Winterfest 2008 :: An Alumni Weekend That Sparkles!

Winterfest Lecturers

William Anthony Tony Barrand Tobe Berkovitz Walter Dunphy	Howard Eichenbaum Deborah Halliday John Hart Robert Mark	John McEachern Keith Munsell Rebecca Zazoff

William A. Anthony is the director of Boston University's Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation and a professor at BU’s Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. He has had more than 100 articles published in professional journals, as well as fourteen textbooks and several dozen book chapters, largely on the topic of psychiatric rehabilitation. In a departure from his professional writing, Anthony is the author of two trade books on the benefits of napping: The Art of Napping and The Art of Napping at Work, whimsical, lighthearted looks at a skill that merits serious attention—especially in our often overstimulating world.

Professor Tony Barrand teaches folklore and folk life through the University Professors Program and the Department of Anthropology at Boston University. His research and publications focus on the dance and song customs associated with the cycle of seasons. His extensive collection of fieldwork films and videos of celebratory dance performances was recently made available online and acquired by the Library of Congress. He is perhaps best known for his performances and recordings of English ballads, carols, and songs with his singing partner of forty years, John Roberts, whom he met while attending graduate school at Cornell.

Tobe Berkovitz is dean ad interim of Boston University’s College of Communication, where he has been a professor in the Department of Mass Communication, Advertising and Public Relations since 1988. He specializes in political campaign publicity and teaches in the creative concentration of the College’s advertising program. With his colleagues, he has turned the program’s student-staffed advertising service, AdLab, into an agency powerhouse with a roster of forty clients in the nonprofit and private sectors. Since the 1970s, he has worked on dozens of political campaigns as a media strategist and ad buyer. Dr. Berkovitz appears frequently on television and in the press as a political and media analyst.

Walter Dunphy is the district executive chef for Boston University, where he oversees several hundred culinary staff members who serve more than 30,000 meals daily in ten campus dining locations. He also leads all campus-wide culinary initiatives and supervises a catering staff that services more than 4,000 events annually. During a career that has spanned more than twenty years, Chef Dunphy has served as campus executive chef for Brandeis and Wake Forest Universities and has prepared meals for many dignitaries and celebrities, including President George W. Bush, poet and author Maya Angelou, First Lady Barbara Bush, Senator Elizabeth Dole, Prince El Hassan Bin Talal of Jordan, Oprah Winfrey, and author Pat Conroy. He received the Award of Culinary Excellence 2005 and the ACE International Guest Chef Award in 2005 and 2007. He is a member of the American Culinary Federation and holds an associate’s degree in culinary arts from Johnson and Wales University in Charleston, South Carolina.

Dr. Howard Eichenbaum received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan and pursued a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience at M.I.T. He has held academic positions at Wellesley College, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is now a University Professor at Boston University, where he also directs the Center for Memory and Brain and chairs the Department of Psychology. His research focuses on how memories are represented and organized in the brain to support our capacity for conscious recollection; he has published more than 170 research papers, review articles, and commentaries on this topic. His books include Memory, Amnesia and the Hippocampal System (1993), From Conditioning to Conscious Recollection: Memory Systems of the Brain (2001), and The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory: An Introduction (2002).

Deborah Halliday has served Boston University in career services for nine years; she has a background in business and worked in operations management at State Street Bank for thirteen. While helping BU seniors navigate the path from school to career, she became aware of the issues that graduating students face, which launched her study of transition theory. Deborah is currently a doctoral student in human development at the Boston University School of Education. She holds an MBA from Suffolk University and a master’s degree in American studies from UMass Boston. A native of the Boston area, she now lives in Rhode Island.

Dr. John Hart is a professor of Christian ethics at BU’s School of Theology. His teaching interests include social ethics, environmental ethics, liberation theology and ethics, and science and Christianity. His research interests and writing focus on issues of social and ecological justice and on ecology as a bridge between science and religion. Internationally recognized for his work in social and environmental ethics, he has given almost two hundred presentations in twenty-five U.S. states and in Canada, Brazil, Switzerland, Italy, Nepal, and England. He was editor and principal writer of the Midwestern Catholic bishops’ land pastoral, Strangers and Guests: Toward Community in the Heartland; wrote the draft of Pope John Paul II’s Iowa homily on land stewardship; and was the project writer for the Western U.S. and Canada Catholic bishops’ bioregional pastoral letter, The Columbia River Watershed: Caring for Creation and the Common Good, on the ethics, economics, and ecology of the region. Dr. Hart has also worked with native peoples’ spiritual leaders and human rights activists—he was a member of the Delegation of the International Indian Treaty Council (a nongovernmental organization accredited to the United Nations) to the U.N. International Human Rights Commission and an invited observer at the World Conference of Indigenous Peoples during the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Sacramental Commons: Christian Ecological Ethics, for the series “Nature’s Meaning” ed. Roger Gottlieb. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006) in press.

What Are They Saying About...Environmental Theology? (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2004)

Ethics and Technology: Innovation and Transformation in Community Contexts (Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 1997)

The Spirit of the Earth -- A Theology of the Land (Ramsey, NJ: Paulist Press, 1984)

Reverend Robert Mark is co-pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Waltham in Waltham, MA, a congregation that embraces diversity and champions social justice. He leads the church’s Watershed worship service, which explores the roots of Christianity, as well as issues of global justice and environmental care. He is the former director of Camp Wilmot, a summer camp and retreat that emphasizes Christian faith and environmental stewardship, where, in 2007, he led a Presbyterian Conservation Corps Eco-Steward program. Reverend Mark earned a master of divinity degree magna cum laude from BU’s School of Theology in 2005.

John McEachern earned a bachelor’s degree from BU’s College of Arts and Sciences in 1999 and an Ed.M. from the School of Education in 2005. Serving on the University’s board of admissions for the past seven years, John was the Admissions Office liaison for the College of General Studies (a program in which he was enrolled) and senior assistant director coordinating the Admissions Alumni Volunteer Program. He is now the associate director responsible for coordinating all BU scholarships. John has delivered hundreds of presentations on Boston University all over the country, from New York to Alaska.

Keith Munsell is a Beckwith Award–winning master lecturer in the Strategy and Policy Department of the School of Management, where he has been on the faculty for almost three decades. He holds a degree in civil engineering from Rutgers University and a MBA from Boston University and has completed coursework toward his doctorate. He developed and teaches the real estate finance, real estate management, and real estate development courses at the School of Management at both the graduate and undergraduate levels and has written two books on construction as well as numerous articles and cases. He is a certified property manager and holds both a broker’s and a construction license, among other professional designations. He sits on various boards in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, has founded numerous real estate management, marketing, and development companies, and has built hundreds of residential housing units across all market segments.

Rebecca Zazoff is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and has worked in higher education for nearly ten years. She began as a recruiter for the Admissions Office at Emmanuel College, then joined Boston University’s Office of Sponsored Programs, where she helped faculty and graduate students attain funding for research opportunities. Six years ago, Ms. Zazoff transitioned from Sponsored Programs to the Office of Financial Assistance, where she is senior assistant director of awarding.