Mission of the Interdisciplinary Faculty Council on Disability

The mission of the Interdisciplinary Faculty Council on Disability (IFC) is to foster collaboration across Temple University on disability-related projects including research, teaching, programming, publication, and grant-seeking. By connecting with one another, Council members help build community among the growing number of people at Temple whose work engages with disability.

The Council consists of approximately 30 faculty and staff from 17 programs and nine Colleges and Centers across the University, including the College of Education, Institute on Disabilities, College of Liberal Arts, Tyler School of Art, College of Health Professions and Social Work, School of Media and Communication, School of Medicine, Division of Theater, Film and Media Arts, and Disability Resources and Services.

11/17/2022 Update: Former council members removed.

Members of the Interdisciplinary Faculty Council on Disability

 

• Debra Blair, Ed.D. bio

  dblair@temple.edu
  Director of Assessment and Associate Professor of Instruction
  Sports and Recreation Management, School of Sport, Tourism, and Hospitality Management

• Joseph R. Boyle, Ph.D. bio

  Joseph.boyle@temple.edu
  Associate Professor, Special Education
  Psychological, Organizational, & Leadership Studies
  College of Education
  Areas of interest: teaching students with learning disabilities; interventions in note-taking, reading, and writing

• Eric Brunner, Ed.D.

  eric.brunner@temple.edu
  Assistant VP, Department of Learning and Development, Human Resources

• Ann Elizabeth Dolloff, M.Ed., CTRS bio

  jetpak@temple.edu
  School of Social Work
  College of Public Health
  Areas of interest: rehabilitation, empowerment and recovery-oriented services, the criminal justice system, behavioral health

• Sarah Drury, M.P.S. bio

  sdrury@temple.edu
  Department of Film and Media Arts
  Center for the Arts
  Areas of interest: video/sound installation, performance, sensing technologies, narrative, play

• Linda Earle bio

  Professor of Practice, Arts Administration
  Department of Art History
  Tyler School of Art
  Areas of Interest: Contemporary Art, institutional ethics, cultural equity & inclusion, managing change and artistic innovation, community engagement

• Thomas Edwards, DPS bio

  tve@temple.edu
  Associate Professor, Engineering Management, College of Engineering
  Areas of interest: effective management of neurodiverse employees, inter-organizational learning in a Corporate Venture Capital investment and entrepreneurial success, engineer transition to managers

• Kate Fialkowski, M.T.S. bio

  kate.fialkowski@temple.edu
  Director of Academic Programs, Institute on Disabilities
  College of Education
  Areas of interest: history of disability rights movement/developmental disabilities, history of IDEA and PARC v Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, autonomy and dependence, ethics in supported and surrogate decision making

• Catherine Fiorello, Ph.D. bio

  cfiore02@temple.edu
  Department Chairperson, Psychological Studies in Education
  College of Education
  Areas of interest: Cognitive assessment, fairness of assessment across cultural and linguistic groups, diversity issues in school psychology, diagnostic assessment

• Nora Jones, Ph.D. bio

  Nora.Jones@temple.edu
  Associate Director, Center for Bioethics, Urban Health, and Policy
  Lewis Katz School of Medicine
  Areas of interest: urban bioethics, medical education, medical anthropology

• Lisa Kay, Ed.D. bio

  lisakay@temple.edu
  Chair, Art Education and Community Arts Practices
  Tyler School of Art
  Areas of interest: art education, art therapy, narrative storytelling, resilience, art making and adolescent girls who have experienced trauma, arts-based research methods

• Dustin Kidd, Ph.D. bio

  dkidd@temple.edu
  Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Sociology
  Director, Intellectual Heritage
  College of Liberal Arts
  Areas of interest: popular culture and art, disability representations and disability activism online

• Beth Levine, M.S., CCC-SLP bio

  beth.levine@temple.edu
  Communication Sciences and Disorders
  College of Public Health
  Areas of interest: clinical education and services, speech and language pathology

• Wendy Magee, Ph.D. bio

  wmagee@temple.edu
  Music Therapy
  Boyer College of Music and Dance
  Center for the Arts
  Areas of interest: music therapy practice in neurology and rehabilitation, treatment methods and measurement tools, assistive technologies for music-making, queer identity

• Wendy Osterweil, M.F.A. bio

  www.wendyosterweil.com
  Art Education, Tyler School of Art
  Center for the Arts
  Areas of interest: community arts, printmaking, fiber art

• Jo-Ellen Ross, Ph.D.

  jross@temple.edu
  Assistant Professor of Instruction, Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Public Health
  Areas of interest: the meaning of leisure for persons with disabilities and their families; community inclusion through recreation, leisure, and play; and efficacy of therapeutic recreation interventions. Additionally, she is very interested in program development and evaluation as well as disabilities issues, life satisfaction, quality of life, overall wellness, and assistive technology.

• Mark Salzer, Ph.D. bio

  mark.salzer@temple.edu
  Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences
  College of Public Health
  Director, Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion
  Areas of interest: psychiatric disabilities, community inclusion, community mental health and rehabilitation services

• Jeremy Schipper, Ph.D. bio

  schipper@temple.edu
  Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible
  Department of Religion, College of Liberal Arts
  Areas of interest: the Hebrew Bible, biblical narrative, disability in biblical and related ancient Near Eastern texts

• Gerald Silk, Ph.D. bio

  gsilk@temple.edu
  Art History, Tyler School of Art
  Center for the Arts
  Areas of interest: modern and contemporary art, censorship, portraiture, Italian modernism, the Sixties, technological iconography, animal and human rights and ethics in art

• Michael W. Smith, Ph.D. bio

  mwsmith@temple.edu
  Associate Dean, Graduate Programs and Faculty Affairs
  Office of the Dean, College of Education
  Areas of interest: teaching and learning literature and composition, adolescents' in and out of school literacies, boys and school achievement

• Gretchen Snethen, Ph.D., CTRS bio

  gsnethen@temple.edu
  Department of Rehabilitation Sciences
  College of Public Health
  Areas of interest: Community participation of adults with serious mental illnesses, barriers and facilitators of participation, active transportation, leisure

• Matt Tincani, Ph.D. bio

  tincani@temple.edu
  Associate Professor, Special Education and Applied Behavior Analysis Programs
  Psychological, Organizational, & Leadership Studies, College of Education
  Areas of interest: learners with autism spectrum disorder, applied behavior analysis, positive behavior support

• Betsy Leebron Tutelman, Ph.D. bio

  betsy.tutelman@temple.edu
  Senior Vice Provost for Strategic Communications
  Professor of Media Studies and Production,
  School of Media and Communications
  Areas of interest: campus-wide initiatives and leadership, entrepreneurship

• Shannon Walters, Ph.D. bio

  shannon.walters@temple.edu
  Department of English
  College of Liberal Arts
  Areas of interest: rhetoric and composition, disability studies, women's studies, science and technology, critical animal studies, graphic narrative

• Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon, Ph.D. bio

  kimmika.williams-witherspoon@temple.edu
  Associate Professor of Urban Theater and Community Engagement
  Department of Theater, Film and Media Arts, Center for the Performing and Cinematic Arts
  Areas of interest: playwriting, spoken word, anthropology, African-American theater