbrough, J.D.
Director, Bar Programs; Legal Writing Professor
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• immigration: asylum/deportation issues
• African Americans and the legislative process
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar.

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

Erin Daly, J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• transitional justice
• constitutional law
• comparative constitutional law
  Co-author, Reconciliation: Finding Common Ground in Divided Societies. Admitted to the California Bar.

Michael R. Dimino, Sr., J.D.
Assistant Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• constitutional law
• Supreme Court personnel and procedure
• judicial selection
  Admitted to practice in New York, Pennsylvania and U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Alan E. Garfield, J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• copyright law
• free speech
• church and state issues
  Author, Promises of Silence: Contract Law and Freedom of Speech;
  Admitted to the New York and California bars.

John L. Gedid, J.D., LL.M.
Director, Law and Government Institute; Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• administrative law/regulation
• contract law
• commercial law
• conflict of laws
• separation of powers
• state constitutional law
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar.

Robert Justin Lipkin, Ph.D., J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• U.S. supreme court
• politics and the law
• law and society
• how judges reason
• conceptual and moral natures of law
• methodology in legal theory
• constitutional law: due process, equal protection, church and state, role of the Supreme Court in a republican democracy
  Author, Constitutional Revolutions:  Pragmatism and the Role of Judicial Review in American Constitutionalism. Admitted to the California Bar.

Mary Brigid McManamon, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• federal courts
• states’ rights
• Federalism
• separation of powers
• sanctions in litigation
• complex litigation
• civil litigation
  Admitted to the Ohio Bar.

Katharine F. Nelson, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• federal civil procedure
• federal jurisdictional issues
• employment discrimination
  Admitted to the New York and Pennsylvania bars.

Wesley M. Oliver
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• criminal law and procedure
• constitutional law
• legal history
  Admitted to the Tennessee Bar.

Robert C. Power, J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• American legal history
• criminal law and procedure
• federal agencies/regulating policy
• First Amendment
• War on Terror
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania, New York and Rhode Island bars.

Laura K. Ray, J.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• U.S. Supreme Court
• judicial appointment process
  Author, The Road to Bush v. Gore: The History of the Supreme Court’s Use of the Per Curiam Opinion, Autobiography and Opinion: The Romantic Jurisprudence of Justice William O. Douglas and Judicial Fictions: Images of Supreme Court Justices in the Novel. Admitted to the Connecticut Bar.

CRIMINAL LAW

James W. Diehm, J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• criminal law
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania, District of Columbia and Virgin Island bars.

Jules Epstein, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• death penalty/murder
• sex crimes
• trials and evidence
• mistaken identification
• criminal law and procedure
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar.

Stephen E. Henderson, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• intellectual property
• cybercrime
• criminal law and procedure
• Fourth Amendment search and seizure issues
  Admitted to the Texas Bar.

H. Geoffrey Moulton Jr., J.D.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• criminal law and procedure
• legal ethics
• defamation and privacy
• white collar crime
• U.S. Supreme Court
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar.

Robert C. Power, J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• criminal law and procedure
• federal agencies/regulating policy
• First Amendment
• War on Terror
• American legal history
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania, New York and Rhode Island bars.

Thomas J. Reed, J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• trial practice
• evidence
• criminal law and procedure
• land use
• historic preservation
• Civil War history (military and legal)
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Indiana bars.

Judith L. Ritter, J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• criminal procedure and criminal law
• death penalty
• post-conviction
• clinical legal education
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York bars.

Leonard N. Sosnov, J.D.
Professor, Law
Expertise:

• criminal procedure
• criminal law
• evidence
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar.

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

John C. Dernbach, J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• environmental law
• global warming
• international environmental law
• sustainable development
• administrative law
• property law
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania bar.

David R. Hodas, J.D., LL.M.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• environmental law
• constitutional law
• energy and natural resources
• international environmental law
• global warming
• administrative law
• sustainable development
  Vice Chair, ABA Special Committee on Global Climate and Sustainable Development. Board of Editors, Natural Resources and Environment. Member, IUCN-World Conservation Union Environmental Law Commission. Admitted to the Delaware Bar.

Kenneth T. Kristl, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law; Director, Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic 
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• environmental law
• clean water legal issues
• solid waste legal issues
• environmental litigation
• liquefied natural gas
• federal environmental policies, practices, procedures
• use of scientific data in the law
• legal issues of environmental science and data
  Admitted to the Illinois Bar.

James R. May, J.D., LL.M.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• environmental law
• international environmental law
• natural resources law
• race and the environment
• engineering aspects of environmental law
• agency law
• toxic and hazardous substances
  Member, U.S.E.P.A. Water Pollution Task Force. Member, IUCN – World Conservation Union Environmental Law Commission. President, Mid-Atlantic Environmental Law Center. Admitted to the Kansas and Pennsylvania bars.

HEALTH LAW

Andrew J. Fichter, J.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• health law
  Admitted to Pennsylvania and New Jersey bars.

Susan L. Goldberg, J.D., LL.M.
Associate Professor, Law; Associate Dean, Student Affairs
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• bioethics
• assisted reproductive technology including in vitro fertilization
• genetic testing
• cloning
• organ transplantation
• informed consent
• end-of-life issues including advanced directives, assisted suicide, living wills, substituted decision-making
  Author, Medical Choices During Pregnancy: Whose Decision is it Anyway? and Of Gametes and Guardians: The Impropriety of Appointing Guardians Ad Litem for Fetuses and Embryos. Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar.

LEGAL EDUCATION/ETHICS

John J. Capowski, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• domestic violence
• evidence
• clinical legal education
• legislative process
• pro bono and legal services
• trial practice
  Admitted to the New York and Maryland bars.

Susan M. Chesler, J.D.
Legal Methods Professor
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• drafting contracts
• contracts
• legal writing
• litigation
  Admitted to the New York Bar.

Dana Harrington Conner, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• student practice
• professional responsibility
• ethical issues and the representation of battered women
• domestic violence
• domestic violence homicides
• access to justice
  Admitted to the Delaware Bar. Director,  Delaware Civil Clinic.

John L. Gedid, J.D., LL.M.
Director, Law and Government Institute; Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• administrative law/regulation
• contract law
• commercial law
• conflict of laws
• separation of powers
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar.

Louise L. Hill, J.D. 
Professor, Law 
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• legal ethics
• legal profession
• marketing of legal services
• professional responsibility of lawyers
  Author, Lawyer Advertising. Admitted to the Massachusetts, Ohio and Pennsylvania bars.

Patrick J. Johnston, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• professional ethics
• federal civil procedure
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar.

Susan A. King, J.D., M.L.S.
Legal Methods Professor
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• legal research
• legal writing
  Admitted to Pennsylvania Bar.

Doretta M. McGinnis, J.D.
Legal Methods Professor; Associate Director, Legal Methods Program
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• legal writing
• employment discrimination
• labor law
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania bar.

Thomas J. Reed, J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• trial practice
• evidence
• criminal law and procedure
• land use
• historic preservation
• Civil War history (military and legal)
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Indiana bars.

Judith L. Ritter, J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware  
Expertise:

• criminal procedure and criminal law
• death penalty
• post-conviction
• clinical legal education
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York bars.

Christopher J. Robinette, J.D.
Visiting Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• legal ethics
• tort reform
• tort law and theory
• evidence
  Admitted to the Virginia Bar.

Mary Ann Robinson, J.D.
Legal Methods Professor
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• legal writing
• advocacy
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar.

Amanda L. Smith, J.D.
Legal Methods Professor
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• legal methods
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar.

PROPERTY/WILLS AND TRUSTS

D. Benjamin Barros, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• eminent domain/takings
• property law
• constitutional property
  Admitted to the New York Bar.

Michael J. Hussey, J.D., L.L.M.
Assistant Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• estate planning
• estate and gift tax
  Admitted to the Missouri and Illinois bars.

Leslie A. Johnson, J.D., M.S.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• wills and estates
• property
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar.

Alicia B. Kelly, J.D., L.L.M.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• property law
• family law: economic rights between spouses, gendered nature of family work, impact of family law on women, tension between work and family law
  Admitted to Pennsylvania and Colorado bars.

Thomas J. Reed, J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• trial practice
• evidence
• criminal law and procedure
• land use
• historic preservation
• Civil War history (military and legal)
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Indiana bars.

Serena M. Williams, J.D., LL.M.
Assistant Dean, Student Affairs; Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• landlord/tenant law
• property law

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LEARNING DISABILITIES

Jules C. Abrams, Ph.D., ABPP
Professor Emeritus, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• learning disabilities: behavioral, emotional, physical
• reading and spelling disorders in children
• the brain injured child
• dyslexia
• psychoanalysis
• psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy
• professional psychologist training
  Co-author, Diagnosis, Corrections, and Prevention of Reading Disabilities. President, National Council of Schools and Programs of Professional Psychology.

Patricia M. Bricklin, Ph.D.
Professor, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• reading and learning disabilities: child, adolescent, adult
• school psychology
• legal regulation of psychology: licensing and malpractice liability
• national and state legislative issues
• ethical issues

Kenneth B. Goldberg, Psy.D.
Assistant Professor, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• neuropsychological assessment
• brain injury and rehabilitation
• learning disabilities
• dementia
  Former President, Philadelphia Neuropsychology Society

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MARKETING

A. Douglas Bender, Ph.D.
Adjunct Faculty, Management
Expertise:

• corporate business strategy
• management leadership training
• organizational behavior
• hospital and physician relationships
• small business management and entrepreneurship
• marketing: product development, promotion, management
• medical billing and management Services

Myroslaw J. Kyj, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Professor, Management
Expertise:

• marketing
• international marketing
• e-commerce
• ethics in marketing
• marketing research
• Ukrainian issues: economic and social

Brian Larson, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Associate Professor, Management
Expertise:

• marketing
• sport marketing
• marketing research
• promotions
• event marketing
• international marketing
• automotive industry issues

Michael D. Rosko, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Professor, Health and Medical Services Administration
Expertise:

• healthcare economics: cost   containment programs, effects of technological change on healthcare costs, compensated vs. uncompensated care
• political economy of healthcare
• evaluation of regulatory efforts
• healthcare marketing
• nursing homes
  Co-author, Economics of Health Care: A Reference Handbook.

Mary E. Shoemaker, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Associate Professor, Management
Expertise:

• marketing
• sales-personal selling
• sales management
• industrial marketing
• direct marketing
• SAP enterprise software
• CRM (customer relationship management)

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MATHEMATICS

Arlene L. Dowshen, Ed.D.
Associate Professor, Mathematics Education
Expertise:

• elementary and secondary school mathematics
• teaching mathematics
• precalculus mathematics
• mathematic education service-learning
  Co-Editor, IMAGES.

Katarzyna M. Hallenbeck, Ph.D.
Professor, Mathematics
Expertise:

• function theory
• complex analysis
• extreme points
• span of simple closed curves

Janusz M. Lysko, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Mathematics
Expertise:

• general topology
• continuum theory
• dynamical systems
• computer graphics

Bob Neveln, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Mathematics and Computer Science
Expertise:

• Linux
• artificial intelligence
• logic
• coding theory
• mathematical biology
• history of mathematics
  Author, Comma-Free and Synchronizable Codes and Linux Assembly Language Programming.

Richard C. Pappas, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Mathematics
Expertise:

• mathematical physics
• Clifford algebras

Neil A. Watling, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Mathematics
Expertise:

• mathematical physics
• functional analysis
• operator theory

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NURSING

Lois Ryan Allen, Ph.D., R.N.
Professor, Nursing
Expertise:

• education evaluation
• quantitative research methods
• research instrument development
• nursing science and theory development

Mary Baumberger-Henry, D.N.Sc., R.N.
Associate Professor, Nursing
Expertise:

• case study
• nursing theory
• burn, emergency, critical care and disaster nursing
• cooperative learning

Lynne C. Borucki, Ph.D., C.R.N.P.
Assistant Professor, Nursing
Expertise:

• care of childbearing families
• lactation
• qualitative research
• gender and technology
• student learning styles

Donna M. Callaghan, D.N.S.C, A.P.R.N., B.C.
Assistant Professor, Nursing
Expertise:

• adult health
• gerontology
• health promotion
• parish nursing
• research
  Certified CNS; Vice President, Parish Nurse Council for the Diocese of Camden.

Normajean Colby, M.S.N., R.N., C.P.N, D.N.Sc
Lecturer, Nursing
Expertise:

• health promotion: children
• acute/chronic care: children, particularly pediatric respiratory, oncology
• caregiver burden (children)
• pediatric asthma
• respiratory disease
• medication calculation for student nurses
• cultural diversity
• child abuse

Shirlee M. Drayton-Brooks, Ph.D., R.N., C.R.R.N., C.R.N.P., A.P.R.N., B.C.
Director, Family Nurse Practitioner Program; Associate Professor, Nursing
Expertise:

• family health/primary care
• advanced practice nursing issues
• family health promotion issues/research
• rehabilitation nursing
• workforce/cultural diversity
• health assessment
• group dynamics, organization, change, leadership, interaction analysis
• health care policy
  Nurse Practitioner, Publish research in Family Health. Editor, Comprehensive Rehab. Board Certified Nurse Practitioner, American Nurse Credentially Center provider in a Federally Qualified Health Center. Past Secretary, National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties.

Lynn Kelly, Ph.D., R.N.
Professor, Nursing
Expertise:

• health promotion: children
• emergency care: children
• injury to children
• school nursing

Judith Ann Kilpatrick, D.N.Sc., R.N.
Assistant Professor, Nursing
Expertise:

• adult health
• respiratory health problems
• urinary health problems

Anne M. Krouse, Ph.D., R.N.
Associate Professor, Nursing
Expertise:

• maternal-newborn nursing
• high-risk neonate
• fetal monitoring
• breastfeeding
• breastfeeding low birth-weight infants
• family research
• qualitative research methods

Marye O’Reilley, D.N.Sc., R.N.
Assistant Professor, Nursing
Expertise:

• trauma
• dissociation
• group therapy
• death and dying

Barbara J. Patterson, Ph.D., R.N.
Associate Professor, Nursing
Expertise:

• social support
• gerontological nursing
• qualitative research
• diabetic self-care management
• adult health
• nursing education research
• doctoral education in nursing
  Editorial Board, Journal of Nursing Education

Joyce H. Rasin, Ph.D., R.N.
Associate Professor, Nursing
Expertise:

• gerontology
• healthy aging
• health disparities
• culture and health
• health and wellness
  Doctoral certificate in Aging, Center of Aging at University of Maryland

Janice L. Reilley, Ed.D., B.S.N.
Assistant Professor, Nursing
Expertise:

• oncology
• medical/surgical problems of adults
• health assessment
• student population

Mary B. Walker, Ed.D., R.N.
Assistant Dean, School of Nursing Graduate Studies; Associate Professor, Nursing
Expertise:

• doctoral education

Joan Webb, M.S.N., R.N.
Lecturer, Nursing
Expertise:

• critical care nursing
• community nursing
• medical/surgical problems of adults

Andrea M. Wolf, M.S.N., C.R.N.P.
Coordinator, Family Nurse   Practitioner Program, Harrisburg Campus; Assistant Professor, Nursing
Expertise:

• primary care
• nurse practitioner role

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PSYCHOLOGY

Jules C. Abrams, Ph.D., ABPP
Professor Emeritus, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• learning disabilities: behavioral, emotional, physical
• reading and spelling disorders in children
• the brain injured child
• dyslexia
• psychoanalysis
• psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapy
• professional psychologist training
  Co-author, Diagnosis, Corrections, and Prevention of Reading Disabilities. President, National Council of Schools and Programs of Professional Psychology.

Virginia Brabender, Ph.D., ABPP
Associate Dean and Director, Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology; 
Professor, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• group psychotherapy
• diagnostic and psychological and personality assessment
• ethical issues
• training professional psychologists
• Rorschach inkblot method
  Author, Models of Inpatient Group Psychotherapy, Introduction to Group Therapy, Awaiting the Therapist’s Baby: A Guide for Expectant Parent-Practitioners. Essentials of Group Therapy.

Patricia M. Bricklin, Ph.D.
Professor, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• reading and learning disabilities: child, adolescent, adult
• school psychology
• legal regulation of psychology:  licensing and malpractice liability
• national and state legislative issues
• ethical issues

Dennis M. Debiak, Psy.D.
Clinical Associate Professor, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• gay/lesbian/bisexual issues
• gay youth
• gay/lesbian/bisexual parents and their children
• diversity/multicultural issues
• contemporary psychoanalytical approaches to psychotherapy
• professional training of psychologists
  President, Philadelphia Center for Psychoanalytic Education. Secretary, Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association

Clifford M. DeCato, Ph.D., ABPP
Professor, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• cognitive and personality psychological assessment
• Bender Gestalt and Rorschach tests
• clinical and teaching applications
• expert witness

Amiram Elwork, Ph.D.
Director, Law-Psychology Program; Professor, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• law-psychology: jury instruction, patient confidentiality, mental competency, custody mediation
• psychological issues for lawyers
• cognitive psychology
• forensic psychology
• ethics
  Author, Success Briefs for Lawyers: Inspirational Insights on How to Succeed at Law and Life, Making Jury Instructions Understandable and Stress Management for Lawyers.

Lawrence A. Fehr, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology
Expertise:

• health psychology
• stress reduction
• guilt feelings
• sexual attitudes and behavior
• children’s cognitive development
• personality theories and assessment
• anxiety
• adolescence
• children and discipline
• elder abuse
  Author, Introduction to Personality. Co-author, Vibrant Health.

Elisabeth N. Gibbings, Psy.D.
Assistant Professor, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• psychological assessment
• dynamically oriented play therapy
• hospital management issues
• work with pregnant and parenting teens
• training of professional psychologists

Kenneth B. Goldberg, Psy.D.
Assistant Professor, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• neuropsychological assessment
• brain injury and rehabilitation
• learning disabilities
• dementia
  Former President, Philadelphia Neuropsychology Society.

Linda K. Knauss, Ph.D., ABPP
Director, Internship Training; Associate Professor, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• family problems
• serious emotional and behavioral disorders of children and adolescents
• psychological assessment
• ethical and professional issues
• juvenile delinquency and forensic issues
• training and supervision of psychologists
• school issues
• suicide
• sexual abuse

Robert Kravis, Psy.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• individual psychoanalytic: child, adolescent, adult
• diagnostic psychological testing
• correctional psychology

Frank Masterpasqua, Ph.D.
Professor, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• community psychology and prevention
• developmental psychopathology: lifespan development
• stress, adjustment, coping, emotions, self-esteem in childhood
• early human development
• social policy and children’s rights
• multimodal interventions
  Co-author, Prevention of Problems in Childhood: Psychological Research and Applications and A Complete Paradigm for Psychological Practice.

Robert L. Myers. Ph.D., ABPP
Professor Emeritus, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• dynamic psychotherapy with children and families
• how stress affects children and families
• family communication and understanding
• developmental issues
• school issues: acceptance, fear, performance anxiety, peer pressure
• separation and independence
• empty nest syndrome
• stress management
• psychodiagnosis
• effects of TV violence on children
• technology and mental health
• child development
• psychotherapy
• psychological assessment
• computer technology
• human behavior

Maurice F. Prout, Ph.D., ABPP
Professor, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• cognitive/behavioral psychotherapy
• anxiety, mood and neurotic disorders
• psychosomatics and behavioral medicine
• post traumatic stress disorder
• stress management
• chronic pain management
  Co-author, Handbook of Pain Management and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Clinician’s Guide.

Karen C. Rose, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Psychology
Expertise:

• group influences on public opinion
• career development – adolescence
• memory
• care giving

Lori Simons, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Psychology
Expertise:

• service learning and teacher effectiveness
• gender differences and substance abuse on student and clinical populations
• multicultural service learning and ethnic identity development
• substance abuse training of paraprofessionals and certified addiction counselors
  Member, American Psychological Association, College on Problems of Drug Dependence, and International Coalition for Addiction Studies on Education

Stephen C. Wilhite, Ph.D.
Dean, School of Human Service Professions; Associate Provost, Graduate Studies;
Professor, Psychology
Expertise:

• human memory and cognitive processes
• students’ study habits and their relationship to academic achievement
• higher education administration
• leadership in metropolitan universities
  Author, Learning and Memory: The Basis of Behavior.

COUNSELING

Beth A. Howlett, Ph.D.
Director, Widener University Counseling Center; Clinical Faculty, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• sports psychology
• eating disorders and trauma
• health and fitness
• psychotherapy
• psychological and educational assessment
• neurofeedback/biofeedback/hypnosis
• performance enhancement
• mental health and well being
  Member, U.S. Olympic Registry, American Psychological Association, Pennsylvania Psychological Association and Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology.

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SCIENCE

BIOLOGY

Marc A. Brodkin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Biology
Expertise:

• microbiology and immunology
• cellular immunology

David J. Coughlin, Ph.D.
Professor, Biology; Coordinator, Biology
Expertise:

• fish biology, ecology and development
• vertebrate physiology, vision and locomotion

Bruce W. Grant, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Biology and Environmental Science
Expertise:

• evolutionary ecology
• conservation biology
• ecological education
• herpetology
• biodiversity
• service learning
• environmental education
• reptile/amphibian bio-diversity

Kathleen L. Hornberger, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Biology and Environmental Science
Expertise:

• botany
• rare and endangered plant species in North America
• forensic botany
• plant taxonomy
• community gardening
• systematics of Southeastern U.S. blue-eyed grasses (irises)
• gardening
• environmental education
  President, Penn State Delaware County Master Gardeners. Certified Master Gardner

Kenneth T. Kristl, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law; Director, Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic 
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• use of scientific data in the law
• legal issues of environmental science and data
• environmental law
• clean water legal issues
• solid waste legal issues
• environmental litigation
• liquefied natural gas
• federal environmental policies, practices, procedures
  Admitted to the Illinois Bar.

Stephen R. Madigosky, Ed.D.
Coordinator, Environmental Science; Professor, Science Education
Expertise:

• sustainable development
• tropical biology/ecology
• science education

Robert W. Morris, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Biology
Expertise:

• cell and molecular biology and enzymology

Theodore J. O’Tanyi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Biology
Expertise:

• zoology and animal physiology
• biomedical ethics
• pre-medical and pre-physical therapy study

Matthew Poslusny, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences; Professor, Chemistry
Expertise:

• environmental science
• outcomes based education
• critical thinking

Richard St. John, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Biology
Expertise:

• microbiology and genetics
• recombinant DNA studies

Itzick Vatnick, Ph.D.
Professor, Biology
Expertise:

• comparative and human physiology
• bioenergetics, metabolism and control of body mass
• amphibian decline and host-pathogen interactions in frogs
• science education for non-science majors

Frances E. Weaver, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Biology
Expertise:

• reproductive and developmental biology
• molecular biology

CHEMISTRY

David B. Arnold, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Chemistry
Expertise:

• physical and organic chemistry
• chemical education
• science fairs
• catalysis (catalysts)

Mark G. Bradley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Expertise:

• electrochemistry of inorganic and organometallic compounds

Shirley G. Fischer-Drowos, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Environmental Science
Expertise:

• analytical chemistry
• industrial chemistry
• polymer chemistry
• forensics
• physical chemistry
  Member, American Chemical Society

Scott E. Van Bramer, Ph.D.
Professor, Chemistry
Expertise:

• analytical chemistry
• mass spectrometry
• Web-enhanced learning

PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY

Stephen P. Adams, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Physics
Expertise:

• quantum optics
• laser physics
• amplified spontaneous emission

Harry J. Augensen, Ph.D.
Professor, Physics and Astronomy
Expertise:

• galactic structure and stellar evolution
• measurements of stellar parallaxes
• planetary nebulae
• astronomy education
  Author, Astronomy Education and Instructional Aids.

Lawrence W. Panek, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Physics
Expertise:

• low temperature solid state physics
• laser physics
• physics education

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SOCIETAL AND CULTURAL ISSUES

Richard M. Cooper, Ph.D., MSW
Clinical Assistant Professor, Social Work
Expertise:

• social work clinical practice and counseling
• socio-political issues regarding African Americans
• adolescent and youth popular culture
• hip hop culture
• racism
• African American music
  Producer/Host, Culture and Entertainment on www.900AMWURD.com

Dennis M. Debiak, Psy.D.
Clinical Associate Professor, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• gay/lesbian/bisexual issues
• gay youth
• gay/lesbian/bisexual parents and their children
• diversity/multicultural issues
• contemporary psychoanalytical approaches to psychotherapy
• professional training of psychologists
  President, Philadelphia Center for Psychoanalytic Education. Secretary, Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association

Amiram Elwork, Ph.D.
Director, Law-Psychology Program; Professor, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• law-psychology: jury instruction, patient confidentiality, mental competency, custody mediation
• psychological issues for lawyers
• cognitive psychology
• forensic psychology
• ethics
  Author, Success Briefs for Lawyers:Inspirational Insights on How to Succeed at Law and Life, Making Jury Instructions Understandable and Stress Management for Lawyers.

Patricia Fletcher
Assistant Director and Field Instructor, Education
Expertise:

• social work careers
• social work field issues
  Licensed Clinical Social Worker

William E. Harver, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Criminal Justice
Expertise:

• police
• criminal justice
• criminology
  Member, American Society of Criminology, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Southern Police Institute Alumni Association and American Society of Industrial Security

Stephen E. Kauffman, Ph.D. 
Associate Professor, Social Work
Expertise:

• Chester problems
• poverty
• environmental racism and impacts on communities
• social welfare history and policy
• ideology, religion and effects on policy
  Past member, PA State Environmental Racism Advisory Board. Researcher/evaluator and consultant to over 15 social service agencies in Chester.

Robert L. Myers. Ph.D., ABPP
Professor Emeritus, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• dynamic psychotherapy with children and families
• how stress affects children and families
• family communication and understanding
• developmental issues
• school issues: acceptance, fear, performance anxiety, peer pressure
• separation and independence
• empty nest syndrome
• stress management
• psychodiagnosis
• effects of TV violence on children
• technology and mental health
• child development
• psychotherapy
• psychological assessment
• computer technology
• human behavior

Mitchell S. Rothman, Ph.D.   
Professor, Anthropology
Expertise:

• archeology
• Middle Eastern societies
• cultural symbolism
• economic anthropology
• religion

Edward G. Rozycki, Ed.D.
Associate Professor, Education
Expertise:

• violence in schools
• school reform and leadership
• philosophy of education
• higher education structure, history and curriculum
• behavioral analysis

Barbara E. Ryan, Ph.D.
Director, Women’s Studies; Professor, Sociology
Expertise:

• women’s movement: history, change, issues
• feminism
• gender issues
• social movements
• women’s activism
• changing families
• reproductive rights and issues
• spousal notification
  Author, Feminism and the Women’s Movement: Dynamics in Social Movement Ideology and Activism, The Women’s Movement: References and Resources and Identity Politics in the Women’s Movement.

Laura Sadtler, MSW, M.Ed. 
Associate Professor, Social Work; Director, Field Instruction in Social Work
Expertise:

• social work careers

Paula T. Silver, MSW, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, School of Human Service Professions;
Director, Center for Social Work Education; Associate Professor, Social Work
Expertise:

• social work practice
• child welfare
• service learning pedagogy
• group treatment
• cultural diversity
  Author, The Status of Children and Youth: Philadelphia, Volume II and Surviving the Bureaucracy: Predictions of Job Satisfaction for the Public Agency Supervisor.

Carolyn A. Walter, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.
Professor, Social Work
Expertise:

• timing of motherhood
• menopause
• breast cancer
• social welfare policies
• women’s issues
• social work practice
• human behavior
• grief and loss
  Author, The Timing of Motherhood and  Loss of a Life Partner: Narratives of the Bereaved.  Co-author, Breast Cancer and the Life Course: Women’s Experiences and Author.

Jeannette B. Wyatt, M.S.S, L.C.S.W.
Assistant Director, Center for Social Work Education; Assistant Professor, Social Work
Expertise:

• mental health
• serious mental illness
• critical incident stress
• children and adolescents
• crisis intervention

Thomas M. Young, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Social Work
Expertise:

• self-psychology
• family treatment
• couple therapy
• clinical research
• emotional competence
• international study