Program Chairs
Program Chairs supervise the execution of the program and ensure faculty members have everything they need to complete their courses. The program chair position is held by a faculty member for two years. In July at the end of their second year, a new chair is assigned. If you have questions about your major, please email your program chair.
Undergraduate Programs
Africana Studies Program
Program Chair
Donnetrice Allison, Professor of Africana Studies and Communication Studies
Donnetrice Allison
Professor of Africana Studies and Communication Studies
BIOGRAPHY
Donnetrice C. Allison, Ph.D, currently serves as a professor of both Africana Studies and Communication Studies at Stockton University 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.
“The 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
Performing Arts Program
Program Chair
Caitlin Pittenger, Assistant Professor of Dance
Caitlin Pittenger
Assistant Professor of Dance
BIOGRAPHY
Caitlin Quinn Pittenger, Assistant Professor of Dance at Stockton University completed her M.F.A. in Dance from Temple University in Philadelphia and her B.A. in Dance with a concentration in performance and choreography from Goucher College, Baltimore, M.D. She served as a Guest Artist in Residence at Georgian Court University.
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 17th, 2017.
2017, Dividing Lines, Choreography and Performance by Caitlin Quinn Pittenger. Lighting Design by Caitlin Quinn Pittenger. Stockton Faculty Alumni Concert. Stockton University 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. Stockton University 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. Stockton University 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
Visual Arts Program
Program Chair
Hannah C. Ueno, Professor of Art
Hannah C. Ueno
Professor of Art
BIOGRAPHY
Hannah Ueno has worked as a graphic designer in San Francisco and Tokyo before joining Stockton University. She teaches 3D Computer Modeling and Animation, Digital Imaging and Typography, Web and Interactive Media Design. A fellow member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, she received her MFA in Visual Communications from Washington State University, and B.F.A. from Nihon University-College of Arts in Tokyo, Japan.
Her work is exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries and museums.
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 http://hannahueno.com/about.html
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Institute of Graphic Design
National Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
NJ Tech Council
Communication Studies Program
Program Chair
Joe'l Ludovich, Associate Professor of Communication Studies
Joe'l Ludovich
Associate Professor of Communication Studies
BIOGRAPHY
I am an Emmy-nominated producer and an award winning filmmaker who brings 20 plus years of film and television production experience to the classroom. I utilize my professional experience in producing live television, coordinating and filming documentaries, corporate video and historical re-enactments in the film and television industry to inform my teaching and give students a glimpse into the process of making television, audio, or video productions. I am former WLFR General Manager and adviser of ten years
WEBSITE
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 “TheBrian 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-13th 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 www.imdb.com 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)
Historical Studies Program
Program Chair
Languages and Culture Studies Program
Program Chair
Katherine Panagakos, Assistant Professor of Classics; AFGLC Professor of Greek Culture
Katherine Panagakos
Assistant Professor of Classics; AFGLC Professor of Greek Culture
BIOGRAPHY
Katherine Panagakos earned her M.A. in Classics from Tulane University and her Ph.D. in Greek and Latin from The Ohio State University. During her graduate work, she was a student at The American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) and was a field walker and camp manager at the Eastern Korinthia Archaeogical Survey (EKAS). Katherine spent three years in a rotating position at schools in the Associated Colleges of the South (Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX; Furman University in Greenville, SC; and Rhodes College in Memphis, TN).
She began teaching primarily Latin and Classics-related courses at Stockton in January of 2008. Katherine serves as the advisor for the Classics National Honor Society (ΗΣΦ) and OGRE (Order of Greco-Roman Enthusiasts), as well as being an active member of the Interdisciplinary Center of Hellenic Studies (ICHS) and the Friends of Hellenic Studies (FHS). Her research focuses on the ancient Greek and Roman novels. Katherine is currently working on three manuscripts. The first focuses on the role of pirates and robbers in the ancient novels and the other two are in collaboration with former students: one is an intermediate Greek text on Aesop’s Fables; the other is a collection of essays on suicide in the ancient Greco-Roman world.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Latin language and literature, Ancient Greek and Roman novels, Augustan Age, Classical mythology, Greco-Romans in film, zombies in popular culture
COURSES
LANG 1220/1221 Beginning Latin I & II
LANG 2710 & 2711 Intermediate Latin I and II (recent authors include: Catullus, Martial,
Apuleius, Petronius, Cicero, Horace, and Ovid)
LANG 3710/3711 Advanced Latin I and II (recent authors/topics include: Vergil, Lucan,
Lucretius, Elegiac Poetry, Roman Biography, Cicero, and Livy)
LANG 3760/3761Advanced Greek I and II (Lucian, Longus, and Homer)
GAH 1038 Reacting to the Past
GAH 1401 Classical Myth and Legend
GAH 1632 Greco-Romans in Film and Text
GAH 2351 Zombies and Cultural Anxiety
GAH 3220 The Age of Augustus
PUBLICATIONS
Review of Stefan Tilg’s Chariton of Aphrodisias and the invention of the Greek Love Novel (Oxford UP, 2010).Bryn Mawr Classical Review. Bryn Mawr, PA: BMCR, 2011.
Review of Evan Hayes and Stephen Nimis’ Lucian’s The Ass: An Intermediate Greek Reader (Faenum, 2012). Classical Journal. (Under contract)
“Heliodoran Evolution and Innovation.” Ancient Narrative. (Under revision)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Philological Association
Classical Association of the Middle West and South
Eta Sigma Phi
Literature Program
Program Chair
Adam Miyashiro, Associate Professor of Literature
Adam Miyashiro
Associate Professor of Literature
BIOGRAPHY
Adam Miyashiro teaches courses on comparative medieval literature, medieval Mediterranean studies, postcolonial theory, and critical race theory and has a subspecialty in Asian and Pacific literatures. He has published articles and book reviews in Neophilologus, Notes and Queries, Journal of Law and Religion, Comparative Literature Studies, Literature Compass, and postmedieval.
Prof. Miyashiro has presented his work at national and international conferences such as the Modern Language Association, International Medieval Congresses in Leeds, UK and Kalamazoo, MI, and the American Comparative Literature Association.
He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Delaware Valley Medieval Association and is the Secretary of the Stockton Federation of Teachers (AFT Local #2275). He is an Advisory Board member of the journal Early Middle English and was a founding member of the Medievalists of Color Collective.
WEBSITE
http://wp.stockton.edu/miyashiro/
EDUCATION
Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Comparative medieval literature, Old and Middle English, Old French and Anglo-Norman literature, Mediterranean Studies, historiography, travel narratives, Arthurian literature, postcolonial theory
COURSES
LITT 2102 British Literature I
LITT 2123 Literary Research
LITT 2227 Arthurian Literature
LITT 3110 Chaucer
LITT 3261 Medieval English Literature
LITT 3262 The Medieval Romance
LITT 3263 Comparative Medieval Literature
LITT 3301 History of the English Language
LITT 4610 Senior Seminar
GAH 2201 Shakespeare’s Worlds
GAH 2334 Representing Race
GAH 3218 Medieval Cultural Encounters
PUBLICATIONS
Review of Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and West, by Zhang Longxi, Cornell University Press, 2005. Journal of Law and Religion 22.2 (2007): 619-623.
Review of Sodomy, Masculinity, and Law in Medieval Literature: France and England, 1050-1230, by William Burgwinkle, Cambridge University Press, 2004. Comparative Literature Studies 44.1-2 (2007): 211-214.
“Disease and Deceitin Béroul’s Roman de Tristan.” Neophilologus 89.4 (2005): 509-525.
“The Middle English Term Bipen in Castleford’s Chronicle.” Notes and Queries 50.1 (2003): 5-6.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association
American Comparative Literature Association
Medieval Academy, International Center for Medieval Art
Delaware Valley Medieval Association (Executive Council)
Spain-North Africa Project
Philosphy and Religion Program
Program Chair
Jongbok Yi, Associate Professor of Asian Philosophy
Jongbok Yi
Associate Professor of Asian Philosophy
BIOGRAPHY
I was born in Seoul, Korea. I studied Ch’an or Zen Buddhist traditions in China and Korea, and also studied and practiced Daoism and Confucianism in Sungkyunkwan University. After attaining an M.A. degree for early Ch’an Buddhism at Seoul National University in 2000, while studying Indian and Tibetan Buddhism and Hinduism at the University of Virginia, I achieved an M.A. in 2005 and a Ph.D. degree in 2013. I am very interested in the intellectual history of the philosophy of the Middle Way (Madhyamaka, dbu ma) in India and Tibet. Currently, I am planning to collaborate with two Japanese scholars to publish a series of books on Tibetan understanding of Indian Middle Way School from 8th century C.E. to 15th century C.E.
I am also a tea drinker. Please stop by and tell me your story with a sip of tea.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Virginia
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Chinese religions, Buddhist philosophy, Confucianism, Daoism, Shamanism, Hinduism.
COURSES
PHIL 1101 Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 2100 Buddhist Philosophy
PHIL 2121 Chinese Philosophy
PHIL 2123 Indian Philosophy
PHIL 2126 Tibetan Buddhism
GAH 1370 Chinese Culture
GAH 2347 History of Tea
PUBLICATIONS
Yi, Jongbok. The Opposite of Emptiness in the Middle Way Autonomy School: Jam-yang-shay-pa's Great
Exposition of the Middle. UMA Institute for Tibetan Studies.
Hopkins, Jeffrey and Jongbok Yi, The Hidden Teaching of the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras: Jam-yang-shay-pa’s Seventy
Topics and Kon-chog-jig-may-wang-po’s Supplement. UMA Institute for Tibetan Studies. 2013. http://uma-tibet.org/edu/gomang/gomang_first.php.
Hopkins, Jeffrey and Jongbok Yi, Ngag-wang-pal-dan’s Explanation of the Treatise.
Ornament for the Clear Realizations from the Approach of the Meaning of the Words:
The Sacred Word of Maitreyanatha. UMA Institute for Tibetan Studies.
Yi, Jongbok. “Controversy among Ge-luk-pa Scholars about What is Negated in Emptiness
according to the Svatantrika-Madhyamika School.” Journal of Buddhist Philosophy 1 (2014).
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Academy of Religion
American Philosophical Association
International Association of Buddhist Studies
International Association of Tibetan Studies
Graduate Programs
4 + 1 Dual Degree in Literature (B.A.) and American Studies (M.A.)
Contact a Literature preceptor or the chair of the Literature program for more information about the dual degree program.
American Studies Program
Program Chair
John O'Hara, Associate Professor of Critical Thinking & First - Year Studies
John O'Hara
Associate Professor of Critical Thinking & First - Year Studies
Ph.D., University of Miami
John F. O’Hara joined the faculty of General Studies in the FRST program at Stockton 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!
