Findlay, Ohio, Sept. 3, 2004 – Diane Kontar and Philip W. Lucas have been named to the faculty in the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Findlay.

Kontar will serve as an assistant professor of art history at UF.

Kontar earned a doctoral degree in art education from Florida State University in 2000. She also completed the doctoral coursework in art history at FSU. She acquired master’s degrees in library science in 1981 from Indiana University and in classical art and archaeology in 1979 from the University of Michigan. Kontar holds bachelor’s degrees in art history and Greek from the University of Minnesota.

She has been an assistant professor of art at the University of North Alabama since 2000. She also has served as an adjunct professor at FSU, William Carey College, and the University of Southern Mississippi. She was the slide librarian for USM’s art department from 1989-94, and she was the museum librarian for the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art in Laurel, Miss., from 1985-87. She was the reference librarian for IU’s Fine Arts Library from 1980-81.

She has been published in “FOCUS on the Humanities” and “Dimensions of Native America: The Contact Zone.”

Kontar is a member of the Association of Historians of American Art, College Art Association, National Art Education Association and Southeastern College Art Conference.

UF has appointed Lucas as a lecturer in criminal justice.

Lucas holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from UF. He is pursuing a master’s degree in business administration with a public administration emphasis from UF. He is a 1999 graduate of the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Va. He is a certified peace officer and fraud examiner. Lucas retired in 2004 from the Northwest Ohio District Office of the Ohio Attorney General’s Office in Bowling Green. He had been a supervisory special agent there since 1998. He also served as a task force agent for the FBI’s Northwest Ohio Joint Terrorism Task Force since 2001. From 1994-98 he was a special agent for the Ohio’s attorney general’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s crime scene/forensic unit. He was a detective for the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office investigating sexual and physical child abuse, sex crimes, drugs, theft and fraud from 1986-1994. He also worked for the Wyandot County Sheriff’s Department as a deputy sheriff from 1978-1986.

He served on the United States Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice investigative software evaluation committee, Owens Community College’s law enforcement advisory committee, the Ohio Board of Regents’ law enforcement tech/prep curriculum review committee and Ohio’s legislative review committee on DNA technology.

Lucas has been published in the “Ohio Peace Officer Basic Training Curriculum.”

The University of Findlay is a comprehensive university located in Findlay, Ohio, about 45 miles south of Toledo. With a total enrollment of 4,500 full-time and part-time students, The University of Findlay is noted for its innovative, career-oriented programs in more than 60 majors and eight master’s degrees. For more information, visit www.findlay.edu.