Faculty
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Luther Brown
B.S. Savannah State College
M.S.W. SUNY Albany
M.S. Long Island University
D.S.W. Columbia University
Dr. Brown is currently a professor in the Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminal Justice at Castleton. He has previously taught both graduate and undergraduate courses at Rutgers University, Arizona State University, and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. His primary teaching areas are advanced practice and biopsychosocial dimensions of human behavior. Specific courses taught include: Human Behavior I and II, Family Violence, Group Therapy, Human Sexuality, Intervention with Families and Children, and Psychosocial Aspects of AIDS/HiV. His most recent clinical work was at Gray Case Management Services in Shaftsbury, Vermont, where he practiced psychotherapy.
Dr. Brown has presented papers and conducted workshops at both local and national professional conferences on a variety of scholarly topics.
Dr. Brown's tenure with NASW-VT includes four terms as Board Member at Large and one term as chapter President. In addition to his current duties as board member, he is active on the Diversity Committee.
Leisure activities include hiking, wandering through offbeat book stores, and an occasional game of chess with friends and relatives. He is fondly referred to within the Department as the "clutterer" or "packrat;" one who saves everything.
Resume as .pdf
802-468-1449
luther.brown@castleton.edu |
Derby recycles at Castleton.
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Paul Derby
BA Psychology, State University of New York, Oneonta
MS and PhD Cultural Anthropology, Syracuse University
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology
Professor Paul Derby is a cultural anthropologist whose specialties include cultural ecology, environmental history, cross-cultural study of religion, and symbolic systems. Derby has done fieldwork in India and has published on evil eye beliefs in South Asia. He is also a passionate advocate for environmental sustainability, and his current research focuses on the effects of culture change on the natural environment of the American northeast. Derby has won a number of teaching awards including Castleton’s “Outstanding New Faculty Award” in 1999; the “2004 Excellence in Teaching Award,” and Castleton’s “Outstanding Teacher of the Year” in 2006. Derby was also “Employee of the Semester” in 2006 and the first “Civic Fellow” from the Center for the Support and Study of Community. Derby believes that better learning comes from doing. Therefore, many of his classes have experiential learning components, which involve outside of the classroom projects addressing real life issues. For example, his students created the recycling program at Castleton, performed a Greenhouse Gas Inventory, and wrote a plan for real-time electricity meters to teach energy conservation. But perhaps he is most proud of the class that organized a statewide march on the Vermont State House to protest the under funding of higher education. There he met and shook hands with then Governor Howard Dean, who let a short scream because he didn’t know we were coming!
802-468-1469
paul.derby@castleton.edu
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Victoria DeRosia
B.A. Castleton State College
M.A. Bowling Green State University
Ph.D. SUNY Albany
Department Chair
While attending Castleton, Professor DeRosia participated in the Study Abroad Program, spending a semester in Italy studying the Italian police system. Her doctoral dissertation was published in 1998 by Praeger press under the title, Living Inside Prison Walls: Adjustment Behavior.
She has been a college educator since 1980 and brings to her teaching a wealth of professional experience: as a crime prevention specialist, certified police instructor, editor, grant specialist, instructor of prison inmates, academic advisor, co-developer of a halfway house for ex-offenders, researcher and policy analyst, probation and parole officer assistant, and a delinquency caseworker.
Her expertise and teaching responsibilities at Castleton include Introduction to Criminal Justice, Corrections, Crime Prevention, Deviant Behavior, Victimology, Law Enforcement, and several upper-level courses. She also coordinates advanced field experiences and teaches Criminal Justice Internship and Seminar.
802-468-1450
victoria.derosia@castleton.edu
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David Ellenbrook
B.S., Henderson State University
M.A., University of Memphis
M.S.S.W., University of Tennessee
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Associate Professor, Social Work and Sociology
David Ellenbrook has worked in a number of social work positions including the following: adult protective services, public assistance, hospitals, nursing home, trauma unit, emergency room, rehabilitation unit, home health, case manager, mental health, researcher, and educator at three institutions of higher education in sociology and social work. After completing his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, Dr. Ellenbrook joined the Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminal Justice here at Castleton where he teaches courses in social work and sociology. He regularly acts as a consultant, board member to several journals, and presents at regional and national conferences in his area of expertise “gerontology.” His most recent publication and presentations are titled “Social Darwinism as a Force in Social Welfare”, The Utilization of Technology in Rural Social Work Field Practicum Models for the 21st Century, and “An Exploration of Social Workers Attitudes Toward the Elderly as a Function of Ageism.”
His non-academic interest include: camping, travel to historical sites, and home renovations
802-468-1330
david.ellenbrook@castleton.edu
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Lillian Jackson
B.A. Brown University; Major: Cultural Anthropology
M.S.W. Boston University School of Social Work
M.P.A. (Masters in Public Administration) Suffolk University, Boston
Prior to coming to Castleton in 1998, I worked for 31 years in human service organizations, mostly in agency director/management positions including: medical social work, Boston's runaway shelter, Director of a district office of protective services for children in Boston, Director of Child and Family Services for Rutland Mental Health, member of many human services committees and task forces, and Chair of the Rutland Regional Partnership for Family Services, which includes all the agencies and organizations that serv children and families in Rutland County. I also served for many years on the Vermont Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers.
Half of my teaching responsibilities involve field placements and field instruction for the three field courses in our Social Work program. The classroom courses I teach are: Intro to Human Services, Social Work Practice, and Social Welfare Policy, which is a service-learning course involving a community project in Rutland County. I love both aspects of my teaching responsibilities and Castleton's social work program.
My personal interests include: extended family, animals of all kinds (except snakes), and being outdoors doing anything, particularly yard work, gardening, hiking/walking, cross country skiing, swimming, and boating.
Resume as .pdf
802-468-1324
lillian.jackson@castleton.edu |
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Brad Hunt
B.S.., M.S. Youngstown State University
J.D., University of Toledo College of Law
Criminal Justice Program Coordinator
Professor Hunt has been teaching at Castleton since 1986, serving as coordinator of the Criminal Justice Program from 1986-1994. During his career Professor Hunt has taught the following courses: Introduction to Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement in America, American Judicial Process, Evidence and Procedure, Field Experience, Criminal Law, Constitutional Issues in Criminal Justice, and Senior Seminar. In addition to these established courses, Professor Hunt has developed and taught new courses in Prisoners' Legal Rights, Police Civil Liability, Comparative Criminal Justice, and Criminal Justice Ethics.
In addition to these teaching commitments, Professor Hunt has served on the Rutland Dismas House Student Recruitment Committee (1989-90), as the Criminal Justice Club advisor (1989-91), and as a member of the Rutland Community Corrections Advisory Board (1996). He is also Castleton's Pre-law advisor (1986-present).
Professor Hunt's primary areas of teaching and research interest are in criminal law and procedure, Constitutional law, and ethical issues in criminal justice.
802-468-1327
brad.hunt@castleton.edu |
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William Kuehn
MA Northeastern University
JD Vermont Law School
Professor of Sociology
William Kuehn joined the Castleton faculty in the fall of 1971. He earned his Masters in Sociology with a specialization in Criminology from Northeastern University following a brief period working in juvenile corrections in New Jersey. While in the Doctoral program at Boston University he worked as a researcher at the Center for Criminal Justice of the Law School and was involved in research on pornography and vandalism in Boston. In 1988 he earned his JD degree and was admitted to the Bar of the State of Vermont. He teaches courses in Research Methods and Deviant Behavior as well as a First Year Seminar in Sociology with a service learning component. Active in local, regional and state-wide planning efforts, Bill enjoys almost any activity that connects him with nature.
802-468-1284
william.kuehn@castleton.edu
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Philip Lamy
B.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
M.A., Ph.D., Northeastern University
Professor of Sociology and Anthropology
An award winning teacher, writer, and filmmaker, Philip Lamy is a Professor of Sociology and Anthropology. Dr. Lamy’s teaching and research interests are in community studies, social movements, globalization, and ethnomusicology. His articles and commentary have appeared in the professional and popular media, including The Boston Globe, The London Times, Time Magazine, National Public Radio and the BBC. A professional musician and music educator, Dr. Lamy is the Drum Set Instructor and Jazz Specialist for Castleton’s Music Program. Like many in the Department, Dr. Lamy is active in service learning courses and projects, especially those that focus on enhancing community spaces and social interaction. For example, Dr. Lamy and his students helped to create the Brick Yard snowboard park, the Coffee Cottage cafe, and the new “Third Place” lodge and pub.
802-468-1345
philip.lamy@castleton.edu
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Linda J. Olson
B.A. Hamline University St. Paul, MN
M.A., Ph.D. University of New Hampshire
Linda Olson started at Castleton in the fall of 1995. She teaches in both the sociology and women’s studies programs and her areas of expertise are race, ethnicity, class and gender studies, sociological theory and sociology of education. Professor Olson has won several awards in teaching including the Student Association’s “Outstanding New Faculty of the Year” in 1996, “Outstanding Faculty of the Year” in 1997 and the Alumni “Faculty of the Year” in 2003. She is the faculty advisor of the student feminist activist group the Women’s Issues Group and was recently appointed as co-chair of the CHANGE (Creating Honoring Advocating and Nurturing Gender Equity) Initiative. Her research interests include connecting research, pedagogy and activism, and she just completed an oral history project of elder Vermont women with her students.
802-468-1473
linda.olson@castleton.edu |
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Laurie Rosenzweig
B.S. SUNY Oswego
M.A. SUNY Albany
J.D. Vermont Law School
Professor Rosenzweig has been teaching at Castleton since 1999. In addition to teaching, she operates her own law office. Her practice includes real estate, wills, trusts and family law. She has worked for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (1987-93), the New York State Division of Parole (1986-87) and was a probation office in the state of New York (1983-85).
Her achievements include Strathmore's Who's Who (2002-03), the National Dean's List (1995-96), and Who's Who: American Law Students (1994-96). She has been a member of numerous associations, which include American Bar Association, Vermont Law School Women's Law Group, Rutland County Bar Association, and Vermont Law School Animal Rights Group.
Professor Rosenzwig's primary areas of teaching and research are criminalistics and law enforcement.
802-468-1448
laurie.rosenzweig@castleton.edu
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