Theme: Youth and Culture

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Colby-Sawyer College
541 Main Street
New London, New Hampshire, 03257
United States

L. J. Garrioch

Associate Professor of Social Sciences and Education, Colby-Sawyer College

Professor Garrioch joined the Colby-Sawyer faculty in 2001. She holds an Honors B.A. in psychology from Wilfrid Laurier University; M.A. and Ph.D. in applied social psychology from the University of Victoria. Professor Garrioch has a special interest in social psychology, and psychology and the law. Teaching interests include social psychology, introduction to psychology, statistics and research methods, and psychology and the law. Research interests include eyewitness testimony, false confessions and jury decision-making.

Melissa Meade

Associate Professor and Chair of Humanities, Colby-Sawyer College

Dr. Meade joined the faculty in 2004 from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. Her teaching and research interests include media history, law and culture, and feminist media studies. She is currently a research associate for the Radio Preservation Task Force at the Library of Congress, a working member of the Feminist Technology Network (FemTechNet), and a member of the Legacy Council for the Third Wave Fund.

Omari Jackson

Assistant Professor of Social Sciences and Education, Colby-Sawyer College

Dr. Omari Jackson was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. He earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from The University of Michigan and master’s and doctoral degrees from Wayne State University. Prior to his current appointment as Assistant Professor of Sociology at Colby-Sawyer College (CSC), he was Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Concordia University-Ann Arbor. In his current faculty role at CSC, he teaches introductory sociology courses as well as interdisciplinary first year seminars. He also teaches courses on race/ethnicity, social class, and the sociology of education. In addition to his role as a teacher, he remains an active researcher; publishing in peer reviewed journals and presenting at academic conferences. He is interested in all things black middle class. His most recent manuscript, which is under review, analyzes the new sitcom “Black-ish;” which chronicles the life of an upper middle class black family.

Paul Robertson

Assistant Professor of Humanities, Colby-Sawyer College

Received a B.A. in the interdisciplinary Classics/Religion major at Reed College in 2006, and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies at Brown University in 2013. Professor Robertson currently teaches courses in the fields of humanities, religion, literature, writing, and multidisciplinary studies. His current research explores the letters of the early apostle Paul, using inter-disciplinary theory and quantitative mapping to understand and relate ancient Mediterranean social practices and texts from the purportedly different cultures of Greece, Rome, Judaism, and early Christianity that in fact suggest pan-Mediterranean phenomena. His other interests include early Christian group formation, tracing the origins and developments of Western spirituality and selfhood, defining religion, the role of religion in human evolution and cognition.

Thomas Galligan

President and Professor of Humanities, Colby-Sawyer College

THOMAS G. GALLIGAN JR. holds an A.B. in political science from Stanford University, a J.D. summa cum laude from Seattle University School of Law, and a L.L.M. from Columbia University Law School. Tom joined Colby-Sawyer College as its eighth president and as a professor in the Humanities Department in 2006. Before being selected as the college's president, he served as dean and professor of law at the University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville, Tennessee. While there, he was the Elvin E. Overton Distinguished Professor of Law and he taught torts and admiralty. From 1986 until May 1998, Tom taught at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University (LSU). At LSU, Tom was named the Dr. Dale E. Bennett Professor of Law and was honored by the students as the Outstanding LSU Professor six times. Tom has published numerous books and articles on torts and admiralty. His scholarship has been cited in the proposed Restatement (Third) of Torts and by numerous legal scholars.