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Spring 2004, Vol. 31 No. 1
Contributors
Felicia Blacher-Wilson
holds a Ph.D. in Educational Administration from Iowa State University and is
currently the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at ITT Technical Institute in
New Orleans, Louisiana. Formerly Assistant Professor of Education at Xavier
University of Louisiana, her educational career crosses a number of areas
including serving as a teacher, counselor, assistant principal, principal,
assistant superintendent, director of schools and programs and Dean of Education
(Dillard University). Blacher-Wilson served on the National Board for
Professional Teaching Standards. Her research interests are in the relationship
between spirituality and leadership and the process and instruments used to
effectively evaluate administrators.
Email: veryblessed1@cox.net
Amanda Burger is a Ph.D. student in the clinical psychology department at
Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She presently is involved with
multiple studies of intellectual and personality factors relating to students,
learning, and educational milieu.
Email: 1206800@cedarville.edu
Diana Denton,Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the
Department of Drama and Speech Communication at the University of Waterloo in
Canada. She teaches courses in leadership, communication, and performance. Her
publications include In the Tenderness of Stone: Liberating Consciousness
Through Awakening the Heart (Sterling House, 1998) and a co-edited
collection Spirituality, Action & Pedagogy: Teaching From the Heart
(Peter Lang Publishing, 2004).
Email: ddenton@uwaterloo.ca
Michael W. Firmin, Ph.D., is professor and chair of the
psychology department at Cedarville University in Cedarville, Ohio. He has
taught psychology for 16 years, is a licensed psychologist, and has conducted
research addressing a wide range of educational issues.
Email: firmin@cedarville.edu
Perry L. Glanzer, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the
School of Education at Baylor University. His research and teaching interests
include moral education, the relationship between religion, education and
politics, and the philosophy of education. He recently authored The Quest for
Russia’s Soul: Evangelicals and Moral Education in Post-Communist Russia
(Baylor University Press).
Email: Perry_Glanzer@baylor.edu
Angela M. Leonard, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of
History at Loyola College in Maryland. She has published in academic journals,
including Maryland Historical Magazine, the North Carolina History
Journal, the Journal of Southern History, and contributed articles to
edited volumes. She is currently working on a bio-history of communities where
she has located graves of formerly enslaved Africans.
Email: aleonard@loyola.edu
Neil Southern is a Research Associate at the
University of Ulster. He graduated with 1st class honours from The Queen’s
University of Belfast with a B.A. in Politics (major) and Social Anthropology
(minor), and was awarded the Lemberger-Mettrick Prize for Politics. He completed
his Ph.D at Queen’s in the Department of Politics. He also holds a Post
Graduate Certificate in Education from Queen’s University. Neil lives in
Bangor, Northern Ireland, with his supportive wife Julie and six wonderful
children, Emma (13), Benett (11), Bonar (8), Christian (7), Bronte (3) and baby
Honor (1).
Email: dr.southern@btopenworld.com
