Margaret Oot Hayes, Ph.D. (c), MSN, RN
Assistant Professor of Nursing
mhayes@anselm.edu
603-641-7098
 
Margaret Oot Hayes received her MSN in community health nursing from the University of New Hampshire and is a Doctoral Candidate at Boston College. She is an assistant professor in the department of nursing at Saint Anselm College, where she teaches Family as Client and Community as Client. Professor Hayes’ research interests include the health status of incarcerated women, the life pattern of incarcerated women, and maternal reunification after incarceration.

Elizabeth P. Ossoff, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
eossoff@anselm.edu

Ossoff received her B.A. from Colby College and her M.S. and Ph.D. from Tufts University in general experimental psychology with a specialty in social psychology. She teaches Advanced Research Methods, Social Psychology, the Psychology of Gender, Political Psychology, and Psychology and the Law. She studies and comments on the psychology of political behavior, from perspective of voter and candidate. Her research interests include politics and the media and the psychology of gender. She is research coordinator for The Jeanne D. Smith Center for the Study of American Democracy and Citizenship at the college's New Hampshire Institute of Politics, which examines civic education and political life, public attitudes, political activities, and community dimensions.

Michael W. Smith, Ph.D., J.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology
603-656-6031 or 781-322-5555
msmith@anselm.edu

Smith received his B.S. in government from Suffolk University, his M.A. in political science, his Ph.D. in sociology from Northeastern University, and his J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law. He is an associate professor of sociology at Saint Anselm College, where he teaches Race & Ethnic Relations, Criminology, Law & Society, and the Sociology of Terrorism & Genocide. Smith's research interests include wrongful convictions, immigration issues pertaining to political asylum and mandatory deportations for criminal convictions, terrorism and genocide, and the relationship of race/ethnicity and criminal prosecution.