If you are interested in inviting a Dowling College faculty member to speak, please contact Kelly Kazemier at 631-244-3181.

• Leadership in an age of Change, Danger, and Confusion
• Relationships - Honesty, Respect, and Trust
• Conflict Resolution - a Key to a Peaceful Life
• Caring and Commitment - Pride in Your Accomplishments
• Making Decisions - Creative Problem Solving
• Keeping Our Life In Balance
• Masks - What You See is Not Always What You Get

• Families in Transition - Children At-Risk · Breaking Barriers - Preventing Loneliness
• Prevention: Substance Abuse, Drop-outs and Runaways, Cults and Gangs Suicide and Self -Destructive Youth, Bullying Sexual Harassment
• Healing Hearts and Broken Relationships
• Bereavement, Separation, and Loss

• Preparation of Paraprofessionals for Classroom Teaching
• In the Mainstream - Maximizing Diversity
• Being Different - Being Proud…On Being and Believing
• Grieving for Dreams Which 'Might Have Been'
• In the Best Interest of the Child - Tips for Parents and Teachers
• Graduation by Portfolio…a Special Model

Celeste Gertsen, Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor
Speaker, American Psychological Association, former radio program host
Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Syracuse University

• People We Admire Most: What It Says About Our Values
• Self-esteem
• Various topical psychology issues

Mike Krysko
Assistant Professor of History

Yanek Mieczkowski
Associate Professor of History
B.A., Ithaca College, M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University

• American presidency
• Presidential elections
• Post-1945 United States
• 1970s America
• U.S. economic history

Comments:
Comments: Dr. Mieczkowski is the author of the forthcoming book, Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s (University Press of Kentucky, Spring 2005 publication) and of The Routledge Historical Atlas of Presidential Elections (2001). He wrote the chapter on Gerald Ford's presidency for The Reader's Companion to the American Presidency (1999) and worked as a Writing Fellow for Oxford University Press, contributing 36 articles to The American National Biography. Dr. Mieczkowski's essays have appeared on the History News Network (www.hnn.us), and he also writes for the History News Service.

Christian Perring
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
BA Oxford University, UK; MSc, King's College, London, UK; and Ph.D Philosophy, Princeton University.

• Ethics
• Medical Ethics/Bioethics
• Psychiatric Ethics
• Education Ethics
• Philosophy of Psychology
• Philosophical Counseling

Comments:
Has written a number of scholarly papers, which have been published in journals such as Bioethics, the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, and books published by Oxford University Press and Johns Hopkins University Press. He has written for The Philosophers' Magazine and has been quoted in several publications, including the New York Times.

Kim Poppiti
Assistant Professor of Dramatic Arts and Dance
B.A., M.F.A., SUNY Stony Brook

Topics:
Dr. Poppiti's coursework and off-campus activities encompass a wide range of subjects, including hippodrama, Nineteenth Century American theatre, hippotherapy and other equine-assisted therapies, educational theatre, theatre for young audiences, improvisation, scriptwriting, acting, public speaking, and self defense.

Elissa Iberti
Assistant Professor of Visual Arts
B.F.A., SUNY Buffalo; M.F.A., Pratt Institute

Marcus C. Tye, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Psychology

• psychotherapy & clinical psychology (esp. adult psychotherapy, cognitive-behavior therapy)
• law and psychology (esp. confidentiality, custody evaluations, child testimony, ethics)
• lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered issues in psychology

Comments:
Dr. Marcus Tye has presented research and been published in several areas of psychology and law including confidentiality in psychotherapy, custody evaluations, and children's testimony and memory. He has also worked on LGBT issues in psychology and the role of cultural psychology in political issues and terrorism. His other interests include general clinical psychology, adult psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, and ethical issues in psychology.

Susanne Bleiberg-Seperson
Professor of Sociology
B.A., SUNY Binghamton; Ph.D., CUNY The Graduate School and University Center

Kathy Reba
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Visual Arts

Carlos Cunha
Professor of Political Science
B.A., University of Massachusetts; M.A., University of Connecticut; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts

Topics:
International Communism, Information Communication Technologies and European Political Parties, American Foreign Policy, International Political Economy, Latin American Politics, and assorted other topics.

Joseph Behar, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
B.A., CUNY Queens College; M.A., New School University; Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook

Professor of Sociology
Topics:
General sociological issues, social issues relating to computers and information technology (the Internet), social change and political movements, popular culture (I have a slide presentation on Long Island diners and Barbershops), and can address the sociological significance of current literature. For general audiences, an "Introduction to the Sociological Imagination" focusing on community, institutions, and social and personal relations in society may be appropriate.

Suzanne Johnson
Professor of Psychology
B.A.,Ithaca College; M.A., Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook

Topics:
Virtually any topic concerning child development, expertise in gay and lesbian parenting.

Comments:
Author of the books "The Gay Baby Boom: The Psychology of Gay Parenting",
"For Lesbian Parents: Your Guide to Helping Your Family Grow Up Happy, Healthy and Proud".

Has been featured on the CBS Early Show with Bryant Gumble, on NPR and numerous radio shows nationally, and such publications as The New York Times, USA Today, Newsday, and Parenting Magazine.

If you are interested in inviting a Dowling College faculty member to speak, please contact Kelly Kazemier at 631-244-3318.