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Seven join full-time faculty
Jason bell, Ph.d.
winston black, Ph.d.
lea christo
angela Kaufman
leo rodriguez, Ph.d.
Jason Bell, Ph.D.
Laura Marcotte, Ph.D.
Jason Bell, Ph.D. is a d’Alzon fellow and a visiting assistant professor of philosophy. He earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from Vanderbilt University with a specialization in ethics. He was a Fulbright Professor in Germany, Dr. Bell was a research fellow at the Husserl Archives at Louvain in Belgium; guest professor at the Catholic University of Louvain and mostrecently scholar-in-residence at Boston University. He is currently working with a Grant Letter of Intent for developing a multi-million dollar proposal from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Laura Marcotte, Ph.D. was appointed assistant professor of chemistry. She specializes in the structural and biochemical characterization of the poliovirus precursor protein 3CD and has taught the last four years at Simmons College, Clark University and Assumption. She holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular pharmacology.
Winston Black, Ph.D. Winston Black, Ph.D. was recently appointed as assistant professor of history. He comes to Assumption from a postdoctoral fellowship at St. Louis University, where he had been editing a medieval medical text. Dr. Black is interested, among many other areas, in the relationship between medicine and religion and has worked with numerous texts, mostly in Latin, on herbalism, medicine and religion in the Middle Ages. An article authored by Dr. Black won the Jerry Stannard Memorial Prize in 2012. He holds a Ph.D. in medieval studies from the University of Toronto. His spouse, Dr. Emily Black, will teach this year as an adjunct in the English Department.
Lea Christo Lea Christo, visiting assistant professor in health advocacy and school counseling, has had a distinguished career in the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, as a clinical psychiatric social worker at both McLean Hospital and the University of Massachusetts Medical System. She designed, coordinated and implemented a $1 million fundraising effort for the Holy Trinity Eastern Orthodox Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of Worcester, where she has also served as director of social services, social work consultant and hospice social worker. She earned a master’s of social work from Boston University.
Angela Kaufman Angela Kaufman is an assistant professor of criminology in the department of Sociology and Anthropology. A Ph.D. candidate at Bowling Green State University, Prof. Kaufman is interested in the precursors and trajectories of interpersonal violence among adolescents and young adults.
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Assumption College Magazine
Fall 2014
Elizabeth O’Hara Elizabeth O’Hara is a visiting assistant professor of management and marketing. She earned an MBA from the Isenberg School of Business at the University of Massachusetts and has held significant positions in business communications, sports marketing, communications and community relations. Prof. O’Hara has served as director of community relations and communication at Madison Square Garden in New York City, in several positions with Mass Mutual Financial Group, and as vice president and chief of staff for communications at Wolters, Kluwer, corporate legal services in New York City. She has taught courses in organizational behavior, business communications and sports management at Springfield Technical Community College, American International University, Elms College and Clark University.
Leo Rodriguez, Ph.D. Leo Rodriguez, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry, comes to Assumption from Grinnell (IA) College, where he served as an assistant professor of physics. Dr. Rodriguez specializes in conformal symmetrics associated with the study of black holes in the near horizon. He earned his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Iowa.
Recent faculty research In calendar year 2013 and thus far in 2014, Assumption College faculty have published 14 books, 63 peer-reviewed journal articles, and 21 book chapters or essays.