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Faculty Senate Steering Committee
2006-2007


Dr. Cobbe is Professor of Economics. He has been at FSU since 1976 and previously taught at the University of Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland, and the London School of Economics and Political Science. His PhD is from Yale and his BA from the University of Cambridge, U.K. At FSU he has been Associate Dean [1985-1991] and Interim Dean [1986-87] of the College of Social Sciences, Director of Graduate Studies in Economics [1992-1997], and Chair of the Department of Economics [1997 - 2006]. He has worked in more than fifteen countries in the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia.

Former Presidents of the Faculty Senate

 
  • Jayne Standley, 2007
    Vice-chair, Faculty Senate Steering Committee
  • College of Music
  • 042B Kuersteiner Music Building
  • MC: 1180
  • 850/644-4565
    850/644-9642 (FAX)

Dr. Standley is Director of the Music Therapy program and teaches in the areas of music therapy principles and procedures and the use of music in medical treatment and counseling. She is editor of The Journal of Music Therapy and is widely published. Her primary area of research is in the use of music in the care and development of premature infants.

    Jane Clendinning, 2008
    College of Music
  • 311 Longmire Building
  • MC: 1180
  • 850/644-4063
  • 850/644-6100 (FAX)

Dr. Clendinning teaches undergraduate courses in eighteenth-century counterpoint, twentieth-century styles, music since World War II, accelerated music theory, and graduate courses in the history of music theory, atonal analysis, and other topics related to twentieth-century music.

 
  • Sandra Lewis, 2007
  • College of Education, Childhood Education, Reading and Disability Services
  • 205V Stone Building
  • MC: 4459
  • 850/644-8409
  • 850/644-8715 (FAX)

Dr. Lewis currently coordinates the Program in Visual Impairment at FSU.  She teaches courses to undergraduate and graduate students who are preparing to work as teachers of students with visual impairments and conducts research in the current status and efficacy of services to this population of students, ages birth to 21.

  • Clifford Madsen, 2008
  • College of Music
    042D Kuersteiner Music Building
    MC: 1180
  • 850/644-3554
  • 850/644-6100 (FAX)

Dr. Madsen is the Coordinator of Music Education/ Music Therapy/Contemporary Media and teaches in the areas of music education, music therapy, research, and psychology of music. He serves on various international and national editorial and research boards and is widely published throughout scholarly journals in music education and therapy.

 
  • Dennis Moore, 2008
  • College of Arts and Sciences, English
  • 416 Williams Building
    MC: 1580
  • 850/644-1177
  • 850/644-0811 (FAX)

Dr. Moore specializes in the literature of colonial America and in U.S. literature to 1900. He serves as FSU's Coordinating Director, University Learning Communities; president of the interdisciplinary Society of Early Americanists; and instigator of the American Studies Association's Early American Matters Caucus.

  • Valliere Richard Auzenne, 2007
  • Film School
  • 3101 University Center A
  • MC: 2350
  • 850/644-8763
  • 850/644-2626 (FAX)


Dr. Richard is currently completing a biography on Washington D.C. aritst Alma W. Thomas.  She is also producing and directing a documentary film on Folktales of the Amazon with Dr. Juan Carlos Galeano.  She currently serves as the Assistant Director of the Film School. The focus of her teaching is screenwriting, film history and professional development.

 

Dr. Walker specializes in British Romantic culture, Austen, and the contemporary Scottish novel.