Marianne Miserandino is the 2010 winner of the Robert S. Daniel Teaching Excellence Award, Four-Year Colleges and Universities, from the Society For The Teaching of Psychology (Division 2 of the American Psychological Association). She was also the 2009 Arcadia University Professor of the Year And The 2000 recipient of the Lindback Award for teaching excellence. She currently maintains the Personality Pedagogy web site for teachers of personality psychology (http://personalitypedagogy .arcadia .edu ) for which she received a grant from the Association for Psychological Science (APS) Fund for Teaching and Public Understanding of Psychological Science.Her commitment to teaching is evidenced… by her work as News Editor, reviewer, and frequent contributor To The APA journal Teaching of Psychology. She has conducted a 4-week study abroad program in Vienna, Austria For The Arcadia University College of Global Studies on the psychology of Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, and Viktor Frankl.Dr. Miserandino received her B.A. in psychology from the University of Rochester and a Ph.D. in Social-Personality Psychology from Cornell University. Dr. Miserandino came to Arcadia University after a postdoctoral fellowship in Human Motivation at the University of Rochester and full-time teaching.She is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Society For The Teaching of Psychology, Sigma XI - the Scientific Research Society, And The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, and has served on the American Psychological Association Division Two Task Force for Minority Issues.2010 winner of the Robert S. Daniel Teaching Excellence Award from the American Psychological Association's Society For The Teaching of Psychology. This is a national, professional award that the APA gives for teaching, mentoring, and scholarship related To The teaching of psychology. http://teachpsych.org/members/awards/index.php
Stephen Porter, until his recent retirement, worked for over seventeen years for the Survey of London, a century-old project devoted to the history of London's built environment. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, has held research posts at the University of Oxford and lectured on London's history at the Museum of London. His other books include THE LONDON CHARTERHOUSE ('A model history' GILLIAN TINDALL, author of THE HOUSE BY THE THAMES & THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED THERE); THE GREAT PLAGUE ('An excellent introduction for the general reader' THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH), THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON and THE PLAGUES OF LONDON ('Breathes new life into the story of the plague in London' STEPHEN… INWOOD, author of A HISTORY OF LONDON. After 25 years living in the capital he now lives in Stratford-Upon-Avon.