Nadine Barnett Cosby earned her bachelor’s degree in mass communications from The City University of New York, Lehman College; her master’s degrees in media studies from The New School for Public Engagement, and public relations from Iona University; and her doctoral degree in communication from Regent University. In addition, she has a certificate in executive leadership development from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Higher Education Management Development Program.
Cosby became dean of the School of Communications and professor in the department of film, television and media arts at Quinnipiac in June 2024.
She is a seasoned academic leader with a passion for fostering student success, faculty engagement and advancing the academic mission of higher education.
Cosby came to Quinnipiac from Iona University, where she was the associate vice provost for academic affairs and a faculty member in the media and strategic communication department. She taught courses in broadcasting and production, writing for television, TV aesthetics and criticism, race and gender in the media, digital activism, converged technology for public relations, and applied communications research. She also served as the faculty adviser for ICTV, the university’s television club.
Her research interests are in the areas of media, communication and culture, with a focus on digital activism and media representation of marginalized populations.
Before joining Iona in 2012, she worked as a writer, producer and director whose works are heavily rooted in the exploration of racial, cultural and gender representation, and span across various media including film, television and new media.
She has more than 20 years of industry experience, working in several capacities at notable media outlets including MSG, Fox 5, Lifetime Television Networks and Disney/ABC.
Dr. Lisa Coplit completed her medical school, residency and chief resident training in internal medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. She is an alumna of both the Harvard Macy Program for Physician Educators and the Stanford Faculty Development Program in Clinical Teaching Skills.
Before joining Quinnipiac, Coplit served as the director of the Institute for Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she started a teaching academy and accomplished her vision of establishing institution-wide professional-development programs and recognition systems for physician and scientist educators.
In 2011, Coplit joined Quinnipiac as the associate dean for assessment and faculty development at the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine. She developed the first program evaluation plans for the school and created a robust faculty development program for medical sciences and clinical educators and co-led the medical education concentration for students. In 2024, she was appointed inaugural senior associate dean for faculty affairs, leading the office that now serves as the central source of support for faculty appointments, onboarding, promotions, policies, and professional, leadership and career development. In 2024, she served concurrently as interim senior associate dean for education, advancing curricular initiatives and innovations and strengthening clinical partnerships.
Coplit is also a nationally recognized leader in medical education. She has held several regional and national leadership roles, including chair of the Academies Collaborative and chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Undergraduate Medical Education Steering Committee, and she was recruited to host a 19-part AAMC webinar series that supported 6,500+ curriculum leaders during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Her career has been dedicated to elevating the work of health-professions educators, expanding opportunities for their mentorship, professional growth, and career advancement, and through that work, continually improving the education of our learners. As interim dean, she is applying her experience with the goal of distinguishing Quinnipiac Netter as an exemplar of outstanding community-engaged, interprofessional, humanistic medical education.
Anne Dichele earned her bachelor's degree in elementary education from Northeastern University, her master of education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and her PhD from the University of Connecticut.
Dichele has worked as a public school reading clinician and instructional consultant, taught at the University of Bridgeport, Fairfield University and the University of New Haven, and served as director of academic development at Albertus Magnus College. She joined the Quinnipiac faculty in 1999 and was named director of the Master of Arts in Teaching program for elementary education in 2000. In 2013, Dichele was named full director of the MAT program, overseeing all aspects of the elementary and secondary education program. She was appointed interim dean of the School of Education in 2016 and then dean in 2017.
Dichele is the founder of Side By Side Charter School, one of Connecticut's first state-funded charter schools, where she serves as chairperson of the board of directors. Her scholarship has appeared in numerous journals and publications. Her first book of original poetry, “Ankle Deep and Drowning,” was published in 2015.
Brian Gallini earned his bachelor of arts degree from College of the Holy Cross, his master of laws degree from Temple University Beasley School of Law and his juris doctor from the University of Michigan Law School.
Gallini joined the Quinnipiac University School of Law as dean and professor of law in July 2024. Prior to Quinnipiac, Gallini served as dean and professor of law at Willamette University College of Law. During his four-year tenure as dean, he recruited the largest and most academically well-credentialed 1L class in more than a decade, secured the second largest gift in the Willamette University College of Law’s history, posted the highest 10-month gold standard employment numbers on the West Coast, and critically evaluated its approach to diversity, equity and inclusion. Through his service on Oregon’s Alternatives to Bar Exam Task Force, he appeared several times before the Oregon Supreme Court prior to the court’s historic vote in November 2023 to approve a new pathway to attorney licensure.
Gallini previously served in a variety of administrative roles while on the faculty at the University of Arkansas School of Law teaching courses in criminal law and procedure. Among his administrative leadership appointments, he served as director of distance learning initiatives, senior associate dean for faculty and associate dean for research and faculty development.
Gallini is a leading scholar in criminal law and has developed seminars, taught overseas, and is regularly interviewed by local, state, national and international media outlets to provide expert legal commentary. His scholarship focuses on law enforcement discretion issues in the context of interrogation methods, consent searches and profiling. He is also the two-time winner of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Call-for-Papers competition and, in 2017, was named the Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award Winner.
Gallini serves on ABA site-inspection teams, as an AccessLex liaison regarding student service initiatives, and remains active in a number of Association of American Law Schools and Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) committees.
Outside of academia, Gallini served for more than a decade as the head coach for two men’s college ice hockey teams, compiling more than 200 wins during separate tenures with the University of Pennsylvania and Arkansas. While coaching at Arkansas, he amassed five conference titles, three appearances at the Division III National Tournament and was voted the 2013-14 SECHC Coach of the Year.
Trenton Honda earned his PhD in population health from Northeastern University, a master’s degree in medical science from St. Francis University of Pennsylvania, and a physician assistant degree from Moreno Valley College. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in religious studies from California State University.
In addition to dean, Honda is also a professor of biomedical sciences and physician assistant studies.
He brings a distinguished career that blends academic leadership, clinical practice and interdisciplinary health education. His background and expertise are well-aligned with the School of Health Sciences’ expansive and evolving programs.
Honda was most recently the founding associate dean of the School of Clinical and Rehabilitation Sciences at Northeastern University’s Bouvé College of Health Sciences. Prior to that, he was an associate professor and division chief in the department of family and preventive medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine. There, he led a top-ranked physician assistant program, a primary care clinical enterprise and several international partnerships aimed at advancing global health initiatives.
An environmental epidemiologist and dedicated educator, Honda’s research focuses on the use of epidemiologic methods and data analytics to assess the health impacts of environmental pollutants and air toxicants. His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Center for Construction Research and Training and the Physician Assistant Education Association.
Honda is widely published and currently serves as editor-in-chief of the “Journal of Physician Assistant Education” and “Environmental Health Insights.” He has held multiple national and international leadership roles and is recognized for his innovation in program development, faculty and student mentorship and community engagement. While at Northeastern, he received the Bouvé College of Health Sciences’ “Distinguished Educator Award.”
He also has led a faculty practice and built strong partnerships with health systems to expand student learning opportunities and enhance community impact. A visionary leader, Honda is deeply committed to integrating research into educational settings, enriching the academic experience for students and faculty alike.
Taskin Kocak earned his PhD in electrical and computer engineering from Duke University.
Kocak previously served as dean of the Dr. Robert A. Savoie College of Engineering and a professor in computer and electrical engineering at the University of New Orleans. Prior to his time at the University of New Orleans, Taskin was a professor, department chair and dean of the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences at Bahcesehir University in Istanbul, Turkey. He has previously worked at Duke, the University of Bristol in England, and the University of Central Florida. Before entering higher education, he worked as a design engineer at Mitsubishi Electronic America’s Semiconductor Division in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina.
His broad research interests and expertise span the areas of machine learning, computer networks and high-performance computing. He has over 130 peer-reviewed publications, including 46 journal papers. He served as an associate editor for the Computer Journal published by Oxford University Press as well as the sole guest editor for a special issue of this journal. He also served as the lead guest editor for a special issue of the Association for Computing Machinery Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems.
Holly J. Raider became the dean of the Quinnipiac School of Business on July 1, 2021. Dean Raider is an expert in strategy, leadership change, business transitions and stakeholder engagement in high-stakes, turn-around situations.
At Quinnipiac, Dean Raider is leading the pathway to distinction in holistic business education that prepares learners for meaningful careers and lives in dynamic, interdependent global environments through excellence in teaching, research, and real-world experiential learning. Dean Raider is leading the School of Business in planning a state-of-the-art new building, launching new and innovative programs such as Fintech and Sport and Entertainment Management, leading the capital campaign for the school, expanding the faculty and developing strategic capabilities, including executive education, business alumni engagement and research centers. She serves on the executive committee of the partnership between Quinnipiac and Hartford HealthCare.
An award-winning educator, Dean Raider has spearheaded educational innovation and advanced the access, quality and impact of business education in a career spanning several distinguished business schools, including the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago and INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. Dean Raider has more than 25 years of experience as an educator and leader of collaborative global partnerships with corporations, government, healthcare systems, professional sports organizations and international universities.
Dean Raider is a member of the AACSB Business Practices Council.
Before joining Quinnipiac, Dean Raider was Clinical Professor of Management at the Kellogg School of Management, where she served as a managing director of executive education from 2014-21 and as associate dean of academic and faculty initiatives from 2016-18. She led the collaborative implementation of Kellogg’s first fully online, non-degree programs, spearheaded faculty development, created Kellogg’s Advanced Management Program and created SPARK, an innovative teaching incubator that brought together experts from wide-ranging fields. She oversaw both Kellogg's AACSB accreditation review and Kellogg's participation in Northwestern's 10-year program review.
Dean Raider earned her BA from Barnard College and her PhD in sociology from Columbia University. Her research includes the areas of career development, networks and knowledge transfer. Her current work focuses on preparing young professionals for the workplace of the future. Dean Raider’s article, "How to Strengthen Your Network When You are Just Starting Out," was recently featured in HBR’s special issue on the New Rules of Networking. Dean Raider was honored with a teaching award from Northwestern’s Business Institutions Program and with a Northwestern Wildcat Excellence Award.
Adam David Roth’s expertise spans rhetorical theory and criticism, persuasion and society, communication studies, and rhetoric of science. He has earned several prestigious honors, including the Douglas Ehninger Award for Teaching. His research on the central role of rhetoric in the evolution of Western medicine has been well received in the United States, Greece, Cyprus, Russia and China.
Throughout his career, Roth has developed and launched numerous interdisciplinary programs and collaborative strategic initiatives, beginning as director of the Communication Across the Curriculum program in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh from 2006-07. From 2007-21, he held a range of administrative positions at the University of Rhode Island, including communication course director for the general education program from 2007-14, interim director and director of the Harrington School of Communication and Media from 2014-20, and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 2017-20. Roth was named Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Quinnipiac in 2021.
Roth graduated from the University of Pittsburgh’s business dual-major program with a bachelor’s degree in communication and rhetoric, and business administration. He pursued his graduate studies at the University of Iowa, where he earned his master’s degree and PhD in communication studies and rhetoric, and a graduate certificate in interdisciplinary inquiry. He also completed the management development program at Harvard University’s Institutes for Higher Education.
Larry Slater earned his bachelor’s degree and PhD in nursing from the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing, where he completed his post-doctoral training examining social support, health and quality of life in older adults living with HIV/AIDS. He also earned a master’s degree from the Collat School of Business at Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing.
He has extensive expertise in the design and implementation of active, learner-driven strategies in nursing education; curriculum development, improvement and assessment with a focus on technology-enhanced education; program outcomes assessment and accreditation; and faculty/staff governance in academia.
Prior to Quinnipiac, Slater served as associate dean for academic programs and a clinical professor at the University of Memphis Loewenberg College of Nursing. He also served as interim dean from 2021-22.
Slater is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and the New York Academy of Medicine. He is a certified nurse educator through the National League for Nursing and a board-certified registered gerontological nurse through the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
