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Jonathan Friedman, Ph.D.
Director of the
Holocaust/Genocide Education Center
Jfriedman@wcupa.edu
Phone:
610-436-2972
(History)
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Dr.
Friedman is a professor in the Department of History. He has served as
historian at the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
and Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation in Los Angeles. His
first book, The Lion and the Star: Gentile-Jewish Relations in Three
Hessian Communities, 1919-1945 (University
Press of Kentucky), was declared one of 1998's "outstanding
academic books." His most recent publications include Rainbow
Jews: Gay and Jewish Identity in the
Performing Arts and Performing
Difference: Representations of the
‘Other’ in Film and Theater (both by Rowman and Littlefield
Publishers). He is currently editing
The History of the Holocaust (Routledge Press).
Dr.
Friedman received his B.A. in history from Kent State University and his
M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Maryland.
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Mary Brewster, Ph.D.
mbrester@wcupa.edu
(Criminal Justice)
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Dr. Brewster, Associate Professor in
the Department of Criminal Justice, received her Ph.D. from the Rutgers
University School of Criminal Justice.
Dr. Brewster’s areas of specialization include domestic violence,
criminological theory, research methodology, and alternatives to
incarceration.
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Kevin Dean, Ph.D.
kdean@wcupa.edu
(Communication Studies)
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Dr.
Dean is Professor of Communication Studies and a scholar of speech, with a
particular interest in political communication. For many years he was the
department's Director of Forensics and has headed WCU's Honors Program. Dr.
Dean joined the WCU faculty in 1991 having earned a B.A. from Bowling Green
University, an M.A. from Miami University of Ohio, and a Ph.D. from the
University of Maryland.
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Brenda Gaydosh, M.A.
bgaydosh@wcupa.edu
(History)
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Ms.
Gaydosh is currently ABD in History at American University. Her area of expertise is modern German
history and church history, and she is currently completing her
dissertation, under the direction of Richard Breitman, on Father Bernard
Lichtenberg, the prelate of St. Hedwig’s Cathedral in Berlin who protested
against Nazi policies towards Jews and persons with disabilities. Father Lichtenberg was imprisoned for two
years in Berlin. Following his
incarceration, Lichtenberg died in a hospital en route to the Dachau
concentration camp.
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William Hewitt, Ph.D.
whewitt@wcupa.edu
(History)
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Dr.
Hewitt, Professor of History and a graduate of Wyoming University, has
published numerous articles on minority topics and has worked as a writer
on educational videos. He became interested in Holocaust and Genocide
studies in the 1970's and 1980's when he taught the subject in the schools
of Colorado. His interest in the Holocaust led him to study the other
genocides of the twentieth century and he is currently teaching courses on
genocides. Dr. Hewitt played an important role in the development of the
masters and certificate programs in Holocaust and Genocide studies at West
Chester University.
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Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, Ph.D.
lkirschenb@wcupa.edu
(History)
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Dr. Kirschenbaum is an Associate Professor of History
at West Chester University. She
received her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. Primarily a historian of Russia and the
Soviet Union, her teaching and research has focused on war, gender,
childhood, and memory. Her current
research focuses on memories of the World War II siege of Leningrad.
Publications include the book Small
Comrades: Revolutionizing Childhood
in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932 (Routledge Falmer, 2001) and articles on
gender and World War II in the Soviet Union. Her teaching of Women and the
Holocaust has won wide praise.
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Dennis Klinzing, Ph.D.
dklinzing@wcupa.edu
(Communication Studies)
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Dr.
Klinzing chairs the Department of Communication Studies. His scholarship is
in the field of communication education with a particular interest in the
health care field. He holds a B.S. from Clarion University, and an M.A. and
Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. He joined the faculty of West
Chester University in 1976.
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Margarethe Landwehr, Ph.D.
mailto:mlandwehre
(Languages and Cultures)
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An
Associate Professor of German at West Chester University, Dr. Landwehr
received her her B.S. in German languages and linguistics from Georgetown
University, her master's in German literature from Harvard University, and
her Ph.D. from Harvard in 1987. Her publications include articles on works
by Heinrich von Kleist, Arthur Schnitzler, Josef Roth, pedagogy, postwar
German film, and postwar German writers. Her current areas of interest are
postwar German film and literature, literature and psychoanalysis, and
women writers of Austria and Germany. A current book project deals with
trauma, mourning and creativity in postwar German literature and film which
will also include a study of Holocaust literature.
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Deborah Mahlstedt, Ph.D.
dmahlstedt@wcupa.edu
(Psychology)
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A Professor
of Psychology, Dr. Mahlstedt received her B.S. from the State University of
New York at Brockport and her M.Ed. and Ph.D., Temple University. Her research and and teaching interests
are in social psychology, small group processes, the psychology of women,
dating violence, and models of social change. Dr. Mahlstedt is a nationally
recognized figure in the area of dating violence and the roles of all-male
organizations in facilitating as well as helping to curb such violence.
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Jasmin McConatha, Ph.D.
jmcconatha@wcupa.edi
(Psychology)
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Professor of
Psychology, Dr. MConatha received her B.A. from
the University of Utah, her M.S. from
Jacksonville State University and her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 1986. She teaches courses on
adult development and aging, personality, and cross-cultural psychology.
Her research focuses on social and cultural factors affecting the quality
of life in adulthood. She has presented papers and written numerous research
articles on the ways in which social and emotional support, depression, and
spirituality impact well-being in adulthood. Her most recent work addresses
the ways in which immigrants struggle to maintain a sense of integrity and
a positive sense of self while coping with stress and trauma. She
joined the West Chester University faculty in 1990.
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Brian F. O’Neill
boneill@wcupa.edu
(Criminal Justice)
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Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice,
Professor O’Neill holds a M.S.W. degree from John Jay College of the City
University of New York and is currently completing his doctorate
there. His areas of expertise
include the juvenile justice system, delinquency prevention, and criminological
theory.
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Jack Orr, Ph.D.
jorr@wcupa.edu
(Communication Studies)
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Dr.
Orr holds a Bachelor of Arts from Messiah College and a Bachelor of
Divinity from the Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary. After earning a Master of Arts from
Northwestern University Dr. Orr pursued his doctoral research at Temple
University on the psychology of unquestioned obedience to authority. He has
contributed work on the psychology of prejudice to the National Conference
of Christians and Jews, Delaware. His essays on the philosopher Karl Popper
emphasize the need for vigilance against authoritarian power. His work on Persuasive Influence investigates
the reasons that people obey authoritarian appeals, critical antidotes to
those appeals, and effective strategies for democratic persuasion.
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Yury Polsky, Ph.D.
ypolsky@wcupa.edu
(Political Science)
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Dr.
Polsky, a Professor of Political Science, completed his Ph.D. at the
University of Michigan. A native of the USSR, Dr. Polsky has taught
subjects dealing with the government and politics of the Soviet Union as
well as international relations. He has chaired panels at international
conferences, delivered scholarly papers throughout the United States, and
written extensively on various subjects including life in Eastern Europe
after WWII and politics in the Middle East. His most recent book is, Russia during the Period of Radical Change,
1992-2002.
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Frauke Schnell, Ph.D.
fschnell@wcupa.edu
(Political Science)
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Dr. Schnell, an Associate Professor of Political
Science, completed her Ph.D. at the State University of New York at Stony
Brook. Her undergraduate degree in Political Science and Linguistics is
from the Eberhard-Karls-University, Tuebingen, Germany. She has published
extensively in the areas of political communication and public opinion. Her
most recent articles examine the roles the mass media, interest groups, and
social movements play in shaping citizens' policy attitudes. Her current
book project is an analysis of media influence and political communication
in contemporary democracies. Dr.
Schnell joined West Chester’s faculty in 1992.
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Joan Woolfrey, Ph.D.
jwoolfrey@wcupa.edu
(Philosophy)
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Professor
Woolfrey teaches ethical theory and applied ethics. Her specialty is
bioethics, and her current research interests focus on the reproductive
technologies industry and issues of informed consent. She has
published on physician-assisted suicide in the Hastings Center Report,
on human cloning, and most recently, on feminist virtue ethics.
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Philip Rosen, Ph.D.
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Dr.
Rosen, former Educational Director of the Goodwin Holocaust Museum, Cherry
Hill, New Jersey is the author of several books and chapters on the
Holocaust and ethnic topics. He has served as a lecturer at Villanova
University and Gratz College in Philadelphia and currently serves as
co-chair of the New Jersey Curriculum Committee.
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Jack R. Fischel, Ph.D.
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As
Chairperson of the Department of History at Millersville University of
Pennsylvania, Dr. Fischel is also a renowned writer and reviewer of books and
articles on the Holocaust. He has contributed in great measure to Holocaust
literature and studies throughout the United States.
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Saul S
Friedman, Ph.D.
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Dr.
Friedman, Professor of History at Youngstown State University in Ohio is
the author of ten books and numerous articles dealing with Jewish history
and the Holocaust. He has received five Emmy Awards for documentaries he
helped write and produce. Recognized as one of the leaders in Ohio in the
development of Holocaust material and studies. He has helped with
conference, organizations and evaluation of the masters program at West
Chester University.
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