FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES
Dawn Anderson is the Director of the Office of International Study Programs at Northeastern University. Prior to coming to NU, she did her undergraduate studies at Rust College in Holly Spring, MS and her graduate studies in Oxford, MS at the University of Mississippi. It was her two study abroad experiences that set her on her current path. In 1994 she studied at the University of Salamanca in Salamanca, Spain and in 2000 she studied in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala where she completed a research project on the Garinagu (black Guatemalans). These education abroad experiences, along with her background coming from a small, homogeneous community outside of Chicago, IL known as Robbins, IL, sealed her committment to bringing what many study abroad students describe as an intense, life-altering learning experience into the classroom.
As the Director of International Programs, Dawn has successfully worked not only to increase the number of NU students studying abroad but has played an active role in internationalizing the campus. As Chair of the NAFSA Sub-Committee on Under-representation in Education Abroad, Dawn is committed to increasing the study abroad participation of US college students by identifying and removing the institutional, financial and cultural obstacles that exists for all students but particularly for underrepresented students (students of color; with disabilities; in certain majors; from Community Colleges, HBCUs, HSIs and Tribal Colleges; males, campus leaders and athletes, etc.)
Currently, Dawn is a Faculty Research Fellow at the Center for Work and Learning. She is studying the effects certain practices and principles have on underrepresented students who choose to break from the ranks and study abroad.
Tim Donovan is the Chair of the English Department. He has developed numerous writing programs in the Department of English. (Some of these helped incoporate the students’ relevant experiences, such as cooperative education, into advanced writing projects.)
Previously, as Associate Dean he focused on a broad expansion of study abroad in the Office of International Study Programs, now grown from just 3 to over 30 sites overseas. He was the first director of the Center for Experiential Education and Academic Advising (CEA), and brought together many of the College’s efforts to enhance its experiential programs. These include undergraduate research, service learning, leadership development, academic internships as well as cooperative education, study abroad and other initiatives.
Tim is co-founder and long-time director of the Martha’s
Vineyard Summer Institute, especially emphasizing graduate workshops
on writing, reading, teaching, and learning for teachers at all
levels. He has also has led numerous faculty workshops on experiential
learning and writing across the curriculum.
In addition to administration, Tim periodically teaches Modern Irish
Literature and during the course brings his students to Ireland
for lectures and visits to important literary sites around Dublin.
Lori Gardinier is the Director of the Human Service Major and the Northeastern Campus Center on Violence Against Women. She obtained her Ph.D. in the Law, Policy, and Society program at Northeastern University, where she researched wage replacement family leave policies in Massachusetts and California. She is also a graduate of the Boston University School of Social Work. Lori has been recognized for her outstanding commitment to experiential education particularly in the area of service-learning. She has also developed international programs with a service-learning emphasis in Mexico and Benin. Lori continues her work in the area of violence prevention in her role as Director of the Campus Center and as a Batterers Intervention Counselor.
Kate McLaughlin has recently returned to the Northeastern faculty as the Coordinator for the Music and Theatre Co-op Program. For the past three years, Kate served Northeastern’s College of Arts and Sciences as the Associate Director of Experiential Education and Undergraduate Research. There she administered and developed the Faculty Undergraduate Research Initiative to encompass a learning community of faculty and student research fellows, a system to track and recognize undergraduate research opportunities and participation, and guidance to interested undergraduates. She also participated in a university-wide campaign to increase awareness of, support for, and participation in undergraduate research.
Prior to joining Northeastern, she worked as a music business professional,
spending six years as a talent agent specializing in jazz and world
music at International Music Network. Some past clients include
Solas, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Baaba
Maal, Paco de Lucia, and Ibrahim Ferrer.
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Kate completed her BA at the University of California at Berkeley
in Social Science major with a Music minor. She subsequently completed
her MA in Sociology at New York University and her MBA at Babson
College.
Kellianne Murphy is a Faculty Coordinator for the Journalism Co-op Program at Northeastern University. As a co-op coordinator, she oversees the experiential learning component of the journalism curriculum. Her work with students, academic faculty and co-op employers facilitates the integration of classroom learning with on site experience.
Kellianne has worked as a faculty fellow in Center for Experiential
Education at Northeastern University, as special assistant to the
Dean of Cooperative Education and as a publication and marketing
specialist for the Division of Cooperative Education.
She also teaches writing and literature courses in the School of
Professional Studies and Continuing Education at Northeastern University,
and has experience in secondary education, publishing and print
media.
Kellianne received her B.A. in English and Philosophy from Fordham University, and an M.A. in English Literature from Northeastern University.
Richard Porter is Special Assistant on Experiential Education to the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Northeastern University. He is co-director, with Dean James Stellar, of a Research LAB of undergraduate students who conduct research, write papers, and give presentations on student learning through various forms of experiential education. The goal is to deepen our understanding of critical factors that promote student personal transformation through experiential education. An intended outcome of this research is to drive innovations that strengthen the outcomes for students from their engagement in various forms of experiential education and to promote the transfer between in-class and out-of-class learning.
Rick served as Vice President for Cooperative Education from 1998 to 2003. In this role, he oversaw the Departments of Cooperative Education, International Cooperative Education, and Career Services. In 2003, U.S. News & World Report ranked Northeastern University number one in the country for programs that combine classroom learning with real-world experience. In addition, Northeastern's Department of Career Services was top ranked by Kaplan/Newsweek's "Unofficial, Insider's Guide to the 320 Most Interesting Colleges and Universities," 2003 edition.
Rick has given talks on experiential education at meetings of the National Commission for Cooperative Education, the World Association for Cooperative Education, the Cooperative Education and Internship Association, and the Association of American Colleges and Universities. He served on the organizing committee for the Third International Conference on Practice-Oriented Education and also the organizing committee for the 14th World Congress of the World Association for Cooperative Education. Both conferences were held in June of 2005.
Rick received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Yale University. He received the University Excellence in Teaching Award in June of 1990. Rick served as Chair of the Mathematics Department from 1993 to 1998. He has given invited lectures on his mathematics research throughout the country and Europe. Rick has been visiting professor at the Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France and at the University of Sussex England.
Donna Qualters is currently Director for the Center for Teaching Excellence at Suffolk University and associate professor of Education and Human Services. The CTE oversees faculty and teaching assistant development and student assessment activities for Suffolk. Donna has also been involved in faculty development, assessment, teaching/learning and student support as the Director of the former Center for Effective University Teaching at Northeastern University, the Director of Educational Initiatives and senior lecturer at MIT, Director of Faculty Development at UMass Medical School, Dean of Instruction and Professor at Endicott College, and Assistant Director of Academic Support at Suffolk University. Donna also serves as accreditor for the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) specializing in the area of outcome assessment.
Her research centers on creating educational change
and she has published and presented in the area of assessment, pedagogy,
teacher identity/change, culture transformation, reflective practice,
and interdisciplinary ethical inquiry. Her book, Jonas Chalk,
is an innovative interdisciplinary approach to changing teaching
culture.
Donna has been honored by the Professional Organization and Development
Network in higher education (POD) for innovation in promoting faculty
and instructional development on her campus. She is also on the
Executive Board of the Massachusetts American Council of Education
Women Leaders in Higher Education.
Joe Raelin has been conducting a wide variety of leadership programs for executives and professionals worldwide throughout much of his career. He holds the Asa. S. Knowles Chair of Practice-Oriented Education at Northeastern University and is also Director of the Center for Work and Learning. Formerly, he was Professor of Management at the Wallace E. Carroll School of Management. He received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His research has centered on executive and professional education and development using action learning. He is a prolific writer having produced some 90 articles appearing in the leading management journals. He is also a management consultant with over 30 years of experience working with a wide variety of organizational clients. His publications include: The Clash of Cultures: Managers Managing Professionals (Harvard Business School Press, 1991), considered now to be a classic in the field of managing professionals; Work-Based Learning: The New Frontier of Management Development (Prentice-Hall, the ‘OD’ Series, 2000); and the recently released Creating Leaderful Organizations: How to Bring Out Leadership in Everyone (Berrett-Koehler, 2003).
David Rochefort is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Political Science. He has published extensively in the areas of health and social welfare policy. A winner of the university's Excellence-in-Teaching Award, he developed a Community-Based Research Initiative involving students in applied research projects that are carried out in partnership with local community agencies and groups. He also initiated a Student Leadership Seminar for members of student government and other on-campus leaders that focuses on original case studies of leadership issues at Northeastern University. In addition to his teaching in the area of public policy, he offers a seminar for students in the university's honors program entitled "Social Fact From Fiction" that examines the treatment of social issues in contemporary novel-writing. Rochefort is a former Research Fellow of the Center for Work and Learning at Northeastern and is studying the impact of different forms of experiential education on students working toward a political science degree.
Kristen Simonelli is the Associate Director and Service-Learning Coordinator for Northeastern's Center of Community Service. Her key responsibilities are to promote and support the University use of Service-Learning within the curriculum, as well as to direct the Stride Rite Community Scholar Programs service-learning cooperative education opportunities. She is also a member of the Center for Experiential Education and Academic Advising advisory committee, the Massachusetts Campus Compacts Community Service and Service-Learning Directors Think Tank, and chair of Northeastern's university wide Service-Learning Advisory Board.
Kristen is a graduate of Providence College with a B.A. in Public and Community Service Studies from the Feinstein Institute. In 2005 she received her Masters in Applied Psychology, with a concentration in Student Development and Counseling from Northeastern's Bouve College of Health Sciences. Kristen first came to the Center as a *VISTA (Volunteer In Service To America) through the Massachusetts Campus Compact (MACC) AmeriCorps program.
Previous Institutes
July 2007 - Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
July 2006 - Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
July 2005 - Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts