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Honors Staff and Faculty
Dr. Susan Dinan was appointed as Director of the new Honors College at William Paterson University in 2005. She received a Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin in 1996. She specializes in early modern France and completed her dissertation research in Paris. Dr. Dinan serves as a faculty member in the History Department at William Paterson and recently published a book "Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France: The Early History of the Daughters of Charity."
PROGRAM ASSISTANT Jan Pinkston was appointed to the Honors Program at William Paterson University in 2000. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Springfield and is currently enrolled in the graduate English Program at William Paterson, where she is working toward an M.A. in English with a concentration in writing. Program Directors BIOPSYCHOLOGY Dr. Robert Benno is a Professor of Biology at William Paterson. His areas of professional interest are computer-assisted image processing and developmental neurobiology. He is also a dedicated jazz pianist. COGNITIVE SCIENCE Dr. Pete Mandik is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Philosophy Department Chairman at William Paterson University. He is a member of the McDonnell Project for Philosophy and the Neurosciences. His principle research interests are in the philosophy of mind and concern consciousness and representational content. Other work concerns the philosophy of mind more generally, the philosophy of neuroscience, cognitive science, and artificial life.
Dr. John Peterman got his Ph.D. in 1980 from the Pennsylvania State University. He is interested in ancient Greek philosophy (particularly Plato), American pragmatism (particularly Dewey). He teaches courses in Ancient Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Environmental Ethics, and Life Science Ethics. He directs the Humanities Honors Track. He is an avid hiker and has successfully completed the New York City Marathon three times (best time: 4:15).
Karen Swanson received her Ph.D. in Geochemistry and Mineralogy from Pennsylvania State University in 1988 and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science. She is primarily interested in two areas of inquiry: the behavior of pollutants in natural water systems, and the best ways to teach science at all levels.
Dr. Jeffrey Kresky holds a B.A. from Columbia, and a Ph.D. from Princeton. He is a music theorist, with an emphasis in analysis and criticism; a composer, keyboardist and conductor; and author of Tonal Music: 12 Analytic Studies ( Indiana), A Reader's Guide to the Chopin Preludes ( Greenwood), and articles and reviews in Perspectives of New Music, Gettysburg Review, and The Music Review. He was appointed to William Paterson University in 1973 and has served as the director of the Music Track since its inception.
Dr. Philip Cioffari is Professor of English with interests in creative writing, acting and directing. He has published short stories in Playboy, Michigan Quarterly, Southern Humanities Review, Northwest Review, William and Mary Review, Italian American, Paterson Literary Review, and Mississippi Review. His plays have been produced Off-Off Broadway at the American Theater of Actors and at the Pulse Ensemble Theater, in New York City.
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