Changing Faces: Faculty & Staff
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Karin Stigsdotter Åkerfeldt joins the Haverford faculty as an associate professor of chemistry. Karin received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989 and then worked with DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Co. as a postdoctoral fellow. Her research interests center on biochemistry with an emphasis on protein structure-function relationship studies. She is the recipient of many awards, including the American Chemical Society Student Affiliates Chemistry Club Award in 1995, the DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Co. Award for the organization of a Postdoctoral Symposium in 1993, and The Bruce H. Mahan Memorial Teaching Award in 1985.
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Bill Astifan comes to Haverford as arboretum manager. Bill graduated from the State University of New York at Syracuse with a B.S. in environmental studies and landscape architecture. Among his extensive professional experience, he has worked as a self-employed landscape contractor and held positions as the director of facilities management at the Medical Center of Delaware, the superintendent of parks for Wilmington, DE, and the assistant superintendent of parks for Albuquerque, NM.
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Jennifer Barr comes to the Bi-College community as a recruiting coordinator in the Career Development Office. She serves as a liaison between students and employers in planning career development recruiting activities and facilitates arrangements for résumé collection, information sessions and both on- and off-campus interviewing. Jennifer attended Shippensburg University as an undergraduate and received her master's in education from Temple University. Previously she worked at The University of the Arts as the director of student activities.
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Kathleen DiJoseph has been named facilities coordinator, a new position at the college. As Haverford's in-house architect, she is responsible for the design of small projects on campus and for assisting the physical plant staff with the coordination of the larger scale projects such as the new physical plant building and the new integrated natural science facility. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Architecture. Most recently, she served on the design staff at Cope Linder Associates, working on such projects as the new Caesar's hotel in Atlantic City.
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Craig Dorfman '97 joins Haverford's Office of Admission as an admissions counselor. Craig majored in English at Haverford, with a concentration in Africana studies, and served as a tour guide, a Customs Person and Customs Committee member while at Haverford. After graduation, he worked as an advertising account executive at Philadelphia Weekly before returning to Haverford. Craig will also coordinate the Haverford student hosts and tour guides.
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Adrienne Harrison '98 joins the Office of Admission as an admissions counselor. Adrienne majored in sociology at Haverford, and was active in the Minorities as Student Teachers Program and served as an Aronson Foundation intern working in inner-city health care. Adrienne will focus on the recruitment of students of color.
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Todd Larson is the new publications associate. He received his B.A. in English and economics from Allegheny College, and recently completed the requirements for an M.A. in English at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to Haverford, Todd worked as a marketing and research consultant for Omega Group Inc. of Bryn Mawr.
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Robert Manning comes to Haverford as an assistant professor of mathematics. He received his B.S. from Yale and his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1994 and subsequently worked as an NSF postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Maryland at College Park and at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. His research focuses on the development of a continuum model for DNA.
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Sheila Santella has been named assistant director of admission. Sheila received her master's of education in educational leadership, with an emphasis in higher education administration, from the College of William and Mary, where she also received her B.A. in philosophy. At Haverford, she will direct and devise admission programming for students of color, work she also did while at William and Mary.
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Suava Zbierski-Salameh joins the Haverford faculty as an assistant professor of sociology. Suava received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, with a dissertation entitled "Bitter Harvest: Antecedents and Consequences of Property Reform in Postsocialist Poland, 1989-1993." In 1990 she was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award from the Department of Sociology at Berkeley. She has conducted extensive research in Poland and the United States.
