Faculty Profiles
Dr. Aphrodite Alexandrakis is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities,
and director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program at
Barry University, School of Arts and Sciences in Miami Shores.
She holds a Diploma from the school of Archaeology for guides in
Athens, Greece, a BA from Douglas College - Rutgers University -in
Art History and Archaeology, an M.A. and Ph.D. degree in Philosophy
from the University of Miami.
She has received three NEH fellowships, and has been approved for
the Fulbright Senior Specialist Program roster. She is the recipient
of the outstanding Barry University Faculty Award, and the Sister
Jeanne O’Laughlin Scholar Award. She has been awarded three
times the Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers Award.
Her field of expertise is Platonic and Neo-Platonic aesthetics
where she has published numerous peer review articles, and edited
a book.
Other Faculty from the Psychology Department
Karen A. Callaghan, professor
of sociology and department chair, earned a BA from La Salle College,
and an MA and Ph.D. from the Ohio State University. Callaghan teaches
courses on sociological theory, sociology of race, class, and gender,
marriage and the family, and juvenile delinquency. She has edited
a collection of essays on women and beauty, and co-authored a book
on the cultural politics of race, violence, and democracy, in addition
to publishing several articles on the contemporary family, adolescence,
social theory, symbolic violence and images of racial-ethnic identity,
and workplace organization and computerization. Her most recent
work focuses on education and globalization.
Office: 340 Lehman Hall
Phone: 305-899-3474
E-mail: kcallaghan@mail.barry.edu
Gary Grizzle, associate
professor of sociology, earned a BS from Florida International University,
an MS from Florida State University, and the Ph.D. from Northwestern
University. Grizzle teaches courses on social problems, marriage
and the family, sociology of art, sociology of religion, and research
methodology. His professional interests include divorce and remarriage,
sociology of film, urban myths and folklore, and sociology of religion.
Grizzle's research on remarriage has been published in the Journal
of Divorce and Remarriage.
Office: 339 Lehman Hall
Phone: 305-899-3476
E-mail: ggrizzle@mail.barry.edu
Dr.
Lawrence Byrne teaches courses in composition, 19th century British literature,
critical theory, film, and in the honors program. Dr. Byrne earned
his BA from Loyoal University, Chicago, and an MA and Ph.D., from
Boston University.
Email: lbyrne@mail.barry.edu
Lillian Schanfield is Professor of English and has
been on the faculty since 1973. Born and raised in Montreal, Canada,
she first attended McGill University, subsequently earning degrees
in English (B.Ed.-English, University of Miami; MA, Université de
Montréal; Ph.D. University of Miami) as well as Business (MBA,
Barry University) and Social Anthropology (M.St., Oxford University).
She teaches courses in Shakespeare, British Literature,
Women’s Studies, Women and Literature, and Introduction to
Literature, and has developed several interdisciplinary courses that
reflect her interests in literature, literary translation, gender,
psychology, business, photography, and anthropology. She has published
and presented papers on Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, E. M. Forster,
Susan Glaspell, William Shakespeare, and Isaac Bashevis Singer, among
others, which have appeared in a number of journals including Women
in Literature and Life Assembly, The CEA Forum, ATA: American Translators
Association Chronicle, The Educational Forum, The Journal of English
Teaching Techniques, National Forum, Literature and Psychology, Thought
and Action, Circles, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, and Ben
Jonson Journal.
Dr. Schanfield helped to develop the Women’s
Studies Certificate Program at the University and acts as an advisor
in the program. She has conducted summer study-abroad literature
courses in Great Britain and Ireland and is currently Director of
the Study Abroad program at Barry.
Serving a second four-year term as Southern Regent
of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society, she
sits on the national board and is currently chairing its Scholarship
Committee. As faculty sponsor of the Barry chapter since its installation
at the University in 1990, she mentors student conventioneers and
guides the chapter’s involvement in various literary projects,
among them an annual creative writing contest and publication of
the literary journal, What Oft Was Thought.
Dr. Schanfield chairs the Dr. Lloyd D. Elgart Scholarship Committee
and the Ambassador Jean Wilkowski Fellowship Council, and serves
on various Departmental and University committees, including the
Undergraduate Council of the University.
Her interests include photography, piano, travel,
and Yiddish translation.
Email: lschanfield@mail.barry.edu
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