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School of Arts & Sciences

Alexa Bonacquisti (Psychology): Dr. Bonacquisti’s research is focused on women’s reproductive health psychology and perinatal mental health. She investigates the physical and mental health outcomes that occur in the context of reproductive functioning, with an emphasis on psychological responses to adverse reproductive events (e.g., infant admission to a neonatal intensive care unit, infertility, pregnancy loss). She also studies the development and evaluation of innovative treatments for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). 

Melinda Cummings (Psychology): Dr. Cummings research agenda focuses primarily on the treatment of eating disorders. I study the dilemma of treatment refusal and the way clinicians navigate the many ethical and clinical issues involved. In addition, I investigate best practices in the treatment of severe and enduring anorexia nervosa, with an emphasis on developing and evaluating approaches that may be more tailored to the unique needs of this population. Lastly, I examine the psychosocial impact of having a child with anorexia nervosa on parents and the needs parents express. 

Kimberly Dasch-Yee (Psychology): Dr. Dasch-Yee studies stress and coping across a number of populations and settings. Currently, I am studying stress and coping among those who have experienced pregnancy loss (with Dr. Jenai Grigg and Dr. Stacy McDonald) and among college students (with Dr. Jen DeCicco).

Guo-An Diao (Mathematics): Mathematics Education; Recreational Mathematics

Madigan Fichter (Psychology): Dr. Fichter is currently revising her book manuscript, under contract with Oxford University Press, examining the Global 1960s in the socialist Balkans.

Madigan Fichter (Art): Mixed media-Mixed process artist with a focus on social issues

Freda Ginsburg (History): Dr. Ginsberg’s scholarship focuses on the intergenerational transmission of Holocaust trauma. I also investigate the topics of Jewish issues more broadly (e.g. Jewish women in counseling) as well as counseling topics that directly pertain to underserved and marginalized populations. As well, I publish on the challenges of women in Higher Education and multicultural/feminist pedagogy.

Jenai Grigg (Sociology): Gerontology; Reproductive Trauma and Loss; General Education Curriculum

Patricia Griffin (Criminal Justice): Dr. Griffin is deeply involved in research with Bucks County Courts involving the evaluation and assessment of their Drug Court, Co-responder pilot program, and Mental Health Court. She is also part of the evaluation and assessment of substance use in the Kenyan Wildlife Service. Her most recent publications deal with the intersection of criminal justice and public health.

Mary Carroll Johansen (Criminal Justice): American History: Early National Period; American Women's History

Guo-An Diao (Mathematics): Mathematics Education; Recreational Mathematics

Madigan Fichter (History): Dr. Fichter is currently revising her book manuscript, under contract with Oxford University Press, examining the Global 1960s in the socialist Balkans.

Pamela Flynn (Art): Mixed media-Mixed process artist with a focus on social issues.

Freda Ginsburg (History): Dr. Ginsberg’s scholarship focuses on the intergenerational transmission of Holocaust trauma. I also investigate the topics of Jewish issues more broadly (e.g. Jewish women in counseling) as well as counseling topics that directly pertain to underserved and marginalized populations. As well, I publish on the challenges of women in Higher Education and multicultural/feminist pedagogy.

Jenai Grigg (Sociology): Gerontology; Reproductive Trauma and Loss; General Education Curriculum

Patricia Griffin (Criminal Justice): Dr. Griffin is deeply involved in research with Bucks County Courts involving the evaluation and assessment of their Drug Court, Co-responder pilot program, and Mental Health Court.  She is also part of the evaluation and assessment of substance use in the Kenyan Wildlife Service.  Her most recent publications deal with the intersection of criminal justice and public health. 

Mary Carroll Johansen (History): American History: Early National Period; American Women's History

Keith Kopka (English): Dr. Kopka’s latest scholarship is the collection of poems, Count Four (University of Tampa Press), which explores trauma, as well as the myths of masculinity that are connected to music and the rock n roll lifestyle. 

Stacy McDonald (Psychology): Grief, coping, and relationship outcomes following reproductive trauma and loss; Research ethics-Chair of the Institutional Review Board

Patrick McElwaine: Dr. McElwaine is currently working on three exciting projects.  He is collaborating with Drs DeCicco, Bonaquisiti, and Sagedy focused on how various demographics and occupational information impact stress and coping during the pandemic.  He is also collaborating with Dr. Bonacquisiti focused on addiction training in the mental health field. The primary purpose of this study is to survey experiences of graduate students in psychology to determine the extent to which their studies focuses in the areas of substance abuse, treatment, and stigma. Finally, he is collaborating with Drs. Bonacquisti and McDonald on Addiction and Homelessness. This will be a qualitative study interviewing individuals who are active in recovery with a history of homelessness and addiction.

Jaclyn Myers (Biology): Dr Myers and her students are using  the zebrafish model to study the effects of HIV on neuronal development.  They are also studying ways the influenza virus escapes the immune response.  

Diane Shea (Psychology): Suicide Prevention; Clergy Sexual Abuse; School Counseling; Creativity in counseling; Supervising for LPC license; Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy.

Raena Shriali (English):  Raena Shirali's second book of poems, entitled summonings, will be released in October 2022 as Black Lawrence Press' winner of the 2021 Hudson Book Prize; the collection focuses on the ongoing practice of witch hunting in India and the ethics of writing persona poetry.

Edward Waddell (Biology): Dr Waddell investigates the affective and cognitive components of pain in invertebrates using Drosophila melanogaster.

Sister Marcella Louise Wallowicz (Mathematics): Online mathematics curriculum development and content delivery; applications of graph theory; sabermetrics

David Whelan (Criminal Justice): American Organized Crime; Policing; Crime in Sports; White-Collar Crime; Crime Theory

School of Business

J. Barry Dickinson (Business): Social Media Analytics

Donald Goeltz (Business): Strategic alliances and alliance portfolios. Strategic alliances and alliance portfolios. Digital marketing. Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial behavior. International technology transfer

School of Nursing & Health Sciences

Soumya Arun (Nursing): Women’s health importance, Health People 2030

Marina Boykova (Nursing): Nursing education, critical care nursing. Neonatal nursing, post-discharge care. Involved in international workforce/leadership development.

Vicki Brzoza (Nursing): How to achieve success in a second-degree accelerated BSN program.

Shana DiBenedetto (Radiologic Science): The role of medical imaging throughout the pandemic. What the Bachelor of Science in Radiologic Science can do for a career. The radium girls’ impact on the US workforce. 

Margaret Harkins (Nursing): Geriatrics (nurse practitioner), biomedical ethics, end-of-life, nursing education

Julia Hummer (Nursing): Family nurse practitioner, university health

Elaine Maruca (Nursing): Role of nurse practitioners as advanced practice nurses and the FNP/DNP program.

Bettyanne Matase (Nursing): Critical care nursing

Jinsy Mathew (Nursing): Medical-surgical nursing

Denise McFadden (Nursing): Childbearing/Maternity nursing, loss (miscarriage)

Michelle Murphy-Rozanski (Nursing): Nursing education, critical care/emergency nursing

Mark Ness (Radiologic Science): Using virtual reality (VR) software (Shaderware) to supplement Radiographic Imaging instruction. Discontinuing the use of flat contact and shadow gonadal and fetal shielding for medical imaging examinations. Increasing an x-ray beam's source-to- distance (SID) decreases patient absorbed dose. Increasing x-ray energy (keV) applying the 15% Rule decreases patient absorbed dose.

Mai-Ly Pulley (Nursing): Critical care nursing, nursing education

Mary Ellen Rush (Nursing): Community Public Health nursing

Kristin Sagedy (Nursing): End of Life care