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Dr. Henry (Hank) Vandenburgh

Associate Professor

Department of Sociology

508-531-2935

Hank Vandenburgh is an associate professor of sociology whose interests include medical/human services sociology and international development. He is also interested in the sociology of deviance. He has published in each of these areas and taught classes in them. Currently, he is teaching classes in sociology of mental illness and demography, and writing articles with collaborators on non-governmental organizations and political sociology in Peru. As CART coordinator, he sits on a majority of CART committees and plans and coordinates CART operations.

Dr. Steven Young

Associate Professor

Department of Music

508-531-2043

s1young@bridgew.edu

Steven Young, DMA, AAGO is an associate professor of music at Bridgewater State College. He serves as the college's director of choral activities, college organist, and professor of music theory. He is also organist and music director at the Old South Union Church, S. Weymouth, MA.

Young holds degrees in organ performance from Barrington College, New England Conservatory of Music, and Boston University, and he earned the Associate certificate from the American Guild of Organists.

As a concert artist, Young has performed throughout the United States, Canada, and parts of Europe. Solo recital performances include St. Thomas Church, New York, Methuen Memorial Music Hall, and at the festival d'orgue in Sens, France. He also served for twenty years as the accompanist to the Jubilate Chorale of Brockton.

The BSC Chorale and Chamber Singers have performed numerous works under his direction, including Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, Haydn's The Creation, Mozart's Coronation Mass and Requiem. The Chamber Singers have toured locally and internationally. During these tours, the singers have given world premieres of works by Nicholeris, Polansky, Dilthey, Wallach, and others. Young is also an active choral adjudicator and clinician in the New England area.

Young has collaborated with flutist Donald Zook on numerous occasions and has recorded a compact disc of Romantic compositions for flute and piano entitled "The Last Rose of Summer".

Dr. Erin O'Connor

Associate Professor

Department of History

508-531-2405

eoconnor@bridgew.edu

Erin O'Connor is an associate professor in the history department, with a specialty in Latin American history. Her research interests are in Andean history, gender and racial analysis, and the history of nation-state formation. Her monograph, Gender, Indian, Nation: The Contradictions of Making Ecuador, 1830-1925 was published with the University of Arizona Press in 2007. Currently, she is co-editing a two-volume documentary history, titled Documenting Latin America. Volume I: Gender, Race and Empire. Volume II: Gender, Race, and Nation (forthcoming, Pearson/Prentice Hall). Her new research project examines the multiple meanings of domesticity in Ecuador from 1830-1949, focusing on urban households and on various forms of coerced labor. As CART research fellow she is especially interested in helping colleagues as they strive to balance teaching and research. She also wants to help faculty develop networks that will foster interdisciplinary communication and support regarding their research projects. Please feel free to contact her with any questions or ideas you may have, and remember that she is available to read grant proposals for CART grants.

Carolyn A. Anderson

Administrative Assistant II

Moakley Center Room 219

508-531-1767

canderson@bridgew.edu

The CART administrative assistant provides direct support to the CART coordinators, the CART research fellow, and the 30 member CART advisory board. The administrative assistant provides full-time support to CART, faculty and librarians, and also assists many faculty groups on campus. Among the many duties and responsibilities are: management, oversight, and execution of all financial operations of the CART budget indices; faculty-librarian advising on travel and other grants; grant support and management; assistance with preparation of the annual schedule; facilitation of all aspects of the yearly CART May Celebration, as well as other event planning; office supervision; newsletter preparation; webpage maintenance; and general office management.