Arts and Sciences Dean Search Committee Members

Chair: Rich Friman, Professor, Political Science
(414) 288-5991
h.r.friman@marquette.edu

Fr. Jim Flaherty, Professor, Philosophy
(414) 288-1760
James.flaherty@marquette.edu

Stephen Franzoi, Professor, Psychology
(414) 288-1650
Stephen.franzoi@marquette.edu

Richard Jones, Associate Professor, Social and Cultural Sciences
(414) 288-3436
Richard.jones@marquette.edu

Joe Kearney, Dean, Law School
(414) 288-1955
Joseph.kearney@marquette.edu

Friman, Dr. H. Richard
Eliot Fitch Chair for International Studies and Professor of Political Science. Ph.D., Cornell University, 1987. Prof. Rich Friman is the Eliot Fitch Professor for International Studies, Professor of Political Science, Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Major in International Affairs, and Director of the Center for Transnational Justice at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. His current research focuses on the intersection of the licit and illicit global economies, politics of (im)migration and crime, trafficking in persons, and drug control policy in advanced industrial countries. His recent books include Crime and the Global Political Economy (Lynne Rienner 2009), Human Trafficking, Human Security and the Balkans (coedited, Pittsburgh 2007), Challenges and Paths to Global Justice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), The Illicit Global Economy and State Power (coedited, Rowman & Littlefield 1999) and NarcoDiplomacy: Exporting the U.S. War on Drugs (Cornell 1996). He is the author of two additional books, numerous book chapters, and articles in journals including International Organization, Review of International Political Economy, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of Public Policy, Crime, Law, and Social Change, The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, The Pacific Review, and Asian Survey. Friman is also the 1998 recipient of the Rev. John P. Raynor, S.J. Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence.

Flaherty S.J., Rev. James
Arts, 1978. Elected to the Marquette University Board of Trustees in 2005. He is the rector of the Marquette University Jesuit Community and adjunct assistant professor of Philosophy at Marquette. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1979 and was ordained a priest in 1992. Since his ordination, he has served as assistant pastor of St. Patrick's Parish in Milwaukee, as well as associate director of University Ministry at Marquette. After completing his doctoral degree in Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in 2003, he served as assistant professor of Philosophy on the faculty of Marquette University, where he published articles in scholarly journals such as The Modern Schoolman and International Philosophical Quarterly. He serves on the boards of Marquette University High School and the Jesuit Retreat House in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Father Flaherty regularly directs and preaches retreats at Jesuit retreat houses. During his Jesuit formation he was a member of the faculty and assistant principal for academics at Creighton Preparatory High School in Omaha, Nebraska.

Franzoi, Dr. Stephen L.
Professor of Psychology and Assistant Department Chair earned his B.A. in Sociology and Psychology at Western Michigan University (1975) and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of California at Davis (1977 and 1981). He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Self Program at Indiana University prior to becoming an Assistant Professor at Marquette University in 1984. He was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure in 1989 and to Professor in 2002. His area of specialization is social psychology, with a research focus on body esteem and physical appearance. Over the years, he has discussed his research in such media outlets as the New York Times, USA Today, National Public Radio, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. He has served as Assistant Editor of Social Psychology Quarterly and as Associate Editor of Social Problems and is a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. In addition to authoring more than 50 journal articles/book chapters, he has written three multi-edition textbooks in psychology and one high school psychology textbook.

Jones, Dr. Richard S.
Associate Professor of Sociology and Department Assistant Chair earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Sociology and Corrections from Mankato State University and his Ph.D. in Sociology at Iowa State University in 1986. He is the author of Doing Time: Prison Experience and Identity and has published more than twenty journal articles/book chapters in the areas of prison experience, social identity, and the problems of re-entry faced by previously incarcerated individuals.

Kearney, Joseph D.
Dean of the Law School and professor of law joined Marquette as an assistant professor in 1997. He became an associate professor in 2001 and a professor in 2003. He is a nationally recognized scholar whose work has appeared in the Columbia Law Review, Marquette Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review and University of Pennsylvania Law Review, among other journals. Kearney has taught administrative law, civil procedure, advanced civil procedure, federal courts, pretrial practice, regulated industries and a Supreme Court seminar. From 1990-95 and again from 1996-97, Kearney worked on commercial and regulatory litigation with an emphasis on appellate practice at Sidley & Austin in Chicago. In 1995-96, he was a law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court. He also served as a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Portland, Ore., from 1989-90. Kearney is admitted to the practice of law in Illinois, Wisconsin and various federal courts. Kearney earned a bachelor's degree in classics from Yale University in New Haven, Conn., in 1986. He graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and received the Bishop Berkeley Award, which is awarded to a student in Berkeley College "who has best realized the intellectual potentialities of the university."

 

Lezlie Knox, Associate Professor, History
(414) 288-7863
Lezlie.knox@marquette.edu

Therese Lysaught, Associate Professor, Theology
(414) 288-3740
Therese.lysaught@marquette.edu

Scott Reid, Professor, Chemistry
(414) 288-7565
Scott.reid@marquette.edu

Rosemary Stuart, Professor, Biological Sciences
(414) 288-1472
Rosemary.stuart@marquette.edu

Mary Jo Layden, Alumna
maryjo.layden@gmail.com

Staff: Jeff Snell, Special Advisor to the President
(414) 288-4758
Jeffrey.snell@marquette.edu

Knox, Dr. Lezlie
Associate Professor of History earned her Ph.D. in the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame in 1999. Her graduate work continued the interdisciplinary focus she began as an undergraduate, earning a B.A. in Art History and History, as well as a certificate in Medieval Studies from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Creating Clare Of Assisi: Female Franciscan Identities In Later Medieval Italy (Brill, 2008) and has published several articles on medieval women, gender, and the Franciscan Order, including "What Francis intended: Gender and the Transmission of Knowledge in the Franciscan Order," in Seeing and Knowing: Women and Learning in Medieval Europe, 1200-1500 (Brepols, 2004). Her current project focuses on prisons and imprisonment practices within late medieval religious orders.

In addition to teaching courses on medieval Europe in the Department of History (including topics courses on the Crusades, Black Death, and minority groups in medieval society), she has taught first year seminars and special sections of Western Civilization for the Honors program. Dr Knox also is a member of the advisory board for the Women's and Gender Studies Program.

Lysaught, Dr. M. Therese
M. Therese Lysaught, Associate Professor of Theology and Assistant Department Chair earned her B.S. in Chemistry at Hope College, her M.A. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame, and her Ph.D. in Theological Ethics from Duke University (1992). She specializes in moral theology and bioethics. As an NIH/ELSI Fellow at the University of Iowa from 1994-1995, she worked in the Human Genome Project lab of geneticist Dr. Jeff Murray. She subsequently served for three years on the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee of the National Institutes of Health.

Her first book, Gathered for the Journey: Moral Theology in Catholic Perspective (Eerdmans 2007, co-editor David M. McCarthy) received third place honors in 'Theology' from the Catholic Press Association in 2008. Her second book, On Moral Medicine: Theological Perspectives in Medical Ethics, 3rd edition (Eerdmans, 2010, co-editor Joseph Kotva), is in press.

In addition to authoring almost 50 articles/book chapters and presenting over 50 invited lectures, she has served as an advisor to the Catholic Health Association and for the Program of Dialogue Between Science, Religion, and Ethics at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Reid, Dr. Scott
Dr. Reid is currently Wehr Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Marquette University, and co-director of the college's Introduction to Inquiry program, a seminar for first year, first semester undergraduates. He received his B.S. degree in chemistry from Union University in 1985, and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1990. Following postdoctoral training at the University of Southern California, he took a position as Assistant Professor at Marquette in 1994. He was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure in 2000, and to Professor in 2005. In 2007, Dr. Reid received the Robert and Mary Gettel faculty award for teaching excellence, and he has won the Department of Chemistry Senior award, given for teaching excellence and developmental guidance, on four separate occasions. His research interests are in the study of reactive chemical intermediates important in atmospheric, combustion, and interstellar chemistry using laser spectroscopy and matrix isolation techniques.

Stuart, Dr. Rosemary
Professor of Biological Sciences. Dr. Stuart received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the University of College, Dublin, Ireland in 1984 and 1985, respectively. She received her Ph.D. from the Ludwig-Maximillians Universität München, Germany where she worked with Dr. Walter Neupert in the field of mitochondrial biogenesis and function. She completed post-doctoral research at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London, U.K. Her interests in mitochondrial biogenesis and metabolism led her back to the Ludwig-Maximillians Universität München, Germany, where she work as a senior staff scientist and obtained her Dr. rer.biol.Habil. degree in 1998. She has been at Marquette since 1999. Her research interests are the assembly, function and regulation of the mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation system and her research is funded through research grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. She is the 2008 recipient of the Robert and Mary Gettel Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence at Marquette.