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Kathryn A. Black is an artist in resi-
dence and served as director of the
Concert Choir and Chamber Singers
this year.
Black was an
adjunct faculty
member at the
university from
1999-2011,
during which
she expanded
the Concert
Choir member-
ship; success-
fully developed a studio for individual
instruction in voice, beginning piano
and guitar; developed and instructed
the course "History of American Mu-
sical Theater;" and performed as an
Artist in Residence for an opera dou-
ble bill.
She has appeared in numerous musical
theater productions as well as opera,
classical and jazz performances. Black
is the recipient of several Theater As-
sociation of New York State awards,
most recently for Outstanding Vocal
Performance as Sister Mary Amnesia
in "Nunsense II" in 2011.
Black was an adjunct with the music
faculty at Jamestown Community Col-
lege for 13 years, as well as a church
organist/choir director for 39 years.
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Tae Jin N. Cooke is a lecturer, teach-
ing introductory physics courses in-
cluding calculus-based mechanics,
electricity, magnetism, waves and op-
tics.
Cooke graduated with honors in 2009
from Rochester Institute of Technol-
ogy with a Bachelor of Science degree
in electrical engineering; he earned a
Master of Science degree in education
from Buffalo State College in 2011.
Prior to his post
at St. Bonaven-
ture, Cooke
provided
physics tutoring
for high school
students in Buf-
falo and also
held engineer-
ing positions at
manufacturing firms.
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Scott E. Craver, Ph.D., joined the uni-
versity in 2010 as an assistant professor
of art history and serves as the program
coordinator for art and art history.
His field is clas-
sical art and ar-
chaeology, and
he specializes in
Roman art, ar-
chitecture, and
urbanism.
Craver has done
fieldwork and/or
excavation at
the ancient sites of Ostia Antica, Rome,
Pompeii, and Morgantina, and has de-
livered invited papers and lectures on
Pompeii in the U.K. (Oxford), the U.S.
(SUNY-Buffalo), and Italy (German Ar-
chaeological Institute).
His scholarly articles and reviews, pub-
lished or in-press, can be found in the
Encyclopedia of Ancient History, The
Journal of Roman Archaeology,
and the
Memoirs of the American Academy in
Rome
, while a book-length project,
(provisionally titled The Roman City
Revisited
), is under way. Craver won
the Rome Prize in Ancient Studies in
2008, and is a Fellow of the American
Academy in Rome, where he was the
assistant director of its Classical Sum-
mer School in 2009.
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Benjamin Gross, Ph.D., is an assistant
professor in the Department of Sociol-
ogy. Gross's areas of research and
teaching interests are social psychol-
ogy, media and society, methodology
and statistics, political sociology, so-
cial inequality, social stratification, so-
ciology of sports, globalization,
cultural sociology, classical and con-
temporary sociological theory, public
opinion and social attitudes, identities,
and self and society.
He has three papers under review:
"Discursive Advancement or Dysfunc-
tion? Blogging
and Online Po-
litical News
Coverage Dur-
ing the 2008 US
Presidential
Election" at
Convergence:
The Interna-
tional Journal of
Research into
New Media Technologies
; "What
Makes Someone a Cyber Balkan? Find-
ing the Linkages between Social Psy-
chology and Self-Selectivity in US
Politics Online," at Journal of Com-
puter-Mediated Communication;
and
"Color Coding Politics: Creating mean-
ing around `Red States' and `Blue
States' in U.S. newspapers between
2003 and 2007," at Sage Open Jour-
nal.
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Stephen T. Jodush is a lecturer in the
Department of Biology. Jodush has 15
years' experience as a forensic scientist
with the New York State Police West-
ern Regional Crime Laboratory in
Olean, where he performed forensic
toxicology analysis on bodily fluids and
testified to his findings in New York
State Superior and local courts.
He previously served as an adjunct in-