Honors Program
Meet the Faculty
The Honors Program is proud of its diverse faculty which spreads across several departments. To encourage prospective students, several faculty members have become Student Liaisons- they will tell you precisely how the Honors Program pertains to your area of study. Please contact Carolyn Hames (chames@uri.edu) for more information.
- Jose Amador, Professor Soil Science & Microbial Ecology
- Mark August, Lecturer Communication Studies
- Laura Beauvais, Professor Management
- Kristine Cabral, Lecturer Communication Studies
- Dean Clark, Professor Politics & Mathematics
- Charles Collyer, Professor Psychology
- Robert Comerford, Professor Management
- Paul De Mesquita, Assc. Professor, Director of Graduate Programs in School Psychology, Psychology
- Lynne Derbyshire, Assc. Professor Communication Studies & Women Studies
- Ruby Dholakia, Professor Marketing
- Steven D'Hondt, Professor Oceanography
- Alain-Philippe Durand, Assc. Professor, Head of French and Francophone Studies, French, Film Media, & Comparative Literature
- Victor Fay-Wolfe, Professor Computer Science & Statistics
- Crystal Fonseca, Instructor Communication Studies
- David Gitlitz, Professor Spanish
- Carolyn Hames, Assc. Professor, Assc. Director of Honors Program Nursing
- Frank Heppner, Professor Biological Sciences
- David Heskett, Professor Physics Program Director
- Kate Jelinek, Asst. Professor Accounting
- Galen Johnson, Professor Philosophy
- Jennifer Jones, Asst. Professor English
- Leonard Kahn, Professor Physics
- Eugene Knott, Assc. Professor Human Development & Family Studies
- Bernard Lafayette, Jr., Scholar-in-Residence, Director of the Center for Non-Violence and Peace Studies
- Roger LeBrun, Carnegie Professor, Fulbright Senior Scholar in Global Health Life Sciences
- James Lewis, Professor, Graduate Director of Mathematics
- Bing-Xuan Lin, Asst. Professor Finance
- Patrick Logan, Professor Communication Studies
- Naomi Mandel, Assc. Professor English & Comparative Literature
- Ian Mather, Assc. Professor History
- Richard McIntyre, Professor, Director of Honors Program Economics
- W. Lynn McKinney, Professor, Dean of the College of Human Science and Services, Education
- Art Mead, Professor Economics
- Libby Miles, Assc. Professor Writing and Rhetoric
- Joanne Mundorf, Lecturer Communication Studies
- Ronald Onorato, Professor Art History
- Joseph Parillo, Assc. Professor, Director of Jazz Studies, Music
- Michael Pennell, Asst. Professor Writing and Rhetoric
- Wendy Wassyng Roworth, Professor Art History and Women's Studies
- Manbir Singh Sodhi, Professor Industrial and Mechnical Engineering
- Arthur Spivack, Professor Oceanography
- Art Stein, Professor Political Science
- Judith Swift, Professor Communication Studies & Theater
- Michael Tammaro, Lecturer Physics
- Lubos Thoma, Assc. Professor Mathematics
- Gerry Tyler, Professor Political Science
- Walter von Reinhart, Assc. Professor, Assc. Director of Honors Program, German
- Robert Weisbord, Professor History
- George Willis, Professor Education
- Stephen Wood, Professor Communication Studies
- Thomas Zorabedian Senior Development Officer, College of Arts and Sciences
