Fairfield University professor to discuss guerilla marketing at Fairfield University Bookstore

Ever wonder how Pabst Blue Ribbon became the beer of choice of the hipster set? How about how the U.S. Army morphed into a popular videogame?

Michael Serazio, Ph.D., assistant professor of communication at Fairfield University, explains it all in "Your Ad Here: The Cool Sell of Guerrilla Marketing," a timely talk on Wednesday, April 10 at the Fairfield University Bookstore, 1499 Post Road, Fairfield. The 7 p.m. event is free and open to the public.

It is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Communication and the Learning for a Lifetime Program.

Dr. Serazio's research interests include popular culture, advertising, journalism, and new media, and his latest book, "Your Ad Here: The Cool Sell of Guerrilla Marketing," takes a fascinating look at how marketing strategies have multiplied, as brand messaging creeps ever deeper into our private lives. The engaging work investigates the rise of 'guerrilla marketing' as a way of understanding new forms of commercial persuasion, the 'hidden persuaders' that work with today's social media and digital platforms.

"It is a truism that, in media, everyone knows they are being sold something all the time," wrote Mark Deuze, author of "Media Life and Media Work." "It is exactly because of this that we become blind to the subtle seductions of contemporary commercial culture - and Michael Serazio is here to open our eyes."

Dr. Serazio has been widely published in magazines and scholarly journals. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. He also holds a B.A. in communication from the University of San Francisco and an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University.

For more information on this event, contact Elizabeth Hastings, ehastings@fairfield.edu or (203) 254-4000, ext. 2688.

Media Contact: Meredith Guinness, (203) 254-4000, ext. 2950, mguinness@fairfield.edu

Posted on March 22, 2013

Vol. 45, No. 232

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Professor Donald E. Gibson, Ph.D., named dean of Fairfield University's Charles F. Dolan School of Business

Donald E. Gibson, Ph.D., interim dean of Fairfield University's Charles F. Dolan School of Business for nearly two years and a respected and popular faculty member for the past 12 years, has been named the new dean of the business school. His appointment follows an extensive national search.

"I look forward to leading the Dolan School of Business toward our goal of educating students to be ethical business leaders for a global future," said Dr. Gibson, professor of management and a leader in his field of organizational behavior research. "We have a strong faculty and engaged students, creating a learning community infused by Jesuit values. Working with this community, along with our staff, alumni, and business community, I seek to raise the profile of the Dolan School of Business to be recognized among the ranks of the best business schools."

A Trumbull, Conn., resident, Dr. Gibson, a leading expert in the study of anger in the workplace, will lead a school that continues to experience impressive growth. The Dolan School of Business features a world-class faculty engaging in intriguing scholarship with experience from a wide array of industries, and counts among its alumni prominent business leaders at top financial institutions and Fortune 500 companies. The School is listed by Princeton Review and U.S. News & World Report among the best business programs in the U.S.

In making the announcement, Fairfield University President Rev. Jeffrey P. von Arx, S.J., noted that Dr. Gibson is not only an accomplished scholar, but also a talented and skillful administrator, as demonstrated by his accomplishments while serving as interim dean. "Don led the School during the rigorous and critical re-accreditation process, guiding the development of strategic themes and initiatives to move the School forward," Fr. von Arx said. "Don understands the unique needs of a cutting-edge, competitive business school infused with Jesuit values, while fully recognizing the advantages of collaboration across the institution."

Dr. Gibson came to Fairfield in 2001 as an associate professor of management. In 2008, he was promoted to professor and named chair of the management department, and was appointed interim dean of the Dolan School in 2011.

Before joining Fairfield, he was an assistant professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management from 1995 to 2001. He received an MBA and Ph.D. from the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has a master's in radio and television from San Francisco State University, and a bachelor's in administrative studies from the University of California, Riverside.

He has taught in the areas of organizational behavior, leadership, and human resource management. His research interests include the attributes and impact of organizational role models, anger and aggression in workplace conflict, and the management of individual emotional experience in organizations. In 2011, he won the prestigious Robert E. Wall Faculty Award to advance his research, a project entitled, "The Sound and the Fury: Understanding Anger in the Workplace."

Dr. Gibson has served in various leadership positions on professional boards and is currently on the executive committee of the International Association for Conflict Management. He is also a board and executive committee member of the Council of Churches of Greater Bridgeport. Prior to his academic career, he worked in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles, managing a post-production team for Lorimar Productions, producers of Dallas, Falcon Crest and Knots Landing. Gibson has appeared on stage at Fairfield University's Quick Center for the Arts in recent productions of Juan Mayorga's Perpetual Peace and Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet. It was partly Dr. Gibson's idea that the latter play be staged in an effort to use live theater on campus as a dynamic classroom where students can learn life lessons. It helped business students study ethics in the workplace, among many other lessons.

Media Contact: Meg McCaffrey, (203) 254-4000, ext. 2726, mmccaffrey@fairfield.edu

Posted on March 20, 2013

Vol. 45, No. 229

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Fairfield University Professor Paul Lakeland, an internationally recognized Catholic theologian, to be inducted into Phi Beta Kappa

Fairfield University's Zeta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest academic honor society, is pleased to announce that the 2013 honorary inductee will be Paul Lakeland, Ph.D., the Aloysius P. Kelley S.J. Professor of Catholic Studies and founding director of the Center for Catholic Studies at Fairfield. A Trumbull, Conn., resident, he is an internationally recognized Catholic theologian, whose scholarly work on the nature of the Roman Catholic Church continues to generate study and debate among the major scholars in his field. Dr. Lakeland, who called the honor "one of the high points of my academic career," will be formally inducted at the chapter's April 20, 2013 ceremony.

Aaron Perkus, Ph.D., associate dean for Fairfield's College of Arts and Sciences and interim president of the Zeta Chapter, said, "An invitation to membership in Phi Beta Kappa is a reflection of outstanding achievement. Dr. Lakeland was the obvious and unanimous choice to receive our honorary membership. Since PBK is only offered through American colleges and universities, the London and Oxford educated Dr. Lakeland never had the opportunity early in his prestigious career. However, in our opinion, through his vast and exceptional scholarly achievements, he is the perfect exemplar of the PBK motto: 'Love of learning is the guide of life.' "

In 2004, Dr. Lakeland was named the inaugural Aloysius P. Kelley S.J. Professor of Catholic Studies and founding director of the Center for Catholic Studies at the Jesuit institution. He has taught at Fairfield since 1981, serving as chair of the Department of Religious Studies for ten years and six years as director of the Honors Program. He teaches courses in liberation theology, Catholic ecclesiology and religion and literature.

Currently completing a book to appear in October on Vatican II's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, to be called "A Council That Will Never End: Lumen Gentium and the Church Today," Dr. Lakeland is a member of the American Academy of Religion, the American Theological Society, the Catholic Theological Society of America, and the Workgroup for Constructive Theology, a Nashville-based ecumenical association of systematic and constructive theologians.

Among his more recent books are "The Liberation of the Laity: In Search of An Accountable Church" (2003), which won the Catholic Press Association Award for the best book in theology in 2004; "Catholicism at the Crossroads: How the Laity Can Save the Church" (2008); "Church: Living Communion" (2009), and "Yves Congar: Essential Writings" (2010). He writes on literature and modern culture for the Commonweal magazine blog, "Verdicts."

He holds a Licentiate in Philosophy from Heythrop Pontifical Athenaeum, an M.A. in English Language and Literature from Oxford University, a Bachelor of Divinity Degree from the University of London, and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University, where he wrote a dissertation on the later religious and political writings of G.W.F. Hegel, later published as "The Politics of Salvation: Hegel's Idea of the State." He is the author of eight books and dozens of articles, and editor or co-editor of two others.

Among his honors are the 1990 Fairfield University AHANA Students Professor of the Year Award, Fairfield University's 2004-5 Teacher of the Year Award, and the 2010 Alan Richardson Fellowship at Durham University in the United Kingdom. He and his pianist wife, Beth Palmer, are parents of a son, also a professional pianist.

Media Contact: Meg McCaffrey, (203) 254-4000, ext. 2726, mmccaffrey@fairfield.edu

Posted on March 08, 2013

Vol. 45, No. 216

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Flagler College Art Professor Accepted into English Film and Video Festival

ST. AUGUSTINE, FL (08/11/2011) -- Patrick Moser, Art and Design Department chair and associate professor of painting and drawing at Flagler College, recently had his short film, "Patty Goes," shown at the Fundada Artists' Film Festival (FAFF) in Wakefield, England. The festival is a film and video event run by artists intending to showcase the best in contemporary screen-based art.

The film, which features stop animation using 400 different paintings to tell the story of Patty – an homage to 1960s Bigfoot images – was created by Moser while on a faculty research sabbatical grant from Flagler.

"I'm really a painter, but I've been immersing myself in video and film. The curious thing about video art is it's not film," said Moser. "It's a way to experiment with contemporary screen-based art using video, computer programs and animation."

Moser was the only American artist chosen for the film festival.

"I found out about the Fundada Festival on the video site, Vimeo, and submitted it to be considered for acceptance," Moser said. "I never anticipated that it would be selected."

The films were screened in late July at Westgate Studios in Wakefield, England. Moser was unable to attend.

"I've been running an art camp here at Flagler all summer and wasn't able to get away," Moser said. "In the fall, I will be teaching a Video Art class using the skills I've learned during my sabbatical."

Moser received his M.F.A. from the University of Florida and teaches painting and drawing courses at Flagler.

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ENC Welcomes Dr. Ben Cater, Assistant Professor of History

Published: 2013-01-22

ENC Provost Dr. Timothy Wooster is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Ben Cater as Assistant Professor of History and director of the Boston Semester program.

Dr. Cater, a native of Southern California, graduated from Point Loma Nazarene University, where he studied American history and literature. He received the A.B. Hammond Fellowship for Western American Studies to study at the University of Montana, Missoula, where he wrote a master's thesis that examined Episcopal Bishop Daniel S. Tuttle in post-Civil War Salt Lake City. Cater's research led him to pursue a Ph.D. in American history, as well as a doctoral minor in Latin American Studies, at the University of Utah. His dissertation explored the socioeconomic and religious dimensions of public health and medicine in Progressive Era Salt Lake City. During his research, he published several book reviews and articles in journals like the Utah Historical Quarterly, which awarded him the 2011 Nick Yengich Memorial Editor’s Choice Award for Best Article. In 2010, he received the university's coveted Floyd O'Neill Scholarship in Western American Studies, while from 2007 to 2009 the Simmons Media Fellowship and a host of grants from the Department of History and First Presbyterian Church, Salt Lake City, allowed him to continue his studies. At ENC, Dr. Cater will teach survey courses in American history and government, advanced seminars on a variety of topics, and courses on the history of colonial and modern Latin America.

Dr. Cater will live in Quincy with his wife, Anne, and daughters Vera (age 5) and Eden (age 2).

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Professor publishes book on Mideast peace

Fitchburg State University Professor Eric N. Budd’s new volume on the struggle for peace in the Middle East – Conflicted are the Peacemakers: Israeli and Palestinian Moderates and the Death of Oslo – is being published this week by Continuum, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing.

The 1993 Oslo Accords were a key attempt to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, whose failure was largely attributed to extremists on both sides. Budd’s book challenges this conventional wisdom by examining the role of Israeli and Palestinian peacemakers themselves in derailing the peace process.

“The current conflict over the Gaza Strip shows how far apart the two sides remain,” said Budd, a faculty member in Fitchburg State’s department of economics, history and political science. “As the Oslo Peace Process has bogged down, the extremists have been empowered. With the moderates too conflicted to make peace, the extremists don't need to sabotage the peace process because the moderates have already done that for them, so the cycle of violence continues.”

Looking at the role of moderates before and after Oslo, the different agreements and peace proposals they negotiated, and their rhetoric, the book shows that these peacemakers retained an inherent ambivalence toward the peace process and one another. This prevented them and their constituents from committing to the process and achieving a lasting peace.

This unique survey shows how the people who drive the peace process can not only undermine it, but also prevent its successful conclusion. By dealing with such an important aspect of negotiation, the book will foster a better understanding of the role of moderates and why peace processes may falter.

Budd, one of the founders of Fitchburg State University’s Center for Conflict Studies, is the author of Democratization, Development and the Patrimonial State in the Age of Globalization (Lexington Books, 2003) as well as many articles and book reviews.

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ENC Welcomes Dr. Ben Cater, Assistant Professor of History

Published: 2013-01-22

ENC Provost Dr. Timothy Wooster is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Ben Cater as Assistant Professor of History and director of the Boston Semester program.

Dr. Cater, a native of Southern California, graduated from Point Loma Nazarene University, where he studied American history and literature. He received the A.B. Hammond Fellowship for Western American Studies to study at the University of Montana, Missoula, where he wrote a master's thesis that examined Episcopal Bishop Daniel S. Tuttle in post-Civil War Salt Lake City. Cater's research led him to pursue a Ph.D. in American history, as well as a doctoral minor in Latin American Studies, at the University of Utah. His dissertation explored the socioeconomic and religious dimensions of public health and medicine in Progressive Era Salt Lake City. During his research, he published several book reviews and articles in journals like the Utah Historical Quarterly, which awarded him the 2011 Nick Yengich Memorial Editor’s Choice Award for Best Article. In 2010, he received the university's coveted Floyd O'Neill Scholarship in Western American Studies, while from 2007 to 2009 the Simmons Media Fellowship and a host of grants from the Department of History and First Presbyterian Church, Salt Lake City, allowed him to continue his studies. At ENC, Dr. Cater will teach survey courses in American history and government, advanced seminars on a variety of topics, and courses on the history of colonial and modern Latin America.

Dr. Cater will live in Quincy with his wife, Anne, and daughters Vera (age 5) and Eden (age 2).

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ENC Welcomes Dr. Ben Cater, Assistant Professor of History

Published: 2013-01-22

ENC Provost Dr. Timothy Wooster is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Ben Cater as Assistant Professor of History and director of the Boston Semester program.

Dr. Cater, a native of Southern California, graduated from Point Loma Nazarene University, where he studied American history and literature. He received the A.B. Hammond Fellowship for Western American Studies to study at the University of Montana, Missoula, where he wrote a master's thesis that examined Episcopal Bishop Daniel S. Tuttle in post-Civil War Salt Lake City. Cater's research led him to pursue a Ph.D. in American history, as well as a doctoral minor in Latin American Studies, at the University of Utah. His dissertation explored the socioeconomic and religious dimensions of public health and medicine in Progressive Era Salt Lake City. During his research, he published several book reviews and articles in journals like the Utah Historical Quarterly, which awarded him the 2011 Nick Yengich Memorial Editor’s Choice Award for Best Article. In 2010, he received the university's coveted Floyd O'Neill Scholarship in Western American Studies, while from 2007 to 2009 the Simmons Media Fellowship and a host of grants from the Department of History and First Presbyterian Church, Salt Lake City, allowed him to continue his studies. At ENC, Dr. Cater will teach survey courses in American history and government, advanced seminars on a variety of topics, and courses on the history of colonial and modern Latin America.

Dr. Cater will live in Quincy with his wife, Anne, and daughters Vera (age 5) and Eden (age 2).

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ENC Welcomes Dr. Ben Cater, Assistant Professor of History

Published: 2013-01-22

ENC Provost Dr. Timothy Wooster is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Ben Cater as Assistant Professor of History and director of the Boston Semester program.

Dr. Cater, a native of Southern California, graduated from Point Loma Nazarene University, where he studied American history and literature. He received the A.B. Hammond Fellowship for Western American Studies to study at the University of Montana, Missoula, where he wrote a master's thesis that examined Episcopal Bishop Daniel S. Tuttle in post-Civil War Salt Lake City. Cater's research led him to pursue a Ph.D. in American history, as well as a doctoral minor in Latin American Studies, at the University of Utah. His dissertation explored the socioeconomic and religious dimensions of public health and medicine in Progressive Era Salt Lake City. During his research, he published several book reviews and articles in journals like the Utah Historical Quarterly, which awarded him the 2011 Nick Yengich Memorial Editor’s Choice Award for Best Article. In 2010, he received the university's coveted Floyd O'Neill Scholarship in Western American Studies, while from 2007 to 2009 the Simmons Media Fellowship and a host of grants from the Department of History and First Presbyterian Church, Salt Lake City, allowed him to continue his studies. At ENC, Dr. Cater will teach survey courses in American history and government, advanced seminars on a variety of topics, and courses on the history of colonial and modern Latin America.

Dr. Cater will live in Quincy with his wife, Anne, and daughters Vera (age 5) and Eden (age 2).

Related at ENC: Department of History

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ENC Welcomes Dr. Ben Cater, Assistant Professor of History

Published: 2013-01-22

ENC Provost Dr. Timothy Wooster is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Ben Cater as Assistant Professor of History and director of the Boston Semester program.

Dr. Cater, a native of Southern California, graduated from Point Loma Nazarene University, where he studied American history and literature. He received the A.B. Hammond Fellowship for Western American Studies to study at the University of Montana, Missoula, where he wrote a master's thesis that examined Episcopal Bishop Daniel S. Tuttle in post-Civil War Salt Lake City. Cater's research led him to pursue a Ph.D. in American history, as well as a doctoral minor in Latin American Studies, at the University of Utah. His dissertation explored the socioeconomic and religious dimensions of public health and medicine in Progressive Era Salt Lake City. During his research, he published several book reviews and articles in journals like the Utah Historical Quarterly, which awarded him the 2011 Nick Yengich Memorial Editor’s Choice Award for Best Article. In 2010, he received the university's coveted Floyd O'Neill Scholarship in Western American Studies, while from 2007 to 2009 the Simmons Media Fellowship and a host of grants from the Department of History and First Presbyterian Church, Salt Lake City, allowed him to continue his studies. At ENC, Dr. Cater will teach survey courses in American history and government, advanced seminars on a variety of topics, and courses on the history of colonial and modern Latin America.

Dr. Cater will live in Quincy with his wife, Anne, and daughters Vera (age 5) and Eden (age 2).

Related at ENC: Department of History

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ENC Welcomes Dr. Ben Cater, Assistant Professor of History

Published: 2013-01-22

ENC Provost Dr. Timothy Wooster is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Ben Cater as Assistant Professor of History and director of the Boston Semester program.

Dr. Cater, a native of Southern California, graduated from Point Loma Nazarene University, where he studied American history and literature. He received the A.B. Hammond Fellowship for Western American Studies to study at the University of Montana, Missoula, where he wrote a master's thesis that examined Episcopal Bishop Daniel S. Tuttle in post-Civil War Salt Lake City. Cater's research led him to pursue a Ph.D. in American history, as well as a doctoral minor in Latin American Studies, at the University of Utah. His dissertation explored the socioeconomic and religious dimensions of public health and medicine in Progressive Era Salt Lake City. During his research, he published several book reviews and articles in journals like the Utah Historical Quarterly, which awarded him the 2011 Nick Yengich Memorial Editor’s Choice Award for Best Article. In 2010, he received the university's coveted Floyd O'Neill Scholarship in Western American Studies, while from 2007 to 2009 the Simmons Media Fellowship and a host of grants from the Department of History and First Presbyterian Church, Salt Lake City, allowed him to continue his studies. At ENC, Dr. Cater will teach survey courses in American history and government, advanced seminars on a variety of topics, and courses on the history of colonial and modern Latin America.

Dr. Cater will live in Quincy with his wife, Anne, and daughters Vera (age 5) and Eden (age 2).

Related at ENC: Department of History

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ENC Welcomes Dr. Ben Cater, Assistant Professor of History

Published: 2013-01-22

ENC Provost Dr. Timothy Wooster is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Ben Cater as Assistant Professor of History and director of the Boston Semester program.

Dr. Cater, a native of Southern California, graduated from Point Loma Nazarene University, where he studied American history and literature. He received the A.B. Hammond Fellowship for Western American Studies to study at the University of Montana, Missoula, where he wrote a master's thesis that examined Episcopal Bishop Daniel S. Tuttle in post-Civil War Salt Lake City. Cater's research led him to pursue a Ph.D. in American history, as well as a doctoral minor in Latin American Studies, at the University of Utah. His dissertation explored the socioeconomic and religious dimensions of public health and medicine in Progressive Era Salt Lake City. During his research, he published several book reviews and articles in journals like the Utah Historical Quarterly, which awarded him the 2011 Nick Yengich Memorial Editor’s Choice Award for Best Article. In 2010, he received the university's coveted Floyd O'Neill Scholarship in Western American Studies, while from 2007 to 2009 the Simmons Media Fellowship and a host of grants from the Department of History and First Presbyterian Church, Salt Lake City, allowed him to continue his studies. At ENC, Dr. Cater will teach survey courses in American history and government, advanced seminars on a variety of topics, and courses on the history of colonial and modern Latin America.

Dr. Cater will live in Quincy with his wife, Anne, and daughters Vera (age 5) and Eden (age 2).

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Flagler College Art Professor Accepted into English Film and Video Festival

ST. AUGUSTINE, FL (08/11/2011) -- Patrick Moser, Art and Design Department chair and associate professor of painting and drawing at Flagler College, recently had his short film, "Patty Goes," shown at the Fundada Artists' Film Festival (FAFF) in Wakefield, England. The festival is a film and video event run by artists intending to showcase the best in contemporary screen-based art.

The film, which features stop animation using 400 different paintings to tell the story of Patty – an homage to 1960s Bigfoot images – was created by Moser while on a faculty research sabbatical grant from Flagler.

"I'm really a painter, but I've been immersing myself in video and film. The curious thing about video art is it's not film," said Moser. "It's a way to experiment with contemporary screen-based art using video, computer programs and animation."

Moser was the only American artist chosen for the film festival.

"I found out about the Fundada Festival on the video site, Vimeo, and submitted it to be considered for acceptance," Moser said. "I never anticipated that it would be selected."

The films were screened in late July at Westgate Studios in Wakefield, England. Moser was unable to attend.

"I've been running an art camp here at Flagler all summer and wasn't able to get away," Moser said. "In the fall, I will be teaching a Video Art class using the skills I've learned during my sabbatical."

Moser received his M.F.A. from the University of Florida and teaches painting and drawing courses at Flagler.

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ENC Welcomes Dr. Ben Cater, Assistant Professor of History

Published: 2013-01-22

ENC Provost Dr. Timothy Wooster is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Ben Cater as Assistant Professor of History and director of the Boston Semester program.

Dr. Cater, a native of Southern California, graduated from Point Loma Nazarene University, where he studied American history and literature. He received the A.B. Hammond Fellowship for Western American Studies to study at the University of Montana, Missoula, where he wrote a master's thesis that examined Episcopal Bishop Daniel S. Tuttle in post-Civil War Salt Lake City. Cater's research led him to pursue a Ph.D. in American history, as well as a doctoral minor in Latin American Studies, at the University of Utah. His dissertation explored the socioeconomic and religious dimensions of public health and medicine in Progressive Era Salt Lake City. During his research, he published several book reviews and articles in journals like the Utah Historical Quarterly, which awarded him the 2011 Nick Yengich Memorial Editor’s Choice Award for Best Article. In 2010, he received the university's coveted Floyd O'Neill Scholarship in Western American Studies, while from 2007 to 2009 the Simmons Media Fellowship and a host of grants from the Department of History and First Presbyterian Church, Salt Lake City, allowed him to continue his studies. At ENC, Dr. Cater will teach survey courses in American history and government, advanced seminars on a variety of topics, and courses on the history of colonial and modern Latin America.

Dr. Cater will live in Quincy with his wife, Anne, and daughters Vera (age 5) and Eden (age 2).

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ENC Welcomes Dr. Ben Cater, Assistant Professor of History

Published: 2013-01-22

ENC Provost Dr. Timothy Wooster is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Ben Cater as Assistant Professor of History and director of the Boston Semester program.

Dr. Cater, a native of Southern California, graduated from Point Loma Nazarene University, where he studied American history and literature. He received the A.B. Hammond Fellowship for Western American Studies to study at the University of Montana, Missoula, where he wrote a master's thesis that examined Episcopal Bishop Daniel S. Tuttle in post-Civil War Salt Lake City. Cater's research led him to pursue a Ph.D. in American history, as well as a doctoral minor in Latin American Studies, at the University of Utah. His dissertation explored the socioeconomic and religious dimensions of public health and medicine in Progressive Era Salt Lake City. During his research, he published several book reviews and articles in journals like the Utah Historical Quarterly, which awarded him the 2011 Nick Yengich Memorial Editor’s Choice Award for Best Article. In 2010, he received the university's coveted Floyd O'Neill Scholarship in Western American Studies, while from 2007 to 2009 the Simmons Media Fellowship and a host of grants from the Department of History and First Presbyterian Church, Salt Lake City, allowed him to continue his studies. At ENC, Dr. Cater will teach survey courses in American history and government, advanced seminars on a variety of topics, and courses on the history of colonial and modern Latin America.

Dr. Cater will live in Quincy with his wife, Anne, and daughters Vera (age 5) and Eden (age 2).

Related at ENC: Department of History

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ENC Welcomes Dr. Ben Cater, Assistant Professor of History

Published: 2013-01-22

ENC Provost Dr. Timothy Wooster is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Ben Cater as Assistant Professor of History and director of the Boston Semester program.

Dr. Cater, a native of Southern California, graduated from Point Loma Nazarene University, where he studied American history and literature. He received the A.B. Hammond Fellowship for Western American Studies to study at the University of Montana, Missoula, where he wrote a master's thesis that examined Episcopal Bishop Daniel S. Tuttle in post-Civil War Salt Lake City. Cater's research led him to pursue a Ph.D. in American history, as well as a doctoral minor in Latin American Studies, at the University of Utah. His dissertation explored the socioeconomic and religious dimensions of public health and medicine in Progressive Era Salt Lake City. During his research, he published several book reviews and articles in journals like the Utah Historical Quarterly, which awarded him the 2011 Nick Yengich Memorial Editor’s Choice Award for Best Article. In 2010, he received the university's coveted Floyd O'Neill Scholarship in Western American Studies, while from 2007 to 2009 the Simmons Media Fellowship and a host of grants from the Department of History and First Presbyterian Church, Salt Lake City, allowed him to continue his studies. At ENC, Dr. Cater will teach survey courses in American history and government, advanced seminars on a variety of topics, and courses on the history of colonial and modern Latin America.

Dr. Cater will live in Quincy with his wife, Anne, and daughters Vera (age 5) and Eden (age 2).

Related at ENC: Department of History

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