Saint Michael’s College office of the vice president for academic affairs announced promotions and tenure decisions of college faculty effective for the fall 2011 semester.
Faculty promoted to full professor
Michael Battig of Essex Junction, computer science department, Ph.D., Mississippi State University. Dr. Battig has been helping to set up the information technology and computer science program at the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul, Afghanistan. He is one of three Saint Michael's professors who earned the college a $578,500 grant from the National Science Foundation.
Greg Delanty of Burlington, English department, widely published Irish poet, currently President of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers. Professor Delanty’s collected poems came out in 2006:Collected Poems 1986-2006 Carcanet. His other works include The Ship of Birth, LSU Press, 2007, The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation, co-editor, W. W. Norton & Company, 2010, The Blind Stitch(Oxford Series, Carcanet Press and LSU 2002), The Hellbox (Oxford Series, Oxford University Press, 1998),American Wake (Blackstaff/Dufour, 1995), Southward (LSU, 1992), and Cast In The Fire (Dolmen Press, 1986).
Catherine Hurst of Essex Junction, theater department. Professor Hurst is author of Acting in Person and In Style, 5th edition; she has directed numerous Saint Michael’s College plays and several for the Saint Michael’s Playhouse. She directed for OperaWorks in Los Angeles, and The Company of Fools in Sun Valley Idaho (Board of Directors include Bruce Willis and Demi Moore); she acted with Nevada Dance Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Theatre de le Jeune Lune.
Faculty promoted to associate professor with tenure:
Michael Bosia of Hardwick, political science department, PhD from Northwestern, author of articles on French politics, globalization, and HIV/AIDS, in French Politics, Culture & Society in Spring 2009, and recently in Perspectives on Politics and New Political Science. Dr. Bosia is co-owner of community-centered Claire’s Restaurant of Hardwick, Vt.
Renee Carrico of Hinesburg, psychology department, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Dr. Carrico's work focuses on the perceptual-motor and cognitive development of infants and young children.
Kristin Gehsmann of Essex Junction, education department, Ed.D., University of Vermont. Dr. Gehsmann’s specialty is literacy education; professional development; closing the literacy achievement gap in high-poverty communities; school improvement. She is on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Literacy Research. She co-authored the article "Peeling Back the Layers of Policy and School Reform: Revealing the Structural and Social Complexities Within" for The International Journal of Disability, Development and Education (2008). She was named winner of the 2011 CODiEAward, in the category of Best Professional Development, as a member of the team that wrote, built and published the winning project, Words Their Way Online Workshop.
Kristin Juel of Essex Junction, French department, Ph.D., Indiana University. Dr. Juel has presented papers on several medieval literature topics at three meetings of the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2004, 2002, 2001, and she spoke on “The Symbolic Meaning of Chess in Medieval Literature” at the Modern Language Association meeting in New York, 2002.
Katherine Kirby of Winooski, philosophy department, Ph.D., Fordham, Dr. Kirby’s areas of expertise include Ethics (including the philosophical ethics tradition, metaethics, applied ethics); Emmanuel Levinas (French postmodern ethicist); Continental Philosophy; Global Studies. Two of her journal publications are "The Hero and Asymmetrical Obligation: Levinas and Ricoeur in Dialogue," which appeared in the June 2010 issue ofInternational Philosophical Quarterly and "Encountering and Understanding Suffering: The Need for Service-Learning in Ethical Education," which appeared in the June 2009 issue of Teaching Philosophy.
Ari Kirshenbaum of Lincoln, psychology department, Ph.D., University of Montana. Dr. Kirshenbaum’s areas of expertise include substance dependence, in particular, neural and behavioral sensitization to psychomotor-stimulant administration. Other areas of interest include comparative psychology and risky or impulsive behaviors. He has published articles in several peer-reviewed journals, with students as co-authors, including the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, Drug an Alcohol Dependence, and Behavioural Pharmacology.
Anthony Richardson of Shelburne, psychology department, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Richardson is particularly interested in the areas of human navigation and people's sense of direction. To conduct his research, he uses virtual reality simulations to examine how people learn and remember new places.
Jerald Swope of Winooski, journalism and mass communication department. Professor Swope has had series of photographs and photo stories published in leading media platforms, including The Boston Globe and New York Times. In August 2007, he presented a session at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication meeting on "The Reciprocal Nature of Professional Projects and Teaching: Bringing Your Work to Your Students and Your Students to Your Work."
Timothy Whiteford of Richmond, who was already an associate professor, was awarded tenure. Ph.D., University of Illinois. Dr. Whiteford published a book chapter titled "Making Math Meaningful for students with Special Needs" in Quick Guides to Inclusion: Ideas for Educating Students with Disabilities (April 2007). He was awarded a faculty development grant to conduct a seminar on teaching math to students with diverse needs.
The Edmundite Catholic liberal arts college,www.smcvt.edu . Saint Michael's provides education with a social conscience, producing graduates with the intellectual tools to lead successful, purposeful lives that will contribute to peace and justice in our world. Founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, Saint Michael's College is located three miles from Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top college towns. Identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nations Best 373 Colleges, and included in the 2011 Fiske Guide to Colleges, Saint Michael's has 1,900 undergraduate students and 500 graduate students. Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Pickering, Guggenheim, Fulbright, and other grants. The college is one of the nation's top-100, Best Liberal Arts Colleges as listed in the 2011 U.S. News & World Report rankings.
