Professors Dolling and Foster appointed Associate Deans at Stevens’ College of Art s and Letters
Edward H. Foster to serve as Associate Dean for Administration, Lisa Dolling is Associate Dean for Program Development
HOBOKEN , N.J. — Professors Edward H. Foster and Lisa M. Dolling have been appointed Associate Deans in Stevens Institute of Technology’s new College of Art s and Letters.
Foster will serve a s Associate Dean for Administration. A professor in History, Foster is a prolific author, poet, translator and publisher of international standing. He earned his A.B., Master of Art s and Doctoral degrees from Columbia University , and has been at Stevens since 1967. He was awarded an honorary Master of Engineering degree from Stevens in 1990, and since 2002 he has served with distinction as Director of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Dolling will serve as Associate Dean for Program Development. She holds a Bachelor of Art s degree from Manhattanville College , a certificate of completion from the University of Louvain (Belgium), a Master of Art s degree from Fordham, and a Doctorate in Philosophy from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her specialties include the philosophy of science, hermeneutics, aesthetics, and the history of philosophy. She is co-editor of the volume Tests of Time: Readings in the Development of Physical Theory (Princeton, 2003). Dolling was an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Executive Director of the university-wide Honors Program at St. John’s University before coming to Stevens in 2004 as Associate Professor of Philosophy and Coordinator of the Philosophy Program at Stevens.
“We are very excited about the prospects for the new College of Art s and Letters at Stevens, and Ed and Lisa will play a big part in its successes. I wish Professors Foster and Dolling well in their new assignments,” said James E. McClellan III, Dean of the College of Art s and Letters.
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