Faculty members retiring

2023 marks the completion of the final year of teaching for Trinity College faculty members listed below.

Paul D. Assaiante

Paul D. Assaiante Professor of Physical Education and Head Men’s Squash Coach

Paul Assaiante came to the College in 1994 as director of racquet sports. During his 30 seasons as head men’s squash coach, he guided Trinity to 13 consecutive College Squash Association (CSA) National titles from 1999 to 2011 and additional championships in 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2018. Assaiante’s teams racked up 252 wins in a row, the longest winning streak in the history of intercollegiate varsity sports, and he holds a 507–29 career record in squash at Trinity. He also coached the men’s tennis team for 19 seasons, earning a 188–97 career record in tennis with the Bantams. Assaiante co-wrote or co-edited two books, including Run to the Roar: Coaching to Overcome Fear. His many accolades include the Trinity College Trustee of Excellence Award in 2013 and the Arthur H. Hughes Award for Teaching Achievement in 2002. Assaiante, a member of the College Squash Association Hall of Fame, earned a B.S. from Springfield College and an M.S. from Long Island University.

Janet Bauer

Professor of International Studies

Janet Bauer, a Trinity faculty member since 1984 (she arrived in 1983 as a visiting research scholar in area studies), earned a B.S. from the University of Central Missouri and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. She has taught courses including “Women, Gender, and Family in the Middle East,” “Global Migration,” “Immigrants and Refugees,” “Islamic Feminism in Global Perspective,” and “Gender and Education” (the first course she developed and taught at Trinity) for anthropology, educational studies, and area studies (which later became the International Studies Program). She has served as assistant director for Trinity’s Center for Collaborative Teaching and Research, interim director for human rights studies, and director of women’s studies during its transition to the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program. In 2017, she pioneered a refugee youth mentoring program with her “Global Hartford Migration Lab” students, reflecting the importance of community engagement in her teaching. Her research, publications, and digital platforms have focused on women and gender, migration, and comparative Muslim diasporas.

EdwardC. Fitzgerald

Senior Lecturer and Laboratory Coordinator in Chemistry

Ed Fitzgerald taught introductory chemistry courses and labs. He came to Trinity in 2007 from Mount Holyoke College, where he served as director of chemical laboratories for nearly two decades. Previously, he was a senior technologist at LeachGarner. Fitzgerald earned a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an M.A. from Mount Holyoke. He was recognized three times for his volunteerism by the Connecticut Valley Section of the American Chemical Society, twice for running its Chemistry Olympiad and once for running a program for National Chemistry Week.

Cheryl L. Greenberg

Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of History

Cheryl Greenberg earned an A.B. from Princeton University and an M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Columbia University. She came to Trinity in 1986 and has taught courses in African American history and the history of race in the United States, as well as courses on social and cultural history topics including crime, protest movements, Star Trek, and American society during and after the Cold War. Her research interests are equally varied, including African American communities during the Great Depression, grass-roots organizing in the civil rights movement, postwar liberalism, and Black-Jewish relations. During Greenberg’s time at Trinity and thanks to two Fulbrights and other fellowships, she also has taught at the University of Helsinki, Finland; Harvard University; and Nankai University, China. She recently co-authored a history and community memoir of civil rights organizing in Marks, Mississippi; it was published in January. A recent project examined the history of civil rights organizations’ views on hate-speech legislation, and Greenberg plans to extend this research into a book.

Jean-Marc Kehrès

Associate Professor of Language and Culture Studies

Jean-Marc Kehrès specializes in 18th-century French literature. He taught at the University of Oklahoma and Princeton University, and his publications include articles on Marivaux, the Encyclopédie, the press during the French Revolution, and Sade. He is the author of Sade et la rhétorique de l’exemplarité. His current project concerns epistolarity in the prerevolutionary French press. Kehrès has been at Trinity since 2004, teaching courses on the Enlightenment, the 18th century in films, contemporary French society, the French detective novel, and the history of commercial practices in Paris. He was the director of the Trinity in Paris program, where he developed courses on French theater and a history of political contestation. As a visiting professor at Fudan University in Shanghai, he taught courses on the French colonial gaze on the Orient and the theory and practice of photography. He earned a licence ès lettres and maîtrise ès lettres from the University of Paris XII, an M.A. from the University of New Mexico, and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Randolph M. Lee ’66

Associate Professor of Psychology

Randy Lee earned a B.A. from Trinity College and an M.S. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Massachusetts. A faculty member since 1969, Lee serves as director of Trinity’s Counseling and Wellness Center as well as an assistant coach and sport psychologist for the women’s squash team. He founded the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior and served as its editor from 1976–86. He has served as president of the Connecticut Psychological Association (1977–78) and chair of that organization’s Ethics Committee (1990–2014) and as a member of the national Council of Representatives of the American Psychological Association (1982–85). Lee teaches courses in the areas of psychotherapy theory, mind/body health, and clinical psychology and conducts workshops and seminars in mindfulness and meditation. He also has published in the areas of meditation and eating disorders.

Donna-Dale Marcano

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Donna-Dale Marcano, a Trinity faculty member since 2005, earned a B.A. in communications arts from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, an M.A. in philosophy and social policy from American University, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Memphis. During her time at Trinity, she has served as the director of the Human Rights Program and has taught courses including “Feminist Philosophy,” “Race and Racism in Philosophy,” and “Human Rights: The Question of Justice.” Marcano previously served on the faculty of Le Moyne College. She also is a co-editor of Convergences: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy and the author of numerous book chapters and articles.

Janet Morrison

Principal Lecturer in Chemistry

Janet Morrison joined the Trinity faculty in 1997. She has a passion for teaching, mentoring, and guiding the research of undergraduate students and watching them develop as scientists. Her research involves the development and optimization of analytical methods for the detection and quantification of trace compounds in biological specimens, including biomarkers of Parkinson’s disease in human sebum samples, drugs in alternative biological specimens such as saliva and hair, and ethanol biomarkers in saliva. Morrison also has served as chair of the Faculty Jury Panel, as the faculty liaison to the Trinity swim team and women’s golf team, and as a mentor to the Chicago Posse Foundation Scholars. She previously was a research chemist and National Research Council postdoctoral research associate at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Morrison earned a B.S. in chemistry from Hartwick College, an M.S. in forensic chemistry from Northeastern University, and a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the American University.

Anne Parmenter

Professor of Physical Education and Head Field Hockey Coach

Anne Parmenter earned a B.E. from Chelsea College of Physical Education and an M.E. from the University of Massachusetts. Since her arrival at Trinity in 2001, she has served as the head field hockey coach and has taken the team to the NCAA Final Four. Parmenter’s honors include being inducted into the National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Hall of Fame in 2019, and she currently serves as president of the NFHCA. During her time at Trinity, she submitted Mount Everest and placed the Trinity flag on the summit. She also led three J-Term trips—two to Nepal and one to China—and took field hockey teams to Argentina and Holland. Prior to Trinity, Parmenter served as the head field hockey coach at Connecticut College and as an assistant coach at Amherst College, the University of Massachusetts, and the College of the Holy Cross.

Clare Rossini

Artist-in-Residence

Clare Rossini earned a B.A. from the College of Saint Benedict, an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. She is the author of three collections of poetry, and her poems and essays have appeared in a range of journals and anthologies; they have also been featured on NPR and the BBC. At Trinity, where she has been a faculty member since 2000, she serves as artist-in-residence in the English Department, teaching courses in creative writing; since 2001, she has taught a Community Learning Initiative course that places Trinity students in a Hartford public school arts classroom. Her scholarly interests include English, American, and world poetry; the imagination of place and ecocriticism; the history of science; spirituality and poetry; and the community cultural development movement. She recently completed a book of poems about global warming; a fifth book, about New York City and hip-hop culture, is in the works.

Mark Silk

Professor of Religion in Public Life

Mark Silk earned an A.B. in history and literature from Harvard College and a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University. After remaining at his alma mater to teach in the Department of History and Literature for three years, he became editor of the Boston Review. He later joined the staff of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he worked as a reporter, editorial writer, and columnist. In 1996, he came to Trinity as the first director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life and two years later initiated Religion in the News, a magazine that for 16 years examined how the news media handle religious subject matter. Under his direction, the center produced two book series, Religion by Region (nine volumes) and The Future of Religion in America (five volumes) In 2005, he was named director of the Program on Public Values, which oversees the college’s biennial Moses Berkman 1920 Memorial Journalism Award.

Stephen M. Valocchi

Professor of Sociology

Stephen Valocchi earned a B.A. from Saint Joseph’s University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Indiana University. His scholarly interests include social movements and the sociology of gender and sexuality. Valocchi, a Trinity faculty member since 1985, has published research articles on the gay liberation, civil rights, and labor movements; queer theory; and social welfare policy. He also is author of Capitalisms and Gay Identities (Routledge, 2019) and Social Movements and Activism in the U.S.A. (Routledge, 2009) and co-editor (along with fellow Trinity faculty member Robert Corber) of Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader (Wiley, 2003). He teaches courses in social stratification, social movements, and sexuality.

Nancy J. Wyshinski

Associate Professor of Mathematics

Nancy Wyshinski earned a B.A. in mathematics from Bloomsburg University and then an M.A. in mathematics, an M.S. in applied mathematics, and Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Colorado. Her research focuses on the analytic theory of continued fractions. The hallmark of Wyshinski’s teaching style has been an infectious enthusiasm for all things mathematical. A Trinity faculty member since 1991, she particularly loves sharing with first-year students the beauty of calculus. In 1995, she started the Connecticut Delta Chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon, a national honor society for math majors, and has been inducting students into the honor society every spring semester.