The Master of Arts in Liberal Studies

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Faculty

Barbara Hilkert Andolsen, Associate Professor and Helen Bennett McMurray Professor of Social Ethics

Dr. Andolsen, a former visiting professor at Harvard University's Divinity School, is widely published in journals on social and religious ethics. She is a frequent lecturer at academic conferences on ethics relating to such topics as gender roles, religion, medicine and the workplace. She has authored three books, the most recent of which explores the ethical aspects of technological change in clerical work. Currently, she is working on a book about the ethical implications of spreading job insecurity. Dr. Andolsen, who earned her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University, is a member of the Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences, the Society of Business Ethics, and the American Academy of Religion.

 

Dr. Kenneth L. Campbell, Program Director

Dr. Campbell came to Monmouth University in 1986 from a visiting professorship at Vassar College. He serves as the chair of the history and anthropology departments and is also director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program. A specialist in English history, he has conducted extensive research in England and is the author of the book, The Intellectual Struggle of the English Papists in the Seventeenth Century: The Catholic Dilemma. Dr. Campbell has been invited to present scholarly papers at numerous academic conferences and was awarded Monmouth University's Distinguished Teacher Award in 1995.

 

Brian Greenberg, Professor of History and Jules L. Plangere Jr. Professor of American Social History

Brian Greenberg joined the Monmouth University faculty in 1990 after teaching for ten years at the University of Delaware. From 1980 to 1986, while a member of the faculty at Delaware, he was coordinator of the Hagley Program in the History of Industrial America at the Hagley Museum and Library. Dr. Greenberg earned his master's degree in American history at the State University of New York at Albany and his Ph.D. in American history from Princeton University. A specialist in American labor history, he is the author of the book Worker and Community: Response to Industrialization in a Nineteenth-Century American City, Albany, N.Y., 1850-1884 and co-author of Upheaval in the Quiet Zone: A History of the Hospital Workers' Union, Local 1199.

 

Edward Jankowski, Professor of Art

Edward Jankowski joined Monmouth University's art faculty in 1969 after earning a master's degree in fine arts at the University of Wisconsin. Professor Jankowski teaches art history, world art, and design. As a sculptor and graphic artist he has exhibited widely, most notably at the Chicago Art Institute, the Los Angeles Museum, the New Jersey State Museum and the Walker Museum in Minneapolis. He is the recipient of a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship, the Dayton Award for Sculpture and the Halmbacher Award for Sculpture, among others. Professor Jankowski specializes in the lost wax method of sculpture. He is currently working on a series of mixed media prints.

 

Barbara H. Jaye, Professor of English

Barbara H. Jaye, who graduated Phi Beta Kappa from City College of New York, holds a master's degree and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University. She joined the Monmouth University faculty in 1966. Dr. Jaye specializes in medieval literature. Her current research includes medieval drama and Latin American literature and art. Her translation of The Pilgrimage of Prayer, a fifteenth century pater noster play, was published by the University of Salzburg in 1990. Dr. Jaye is currently researching Spanish medieval and colonial festival drama for a planned book.

 

William Mitchell, Professor of Anthropology and Freed Foundation Professor in Social Science

Dr. Mitchell joined Monmouth University in 1968 after earning his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. Author of Peasants on the Edge: Crop, Cult and Crisis in the Andes (University of Texas Press), he has conducted extensive research in the Andes and was a visiting professor of anthropology at Universidad Catolica, Lima, Peru. He has received awards from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Fulbright, among others. He is a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences and an Associate of the Columbia University Seminar on Ecological Systems and Cultural Evolution.

 

Additional faculty members include:

Donna Dolphin, Associate Professor of Communications M.F.A., Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University

Brian T. Garvey, Associate Professor of English Ph.D., University of Bradford, England

Ivan A. Gepner, Associate Professor of Biology Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences Ph.D., Princeton University

Guy B. Oakes, Kvernland Professor in Philosophy and Corporate Social Policy Ph.D., Cornell University

Richard Paris, Associate Professor of English Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley

Kenneth R. Stunkel, Professor of History Dean of the Wayne D. McMurray School of Arts and Sciences Ph.D., University of Maryland

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