Faculty & Staff
Our faculty offer more than forty undergraduate and graduate courses each semester. Courses in History, Anthropology, and Geography examine the human experience in all major cultural regions of the world from ancient times to the present.
Department of History and Anthropology
Faculty Works in Progress Seminar Series
This seminar provides a forum for both full time and part time faculty in the Department of History and Anthropology to present their research in progress to the campus community.
Full-time Faculty
Julius O. Adekunle, Ph.D.
Professor
Heidi L. Bludau, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Applied Anthropology;
Career Advising Mentor;
Scholarly interests: Medical anthropology; Business anthropology; Globalization; Migration; Identity
Melissa A. Brzycki, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor;
Scholarly interests: East Asia, Childhood and Youth, Popular Culture, Gender and Sexuality, Public History, Digital Humanities
Kenneth L. Campbell, Ph.D.
Professor;
Scholarly interests: The Beatles, Irish History, British History, European History
Manuel Chavez, Ph.D.
Lecturer;
Director of Philosophy Program
Veronica M. Davidov, Ph.D.
Associate Professor;
Director of Graduate Program in Anthropology
Hillary A. DelPrete, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Biological Anthropology;
Scholarly interests: Human Variation, secular trend, skeletal change, Evolution
Maureen Dorment
Senior Lecturer
Geoffrey G. Fouad, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Geography;
Director of GIS Program;
Scholarly interests: Geographic Information Systems, Geography, Remote Sensing
William M. Gorman
Lecturer;
Scholarly interests: Federal Budget, National Security spending (Homeland Security in particular), United States tax policy, Differing views on Economic regulation
Adam R. Heinrich, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Frederick L. McKitrick, Ph.D.
Associate Professor;
Chair, Department of Art & Design
Brooke A. Nappi, M.A.
Lecturer;
Scholarly interests: Cultural Anthropology (U.S.); Gender and Sexuality, Race/Diversity and Inclusion; Education; the Supernatural; Body and Embodiment, Phenomenology
Katherine J. Parkin, Ph.D.
Professor;
Jules Plangere, Jr., Endowed Chair in American Social History
Thomas S. Pearson, Ph.D.
Professor
Maryanne A. Rhett, Ph.D.
Professor;
Director of Graduate Program in History;
Scholarly interests: Islam, Comics, Nationalism
Karen Schmelzkopf, Ph.D.
Associate Professor;
Scholarly interests: tourism, urbanization, maps and mapping, human geography
Richard F. Veit, Ph.D.
Dean;
Professor
Hettie V. Williams, Ph.D.
Associate Professor in African American History;
Coordinator of Works and Progress Series ;
Coordinator of Monmouth Forum Lecture Series;
Scholarly interests: African American intellectual history, gender in U.S. history, and race studies
Melissa S. Ziobro, M.A.
Specialist Professor, Public History;
Scholarly interests: Public History (Museums/Archives, Oral History, etc), U.S. History, NJ History
Associated Faculty
Part-time Faculty
MacKenzie S. Avallone
Adjunct
Adam Z. Black
Instructor of History;
Scholarly Interests: Military History, The History & Psychology of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, U.S. Political History, and World Mythologies
Paula Burns-Ricciardi
Instructor of History
Susan S. Cohen
Adjunct
Scott W. Costello
Adjunct
Christopher M. Dolphin
Adjunct
Ryan J. Eckert
Instructor of History
Levi Fox
Adjunct
Robert A. Grasso
Instructor of History
Seth J. Hackman
Adjunct
Noah Lipman, J.D.
Instructor of History
Sean A. McHugh
Instructor of GIS
Matthew M. Mopsick
Instructor of History
Matthew L. O’Brien
Instructor of History
Maria P. Paradiso-Testa, MS.Ed
Instructor of Religous Studies
Joseph S. Reynolds
Instructor of Geography
Anne Ricculli
Instructor of History
Kevin M. Rooney, J.D.
Instructor of History
Lauren Rorie
Adjunct
Peter J. Samaras
Adjunct
Keri J. Sansevere
Adjunct
Gerard P. Scharfenberger, Ph.D.
Instructor of Anthropology
Lesley A. Schierenbeck
Adjunct
Jennifer L. Swerida
Instructor of History
John G. Tangeman
Instructor of History
Mariana Tepfenhart
Instructor of History
Kevin C. Young
Adjunct
