St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, NYC

Department Chairman
Professor Giaquinto's scholarly work focuses in two distinct areas. The first is al Psychology. He has published an on-line supplementary guide for Robert Slavin's textbook entitled, al Psychology, Theory and Practice 7th ed.  Another supplementary guide appears on a CD that accompanies Anita Woolfolk's textbook entitled, al Psychology, 9th ed. Dr. Giaquinto's other scholarly area of work involves Literacy Instruction. He has spoken at many conferences about the need to utilize and supplement print instruction with visual literacy in the form of studying and analyzing film as means to support the teaching of literary elements to students. He has worked for the Department of in New York City for twenty-nine years and served as a Teacher, Teacher-Trainer, Administrator and Supervisor.

John McNamara, Assistant Professor MA & BPE, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Ph.D., Temple University

Professor McNamara’s courses are not only aimed at turning students into physical teachers, but also to encourage each participant to become more fit and healthy. When combined with the practical aspects of a Sports Management , students come away as well-rounded graduates with variety of career options.
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Gerard Shaw, Associate Professor BA, Binghamton University MA, Ed.D., Columbia University, Teachers College Licensed Psychoanalyst, National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis Maitre d’Armes (Fencing Master), Institut National des Sports, Paris, France

Professor Shaw’s background is in athletics and physical . He earned both an Ed.D. in Sport Psychology and a masters degree in Exercise Physiology from Columbia University, Teacher's College.  He is a fencing master, a degree he earned from the Institut National des Sports of France, and that he puts to use coaching the College's Women's Fencing Team. Professor Shaw teaches a variety of courses at St. Francis College including; Kinesiology, Introduction to Sport Management, Organization and Administration of Physical ,  Psychology of Sport and Physical for Students with Special Needs. He is also a licensed psychoanalyst.

Marilyn Verna, Associate Professor

BA, St. John's University
MS, Brooklyn College
PD, College of Staten Island
MA, Adelphi University
Ed.D., St. John's University

Professor Verna's scholarly work focuses on the academic achievement of gifted children. She has numerous studies dealing with parental processes as it relates to the academic achievement of elementary through high school age students. She is the primary investigator of a team of international scholars who are researching the productivity of Math, Chemistry and Physics Olympians. Her articles have appeared in The Journal of Secondary Gifted , TEMPO, Gifted and Talented International, The Journal of Research in , SYSTEM, and TESL Canada Journal. She is currently researching the social factors that affect achievement in 4th grade students in New York City, Italy, and China. Dr. Verna has served as Chapter Counselor of Kappa Delta Pi, the Honor Society. Before joining the faculty of St. Francis College, Dr. Verna was an Administrator and Teacher in the NYC public school system.

 

Marina Gair, Assistant Professor Ph.D., Arizona State University

Professor Gair completed her Ph.D. in al Leadership & Policy Studies with an emphasis in the Foundations of at at Arizona State University before joining the faculty of St. Francis College. Her academic and teaching interests also include Sociology of , al Anthropology, Critical Theory, and Visual Ethnography. Drawing on her dissertation work (Socrates Never Took Attendance: The Functioning of Hidden Curricula in a Teacher Preparation Program), Marina's current research agenda focuses on the professional socialization of preservice teachers, specifically investigating the ways in which elements of hidden curricula function in teacher training practice.
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Peter Leibman, Associate Professor
Ed.D., St. John's University
PD, MA, CUNY
BA, St. Francis College

Dr. Leibman is Director of Student Teaching at St. Francis College. He previously served as a school principal K-12, assistant principal, director of planning, athletic director and teacher. Two of the schools where he was an administrator were identified as schools of excellence. As a school administrator, he helped raise test scores in every discipline, improved instruction and attendance, and created numerous innovative curriculum designs. Dr. Leibman was awarded a doctorate from St. John's University, Professional Diploma and Masters from City University of New York and a Bachelor’s Degree from St. Francis College. “Becoming a professor at St. Francis was like coming home,” he said. His wife Eileen is a teacher of special needs preschoolers.

 

Carl Quigley, Adjunct Professor
BA, St. Francis College
MA, Long Island University

Cathal “Carl” Quigley’s long time association with St Francis College began in 1971 as a student athlete. He graduated with a BA degree in Sociology and is a member of the Duns Scotus Honor society. He continued his at Long Island University where he received his Masters Degree in Adapted Physical and Rehabilitation.
          
Upon Carl’s graduation from St Francis College in 1975 he was immediately hired as the water polo teams coach. In 1979 Carl founded and organized the St Francis Youth Water Polo Club. Since 2000, under Carl, the Men’s Water Polo team has won five CWPA Northern Division Championships and the last four Eastern Collegiate Athletic Association Championships. The team also advanced to the NCAA National Championship Final Four in 2005. More importantly, the team was academic national champions five times, including the 2007 season.

While coaching, Carl also worked eighteen years in the art world coordinating art shows, overseeing product production and serving as liaison between LeRoy Neiman and Knoedler Publishing, the exclusive publisher of Neiman’s works. Now as assistant athletic director for aquatics, he oversees the men’s and women’s water polo teams and coordinates use of the College pool.