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.