Ben Vershbow
Ben Vershbow is the Manager of NYPL Labs, an experimental unit developing new ideas and tools in the digital humanities. Before coming to the Library in 2008, he was Editorial Director of the Institute for the Future of the Book, a small Brooklyn-based think tank exploring the future of reading, writing and publishing
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Paul Freddolino
Dr. Paul Freddolino, Ph.D. is a Professor at Michigan State University's School of Social Work. He is also the Coordinator of the Social Work Distance Education Program at MSU. His research interests focus on the use of technology, substance abuse and mental health issues in child welfare, and research methods and program evaluation.
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Cathy S. Berkman
Cathy Berkman is an Associate Professor at Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service.  She received a B.S. from University of Vermont (in social welfare, sociology and anthropology), an M.S.W. from Boston University (community organization and gerontology) and a Ph.D. from Yale University, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (psychosocial epidemiology, chronic disease epidemiology, aging). She was an NIMH Post-doctoral Fellow at the Columbia University School of Public Health, Psychiatric Epidemiology Training Program and Research Associate at the Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology.  Her research experience includes a wide range of studies with a focus on gerontology, including large epidemiologic community studies, intervention studies in inpatient and outpatient settings, and exploratory studies using mixed methods approaches.  Dr. Berkman’s primary interests are in mental and physical health and aging, diverse populations and disparities in health care utilization, help-seeking preferences among elders with psychiatric distress in the context of culture, health beliefs and illness representation, advance directives end-of-life preferences for treatment, and research methods.  She is currently collaborating with the NYC Department for Aging on an intervention study to assess whether placing a social worker on-site in senior centers will result in case-finding and effective treatment for seniors who have clinically significant depression, anxiety, or alcohol abuse.  Dr. Berkman teaches concentration research courses in the MSW program and research methods and statistics courses in the doctoral program.
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Mary Ann Forgey
Mary Ann Forgey is an associate professor at Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service. She received her BA and MSW from Boston College and her Ph.D. from Columbia University. She has been a full time faculty member at Fordham GSSS since 1994. She has taught a range of practice courses in the foundation area and in the clinical concentration. She has also developed and taught electives in intimate partner violence and child maltreatment. Her interests include evidence based practice in intimate partner violence and child maltreatment and international social work education. In 2005 Dr. Forgey received a Fulbright Scholar Award and Faculty Fellowship to teach and conduct research at the University College Dublin (UCD) School of Social Policy and Social Work. While at UCD she taught courses in Foundation Practice and Intimate Partner Violence and also conducted a joint research project with UCD faculty on how Irish child welfare social workers assess intimate partner violence. Since her return to Fordham in 2006, she has been involved with UCD faculty in the development of a joint coursework initiative in foundation practice using various forms of distance learning technology. Dr. Forgey is currently the Principle Investigator on two research projects. One project involves the development and evaluation of a domestic violence assessment curriculum for U.S. Army social workers using standardized client methodology (actors). The other project, which is a continuation of the research in Ireland, involves the exploration of the extent to which intimate partner violence assessment in U.S. based child welfare agencies is evidence based.
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Colt Anderson
Dr. C.Colt Anderson, Ph.D., is Dean of the Graduate School of Religion at Fordham University. A church historian and theologian, his research focuses on the intersection between three areas of concern: the communication of the Gospel (evangelization), how to reform the church, and the importance of an eschatological perspective for Christian life. His publications have concentrated on ways to heal the growing divisions among members of the Catholic Church by drawing upon models of leadership from historical figures such as Gregory the Great, Peter Damian, Bernard of Clairvaux, Bonaventure, and others. Professor Anderson has focused his research on the origins of the Franciscan movement as a means to understand the important development oflay ministry in the Church. He lectures nationally on issues related to spirituality, ecclesial reform, and evangelization. After spending severalyears as a scriptwriter and film producer, he has tried to find ways to recover the proper place of narrative in theology as a means to communicate the Catholic tradition to contemporary people.
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Steven D'Agustino
Steven D’Agustino holds a doctorate from Fordham University's Graduate School of Education in Educational Leadership, Administration and Policy. He is the Director of Online Learning for the School of Professional and Continuing Studies and has published research in the area of instructional enhancement through the integration of technology and has been awarded a number of grants to provide access to technology to historically underserved populations through online learning. Dr. D’Agustino is the editor of two books: Adaptation, Resistance and Access to Instructional Technologies: Assessing Future Trends in Education and Immersive Environments, Augmented Realities, and Virtual Worlds: Assessing Future Trends in Education published in 2010 and 2012, respectively by IGI Global. His most recent publications include “Toward a course conversion model for distance learning: a review of best practices” in Frontiers of Distance Learning in Business Education, 2013 edited by Hooman Estelami, PhD and “Providing innovative opportunities and options through online credit recovery and afterschool programs” in Expanding Minds and Opportunities, 2013 edited by Terry Peterson, PhD.



Hooman Estelami
Hooman Estelami, Ph.D. is Professor of Marketing at Fordham GBA. He received his Ph.D. in marketing from Columbia University, and has served as a consultant to several leading financial services companies. Dr. Estelami has published extensive research on topics relating to financial services marketing, pricing, customer service management, and buyer behavior, and is author of the textbook Marketing Financial Services (2007). He has received several national awards for his research and teaching, and his work has been published in a variety of journals, including: Journal of Financial Services Marketing, Journal of Retailing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Service Research, and Journal of Services Marketing. He has been the recipient of the Gladys & Henry Crown Award for Academic Excellence (2000, 2002, 2009) and the Stanley Fuchs Teaching Award (2010). His most recent book is entitled Marketing Turnarounds: A Guide to Surviving Downturns and Rediscovering Growth (2010).
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Dale Lindquist
Dale Lindquist, L.C.S.W., D.Min, is the Director of the Online MSW Program and Managing Director of the Beck Institute on Religion and Poverty of the Graduate School of Social Service at Fordham University. He received his D.Min. from New York Theological Seminary, his M.Div. from Yale Divinity School and M.S.W. from Fordham. He has been in clinical practice for over 25 years working in a variety of settings including schools, hospitals and clinics in addition to private practice. He also holds an MFA in Film from the Yale School of Art and has directed award winning documentary films on social, cultural and mental health issues. His documentary on adolescent suicide went into international distribution to schools and mental health agencies and was aired on PBS.
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