Dr. Phillip T. Rutherford
(Ph.D. Penn State
University)
Phil joined the Marshall University Department of History in
Fall 2006. He is an assistant professor of European history
with expertise in the Nazi Era. He has extensive teaching
experience in European history, Twentieth-Century Europe,
and German history.
He is the author of,
“‘Absolute Organizational Deficiency’: The
1.Nahplan of
December 1939 (Logistics, Limitations, and Lessons),”
Central European History
2 (2003): 235-273.” His newest work, based on
extensive archival research, including a fellowship at the
US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, is,
Prelude to the Final Solution: The Nazi Program for
Deporting Ethnic Poles, 1939-1941 (Lawrence: The
University Press of Kansas, 2007). In his spare time Phil is
an avid fly fisherman.
Kimberly
DeTardo-Bora
(Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
Kimberly DeTardo-Bora, an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, has
been teaching at Marshall University since 2004. Her main areas of
teaching are: criminological theory, research methods, women and the
criminal justice system, corrections, and juvenile justice. Her latest
research effort, soon to appear in the Security Journal includes,
“An Assessment of Campus Security and Police Information on
College/University Websites,” which she co-authored with Sam Dameron
and Dru Bora. In addition, she recently completed a research project
titled, “Through the Fictional Television Looking Glass: Criminal
Justice Professional Women and How they are Depicted in Prime-Time Crime
Dramas.” In the latter study she found that professional career
women were not always shown in stereotypical ways, that is, female
characters were equally depicted as intelligent, assertive, and
self-confident as male characters.
Cristina
Burgueno
(Ph.D. Ohio State University)
Cristina Burgueño joined the
Department of Modern Languages at Marshall University in
1996, where she has taught Language courses as well as Latin
American Culture and Peninsular Literature. She has also
taught Graduate and Honors courses on Latin American Women,
Latin American Culture, and the 19th Century
European Cultural Neo-Colonization in Latin America. Her
current research in Latin American Cultural Identities is
focused in the Afro-Latin American cultural production with
emphasis in Uruguay, her native land.
She has published “La modernidad uruguaya. Imágenes e identidades. 1848-1900” (“The Uruguayan Modernity. Images and Identities. 1848-1900”), as well as several articles on these issues. Her newest articles: “Virginia Brindis de Salas, the Voice of an Afro Self”, and “Militant Relegated Voices: Two Afro-Uruguayan Poets”, are forthcoming in the journal “Negritud”, specialized on Afro-Latin American Studies.
Luke Eric Lassiter joined the Marshall University Graduate College as Professor of Humanities and Anthropology and Director of the Graduate Humanities Program in 2005.
Lassiter received his PhD in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1995. His research and teaching interests include race and ethnicity, ethnographic theory and practice, oral history and social memory, folklore and ethnomusicology. He has authored several books, including The Power of Kiowa Song, Invitation to Anthropology, The Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography, and, with Elizabeth Campbell, Hurley Goodall, Michelle Natasya Johnson and students, The Other Side of Middletown.
Lassiter is a Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology and the recipient of the 2005 Margaret Mead Award. He was also recently named the senior recipient of Marshall University's 2006-07 Distinguished Artists and Scholars Award in the field of Arts, Social Sciences, Humanities, Education and Business.
2007