Professor Joseph M. Adelman
I'm a historian of media, communication, and politics in the Atlantic world. In 2019 I published my first book, entitled Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763-1789 with Johns Hopkins University Press. The book was awarded an Honorable Mention for the 2019 St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize from the Bibliographical Society of America. He is now at work on a history of the Post Office in America. I was previously a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society, a postdoctoral fellow in the Program in Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company of Philadelphia, and served as a Lecturer in the History Department at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. In addition, I've worked as Communications Director to a member of the New York State Assembly and as a consultant for the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities. I have held fellowships and grants from the American Antiquarian Society, the American Philosophical Society, the Gilder-Lehrman Institute for American History, and the Library Company of Philadelphia, among others. I have presented and published broadly, including in the journals Enterprise & Society and Early American Studies, TheAtlantic.com, the Washington Post, and as a blogger at the Junto. I'm an elected Member of the American Antiquarian Society and the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. In addition to my work at FSU, I currently serve as an Associate Editor with The New England Quarterly, and formerly worked with the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture on its digital initiatives, the Ben Franklin’s World podcast, and the Across America, 1776 project.
Paul Galvin, Ph.D.
Paul M Galvin is an ordained Priest and Transmitted Teacher in the Boundless Way Zen Temple School of Zen Buddhism. He retired from Framingham State in 2025 after 25 years of teacher as a Health and Positive Psychologist with a focus on stress, stress reduction, and mindfulness-based stress reduction. Paul is also the former Assistant Director of the Stress Reduction Clinic at The Center for Mindfulness at UMass Medical School.
Helen Heineman, Ph.D.
Dr. Helen Heineman, President Emerita of Framingham State University, has had an extensive career in higher education, including 43 years in teaching and senior level administrative positions. She holds a bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from Queens College, a master’s degree from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University. She received an Andrew Dickson White Fellowship to Cornell, two Woodrow Wilson Fellowships, was a Radcliffe Fellow, and an American Association of University Women (AAUW) Fellow. Dr. Heineman was chair of the English Department at Framingham State University, and was then appointed Academic Vice President. In 1999, Dr. Heineman became President of Framingham State University, where she served until retiring in 2006. She has published four books and numerous articles in the field of Victorian literature. Dr. Heineman now spends her retirement years traveling, writing, and teaching in Lifelong Learning programming including Adventures in Lifelong Learning and the Lifelong Learning Lecture Series.
Dr. Heineman’s novel, Emma Redux, a continuation of Jane Austen’s Emma, was accepted for publication by TouchPoint Press, and was published in 2023. Dr. Heineman has also published poetry based on her life experiences.
Yumi Park Huntington, Ph.D.
Yumi Park Huntington is an interdisciplinary art historian of ancient America. She specializes in South America, investigating ceramic objects, architectural structures, and other kinds of archaeological evidence from the past four thousand years. Her research emphasizes questions of cultural identity, intercultural transmission, and relationships between human construction and natural landscape. Regularly conducting field research, Park Huntington frequently collaborates with archaeologists, anthropologists, and materials scientists working across the northern coast of Peru. Currently, she is researching transnational connections of ceramic techniques and motifs, especially blue pigment decorations, between Asia and America during the viceroyalty era. She has a Ph.D. from Virginia Commonwealth University, a MA from City College of New York, a BA from Long Island University, and a BFA from Dong-A University, South Korea.
David Smailes, Ph.D.
Former Associate Professor, Political Science, Law & Global Studies
Dr. Smailes began his teaching career as an Assistant Professor at Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts in 1992; he was awarded a promotion and tenure to Associate Professor there in 1996 and served as department chair until 2006. From 2006 until 2017 he began as an Assistant Professor at Westfield State University, was awarded promotion to Associate Professor and tenure there in 2010, and served as department chair for several terms. At Westfield State, Dr. Smailes also served as the Director of the Master of Public Administration (MPA) program, and was named one of several Outstanding Teaching Award recipients each year between 2007 and 2010. He left Westfield State to begin teaching as an Associate Professor with tenure at Framingham State in 2017, where he has also served as Master of Public Administration program director from 2019-2021 and the director of the Civic Engagement Center on campus from 2021-2024. Dr. Smailes received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and his B.A. from the College of Wooster in Ohio. His research interests include American political history, public administration, the presidency and American political thought. He recently retired from teaching full-time, but continues to work as an adjunct instructor.