Meet the Staff
Director
Carole J. Lambert, Ph.D.
Phone: (626) 815-2085
Fax: (626) 815-2087
Email: clambert@apu.edu
In addition to being the Director of Research, Carole Lambert, Ph.D., is professor of English at Azusa Pacific University. She received a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct research in Brussels, Belgium, as well as four National Endowment for the Humanities grants. She is the author of The Empty Cross: Medieval Hopes, Modern Futility in the Theater of Maurice Maeterlinck, Paul Claudel, August Strindberg, and Georg Kaiser (Garland, 1990) and co-editor with William D. Brewer of Essays on the Modern Identity (Peter Lang, 2000). Lambert recently published Is God Man’s Friend? Theodicy and Friendship in Elie Wiesel’s Novels (Peter Lang, 2006).
Personnel
Beverly Hardcastle Stanford, Ph.D.
Email: bstanford@apu.edu
Beverly Hardcastle Stanford, Ph.D., co-authored six editions (1990-2004) of Becoming A Teacher, an Allyn and Bacon textbook used on 78 campuses in the U.S., Australia, and Canada. Children and Stress: Understanding and Helping, the book she co-edited with Kaoru Yamomoto, was published by the Association for Childhood Education International in 2001. Her other publications include research articles in Teacher Education Quarterly, Theory Into Practice, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, and The Review of Philosophy and Social Science, chapters in several books concerned with children in time and space, children and death, and gender equity in classrooms, and 2003 and 2004 book reviews in Teachers College Record. Her current qualitative research studies include “Thriving Elder Women’s Reflections on Thriving” and “Urban Teachers with High Morale and Career Perseverance.”
A current doctoral professor at Azusa Pacific University, Stanford has also taught at Southwest Texas State University, Arizona State University, and Johns Hopkins University. She received the 2004 Teaching Excellence Award at APU and directed the Center for Research on Ethics and Values from 1998 to January 2004, when she was appointed Director of Research Support for the University.
Stanford teaches two courses in the Doctoral in Educational Leadership Program – Qualitative Research and Writing for Publication in Education – and chairs and participates on dissertation committees.
Lydia Tracy, assistant to the director of research
Email: ltracy@apu.edu
