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Yolanda E Fleischer [Email]
Associate Professor of Theatre, teaches voice production, characterization and scene study. Her UDM directing has included On the Open Road and Two. Fleischer’s professional work in area theatres has most recently included If We Are Women. Fleischer’s other work includes: serving as past artistic director of JCC’s "Readers Theatre," directing Growing Up Female, a community-wide project with the city of Flint; founding the Detroit Women’s Shakespeare Company; and serving on the advisory board of a PBS project. She holds a B.S. of Ed. degree from Central Michigan University and M.A. and M.F.A. degrees from Wayne State University. Fleischer joined the University in 1986.

Wladyslaw Fuchs [Email]
Associate Professor of Architecture, teaches architectural design, visual communications and Computer Aided Design. His main interests include integrating these subjects across the curriculum of architectural education. Fuchs recently published an article entitled Progressive Tradition, focusing on the relevance of the drawing experience in CAD practice. A member of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, his research includes the design and implementation of the V.C.net, an Internet based educational tool for the architectural community. He earned M.Arch. and Ph.D. degrees from the Warsaw Technical University in Poland. Fuchs returned to the University to teach in 1990.

John T Franklin [Email]
Professor of Counseling and Addiction Studies, teaches drug effects, group methods, family systems, and qualitative research. Franklin’s publications and presentations deal with chemical dependence among women, group therapy with dual-diagnosed patients, and empowering families for drug abuse prevention. He is the recipient of the AAA Michigan Professor of Addiction Studies, the Ruben A. Lacy Distinguished Service Award, and the student organization advisor of the year. He holds a B.A. from St. Mary of the Lake Seminary, a S.T.L. from the Gregorian University, a M.A. from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Franklin joined the University in 1978.

Roy E Finkenbine [Email]
Associate Professor and Chair of History, teaches African American and American social history. He is a specialist on the 19th-century African American experience. He is currently engaged in a study of the role and influence of black churches in the antislavery movement. As associate editor of the Black Abolitionist Papers Project at Florida State University, he co-edited the five-volume Black Abolitionist Papers, 1830-1865 and Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation. He recently completed Sources of the African American Past. He is director of the Black Abolitionist Archives in the College of Liberal Arts. Finkenbine holds a Ph.D. degree from Bowling Green State University. He joined the University in 1996.

John C Freeman [Email]
Professor of English, teaches Renaissance literature, critical theory and Shakespeare. Freeman’s publications and professional presentations both here and abroad have dealt with Thomas More’s Utopia, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He has published articles in ELH, Moreana, and Modern Language Review. He is currently doing research on holographic potential in the Arnolfini Portrait, and the application of complexity theory to Sterne’s Tristram Shandy. Freeman holds a B.A. degree from Michigan State University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Wayne State University. He joined the University in 1987.

Carmencita Ford-Fleifel [Email]
Affiliate Clinical Coordinator of the Nurse Anesthesiology Program, she teaches advanced principles of nurse anesthesiology, and regional anesthesia. She received her B.S.N. from Oakland University and M.S. in Anesthesia from Wayne State University. She has been a faculty member since2002.

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