Faculty Staff and Administration
 
Francesca Angiuli, Office Manager, Brief Therapy Institute

Marcia Arango, Enrollment Manager/Admissions

Sam Elizabeth Baroni, Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution and International Studies
Ph.D. in Comparative Studies
Teaching and research interests:Conflict resolution within and among nations; international negotiation, conflict resolution in Islam, nuclear disarmament; peace and development issues, the citizen and the state, nationalism, tribalism, identity, risk analysis, security, the Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia, and terrorism.

Elena P. Bastidas
, Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution and Environmental Studies
Ph.D. in Food and Resource Economics
Teaching and research interests: Conflict analysis and resolution, economics, conservation and development, gender and development, development of appropriate technology for small farmers, livelihood systems and quantitative methods

Julia Bila
, Assistant to the Dean's Office,
B.A. in Business Administration

Tommie V. Boyd, Chair, Department of Family Therapy/Assistant Professor of Family Therapy and Family System Health Care
Ph.D. in Family Therapy
Teaching and research interests: Family system health care, relationship difficulties, family business counseling, clinical supervision, client-therapist collaborations, narrative therapy

Janice Burgoyne, Assistant Dean for Operations
Master of Business Administration

Christopher F. Burnett, Associate Professor of Family Therapy
Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology
Teaching and research interests: Application of systems thinking in organizational and social systems, human systems consulting, Bowen family systems theory, systemic approaches to quantitative and qualitative research methodologies

Andrea Cevallos, Administrative Assistant, Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution

Ronald J. Chenail, Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness/Professor of Family Therapy
Ph.D. in Family Therapy
Teaching and research interests: Discourse in therapy and mediation, qualitative inquiry

Patricia Cole, Associate Professor of Family Therapy and Family Business
Ph.D. in Family Therapy
Teaching and research interests: Family relationships in family business and in other work contexts, gender concerns in the workplace, qualitative research

Crystal Darville, Internship/Practicum Coordinator, Department of Family Therapy
B.A. in Psychology and a Minor in Forensic Psychology

Mark Davidheiser, Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution and Anthropology
Ph.D in Anthropology
Teaching and research interests: Culture and conflict, interpersonal conflict analysis and resolution, inter-group relations and reconciliation programs, "race" and ethnicity, development and assistance, pastoralist systems, farmer-herder conflict, rural societies, governance, displacement and resettlement, legal reform, Africa, Islam, multiculturalism, community relations, and research design and methodology.

Denise Diaz, Administrative Assistant

Jennifer Dominguez , Web Marketing Specialist and Webmaster
B.S. in Health Sciences with a minor in Business Administration

Jean-Mathieu Essoh Essis, Interim Chair, Department of Conflict Analysis & Resolution/Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution & Public Policy
Teaching and research interests: International negotiation processes and issues, multilateral decision-making in the global nuclear-weapons non- proliferation treaty regime, conflict resolution and public policy, democratization and public sector reform in Africa.

Douglas Flemons, Director of the University Student Counseling/Professor of Family Therapy
Ph.D. in Family Therapy
Teaching and research interests: Relational means of creating and understanding contextual phenomena such as therapy, hypnosis, and learning, writing as inquiry, therapeutic imagination, the presence of absence and the absence of presence

Denise Fournier, Administrative Assistant, Department of Family Therapy
B.A. in Psychology

Paul Gallant, Associate Professor, Department of Family Therapy
Ph.D in Family Therapy

Alexia Georgakopoulos, Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution and Communication
Ph.D. in Communication
Teaching and research interests: Conflict, Intercultural Communication, Organizational Communication, Pedagogy Communication, Nonverbal Communication, and Interpersonal Communication

Arlene Brett Gordon, Director, Brief Therapy Institute
Ph.D. in Family Therapy

Shelley K. Green, Associate Professor of Family Therapy
Ph.D. in Home Economics
Teaching and research interests: Supervision and training in systemic therapies, the role of gender in team development, therapist learning styles and personal competence, systemic approaches to sexual issues in therapy, brief therapy with persons with AIDS

Erica Guterman, Assistant to the Office of Student and Academic Affairs

Noreen Hartmann, Program Coordinator, Department of Family Therapy

James Hibel, Senior Director of Institutional Assessment, Planning, and Relations/Assistant Professor of Family Therapy
Ph.D. in Child and Family Studies
Teaching and research interests: Teaching and supervision of narrative systemic therapy, theoretical and practical applications of postmodern systemic therapies, application of less hierarchical models to supervision and training issues, systemic therapies with adolescents and their families, sequential response models in systemic therapy

Gay Holliday, Associate Dean of NSU Student Affairs Division/College Student Affairs Program Faculty
Ed.D. in Education
Teaching and research interests: Current Issues and Trends in Student Affairs, Administration and Supervision in Student Affairs, Student Success, Involvement/Engagement in Higher Education, Organization Development and Change in Student Affairs and Higher Education, Legal Issues in Student Affairs, Assessment in Student Affairs

Yvonne Jesus, Enrollment Manager/Recruiting
B.A. in International Relations

J. P. Linstroth II , Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution and Anthropology
D.Phil. in Social Anthropology
Teaching and research interests: Basques, cognition, nationalism, ethnicity, economic anthropology, legal anthropology, fisheries and maritime disputes, gender theory, history and memory, ritual and performance, material culture and media, ethno-nationalist conflict, kinship, social change, separatist movements, globalization, transnationalism, international terrorism; peace studies and conflict resolution; Irish Nationalism; Brazil; Amerindian groups; Guatemalan refugees in South Florida; Europe and Latin America.

Susanne Marshall, Senior Associate Dean for Operations and Student Services
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature
Teaching and research interests: International Studies, British and German 19th century
narratives, Modern German literature, General Humanities, German language, Innovative approaches to language pedagogy, administrative issues, feminist literature and theory

Judith McKay, Chair, Department of Multidisciplinary Studies (CSA/MACS)/Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution & Community Studies
J.D., Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution
Master's in Education with specialty in student services and counseling
Teaching and research interests: Violence prevention and intervention, family, civil, and community mediation, family, education, and poverty law, gender conflict, communication, comparative law, environmental and public disputes, public policy

Janelle Miller, Assistant to Department of Multidisciplinary Studies (CSA/MACS)
B.S. in Psychology

Olaniyan "Jusef" Mustipher, Network Administrator
B.S. in International Economics

Debra Nixon, Associate Chair, Department of Family Therapy/Assistant Professor of Family Therapy/Faculty Advisor for SHSS Student Association
Teaching and research interests: The person of the therapist in practice, Isomorphism of therapeutic approach to classroom instruction, Using narrative and relational therapeutic approaches in diversity training, faith-based multicultural diversity training, Liberation or Transformative pedagogical ideology.

Carlos Perez, Enrollment Manager/Recruiting
M.S. in Education

Anne Hearon Rambo, Associate Professor of Family Therapy
Ph.D. in Family Therapy
Teaching and research interests: Supervision and training in systemic therapies, therapy as play and play as therapy, development of the therapist's unique personal style, rhetoric and language skills training, family therapy history

Claire Michele Rice, Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution and Community Relations Ph.D. in Sociology

Daniela Sciarrotta, Director of Development
M.S. in Human Resource Management

Lee Shazier, Program Coordinator, Department of Conflict Analysis & Resolution

Lee Shilts, Professor of Family Therapy
Ph.D. in Family and Child Development
Teaching and research interests: Brief solution?focused theory and therapy, supervision and training in systemic therapies, the use of solution?focused therapy in nontraditional settings, Ericksonian hypnotherapy, use of letter writing in therapeutic settings

Marcia Sweedler, Associate Chair, Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution/Assistant Professor of Conflict Analysis & Resolution
Ph.D. in Education Policy, Planning, and Administration
Teaching and research interests: Developing a systemic approach to conflict resolution through training, ADR, and workplace/school climate

Hamdesa Tuso, Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution and Sociology
Ph.D. in Sociology
Teaching and research interests: Cultural issues of conflict resolution, indigenous
peacemaking practices, interdisciplinary models and theories, immigrant communities, refugee communities, African American communities, African studies, critical and historical analyses, challenges of sustainable development, political economic perspectives

Brad Williams, Dean of Student Affairs Division/College Student Affairs Program faculty
Ed.D. in Higher Education Administration
Teaching and research interests: 21st Century College Student, College Student Personnel and the Greater Community, Student Leadership Development, Student Retention, Student Engagement

Ayala Winer, Director of Clinic Marketing/Community Liaison
M.S. in Mental Health Counseling, L.M.H.C.

Honggang Yang, Dean/Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
Ph.D. in Applied Anthropology
Teaching and research interests: Political anthropology, comparative conflict/peace research, ethnographic/qualitative research methods, graduate distance learning