Faculty & Staff News

Dr. Keith Bodner, Murray Professor of Religious Studies, published “Imprisoned in Prose: Narrating Jeremiah’s Confinement and the Siege of Jerusalem,” in The Oxford Handbook of Jeremiah, edited by Louis Stulman and Edward Silver and published by the Oxford University Press.

Dr. Dannie Brown will be retiring from his role as Dean of International Academic Programs this summer, but will be staying on part time as Dean of Remote Learning. Dr. Brown was instrumental in the establishment of Crandall’s BBA program, and since his return in 2018 has helped the university grow in its global reach, attracting more students from around the world.

President Bruce Fawcett (’88) continues to invest in the Greater Moncton community by serving as a Director on the Board of The Rotary Club of Moncton, as a member of the Advisory Board to The Driving Force initiative of the 3+ Economic Development Corporation, and as a member of the Southeast Labour Market Partnership.

Dr. Keith Grant (’96), Assistant Professor of History, completed a book on the history of emotions that will be published this fall with McGillQueen’s University Press. He was also invited to give a guest lecture on Canadian history at the University of Saskatchewan.

Dr. Robert Knowles (’89), VicePresident for Advancement, was appointed to the Board of Directors for the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Moncton.

Dr. Mark Lee, Assistant Professor of History, co-authored an article in the Journal of Church and State titled “Religious Deviance and Psychological Medicine in the Second Great Awakening: The Asylum Narratives of Elizabeth T. Stone.” The article investigates how people have understood relationships between authentic religious experience and delusion through the writings of a nineteenth-century asylum patient.

Shelly Lyons (’07), Program Administrator for Professional Programs, was the recipient of an award for Communicating Research Ideas when presenting her proposed doctoral research. The presentation was made at Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC, and the research entitled “How Can Spiritual Self-Leadership Encourage Identity Development and Sense of Belonging in Adult Third Culture Kids in Order for Them to Fully Realize Their Potential and Value Contribution in the Workplace?”

Dr. Greg Maillet, Professor of English, has organized a panel entitled, “The Inklings and Philology,” for the Christianity and Literature Study Group, a national academic organization which meets annually with the Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities.

Donnie Moore, Assistant Professor of Management, was named to the Board of Directors for the Codiac Regional Policing Authority (CRPA) in 2021, and became its Chair in January 2022.

Dr. Elissa Rodkey, Assistant Professor of Psychology, recently published “Of Power and Problems: Gender in Psychology’s Past,” a chapter in the The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Human Sciences. This chapter explores how gendered power dynamics and cultural gender stereotypes shaped the field of psychology, resulting in incomplete theories and skewed research findings. Dr. Rodkey’s chapter shows how gender shaped both who was allowed to do research and what questions psychology considered worth asking, and how that still shapes the field today. This term, Dr. Rodkey also gave a talk to the Crandall History Society called “A Wandering Bird: Psychologist Magda Arnold and Intellectual Communities Open and Closed.” This talk explored the life of 20th century Catholic psychologist Magda Arnold and how her unofficial intellectual community helped her to succeed in the face of a discipline that was hostile to both women and religious faith. This talk is available on the University YouTube channel.

Dr. Roger Russell, Dean of Professional Programs, will be retiring this summer. After years spent serving and teaching mature students and providing leadership to Crandall’s programs geared toward working professionals, he is looking forward to refocusing on the Nova Scotia side of the border.

J. Wellington Sousa, Assistant Professor of Management, published an article in the special issue of the Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education (CJSAE) titled, “Community Development in Canadian Adult Education: Looking Back and Moving Forward,” exploring how community development has been conceived in Canadian adult education in the last ten years. He also published another article in Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement titled, “Community Members as Facilitators: Reclaiming Community-Based Research as Inherently of the People,” which is part of a broader research agenda committed to community-led approaches to social change.

Dr. John Stackhouse, Mikolaski Professor of Religious Studies, gave a guest lecture on C. S. Lewis’ book, The Abolition of Man, in the course on Natural Law at the University of British Columbia Law School. Professor Stackhouse also guested on the popular podcast of Prof. Mike Bird (Ridley College, Australia) to discuss his forthcoming book on evangelicalism, and on CBC Radio’s “Tapestry” regarding his recent book, Can I Believe? Christianity for the Hesitant (Oxford University Press). He also published an article on truth, beauty, and goodness as “How Much Truth Is There in Beauty?” in Comment magazine, published by Cardus in Canada. Finally, he published two linked reflections on Christian philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff clarifying work by Immanuel Kant – and what that deep dive into philosophy might mean for ordinary folks as well: “On Wolterstorff on Kant Part I: On Fallibility” and “On Wolterstorff on Kant Part II: On Calling,” Christian Scholar’s Review weblog.