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Ph.D. in Mathematics Education, Ohio University, OH

M.S. in Mathematics Education, Syracuse University, NY

1. Ed. in Mathematics Education, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
2. Ed. in Mathematics Education, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Dr. Aryal was born and raised in Nepal, the land of Mount Everest. He earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Nepal before pursuing an M.S. at Syracuse University and completing his Ph.D. at Ohio University. His experiences with high school students' demotivation in learning mathematics sparked his interest in researching math anxiety. This led him to explore the impact of inquiry-based learning on Calculus students' math anxiety for his dissertation.

Committed to fostering an inclusive and engaging learning environment, Dr. Aryal emphasizes experiential learning in his FRST mathematics courses. He encourages student collaboration through small groups, promoting their reasoning, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills. He actively seeks students' input, ensuring they feel comfortable sharing ideas without fear of being incorrect. His dedication extends beyond the classroom, supporting first-year students in transitioning to higher-level mathematics courses and future career paths.

Ed.D., Rutgers, The State University

Frank A. Cerreto has been a member of the faculty of General Studies at ������Ƶ since 1976. His doctorate, completed at Rutgers University, is in mathematics education. His research interests include problem representation in mathematics education, connections between mathematics and other disciplines, and technology and mathematics education.

For most of his career at ������Ƶ, he has coordinated and taught in the University's Basic Studies and First-Year Studies programs, while designing and teaching mathematics courses for liberal arts students and for prospective teachers.  He has been instrumental in developing and implementing the University’s Quantitative-Reasoning-Across-the-Disciplines (QUAD) program.

Ph.D., Florida State University, English - Rhetoric & Composition
M.A. Florida State University, English - Rhetoric & Composition
B.A. Kutztown University, English
B.S. Kutztown University, Psychology

Joe received his Ph.D., in English, Rhetoric and Composition, from Florida State University in August 2018. His research interests focus on the knowledge we can gain from the study of everday writing, the ubiquitous, often mundane writing that mediates life. Joe often brings these research interests to his teaching including in College Writing and The Rhetoric of Memory which invites students to collect, document, and archive their everyday writing to help us to reconsider our understanding of writing, ourselves, and our communties.

In addition to teaching FRST Writing courses, he also teaches General Studies courses like Rhetorics of Difference and Queer Rhetoric that explore the power of language in shaping and defining the realities of marganizlied peoples. 

Joe grew up in Collegeville, PA, loves soft pretzels, has a cat named Turd Ferguson, and is probably binge-watching Star Trek again.

M.F.A., NYU.

Like the quick brown fox, Emari DiGiorgio jumps over the lazy dog. Native to the South Jersey area, she subsists on a diet of fruits, berries, seaweed salad, yoga, poetry, and long walks through the woods. She completed her MFA in Poetry from New York University in May 2003 and was both a Goldwater and Starworks Fellow while a graduate student. She has taught poetry and creative writing to disabled adults at Goldwater Hospital and to children at Weill-Cornell University Medical Center. Besides stalking the Writing Center, Emari teaches Rhetoric and Composition, College Writing, Creative Writing, and Why Poetry Matters. Outside of ������Ƶ, Emari is also a visiting poet-in-the-schools through the New Jersey State Council for the Arts.

MA, Mercy University; MS, ������Ƶ

I joined the Tutoring Center staff in August 2015. I help students develop individual success plans with a focus on time management and study habits, but I also tutor students in writing, critical thinking, and lower-level mathematics. I received my BA in Literature from ������Ƶ (’04), my MA in English Literature at Mercy University (’11), and my MS in Data Science and Strategic Analytics at ������Ƶ (’24). (Yes, it is possible to be able to write and do math.) I also teach for the Disability Studies minor.

M.A. New York University

Marcia Fiedler, Coordinator of Jewish Studies and instructor of Jewish Studies, earned an MA in Jewish Education from New York University and a BA in both Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education from the University of Pittsburgh. Marcia has been involved in Jewish Education for over 20 years. Her teaching experiences range from Early Childhood Education through Adult Education. Marcia has held a variety of positions in the field of education: teacher (grades N-12, and adult education), Religious School Administrator, Instructor of Jewish Studies and Coordinator of Jewish Studies at ������Ƶ. Marcia believes that anyone can learn and be successful if taught in the proper fashion. It is important not to just teach the material, but to teach the student. The teacher needs to teach students and incorporate all the different modes of learning.

Marcia teaches a variety of Jewish studies classes including Hebrew I, II, and II, Women in the Bible, Bible as Literature, and Old Testament and Film. Marcia is very involved in the Holocaust Resource Center (located on the second floor of the Library). She can often be found working on a variety of projects and programs in the center. If Marcia is not in her office, she can most likely be found in the resource center.

Geoffrey W. Gust holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of York (England), and received an M.A. in English (and a Certificate in Medieval Studies) from Arizona State University and a B.A. in English (with a concentration in Secondary Education) from Drake University. He has over 20 years of college-level teaching experience, and at ������Ƶ he generally leads courses on Critical Thinking and various topics related to premodern Europe. Among his many leadership roles on campus, Dr. Gust has served on Faculty Senate and as the Coordinator of Writing Across the Curriculum and also the First-Year Seminar Program.  His research is primarily focused on the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer, late medieval England, and applications of literary theory to the Middle Ages, and his list of publications includes two notable books published by Palgrave Macmillan Press (the most recent being Chaucerotics: Uncloaking the Language of Sex in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde).

Ph.D. in English - Lehigh University

M.A. in English - Lehigh University

B.A. In English - Saint Joseph's University

I'm an Assistant Professor of Writing and First-Year Studies, primarily teaching College Writing . I also teach The Spiritual Quest, Critical Thinking and Reading, Queer Rhetoric, and Creepy Compositions. In the classroom, I encourage students to use writing, rhetoric, and critical thinking to examine their place in the world in a spirit of critical hope. My research focuses on the rhetorical practices of queer religious people, and I'm getting back to my creative writing roots in the horror and fantasy world. 

When I'm not working, you can find me marathoning Dragula, RuPaul's Drag Race, or Survivor; playing DnD; listening to podcasts; reading superhero comics; and/or competing in Stonewall Sports League in Philly. 

M.A. American Studies, ������Ƶ

Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
M.A., San Francisco State University
B.F.A., Rutgers University

 Dr. Hultquist's teaching focus is 

 Dr. Hultquist's teaching focus is in Critical Thinking, and a variety of General Studies courses, including Poetry & Mathematics and The Passions. Her scholarly work focuses on the literature and culture of the long eighteenth-century in Britain, especially women writers and the passions. Her current projects include her manuscript The Amatory Mode: Amatory Fiction's Passionate Legacy and editing vol. 6 (Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister) of the upcoming collected works of Aphra Behn by Cambridge University Press, for which she runs and independent study. She is the President of the Aphra Behn Society:

I received my Ph.D. from the University of Rhode Island.  In a zombie apocalypse, I'd go straight for the Fruity Pebbles.  My favorite superhero is the Hulk, and my favorite philosopher is this guy called Foucault.

I came to writing by way of making and reading zines and comics, hanging around writing centers and tattoo parlors, learning from and with critical pedagogues and anarchist punks. I stayed because rhetoric matters.

As a writing researcher, I ask questions about how writing and rhetoric work on and for individuals, discourse communities, and social institutions.  As a writing teacher, I ask questions about audience, purpose, and exigency.

I am passionate about helping students adjust to and thrive at the university and as professionals and citizens. I publish and teach related to programs, assessment, women and gender studies, writing, editing, activism, and environmental rhetoric. These interests led me from the high mountain desert of rural Idaho to a double major in biology and English for my BA from The College of Idaho, a small liberal arts school. I followed that with an MA in English at Clemson University and a PhD in Technical Communication and Rhetoric at Texas Tech University.

Ph.D., The American University

In 1997, I received my PhD in Mathematics Education from American University in Washington, D.C.  Currently, I am an Assistant Professor of Mathematics and I teach a variety of courses including Developmental Math, Quantitative Reasoning, Algebraic Problem Solving, Sports and Math, Foundations of Math, and Math for Elementary School Teachers. 

I have a wide range of interests in the field of mathematics especially the integration of mathematics across other disciplines.  I have presented several papers/workshops on integrating sports, games, the Harry Potter books, politics, and business into the math classroom.  I also have done a variety of pedagogical/curriculum work with local school districts and K-12 teachers.

My main interests other than teaching include my family (my husband and 3 kids), animals including my two dogs (Max and Clifford), sports/exercising (I was an assistant coach of the ������Ƶ women's basketball team for several years), the outdoors, movies, and music.

My love for learning and teaching is what inspired me to pursue the field of education. My philosophy of lifelong learning for the sake of learning sets and example for my students to explore the unknown. Students are not simply a group of people who sit in my class for a semester but individuals, with his and her own talents, skills and goals.

I take pride in learning from my students as much as helping them acquire new skills and renewed self esteem. My accolades include numerous awards and scholarships, such as Avi Chai Foundation Awards, Chai Award for dedication to education, National curriculum awards, as well as scholarships for education, seminars, and workshops. As a chaplain for Hospice, consultant for a nursing home and educational organizations, I am able to utilize my research on "Caring" to connect with my ������Ƶ students on a variety of levels and assist them in looking at their experiences through different lenses.

Biography:
Doctorate in Education and Ed.S. (Educational Specialist) from Seton Hall University
B.S. and M.A. in Judaic/Hebrew Studies from H.U.C., Los Angeles
Certification from Machon Greenberg Teachers Institute in Jerusalem
Rabbinic Ordination, Yeshiva education
NJ and NY State Certification as a Principal, and teacher certification
Taught adult education and University students at Fairleigh Dickinson University & ������Ƶ
Exceptional IDEA - student evaluations at ������Ƶ
Garnished several awards in Jewish education
Involved in community organizations dealing with education
Taught Elementary, Junior High, and High School students
Experienced leading education workshops
Positive relationships with faculty, staff, parents, students, and the community
Served on Board for Teacher Credential Review, and supervised teacher for NJ certification and licensing
Principal for three decades in private/parochial schools.

Ph.D., Syracuse University

Francis was born in the eastern part of Kenya (many years ago!) and earned his BS in Mathematics at the University of Nairobi before getting his MS in Mathematics at the same institution. In fall of 2002 Francis joined Syracuse University in New York as a teaching assistant as well as a doctoral student in mathematics education. In August 2008 he completed his Ph.D. program and in the same year he was hired as an assistant professor of developmental mathematics at ������Ƶ.

His research interests revolve around issues of equity in mathematics education with a focus on students' construction of mathematics identities and use of technology in the mathematics classroom.

Ph.D., University of Miami

John F. O’Hara joined the faculty of General Studies in the FRST program at ������Ƶ University in 2013 after teaching for ten years at the University of Miami, FL, and Temple University. He earned his Ph.D. in English in 2003 from the University of Miami with a focus on twentieth-century American literature, war literature and arts, and critical and interpretive theory. His primary academic interests include the Vietnam War, American countercultures, postmodernism, gender studies, and writing/teaching pedagogies. Some of his favorite things besides thinking, reading and writing are baseball, antique American music, films old and new, and – of course – students!

M.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Since 2004 I have been the Math Center Coordinator here at ������Ƶ. I have a staff of very talented student tutors that help students in a wide range of topics including math, the physical sciences, statistics, and computer science. I also teach introductory level college mathematics and a course about humanity's role in space. All of this combines into a very interesting and rewarding job in particular when I am able to help build a student's confidence and see that light smile that comes with enlightenment.

My background is a bit diverse academically and culturally. I was born in Ecuador where I spent most of my childhood. A ������Ƶ alumnus, I graduated with a B.S. in Mathematics in 1995. I then went on to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where I received an M.S. in Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering.

Director, Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (MAHG)
Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Endowed Professor in the Study of Modern Genocide

Ph.D., Clark University

M.A., Tel Aviv University

B.A., Bar-Ilan University 

Dr. Raz Segal is Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Endowed Professor in the Study of Modern Genocide at ������Ƶ, where he also serves as director of the Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (MAHG). He is also founder and co-coordinator of the Refugee Studies Initiative at ������Ƶ. He held a Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and he was a Senior Fellow at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (2023) and a recipient of the Baron Velge Award for his work on the history of World War II (2024). His publications include Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914-1945 (Stanford University Press, 2016), and he is at work on a book on the distortion, weaponization, and mobilization of Holocaust history in the reproduction of white supremacy and state violence, including a focus on Israel’s assault on Palestinians from the 1948 Nakba to the current genocidal assault on Gaza. In addition to scholarly publications, he has published op-eds, book reviews, and larger articles on genocide, state violence, and memory politics in Hebrew, English, and German in The Guardian, LA Times, The Nation, Jewish Currents, +972 Magazine, Time Magazine, Forward,Jacobin, and Berliner Zeitung, and he has appeared on Counter Points, MSNBC, Al Jazeera English, Democracy Now! and ABC News.   

Areas of Expertise: Holocaust and Genocide Studies; modern European history (with a focus on central and southeast Europe); Jewish history

Key publications:

• (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016; paperback 2020), forthcoming Ukrainian translation in 2026 with Academic Studies Press. 
• Days of Ruin: The Jews of Munkács during the Holocaust (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem Publications, 2013; Hebrew, 2011) 
• Guest Editor of a special issue on Genocide: Mass Violence and Cultural Erasure of Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly, vol. 138 (June 2018) (Hebrew), including the introductory essay: “Genocide: Mass Violence in the Modern World”
• “Settler Antisemitism, Israeli Mass Violence, and the Crisis of Holocaust and Genocide Studies,” Journal of Palestine Studies, vol. 53 (2) (2024), 50-73
• “State Violence during World War II,” in Ben Kiernan, Wendy Lower, Norman Naimark, Scott Straus (eds.), The Cambridge World History of Genocide, Volume III: Genocide in the Contemporary Era, 1914-2020 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023), 308-334
• “Antisemitism as a Question in Holocaust Studies,” co-authored with Amos Goldberg, in Scott Ury and Guy Miron (eds.), Antisemitism and the Politics of History (Waltham, Massachusetts: Brandeis University Press, 2023), 299-318 (first published in Hebrew, in: Zion: A Quarterly for Research in Jewish History, vol. LXXXV (1-4) (2020))
• “The Modern State, the Question of Genocide, and Holocaust Scholarship,” Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 20 (1) (2018), 108-133