Critical Concern Faculty Collaboratives
Critical Concern Faculty Collaboratives
A two-year interdisciplinary faculty collaborative advances research, teaching and University initiatives that address the Critical Concerns of the Sisters of Mercy and contribute to the mercy, Catholic vocation of Salve Regina. McAuley Scholars each receive a grant to support a research or teaching initiative, engage student fellows, and convene in regular interdisciplinary seminars to advance this work.
Mercy Interdisciplinary Faculty Collaboratives
Dr Esther Alarcon-Arana
Associate Professor, Modern Languages
Faculty collaborative: Women and gender
Initiative: ¡Las Chicas Son Guerreras! Mujeres y Música Consciente en la España Contemporánea
Dr Belinda Barbagallo
Assistant Professor, Biology and Biomedical Sciences
Faculty collaborative: Women and gender
Initiative: Risks of PFOS Exposure in Pregnancy: A Public Health Outreach Campaign
Dr Emily Colbert Cairns
Associate Professor, Modern Languages
Faculty collaborative: Immigration
Initiative: The Sephardic Diaspora: Women of the Mallorcan Chueta Community
Dr Kaitlin Gabriele-Black
Associate Professor, Psychology
Faculty collaborative: Women and gender
Initiative: Shifting Roles, Shifting Identities: Exvangelical Mothers’ Experiences of Parenthood and Identity Development
Dr Victoria Gonzalez
Assistant Professor, Cultural, Environmental and Global Studies
Faculty collaborative: Women and gender
Initiative: Examining Gender Roles
Dr Donna Harrington-Lueker
Professor, English, Communications and Media
Faculty collaborative: Women and gender
Initiative: Developing a New Course: "Life-Writing: Women and Autobiography"
Dr Yvan Ilunga
Assistant Professor, Political Science and International Relations
Faculty collaborative: Immigration
Initiative: The Diaspora and the Complexity of Peacebuilding
Dr Hyoyeun Jun
Assistant Professor, English, Communications and Media
Faculty collaborative: Immigration
Initiative: Salve Immigrant Students' Mental Health and De-Stigmatization
Dr Kathleen Muirhead
Assistant Professor, Counseling, Leadership and Expressive Arts
Faculty collaborative: Women and gender
Initiative: Counseling and Gender: Examining Human Development Through a Non-Binary Gender Lens
Dr John Quinn
Professor and Chair, History
Faculty collaborative: Immigration
Initiative: Asian American Immigrant History
Dr Myunghoon Roh
Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice and Criminology
Faculty collaborative: Immigration
Initiative: Juvenile Delinquency in Context of Emigration and Immigration in the Western Balkan Countries
Dr Norman Rusin
Lecturer, Modern Languages
Faculty collaborative: Immigration
Initiative: Women, Migrations and Italian Food Cultures
Dr Tara Brooke Watkins
Assistant Professor, Theatre, Music, Theatre and Dance
Faculty collaborative: Women and gender
Initiative: The Strindberg Experiment
Past Faculty Collaboratives
Mercy Faculty Collaborative: Earth
Dr. Thomas Arruda
Associate professor, Department of Chemistry
Initiative: Raising energy awareness on Salve Regina’s campus
Dr. Heather Axen
Assistant professor, Department of Biology and Biomedical Sciences
Initiative: Translating the science of molecular responses to climate change through art
Dr. Jameson Chace
Professor, Department of Biology and Biomedical Sciences and Department of Cultural, Environmental and Global Studies
Initiative: Designation of sentinel trees and arboretum planning for the North End
Dr. Craig Condella
Professor, Department of Cultural, Environmental and Global Studies and Department of Philosophy
Initiative: Environmental justice Rose Island project
Jodie Mim Goodnough
Assistant professor, Department of Art and Art History
Initiative: Biophilia (completed)
Dr. Jen McClanaghan
Associate professor, Department of English, Communications and Media
Initiative: The cloud machine
Mercy Faculty Collaborative: Race
Dr. Oyenike Balogun-Mwangi
Assistant professor, Department of Psychology
Initiative: A cross-cultural content analysis of cover models in Nigerian and Kenyan women’s magazines
Lindsay Guarino
Associate professor, Department of Music, Theatre and Dance
Initiative: Institute for Jazz Dance Studies
Dr. Amanda Minor
Associate professor, Department of Counseling, Leadership and Expressive Arts
Initiative: Holistic clinical mental health counseling program curricular revision
Dr. Timothy Neary
Professor, Department of History
Initiative: Revising and revitalizing HIS299: American Civil Rights Movement
Dr. Tracy Pelkowski
Assistant professor, Department of Education
Initiative: Examining the racial consciousness and culturally responsive areas of practice in secondary pre-service teachers
Dr. Heather Pizzanello
Assistant professor, Department of Social Work
Initiative: Examining the intersecting points of reality at the cultural margins