Congratulations to all the award winners, and to those celebrating career milestones, who were recognized at the 2023 Faculty Awards Dinner, held Tuesday evening, Nov. 14, 2023, in the Faculty Dining Room.
The Awards Dinner, which takes place after the Faculty Meeting each November, honors recipients who were nominated for Excellence in Teaching, Scholarship, Service as well as an Exceptional Adjunct Award.
Faculty are given an honorarium in their paycheck and receive a plaque at the dinner. Faculty can nominate themselves or their peers.
In addition to the Faculty Excellence Awards, the dinner also recognizes faculty who received tenure and promotions, as well as milestones in years of service. (Promotions, tenure and years of service honorees receive a plaque.) At the dinner, faculty also display their publications from the past year.
A number of faculty members were recognized for exceptional performance in the key areas of teaching, scholarship and service.
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- Dr. Frank DeSimone
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- Dr. Jose Luis Diaz
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- Dr. Margaret Terjesen
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- Dr. Steven Thomas
Teaching:
- Dr. Frank DeSimone, Nicolais School of Business
- Dr. Jose Luis Diaz, Department of Education
- Dr. Margaret Terjesen, Evelyn L. Spiro School of Nursing
- Dr. Steven Thomas, Department of English
Scholarship:
- Professor Theresa McCarthy, Department of Performing Arts
Service:
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Dr. Patricia Moynagh, Department of Government and Politics
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Dr. Laurence Nolan, Department of Psychology
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Dr. Dane Stalcup, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures
One adjunct faculty member was honored for exceptional overall performance:
- Professor Michelle Siemens, Department of Performing Arts
Dr. Richard LaRocca, Nicolais School of Business, and Dr. Steven Thomas, Department of English, were recognized for their promotions to full professor.
Dr. Philip Cartelli and Professor Nelson Kim were recognized for tenure and promotion to associate professor.
Fourteen professors were recognized for career milestones at Wagner College.
Forty Years
- Dr. Zohreh Shahvar
Thirty-Five Years
- Dr. Jeffrey Kraus
Twenty-Five Years
- Professor Samuel Curcio
- Professor Victoria Neal
Twenty Years
- Dr. Sarah Donovan
- Dr. Margaret Terjesen
Fifteen Years
- Dr. Jose Luis Diaz
- Dr. Celeste Gagnon
- Dr. Rita Reynolds
Ten Years
- Dr. Susan Briffa
- Professor Brian Sgambati
- Dr. Dane Stalcup
Five Years
- Dr. Thomas Juneau
- Dr. Vannessa Smith-Washington
Six professors awarded faculty grants this year were recognized:
Anonymous Donor
- Dr. Edna Aurelus, Evelyn L. Spiro School of Nursing
Fox Family Fellowship
- Dr. Vannessa Smith-Washington, Department of Education
Martha Megerle Endowed Chair
- Dr. Mohammad Alauddin, Department of Physical Sciences
Mollica Family Fund
- Dr. Thomas Juneau, Department of Music
- Professor Karim Malak, Department of History
Robinson Fellow
- Dr. Penny Brandt, Department of Performing Arts
- Dr. Sajad Ebrahimi, Nicolais School of Business
- Dr. Emma Li-Ore, Nicolais School of Business
The 2022-23 publications of numerous professors were celebrated:
- Barth, Emily Sarah. “Like to Amoret: Spenser with Julia Kristeva,” Spenser Studies, Volume 37, Issue 1, May 2023, pages 345-66.
- Di Pasquale, G. Review of Racism In and For the Welfare State, edited by Fabio Perocco, Journal of Economic Race and Policy, 2023.
- Rodriguez, J.M., Koo, C., Di Pasquale, G., and Assari, S. Black-White differences in perceived lifetime discrimination by education and income in the MIDUS Study in the U.S. Journal of Biosocial Science, Cambridge University Press, November 10, 2022.
- Ludwig, B. and Campbell, C. (2023). Changes in students’ attitudes toward service learning and immigrants/refugees in the U.S.: Insights from comparing first year learning communities. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 29(1), 75–97.
- Marra, Christopher, Hartke, Timothy V., Ringkamp, Matthias, and Goldfarb, Mitchell. Enhanced sodium channel inactivation by temperature and FHF2 deficiency blocks heat nociception. PAIN, 164(6):p 1321-1331, June 2023.
- Prisco, D., Ochoa, J., and Friedman, Z. Therapeutic drumming for mental health in the autism community: A scoping review. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 77(Suppl. 2), 2023. Peer Reviewed Research Poster.
- Prisco, D. A quantitative examination of servant leadership in occupational therapy, Occupational Therapy in Health Care, 2023.
- Friedman, Z., Ochoa, J., Prisco, D., & Seruya, F. Connected rhythm: A scoping review of therapeutic drumming as an intervention for autistic individuals, Open Journal of Occupational Therapy, 11(4), 1-17, 2023.
- Ruff, F. Hunger, Appetite and the Politics of the Renaissance Stage by Matt Williamson, book review for Renaissance Quarterly, vol 76, Issue 2, 786-787, Summer 2023.
- Smith-Washington, Vannessa. A Qualitative Analysis of Experienced Teachers’ Ongoing Need for Mentors, International Journal on Studies in Education, 5(4):441-460, June 2023.
- Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal. “Music and the Senses.” Special issue guest edited by Dane Stalcup. 45.1, Winter 2023.
- Stalcup, Dane. “Introduction: Music and the Senses.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Special issue guest edited by Dane Stalcup. 45.1, pp. 1–6, Winter 2023.
