West Haven, Conn., April 13, 2007 - Dr. Mario Gaboury, professor of criminal justice at the University of New Haven (UNH), has been selected as the first Oskar Schindler Humanities Foundation Endowed Professor. The Oskar Schindler Humanities Endowed Professorship at UNH was established through a major gift in honor of the inauguration of Dr. Steven H Kaplan, the sixth president of the University of New Haven.
Gaboury's research interests are focused on victimology and improving offender behavior through education and sympathy building. During the three year professorship, Gaboury intends to extend his international work combating human trafficking, abuse of power, and human rights violations. He will oversee independent study projects with both undergraduate and graduate students participating in his research efforts.
Gaboury, who joined the faculty at UNH in 1996, currently serves as department chair of the Department of Criminal Justice and directs the University's Crime Victim Study Center. Gaboury earned a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University, a Master of Arts from the University of Maryland, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Connecticut.
A leader in experiential learning, the University of New Haven provides its students with a unique combination of solid liberal arts and real world, hands-on professional training. A private University founded in 1920, UNH has a full-time undergraduate enrollment of more than 2,000 students-with 80 percent residing on its 80-acre main campus-and a Graduate School enrollment that exceeds 1,700. The University offers more than 80 undergraduate degrees and more than 25 graduate degrees through its four colleges, in innovative fields such as sports management, nutrition and dietetics, forensic science, music and sound recording, engineering, computer science, fire science, and criminal justice. UNH students study abroad through a variety of distinctive programs.
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