October 3, 2003

New faculty on campus

During the fall convocation, deans introduced new faculty members to the university at large. Last issue listed the new scholars in several departments in the College of Arts and Sciences. This issue completes A & S and City College. Those in the College of Business Administration and School of Law will be highlighted in the November issue of the newsletter.

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Philosophy

Terrence J. Hoyt received his Ph.D. from Tulane University and his M.A. and B.A. from Fordham University. His areas of specialization are Kant, ethics, and modern philosophy. His other areas are ancient philosophy, Augustine, classical American thought, and Erick Voegelin's philosophy of History. In the past he has taught as a part-time instructor and is now an extraordinary faculty member.

Matthew S. McGarvey received his M.A. degree from Villanova University and his B.A. from Northwestern University. He has been an adjunct professor at St. Joseph's University and Community College of Philadelphia. He has taught as part-time instructor and is now an extraordinary faculty member.

Mark Mossa, S.J., received a B.A. from Assumption College and an M.A from the University of South Carolina in English before joining the Jesuit Novitiate in 1997. He received his M.A. in Philosophy from Fordham University with a specialty in philosophical resources. He was director of campus ministry at Jesuit High School in Tampa before coming to Loyola to teach philosophy.

Matthew J. Oberrieder received his M.A. in philosophy from Tulane University, and he will receive his Ph.D. this fall from Tulane University. His areas of specialization are Plato and Aristotle, and political philosophy. He has taught as a part-time instructor and is now an extraordinary faculty member.

Physics

Armin Kargol received a M.S. degree in theoretical physics from the University of Wroclaw, Poland, an M.S. in Mathematics and a Ph.D. degree in Physics from VPI&SU. He has conducted post-doctoral research at the University of Minnesota, Eastern Mediterranean University (Turkey), and Tulane University. His current research in cellular biophysics involves studies of ion-transport in cells.

Political Science

Rick Parrish received his M.A. from the University of Wisconsin­Madison and a B.A. in political science and philosophy from Loyola. He will complete his Ph.D. this summer from University of Wisconsin. His research involves classical and contemporary ideas of justice and their relationship with the inevitable violence of any political system. This year he teaches political theory and political economy.

Religious Studies

Grant Kaplan, assistant professor of religious studies, received his Ph.D. in theology in 2003 from Boston College. He pursued post-doctoral studies at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Kaplan specializes in 19^th-century Roman Catholic theology, and more broadly in the encounter between Catholic theology and the Enlightenment.

Sociology

Angel Adams Parham has been appointed assistant professor of sociology. Parham completed her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her dissertation focuses on the Haitian diaspora's use of the Internet to develop community dialogue and opportunities for collaboration across distance. She received a Fulbright to study in Tanzania and is multilingual in French, Haitian Creole, and Swahili.

Visual Arts

Catherine Kourouklis received her B.F.A. in communication arts and design and her M.F.A. in visual communications from Virginia Commonwealth University. She taught visual communications at Virginia Commonwealth University for three years and worked as a commercial graphic designer. For the past three years she was an assistant professor of art at Xavier University.

CITY COLLEGE

Wendy L. Hicks, Ph.D., assistant professor of criminal justice. She received a doctorate degree from Illinois State University with prior experience as chair of the Department of Criminal Justice at MacMurray College. Her publication and research areas are law enforcement policy and administration.

Brant Pitre, Ph.D., is an instructor of pastoral theology. He received a Ph.D. from Notre Dame with prior experience at M.T.S., Vanderbilt Divinity School. Pitre's publication and research areas are New Testament and pastoral theology.

Mary Oriol, R.N., M.S.N., is director of public health, associate professor, extraordinary faculty, and health administration. She has served as associate professor of nursing and program director at Nicholls State University and director of quality resource management at Terrebonne General Medical Center. Oriol's publication and research area is nursing administration.

Beverly A. Anderson, R.N., M.S.N., FNP, is assistant professor of nursing, extraordinary faculty. She has worked as a family nurse practitioner, at Charity School of Nursing and Dillard University. Anderson's publications and research are in community health.

Gwendolyn George, RN, MSN, FNP, is an instructor of nursing, extraordinary faculty. She has worked as an family nurse practitioner at LSU Health Sciences Center. Her publication and research areas are HIV patient care, health promotion, and governmental affairs.