Faculty: Honors College: Adelphi University

Richard Garner, Dean of the Honors College

Dean Garner graduated from Princeton University with a B.A. in Slavic languages and literatures. He continued his Slavic studies at Harvard where he took an M.A. At the University of Chicago he studied social thought; classical languages (Greek and Latin), literatures, philosophy, and history; and Biblical and Medieval Hebrew. He returned to Harvard as a Junior Fellow for three years of research and completion of the doctoral dissertation. Before coming to Adelphi in 1994, he taught for ten years at Yale where he won all three major teaching awards, including the Phi Beta Kappa William DeVane award for excellence in Scholarship and Teaching.

Dean Garner is the author of Law and Society in Classical Athens, From Homer to Tragedy, and numerous articles. In addition to his administrative duties as Dean in the Honors College, he teaches Russian, Greek, Latin, Biblical Hebrew, World Literature, and Western Civilization and offers tutorials for advanced reading in German and French.

Nicholas Rizopoulos, Academic Director for Special Programs and Research in the Honors College

Nicholas Rizopoulos graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in history. He went on to receive his Ph.D. in history at Yale as well where he taught for a number of years. He then became the Executive Director of the Lehrman Institute, a research organization devoted to contemporary historical studies and U.S. Foreign Relations. Before coming to Adelphi in 1994 he served as Vice President and Director of Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

The author and editor of a number of important publications and studies in foreign policy and international relations, Nicholas Rizopoulos recently served as the Senior Consulting Editor for the four-volume Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations from Oxford University Press. In addition to his work as the Honors College Thesis Supervisor, Rizopoulos teaches Honors College courses in politics and literature, the Cold War, WWI, and other topics in history and foreign relations. He also teaches a rigorous independent studies tutorial on the Oxford model for a select group of Honors College students.

Diane Della Croce, Associate Dean of the Honors College

Dean Della Croce Diane Della Croce received her B.A. in English with honors from Adelphi University. After earning a master's in education she completed her studies in English at SUNY Stony Brook where she earned her Ph.D. She was awarded the Marilyn and Ira Hechler English dissertation prize for her dissertation on the poetry of D.H. Lawrence, Lawrence Agonistes: Poet of Dialogue. Before coming to Adelphi to teach, Dean Della Croce worked as a journalist and was an award-winning news reporter.

Dean Della Croce is the author of articles on poetry and on writing. Among her areas of expertise is the use of technology in research and writing. As the Associate Dean she works to develop a variety of Honors workshops and courses designed to help students with their skills in research and writing. In addition to her administrative duties, she teaches writing, literature, intellectual history, and Latin.

Gregory John Mercurio, Academic Director in the Honors College

Gregory John Mercurio recieved his B.A. in English and Theater and an M.A. in English from the University of Scranton, an M.A. in Art from Adelphi University, and an M.Phil. in English from CUNY. He is currently completing his doctoral dissertation at CUNY on the work of Marcel Proust.

An illustrator, editor, reviewer, and theatrical artist, Gregory John Mercurio has worked in Charles Ludlam’s Ridiculous Theatrical Company, The Roundabout Theatre, Playwright’s Horizons, Manhattan Class Company, and La MaMa, and has premiered plays by Ludlam, McNally, Foote, and Brecht. In addition to his work as a thesis adviser in English and the performing arts, Professor Mercurio teaches seminars and independent tutorials in critical theory, gender studies, and the 19th-century novel in England and France.

Contact
For additional information, please contact:

Richard Garner, Dean
Adelphi University
Honors College
Earle Hall, Room 100
1 South Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530

p - 516.877.3800
f - 516.877.3803
e - garner@adelphi.edu

This page last modified on May 1, 2007.

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