Instructor of English
Writing Center Director

Education

BA, Franklin and Marshall College
MA, Bowling Green State University

Recent Awards and Achievements

• PCADV: Training for Domestic Violence Advocates –1/08.
• Awards:
  • Bowling Green State University Distinguished Thesis Award Nominee –2008
  • Sexuality and Gender Activism Award: Feminism, Gender Equality and Women’s Liberation –2007
  • Katzner Research Grant –2007
  • Hackman Research Scholarship –2004
  • Paul A. Mueller Jr. Summer Research Award –2003
• Gallery Shows / Papers / Publications:
  • From Subculture to Mass Culture: The Impact of Internet Photography on New York Club Cultures –March 2008
    • Master’s Thesis
  • Choice, Gaze and Empowerment: critically considering global body modification practice, panel and short film
    • National Women’s Studies Association Conference –June 2007
  • Barbie: A Culture History of Subversion –February 2007
    • Women’s Research Network, OH
  • The Girls Room, Photography Exhibit
    • Battleground States Conference, Bowling Green, OH –March 2006
    • Penn State Teen Pregnancy Prevention Conference, PA –November 2005
    • Phillips Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA –February–March 2004
    • Power Camp: Filles D’action, Int’l Women’s Exhibition, Quebec –November 2003
  • The Fulton Opera House in Black and White: African American Performers and Protest in Lancaster, Pa., –1890–1915, Article
    • Contributors: Kibler, M. Alison, Lisa Richman, and Randi Weinberg
    • Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society –Fall 2004

Teaching Philosophy

“University classes should be safe, interactive, innovative, collaborative spaces for sharing thought and acquiring knowledge. Students’ active participation is key to this environment. The best learning happens when students bring their experiences to the table. Every student arrives at Siena with their own framework of knowledge that can inform their learning and enrich the learning of those around them. My role is to facilitate learning among and between my students, to provide a dynamic classroom, and to always maintain the fundamental roots of knowledge as non-hierarchical.”