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Faculty

The Institute Faculty Speakers Bureau lists full- and part-time faculty members, their areas of scholarly and professional expertise, who teach in the Institute and are interested and available as guest lecturers to classes, consultants to the community, and collaborators on projects.

Mark Leccese
Assistant Professor (2003)
B.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst; M.A., Boston College

A veteran newspaper reporter, newspaper editor, and magazine writer, Mr. Leccese covered politics and government in Massachusetts for more than 25 years and won several New England and Massachusetts Press Association awards. He has worked as a correspondent for The Boston Globe, political reporter for the Fitchburg Sentinel,editor-in-chief of The Tab Newspapers, State House bureau chief for Community Newspaper Company,\ and was the founding editor of Beacon Hill: The Newspaper of Massachusetts Government. His freelance reporting and writing has appeared in publications including The Columbia Journalism Review, The Quill, The Boston Phoenix, Commonwealth, and State Legislatures,  and he has been a contributing editor at Boston Magazine. Mr. Leccese has taught journalism and writing at Boston University, Northeastern University, and Boston College. His primary areas of interest are public affairs journalism and online journalism, and his research is focused on political blogs.


Full Time Faculty

Deirdre Conlon, Scholar-In-Residence

Diana Sherry, Scholar-In-Residence


Mirta Tocci, Artist-in-Residence

Erika Williams, Scholar-In-Residence

Departmental Faculty Who Teach in the Institute
John Anderson
Elizabeth Baeten
Flora Gonzalez
Roger House
Mark Leccese
Wyatt Oswald
Melinda Robins
Murray Schwartz
James Sheldon
Stephen Shipps
Part Time Faculty
Amy Aroopala
Matthew Battles
Steven Beeber
Gaynor Blandford
James Byrne
Claudia Castaneda
Robert Dulgarian
Lance Eaton
Nigel Gibson
John Hodge
Alden Jones
Cynthia Miller
Roseanne Montillo
Jason Roush
Meta Wagner
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