Founded in 1856, Albright College is a nationally recognized, four-year liberal arts college with an interdisciplinary focus and pre-professional programs located in Reading, Pennsylvania. Albright's tradition of excellence in the liberal arts and pre-professional programs is rooted in the excellence of its faculty and staff. We are pleased to offer their expertise as a resource to the media and we invite you to call on them.

If you need assistance contacting the people listed in this directory, or to locate experts on other topics, please call the College Relations Office at 610-921-7526.

Barbara J. Marshall
Associate Vice President, College Relations & Marketing
Albright College
13th & Bern Streets
P.O. Box 15234
Reading, PA 19612-5234

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Carla J. Abodalo, M.S.
Instructor, Sociology and Criminology
Topics:
Terrorism
Domestic violence
Islam
Middle East
Organized crime
Serial murder

Gary L. Adlestein, M.A.
Associate Professor of English/Art/Film, winner of the Director's Choice Award for the 2007 Black Maria Film and Video Festival for the film Gaudi
Topics:
Experimental media
Film and video: history, theory and production

Mickey Baines
Director of Accelerated Degree Programs
Topic:
Continuing education for adults

Jon Bekken, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Communications
Topics:
History of journalism
History of newsboys
Labor movement in communications
Retail book industry

Chris Boehm, M.A.
Director of Admission
Topics:
College admission/search
Financial aid
Millennials/Generation Y

Thomas C. Brogan, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science and Chair
Topics:
Elections
Politics

Charles M. Brown, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Topics:
Christian popular culture (especially the creation, production and distribution of contemporary Christian music, books, videos, gifts, etc.)
Religion and popular culture
Urban legends

Doreen Burdalski, M.B.A.
Assistant Professor of Fashion Merchandising
Topics:
Retailing
Fashion
Merchandise buying, planning, management
Visual merchandising
Space management
Point of sale marketing
Planograms
Floor plans
Product development
Retailing strategies, operations, mathematics
Private label products
Retail pricing

Alberto Cacicedo, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Topics:
Early modern culture in England (including drama, verse, history, religion and marriage practices)
Milton
Shakespeare

Alison Camlin
Director of the Schumo Center for Fitness and Well-Being
Topics:
Fitness (general)
Group fitness
Pilates
Yoga

Karen Campbell, Ph.D.
Professor and P. Kenneth Nase, M.D., Chair of Biology
Topics:
Bat ecology (natural history, benefits, interaction with people, common misperceptions)
Human physiology

Andrea E. Chapdelaine, Ph.D.
Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs
Topics:
Close relationships
Program evaluation
Psychology and the law
Statistical and research methods
Stereotypes: How we perceive and judge others

Guillaume de Syon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History, author of Zeppelins! Germany and the Airship, 1900-1939
Topics:
Albert Einstein
Car Culture: The automobile's arrival as seen in early postcards
The Concorde
History of aviation technology
The Holocaust
Modern Europe (France/Germany/Switzerland)
Space Program: Do we really need one?
The Concorde
Wright Brothers: Why they made a difference
Zeppelins

Phillip Lynn Dougherty, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has monitored local water quality for years
Topics:
Environmental chemistry
Water pollution
Industrial agriculture

Gregory E. Eichhorn, M.B.A.
Vice President for Enrollment Management/Dean of Admission
Topics:
Athletic recruitment
College application Process
Financial aid
Men's lacrosse

Karen Evans
Director of Career Development Center and Volunteer Center
Topics:
Career development
Job trends
Service learning
Volunteers and community service
Team building using the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory

Victor J. Forte, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Topics:
Eastern religions
Environmental compliance

Matthew Garrison, M.F.A.
Assistant Professor of Digital Media, sculptor/combined media artist who exhibits internationally
Topics:
Digital media (as it relates to art, design and entertainment media)
Visual arts

Teresa Gilliams, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Topics:
African-American literature
African-American women writers
Black history month
Hip-Hop
Literacy in the African-American community

Richard Hamwi, M.F.A., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Art, artist in watercolor and ink, has permanent collections in the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution and the Italian Permanent Mission to the United Nations
Topics:
Art education
Watercolor painting
The value of art in education
The history of watercolor painting

Julia F. Heberle, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Topics:
Child Development: language, cognitive and social development

Jennifer L. Koosed, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Topics:
Hebrew Bible
New Testament
Women in Ancient Israel
Early Christianity
Monsters in the Bible
Representations of Jesus in literature and film
Judaism

John R. Kramer, M.R.P.
Director, Center for Community Leadership, dedicated to educating elected officials and citizenry about government
Topics:
Berks County government
Community planning and development
Educating elected officials for their role in government
Local government

Irene Langran, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Topics:
International development
Global poverty
Global health
International women's issues
Human rights
Cambodia
Philippines
Democratization

Barbara J. Marshall, M.A.
Associate Vice President of College Relations and Marketing
Topics:
Customer service in higher education (creating a culture of service)
Service excellence

David A. Martin, D.A., C.F.A.
Professor of Economics
Topics:
Financial markets
Investments

Julia Matthews, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair of Theatre
Topics:
Early music performance in theatre
Shakespeare
Renaissance theatre
Theatre in higher education

Stephen G. Mech, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biology
Topics:
Avian Flu, birds
Conservation biology
Conservation genetics
Habitat fragmentation
Small mammals
Statistics

Lawrence Morris, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Topics:
Medieval Irish history and literature
Medieval English literature
Modern Irish language
History of the English language

John R. Pankratz, Ph.D.
Professor of History
Topics:
American history
Ecological history
Family history
Food and foodways in America
Portrait photography

Newton A. Perrin, Ph.D.
Professor of German and Art History
Topics:
Art history from 1700 to present
German literature
Nazi Germany
The German Weimar Republic
Totalitarianism and art
Marcel Proust, The world and work
Thomas Mann
Franz Kafka
Political correctness in the academy
Problems of literary culture in a visually-oriented culture
Topics in European history
Film culture
History of photography

Lindsay A. Phillips, M.Ed.
Instructor of Psychology, Accelerated Degree Programs
Topics:
Prison and correctional psychology
Mental illness and psychosocial rehabilitation
Re-entry from prison to society
Preventing high-risk behaviors in adolescents (i.e. substance abuse, criminal behavior)

Kennon Rice, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology
Topics:
Race and gender inequality
Relationship of crime and delinquency to neighborhood and city characteristics

Farhad Saboori, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
Topics:
Macroeconomic issues (inflation, unemployment, fiscal and monetary issues)
International trade
Statistics: forecasting

Larry W. Sands, M.B.A
Instructor of Business, Accelerated Degree Programs
Topics:
Production and inventory
Planning and control
Business statistics
Management operational philosophies: Just in Time, Total Quality Management, Theory of Constraints

William Santoro, M.D.
College Physician, Gable Health Center
Topics:
Drug and alcohol issues
HIV
Sports medicine

Geoffrey D. Schad, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
Topics:
Middle East (countries and political movements in the region)
Islam
Syria

Timothy J. Steinrock, SPHR
Director of Human Resources
Topics:
Personnel
Human Resources

Claudia Strauss, M.A., M.Phil.
Lecturer in Communications, author of Talking to Alzheimer's, Talking to Depression and Talking to Anxiety
Topics:
Alzheimer's Disease: relationships, family and communication
Depression: relationships and support

Daniel Tannenbaum
Coordinator of the Holocaust Resource Center
Topic:
The Holocaust

Jerry Tartaglia
Lecturer in English/Communications/Digital Media
Topics:
Cinema (lesbian and gay cinema, experimental cinema)
Queer studies (not-same-gender marriage issues)
Art and writing about lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender culture
Dystopian film and literature
Film preservation
Digital technology and film
Communications (media and new technology)

Barton Thompson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Sociology
Topics:
Humans and their effect on the environment
Human coalitions
Human sexuality (differences in male and female sexuality)
Human territoriality
Hunter-Gatherers (how humans lived in the past and what it says about us today)
Issues in animal rights
Native Americans of the Arctic
Violence among humans (including wars, gangs, genocide, ethnic and racial conflict)

Samantha Wesner, CRNP, RNC
Assistant Dean of Students and Director of the Gable Health Center
Topics:
Student health
Women's health

Lisa Wilder, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Economics and Chair
Topics:
Income inequality
Turkey and the European Union

Marian Frances Wolbers
Instructor of ESL and English, freelance writer, author of Burundi (Places and Peoples of the World) and Rider, a novel, and former editor at Time-Life Books
Topics:
Creative writing
Professional writing
Careers in writing
Japanese language
Japanese people and culture
Teaching English as a second language.

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Albright College
College Relations Office
13th and Bern Streets
P.O. Box 15234
Reading, PA 19612-5234
Published: January 2008