Two Philadelphia-area Professors Earn Teaching and Scholarly Accolades
Reading, PA (06/02/2022) — Albright College faculty members, Gwendolyn Seidman, Ph.D. (Ardmore, Pa.) and Arcana Albright, Ph.D. (Philadelphia, Pa.), have earned 2022 awards for excellence in teaching and scholarly work.
Gwendolyn Seidman, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology
Laughlin Research Award for Faculty Scholarship
Honored for demonstrating exemplary scholarship, Seidman boasts an impressive body of work examining intimate relationships with respect to Internet use and personality traits such as narcissism. Within the past year, Seidman has produced two publications co-authored with undergraduate students, offered three conference presentations, and served as thesis advisor and reader for several students while maintaining a Psychology Today Magazine blog. Despite the continued challenges of the pandemic, she has been able to involve students at all levels of the research process and is an invaluable mentor.
Arcana Albright, Ph.D., Professor of French
United Methodist Exemplary Teaching Award
Recognized for demonstrating remarkable teaching, leadership, and commitment to value-centered education, Albright is passionate about teaching communication skills and increasing cultural awareness. Her language classes help students to understand cultural difference and confront their own biases. Students describe her as a supportive and creative teacher, commenting that they feel empowered to practice a new language without worrying about making mistakes.
Named a top national college by Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education, Albright College (founded 1856) is home to a diverse community of learners who cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience. Through learning experiences that engage a student's creative and innovative capacities across all disciplines, both inside and outside of the classroom, an Albright College education guarantees that each student learns how to engage the world, understand the world, and is prepared to make an impact on a rapidly changing world. Located in Reading, Pa., Albright is home to undergraduate students, adult learners and graduate students.
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Gwendolyn Seidman, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology Laughlin Research Award for Faculty Scholarship