Economics, History & Political Science Faculty
Education:
BA, Oxford University
MA, Ph.D., Harvard University
Paddy Quick was born in England and received her undergraduate degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University. She was awarded a Frank Knox Memorial Scholarship to Harvard University in 1967 and earned a doctoral degree in Economics. Her theoretical work is in the area of economic history, with a focus on household production. She is a member of the American Economic Association, the International Association for Feminist Economics, and the Union for Radical Political Economics.
Frank Sorrentino, Professor
Education
BA, St. John's University
MA, Ph.D., New York University
Dr. Sorrentino is the author of four books including American Government: Power and Politics in America, Ideological Warfare: The FBI's Path Towards Power, Soviet Politics and Education and The Review of Italian American Studies. He also served as Contributing Editor to The Italian-American Encyclopedia and is presently serving as a Contributing Editor to The Encyclopedia of the American Presidency where he has written twenty-one articles. He is also currently working on a new edition of The Chief Executive with Dr. Louis W. Koenig. In addition Dr. Sorrentino is working on a book entitled, The Presidency and The Bureaucracy, which will investigate how the Executive Branch attempts to influence bureaucratic decisions in a vastly changing political environment. Dr. Sorrentino has taught at St. Francis College for thirty years where he has received the Distinguished Faculty Award and Faculty Member of the Year Award. In October 2001, Dr. Sorrentino was honored as Italian-American of the Year by the Borough President of Brooklyn.
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Arnold J. Sparr, Professor
Education
BA, University of Wisconsin, Madison
MA, University of Illinois, Chicago Circle Campus
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Professor Sparr's scholarly work is focused on the twentieth century American Catholic experience and New York City history. His major contributions in these areas include: To Promote, Defend, and Redeem, The Catholic Literary Revival and the Cultural Transformation of American Catholicism, 1920-1960 (1990), a cultural history of American Catholicism before the Second Vatican Council, and "Looking for Rosie, Women Defense Workers in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1942-1946," New York History (July, 2000). He is co-winner of the Kerr History Prize (2001), awarded each year by the New York Historical society for the best article published in the association's quarterly, New York History.
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Timothy Houlihan, Associate Professor
Education
AB, Hamilton College
MA, Ph.D., SUNY Binghamton
Dr. Houlihan received his AB degree from Hamilton College in Clinton, NY, and his Master’s and Doctoral degrees from Binghamton University. His dissertation focused on the transformation of the building trades in New York City from 1890 through the First World War. Dr. Houlihan’s primary research interests are in labor history, and in media representations of working people during the Progressive Era. He is also interested in collaborative teaching initiatives. Dr. Houlihan also serves as the Dean for Academic Affairs.
Marianne Sennick, Associate Professor
Education
BS, Brentwood College
MA, Brooklyn College
Ph.D. New York University
Behrouz Tabrizi, Associate Professor
Education
Ph.D., Nehru University, New Delhi-India
Dr. Tabrizi's scholarly research interest is on the Theories of Socioeconomic Development and the related issues in less developed countries. His work concentrates on class-related issues, and the impact of Islamic Laws on the process of "growth" and "development" in general, and the status of women in particular. His published work includes a summary of his article, "The Islamic Constitution, Women, and the Socioeconomic Development of Iran" which appeared in Women and Gender in Global Perspectives, April 2003, Vol. 23, a book review of Michael Zweig's "The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret" was published by the Review of Radical Political Economics. Dr. Tabrizi is also the moderator of the Economics society and Omicron Delta Epsilon (ODE) at St. Francis College.
Kareen Williams, Associate Adjunct Professor
Education
BA, MA St. John’s University
MPhil, Ph.D. (expected 2010) Columbia University |
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Stephen Bogart, Adjunct Professor
Arthur Hughes, Professor
Education
BA, St. John's University
MA, Niagra University
Ph.D., Columbia University
Eric W. Platt, Assistant Professor
Fred Siegel, Visiting Professor