Faculty Biographies
 
Eleonora Bartoli, Ph.D., Director of Graduate Programs in Counseling Psychology, Assistant Professor
She earned her B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy from Brandeis University, her M.A. in Psychology: Human Development from the University of Chicago, and her Ph.D. in Psychology: Human Development/Mental Health Research from the University of Chicago. Her professional interests include multicultural counseling competence, racial identity development, psychology of religion, and psychology of women. She also has a small private practice
 

Joshua E. Blustein, Ph.D. Associate Professor
A.B. from Richard Stockton College with honors and a Ph.D. from Temple University in Experimental Psychology. A 1993 recipient of the Lindback Award for Teaching Excellence at Arcadia University, he balances his devotion to teaching with a passion for research. He maintains an active research program examining the role or the environment in controlling tolerance and withdrawal to naturally occurring opiates. Since coming to Arcadia, his research program has included a substantial number of student collaborators. His research has been published in several internationally recognized journals in the area of Behavioral Neuroscience and Learning.
 
Samuel Cameron, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus
B.A. degree with honors in Psychology and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. His clinical experience includes 25 years as a staff psychologist at Norristown State Hospital (specializing in therapy of families that included a schizophrenic member and in individual and family therapy of adolescents who were adjudicated to the Hospital's Forensic Unit). He also served for over 25 years as the Counseling Psychologist at Arcadia University. Dr. Cameron is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, past President of that Association's Division on the Teaching of Psychology, and a member of the Board of Directors and Treasurer of the Eastern Psychological Association. He has had several grants from the National Science Foundation. He is Chief Faculty Consultant in Psychology for the Advance Placement Program for the Educational Testing Service.
 
Dennis Gallagher, Ph.D. Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor of Psychology and First Year Advisor at Arcadia University. He earned the B.A. from San Fransico State University , the M. A. and Ph.D. in Personality and Social Ecology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He divides his time between teaching in the Psychology Department and acting as advisor for all new freshman and transfer students. All students are assigned an academic advisor and Dr. Gallagher serves as a second advisor for all new students who have concerns or questions. As First Year Advisor, Dr. Gallagher also manages various projects designed to enhance the first year experience at Arcadia University. He has published a number of empirical research articles. His current research interests include an analysis of how people cope with their temperamental tendencies, and the relationships among illusion, reality and psychological well-being.
 
Angela Gillem, Ph.D. Professor

Angela R. Gillem is a licensed clinical psychologist.  She received her B.S. with high honors in psychology from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. in Clinical/Community Psychology from Boston University.  Dr. Gillem previously served three years as an Assistant Dean and Director of Multicultural Affairs at Haverford College.  She has also taught at The Pennsylvania State University and   was a Distinguished Scholar in Residence in 1996.  She has worked in a variety of clinical settings including St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, D.C. and Dorchester Mental Health Center in Boston, MA.  She has done counseling with college and graduate student populations at Harvard Law School, University of Pennsylvania, and Swarthmore College.  She is a member, past and current officer, and 2004 conference co-coordinator of the Association for Women in Psychology (AWP).  In 2004, she received the Christine Ladd-Franklin Award for Distinguished Contributions to AWP and to Feminist Psychology; in 2007 she received the Florence Denmark Distinguished Mentoring Award. She is also a member of the divisions on psychology of women, psychological study of ethnic minority issues, and psychological study of lesbian, gay, and bisexual issues of the American Psychological Association.  She served on the steering committee of the 2005 APA National Multicultural Summit and for her service she received the APA Presidential Citation in 2005. Dr. Gillem's current research is on multicultural counseling competency. Her clinical interests are in adult survivors of sexual abuse/rape and racial, sexual, and gender identity.
 
Elaine Jones, Ph.D. Assistant Professor
B.S., M. S., and Ph. D. from the University of Pittsburgh. She is a developmental psychologist interested in childhood and adolescent social development. Her specialty area is the development of social cognition during the preschool and middle childhood years. Her research interests include moral development, development of social attribution processes, cultural and ethnic variations in person perception, the influences of actor race and actor gender on children’s social judgments, and the socio-emotional development of African American children. She has conducted a number of research studies, presented papers at conferences, and published journal articles. Her study on the influences of actor race on person perception formed the basis of a segment for a televised program on racial bias which aired on the Discovery Channel (co-produced by Dateline NBC) in March 2000. She has held faculty positions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Saint Louis University. At Arcadia University, Dr. Jones teaches courses in the Psychology and Education Departments. She is currently a consulting editor with the Journal of Psychology and a member of the Society for Research in Child Development and the American Psychological Association.
 
Marianne Miserandino, Ph.D. Associate Professor
B.A. in psychology from the University of Rochester, cum laude and a Ph.D. in Social-Personality Psychology from Cornell University. Dr. Miserandino came to Arcadia University after a post-doctoral fellowship in Human Motivation at the University of Rochester and full-time teaching. She was the 2000 recipient of the Lindback Award for teaching excellence. Her commitment to teaching is evidenced by her work as News Editor (1996-1998), reviewer, and frequent contributor to the APA journal Teaching of Psychology. Her research interests include the impact of perceived competence and autonomy on the motivation of elementary school children and their teachers. She currently maintains the Personality Pedagogy website for teachers of personality psychology (see http:personalitypedagogy.arcadia.edu) which is sponsored by a grant from the Association for Psychological Science (APS) Fund for Teaching and Public Understanding of Psychological Science and an Arcadia University Faculty Development Grant.
 
Barbara Nodine, Ph.D. Professor
Professor of Psychology she received her B.A. at Bucknell Universityand her M.S. as well as Ph.D. at University of Massachusetts. She is co-author of Writing in the Arts and Sciences, Reading in the Arts and Sciences,and Thinking, Reasoning, and Writing, as well as numerous research articles. As a former president of the American Psychological Association's Division on Teaching in Psychology, her interest in undergraduate teaching of psychology is evidenced by her activities on various committees and consultancies to evaluate psychology departments. She has also consulted extensively on incorporating writing into disciplinary courses at colleges across the country. A specialist in cognitive psychology and its applied aspects, Dr. Nodine is the author of a study guide to accompany and direct the student learning of an introductory psychology text published by Macmillan Publishers. Dr. Nodine recently served as the president of the Eastern Psychological Association.
 
Steven Robbins, Ph.D. Professor
Received a B.A. degree with honors in Psychology from Haverford College and a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania with a specialization in animal learning. His previous teaching experience includes undergraduate courses at the University of Pennsylvania and Haverford College, and he is co-author of the textbook, Psychology of Learning and Behavior (Norton, 4th Ed.). He has published numerous journal articles and chapters on animal learning and on behavioral mechanisms involved in human drug addiction. Dr. Robbins' research has been funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) and by the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs. His current research interests include the role of environmental events in motivating drug taking, the accuracy of self-reported information about drug use, and the efficacy of treatment.
 
Patricia Scully, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor earned her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from Temple University. She spent her early career as a practicing industrial/organizational psychologist working at the Institute for Survey Research at Temple before joining the Vanderveer Group, a psychological consulting firm specializing in marketing research in the pharmaceutical industry. A member of the faculty of the Psychology Department at Arcadia University since 1986, Dr Scully teaches courses in introductory social and industrial/organizational psychology as well as coordinating the psychology/human resources curriculum for Psychology majors. In 1992 she joined the board of directors of Educating Children for Parenting, a Philadelphia-based national non-profit organization dedicated to teaching parenting skills to children in a school setting. In 1994, Dr. Scully was elected president of the board, and in June assumed her fourth term in that position.
 
Lester Sdorow, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Department Chair
Received his B.A. from Wilkes College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Hofstra University. Before coming to Arcadia University, Dr. Sdorow was the Chairperson of the Department of Psychology first at St. Francis College (Pa.) and then at Allentown College (now De Sales University). Dr. Sdorow received awards as teacher of the year at both St. Francis College and Allentown College. He also is the co-author of Psychology, a widely used Introductory Psychology text published by Atomic Dog Publishing. He is in the process of completing two other textbooks: A History of Modern Psychology and Health Psychology: Principles, Applications, and Issues.
 
Judith Wiley, Ph.D.
Full-time Adjunct Professor, received her B.A. in Psychology from Plymouth State College . She earned her M.A. and Ph. D. from the University of Missouri -Columbia in Cognitive Psychology, specializing in Memory and Aging research. She was a post doctoral fellow at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science at University of Pennsylvania in 1992 - 1993. Just prior to taking a full-time adjunct faculty position at Arcadia, she was a research associate for the Temple University Infant Laboratory at Narberth. The Infant Lab was a research facility involved in cognitive developmental research and funded by the National Science Foundation. She has published numerous articles in the area of cognitive Psychology.
 
Dottie Ettinger, Psychology Department Secretary
Dottie supervises a dozen or so student assistants who work for the department. Dottie's efforts, along with the capable student assistants, keep a fairly complex department with graduate and undergraduate programs running smoothly. In the Spring of 1997, Dottie was one of the staff group leaders on the London Preview trip, taking our freshmen to London.