School of Public Health

Education

• Ph.D. at Indiana University, 1998
• M.L.S at University of Maryland, 1986
• B.A. at Western Michigan University, 1979

Background

American Library Association Intellectual Freedom Round Table

Archivist of Navy Laboratories

Henry Ford Museum

Historian of the International Tuba-Euphonium Association

Oral Historian

U.S. Marine Corps Museum

Walden University Library

Research

Librarianship; American cultural history; intellectual freedom; information literacy; bibliometrics; substance abuse prevention; oral history; gambling prevention, archival science.

Publications

Torabi, M.R., Jun, M.K., Nowicke, C., Seitz, B., and Gassman, R. "Tobacco, the Common Enemy and A Gateway Drug: Policy Implications. " American Journal of Health Education. 2009. (In press).

Torabi, M.R., Jun, M., Nowicke, C., Seitz, B., & Gassman, R., "Tobacco: Public Enemy Number One." Proceedings of the 1st Caribbean Congress of the International Council of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport, and Dance. Trinidad, May 27 - June 1, 2009 (In press).

"Third Hand Smoke?" April 14, 2009. Indiana Prevention Resource Center website. http://www.drugs.indiana.edu/news-featured_detail.aspx?seq=25

"IPRC Provides Assistance to Elkhart County's Prevention Efforts." Indiana Prevention Resource Center website. March 18, 2009. http://www.drugs.indiana.edu/news-featured_detail.aspx?seq=24

"Pryor Knowledge: Arthur Pryor and his era in American Popular Culture." International Trombone Festival, May, 2008, Salt Lake City, Utah.

"William J. Bell: The Cornfield, the Chautauqua Circuit, and Carnegie Hall." March 17, 2007. Hawkeye Regional Tuba-Euphonium Conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.

"It's Totally Natural! Plants with Psychoactive Properties." July 25, 2006. Many Voices, One Vision Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana.

"Walter F. Smith: The Star of the Band." October, 2004, International Trumpet Guild Journal.