91��Ƶ

• Managing the personnel evaluation process and providing independent recommendations to the Provost on all personnel matters;

• Requesting new and replacement faculty and staff positions as well as overseeing the search and hiring of individuals for such positions including the nomination of candidates;

• Providing direction, recommendation and administrative support for the development of new academic programs;

• Overseeing the course offerings and schedules of Arts and Humanities programs to ensure that the academic programs can service the maximum number of 91��Ƶ possible;

• Responding to questions from 91��Ƶ as they relate to Arts and Humanities academic programs and faculty; administration of certifications, appeals and student grievances at the school level;

• Working with program faculties to develop and maintain information on learning outcomes as well as other measures of program performance. Conducting appropriate assessments of academic programs and other aspects of your operation commensurate with Middle States’ expectations.  Documenting these assessments and any changes taken as a result of these assessments;

• Planning the near term (1-2 year) and long term (3-5 year) academic direction of the School of Arts and Humanities including overseeing the appropriate budget requests and development of the needed facility requests required to deliver academic programs;

• Oversee the operation of the Performing Arts Center in a manner that improves its fiscal health and better integrates with University educational and extra-curricular activities;

• Representing the School and the University, as appropriate, with external agencies, offices, community and public relations;

• Cooperating with the Provost and Vice President, fellow academic Deans, and other officers of the University for the good of the institution and its 91��Ƶ;

• Performing all other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the Provost and Vice President and the President.

 

What I love most about the Arts and Humanities

These are areas of study that strive to go beyond conventional words to capture meaning, emotions, and feelings; what it means to be human.

 

My favorite spot on Stockton's campus

The Student Center in front of Dunkin Donuts.

Faculty and Staff

• Enforce compliance with negotiated MOAs.
• Supervise AFT and CWA employees in the Dean's Office.

• Support Program Chairs and faculty on curricular issues and other academic related tasks.

Students

• Oversee all aspects of student concerns/complaints, develop appropriate resolutions, and/or refer to relevant offices and disciplinary bodies, when necessary.
• Approve grade changes, independent studies, and internships.
• Evaluate and approve graduation certifications and resolve discrepancies in graduation audits.

 

Professional History

Prior to joining the Dean’s office at 91��Ƶ, I was Director of the Office of Educational Programs at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health.  Before my position at Columbia, I had previously served as Director of the Educational Opportunities Center at Kean University. I was also Executive Assistant to the Dean at the William J. Maxwell College of Arts and Sciences at New Jersey City University.  Early in my career, I was a Career Counselor and EOF Counselor. I have over 15 years of experience working in public and private higher educational settings. I specifically appreciate and enjoy working with first-generation undergraduate 91��Ƶ. 

 

Education & Training

• Ed.M. in Counseling Psychology in Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, NY
• M.A. in Counseling Psychology, concentration Higher Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, NY
• B.A. in Psychology, minor in Sociology/Anthropology from Pace University, NY

 

What I love most about the Arts and Humanities

A rich education in the Arts and Humanities helps people develop a profound understanding and value for intercultural engagement. I personally love how Arts and Humanities enhance the development of innovative thinking, analytical skills, creativity, and deepen our critical thinking skills.   

 

My favorite spot on Stockton's campus

I enjoy the beautiful campus with the many walking trails. I especially love Lake Fred and enjoy seeing the changing seasons.

 

 

Professional History

Vic Conover has worked in higher education for nearly a decade. Prior to joining the Arts and Humanities Dean’s Office Staff, she worked for Stockton’s South Jersey Culture and History Center and Stockton Text Center. Vic holds a B.A. in Literature with minors in Ancient Greek and Latin (magna cum laude) and an M.A. in American Studies, both from 91��Ƶ.

 

Education & Training

• M.A. in American Studies, 91��Ƶ
• B.A. in Literature with minors in Ancient Greek and Latin, 91��Ƶ  

 

What I love most about the Arts and Humanities

I love that the arts and humanities disciplines give us an understanding of different cultures, philosophies, languages, and historical eras.

 

My favorite spot on Stockton's campus

The Cedar Bog Bridge and its surrounding paths.

 

Professional History

My career began at Stockton in 2012.  Since then I have worked in ARHU, helping the school and its multiple programs.  My responsibilities have increased and I have enjoyed writing, editing, planning, and goal setting.  One aspect of my job that I have particularly enjoyed is assisting faculty, staff, and 91��Ƶ in having a great experience learning and growing.

 

Education & Training

After many sleepless nights, I received a Bachelor’s Degree in Historical Studies from Rowan University.  I’ve also attended numerous staff trainings here at Stockton.  The people of Stockton’s community continuously teach me new things.

 

What I love most about the Arts and Humanities

Learning as I am exposed to  great variety of ideas and passions in one environment.

 

My favorite spot on Stockton's campus

This would have to be the lake area behind lakeside lodge.  The area is calming and the view is absolutely beautiful.

Professional History

I worked in the Banking and Mortgage industry for over 25 years before joining Stockton University in 2008.

 

Education & Training

I earned a B.A. in Business Studies from 91��Ƶ.

 

What I like most about South Jersey

South Jersey has the most beautiful outside views.

 

One of my favorite experiences at 91��Ƶ

Learning from the different educational and personal backgrounds of faculty, 91��Ƶ, and staff.

 

Professional History

Prior to Stockton, I had a 20-year career with AT&T in Central Jersey.  Primary responsibilities included data analysis, database management, business planning and budgeting, and project support.  Corporate downsizing and a personal move to South Jersey had me looking for a new career.  Stockton’s need for a new financial person in the School of Arts & Humanities was a perfect fit.  After 12 years in the role of budget support, a recent move to administrative support within ARHU was a refreshing change.

 

Education & Training

Many years ago, I graduated with a degree in Secretarial Science.  As technology moved from manual typewriters to computers to cell phones to tablets to the cloud, etc., I continually adapted to ever-changing technologies.  Fully understanding and utilizing tools needed to complete a task has allowed me to provide exceptional support to peers and create a vision for efficiencies.

 

What I love most about the Arts and Humanities

I like that it helps me develop a deeper intercultural understanding as illustrated through the performing and visual arts, languages, and creative thinking.

 

My favorite spot on Stockton's campus

The Cedar Bog Bridge. A walk on the bridge over the shallow bogs provides a sense of calm and you are just a few steps from the hustle and bustle of the main campus.

• Collecting CVs and syllabi from faculty
• Aiding 91��Ƶ with questions, academic complaints, and providing academic support
• Assisting with FLAC (faculty workload)
• Communicating with the Provost’s office about faculty moves
• Assist with overseeing work-study 91��Ƶ
• Communicating with faculty about their canceled course meetings 
• Overseeing ARHU promotion and marketing material
• Working with the Assistant Dean on academic-related projects

 

Professional History

Prior to Stockton, I taught secondary theatre arts education across the state. I am a teaching artist and I volunteer with community theatres and arts organizations in the region.

 

Education & Training

M.F.A. Theatre Education, Mississippi University for Women (Columbus, MS)
B.A. Theatre Arts, Point Park University (Pittsburgh, PA)

 

What I love most about the Arts and Humanities

I love that the arts and humanities connects people from a variety of backgrounds and challenges us to think deeper.

 

My favorite spot on Stockton's campus

The trail along Lake Fred. It's very calming and, overall, a lovely spot.

BIOGRAPHY

Donnetrice C. Allison, Ph.D, currently serves as an associate professor of both Africana Studies and Communication Studies at 91��Ƶ in Galloway, NJ.

Dr. Allison also serves as coordinator for the Africana Studies Program, and she teaches numerous Africana Studies courses, which include Introduction to Africana Studies, African American Movies, Introduction to Hip Hop Culture, a Seminar on Representations of Race in Media, and a learning abroad course to Senegal, West Africa. In addition to Africana Studies, Dr. Allison also teaches for the Communication Studies program. These courses include: Film Theory and Criticism, Communication Research Methods, Senior Seminar in Communication Studies, Mass Communication Theories, Television and Popular Culture, News and Politics, African Americans on Television, and Women, Minorities, and the Media.

 

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Howard University

 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Media Images of African Americans, Hip Hop Culture and Identity

 

COURSES

GAH 2184 Introduction to Hip Hop Culture
GSS 2201 African American Studies: An Introductory Perspective
GSS 3295 African American Movies
COMM 1201 Introduction to Communication
COMM 2409 Television and Popular Culture
COMM 2414 African Americans on Television
COMM 3200 Theories of Mass Communication
COMM 3203 Communication Research Methods
COMM 3306 Women, Minorities, and the Media
COMM 3400 Film Theory and Criticism
COMM 4601 Communication Seminar (Topics: Crime and Media, Political Communication)

 

PUBLICATIONS

Allison, D. (2017). "The Perpetuation of Racial Stereotypes in American Media". In P. Reid-Merritt (Ed.), Race in America: How a Pseudo-Scientific Concept Shaped Human Interaction, Praeger.

Allison, D. (Ed.). (Jan. 2016). Black Women's Portrayals on Reality Television: The New Sapphire. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

“Hip Hop, Identity, and African American Teens.” International Journal of the Humanities 9.6 (2012): 255-262.

“T��� Academy in Color.” The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations 8.4. 101-108.

“Free to Be Me? Black Professors, White Institutions.” Journal of Black Studies 38.4 (2008): 641-662.

Co-authored with Donyale Griffin. “Making a Case for Restorative Rhetoric: Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Mayor Ray Nagin’s Response to Disaster.” Communication Monographs 77.3 (2010): 376-392.

“Accommodation,” “Acculturation,” and “Adaptation.” Encyclopedia of Identity. Ed. Ronald L. Jackson. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2010.

“I wonder if they would say that in HIS classroom.” Teaching Race, Diversity and Social Justice in White Space: Challenges, Implications and Effective Strategies. Ed. Darrell Cleveland. Forthcoming.

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILATIONS

National Council for Black Studies
The National Communication Association

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Patricia Reid-Merritt – author, educator, scholar, community activist and performing artist - is the Distinguished Professor of Africana Studies and Social Work.  Dr. Reid-Merritt received the Doctorate of Social Work in Race, Law and Social Policy (University of Pennsylvania); the Master of Social Work (Temple University); and, the Bachelor of Arts in psychology and social science (Cabrini College).  She served as Coordinator of the Africana Studies Program (2003 - 2016), spearheaded the University’s annual Fannie Lou Hamer Human and Civil Rights Symposiums ((2004 - 2015), and chaired the National Fannie Lou Hamer Statue Committee (2012).

Dr.  Reid-Merritt is also the Founder and Artistic/Executive Director of Afro-One Dance, Drama and Drum Theatre, Inc., a community-based cultural and performing arts organization currently celebrating its 46th year of operation.  Afro-One has been described as "the cultural magnet" for African American youth, families and the community in southern New Jersey

Dr. Reid-Merritt is the author of numerous publications, including: the national Blackboard best-seller, Sister Power: How Phenomenal Black Women Are Rising to the Top; Sister Wisdom: Seven Pathways to a Satisfying Life for Soulful Black Women; Righteous Self-Determination: The Black Social Work Movement in America; Race in America: How a Pseudo-Scientific Concept Shaped Human Interaction;Tarnished Legacy: A Reluctant Memoir; and, A State by State History of Race and Racism in the United States.    

A resident of Hamilton, NJ, Dr. Reid-Merritt is a well-known scholar and lecturer.  She has presented scholarly papers and keynote addresses at numerous national and international conferences, including Kenya, Brazil, Egypt, France, South Africa, England and Venezuela.  She spent four weeks at the University of Ghana as a Ford Fellow with the National Council for Black Studies.   She was the founding President of the Association of Black Women in Higher Education, Philadelphia Chapter, having served previously on the National Board of Directors.  Dr. Reid-Merritt served as the founding President of the Burlington County Black Business and Professional Association, and as founding president of the National Association of Black Social Workers, South Jersey Chapter.  From 1993 - 2011, she served on the Board of Directors for the National Council for Black Studies.  Additionally, she is a consultant on arts and culture to communities throughout the State of New Jersey.  

Dr. Reid-Merritt is the recipient of numerous honors/awards including: Cabrini College Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award; Temple University, Alumni Society Certificate of Honor; NAACP Freedom Award; 91��Ƶ’s Council of Black Faculty and Staff Annual Achievement Award and Lifetime Achievement Award; National Council for Black Studies’ Presidential Award, and Mary McLeod Bethune and Carter G. Woodson Award for the most significant contribution to the promotion of Africana Studies.  She has been honored by the NJ State Council of Black Social Workers as Social Worker of the Year, the NJ State Legislature, and named by City News as one of New Jerseys' 100 Most Influential Citizens.  She is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who's Who among Black Americans and 2000 Notable American Women.  

 

EDUCATION

Dr. Reid-Merritt received the D.S.W. in Race, Law and Social Policy (University of Pennsylvania)

 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Africana Studies – history, art, culture, social organizations and leadership development

 

COURSES

African American Dance, Introduction to Africana Studies, African American Movies, African American Female Writers, Race, Ethnicity and Diversity, Senior Seminar: The African Americans, Senior Seminar: Social Work, Social Justice, African Americans and the Law, Jazz and Blues Dance, Contemporary African American Dance, Black Comedy.

 

PUBLICATIONS

• A State by State History of Race and Racism in the United States, (editor), Santa Barbara Praeger,/ABC- CLIO, Publications, 2018.
• Race in America: How a Pseudo-Scientific Concept Shaped Human Interaction, (editor), Praeger,/ABC-CLIO, Publications, Santa Barbara, 2017.
• Tarnished Legacy: A Reluctant Memoir, www.outskirtspress, Outskirts Press, 2017.
• Righteous Self-Determination: The Black Social Work Movement in America, Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 2010.
• Sister Wisdom: Seven Pathways to a Satisfying Life for Soulful Black Women, New York: John Wiley & Sons Publishing Co., 2002.
• Sister Power: How Phenomenal Black Women Are Rising To The Top. John Wiley & Sons Publishing Co., New York, 1996.

   Articles/Book Chapters

• “Temple University African American Studies Ph.D. Program at 30: Assessing the Asante Affect,” Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies,12. no.6, November 2018.
• “Malcolm X:  What Measure of a Man?   Assessing Personal Growth and Social Transformation from An African-Centered Social Work Perspective,” in  , Jared A. Ball and Todd Steven Burroughs, editors, Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 2012.
• “Defining Ourselves: Name Calling in Black Studies,” One Name, One Discipline, Journal of Black Studies, Patricia Reid-Merritt, Guest Editor, Sage Publications, Fall, 2009.
• “T��� Popularization of Afrocentricty Among the People,” in Essays in Honor of an Intellectual Warrior: Molefi Kete Asante, Ama Mazama,(editor), Paris, Menaibuc. (2008).
• “Leadership, Social Responsibility and Economic Fund Development: The Case for Africana Studies,” The Afrocentric Scholar, summer, 2001.
• "Black Female Leadership" in Voices of Vision, Julianne Maleaux, ed., National Council of Negro Women, 1996.
• "On Transforming Images of Nutcrackers and Sugar Plum Fairies into Kinaras, Geles and Brown Sugar Ladies." Sage, spring, 1992.
• "Organizational Life in South Jersey: A Look at Burlington County's Black Community", in Blacks in New Jersey, 1986; Perspectives on South Jersey, Bruce Ransom, Ph.D., editor, New Jersey Public Policy Research Institute, 1986.
• "An Historical Survey of the Black Experience Through Dance," Perspectives, AGLS Press, Summer, 1983.

Archives

• "A Study of African-American Women in Positions of Power in Nontraditional Leadership Roles". Harvard - Radcliffe University, Institutes of Advanced Study, Murray Research Center, Cambridge, MA, 1999.

 

 Encyclopedia Entries

• “Dance Culture” The SAGE Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America, and , editors, Sage Publications, 2015. 
• “T��� National Black United Fund” The SAGE Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America, and , editors, Sage Publications, 2015.
• “T��� National Association of Black Social Workers” The SAGE Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America, and , editors, Sage Publications, 2015. 
• “O��ܲԻ��” The SAGE Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America, and , editors, Sage Publications, 2015. 
• “Afrocentric Approaches to Social Work.” In: James D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol 1. Oxford: Elsevier. pp. 305–309, 2015.
• “Affirmative Action,” Encyclopedia of African American History, Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio Publications, pp. 597-599, 2010.
• “Molefi Asante,” Encyclopedia of African American History, Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio Publications, pp. 618-619, 2010.
• “Fannie Lou Hamer,” Encyclopedia of African American History, Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio Publications, pp. 792-794, 2010.
• “Maulana Karenga,” Encyclopedia of African American History, Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio Publications, pp. 837-838, 2010.
• “National Council for Black Studies,” Encyclopedia of African American History, Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio Publications, pp. 921-922, 2010.
• “Willie Tappan Barrow,” African American National Biography, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Higginbotham  (editors),Harvard University and Oxford University Press, 2008.
• “Affirmative Action.” Encyclopedia of Black Studies, Asante, M. and Ama Mazama,, editors, Sage Publications, 2004.
• “National Black United Fund, Inc.,” Encyclopedia of Black Studies, Asante, M. and Ama Mazama,, editors, Sage Publications, 2004.
• “National Black United Front, Inc.,” Encyclopedia of Black Studies, Asante, M., et.al., editors, Sage Publications, 2004.

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

National Council for Black Studies
DIOP International
Senior Fellow, MKA Institute for Afrocentric Studies
National Association of Black Social Workers
International Association of Blacks in Dance (founding member)

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Ajani originally hails from a small Ayisyen (Haitian) community in Spring Valley, New York and is 1^st generation of Ayisyen descent living in the United States. Dr. Ajani graduated from SUNY Oswego in the Spring of 2014 with a B.A. in History and a minor in African American studies. He would go on to receive an M.A.  in Africana studies at the University at Albany (SUNY) in 2016 and most recently a Ph.D from the department of Africology & African American studies at Temple University. His dissertation is titled: “An Afrocentric Re-examination of the Historiography around the Afrikan Revolution in Ayiti (Haiti).”

 

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy in Africology & African American Studies, Temple University

 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

African American History & Culture, Caribbean Culture & Politics, Haitian Revolution (Afrikan Revolution in Ayiti), Afrikan Civilizations, Afrikan religions & spirituality, African world politics and history, Hip Hop culture, African American Sports & Leisure in American society, and History & Significance of Race.

 

COURSES

AFRI 2103: The African World-Contemporary Issues & Social Concerns (Fall 2021)

GAH 1360: Topics in African American History and Culture-Racial Injustice and Historical Inequity (Fall 2021)

 

PUBLICATIONS

St.Hilaire, Wilbert. "Book Review: Ama Mazama: The Ogunic Presence in Africology." Journal of Black Studies 52, no. 5 (June 15, 2021): 547-50. .

St.Hilaire, Wilbert. “Haitian Women Warriors: The Influence of African Martial Art & Military Traditions.” Imhotep Journal, no. 1 (Fall 2019): 22-41.

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

DISA (Diopian Institute for Scholarly Advancement)
National Council of Black Studies

 

 

Dr. Di Santo’s former teaching positions include appointments on the music faculties of Moravian College, as Artist-Lecturer, and as adjunct faculty in the music departments of Swarthmore College and West Chester, Lehigh and Rowan Universities. In December 2006, he accepted an invitation to Shanghai, China where he performed as soloist with the Shanghai Conservatory Symphony Orchestra and conducted a series of masterclasses with the Shanghai Conservatory of Music’s highly talented and advanced clarinet 91��Ƶ.

Career highlights include presenting at the 7th Annual Arts, Humanities, Socials Sciences & Education Conference in Honolulu Hawaii (January 2018), delivering a keynote address at the 10th Pan African Society for Musical Arts Education (July 2, 2017) in Mbabane, Swaziland, and presenting at the Eastern Division Conference of the National Association for Music Education, Atlantic City, NJ, April 2017.  Additionally, he accepted an invitation to Shanghai, China where he performed as soloist with the Shanghai Conservatory Symphony Orchestra and conducted clarinet masterclasses at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

Dr. Di Santo is currently the Principal Clarinetist of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, a position he has held since 1991. A participant in music festivals in both North America and Europe, he has performed throughout venues in the United States, Canada, Austria, Germany and Italy. Recording credits include Lee Pui Ming’s She Comes to Shore: concerto for improvised piano and orchestra in 2010 with the Bay-Atlantic Symphony as well as Verdi’s Requiem and �Ѵdz�������’s Requiem K. 626 with Philadelphia’s Vox Ama Deus Ensemble. His clarinet playing and commentary were highlighted on NPR’s Morning Edition on October 9, 2004, later broadcast in translation over Voice of America, throughout Europe and the former Soviet Republics.

Publishing credits include articles in The Clarinet (the official journal of the International Clarinet Association), and the International Alliance for Women in Music journal. Other media credits include a feature article entitled "A Marriage of Music and Harmony" in the March 2007 issue of Down Jersey Magazine, a front-page photo on the October 13, 2011 edition of the Press of Atlantic City’s At the Shore Magazine (with his wife Karen, also a member of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony), and two recent interviews appearing in the Arts and Entertainment section of the Press of Atlantic City.

Dr. Di Santo earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Temple University, where he held a Conwell Fellowship, a Master of Music degree from the University of Illinois and a Bachelor of Music Education degree, cum laude, from The Ohio State University. Dr. Di Santo was chosen for inclusion in the ninth edition of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2005 and was elected to Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges in 1993. His clarinet teachers include Anthony Gigliotti, Alan Hacker, Howard Klug, Dr. Donald E. McGinnis, and Dr. Robert A. Titus.

 

EDUCATION

D.M.A., Temple University

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Classical clarinet soloist, orchestral player, chamber musician, and educator

 

COURSES

MUSC 1147 Large Classical Ensemble
MUSC 2113 Fundamentals of Conducting
MUSC 2115/2116 Music Theory I & II
MUSC 3645 Form and Analysis of Music
GAH 1245 Introduction to Music

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Bay-Atlantic Symphony, Principal clarinetist and personnel director
The International Clarinet Association
American Federation of Musicians, Local 77
National Association for Music Education
Director - Bay-Atlantic Symphony Music Mentorship Program

 

STATEMENT OF PEDAGOGY

“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.” To me, these words by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato (428 BC – 348 BC) resonate as truly and with as much strength today as they must have when they were first uttered over two thousand years ago. As the quintessential universal language, I believe that music has a profound effect on both mind and spirit. Music has an ability to express who we were, what we are, and what we can become. It picks up where words leave off and has the unique ability to unify people by transcending cultural boundaries and physical borders. If “a picture is worth a thousand words,” similarly, musical sound conveys a thousand images and expresses a seemingly endless multitude of emotions and innermost feelings. Indeed, I can think of no other art form that endeavors to elevate the human condition to ever-higher planes through a conscious manifestation of the subconscious. Whether teaching in the classroom or performing in the concert hall, it is a genuine privilege and my greatest pleasure to share my deep passion for music with those poised to listen.

In 2012-2013, he was a nEW Festival Artist-in-Residence, a Dance USA/Philadelphia Polish Exchange Artist, a PEW Fellowship Nominee, and a “Rocky” Award Recipient.   Most recently, he was a recipient of the Ellen Forman Memorial Award from Drexel University and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Project Stream Grant. 

As a performer, Beau has had the pleasure to work with Ben Munisteri Dance Projects, Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company, Douglas Dunn and Dancers, Merian Soto/Performance Practice, Nichole Canuso Dance Company, Bronwen MacArthur Dance Project, Kun-Yang Lin and Dancers, Subcircle, Miro Dance Theatre, and <fidget/Megan Bridge>. 

Beau has previously taught at Temple University, Rowan University, Muhlenberg College, and Franklin and Marshall College.

 

EDUCATION

MFA, Temple University

 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Modern Dance, Improvisation, Dance History, and Dance Composition

 

COURSES

DANC 2100/2101 Modern Dance I
DANC 3100/3101 Modern Dance III
DANC 3201 Dance Composition II
DANC 4100/4101 Modern Dance IV
DANC 4201 Advanced Dance Composition
GAH 1210 Modern Dance Principles

 

CHOREOGRAPHY

Mooring Field (2015): Premiered at the Performance Garage, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Presented in the Iron Factory Presents series. Supported by a grant from the Pennsylvania Commission on the Arts and 91��Ƶ.

Casual Friday (2013): Premiered at the Ruba Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Selected by the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA). Excerpt performed the Lawrence Arts Center’s Regional Choreography Festival 2012.

Poor Lost Sometime Boys (2012): Premiered at Painted Bride Arts Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Part of the nEW Festival Artist-in-Residence series. Presented at Dance Conversations at the Flea, Flea Theater, NY (2013). Performed in Point of Departure series at Christ Church Neighborhood House (2013). Excerpt presented at Evening of Duets concert (2014).

In the wings (2011): Premiered in Clark Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.       
Collaboration with Eleanor Goudie-Averill, Stone Depot Dance Lab. Presented as part of the Bodies of Text Festival sponsored by the Philadelphia Center for the Book.

In the companye of sundry folk (2010): Premiered at Conwell Dance Theater, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Graduate Thesis project for completion of MFA degree at Temple University. Performed by the Drexel Dance Ensemble as a part of the Ellen Forman Memorial Award. Selected for the Temple University Alumni Concert (2017).

Portable 1 (2010): Premiered at Conwell Dance Theater, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Performed in the Temple Dance Program Endings Concert, at the “SkyDive” Performance Series, and in various locations throughout the world.

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Yoga Alliance 200hr Certified Yoga Instructor
Certified Mat Pilates Instructor, Drexel University Pilates

 

Aaron has performed narrations with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (Peter & The Wolf, Peter Pan, Carnival of the Animals, and T’was The Night Before Christmas) and can be seen as architect John E. Brent in the documentary Through These Gates, exhibited at the Burchfield Penny Art Center. Aaron has directed at the Paul Robeson Theatre (Detroit ’67, Blood at the Root), Against the Grain Theater Festival (Night with the Dream Keeper), Elm Shakespeare Company (Hamlet), and SUNY Buffalo State (Brothers Size, Motherf**ker with the Hat, Doctor In Spite of Himself, and Blood at the Root). Aaron was the voice of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre's 2016-2017 season's TV ads "Now more than ever!"

 

WEBSITE

 

 

EDUCATION

MFA, Yale School of Drama

 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Acting, directing, performance theory, dramatic theory, television and film

 

COURSES

GAH 2246 Introduction to Acting
THTR 2320 Stage Movement
THTR 3180 Directing for the Stage 
THTR 3683 Acting III

 

PERFORMANCES AND DIRECTED WORKS

Moss, Aaron, perf. The First Purge. Dir. Gerard McMurray. Perf. Y’lan Noel, Lex Scott Davis, Jovian Wade. Universal Pictures, 2018.

The Christians. By Lucas Hnath, directed by Scott Behrend, performances by Aaron Moss (as Associate Pastor), Dave Hayes, and Lisa Vitrano, Road Less Travelled Productions, April 19-May 20, 2018, Buffalo, NY. Award: Artie Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama and Outstanding Production of a Play

Moss, Aaron, perf. The Greenfields Advertisement. Airing on CBS. WIVB, Buffalo, NY. 2018.

Moss, Aaron, perf. Heritage Moments Series: W.E.B. DuBois’ The Niagara Movement Manifesto. Dir. Jeff Klein. National Public Radio. Feb. 2018.  

Moss, Aaron, director. Blood at the Root. By Dominique Morisseau, performances by Kayla Bennett, Andy Noel, Azarias Soto, Kelsey Jeffs, Eliza Zanoli-Styles, and Mark Bogumil, Paul Robeson Theatre, October 13-29, 2017, Buffalo, NY.

Moss, Aaron, perf. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. CBS. New York, Dec. 2016.

Wonder of the World. By David Lindsay-Abaire, directed by Taylor Doherty, performances by Aaron Moss (as Captain Mike) and Anne Boucher, Buffalo Laboratory Theatre, 15 Sept.-2 Oct., 2016, Shea’s 710 Theatre, Buffalo, NY.

Moss, Aaron, perf. Buffalo Niagara Medical Center Advertisement. Prod. Pagent Films. Online, 2016.

Moss, Aaron, director. A Night with the Dream Keeper. By Austin Lamewona, performances by Roosevelt Tidwell, Drayson Colbert, and Kai B. Lewis, Against the Grain Theatre Festival, 18 August Buffalo, NY.

Moss, Aaron, perf. Through These Gates: Buffalo’s First African-American Architect, John E. Brent. Dir. Sandy White. Mustard Seed World Productions. DVD. 2016.

Peter & The Wolf. By Sergei Prokofiev, conducted by Stefan Sanders, performances by Aaron Moss and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, 17 April 2016. Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, NY.

Moss, Aaron, director. Detroit ’67. By Dominique Morisseau, performances by Gary-Kai Fletcher, Candice Whitfield, Annette Christian, and , Paul Robeson Theatre, 14-29 May, 2015, Buffalo, NY. (Awards: Katherine Cornel Award for Excellence by Lead Actor, Art Voice nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Play.)

City of Conversation. By Anthony Giardina, directed by Robert Waterhouse, performances by Adrianno Gatto, Kristin Tripp Kelley, Debbie Pappas Sham, Steve Jackiel, and Aaron Moss (Donald Logan), Kavinoky Theatre, February-March, 2016, Buffalo, NY. (Art Voice Award nomination for best production)

Moss, Aaron, actor (Duke Orsino). Twelfth Night. By William Shakespeare, directed by James Andreassi, performances by Andrea Goldman, Paula Plum, and ?, Elm Shakespeare Company, 16 Aug.-5 Sept., 2015, New Haven, CT.

Carnival of the Animals. By Camille Saint-Saens, conducted by Stefan Sanders, performances by Aaron Moss and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, 3 May 2015. Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, NY.

Moss, Aaron, perf. Why I Murdered My Roommate (t.v. pilot). Dir. Michael Pauley. DVD. The New Hotness, 2015.

Peter Pan. By James Newton Howard, conducted by Stefan Sanders, performances by Aaron Moss and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, 3 May 2015. Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, NY.

T’was The Night Before Christmas. By Bob Phillips, conducted by Stefan Sanders, performances by Aaron Moss and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, 6 December 2014. Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, NY.

Moss, Aaron, perf. American Hustle. Dir. David O. Russell. Perf. Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert DiNiro. Columbia Pictures, 2013. (Awards: Golden Globe winner for Best Film; 11 Academy Award Nominations)

Macbeth. By William Shakespeare, directed by Alan Burrows, performances by Aaron Moss (Thane of Ross), Mark Zeisler, Marianna Bassham, and James Andreassi, Elm Shakespeare Company, August-September, 2012, New Haven, CT.

Moment to Moment: Shakespeare’s Recitations. Perf. James Andreassi, Jeremy Funke, Kerry Tartar, Aaron Moss. DVD.  Yale Center for British Art, 2012.

Measure for Measure. By William Shakespeare, directed by James Andreassi, performances by Aaron Moss (Lucio), Eric Martin Brown, Mark Zeisler, and Sarah Grace Brown, Elm Shakespeare Company, August-September 2011, New Haven, CT.

We Are Proud to Present… By Jackie Drury-Sibblings, directed by Eric Ting, performances by Aaron Moss, and… Prelude Festival, 2011, CUNY, New York.

Jess & DJ: A Baby Mamma Dramedy. By Natali Naman, directed by Jessi Hill, performances by Aaron Moss and Celestine Rae, New Dramatists, April 2011, New York.

Le Costume (workshop). By Peter Brook, directed and produced by Peter Brook, Marie- Hélène Estienne and Tarell Alvin-McCraney, performances by Aaron Moss (Husband) and Keith Eric Chappelle, New York University, 2011, New York.  

The Winter’s Tale. By William Shakespeare, directed by James Andreassi, performances by Aaron Moss (Autolycus), Nadia Bowers, and Mark Zeisler, Elm Shakespeare Company, Aug-Sept 2010, New Haven, CT. (Connecticut Critics Circle Award—Best Debut Performance, Aaron Moss)


And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi. By Marcus Gardley, directed by Tea Aleric, performances by Aja Naomi King, Stanley Wayn-Matthis, and Aaron Moss (Per Brae), Prelude Festival, CUNY, 2010, New York.

Sistahs: A Love Story. By Harrison David Rivers, directed by Tea Alergic, performances by Aja Naomi King and Aaron Moss, New Dramatists, 2010, New York.

Death of a Salesman. By Arthur Miller, directed by James Bundy, performances by Charles S. Dutton, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Ato Essandoh, Kimberly Scott, Aja Naomi King, Stanley Wayne Mathis, Billy Eugene Jones, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, and Aaron Moss, Yale Repertory Theatre, May 2009, New Haven, CT.

Taming of the Shrew. By William Shakespeare, directed by Catherine Weidner, performances by Aaron Moss (Hortensio), Daniel Harray, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, June-August, 2008, Bloomington, IL.

Midsummer Night’s Dream. By William Shakespeare, directed by Robert Quinlan, performances by Aaron Moss (Oberon/Theseus) and Magdalyn Donnelly, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, June-August, 2008, Bloomington, IL.

Titus Andronicus. By William Shakespeare, directed by Catherine Weidner, performances by Robert Ramirez, Robert Anderson, and Aaron Moss (Publius), Illinois Shakespeare Festival, June-August, 2008, Bloomington, IL.

A Woman of No Importance. By Oscar Wilde, directed by James Bundy, performances by Bryce Pinkham, Felicity Jones, and Aaron Moss (Mr. Kelvil), Yale Repertory Theatre, May 2008, New Haven, CT.

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Actor’s Equity Association  
Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers

Caitlin has gone on tour with ClancyWorks Dance Company, under the direction of Adrienne Clancy.Through her training she has worked with artists such as Ann Hutchinson Guest, founder of the Language of Dance Centre in London, Mino Nicolas, director of the Doris Humphrey Repertory Dance Company, Ed Tyler, Tiffany Mills, Beverly Brown, Eva Gholson, Merián Soto and Nichole Canuso.  Along with her faculty positions, she has been a guest artist and instructed master classes at numerous schools, and colleges on the east coast. Pittenger continues to perform professionally in addition to presenting her own work.

 

EDUCATION

MFA, Temple University

 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Modern Dance, Dance Pedagogy and Wellness, Dance Composition, Jazz Dance Technique, Choreography

 

COURSES

All levels of modern dance, Beginning through Level IV
Dance Composition I
Introduction to Dance – General Studies (GAH)
Dance Pedagogy and Wellness
Jazz Dance|
Ballet III/IV
Repertory

 

CHOREOGRAPHY

2017, Passage, Choreography by Caitlin Quinn Pittenger.  Lighting Design by Caitlin Quinn Pittenger. Video by Mariana Smith. Performed by Alisa Iacovelli, Morgan O’Shea, Jaclyn Salerno. Hatch Series. Jennifer Muller/The Works. New York, NY. October 28, 2017.

2017, Passage, Choreography by Caitlin Quinn Pittenger.  Lighting Design by Caitlin Quinn Pittenger. Video by Mariana Smith. Performed by Alisa Iacovelli, Morgan O’Shea, Jaclyn Salerno. STORM. Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Performance Garage, Philadelphia, PA. September 14 and 17^th, 2017.

2017, Dividing Lines, Choreography and Performance by Caitlin Quinn Pittenger. Lighting Design by Caitlin Quinn Pittenger. Stockton Faculty Alumni Concert. 91��Ƶ Experimental Theatre. Galloway, NJ. September 15 & 16, 2017.

2017, Flash mob for community enrichment, performed at the Asbury Park Boardwalk. Open to the community. Asbury Park. NJ. August 26, 2017.

2017, Passage, Choreography by Caitlin Quinn Pittenger.  Lighting Design by Caitlin Quinn Pittenger. Video by Mariana Smith. Performed by Alisa Iacovelli, Morgan O’Shea, Jaclyn Salerno. Scratch Night. Fringe Arts , Philadelphia, PA June 5, 2017

2017, Transfer of Energy, Choreography by Caitlin Quinn Pittenger and Rain Ross. Lighting

Performed by Caitlin Quinn Pittenger and Rain Ross. American College Dance Association Faculty Concert. County College of Morris, Randolph, NJ. March 17, 2017.

2017, Transfer of Energy, Choreography by Caitlin Quinn Pittenger and Rain Ross. Lighting

Design by Mark Mallett. Performed by Caitlin Quinn Pittenger and Rain Ross. A Concert of Dance. 91��Ƶ Performing Arts Center. Galloway, NJ. March 2-5, 2017.

2017, Passage, Choreography by Caitlin Quinn Pittenger.  Lighting Design by Caitlin Quinn Pittenger. Video by Mariana Smith. Performed by Alisa Iacovelli, Morgan O’Shea, Jaclyn Salerno. A Concert of Dance. 91��Ƶ Performing Arts Center. Galloway, NJ. March 2-5, 2017.

2017, Passage, Choreography by Caitlin Quinn Pittenger.  Lighting Design by Caitlin Quinn Pittenger. Video by Mariana Smith. Performed by Alisa Iacovelli, Morgan O’Shea, Jaclyn Salerno. Invited. Performance Garage, Philadelphia, PA. January 28, 2017.

2017, Body Continuum, Choreography by Caitlin Quinn Pittenger.  Lighting Design by Caitlin Quinn Pittenger. Performed by Macy Collins, Alisa Iacovelli, Caitlin Pittenger, Chandra Moss-Thorne, and Asya Zlatina. Invited. Performance Garage, Philadelphia, PA. January 28, 2017.

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

National Dance Education Organization
DANCE New Jersey
American College Dance Association
DanceUSA

As artistic director of Rain Ross Dance, Ross has presented her work at the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, SB-ADaPT Festival, DUMBO Dance, and others. She has participated annually as a featured Guest Artist at the International Dance Festival in Lebanon. Ross has also presented papers at Congress on Research in Dance and The Association of American Geographers. She integrates her theoretical research into her artistic and pedagogical work, specifically looking at performance and gender theory, representations of power, and traditional research in relation to creativity.

 

WEBSITE

 

EDUCATION

MFA, University of Iowa

 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Modern dance and ballet technique, choreography, kinesiology, repertory performance, improvisation, dance theory

 

COURSES

DANC 2203: Dance Improvisation
DANC 1101 Beginning Dance
DANC 2101 Modern I
DANC 2401 Ballet I
DANC 2415 Ballet II
DANC 2501 Modern II
DANC 3101 Modern III
DANC 4101 Modern IV
DANC 3501 Ballet III
DANC 4401 Ballet IV
DANC 3900: Dance Internship: Pedagogy
GAH 1323 Dance & Culture
GEN 2158 Kinesiology: The Body in Motion

 

CHOREOGRAPHY

Rain Ross has been a professional choreographer since 2001 and has created over 40 original choreographic works on both professionals and 91��Ƶ. Her work is rooted in ballet and infused with contemporary and modern dance concepts, as well as having elements of theatricality. Her work has been presented in New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, Santa Barbara, and Byblos, Lebanon, amongst other places.

Examples:
March 6, 2016: My Weakness, Fertile Ground Series, The Green Space, New York, NY.

Sept. 12-13, 2015: Influx, The Between the Seas Festival, The Wild Project, New York, NY.

Mar. 21-22, 2015: Returning, Richmond Choreographer's Showcase, Grace Street Theatre, Richmond, VA.

Sept. 25, 2014: Sky Journal, White Space, Philadelphia, PA.

May 2, 2014: For You, International Dance Day Festival in Lebanon, Byblos, Lebanon

Oct. 5, 2013: Suspended Light, The Outlet Dance Project, The Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ

Feb. 28-Mar. 3, 2013: Unfurled, A Concert in Dance, Stockton Performing Arts Center, Galloway, NJ

Nov. 9-10, 2012: Composition #43 - Section B, Alumni Concert, University of Iowa, Space Place Theatre, Iowa City, IA.

Oct. 13, 2013: Amidst Solo, Mixed Drinks, Christ Church Neighborhood House, Philadelphia, PA

May 17-20, 2012: The Shape of Happiness, Al Sarab Dance Company, Monnot Theater, Beirut Lebanon.

Sept. 23, 2011: Composition #43 – Section B. White Wave Dance John Ryan Theatre. Brooklyn, NY.

Aug, 20, 2011: Requiem. Ohio Dance Theatre, Stocker Arts Center. Oberlin, OH

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Guest Artist for International Dance Day in Byblos, Lebanon
Artistic Director for Rain Ross Dance
Congress on Research in Dance

 In addition to the many local and regional awards and competitions she won while studying at The Ohio State University, Beverly Vaughn was also awarded a Corbett Foundation Fellowship for operatic study in New York City. While there, she studied with Madame Marinka Gurewich and coached primarily with Maestro Martin Rich. She also studied and coached with other internationally recognized teachers including Frau Hilde Zadek in Vienna, Dame Eva Turner and Maestro Geoffrey Parsons in London, Sylvia Lee in Philadelphia as well as with Maestro Franco Iglesias. Maestro Larry Woodard and
Maestro Wayne Sanders in New York.

Prior to joining the Stockton music faculty in September 1982, Beverly Vaughn made her operatic debut in as the Strawberry Woman in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess with the
Graz (Austria) Opera followed by her debut as Nicklaus in Hoffman’s Erzahlungen (The Tales of Hoffman) with the Vienna Volksoper. She also received particular critical acclaim for her performance as Hannah in the world debut of Sir Michael Tippett’s The Ice Break at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden under the direction of Sir Colin Davis. After joining the Stockton music faculty, she also received accolades for such performances as her portrayal in the title role as Carmen in Opera Harlem’s sevenmonth, 11-country European tour of Carmen Jones. Beverly Vaughn continues to perform and has appeared with numerous regional opera companies and orchestras in both the United States and Europe. She frequently appears in concerts and recitals and as a featured guest on local and international radio, television and online programs. In addition, Beverly has published a book chapter, articles and reviews. She has presented vocal and choral workshops in singing technique and on topics such as The religious music traditions of African Americans for choirs, universities, colleges, symposia, international conferences and community organizations throughout the world. These workshops have been given in countries which include New Zealand, Israel, China, Jamaica, Austria, Grenada, Antigua, Greece, Spain, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Nigeria, Kenya, Brazil, Zanzibar, Australia, Canada, as well as throughout the United States. Several of her most recent workshops and presentations include the January 2018 workshop presented at The Hawaii University International Conference on Arts and Humanities in Honolulu, Hawaii, the November 2017 workshop New Jersey Educators’ Annual Conference in Atlantic City, August 2017 workshop for the 1-day Music Teacher Workshop presented by the New Jersey Music Educators Association , the July 2017 workshop/ presentation at the College Music Society International Conference in Sydney.

She continues to be a member of the Academic Faculty during the annual convention of the Gospel Music Workshop of America (the largest international  organization devoted to the study and promulgation of this genre ) as well as frequently serving as a session facilitator at conferences such as those given by the National Association of Music Educators Eastern Division Conference held in Atlantic City in April 2017 as well as for the yearly New Jersey Music Educators’ Conference in Brunswick.   She also has conducted choirs throughout the world in  such places as the Forbidden City in Beijing to churches in Florence, Italy and Valencia, Spain to recital halls in Zomba, Malawi!

In addition, since coming to Stockton, she has won over 30 major awards  and citations for her teaching, campus involvement and  community outreach.  Several of the most recent awards include the 2017 African American Student Alumni Award for the Outstanding Professor of the Year and the 2017 NAACP Achievement Award from the Mainland/Pleasantville Chapter. Other awards include several ARHU Teacher of the Year Awards, the Thomas Shavio Humanitarian Award from Beth El,  an Image Award from the Stockton Chapter of the NAAP,   the  Atlantic County Rotary Club Humanitarian Service Award for  Community Outreach,  the Outstanding Service  Award and the Merit Award from the Council of Black Faculty and Staff, Outstanding Contribution to the Arts Award from the New Jersey Arts Association, induction into the Atlantic County Women’s Hall of Fame and listed  4 times in Who’s Who Among College Teachers.

Among her duties as Vocal/Choral Program Coordinator, she conducts the University Chorus, The Stockton Select Chorale, The Stockton Oratorio Society and the Vocal Jazz Ensemble She  also serves as an advisor to several student music organizations and ensembles. Under her direction, the choral organization have traveled to Europe , given full-length performances of such masterworks  Verdi Requiem; Haydn’s Creation; Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus, Brahms’ A German Requiem; �Ѵdz�������’s Requiem;  ��������’s Passion According to St. Matthew; ��Dz������Ծ�’s Stabat Mater; �ѱ�Ի��������dz��’s Elijah; �����ٳ�DZ����’s Ninth Symphony (Choral Movement); Orff’s Carmina  Burana, �Ѵdz�������’s  Coronation Mass; ������ܲ������’s Mass in G; �󲹳ܰ���’s Requiem; �鲹��’s Gospel Mass; ��󲹰����Գپ����’s Messe de Noel; Vaughan Williams’ The First Nowell; Saint-Saens’ Christmas Oratorio, Britten’s Ceremony of Carols, Pinkerton’s Christmas Cantata; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater  as well as evenings of music devoted to the special repertoire of genres such as operatic choruses, music of Broadway, the operettas of Gilbert & Sullivan, vocal jazz holiday music or an evening of African American Spirituals.   One of the choral program’s most important productions continues to be its bi-annual performance of Handel’s Messiah!!!   

 

 EDUCATION

D.M.A., The Ohio State University

 

WEBSITE

 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE 

Performance, choral activities, voice, music history, music of African-Americans, introduction to music, fundamentals of music, Gospel music.

 

COURSES

MUSC 1143 Vocal Jazz Ensemble
MUSC 1641 Beginning Voice
MUSC 1760 Stockton Oratorio Society
MUSC 2241/2242 Music History I & II
MUSC 3251 Stockton Chorale
GAH 1248 Music of African-Americans
GAH 2401 Words and Music: College Chorus

 

 

WEBSITE

 

EDUCATION

MFA, Montclair State University

BFA, University of the Arts

 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Modern, Jazz, Ballet, Improvisation

 

COURSES

DANC 2415-001 Ballet II
DANC 3501-001 Ballet III
DANC 4401-001 Ballet IV
GAH 1245-002 Introduction to Dance

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Philadanco, Putty Dance Project, Sun Ra Arkestra, Philadelphia Dance Projects

Smith’s work has been exhibited in USA, Italy, China, Ireland, New Zealand, Guam and Armenia, and was displayed at the State of Ohio Governor’s Mansion in Columbus, Ohio. Artist residencies include International printmaking workshop in Auckland, New Zealand, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica di Venezia, Venice, Italy, residency, International Printmaking Workshop, Xi'an, China, GCAC Dresden Residency, Dresden, Germany, Venice Printmaking Studio, Venice, Italy, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, Moscow College of Applied and Industrial Arts, and Fedoskino Lacquer Miniature Factory, in Russia.

 

EDUCATION

MFA, Cornell University

 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Studio art: printmaking, multimedia and video installation, miniature painting, book art; theory: contemporary fine art, folk art

 

COURSES

ARTV 2155 Intermediate Drawing
ARTV 2168 Printmaking I
ARTV 2169 Printmaking and Mixed Media
GAH 1265 Introduction to the Print
GIS 4764 Globalization and Art

 

EXHIBITIONS

Currently, Mariana Smith is collaborating with the multimedia artists and scholars from USA, Armenia, Germany, and Greece on a project connecting contemporary art and the global migrant and refugee crisis. In May 2016 Mariana Smith presented a lecture titled “Contemporary Art and Immigrant Narratives in the United States of America” at the Academy of Fine Art in Dresden, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, Germany. In June 2016 at the Gallery of Mariam and Eranuhi Aslamazyan Sisters in Gyumri, Armenia, the project “Metamorphosis. The Human Stories” opened with a multimedia exhibition, a series of lectures, and a dance performance. This project will continue as a symposium at 91��Ƶ in February 2017 and will conclude in November 2017 as an exhibition, bookmaking workshop, and a series of lectures at the Academy of Fine Art in Dresden, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, Germany.

Additional 2016 group exhibitions include an invitational contemporary printmaking exhibition at the Isla Center for the Arts in Guam, an exhibition "Surfaces" at the Hammond Harkins Gallery in Columbus, OH, "Trans-Dimensional" exhibition at Pacific North College of Art, Portland, OR, as well as a traveling group exhibition "Contemporary Art Hatching Across Ohio", Columbus Museum of Art, Massillon Museum, Southern Ohio Museum & Cultural Center, OH.

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Southern Graphics Council International
College Art Association
Mid American Print Council

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Foundations, drawing, design, painting, mixed media

COURSES

ARTV 1161 Introduction to 2-Dimensional Design
ARTV 1164 Introduction to 2-Dimensional Digital Design
ARTV 1162 Introduction to Drawing
ARTV 2166 Drawing II: Figure Drawing
GAH 1259 2-Dimensional Design on the Computer
GAH 2296 Chinese Brush Painting

EXHIBITIONS

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY & PRESS

Jackson Free Press, “Chung-Fan Chang”, February 5, 2015, by Amber Helsel.

The Clarion-Ledger, “Sherry's picks for arts and entertainment”, February 4, 2015, by Sherry Lucas.

The University of Mississippi News, “Meek Hall: Add A Little Art to Your Day”, February 3, 2014, by Dennis Irwin.

Jackson State Newsroom, “JSU Roars: Taiwanese visual artist brings Eastern and Western perspectives to the classroom”, October 13, 2013, by Jackson State University.

Art Radar Journal, “Beyond Taiwan’s horizons: Taiwanese contemporary art in the US”, August 2, 2013, by Kate Nicholson.

Laurel WDAM.com, “LRMA presents Mississippi Art Faculty Juried Exhibition”, April 12, 2012, by Mercer Morrison.

Future Forward Journal, “Foundations NOW”, March, 2012, by Integrative Teaching International.

Boom Jackson Magazine, “Outside the Box”, Spring 2012, by Adrian Louie.

Creative Lofting Atlanta, “Funny, angsty, urgent show considers the boundaries of drawing”,
September 01, 2011, by Felicia Feaster.

Creative Lofting Atlanta, “Under the influence at MOCA GA”, January 28, 2011, by Felicia Feaster.

Art Nouveau Magazine, “The Quadrennial Greater Decatur Group Show (Review)”, November 19, 2010, by John Coulter.

ArtsCriticATL, “Review: Poetic conceptualism pervades work by Atlanta artists in ‘Quadrennial’ at Agnes Scott”, October 7, 2010, by Jerry Cullum.

The Connector, “Juxtaposing color and shape in ‘Kite’”, July 8, 2010, by Alexandra Sowers.

World Journal, “Solo Exhibition by Chung-Fan Chang”, June 29, 2010.

MMCA Marketplace, “Artist Interview”, April 8, 2010, by Debbie Overton.

Franklin News, “Feature Story”, April 21, 2009, by Charles A. Westfall.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung City, Taiwan
Michael Rooks, Wieland Family Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, High Museum, Atlanta, GA Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
Blue Medium, New York, NY
Permanent Collection, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
Ann-Marie Manker, Gallery Director, Kibbee Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Ken and Tracy Szilasi, President, Maison Weiss, Jackson, MS
Private collectors upon request

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

College Art Association (CAA)
Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC)
Mid-America College Art Association Conference (MACAA) Foundations in Art: Theory & Education (FATE)
Chinese-American Art Faculty Association (CAAFA)
American Alliance of Museums (AAM)
Association of the Visual Arts in Taiwan (AVAT)

WEBSITE

 

EDUCATION

MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art

  

COURSES

ARTV 1162 Intro to Drawing
ARTV 2161 Painting 1
ARTV 3233 Painting from Observation
ARTV 4960/4961 Senior Project in Painting I & II

 

Work included in:

Nickas, Robert. Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting. London: Phaidon Press, 2009.

Reviewed in:

Bedford, Christopher. “Jacob Feige,” Frieze. March 2009. 170.

“Galleries- Chelsea: Jacob Feige,” The New Yorker. 12 January 2009.

Hudson, Suzanne. “Jacob Feige at Lombard-Freid Projects,” Artforum. February 2009. 193.

Wolin, Joseph. “Jacob Feige, ‘From the Bellona Museum of Natural History.’” Time Out New York. 9 Nov. 2011.

 

EXHIBITIONS

Lombard-Freid Projects. New York, 2011 (solo exhibition).

Jolie Laide Gallery. Philadelphia, 2010 (collaborative solo exhibition).

Movement Art Space. Worcester, UK, 2010 (solo exhibition).

Chambers Fine Art. Beijing, China, 2010 (two person exhibition).

Brooklyn Academy of Music. Brooklyn, NY, 2009 (group exhibition).

Orlando Museum of Art. Orlando, FL, 2006 (group exhibition).

COURSES

ARTV 2230 Illustration I
ARTV 2268 Computer Animation for Multimedia
ARTV 2270, 3271 Graphic Design I & II
ARTV 4580, 4581 Senior Project in Visual Communications I & II
ARTV 4926 Design for Community Partners
GAH 1259 2-Dimensional Design on the Computer
GAH 2012 Art Appreciation
GAH 2164 History of Graphic Design

 

PUBLICATIONS

Published design and illustration (2012-2007)

Beer City Prints Portfolio; a limited edition print portfolio, A collaboration between the Wood Engravers Network and Asheville Bookworks artists, published by Ashville Bookworks, 2012.

Invited submission for Parenthesis 21, Journal of the Fine Press Book Association. Deluxe Edition Ephemera Portfolio. 2011.

Invited for Wood Engraver’s Network, Calendar; Cover wood engraving and design, 2011.

Selected forA Calendar of Days, 2011 Art Calendar from members of the Wood Engravers’ Network. The Porcupine’s Quill Press, Erin Ontario.

Me myself and Ifor the Ephemera Portfolio of Parenthesis 17, Journal of the Fine Press Book Association, 2009.

Selected for Cover of Multiples: Volume Six, Number Twelve, November Newsletter of the Society of Wood Engravers, Oxford, U.K.

Design for Pattern paper for Deluxe Edition of Parenthesis 13, Journal of the Fine Press Book Association used in Boxed, bound journal and portfolio of printed Ephemera from Fine Presses in North America. December 2007.

Censorship Poem and Wood Engraving limited edition bifold printed for the Fine Press Book Association Deluxe Subscriber Edition of Parenthesis 13. 2007.

 

EXHIBITIONS (2012-2007)

Ocean City Art Center, Invited for One Person Exhibition of Wood Engravings and Digital Prints. October 2012.

The 74th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers. Art Jericho, Oxford, 9/22/11- 10/22/11, Bankside Gallery, London 11/26/12 – 2/3/12 and is touring UK.

“Broadsides 2011”Atelier 6000. Juried group exhibition, Bend Oregon 11/11-12/11. Two pieces selected.

Wood Engraver’s Network Relief Engraving Exhibition, Asheville Bookworks, Ashville NC, 5/10/12-6/30/12. Two pieces selected.

Juried Group exhibition: “Earl of Enigma” selected for the 73rd Annual Exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers, Oxford England. RBSA Birmingham UK, 11/8/10 – 11/20/10 Bankside Gallery, London 1/20/11- 2/3/11 and touring UK.

Piece selected for the juried exhibition of broadsides and other ephemera co-sponsored by the American Printing History Association and the Museum of Printing, in North Andover, Massachusetts. Permanent collection of the Museum of Printing Archives. 2009.

Two pieces selected for the 71st Annual Exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers, Bankside Gallery, London and touring UK, 2008.

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Board Member Fine Press Book Association
Treasurer for the Fine Press Book Association (2010)
Printed Ephemera Coordinator for the Fine Press Book Association
Deluxe Editions of the North American Parenthesis Issues 9, 11, 13, 15 and 17 (2004-2009)
American Institute of Graphic Arts, Philadelphia
Fine Press Book Association
Wood Engravers Network (2004-2009).

WEBSITE

 

  

 

EDUCATION

MFA, Rhode Island School of Design

 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE 

Sculpture, illustration

 

COURSES 

ARTV 1169 3D Foundations
ARTV 2269 Sculpture I
ARTV 3768 Sculpture II
ARTV 3770 Sculpture III
ARTV 4830/4831 Senior Project in Sculpture I & II
ARTV 4832 Senior Portfolio in VIBA
GAH 2253 The Sacred Object

 

PUBLICATIONS

Complete portfolio and CV available at

Other recent publications include two essays for the Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia (PhiladelphiaEncyclopedia.org): "Painters & Painting" and "The Peale Family of Artists."

Kate Ogden has chaired the 91��Ƶ Art Gallery committee since 1991. She has occasionally curated exhibitions for the Art Gallery, including (most recently) "Tim Daly and Valeri Larko: Learning from New Jersey" (2012) and "Jacob Landau: The Holocaust Series and Other Prints" (2010). Her most ambitious curatorial project took place in 2008, when she curated and wrote a catalog for the exhibition "From Cape May to Cairo: The Work of George Washington Nicholson" (Oceanville, NJ: The Noyes Museum of Art, 2008).

Early in her career Prof. Ogden received Luce Foundation Fellowships (1988, 1989), a Virginia Steele Scott Fellowship (Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, Summer 1988), a Smithsonian Institution Short-Term Visit Award (1988), a Hilla von Rebay Guggenheim Museum Fellowship (1981), a Guggenheim Museum Curatorial Internship (1981), and a Smithsonian Institution Exhibition Internship (1980).

Grants and awards received while teaching at Stockton include two New Jersey Humanities Council Mini-Grants (2006, 2008), Stockton College Distinguished Faculty Fellowships (1993, 2004), a grant from the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority of Atlantic City (2001), and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant (1995).

 Prof. Ogden's community engagement has included numerous lectures for arts groups and cultural institutions in the region, serving as a guest juror for local art exhibitions, and occasional curatorial collaborations. She sponsors student internships at the Noyes Museum of Art and the 91��Ƶ Art Gallery, and has involved her 91��Ƶ in projects for her website Art & Architecture of New Jersey, for the Noyes Museum of Art, for Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society, and other local groups.

Prof. Ogden serves on the New Jersey State Review Board for Historic Preservation, the agency that recommends buildings for the State and National Registers; she is currently Vice-Chair of the board. In 2014 she was a member of the planning committee for the Vernacular Architecture Forum's Annual Conference "Down Jersey: From Bayshore to Seashore," for which she was project coordinator and photo editor of the conference guidebook to architecture in southern New Jersey. Prof. Ogden is also on the Board of Directors (now the Advisory Board) of The Noyes Museum of Art of 91��Ƶ.

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Columbia University

 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE 

19th & 20th century American painting and photography

 

COURSES

AMST 5004 19th-Century American Art
ARTV 2175/2176 Art History I & II
ARTV 3335 Art of New Jersey
ARTV 3610 Nineteenth-century Art
ARTV 3611 Early Modern Art
ARTV 3612 American Art
ARTV 3613 Modern Art Since 1950
ARTV 4950/51 Senior Project in Art History I & II
GAH 2227 History of Photography

 

PUBLICATIONS

Yosemite. London: Reaktion Books, Ltd., Oct. 2015. 

"Painters & Painting.” The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia (PhiladelphiaEncyclopedia.org, online), 2016.

 “T��� Peale Family of Painters.” The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia (PhiladelphiaEncyclopedia.org, online), 2016.

Guidebook to Southern New Jersey architecture, Down Jersey: From Bayshore to Seashore (Photo Editor and Project Manager), produced in conjunction with annual conference of Vernacular Architecture Forum, May 2014.

“California as Kingdom Come.” Yosemite: Art of an American Icon. Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles. 2006. 23-53.

“Carved in Stone: Looking at American Art in New Jersey Burial Grounds,” in Siobhan Fitzpatrick, ed., Ghosts, Ghouls & Gravestones: The Trades of Burial (Exhibition catalogue, The Museum of Early Trades and Crafts, Madison, NJ, 2013), pp. 42-63.

Essay, “Michael Lenson: From Murals to Modernism,” in Time, Place and Substance: Selected Works by Michael Lenson (Exhibition catalogue, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 2012), pp. 4-15.

“Michael Lenson: From Murals to Modernism.” The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio. 2012. 6-17.

Essay, “Surface Tension,” in Joseph Podlesnik: Surfaces (book of photographs, self-published, 2015).

Article, “Camera Lies Before PhotoshopTM,” New Horizons in Visual Literacy: Selected Readings of the International Visual Literacy Assocation, edition 200 (June 2012), pp. 133-144.

“Portraits by George Washington Conarroe.” American Art Review 22.6 (2010): 76-79.

“T��� Work of George Washington Nicholson.” American Art Review 20.4 (2008): 80-87, 143-144.

Exhibition Catalogue & Essay, From Cape May to Cairo: The Work of George Washington Nicholson, The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ, April 22 – Nov. 9, 2008; curated exhibition drawing from public and private collections in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.

“Within the Tradition: Photographic Portraits of Holocaust Survivors,” in Holocaust Survivors of South Jersey: Portraits of Resilience, Atlantic City Art Center; produced by the Holocaust Resource Center, Stockton College, 2007; 2nd ed. 2008.

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

College Art Association
Association of Historians of American Art
Association of Historians of 19th Century Art
Nineteenth Century Studies Association

Hannah is a recipient of numerous awards for her work in graphic design, digital art, and photography, including the Design Excellence Award from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Creative Quarterly magazine, and New Jersey Emerging Artist Series. Her prints are included as the permanent collection at Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Arts, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, and Sapporo International Center.

 

EDUCATION

MFA, Washington State University

 

WEBSITE

 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Graphic Design, Digital and Interactive Media, Web Design, Lenticular Imaging, 3D Modeling and Animation, Photography, Illustration.

 

COURSES

ARTV 3676 3D Animation (Q2)
ARTV 3674 3D Modeling (Q2)
ARTV 4580 Senior Project in Visual Communication I (Fall semester)
ARTV 4781 Senior Project in Visual Communication II (Fall semester)
ARTV 4925 Internship
ARTV 4926 Design for Community Partners
GAH 2267 Unlocking Creativity (W2, I)
LANG 1375 Introduction to Japanese

 

PORTFOLIOS

Metafisica - 3D Lenticular Images of Cityscape and Dreamscape;
Urban Jungle Gym - Pen and Ink;
Virtual Tour from Ando Hiroshige's Tokaido prints;
Virtual Tour from MC. Escher's prints;
19th century School Architecture in Japan - Photography;
Table Series - Digital Art.

 

BOOK INCLUSIONS

Contemporary Masters Vol.4 and Vol. 5;
Graphic Design USA: 18, AIGA Annual Design Compendium.

 

JOURNALS

Creative Quarterly Vol. 39/40;
Music, Sound and Moving Image Journal, Liverpool University Press, UK;
MAC Addict;
Various exhibition catalogs.

 

EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS 

List available at

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Institute of Graphic Design
National Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
NJ Tech Council

He has received various awards and fellowships including the Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University; John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Photography; three artist fellowships from the New Jersey State Council for the Arts; Bunn Lectureship in Photography and grants from EnFoco, Center Santa Fe, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and various artist’s residencies. 

His work is represented in museum, public, and private collections including National Gallery of Art (DC); Mint Museum (NC); Duke University (NC); New Jersey State Museum (NJ); California Institute for Integral Studies (CA); Graham Foundation for the Advancement of the Fine Arts (IL); En Foco, (NY); Rochester Institute of Technology (NY); The Museum of Fine Art, Houston (TX); Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (IL); Haverford College (PA); University of Delaware (DE); University of Alabama (AL); and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NY). 

White has served on the boards of directors for the Society for Photographic Education, New Jersey Council for the Humanities, and The Print Center (PA). He has also served on the Kodak Educational Advisory Council, NJ Save Outdoor Sculpture, the Atlantic City Historical Museum, Atlantic City Free Library Foundation, New Jersey Martin Luther King Jr. Commission, and the New Jersey Black Culture and Heritage Foundation. 

Recent projects include Manifest: Thirteen Colonies; Red Summer; Schools for the Colored; Village of Peace: An African American Community in Israel; Small Towns, Black Lives; and others. 

 

WEBSITE

 

EDUCATION

MFA, University of Texas at Austin

 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Photography, digital imaging, multimedia

 

COURSES

ARTV 2140 Digital Photography
ARTV 2121 Photo: Film & Darkroom I
ARTV 2136 Museums and Galleries
ARTV 2321 Photo: Digital Image & Print
ARTV 3240 Photo: Film & Darkroom II
ARTV 3241 Alternative Photo Processes
ARTV 3625 Photoshop
ARTV 3825 Photoshop II
ARTV 4920/4921 Senior Project in Photography I & II

 

PUBLICATIONS

Portfolios: Manifest: Thirteen Colonies, Red Summer,  Schools for the Colored, Small Towns Black Lives, Industrial Landscapes, and others.

Books: Wendel A. White: Remains, Remnants, Reliquaries, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI 2023.

Schools for the Colored, Push Pull Editions, Corvallis, OR, 2022.

Manifest. San Francisco: Chroma, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2014.

Small Towns, Black Lives. Oceanville, NJ: The Noyes Museum of Art, 2003.

Journal Articles: "Schools for the Colored: Places, Words, Pictures" Buildings & Landscapes Vol. 22.1 (2015): 63-89

Books that include my work: American Geography; Light and Lens; Envisioning Emancipation; Posing Beauty; Family, History, Memory; and others.

Periodicals: Smithsonian Magazine, Afterimage, Nueva Luz, exposure, American Photo on Campus, New Jersey Monthly, Transition, Bomb Magazine, and many other newspapers and exhibition catalogs.

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Society for Photographic Education

WEBSITE

 

EDUCATION

MFA, The Ohio State University

 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Documentary video, experimental video, and television production

 

COURSES

COMM 2402 Video Production
COMM 2403 Television Production
COMM 2407 Introduction to Editing
COMM 2412 Media Aesthetics
COMM 3350 Documentary Production
COMM 3351 Experimental Video Production
COMM 4906 Community TV Partnership
GAH 1294 Documentary Truth and Ethics 
GAH 1296 Animation Techniques and Meaning

 

SCREENINGS, BROADCASTS AND EXHIBITIONS

Anthology Film Archives. New York, NY.

Cambridge Community Television. Cambridge, MA.

Cine Pobre Festival. La Paz, Mexico.

Community Broadcasting Foundation. Sydney, Australia.

Crown Heights Film Festival. Brooklyn, NY.

Festival de Cannes Short Film Corner (with Christine Farina). Cannes, France.

Festival Images Contre Nature. Marseille, France.

Festival Temps D’Images. Lisboa, Portugal.

Fine Arts Film Festival. Venice, CA.

NJ Arts Annual. Newark, NJ.

Nyack Film Festival. Nyack, NY.

Portobello Film Festival. London, England.

Transfera TV. Madrid, Spain.

Traverse Vidéo. Toulouse, France.

Wellington Underground Film Festival. Wellington, New Zealand.

West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival. Morgantown, WV.

 

RECENT FILMS

Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation (Working title). Documentary. In Progress. 

A Cosmos of Patterns. Documentary. 2014.

City in a Garden. Experimental. 2014.

Living Things. Experimental. 2013.

The Amnesiac’s Birthday. Documentary. 2011.

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

University Film & Video Association

Dr. Allison also serves as coordinator for the Africana Studies Program, and she teaches numerous Africana Studies courses, which include Introduction to Africana Studies, African American Movies, Introduction to Hip Hop Culture, a Seminar on Representations of Race in Media, and a learning abroad course to Senegal, West Africa. In addition to Africana Studies, Dr. Allison also teaches for the Communication Studies program. These courses include: Film Theory and Criticism, Communication Research Methods, Senior Seminar in Communication Studies, Mass Communication Theories, Television and Popular Culture, News and Politics, African Americans on Television, and Women, Minorities, and the Media.

 

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Howard University

 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Media Images of African Americans, Hip Hop Culture and Identity

 

COURSES

GAH 2184 Introduction to Hip Hop Culture
GSS 2201 African American Studies: An Introductory Perspective
GSS 3295 African American Movies
COMM 1201 Introduction to Communication
COMM 2409 Television and Popular Culture
COMM 2414 African Americans on Television
COMM 3200 Theories of Mass Communication
COMM 3203 Communication Research Methods
COMM 3306 Women, Minorities, and the Media
COMM 3400 Film Theory and Criticism
COMM 4601 Communication Seminar (Topics: Crime and Media, Political Communication)

 

PUBLICATIONS

Allison, D. (2017). "The Perpetuation of Racial Stereotypes in American Media". In P. Reid-Merritt (Ed.), Race in America: How a Pseudo-Scientific Concept Shaped Human Interaction, Praeger.

Allison, D. (Ed.). (Jan. 2016). Black Women's Portrayals on Reality Television: The New Sapphire. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

“Hip Hop, Identity, and African American Teens.” International Journal of the Humanities 9.6 (2012): 255-262.

“T��� Academy in Color.” The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations 8.4. 101-108.

“Free to Be Me? Black Professors, White Institutions.” Journal of Black Studies 38.4 (2008): 641-662.

Co-authored with Donyale Griffin. “Making a Case for Restorative Rhetoric: Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Mayor Ray Nagin’s Response to Disaster.” Communication Monographs 77.3 (2010): 376-392.

“Accommodation,” “Acculturation,” and “Adaptation.” Encyclopedia of Identity. Ed. Ronald L. Jackson. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2010.

“I wonder if they would say that in HIS classroom.” Teaching Race, Diversity and Social Justice in White Space: Challenges, Implications and Effective Strategies. Ed. Darrell Cleveland. Forthcoming.

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILATIONS

National Council for Black Studies
The National Communication Association

EDUCATION

MFA in Film and Television, Savannah College of Art &Design

 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Live television, Documentary production, Steadicam , Dance on Film, Audio Production, film theory and criticism

 

COURSES

AMST 5015 Documenting America: Film Analysis & Practice
COMM 2401 Mediated Communication: Audio Production
COMM 2402 Mediated Communication: Video Production
COMM 2403 Mediated COMM: Television Production
COMM 2407 Introduction to Editing
COMM 4200 Steadicam: Art of the Moving Camera
COMM 4902 WLFR Internship
COMM 4906 Community TV Partnership
GAH 3207 Blaxploitation: Cinema During the 1970’s
GAH 3306 The Pre-Code Hollywood Era

 

SCREENINGS, BROADCASTS AND EXHIBITIONS

Telly Award, Michele Balan: LIVE, Philadelphia, PA 2017

COMM Spotlight Series: Presented “Scratched: the Epidemic of Drugs in Horseracing.” November 5, 2015.

Screened Scratched: The Epidemic of Drugs in the Horseracing Industry, May 16, 2014, Collingswood Public Library

The Filmmakers and Author Series @ Collingswood Library, Collingswood, NJ-screened “T���Brian Dennis Project,” August 26, 2010

(2) Telly Award Finalist (2008). “Man with the Magic Hands.”  

Telly Award Winner (2001). Philly LIVE, interview with tennis legend Martina Navratilova

Telly Award Finalist (2000, 2002). Philly LIVE.

Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters Award (2002). Philly LIVE.

The Albany International Film and Video Festival, New York

Short Attention Span Film and Video Festival, San Francisco

CAL Arts, Los Angeles

Anthology of Film Archives, New York

Georgian Court University- The Story Between the Pages. Invited screening

NJCA-The New Jersey Communication Association-13^th Annual Conference, presented Bringingthe Ethos of the Apprenticeship Back to the Liberal Arts Education: Infusing the Respect for the Skill, Art and Technique of the Moving Image. Chair of panel

 

RECENT FILMS

Cradle, short dance film listed on   Internet Movie Database

Off the Track to a Second Chance. Video documentary. 2012.

The Brian Dennis Project. Video documentary. 2009.

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

College Media Advisers

New Jersey Broadcasters Association (NJBA)

At the core of her scholarship and pedagogy is the critical consideration of pre- and post-conflict discourses with attention to media, politics, popular thought and public memory. Her work centers mainly on the 1990s wars in the former Yugoslavia, with some attention to the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, the Khmer Rouge Genocide in Cambodia, the Genocide of Guatemala’s Maya, and the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa. Her past projects considered the impacts of Serbian historical narratives, as they are embedded within a range of public discourses, on the normalization of violence that accompanied the 1990s wars in the former Yugoslavia. Her current research considers the impacts of historical narratives on post-war discourses and the extent to which they influence regional sustainable stability and social repair. She is presently working on a book – a ten-year longitudinal study focusing on public memory and the Srebrenica Genocide. The study critically analyzes the ways in which locally-originating grassroots civil society organizations in Serbia and Bosnia are affecting post-conflict transition through carefully crafted, consciously counter-hegemonic, vernacular rhetorical strategies deployed in public space.

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Georgia

 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

The Rhetoric of Mass Violence & Genocide;
The break-up of Yugoslavia, The Bosnian War & its aftermath;
Gender & War;
Discourses of Memory;
The Rhetoric of Social Change;
Discourses of Gender, Race, Class & Ethnicity

 

COURSES 

COMM 3309: Media, Civil Rights, & Social Change;
COMM 3312: Media in Times of War;
COMM 4601: Senior Seminar;
GAH 2358: Perspectives on Women;
GAH 3248: Media, Public Perception & Genocide;
GIS 3418: Witness to Genocide;
GIS 3658: Women & Genocide

 

SELECTED RECENT RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS:

Morus, Christina M, (2012) War Rape and the Global Condition of Womanhood: Learning from the Bosnian War. In Rape as an Instrument of War and Genocide (J. Roth & C. Rittner Eds.) Paragon House publishers.

Morus, Christina M. (2011) Half the Sky: Considering the Audience-conscious Rhetorical Strategies of Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn. Expositions – An interdisciplinary journal of Ethics, 5 (2) (Fall 2011).

Morus, Christina M. (2010) Bosnia: Violence Born of History, History Born of Violence. in L. Barria & S. Roper, Eds. The Development of Institutions of Human Rights: A Comparative Study. (Palgrave MacMillan Publishers).

Morus, Christina M. (2007) The SANU Memorandum: Intellectual Authority and the Constitution of an Exclusive Serbian “People,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies Journal, 4, (2) (142 – 165).

Morus, Christina M. (2007) Slobo the Redeemer: The Rhetoric of Slobodan Milosevic and the construction of the Serbian “people,” Southern Communication Journal, 72, (1) (1 – 20). Lead Article

 

BOOK REVIEWS:

Morus, Christina M. Review of Genocide: Truth, Memory and Representation. Hinton, Alexander L., and O'Neill, Kevin L., eds - Journal of Peace and Social Justice Studies. (January, 2011).

Morus, Christina M. Review of War, Conflict & Human Rights: Theory & Practice. Sriram, Chandra L.; Martin-Ortega, O. & Herman, J. In Human Rights Quarterly, 32 (4) (November 2010)

 

ENCYCLOPEDIA & DIGITAL DATABASE ENTERIES:

Morus, Christina M. (2013). Bosnian Genocide: Overview. In Modern Genocide: Understanding Causes and Consequences. Retrieved November 6, 2013, from

Morus, Christina M. (2013). Bosnian Genocide: Causes. In Modern Genocide: Understanding Causes and Consequences. Retrieved November 6, 2013, from

Morus, Christina M. (2013). Bosnian Genocide: Consequences. In Modern Genocide: Understanding Causes and Consequences. Retrieved November 6, 2013, from

Morus, Christina M. (2013). Bosnian Genocide: Perpetrators. In Modern Genocide: Understanding Causes and Consequences. Retrieved November 6, 2013, from

Morus, Christina M. (2013). Bosnian Genocide: Victims. In Modern Genocide: Understanding Causes and Consequences. Retrieved November 6, 2013, from

Morus, Christina M. (2013). Bosnian Genocide: Bystanders. In Modern Genocide: Understanding Causes and Consequences. Retrieved November 6, 2013, from

Morus, Christina M. (2013). Bosnian Genocide: International Reaction. In Modern Genocide: Understanding Causes and Consequences. Retrieved November 6, 2013, from

Morus, Christina M. (2013). Crimes Against Women. In Modern Genocide: Understanding Causes and Consequences. Retrieved November 6, 2013, from

Morus, Christina M. (2013). Sexual Violence Against Women. In Modern Genocide: Understanding Causes and Consequences. Retrieved November 6, 2013, from

Morus, Christina M. (2013). Women in Black. In Modern Genocide: Understanding Causes and Consequences. Retrieved November 6, 2013, from

Morus, Christina M. (2013). Stasa Zajovic. In Modern Genocide: Understanding Causes and Consequences. Retrieved November 6, 2013, from

Morus, Christina M. (2013). DAH Theatre. In Modern Genocide: Understanding Causes and Consequences. Retrieved November 6, 2013, from

Morus, Christina M. (2013). Humanitarian Law Center. In Modern Genocide: Understanding Causes and Consequences. Retrieved November 6, 2013, from

Morus, Christina M. (2013). Mothers of Srebrenica. In Modern Genocide: Understanding Causes and Consequences. Retrieved November 6, 2013, from

 

SELECTED RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS:

“Colonization, Imagination and the Nationing of Dubrovnik: A Critical Consideration of Images of the ‘Homeland War’ and the Shifting identity of the Ancient Jewel of the Adriatic” - Lines Between: Culture and Empire in the Eastern Mediterranean, June 03 – 06, 2015, Nicosia, Cyprus

"Performing Absence as Presence in Post-traumatic/Post-conflict Commemoration." – National Communication Association Conference, November 2013, Washington, DC

"Sights of Conflict, Aggression, and Transformation: Vernacular Visual Tactics in the struggle for post-conflict Memory". George Gerbner Conference on Communication, Conflict, and Aggression - Budapest, Hungary June 2013

"Locating Invisible Agents of War: A Critical Consideration of the Bosnian War’s Militarized Women" - The Politics of Location Revisited: 8th European Feminist Research Conference, May 2012, Budapest, Hungary

"Locating local feminist activism in a transnational feminist landscape: Gender, Agency and the struggle for memory in the aftermath of the Bosnian war"- The Politics of Location Revisited: 8th European Feminist Research Conference, May 2012, Budapest, Hungary

"Invisible Agents of War: 'Seeing' Women’s War Aggression as a crucial next step in Gender & Conflict Studies" -- Gendered Memories of War & Political Violence Conference, May 2012, Istanbul, Turkey

"The Peace March – Srebrenica 2010: A Case Study of the Effects of Locally Originating solutions for Post-Conflict Transition" -- 2011 Day of Scholarship, March 2011, Richard Stockton College, NJ

"Serbia’s Women in Black: Always Disobedient to Patriarchy – A Transnational Feminist Critique" – National Communication Association Conference, November 2010, San Diego, CA,

"Teaching Genocide as more than The Holocaust" – Religious Communication Association pre-conference, November 2010, San Francisco, CA

"Understanding Media & Militarization" – Anti-militarism Conference, Belgrade, Serbia

"Women in Black: The Perils of remaining 'Always Disobedient to Patriarchy'” – 2010 Day of Scholarship, Richard Stockton College

"War Rape in Bosnia" – Scholar’s Seminar on Genocidal Rape, March, 2010, Philadelphia, PA

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

National Communication Association
Fulbright Scholars Alumni Association
Organization for Research on Women and Communication

COURSES

COMM 2103-003 Writing for the Media
COMM 2401-001 Audio I
COMM 4902-001 WLFR Internship

 

Professional History

• Audio Labs Manager/Instructor, Central Michigan University (2010-2017)
• Student Media Specialist, Simpson College (2005-2010)

 

Education & Training

• B.A. in Organization Communication, Winona State University
• M.S. in Mass Communication, St. Cloud State University
• Ed.D. in Organizational Leadership, 91��Ƶ

 

 

 

Toby has nearly 20 years of professional storytelling experience and since 2015 has been developing courses and teaching at Stockton. She has contributed to the reshaping of the Communication Studies mission and future goals, including seeking more student opportunities in our community and strengthening the program’s branding and image.

Her teaching philosophy fuses practical experience, current events, as well as historic and academic context.

 

EDUCATION

Columbia University in the City of New York, School of Journalism
M.S. Journalism, Broadcast Concentration 2003
Thesis: “Just a Click Away: Teaching Computers to Seniors”
Advisor:  David Klatell

University of Maryland, College Park
B.A. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 1999

Citation Earned - College Park Scholars - Advocates for Children, 1997

 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Digital Storytelling
Broadcast Journalism
Video Production
Reality TV

 

COURSES

COMM 2412: Media Aesthetics - Spring 2018

COMM 2209: Digital Storytelling - Spring 2018, Spring 2017

COMM 2402: Video Production - Fall 2017

GAH 2412: Ethnicity Through Film (W2) -Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016

LANG 1255: Beginning Hebrew - Spring 2015

 

SCHOLARLY AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY

2018 - Reflections and Remembrance: Helen Kejzman - Produced and edited a short form life story video of Holocaust survivor Helen Kejzman for Cumberland County College. This video also aired on The Stockton Channel during the week of Yom Hashoah, in April 2018.   

2009 - From Despair, Hope – Story Producer

This half hour film tells the life stories of three Holocaust survivors from Atlantic County who had different experiences during the Third Reich. Ernest Paul was in the resistance, Eta Hecht was a hidden child, and Rella Roth was in Auschwitz-Birkenau as well as other camps.

2009-  Rails of the Holocaust: A Journey to Stockton College -Story Producer

This 10-minute film details the journey of the railroad tracks featured in the architecture of the Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center from Bialystok, Poland to Stockton. The film explains the importance of railroads to the "Final Solution."

2007-Alone No More: A Community Assists Holocaust Survivors – Story Producer

This 11-minute film highlights the efforts of the Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center and Jewish Family Service of Atlantic & Cape May Counties to aid in providing services to Holocaust survivors.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Restaurant: Impossible - Food Network – Story Producer 2011-2016

Food Feuds – Food Network – Story Producer 2010

Deliver Me - Discovery Health Channel, Producer & Writer 2007-2009

Surviving Motherhood – TLC, Turning Producer 2006-2007

Epicurious – Travel Channel, Field & Post Producer 2004–2005

Ambush Makeover – Fox TV, Casting Director & Producer 2003-2005

A Wedding Story – TLC, Researcher and Field Producer 2005

Third Floor Video, LLC Managing Member/Producer - 2009-present