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Joshua Avera
Professor
Professor Avera obtained his B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy, his M.A. in Communication, a second M.A. in Psychology from California State University, Fresno. He is finishing his third M.A. in Philosophy.
Professor Joshua has worked extensively in the field of domestic violence for a decade in central California, serving as Director of the Marjaree Mason Center in Fresno, facilitating over 2,500 groups, directing. He has taught as an adjunct faculty member in various communication and psychology departments since 2000. He is currently an adjunct faculty in Communication at De Anza College and the Undergraduate Psychology program at PGSP. His professional trainings extend to various social systems including mental health clinicians, doctors, lawyers, community leaders, and graduate/undergraduate students on the psychology of intimate relationships. He has also traveled the world studying symbolic iconography of the major world's religions.
Areas of Research:
Relational dynamics, counseling psychology, identity development, and East-West philosophy.
Daniel J. Bunce, Ph.D.
Professor
Dr. Bunce's background is in Continental Philosophy and its contributions to the field of Psychology. He specializes in hermeneutics, psychology as a human science, theories of embodiment, and qualitative research methods. Grounded in a phenomenological comprehension of the lived-body, Dr. Bunce's research and publications attempt to clarify the meaning of limb loss, physical disability, and the nature and significance of prosthetic rehabilitation. His research has specifically addressed how microprocessor-controlled prosthetic limbs facilitate psychological and physical adjustment to transfemoral amputations.
Dr. Bunce has been teaching in both the Philosophy and Psychology departments for the Foothill-De Anza Community College District since 1994. He teaches the Philosophy of Science course in the De Anza/PGSP consortium.
Dr. Bunce obtained B.A. degrees in Philosophy and Psychology from U.C. Santa Cruz. He earned M.A. degrees in Philosophy and Psychology as well as his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Duquesne University.
Leslie Carson, Ph.D.
Professor
Dr. Leslie Carson is an Educational Psychologist whose research interests are centered primarily around racial identity development, higher education and college student achievement. Her most recent work examines how the notion of collectivism serves as a framework for the analysis of students' beliefs about the purpose of higher education, of their conceptualization of their roles and responsibilities as students, and of the ways in which students measure academic success. Dr. Carson's additional research interests include the education of under-represented groups in K-12 contexts, critical race theory and the analysis of race, ethnicity, class and gender in transnational and national contexts.
Presently, Dr. Carson teaches in the Intercultural and International Studies Department at De Anza College. She has also been a faculty member in the Liberal Studies and Psychology departments at Santa Clara University for three years.
Dr. Carson earned a B.A. in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. She also earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley.
Steve Del Chiaro, Psy. D.
Professor
Dr. Steve Del Chiaro has a diverse background that reflects his many interests. He began his undergraduate career at San Diego State University majoring in Psychology, later earning his Masters at Loras College in Iowa. He has a doctorate in Counseling Psychology from the University of San Francisco, and has worked as an educator, therapist, career counselor, and executive coach.
Dr. Del Chiaro is a faculty member at San Jose State University where he has taught a variety of courses including Sport Psychology, Opportunities in Psychology, and Positive Psychology. He also serves as an academic advisor for the SJSU Psychology Department and for the Psychology Coalition, maintaining an active role in the development of Psychology undergraduates. Dr. Del Chiaro is also on the faculty of Foothill College. His research interests have taken him on fantastic voyages to South America, using psychological principles in executive training.
James O. Clifford, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor
James Clifford, Ph.D., has been a a faculty member at College of San Mateo and at DeAnza College since 1997 and 1992 respectively.
Dr. Clifford worked as staff neurophysiologist at NASA's Vestibular Research Facility from 1987 until 1997, and was director of science from 1994-1997. While working at NASA, Dr. Clifford also worked at the University of California San Francisco's (UCSF) Brain Function Lab (BFL) along with Dr. M. Rappaport. During his tenure at the BFL, Dr. Clifford worked primarily with traumatically brain injured patients and coma patients. With this experience, Clifford designed several methods of assessment for the TBI/Coma populations and developed the origins of the TriVector stimulator and recording apparatus.
Dr. Clifford also operated a lab at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Palo Alto, CA (a major national aging research center affiliated with Stanford University), where he applied the TriVector technology to problems associated with Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Clifford also applied TriVector to the fields of toxicology, anesthesiology, and paralysis at San Jose State University.
Dr. Clifford has a BA in Psychology and a BA in Physical Anthropology from San Francisco State University (1984). He later earned his MA in Experimental Psychology at San Francisco State University (1986). While at the UCSF Brain Function Labs and NASA, Dr. Clifford received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Santa Cruz with emphasis in neuroscience in 1995.
Constance Cole, MA
B.A. Swarthmore College; M.A., 1976, Political Science, Indiana University; doctoral studies in Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington and University of California at Davis
Areas of Specialization include International Relations (International Political Economy, Multinational Corporations, Global Studies), Comparative Politics (Central Europe, Russia/USSR, Latin America) and American Politics (American Foreign Policy, U.S. Budget Policy, Media and Politics, Women in Politics)
Selected Presentations
"Microcredit and Economic Growth" presented to the International Studies Association Annual Convention, 4 March 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii. "Access to Microcredit and Women's Economic Status" presented to the American Political Science Association Annual Convention, 3 September 2004, Chicago, IL. "Ideas & IMF Policy Change," presented to the ISA Annual Convention, 1 March 2003, Portland, OR. "Tracing Policy Change in the International Monetary Fund" presented to the American Political Science Association Annual Convention, 1 September 2001, San Francisco, CA.John Fox, M.A.
Professor
John Fox teaches Sociology for the P3 program. He started high higher education at Cabrillo College in Aptos and earned a B.A in Sociology at UC Santa Cruz. Currently he is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Mr. Fox's has taught Sociology at De Anza College since winter 2003, teaching Introduction to Sociology and Marriage, Family and Intimate Relationships. In addition to De Anza he has taught at UMass-Amherst, Holyoke Community College (Holyoke, MA), UC Santa Cruz, Solano Community College, Diablo Valley College, and most recently at CSU East Bay. He has taught a variety of sociology courses, including Social Problems, Research Methods, Social Inequality, Sociology of Medicine, Writing in Sociology, Drugs and Society, and Criminology.
When he's not teaching he is busy writing his dissertation, "Discovering Cultures of Death in Medical Institutions, Hospices and the Funeral Industry." His research interests include death and dying, medical sociology, and gender.
Publications
Fox, John. 2006. "'Notice How You Feel': An Alternative to Detached Concern among Hospice Volunteers." Qualitative Health Research 16, 7, September, Pp. 944-961. Fox, John. 2004. "How Men's Movement Participants View Each Other." Journal of Men's Studies 12, 2, Winter, Pp. 103-118.
William Froming, Ph.D.
Professor
Dr. Froming's background is in personality and social psychology. He focuses primarily on social development and the process by which social norms are internalized by children. This is thought of as the development of self-regulation. He is also interested in genocide and the common features shared by genocides of the 20th century. He has studied the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide, interviewed survivors, and taught and written on the topic.
Dr. Froming taught for eleven years in the University of Florida Psychology Department following undergraduate work at the U of Wisconsin, Madison and a Ph.D. from the U of Texas, Austin. He was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford in 1986. He has also taught for the U of New Orleans in Innsbruck, Austria and at the National University in Butare, Rwanda. He has been at PGSP since 1988. In addition to his faculty role he has served in a number of administrative positions including Chief Academic Officer, Faculty Chair, and Director of the Distance Learning program. He holds PGSP's Nancy Black Cozzens Chair in Psychology.
Area of Research:
Public and Private Aspects of the Self; The Development of Self-Regulation
Representative Publications:
Froming, W.J., Walker, G.R. and Lopyan, K.J. (1982). Public and private self awareness: When personal attitudes conflict with societal expectations. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 18, 476 487. Froming, W.J., Allen, L.H. and Jensen, R. (1985). Altruism, role taking and self awareness: The acquisition of norms governing altruistic behavior. Child Development, 56, 1223 1228. Froming, W.J., Corley, E.B., and Rinker, L. (1990). The influence of public self consciousness, and the audience's characteristic on withdrawal from embarrassing situations. Journal of Personality, 58,(4) 603 622. Froming, W.J., Moser, R., Mychack, P., and Nasby, W. (1995). A control theory approach to social development. In N. Eisenberg, (Ed.), Review of Personality and Social Psychology, 261-288. Froming, W. J., Nasby, W., and McManus, J. (1998). Prosocial self schemata, self awareness, and children's prosocial behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 766-777. Froming, W.J. and Froming, K. B. (2005). Comparative genocide and social psychology: Parallels between the Holocaust and Rwanda. In A. Kimenyi, (Ed.), Autopsy of Genocide: New Patterns, Paradigms and Prognosis, (In press). Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press.Mark C. Healy, M.A.
Professor
Mark Healy teaches Statistics for the Social Sciences and Research Methods in the PGSP/De Anza consortium. He is an adjunct faculty member at De Anza College, where he teaches General Psychology and Introductory Psychology. He also co-facilitates a LinC course, "Mind Control" with a member of the Speech Communication faculty. When not teaching, Mark is an industrial/organizational psychologist who helps Fortune 500 companies use data and measurement to address people issues in the workplace. He also assists other psychologists with evaluation and validation of their assessment tools.
In addition to De Anza, Mark has served as an adjunct faculty member at Cal State University, Hayward and the University of Akron, Ohio; in addition, he teaches a yearly Special Topics course at the Florida Institute of Technology. He obtained his B.A. from UC Santa Cruz. He earned his MA in Psychology from the University of Akron.
Areas of Research:
Leadership effectiveness; recruitment and employee selection; psychometrics and individual differences.
Selected Publications and Reports:
Healy, M. C., & Rose, D. S. (2006). Validation of a 360-degree feedback instrument gainst retail sales performance. In S. Reddy (Ed.) Multi-source Performance Assessments: Perspectives and Insights. Hyderabad, India: ICFAI Press. Healy, M. C., & Rose, D. S. (2000). Level IV Evaluation of Whirlwind's Reading Comprehension through Dance Program. 3D Group Technical Report #2120. Berkeley, CA: Data Driven Decisions, Inc. Doverspike, D., Winter, J. L., Healy, M. C., & Barrett, G. V. (1996). Simulations as a Method of Illustrating the Impact of Differential Weights on Personnel Selection Outcomes. Human Performance, 7, 31-54. Healy, M. C., Lehman, M., & McDaniel, H. A. (1995). Age and Voluntary Turnover: A Quantitative Review. Personnel Psychology, 48, 335-345.Paul J. Marcille, Ph.D.
Director and Professor
Dr. Marcille recently joined the PGSP/De Anza faculty from the American University of Paris in France, where he was the Vice-President and Dean of Student Affairs for the last 15 years and Chairman of the Psychology Department. He is a Clinical Psychologist with a specialty working with adolescent and university age students. During his tenure in Paris, he also maintained a private practice and was a member and one-time President of the International Counseling Service (ICS), an association of Anglophone psychologists and psychiatrists in France. He was on the board of directors of several international schools and is an expert on international education. His clinical and research interests include culture shock, multilingualism, developmental issues in late adolescence and early adulthood.
Dr. Marcille obtained his BA in Psychology from Ohio University and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Chicago Medical School. Prior to his moving to Europe in 1988, he was the Director of Psychology at Potomac Hospital in Woodbridge, Virginia.
Nancy Olsen, Ph.D.
Professor
Dr. Olsen received her Bachelor's degree from Carleton College, a Master's degree in Art History from Columbia University, another Master's degree in Southwestern U.S. Archaeology from San Jose State University, and her Ph.D. in Anthropology and Ethnology from the University of New Mexico.
Dr. Olsen is a professor of Anthropology and Archaeology and also teaches courses at De Anza College.
Her pedagogic objectives for the P3 program are to provide psychology students with knowledge of and a sensitivity to cultural and ethnic differences in human behavior and to develop their capacity to understand these nuances when they work with people in the future.
Areas of Research
Her areas of expertise include Southwestern Native American cultures, native American rock art, pictographs and ceramics.
Selected Publications & Presentations
2005 "Theory Building for Rock Art Archaeology: Learning From Images In Context", in Making Marks: Graduate Studies in rock Art Research at the New Millennium, Jennifer Huang and Elizabeth Cully, editors, American Rock Art Research Association Occasional Paper No. 5, Tucson. 2004 "Pajarito Plateau Rock Art" in Archaeology of Bandelier National Monument: Village Formation on the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico, Dr. Timothy A. Kohler, editor. University of New Mexico Press. P.265-291. 2000 "Potters' Choices: A Social Construction of Pottery-Making Technologies in Acoma and Laguna Pueblos, New Mexico." Ph.D. dissertation published by University Microfilm Institute, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 2001 "Theory Building in Rock Art Archaeology: Images in Context," Invited Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology 66th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, April 19. 1985 "Hovenweep Rock Art: An Anasazi Visual Communication System, Occasional Paper No.14", Institute of Archeology, University of California at Los Angeles.Thomas Vician, Sr., Ph.D.
Dr. Vician's research has focused upon the philosophical foundations of psychology, in particular on the concepts of the person and persons in relation. Of special interest are the relational issues of consciousness to self-consciousness (subjectivity), interpersonal consciousnesses (intersubjectivity), and the world of objects (objectivity). His inquiries examine the suitability/limitations of various methodological procedures used in the attempts of the sciences to apprehend and describe the structure of human consciousness in its private and public manifestations. Dr. Vician's studies in human consciousness converge upon each individual self as a moral agent conscious of being thrown into an ambiguous world of interpersonal experiences which is the foundation upon which each person and persons in relation must decide their personal and interpersonal freedoms and responsibilities.
Dr. Vician recently retired from chairman of the Department of Philosophy at De Anza College. He currently serves as Professor Emeritus and as adjunct teaching member of the Department of Philosophy. Prior to coming to De Anza College he was a member of the philosophy faculty at the University of Nevada, Reno, and at California State University, East Bay.
Dr. Vician completed his A.B. Degree in Classics at Luther College. He earned his M.Th. Degree from Luther Theological Seminary. He received his Ph.D. Degree from the Graduate School of Claremont University.