Dean & Faculty
Dr. Peter Hatlie
Associate Professor of Classics - Western Civilization I
Vice President, Dean and Director of the Rome Campus
Office: Eugene Constantin Rome Campus
Phone: 011-39-06-930-221-556
E-Mail: peter.hatlie@gmail.com
Dr. Hatlie is a specialist in Late Antique, Medieval and Byzantine history. Since 1999 he has taught Ancient Greek and Western Civilization I for the Rome Program. With a B.A. in Classics from St. Olaf College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Medieval and Byzantine History from Fordham University, he is the recipient of research awards from the American School of Classical Studies, the Fulbright-Hays Program, the Harvard University / Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, the Kosciuszko Foundation and the University of Texas at Austin. His teaching interests include the general history of the Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean, Medieval Church History and the social, religious and cultural history of Byzantium. He is the author of numerous articles, two brief text editions and one book, The Monks and Monasteries of Constantinople, ca. 350-850 (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Dr. Elizabeth Lisot
Affiliate Assistant Professor of Art - Art and Architecture of Rome
Office: Eugene Constantin Rome Campus
Phone: 011-39-06-930-221-557
E-Mail: elisot@udallas.edu
Elizabeth Lisot has taught art history classes at the University of Dallas since 2007. Her specialties include Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, nineteenth-century French painting, and critical theory. She received her doctorate in aesthetic studies, with a focus in art history, from the University of Texas at Dallas. Her dissertation, "Passion, Penance and Mystical Union: Early Modern Catholic Polemics in the Religious Paintings of Federico Barocci," contextualizes the artist's work within Franciscan contemplative practices and the Tridentine doctrinal concerns of the early modern period. She completed her M.A. in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art history and her B.F.A. in studio art at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Additionally, as an undergraduate, she attended the University of California, Los Angeles and the Sorbonne, University of Paris. As part of her graduate studies, she attended courses in Renaissance and Baroque art history in Rome and Florence.
Dr. Lisot's recent projects include writing a review of the recent Federico Barocci exhibition, "L'incanto del colore", held in Siena, Italy in 2010 and giving a lecture for the University of Dallas' Rome Walking Tours Lecture Series on "The Chiesa Nuova: Philip Neri's Oratorian Church and the Catholic Reformation". Research from her Ph.D. dissertation is currently being used in preparation for a four-hundred year anniversary exhibition commemorating the death of Federico Barocci to be held at the St. Louis Museum of Art, Missouri, in 2012.
Dr. Lisot is a member of the Renaissance Society of America, the College Art Association and a secular Discalced Carmelite.
Cristina Morganti
Instructor, Survival Italian
Office: Eugene Constantin Rome Campus
Phone: 011-39-06-930-221-
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Cristina Morganti holds a BA degree in Modern Languages (1997) and Philosophy (2007) from the University of Rome at Tor Vergata. She teaches Italian as a second language in addition to working as a police woman in the city of Marino. She began work at the University of Dallas Rome Program in 2012.
Dr. Andrew Osborn
Associate Professor of English - Literary Tradition III, Tragedy/Comedy
Office: Eugene Constantin Rome Campus
Phone: 011-39-06-930-221-554
E-Mail: aosborn@udallas.edu
A graduate of Harvard College (A.B.), the Iowa Writers' Workshop (M.F.A.), and the University of Texas at Austin (Ph.D.), Andrew Osborn specializes in modern poetry, lyric theory, and the writing of lyric poetry, but he deeply enjoys teaching epic, drama, and narrative fiction, as well. He joined UD's English Department in 2007 and has received both the Haggerty and Haggar Fellow Awards. Dr. Osborn is the author of a chapbook of poems entitled Plato's Aviary as well as numerous articles and reviews. His own poetry has appeared in such journals as American Letters & Contemporary, Columbia, Denver Quarterly, Southwest Review (Morton Marr Poetry Prize), and Spoon River Poetry Review. The new edition of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics includes his entry on "Difficulty". Since 2011, Dr. Osborn has taught on the Due Santi campus; he is accompanied in Italy by his wife, Kari, and two daughters, Riley and Zoe.
Dr. J. Marianne Siegmund
Affiliate Assistant Professor of Theology - Western Theological Tradition
Office: Eugene Constantin Rome Campus
Phone: 011-39-06-930-221-560
E-Mail: jsiegmund@udallas.edu
Earning a B.A. in Philosophy (Christendom College, Virginia), M.A. in Religious Studies (Notre Dame Institute, Virginia), S.T.L. in Theology with a concentration in Marriage and Family (John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at the Catholic University of America, Washington D.C.), and S.T.D. in Theology with a concentration in Spiritual Theology (Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Urbe/Angelicum, Rome). Dr. J. Marianne Siegmund's favorite area of expertise is in theological and philosophical anthropology, particularly that of Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II. A recent conference paper, The Creator and the creature: Who vanishes? Revisiting Gaudium et Spes (Long Island, New York), and a recent article, Clarifying Society's Allocation of Good and Evil: The Instructive Heart of Martyrdom (Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly), represent Dr. Siegmund's ongoing work in anthropology. Dr. Siegmund has published several articles, including entries for the Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press), and the New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy (Detroit, MI: Gale, Forthcoming). Dr. Siegmund is a member of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists, the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, and the American Catholic Philosophical Association.
Dr. William Tullius
Assistant Professor of Philosophy - Philosophy of Man
Office: Eugene Constantin Rome Campus
Phone: 011-39-06-930-221-555
E-Mail: wtullius@udallas.edu
Dr. Tullius specializes in Phenomenology, with a particular emphasis on Edmund Husserl as well as the early phenomenological personalist tradition (particularly Max Scheler and Edith Stein), Medieval Philosophy, and Ethics. He obtained his B.A. degree in Philosophy from Franciscan University of Steubenville in 2006 and then continued at Franciscan University to complete an M.A. in Philosophy in 2008. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy at The New School for Social Research, where, in 2012, he completed a dissertation entitled Groundwork to a Phenomenological Ethics in Edmund Husserl and Duns Scotus. His current research interests include further studies in the problems associated with the development of an ethical theory in Husserlian phenomenology. He is particularly interested in studying the theme of ethical, cultural, and religious renewal which Husserl was in the process of developing during the 1920's and on until his death. Dr. Tullius' teaching interests include topics related to Philosophical Anthropology, Ethics, Phenomenology, Medieval Philosophy, and the Philosophy of Religion.