Liberal Studies Faculty

Harry John Augensen

Professor, Physics and Astronomy

B.A., Elmhurst College; M.S., Ph.D., Northwestern University

(galactic structure and stellar evolution, planetary nebulae)

Rachel A. Batch

Assistant Professor, History

B.A., Carnegie Mellon University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

(U.S. labor, immigration, 20^th century social history)

Patricia M. Dyer

Professor, English

B.A., Cornell University; Med, Ph.D., University of Delaware

(linguistics, intercultural communication)

J. Joseph Edgette

Professor, Education

B.S., West Chester University; M.S., M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

(folklore, education, ethnography)

Mark S. Graybill

Associate Professor, English

B.A., Roanoke College; M.A., University of Tennessee; Ph.D., University of South Carolina

(20^th Century American Literature)

Gordon P. Henderson

Professor, Government and Politics

B.A., Eisenhower College; M.A., Ph.D, Purdue University

(U.S. Constitution and government, political theory)

Patricia A. Lawler

Associate Professor, Education

B.A. College of New Rochelle; M.S., Villanova University; Ed.D., Columbia University

(adult education, higher education)

Ilene D. Lieberman

Professor, Art History; Gabriel Lucas Endowed Professorship of Fine Arts

B.A., University of California at Berkeley; Ph.D., Princeton Univeristy

(18^th and19th Century art, Neoclassical and Romantic sculpture)

Barbara T. Norton

Professor, History

B.A., Guilford College; M.A., Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University

(Russian history, women’s history)

Theodore J. O’Tanyi Jr.

Associate Professor, Biology

B.S., Widener University; M.S., Ph.D., Lehigh University

(zoology and comparative animal physiology, evolution)

Mara Parker

Associate Professor, Musicology and String Performance

B.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; M.A., San Francisco State University; Ph.D., Indiana University

(Western music history, ethnomusicology)

Kenneth G. Pobo

Associate Professor, English

B.A., Wheaton College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

(poetry, feminist literature)

Daniel Robinson

Associate Professor, English

B.A., James Madison University; M.A., Ph.D., University of South Carolina

(18^th and 19^th century British literature)

Barbara Ryan

Professor, Sociology

B.S., M.S, M.A., Southern Illinois Univeristy; Ph.D., Washington University

(marriage and family, social movements)

Kenneth Skinner

Professor, Anthropology

B.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of Minnesota

(urban Japan, religion)

Janine M. Utell

Assistant Professor, English

B.A., Barnard College; M.A., Catholic University of America; Ph.D., City University of New York

(20^th century British literature)

David V. Ward

Professor, Philosophy

B.A., Pennsylvania State University; Ph.D., Temple University

(ethics, contemporary analytic metaphysics)

Dr. Kenneth A. Skinner, Director
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
Widener University
One University Place
Chester, PA 19013