UDM honors Barry Dauphin with the Faculty Achievement Award
Dauphin
The University of Detroit Mercy honored Assistant Professor of Psychology V. Barry Dauphin on Nov. 7, 2008 with the Faculty Achievement Award during the annual Faculty Recognition dinner. Each year, UDM faculty members nominate their colleagues from the University's seven schools and colleges for this recognition.
In the past five years, the Faculty Achievement Award has gone to a College of Liberal Arts & Education faculty member. The Faculty Recognition dinner also awards a faculty member with the Distinguished Faculty Award, which this year went to Professor of Business Administration Oswald Mascarenhas, S.J.
Barry Dauphin joined the University as a member of the Psychology Department in 2004. He has quickly proven to be a wonderful teacher and colleague, an outstanding mentor to students completing research projects in our department, and a vibrant and involved member of the larger University community.
As an instructor, Dauphin's course evaluations have been nothing short of stupendous. He is consistently among the very highest rated faculty in a large department of 16 full-time and approximately 20 part-time instructors. Students consistently describe Dauphin with such terms as "extremely interesting," "patient and kind," and "very helpful."
During his short time at UDM, he has proven to be an extremely versatile instructor, who has been able to get rave reviews in everything from a 100-level introductory course to upper-level seminars for Ph.D. students. Both undergraduate and graduate students have also described him as a thoughtful and caring academic advisor, whose door is almost always open.
Along with his excellence in the classroom, Dauphin is also emerging as a leading scholar in the areas of psychoanalytic psychology and cultural studies. His book, Tantalizing Times: Excitements, Disconnects, and Discontents in Contemporary American Society, has been extremely well-received and is now on its second printing. He has authored referred journal articles in such major psychology journals as Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practise and Testing, Psychoanalytic Review, and the Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies to name a few.
Dauphin is a very active member of the University community, serving on the McNichols Faculty Assembly, the Clinical Training Committee of the Ph.D. program in clinical psychology, and he is currently acting director of the Psychology department's M.A. program in clinical psychology. As a highly regarded member of his profession, he is also the current president of the Michigan Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology.
Dauphin earned his B.S. in Psychology and M.S. in Experimental Psychology at Tulane University and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Syracuse University.
