School of Business & Liberal Arts: Faculty/Staff

Marela Fiacco
Healthcare Management Chair
Associate Professor

• BBA in Marketing, Freed-Hardeman University, Henderson, TN
• MBA in Marketing, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
• Ph.D. in Business, with a concentration in Healthcare Administration
• Courses taught or developed: Healthcare Finance, Healthcare Facility Administration, Legal and Ethical Issues in Healthcare, Public Health Issues, U.S. Healthcare System, Macroeconomics, Management Communications, Personal Finance
• Advisor, Golden Key Honors Society

Phil LaMarche
Humanities Department Chair
Associate Professor

• B.A., Syracuse University
• MFA, Syracuse University

Maureen P. Maiocco
Social Sciences Department Chair
Early Childhood, Professor

• B.A. in Education, Curry College, Milton, MA
• M.S. in Teacher Leadership, Wheelock College, Boston, MA
• Ed.D. in Child & Youth Studies Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
• View Maiocco's Full Bio

Dawn Robinson
Business Department Director
Associate Professor

• AAS, SUNY Jefferson, Retail Business Management
• B.S., Nazareth College, Business and Distributive Education
• M.S., SUNY Potsdam, General Professional Education

Barat Wolfe
Applied Psychology Department Chair
Psychology, Associate Professor

• B.S., St. Lawrence University
• M.A., University of Ottawa
• Ph.D., University of Windsor 

Marian Amissah
Health Care Management, Assistant Professor

• Ph.D., University of Warwick, Systems Engineering Application in Healthcare
• M.S., University of Surrey, Biomedical Engineering
• B.S., Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Amani Awwad
Sociology, Associate Professor

• B.A., Siena Heights University
• M.A., Ph.D., Western Michigan University

Kimberly Boyd
Social Sciences, Lecturer

• M.S., College of William and Mary

David Button
Business, Lecturer

• B.A., Southern Methodist University
• M.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Chad Colbert
Business, Lecturer

• B.S., SUNY Plattsburgh
• MBA, Wake Forest University
• Certified Wealth Strategist (CWS)
• Certified Financial Planner (CFP)
• Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)

Jondavid DeLong
Legal Studies, Professor

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) with honors, SUNY Buffalo School of Law
• B.A. in Economics and Political Science, Vassar College
• Practicing Attorney in New York State for more than 20 years
• Significant editorial, project management, business development and management positions with legal publisher Thomson/Reuters Management
• Former Senior Consultant with Bearing Point focused on web technology implementation

Tiffany Forsythe
Applied Psychology, Lecturer

• B.S., Keuka College, Social Work
• M.S., Abilene Christian University, Clinical Psychology

Lauren Frank
Health Care Management, Lecturer

• MHA, Utica College
• B.S., SUNY Canton, Health Care Management

Emily Hamilton-Honey
English/Humanities, Associate Professor
Co-Chief Diversity Officer

• B.A., Western Michigan University
• M.A., University of Michigan
• Ph. D., University of Massachusetts
• Selected Publications:
  • Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Theologies of the Afterlife: A Step Closer to Heaven. Co-edited with Dr. Jennifer McFarlane-Harris. Routledge, 2021. 
  • “Changing Spaces: Ruth Fielding, Collaboration, and the Creation of Mise-En-Scène.” The Spatial Dynamics of Juvenile Series Literature, Ed. Michael Cornelius. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.
  • Girls to the Rescue: Young Heroines in American Series Fiction of World War I. Co-authored with Dr. Susan Ingalls Lewis. McFarland & Co., 2020.
  • “A Glee-ful Collaboration: Academic Networking in the Tumblr World.” Co-Authored with Elizabeth Downey, Sheryl Bundy, and Connie Shih. Transformative Works and Cultures 27 (2018).
  • “Moods of Men: Homosociality and Trafficking in Women in Louisa May Alcott’s First Novel.” Journal of American Culture 39.4 (2016): 438-451.
  • Turning the Pages of American Girlhood: The Evolution of Girls’ Series Fiction, 1865-1930. McFarland & Co., 2013.

Lynn Higman
Applied Psychology, Assistant Professor

• B.A., SUNY Plattsburgh, English Writing
• M.S., SUNY Plattsburgh, Administration and Leadership
• Ed. D., The Chicago School, Educational Psychology & Technology
• Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE) – Full Credential National Council on Family Relations, Minneapolis, MN
• Certified Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS-NY) Assessor National Council on Family Relations, Minneapolis, MN
• Certified NYS Foster & Adoptive Parent Clinton County, New York State
• Emmaus Series: Educational Leadership Continuing Education Roche Center for Catholic Education at Lynch School of Education, Boston College, Dover, MA

Chengru Hu
Finance, Professor

• BBA, University of Peking
• Ph.D., Rutgers University
• Selected Publications:
  • "Managerial Flexibilities and the Wealth Effect of New Product Introductions", with Wei Jiang and Cheng-few Lee, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Vol. 41(2), 2013
  • "Contesting Corporate Control: Shareholder Voting", with Maggie Foley, Robert Boylan, and Biqing Huang, International Journal of Corporate Governance, Vol. 4(2), 2013
  • "Valuating New Product Development Project with Stochastic Volatility Model", with Maggie Foley and Chulhee Jun, Journal of Mathematical Finance, Vol. 6, 2016
  • "Women in the Boardroom and Corporate Decisions of Italian listed companies: Does the "Critical Mass" Matter?", with Fabrizio Rossi and Maggie Foley, Management Decision, Vol. 55(7), 2017
  • "Managerial Risk Incentive and Accounting Conservatism", with Alan Jiang, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (FORTHCOMING)
• Other Professional Activities:
  • Associate Editor: Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting
  • Honorary Referee: Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Journal of Finance and Economics, Journal of Mathematical Finance
• View Hu's Full Profile

Phillip C. James
Accounting, Associate Professor

• M.S., University of the West Indies
  Ph.D., University of Technology, Jamaica
• Courses taught or developed: Cost Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Auditing, Accounting Principles/Financial Accounting, Accounting Research

• B.A., University of Indianapolis, International Business
• M.S., University of Florida, Entrepreneurship

• A.A., SUNY Canton
• B.A., SUNY Potsdam
• M.A., SUNY Potsdam
• Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania

• B.COM., Ain Shams University
• MPA, University of Southern California (USC)
• MBA, University of Toledo
• MSA, University of Central Florida

Alainya Kavaloski
Humanities, Associate Professor

• B.A., Edgewood College
• M.A., Hebrew University
• Ph.D., University Wisconsin-Madison
• Courses taught or developed: Digital Graphic Storytelling, New Media Writing, Electronic Literature, Mobile Media Stories and Games
• View Kavaloski's Full Bio

Elena A. Khapalova
Business Department Coordinator, Assistant Professor

• B.A. in Economics, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
• MBA in MIS (Management Information Systems), Washington State University, WA
• Ph.D. in Business Administration, with a concentration in Operations Management, Washington State University, WA

Kathy Kim
Legal Studies, Assistant Professor

• LLB, B.A., EWHA Woman's University, Social Studies/Social Science Education
• LLM, Korea University College of Law, Graduate School of Legal Studies
• LLM, University of California at Berkeley, School of Law
• M.S., Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Science, Regulatory Affairs and Health Policy
• Ed.D, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Science, Regulatory Affairs and Health Policy
• SJD, Indiana University, Healthcare Technology and Privacy Rights, Women and Children Right, and Legal Literacy and Education
• Certificate of Qualitative Research and Inquiry Methodology
• Certificate of Dyslexia ( Literacy and Structured Reading Specialist)
• Certificate of Information Privacy and Cyber Security
• NY State Bar License, Indiana University

Nicholas C. Kocher '04
Business and Accounting, Lecturer

• B.A. SUNY Canton, 2004: Financial Services Management
• MBA Clarkson University, 2006: Innovation and New Venture Management
• Courses taught: Principles of Accounting I, Global Finance, Introduction to Finance, Principles of Retailing and Sales Management
• Alumni/Development Associate with the Canton College Foundation
• Special interests: skiing, tennis and traveling

Melissa Lee
English/Humanities, Associate Professor

• B.A., LeMoyne College
• M.A., Marquette University
• Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Christina Leshko
Social Sciences, Senior Lecturer

• B.A., Rutgers University
• M.A., Michigan State University
• Ph.D., University of the Cumberlands

Christina Martin
Early Childhood, Senior Lecturer

• Early Childhood Field Experience Coordinator
• B.A., SUNY Cortland
• MST, SUNY Potsdam

Daniel McLane
Liberal Arts Curriculum Coordinator
Social Sciences, Lecturer

• Ph.D. in Sociology from Colorado State University
• M.A. in International Affairs from American University
• M.A. in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development from United Nations' University for Peace
• B.A. in Africana Studies from Binghamton University

Patrick McManus
Applied Psychology, Lecturer

• M.S., St. Lawrence University
• M.A., Northern Arizona University
• B.A., Northern Arizona University

Kayla Merchant
Early Childhood, Lecturer

• BFA, St. Lawrence University, Sociology and Fine Arts
• MS Ed., St. Lawrence University

Gena Nelson
Applied Psychology, Lecturer

• B.S., SUNY Brockport, Mathematics
• M.S., SUNY Brockport, Counselor Education

William Myers '86
Business, Associate Professor

• AAS, SUNY Canton
• B.S., Robert’s Wesleyan College
• M.S., Rochester Institute of Technology
• Ph.D., Prescott College

Sean O'Brien
English/Humanities, Associate Professor

• B.A., Xavier University
• Ph.D., University of Notre Dame

Emma Ogley-Oliver
Applied Psychology, Associate Professor

• B.S., Kennesaw State University
• Ph.D., Georgia State University

Bright Osei
Business/Economics, Assistant Professor

• B.A., University of Ghana
• M. Phil, University of Ghana
• Ph.D., University of Mississippi

Research Interests: Applied Microeconomics, Health Economics, Economics of Crime, Law and Economics

Vicki Perrine
Healthcare Management, Assistant Professor

• MBA, Healthcare Concentration, SUNY IT
• MHA, Seton Hall University
• BSN, SUNY Plattsburgh
• AAS, Nursing, SUNY Canton
• FACHE, Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives
• FABC, Fellow in the Advisory Board Company
• NYS Licensed Nursing Home Administrator
• NYS Registered Nurse
• 39 years healthcare experience 
• 32 years in healthcare management / administration
• Courses taught or developed: Healthcare Financing, US Healthcare Systems, Healthcare Facility Administration, Nursing Home Administration, Medical Practice Management, Managed Care, Introduction to Health Services Management

Stephanie Petkovsek
History, Senior Lecturer

• B.A., Syracuse University
• M.A., University at Buffalo (SUNY)
• Courses taught or developed: African American History, Early American History; Modern U.S. History; Modern European History

Angela Rulffes
Business, Associate Professor

Karen St. Hilaire
Business, Lecturer

Jennifer Sovde
History, Associate Professor

• B.A., Bemidji State University
• M.A., Indiana University-Bloomington
• Ph.D., Indiana University-Bloomington

Shawn Tiernan
Humanities, Lecturer

Jamie Weber
Humanities, Lecturer

• AAS, SUNY Canton
• B.A., SUNY Potsdam - English Writing
• B.A., SUNY Potsdam - Sociology
• M.A., SUNY Potsdam - English & Communication

Duane Wesolick
History, Lecturer

• B.S., Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
• M.A., Western Carolina University

Eunjyu Yu
English/Humanities, Professor

• B.A., M.A., Pusan National University, South Korea
• Ph.D., The Ohio State University
• Area of research interest: applied linguistics, literacy, instructional technology, assessment, and inclusive pedagogy.
• Her scholarship has appeared in various journals including English Leadership Quarterly, Papers in Language Testing and Assessment, Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, and others.
• Recipient of numerous awards, including the first-place winner of the 2018 Open SUNY Effective Practice Award for her innovative pedagogy and the Honorable Mention of the 2013 English Leadership Quarterly Best Article of the Year Award, for her paper “Ready for college? What college students have to say about their high school English experiences” by the National Council of Teachers of English.
• Former consultant with the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center.

Ali Zaidi
Spanish, Associate Professor

• B.A., Regents College
• B.A., M.A., University of Peshawar
• M.A., Queens College
• M.A., Ph.D., University of Rochester

Tina Demo
Administrative Assistant 2

• AAS in Accounting, SUNY Canton, 1999

Christina Brocious
Administrative Assistant 1

• School of Business & Liberal Arts