SHSS Hosts Recognition Luncheon

The Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences hosted the SHSS Recognition Luncheon on December 2, 2009 at the Faculty Shark Dining Club. Dean Honggang Yang, Ph.D., welcomed Associate Provost Margaret Malmberg and recognized employees hired this year as well as those receiving academic promotions, NSU service awards, and special recognitions.

Those recognized as new employees included Neil Katz, Ph.D. Professor and Chair of the Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, (DCAR), Dustin Berna, Ph.D., assistant professor in DCAR, Jason Campbell, Ph.D., assistant professor in DCAR, Martha Gonzalez-Marquez, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Family Therapy (DFT), Jacob Shilts, practicum coordinator for DCAR and the Department of Multidisciplinary Studies (DMS), Tammy Graham, Assistant to DMS, and May Peralta, marketing specialist and webmaster for SHSS and CPS.

Those receiving academic promotions included Shelley Green, Ph.D. to Professor of Family Therapy, Tommie Boyd, Ph.D., to Associate Professor of Family Therapy, Alexia Georgakopoulos, Ph.D. to Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution and Communications, and Judith McKay, J.D. Ph.D. to Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution and Community Studies.

Those recognized for their five years of service to the university included Mark Davidheiser, Ph.D., Noreen Hartman, and Jusef Mustipher.

Special recognition went to Patricia Cole, Ph.D. who has been granted sabbatical leave, Ronald Chenail, Ph.D. on the twentieth anniversary of the journal, The Qualitative Report, and Douglas Flemons, Ph.D. as co-recipient of a grant for Campus Suicide and Violence Prevention.

Consortium for Narrative Research and Practice at SHSS to host “Two Days with SallyAnn Roth”

The Consortium for Narrative Research and Practice at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS) will host “Two Days with SallyAnn Roth” on Jan. 15-16 on NSU’s main campus. On Jan. 15, she will present “From Discord to Dialogue,” and on Jan. 16 she will address “Overcoming Estrangement.”

Roth is one of the founding members of the Harvard Public Conversations project, an associate of the Taos Institute, and former co-director of the Family Institute of Cambridge. She presents her ideas nationally and internationally, most recently in Finland and Spain.

For more information about the event, please visit: http://shss.nova.edu/community_outreach/consortium/docs/SallyannFlyer.pdf

To register for one or both days, please go to http://shss.nova.edu/register/consortium/index.html. Questions about the events should be directed to Paul Gallant, Ph.D. at pgallant@nova.edu or 954-262-3039.

Visiting Canadian Scholar Addresses Students in SHSS

Jean Poitras, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Human Resource Management at HEC Montreal visited the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS) and gave a presentation on his research entitled, “Mediator and Parties’ Relationship: An Empirical Journey to Trust Building,” on Nov. 23. He was invited by the Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution.

In addition to his talk, Poitras provided tips on how to publish in peer reviewed journals. He is on the editorial board of five journals including Negotiation Journal and the International Journal of Conflict Management.

SHSS faculty presents workshop on Narrative Therapy

Paul Gallant, Ph.D. faculty in the Department of Family Therapy (DFT) in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS) presented a workshop entitled, “Narrative Therapy across the Spectrum,” for the Tallahassee Association of Marriage and Family Therapy on Nov. 20. The workshop was designed to provide ideas for very challenging cases and offered examples of applying Narrative Therapy in work with young women struggling with damaged identities, hopelessness and other affects from traumatic experiences in their lives.

Gallant is also the coordinator of the Consortium for Narrative Research and Practice here at NSU and formed through the efforts of the Departments of Family Therapy, Conflict Analysis and Resolution, and Multidisciplinary Studies in SHSS.

SHSS Journal, The Qualitative Report, will host Inaugural Conference to Celebrate 20 years

The Qualitative Report, an online journal dedicated to qualitative research and housed in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS) will celebrate its 20th year by hosting the TQR Inaugural Conference on Jan. 8, 2010 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on NSU’s main campus. The conference theme is “Academic and Commercial Research: State of the Art.” The plenary speakers are Laurie Charles, Ph.D. whose presentation is entitled, “My Autoethnographic Life,” and Ronald Chenail, Ph.D., who will address “Academic and Commercial Qualitative Research: The Best of Both Worlds.” Chenail is a professor in the Department of Family Therapy.

The conference will include workshops, paper presentations, roundtables, paper consultations, and a reception. Early registration for the conference is $40 ($50 after Dec. 21) and $20 with an NSU ID ($25 after Dec. 21). For more information and to register, please visit: http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/TQR2010/index.html.

Chenail also teaches in the Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research in the Department of Multidisciplinary Studies (DMS) in SHSS. The Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research consists of eight three-credit hour online courses (24 credit hours) designed to prepare academics, professional research consultants, and graduate students to understand a variety of qualitative research approaches and to conduct qualitative research studies. For more information about the program, contact Ronald Chenail at ron@nova.edu or 954-262-5389.

SHSS Consortium for Narrative Research and Practice presents Two Days with Sallyann Roth

On January 15-16, 2010, The School of Humanities and Social Science’s Consortium for Narrative Research and Practice will present Sallyann Roth. Sallyann is a founding member and senior associate of the Public Conversations Project (PCP), associate of the Taos Institute and former co-director, curriculum developer, and trainer, Family Institute of Cambridge (USA). She trains people in working with Narrative Therapies, dialogue facilitation, and family work both in the U.S. and abroad and consults to the interpersonal skills component of Harvard Law School's Negotiation Project. She serves on the editorial boards of Family Process, and the new on-line Journal of Collaborative Practices. Her consulting and clinical practices are based in Medford, Massachusetts, USA.

Sallyann’s two days at Nova Southeastern University will offer participants opportunities to learn new ways of engaging clients in conversations that move opponents toward mutual understanding. Whether working with differences of identity, ideology, religion, values, or world views, these two days will offer ideas to help individuals, families and communities to connect, or reconnect, by meeting one another in new ways. On day one, she will discuss the essential principles and practices of the Public Conversations Project, skills for engaging with groups who experience polarized disagreements, and how to apply these skills in structured conversations. On day two, she will discuss the theory and principles that serve as the foundation for her practice with families, expand their clinical practice skills, and the structure of meetings and preparations for assisting estranged family members to re-connect with one another.

For more information visit http://shss.nova.edu/community_outreach/consortium/upcoming.html or contact Dr. Paul Gallant at (954) 262-3039 or email pgallant@nova.edu.

SHSS Student Speaks About his Career at Career Café

Jacques Koko, Ph.D., a graduate of the doctoral program in the Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution (DCAR) in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS), shared his career tips and strategies with SHSS students at Career Café on Nov. 12.

Koko is currently an adjunct professor in the School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University and in the School of Security and Global Studies at the American Public University System (formerly the American Military University).

While a student, he served as an intern at the Situation Centre of the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations. He was also a graduate assistant for DCAR as well as a GA with Community Resolution Services working with the Community Resources, Partnerships and Solutions grant funded through the U.S. Department of Justice. He spent 13 years working with non-governmental organizations, community groups and school systems as a political analyst, trainer, teacher, community organizer or coordinator.

Career Café, started by SHSS in 1999, features practitioners, scholars, and others who come to share their career paths, experiences, and tips with students in an informal setting. The Café offers wonderful opportunities for students to meet the people who are doing the cutting edge work in the school’s fields of college student affairs, conflict resolution, family therapy, and multidisciplinary studies.