Honors Program Director

Dr. Maria Beatriz Torres

Dr. Maria Beatriz Torres
Assistant Professor of Communication

Dr. Beatriz Torres earned a bachelors degree in Journalism at the Escuela de Comunicación Social in Córdoba, Argentina in 1986. In 1990, she moved to México City, where she worked for three years as a television producer of documentaries for TV-UNAM (Universidad Autónoma de México) and of soap operas for Televisa. Beatriz received a scholarship from the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología de México to pursue a technical specialization in Educative Television.

Beatriz Torres also worked for the Secretary of Extension University at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba for 9 years in different capacities: interim general coordinator of career services (paid internships), public relations & coordinator of special programs and in human resources. She obtained a Fulbright fellowship to pursue her Master's degree in Organizational Communication at the School of Interpersonal Communication, Ohio University, where she graduated in 2001. She studied her doctorate in Cross Cultural Communication at the School of Communication Studies, Ohio University, and graduated in 2004. She was the recipient of the 2003 Outstanding Doctoral Student award from the Graduate Student Senate and from the School of Communication Studies at OU. Her dissertation looked at "Doctors communicating with culturally diverse patients: Understanding culture competence communication in doctor and patient interaction".

She was recently awarded with 2007 Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowships for Higher Education of Present and Prospective Teachers to study new theoretical and pedagogical approaches to teach intercultural communication at the Summer Institute of Intercultural Communication, in Portland, Oregon. Professor Torres has been appointed as the Director of Keene State College Honors Program in May 2007.

Honors Program Advisory Council

Spring and fall 2007

Marché Brown
Director of National and International Exchange

Marie Duggan
Associate Professor of Economics

Dr. Nona Fienberg
Dean of School of Arts and Humanities

Dr. Linda Hadden
Assistant Professor of Business

Dr. Karen Honeycutt
Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies

Dr. Sara Hottinger
Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Philosophy

Dr. Karen Jennings
Assistant Professor of Psychology

Anna Kaladioux
Assistant Professor of English

Dr. Nigel Malcolm
Assistant Professor of Communication

Dr. Anne-Marie Mallon
Professor of English and Women's Studies

Dr. Yuan Pan
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design

Dr. Ann Rancourt
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs

Dr. Donna Smyth
Professor of Physical Education

Dr. Melinda Treadwell
Associate Professor of Technology, Design, and Safety