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Jonathan C. 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, Performing Difference:
Representations of the ‘Other’ in Film and Theater, and The History of the Holocaust (Routledge).
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, College Park.
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Mary Brewster, Ph.D.
mbrester@wcupa.edu
(Criminal Justice)
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Dr. Brewster, 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, Ph.D.
bgaydosh@wcupa.edu
(History)
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Dr.
Gaydosh received her Ph.D. in History at American University in May
2010. Her area of expertise is
modern German history and church history, and she completed 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 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, 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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Associate 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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LaTonya Thames-Taylor, Ph.D.
LThames-Taylor@wcupa.edu
(History)
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A native Mississippi and granddaughter of a
sharecropper, Southern and cultural historian,
LaTonya Thames-Taylor is a magna cum laude
graduate of Tougaloo College (1992) and the
University of Mississippi (1994, 2005).
At West Chester University, she is an
Associate Professor ofHistory, Director of the
African American Minor, Chair of the Multicultural Faculty Commission,
Chair of the Executive Committee of the Frederick Douglass Institute, and
the Director of the FDI Summer Scholars Program. In the community, she
serves in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People as
the Chair of Education
Committee.
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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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