2020-2021 Faculty Fellows

AusilioGeorge Aulisio, professor, chair and research and scholarly services coordinator for the library, will develop the project “Exploring Emergence and Holism as Potential Ways to Salvage the Efficacy of the Mind.” Aulisio joined the University in 2009. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Bloomsburg University and master’s degrees from Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania.

DomenicoRoy Domenico, Ph.D., professor of history, will research “Italy’s War at Home, the Fronte Interno, 1940-1945.” He joined the faculty at Scranton in 1997. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a master’s degree from the University of Connecticut and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University.

 

FarryColleen Farry, assistant professor and digital services librarian, will research “Crowdsourcing in the Digital Humanities: A Case Study with the Terry and Paula Connors Photograph Collection.” She joined the University in 2015 as a library metadata specialist for the Helen Gallagher McHugh Special Collections. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Marywood University, and master’s degrees from Syracuse University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

 

GillettChristopher Gillett, Ph.D., assistant professor of history, will work on the project “Catholicism and Revolution in the British World, 1630-1673.” He joined the faculty at Scranton in 2018. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University and a master’s degree and Ph.D. from Brown University.

 

LevyAiala Levy, Ph.D., assistant professor of history, will research “Cosmopolis: Theaters and the Making of an Urban Public in Sāo Paulo, Brazil.” Dr. Levy joined the faculty at Scranton as a visiting instructor in the History Department in 2016. She earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Princeton University and also studied at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina. She earned a master’s degree and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

OlsenCyrus P. Olsen III, Ph.D., associate professor of theology and religious studies, will study the project “Ecology, Religion and Medicine in Uganda.” He joined the faculty at Scranton in 2006. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington and a master’s degree and Ph.D. from the University of Oxford.

 

PinchesCharles Pinches, Ph.D., professor of theology and religious studies, will research “The Practices of Natural Life: Describing the Natural Law.” He joined the faculty at Scranton in 1986. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Wheaton College and a master’s degree and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame.

 

Ann Pang- WhiteAnn Pang White, Ph.D., professor of philosophy, will research “Readings in Chinese Women’s Philosophical and Feminist Thought: From Late 13th to Early 21st Century.” Dr. Pang White joined the faculty at Scranton in 1997. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Tung-Hai University, a master’s degree from the University of South Carolina, Columbia, and a Ph.D. from Marquette University.