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structor in St. Bonaventure's Depart-
ment of Chemistry from 1993 to 2003.
He also previously was an instructor at
the Cattaraugus County Campus of
Jamestown Community College and a
research technician at the University at
Buffalo.
A St. Bonaventure alumnus, Jodush
earned a bachelor's degree in biology
from SBU in 1992 and a master's de-
gree in biology in 1994.
Jodush is the co-author of several jour-
nal articles on genes published in Infec-
tion and Immunity
and Molecular
Microbiology
.
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The Rev. Terrance Klein, S.T.D., joined
the university last fall as chair of the
Department of Theology. Klein, addi-
tionally, is a professor of theology.
Rev. Klein
brings to the
university more
than 20 years of
college and uni-
versity teaching
experience, in-
cluding faculty
appointments at
Fordham Uni-
versity, St. John's University and The
Pontifical College Josephinum.
Rev. Klein is the author of "Wittgen-
stein and the Metaphysics of Grace"
(2007) published by Oxford University
Press, in addition to two other books
and numerous peer-reviewed articles of
theology. He also is a frequent contrib-
utor to leading lay Catholic journals
and magazines. He has a book in sub-
mission, a monograph proposal titled
"The Book of Life: On the Nature of
the Soul as Narrative" that has been
accepted by Ashgate Press.
Rev. Klein holds a doctorate in funda-
mental theology from the Pontifical
Gregorian University in Rome, Italy, a
licentiate in fundamental theology and
a bachelor's in sacred theology from
the Pontifical Gregorian University, a
Master of Arts in liturgical theology
from the University of Notre Dame,
and a Bachelor of Arts in English and
philosophy from The Pontifical College
Josephinum.
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Maddalena Marinari, Ph.D., joined the
university as an assistant professor of
history in fall 2011, following previous
positions at American University and
the University of Kansas. Marinari
teaches courses on U.S. history, Ameri-
can social and political history, Ameri-
can immigration and film, American
ethnicity and immigration, and the U.S.
in the world.
She has a book manuscript in progress,
"Liberty, Restriction, and the Remak-
ing of Italians and Eastern European
Jews," and is the author of a number
of articles in peer-reviewed journals,
book essays, encyclopedia entries, and
book reviews. She presented a paper ti-
tled "Italians on the Move: American
Immigration Restriction and Illegal Im-
migration from Italy" at the annual
meeting of the Society for Historians of
American Foreign Relations and a
paper titled "The American Catholic
Church and the `Problem' of Immigra-
tion in the 20th Century" at the Ameri-
can Historical Association conference.
Marinari has served as a language con-
sultant and an immigration history
consultant on a number of projects, in-
cluding for the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum and Discovery
Books. She is also an Executive Board
member of the Immigration Ethnic His-
tory Society and co-chair of the Migra-
tion/Immigration Network for the
Social Science History Association.
· · ·
Nicholas A.
Mitchell, Ph.D.,
joined the uni-
versity as an as-
sistant professor
of biology fol-
lowing a post-
doctoral
fellowship at the
National Insti-
tute on Aging/National Institutes of
Health in Baltimore. In his research
there, Mitchell used electrophysiology,
neurosurgery, and confocal microscopy
to isolate factors that promote adult
born neuron survival and maturation.
From 2007 to 2008, Mitchell was a
visiting assistant professor of biology
at Lynchburg (Pa.) College. Since join-
ing the Department of Biology at SBU,
Mitchell has received an internal grant
to update anatomy and physiology
teaching resources and authored a col-
laborative grant for an exercise physi-
ology lab to be shared between the
departments of sport studies, biology
and psychology.
Mitchell obtained his Ph.D. in neuro-
science and pharmacology and his
master's degree in biomedical science
from Albany Medical College. He did
his undergraduate work at the State
University of New York College at
Potsdam.
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Wolfgang Natter, Ph.D., joined the
university in July 2010 as dean of the
School of Arts and Sciences and pro-
fessor of political science.
Natter holds a Ph.D. and an M.A.
from The Johns Hopkins University,
and a B.A. from Wesleyan University
in Connecticut.
Over the course of his career, he has
received three teaching awards. He
has presented more than 70 papers at
conferences in addition to 27 invited
talks in the U.S., Canada, Germany,
The Netherlands and Ireland. He is
also the author of more than 30 arti-
cles published in German and English,
and the co-editor of three books.
Additionally, Natter is the author of
"Literature at War, 1914-1940: Repre-
senting the `Time of Greatness' in Ger-
many" published by Yale University
Press. He presently serves on the edito-
rial boards of five academic journals.
He has received grant support from
the National Science Foundation, The
Rockefeller Foundation, the American
Council of Learned Societies, the Na-
tional Endowment for the Humanities,
the German Academic Exchange Serv-
ice, and the Max Planck Institute.
Prior to joining the St. Bonaventure
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