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WHO WE ARE
ADMINISTRATION
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Maggie Moore-West
Maggie Moore West received her BA in Sociology from the University of
New Hampshire where she was also a Ford Scholar. Three years later,
after receiving a Masters in Psychiatric Social Work from Smith College, she was in clinical practice until attending Bryn Mawr for her doctorate
in the mid seventies. She concurrently attended St. John’s College where
she obtained an MA in Liberal Studies (the Great Books) from the
latter’s Graduate Institute. Her dissertation was an anthropological
study of working women and their social networks.
After receiving her Doctorate she joined the University of New
Mexico School of Medicine in the Department of Family, Community and
Emergency Medicine as faculty and as the Director of the
Longitudinal Evaluation of the Primary Care Curriculum, the first
problem based medical curriculum offered in the United States.
During this time she worked with Sam Bloom (Mt. Sinai Hospital in
New York City) in a postdoctoral experience in Medical Sociology.
Her evaluation design integrated sociological and anthropological
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that was
later termed “process evaluation." She compared the innovative
curriculum with the traditional curriculum focusing on the power of
the implicit and explicit curriculum on socialization into the
profession. In addition she continued to teach medical students and
Psychiatric and Family Medicine residents in behavioral sciences.
In the early eighties she moved with her family to New Hampshire where
she joined the Departments of Family and Community Medicine and
Psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School where she joined Robert Coles in
developing and teaching a course on Literature and Medicine, and where
she also actively taught medical students and evaluated curriculum.
At Notre Dame College she developed, directed and taught in the Master
of Physician Assistant Program. At Franklin Pierce University she was a
member of the team who developed the Doctor of Arts Program where she
continues today as director and professor. She also continues as faculty
in the Departments of Family and Community Medicine and Psychiatry at
the Dartmouth Medical School, where she teaches medical students. She
obtained a post masters certificate in End of Life Care at Smith College
and received post masters training in Institutional Research at Florida
State University.
Her research interests are varied: socialization into the profession,
qualitative evaluation research, the power of the implicit curriculum on
professional attitudes, educational policy, medical education, oral
history, women and work, the history of women and African Americans in
medical education, the effect women’s college education on the quality
of women’s work in the forties, etc. She is responsible for teaching the
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Jane
Walter Venzke, EdD
Jane Walter Venzke has held positions in higher education administration at the Dean/Associate Dean level for the past 12 years. She has an EdD in Educational Administration and Planning from the University of Vermont. She began her academic career at Dartmouth College as associate director of the national arthritis center where she procured extensive grants for community education. She went on to become an academic administrator at three (Research Intensive Institutions) before returning to New Hampshire. Dr. Venzke
has built many new graduate programs over the past twelve years and
has taken many of them through programmatic accreditation. At
Franklin Pierce she is the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and
has overseen the development of five new graduate degree programs
during that time. She has an impressive record of research
publications and grants and has supervised graduate theses and
dissertations at five academic institutions. Her current
research is historical in nature and is focused on Jane Means
Appleton Pierce and Dr. John Harvey.
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Deena Morey Tetreault
Deena Morey Tetreault is the Administrative Assistant for
Maggie Moore-West, the Director of the Doctor of Arts Program.
She has a BA in Sociology from Hawthorne College, and has
worked previously at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center as the
coordinator for the Addiction Clinic. She lives in Sharon, VT
with her husband and 3 children
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Lori
Ladd Brown
Lori Ladd Brown
did her
masters in Arts and Liberal Studies at Dartmouth.
She is an adjunct at Community College of Vermont and
Granite State College in NH where she teaches writing,
literature, and critical thinking courses. In the Doctor
of Arts program at Franklin Pierce University, she is
studying creative economies and the leaders who nurture
creativity within and beyond their communities. |
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Richard M. Abel
Richard M. Abel,, Associate
Professor in the Doctor of Arts in Leadership Program, received
his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota,
where he taught humanities, American Studies, and English.
His doctoral dissertation, “Scientific Imagination and the
American Novel,” traces the influence of the emerging scientific
disciplines on American novelists in the late 19th and early
20th centuries.
Richard Abel teaches "Transforming the Public Agenda" and "Leadership through Writing," as well as "Leadership and the Creative Imagination" and "Doctoral Seminar." He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Leadership Forum of Franklin Pierce University, manages student internships and writing-related independent study. He has taught courses in editing and publishing, creative writing, and American history/American Studies, and been a researcher in the history of science.
Abel’s extensive leadership career in publishing includes serving as Director and Editor-in-Chief of University Press of New England at Dartmouth College, an award-winning university press cited by the American Council of Learned Societies as a model scholarly publisher, and as Director and Publisher of University Press of Mississippi. Celebrated authors he has published include Eudora Welty, Willie Morris, Stephen Ambrose, Ernest Hebert, Yi-Fu Tuan, Moira Crone, and Jean Piaget.
Abel began his career in publishing at the University of Minnesota Press where he rose to the position of senior editor. He has been college editor at Burgess Publishing and executive editor for business and information systems in the College Division of Merrill Publishing Company. He is a Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, served on the Board of Directors of the Association of American University Presses, as President of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, and has been active in professional and civic organizations. Abel lives in Lebanon, NH, with his wife Roberta Berner, Executive Director of the Grafton County Senior Citizens Council, and their two dogs. His daughter, Judy, is a writer/designer and interactive media manager in Minneapolis. His son, Danny, is a professional jazz musician and music teacher in New Orleans.
Areas of Expertise:
Literary Studies/Humanities
Interdisciplinary Studies
American Culture
Intellectual and Cultural History
Science, Technology and Change
Writing, Editing & Publishing
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Kirk Buckman
Kirk Buckman received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Brandeis University and his M.A. in International Relations and Economics from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of The Johns Hopkins University. Before coming to the D.A. program at Franklin Pierce, Kirk worked in the Human Rights Program at the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta, GA, taught English at a university in Paris, was Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at The Catholic University of America, and was Adjunct Professor in the Western Hemisphere Studies Program at SAIS for six years. His research focuses on comparative constitutional politics and political economy in Western Europe and Canada. He has published articles on politics in Europe, France, Germany and Italy and is currently completing a book on constitutional design and development in France and Germany. He is also working on articles and an edited volume comparing linguistic politics and constitutional reform in Belgium and Canada. Dr. Buckman takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study leadership and transformation by incorporating elements from political science, history, sociology, economics and philosophy. He teaches Mastering and Guiding the Process of Change.
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James Lacey
Dr. James Lacey has been a course developer for Franklin Pierce’s and Kaplan University’s online MBA programs. He additionally serves as an adjunct professor in Union Institute & University’s doctoral program.
After Dr. Lacey received his BA in American Studies from Merrimack College in 1977, he joined the Massachusetts high-tech industry and worked in production and operations management in a variety of firms. In 1985, he received his MS in Management from Lesley University, and was also recognized as a Fellow, by the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS). He received his MA in economics from Northeastern University in 1993 with a field specialization in economic development and was awarded the Ph.D. from Union Institute & University in 1996.
Beyond the applied research projects he conducted in industry, Dr. Lacey is the author of several articles, and his current research interests include postmodern thought as applied to business and economics, methodologies for future research, economics education, and the application of the theory of complex adaptive systems to business decision-making. During the summer of 2006, he attended the “New Kind of Science” Summer School at Brown University, where he did research in game theory.
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Allan F.
DiBiase
Dr. DiBiase holds a BS in Music
Education from Wagner College in New York City and Masters and
Doctor of Education degrees in the Social and Philosophical
Foundations of Education from Rutgers: The State University of
New Jersey. His dissertation and academic specialization concern
the philosophy of John Dewey particularly in education and
aesthetics. He has published diversely; articles ranging from
the educational philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson to descriptive
analysis about teaching philosophy online.
Dr. DiBiase was Director of Student
Activities/College Life and Adjunct Assistant Professor of
Philosophy for twenty five years at the College of Staten
Island/City University of New York before relocating to Center
Sandwich, New Hampshire in 1996. He is an active musical
performer, musical director, performance artist and composer. He
has taught graduate courses in the foundations of education in
the Masters of Education Program at Plymouth State University
since 1999 where he pioneered innovative courses in the
philosophy of education that run partly online and through
hiking or snowshoeing. He also has taught courses in the
philosophy of art and art education as part of the Certificate
of Advanced Graduate Study at Plymouth. Beginning summer 2007 he
began to teach Transformation Through the Arts, a core
requirement in the Franklin Pierce Doctor of Arts Program in
Leadership. Summer 2008, he joined the doctoral faculty at FPU.
His current research and writing
project is a journal article on Thoreau and Dewey’s shared
concern for “experience”. He will be teaching
philosophy of education Spring 2009 in Shanghai, China and also
is planning to attend the international Philosophy of Education
Society annual meeting in Montreal, Canada in late March.
Other projects involve reading his way into an understanding of
“leadership” as a quality of experience, a performative art in
the making that’s best grasped by thick description.
Subject expertise: History of western ideas;
philosophy (especially 20th century including the American
pragmatists back to their roots in the Transcendental
movement/Emerson and Thoreau); the work of the American
philosopher John Dewey. My advanced degree work was in the
history, sociology and philosophy of education which is largely
a series of critical perspectives
about any system of education or schooling, past, present or
anticipated. I consider myself fairly well read in
literature emphasizing 19th Century writers in particular.
Recently I’ve taken an ethnographic, ethnomusicological,
(anthropological) turn in my thinking and reading. This
puts me a bit into the social sciences but I come there with a
philosophical bent. In philosophy I’ve an
emphasis on aesthetics and ethics and have taught both at the
undergraduate level, including Intro to Western Philosophy, back
in New York City in a disciplinary department of philosophy.
However, I was postmodern before the Lyotard defined it,
in part due to my lifelong interest in the American composers
Charles Ives and John Cage. I’m interested in
performance studies, musical or otherwise.
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Mary Ann Sullivan
is the founding editor of the
Digital Poetry Center at Franklin Pierce University where she
teaches "Leadership and the Creative Imagination" and "Politics and
Poetics."
Her first novel,
Child
of War, set in Belfast, Northern Ireland, was favorably
reviewed in the New York Times. Her digital poem, "Shaking
the Spiders Out" is published online by the British
Broadcast Corporation (BBC), and her scholarly articles about
digital poetry have been published in numerous print and online
journals including The French Literary Review, and
Jacket. Recently, her digital poetry has been anthologized in the
Brazilian book, Poesia Eletronica: negociacoes com os
processos digitais,(Electronic Poetry: Negotiations with
Digital Processes). Editor of
The Tower Journal, an
online venue for contemporary literature, she has been invited to talk about the history and importance of digital poetry at places like the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Deborah Gibbens
Deborah
Gibbens is the Principal of Bow
Elementary School in Bow, NH. She has
worked in public schools as an
elementary, middle school and high
school regular and special education
teacher, assistant principal, and
principal. Deborah teaches courses in
collaborative action research design,
mathematics instruction and
cross-cultural communication. She
teaches Cross Cultural Communications
for the Doctor of Arts Program.
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Dr. Kathleen Norris
Dr. Kathleen Norris teaches graduate
courses in research design, qualitative
research, quantitative research
methodology, program evaluation and
assessment as well as graduate courses
in literature and poetry. She also works
with K-12 districts around the state of
New Hampshire on data-driven
decision-making, assessment principles
and practices, and program evaluation.
She recently served on a Federal Review
Team for literacy grants and has
consulted for several non-profit
agencies. She is currently vice chair
of the board for the Arts Alliance of
Northern New Hampshire. Before she
joined PSU's College of Graduate
Studies, where she serves as the
Director of Graduate Programs Admissions
and Assessment, Dr. Norris worked in
secondary education for 25 years as a
principal, curriculum administrator,
guidance director, classroom teacher
(English, history and Japanese) and
coach. Dr. Norris spent time in Japan as
an English teacher and trainer of
English teachers for the Japanese
government, and in Alaska, where she
worked in the Yu'pik Eskimo village of
St. Marys as a teacher and coach, and in
Fairbanks, where she worked for the
Literacy Council, Elderhostel, and the
Center for the Environment in addition
to her full time work in secondary
education. She has traveled to Canada,
Mexico, England, Ireland, France,
Australia and China, as well as Japan. |
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Research
Interests
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Evaluation theory and practice,
educational leadership models,
supervision and assessment of
leaders, and systemic change. |
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Recent Publications |
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Sonnets
incorporated into visual art,
Jaqinabox, selected for the special
collections at Lamson Library,
Plymouth State University, August
2008 |
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Featured
Poet in The Tower Journal, Franklin
Pierce University, Summer 2008 |
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Poems in
the National Invitational Exhibit
"The Human Body" at the Bunnell
Street Gallery, Homer, Alaska,
Spring 2006 |
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"Making
Connections," lead article for the
PSU M.Ed. Newsletter, Winter 2004 |
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"In
Celebration," poem composed for the
PSU CAGS anniversary gala, Fall 2002 |
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"Enduring Loneliness: Having the
Faith to Connect," essay in
Intersections, Boston College career
development office web publication,
Spring 2002 |
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"Jaqinabox,"
collection of five sonnets
integrated into visual art exhibited
at the Alaska House Gallery,
Fairbanks, Spring 2002 |
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"The Transition to Ninth Grade: A
Ninth Grade Transition Program
Evaluation," 2001 |
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Academic Distinctions |
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Graduate
Distinguished Faculty Nominee, PSU |
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Boston
College Alumni Achievement Award in
Education, 1994 |
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Fulbright-Hayes Summer Fellowship
for Japanese language training with
the Japan Foundation, 1991 |
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National
Center of Excellence Recognition by
the National Council of Teachers of
English, 1987 |
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Associations, Boards and Committees |
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Arts
Alliance of Northern New Hampshire,
vice chair of the board |
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NH DOE
Professional Standards Board |
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NH DOE
Alternative Assessment Task Force |
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American
Evaluation Association (AEA) and
American Educational Research
Association (AERA) |
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National
Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) |
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Association for Supervision and
Curriculum Development (ASCD) |
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Phi
Delta Kappa (PDK) |
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National
Association of Graduate Admissions
Professionals (NAGAP) |
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Bridge
House, NH Peace Action, KIVA and ONE |
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Dr. James Freiburger
Dr. James Freiburger teaches graduate
business courses in the Department of
Organizational Leadership at the Southern
New Hampshire University and in the Doctor
of Arts Program at Franklin Pierce
University. Previous to joining the SNHU
faculty he was a Human Resource Manager with
First NH Banks and Omni Hotels. In addition
to the ABI Board, he is a Board member of
the Heritage United Way, The Way Home
(Chairperson), and the Diocese of Manchester
Camps Board.
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Peter A. Wallner
Peter A. Wallner is the Library Director of
the New Hampshire Historical Society. He
moved to New Hampshire in 2002 to research
and write a biography of Franklin Pierce,
the only president born in New Hampshire.
Wallner’s two volumes, Franklin Pierce: New
Hampshire’s Favorite Son and Franklin
Pierce: Martyr for the Union, were published
in 2004 and 2007. Before moving to New
Hampshire, Wallner worked for thirty years
as a teacher/administrator at private
schools in Ohio, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania
most recently as Headmaster of the Pen Ryn
School in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania. He
earned a Ph.D. in History from the
Pennsylvania State University. He continues
to teach a course on Presidential Leadership
at Franklin Pierce University.
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Thom Pollard
Thom Pollard, owner and creative
director of Eyes Open Productions, a
television and corporate video
production company based in North
Conway, NH, is an award-winning Director
of Photography, Producer, Editor and
Still Photographer. He has filmed and
produced extensively both domestically
and across the globe in the most extreme
situations, from the Death Zone on Mount
Everest to the re-creation of an ancient
reed ship voyage from Chile to Easter
Island to the daring at-sea rescue
attempts of an entangled Right whale.
Broadcast clients include National
Geographic Channel, Discovery, PBS, and
the BBC.
Thom¹s PBS and National Geographic
Channel documentary Orphan Orca was
awarded a regional Emmy Award in 2003.
The PBS Nova film Lost On Everest -in
which Pollard was the high-altitude
cameraman - was nominated for a CINE
Golden Eagle for cinematography. It was
during this expedition in 1999 that the
the body of legendary mountaineer and
explorer George Mallory was discovered,
75-years after his disappearance at
nearly 27,000 feet. His broadcast
experience is not only
adventure-related. In 2008 Thom was
Director of Photography for NOW on PBS
for a one-hour feature film entitled On
Thin Ice. The film investigates the
status of the world¹s melting glaciers,
focusing on the Gangotri Glacier, which
feeds the Ganges River in northern
India.
Eyes Open Productions, Thom¹s company,
is a concept-to-completion corporate
video production entity. His clients,
both large and small, include LENOX
Tools, Newell-Rubbermaid, American
Alpine Club, and Mount Washington
Resort, among others. He works with each
company to help them accomplish
varioussales, marketing and branding
initiatives, including the production of
web content and delivery.
Dozens of documentary credits include
Producer/Director of Photography of The
Viracocha II Expedition, wherein he
crewed and filmed the re-creation of an
ancient reed-ship expedition from Chile
to Easter Island (Nat Geo); Director of
Photography/Sound for Deadly Ascent
(PBS¹ Nova), about the human body¹s
reaction to cold and altitude, and
Alaskan Reminiscences: 60 Years of
Adventure With Bradford and Barbara
Washburn.
Thom¹s photographs have appeared in
major magazines and books around the
world including National Geographic
Magazine, National Geographic Adventure
Magazine, Vanity Fair, Men¹s Journal, GQ
and dozens more. He is a member of The
Explorers Club, as well as a member of
the American Alpine Club. |
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