Dr. Del Guidice received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He began his career at Potsdam in 1968 when he was hired to teach courses in American Politics.

Over the years his interests have focused on areas related to the law. He teaches Constitutional Law in which students are required to write case briefs and present oral defense of positions they have taken. He has also been very interested in the relationship between law and biomedical issues, e.g., if it is known that an individual carries a genetic trait that can lead to the development of a serious illness in middle age, should that information be available to an employer?

Dr. Del Guidice also serves as one of the two pre-law advisors in the Department. The department is justifiably proud of their record of getting students into law school and, more importantly, the quality of work they do once they get there.

Dr. Massaro received his undergraduate education at Assumption College; a Master's degree, in History, from Niagara University; and a Ph.D. in Government, in 1973, from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

He is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Politics.

Political scholars, a group broadly defined to include Dr. Massaro, search for patterns in human behavior shaped by relationships involving power. Early study of politics led him to explore aspects of these power relationships in the traditional setting of the United States political-legal system.

Dr. Massaro has taught and is presently teaching the following traditional courses: Introduction to United States Politics, Civil Liberties: Freedom of Expression and Religion, Politics and the Judicial Process, and Crime and Justice. More recently, he has been drawn to searching for the seemingly ubiquitous patterns of power in less traditional areas. This search has led him to explore the links between long-distance running and Fascism, the political themes in the music of Bruce Springsteen, and the power relationships in "Basketball World" and sports, in general. He is presently teaching both "The Politics of Basketball," and "Walk Tall: Beauty, Meaning and Politics in the Lyrics of Bruce Springsteen."

He has published articles and reviews on judicial politics and sports in Presidential Studies Quarterly, Political Science Quarterly, Federal Bar Journal, Judicature, The Executive Educator, Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine, The Journal of American Culture and other journals. He is also the author of Supremely Political: The Role of Ideology and Presidential Management in Unsuccessful Supreme Court Nominations (New York: State University of New York Press, 1990).

While he has retired from full-time teaching at the end of the 2005-06 academic year, he anticipates teaching Springsteen and Basketball courses for the next several years or until someone literally or literarily pulls the plug.

His dubious claim as an objective or at least, "less subjective" observer of politics still continues to rest on his having received a personal note from William F. Buckley, Jr. and a Christmas card from Gus Hall --- in the same year.

Quite recently, he began his stage career playing the role of "Fizz" in the April, 2005 world premium of Alan L. Steinberg's new play, Yosemite, directed by Kimberley Bouchard at SUNY Potsdam.

Dr. Massaro has been proudly married to Kim Hessman Massaro since 1966. They have three children, John-Paul, Summer, and Aries and three grandsons and look forward to a future granddaughter.

Courses taught:

ANTH 202 Cultural Anthropology

ANTH 391 Theory & Method

ANTH 325 Human & Cultural Ecology

ANTH 445 Ethnographic Field Methods

ENVR 110 Introduction to Environmental Studies

Research interests: Environmental anthropology, Canada, Southeast Asia, disaster research, applied anthropology, Adirondacks

Selected Publications and Activities:

2006 Thinking Like an Anthropologist: A Practical Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. 1st edition. : NY: McGraw-Hill.

2002 Careers in Anthropology. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield. 2nd edition.

1994 Rough Food: Seasons of Subsistence in Northern Newfoundland, St. John's: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland

1981 Chinese Merchant Families of Iloilo: Kin and Commerce in a Central Philippine City. Ohio University Press and Ateneo de Manila University Press.

1980 Oil Spills: A Coastal Residents Handbook. Information Bulletin, no 164, NY Sea Grant Institute. Ithaca: College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

Director of the Center for New Music Resources at Crane. He holds degrees from New Mexico State University, Southern Methodist University, and the University of Oklahoma. His teachers include: Warner Hutchison, Alvin Epstein, Thom Mason and Michael Hennagin.

Dr.Steinberg is a composer who is the recipient of many awards for his compositions. A woodwind doubler by training, Dr. Steinberg has written extensively for instruments in various combinations in the woodwind family. His interests include the combination of acoustical and electronic media and he has written for and performed many works with the New and Unusual Music Artists, a group that he helped establish in 1982.

At the present he and a colleague, Dr. Alan Woy, have formed a duo named "Symbiotta" which is traveling the collegiate circuit performing lecture recitals on Paul's clarinet music. Paul and Alan recently released a CD also titled "Symbiotta".