Promotions

Loyola celebrates the attainments of its faculty members who were recently tenured and/or promoted, one of the most important career milestones in a faculty member's career.

During the 2023-24 academic year, 27 Loyola faculty members were tenured and/or promoted. Their accomplishments will continue to strengthen student learning experiences, and their scholarly contributions will continue to enrich human and universal understanding and experience.

The profiles of these distinguished faculty members, which follow, describe the faculty members' areas of expertise and give insight into their most significant and rewarding career dimensions.

• Alicia Barger, M.S., CCC, SLP
• Maren Blohm, Ph.D.
• Carey Borkoski, Ph.D., Ed.D.
• Marianna Carlucci, Ph.D.
• Gayle Cicero
• Tiffany Curtis, Ph.D.
• John Dougherty, Ph.D.
• Lynne Elkes
• Joseph Farrell, Ph.D.
• Tepanta Fossett, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
• Michelle Gawerc, Ph.D.
• Selin Gürsözlü, Ph.D.
• Inas Hassan, Ph.D.
• Marie Heath, Ed.D.
• Margarita Jácome, Ph.D.
• Kelly Keane, Ed.D.
• Nicholas Miller, Ph.D.
• Brandon Parlopiano, Ph.D.
• Sara Scalenghe, Ph.D.
• Astrid Schmidt-King, J.D.
• Mary Kate Schneider, Ph.D.
• Qi Shi, Ph.D.
• Kerry Tan, Ph.D.
• Michael Tangrea, Ph.D.
• Thomas Thompson, CCC-SLP
• Rebecca Trump, Ph.D.
• Jeffrey Witt, Ph.D.

Alicia Barger, M.S., CCC-SLP

Promoted

Associate Clinical Professor of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences

Research Interests

• Motor Speech Disorders
• Childhood Apraxia of Speech

Favorite Courses Taught at Loyola

• Master's Level: Clinical Internship 1 and 2
• Master's Level: Clinical Internship: School Based

Recent/Noteworthy Publications or Presentations

• 2023 Co-Wrote a 15 hour, MSDE course with Kara Vincent, M.S., CCC-SLP, Director Loyola Clinical Centers
• Presented Research at MSHA
• Several teacher trainins at The Loyola School, Calvert School, Kiddie Calvert on Early Language, Articulation, Pre-Literacy and Feeding Development in Children

Most Significant Service to Loyola, Your Professional, and/or Baltimore Community

• Board Member Rendez-Vous Haiti since 2018
• The Loyola School/Loyola Early Learning Center, Parent Trainings yearly on saturdays
• The Retreat: Hippotherapy: Assisted neurodiverse individuals while working/riding horses

Grants/Fellowships Awarded

• Hoffberger Foundation Grant to support clinical training program, Loyola Clinical Center and The Loyola School partnership for speech, language, and pre-literacy assessment and treatment of children ages 2 years - 10 years.
• Wright Foundation Grant to support clinical training program, Loyola Clinical Center and The Loyola School partnership for speech, language, and pre-literacy assessment and treatment of children ages 2 years - 10 years.

What is Significant or Rewarding about Loyola

Loyola University Maryland has been my second home since the Fall of 1993 when I started my undergraduate degree. I went on to earn my B.A. and M.S. in Speech Language Pathology in 1997 and 1999 respectively. I was an externship supervisor for many years and joined the clinical faculty in the SLHS department at the Loyola Clinical Centers in the Fall of 2011, after the birth of my daughter. What has had the most significant impact on me is transitioning from student to teacher and effecting positive change in the students I teach and mentor utilizing the Ignatian philosophy and pedagogy as my guiding touchstone. Ultimately, it is the people at LUMD that have made my career at Loyola the most rewarding!

Maren Blohm, Ph.D.

Promoted

Professor of Biology

Research Interests

My research focuses on plant responses to environmental stresses. I am particularly interested in stresses that are linked to climate change such as water quality and temperature.

Favorite Courses Taught at Loyola

• BL 311 - Research Methods in Plant Science
• BL 361 - Plant Physiology
• BL 281 - General Genetics

Recent/Noteworthy Publications or Presentations

• Veatch-Blohm, M.E., G. Medina, and J. Butler. 2023. Early lateral root formation in response to calcium and nickel shows variation within disjunct populations of Arabidopsis lyrata spp. lyrata. Heliyon, 9: e13632. Doi.org/10.1016.j.heliyon.2023.e13632.
• Veatch-Blohm, M.E., I. Chicas, K. Margolis, R. Vanderminden, M. Gochie, and K. Lila. 2021. Screening for consistency and contamination within and between bottles of 29 herbal supplements. PLOS One 16(11): e0260463.
• Veatch-Blohm, M.E., B.M. Roche, and T. Sweeney. 2019. The effect of bulb weight on salinity tolerance of three common Narcissus cultivars. Scientia Horticulturae 248: 62-69.

Most Significant Service to Loyola, Your Professional, and/or Baltimore Community

• Chair of the Committee on the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning
• Acadmic Senator for the Biology Department
• Science Club for Warren Elementary

Grants/Fellowships Awarded

• "Genetic mechanisms of heavy metal tollerance of serpentine and non-serpentine populations of Arabidopsis lyrata subspecies lyrata" Maryland Native Plant Society grant, $2,610. Project Period June 2023-May2024.
• "The Incorporation of Graphite-Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy Across the Chemistry Curriculum" NSF-CCLI grant for graphite furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrometer for $117,611. Awarded June 2010.

What is Significant or Rewarding about Loyola

The most rewarding activity during my time at Loyola has been mentoring students in research. I believe that science comes alive as students participate in the research process. I strive to help them gain skills that they can later use no matter what their ultimate goals or academic skills are. The very act of research builds skills that are applicable and transferable to more than just science, such as problem solving and troubleshooting. My hope is that they catch the excitement of contributing new knowledge to the field and this will lead to a lifelong love of learning and exploration.

Carey Borkoski, Ph.D., Ed.D.

Tenured

Associate Professor of Education Specialties

Research Interests

My scholarship is focused on exploring our conception of belonging, how we experience it, and the dispositions, competencies, and strategies that invite belonging. I also am interested in expanding the ways in which we do and approach research and have explored, in my own work, more accessible and collaborative forms of research methods.

Favorite Courses Taught at Loyola

• AD685 Critical Reflection
• AD600 (AD601 in SP2024) Self as Leader Coaching Course (new this year)

Recent/Noteworthy Publications or Presentations

• Borkoski, C. & Roos, B. (in process and under contract). The Many Faces of Belonging
• Borkoski, C. (in process) Unflattening Leadership: One Professor's Story of How a Graphic Novel Informed Her Students Training as Education Leaders, Amanda Latz, Darron Collins, and Andrea Kantrowitz (Eds.), MIT Press.
• Roos, B. & Borkoski, C. Exploring Belonging and Its Implications for Leadership. [Conference Presentation]. Annual ASHA Conference 2023, Boston, MA 2023.

Most Significant Service to Loyola, Your Professional, and/or Baltimore Community

• Elected to the Town of Scituate School Committee (3 year term)
• Member of the Sabbatical Review Committee 2022-2023
• Program-level Development Activities

Grants/Fellowships Awarded

• Center for Equity, Leadership, and Social Justice in Education (CELSJE) at Loyola University Maryland Summer Research Grant
  Carey Borkoski, Investigator, $4,000 (summer funding).
  This funding supported coding and analysis of qualitative interview data from an IRB-approved podcasting research project. Dr. Borkoski coded two seasons of data and this work (along with another Loyola colleague) lead to a book contract that is currently in progress and will be submitted at the end of January 2024 for peer review with plans for publication in Fall 2024)
• Attendance Works Grant
  Carey Borkoski, Investigator, $5,000
  This funding supports a program evaluation of an Attendance Work intervention implemented by the YMCA in Baltimore City. The evaluation employs a mixed method design using quantitative, programmatic data as well as qualitative data from intervention coordinators' dashboards. The evaluation includes both a process and outcomes investigation.

What is Significant or Rewarding about Loyola

As I noted in my narrative, I am grateful for how closely my teaching philosophy and scholarship align with Loyola's commitment to cura personalis. Decisions to transition to new faculty positions are varied and complex and finding a place where I could fully integrate my personal beliefs, teaching philosophy, and research into a professional role was a top priority. I am pleased to report that after almost two years, I am finding myriad ways to create a professional role that aligns with my core values and my ability to show up authentically contributes positively to the development and support our students and colleagues.

Marianna Carlucci, Ph.D.

Promoted

Professor of Psychology

Research Interests

I have a varied academic background that lies, mainly, at the intersection of psychology and the law. I also have a second area of interest and expertise in gender and sexuality.

Favorite Courses Taught at Loyola

• Research Methods in Psychology (Graduate Level)
• Psychology of Gender
• Forensic Psychology

Recent/Noteworthy Publications or Presentations

• Garcia, J., Johnson-Evans, A., Carlucci, M. E., & Grover, R. (2020). The impact of mental health diagnoses on perceptions of risk of criminality. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 66, 397-410.
• Henninger, A. L., Iwasaki, M. I., Carlucci, M. E., & Lating, J. (2020). Reporting sexual assault: Survivors' satisfaction with sexual assault response personnel. Violence Against Women, 26, 1362-1382.

Most Significant Service to Loyola, Your Professional, and/or Baltimore Community

• Equity Fellow for Academic Affairs 2020-2023

Grants/Fellowships Awarded

• American Academy of Sleep Medicine: Community Sleep Health Award

What is Significant or Rewarding about Loyola

I could not be happier or more fortunate for having landed at Loyola in 2011. I often tell my students this: I have a bachelor's degree and a doctoral degree and yet, the most learning I've ever done has been at Loyola. I believe the Jesuit pedagogical tradition can be transformative, and it has allowed me to lean in, more fully, to my intellectual passions. Thank you to my colleagues in the Psychology Department, who have been my greatest teachers, and thank you to the broader Loyola community who has embraced me in the last few years as Equity Fellow for Academic Affairs. It has been a pleasure and I hope to continue to learn and grow alongside fabulous, hardworking, and gifted colleagues.

Gayle Cicero, Ed.D.

Promoted

Associate Clinical Professor of Education Specialties

Research Interests

I am interested in mindfulness, systems thinking, counselor supervision, leadership, and the impact of trauma on children and teens.

Favorite Courses Taught at Loyola

• Mindfulness Based Treatment Strategies
• Professional Issues and Ethics
• Stress and Stress Management

Recent/Noteworthy Publications or Presentations

• Watkinson, J.S., Cicero, G. & Burton, E. (2021). Addressing anxiety: Practitioners' examination of mindfulness in supervision. The Professional Counselor, 11(4), 459-474. doi: 10.15241/jsw.11.4.459.
• Creative Counseling Techniques (workshop for BCPS)

Most Significant Service to Loyola, Your Professional, and/or Baltimore Community

• Graduate Standards Committee
• Invited presentations for Baltimore County Public Schools
• Building strong partnerships with surrounding school districts

Grants/Fellowships Awarded

• Kahlert Foundation Award (2022-2023, 2023-2024)

What is Significant or Rewarding about Loyola

I get my most joy from teaching and providing supervision to students at Loyola. The students bring such energy to the profession and I find the relationships with my students sustains my energy. Additionally, I love designing learning experiences and have fully embraced technology as a tool to incorporate into my teaching. Finally, I take great pride in being a Greyhound. The culture in the school counseling department is fully inclusive and faculty enjoy working with one another. This makes the job rewarding.

Tiffany Curtis, Ph.D.

Promoted

Associate Teaching Professor of Writing

Favorite Courses Taught at Loyola

• WR 100 Effective Writing
• WR 200 Introduction to Creative Nonfiction
• WR 326 Technical Writing

Most Significant Service to Loyola, Your Professional, and/or Baltimore Community

• Loyola - co-advisior for Corridors, Loyola's literary journal
• Profession - language editor for New Horizons in English Studies, an academic journal associated with the Institute of English Studies at the University of Marie Curie-Sklodowska in Lublin, Poland

What is Significant or Rewarding about Loyola

Students at Loyola are imaginative and intellectually curious. They are progressive thinkers and engaged, active citizens. They appreciate the rigor of a loyola classroom and welcome its challenges. Teaching these students and engaging with them has been rewarding and enriching. The support of my colleagues in the Writing Department has been just as invaluable. My work with Messina continues to inspire me each semester. Loyola's commitment to cura personalis is foundational to all my pursuits, guiding my course implementation, service endeavors, and professional development efforts.

John Dougherty, Ph.D.

Tenured and Promoted

Associate Professor of Economics

Research Interests

Broadly, my research interests are in Economic Development, Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Enviornmental Economics, Catholic Social Teaching, and Applied Microeconomics. Most of my research has focused on using microfinance tools to help smallholder farmers in the developing world mitigate risk and improve productivity, though I'm also exploring a variety of other topics such as product safety inspections, economics and faith, and the economic preferences of AI chatbots.

Favorite Courses Taught at Loyola

• Environmental Economics (EC 360)
• Behavioral and Experiemental Economics (EC 475)
• Intermediate Microeconomics (EC 302)

Recent/Noteworthy Publications or Presentations

• Dougherty, John P., Jon Einar Flatnes, Richard A. Gallenstein, Mario J. Miranda and Abdoul G. Sam. "Climate change and index insurance demand: Evidence from a framed field experiment in Tanzania." July 2020. The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 175: 155-184.
• Dougherty, John P., Richard A. Gallenstein, and Khushbu Mishra. "Impact of index insurance on moral hazard in the agricultural credit market: Theory and evidence from Ghana." March 2021. The Journal of African Economies, 00: 1-31.
• Gallenstein, Richard A. and John P. Dougherty, "Can Revenue Index Insurance Outperform Yield Index Insurance?." Forthcoming. The American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Most Significant Service to Loyola, Your Professional, and/or Baltimore Community

• Served on the University Provost Hiring Committee
• Served as Member and Chair of the Sellinger School Strategic Management Committee
• My wife and I run Oxbow Farm, whose mission is to provide produce, hospitality, and ecological education. We sold and donated our produce at Govan's Farmers' Market, and we hosted various farm events for Loyola including Campus Ministry students, Messina students, a Sustainable Accounting class, and a Catholic Studies Mass.

Grants/Fellowships Awarded

I have applied for three grants at Loyola but have not received one yet. Three awards I've won at Loyola are the Sellinger STAR award for research, the Campus Ministry Magis Award for mentoring, and the Sellinger STAR award for teaching.

What is Significant or Rewarding about Loyola

While I have deeply enjoyed scholarship and service at Loyola, the most significant part of my time here has been teaching and mentoring students in the spirit of Cura Personalis. I love getting students to think about big questions in new ways and fostering class discussion and debate. I also really appreciate seeing students' confidence increase as they work out problems on the white board during office hours. Finally, it has been very rewarding seeing students grow into better versions of themselves and to keep in touch as they move on to careers and new adventures in life.

Lynne Elkes

Promoted

Teaching Professor of Economics

Research Interests

My research focuses on the best practices in Honors education for administrators, instructors, and students. I also continue to write case studies in the area of management.

Favorite Courses Taught at Loyola

• EC 103 Macroeconomic Principles
• BA 201 Business Essentials for humanities Students

Recent/Noteworthy Publications or Presentations

• "Lead Forum Essay: Cultivating and Celebrating Honors Faculty," Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 24(2), 2023.
• "Cross-Cultural Connections: How Traditional and Preprofessional Honors Programs can Survive and Thrive Together," Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 23(2), 2022.

Most Significant Service to Loyola, Your Professional, and/or Baltimore Community

• Strategic Planning Steering Committee 2022-24
• Academic Director, Sellinger Scholars 2021-present
• Ad Hoc Committee on the 6-year rule, 2013-14

Grants/Fellowships Awarded

• Collegium Catalyst grant 2023

What is Significant or Rewarding about Loyola

Loyola University Maryland has been a second home for me in good times and bad over the last thirty years. The caring culture at Loyola supports students and faculty alike to be passionate about education, learning, and ultimately, about making a difference in the world. The opportunity to teach thousands of students over the years about economics but also about how to navigate life, has been a highlight of my career, as I have tried to live the motto of magis, one student at a time.

Joseph Farrell, Ph.D.

Promoted

Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy

Research Interests

I am interested in the theory of human nature, ethical theory, bioethics, and business ethics.

Favorite Courses Taught at Loyola

• PL 302 Ethics
• PL 311 Bioethics

Recent/Noteworthy Publications or Presentations

• "Gross Intellectual Property: The Moral Challenges of Ownership in the Digital Age". Journal of Business Cases and Applications. Volume 32: July 2022, pages 56-77.
• "The Strange Case of Dr. Samson: An Analysis of Interpersonal conflict and Managing Chane in a Service Organization". Journal of Business Cases and Applications. Volume 26: April 2020, pages 1-18.
• "DACA-ptives: On the Moral Quality of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program". The International Journal of Applied Philosophy. Volume 32: Issue 1 (Spring, 2018), pages 33-47.

Most Significant Service to Loyola, Your Professional, and/or Baltimore Community

• Chairperson of Loyola's Institutional Review Board
• Community member of the Greater Baltimore Medical Center Ethics and Patient Services Committee

Grants/Fellowships Awarded

• High Impact Faculty Fellows - Fellowship on Classroom Spaces

What is Significant or Rewarding about Loyola

What I find most rewarding about my career at Loyola is teaching, advising, and building relationships with the leaders of tomorrow. A Loyola graduate myself, I seek to pay my education forward to Loyola's students today.

Tepanta Fossett, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Tenured and Promoted

Associate Professor of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences

Research Interests

My primary research interest is in the cognitive-linguistic and motor speech assessment of neurologically based communication disorders in adults, specifically aphasia, dysarthria, and apraxia of speech.

Favorite Courses Taught at Loyola

• Neurology for Communication Sciences & Disorders
• Motor Speech Disorders

Recent/Noteworthy Publications or Presentations

• Matsumoto, J. Y., Fossett, T., Minsoo, K., Duffy, J.R., Strand, E., McKeon, A., Lee, K., Stead, M., Burnett, M., Adams, A.C., & Klaasen, B.T. (2016). Precise location stimulation optimizes speech outcomes in essential tremor. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, 32, 60-65.
• Fossett, T. R. D., McNeil, M.R., & Spratt, S.R., Tompkins, C.A., & Shuster, L. I. (2016). The effect of speaking rate on serial-order sound-level errors in normal healthy controls and persons with aphasia. Aphasiology, 30(1), 74-95.
• McNeil, M.R., Pratt, S.R., Szuminsky, N., Sung, JE, Fossett, T. R. D., Fassbinder, W., Lim, KY. (2015). Reliability and validity of the Computerized Revised Token Test: Comparison of reading and listening versions in persons with and without Aphasia. Journal of Speech-Language-Hearing Research, 58, 311-324.

Most Significant Service to Loyola, Your Professional, and/or Baltimore Community

• Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders & Sciences Student Fellowship Commitee (subcommittee of Membership Committee)
• Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences Continuing Education Committee
• Education for Life

Grants/Fellowships Awarded

• Advancing Academic-Researcher Careers Award (AARC) - American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

What is Significant or Rewarding about Loyola

What has been most significant about Loyola to me is the experience of interacting closely with students who are highly motivated to learn and make a positive difference in the lives of others, who demonstrate their belief in the concepts of cura personalis and gratitude, and who display an attitude of optimism and enthusiasm that counters the messages sometimes so prominent outside of the LUM environment. The student-teacher relationship requires trust and the students allow themselves to be vulnerable enough to learn.

Michelle Gawerc, Ph.D.

Promoted

Professor of Sociology

Research Interests

Much of my research, since tenure, has been guided by a unifying theme: how can people accomplish working across differrence and inequality to advocate collectively for justice and peace. I am now engaged in a new project focused on truth commissions for racial healing and transformation in the United States.

Favorite Courses Taught at Loyola

• SC203D: Globalization and Society
• SC377: Social Movements and Social Protest
• SC441: Conflict Transformation and Reconciliation in Divided Societies

Recent Noteworthy Publications/Presentations

• Gawerc, Michelle I. (2022). Constructing a Sense of ‘We’ Across the Lines of Conflict and Occupation: Joint Peace Movement Organizations in Israel/Palestine. In Fatma Müge Göçek & Gamze Evcimen (Eds.), Handbook of Sociology and the Middle East (pp.34-44). I.B. Tauris. 
• Gawerc, Michelle I. (2021). The Centrality of Difference in Coalition-Building Across Divides: Palestinian, Israeli, and International Organizations in the Occupied West Bank. Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest 9(2), 20-48.
• Gawerc, Michelle I. (2021). Coalition-Building and the Forging of Solidarity Across Difference and Inequality. Sociology Compass 15(3), 1-14.

Most Significant Service to Loyola, Your Professional, and/or Baltimore Community

• Council member for the American Sociological Association’s Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section (including serving as chair/member of three award committees, co-chair of its mentoring committee, and member of its nomination committee)

• Founding steering member of Loyola's Peace and Justice Studies program (and 2018-2019 Interim Director of the Office of Peace & Justice)

• Member of Loyola’s Interfaith Advisory Board, Loyola’s Committee on Engaged Scholarship, and the Global Studies Steering Committee.

Grants/Fellowships Awarded

• Fellow, Reignite Community-Engaged Seminar
• Hanway Faculty Development Grant, Loyola University Maryland
• Summer Research Grant, Loyola University Maryland

What is Significant or Rewarding about Loyola

As a faculty member, I most appreciate Loyola’s commitment to social justice, community-engaged learning, and value-engaged scholarship. It is a privilege to be able to encourage students to cultivate values for the “greater good,” to recognize their power to shape society through action, and to create for themselves a life philosophy that integrates their values, commitments, and the type of change they would like to see in this world.

Selin Gürsözlü, Ph.D.

Promoted

Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy

Research Interests

• Ethics
• 'Good Life' under Oppression

Favorite Courses Taught at Loyola

• Foundations of Philosophy
• Ethics of Race and Gender
• Gender and Nature

Most Significant Service to Loyola, Your Professional, and/or Baltimore Community

• Serving in the Diversity and Justice Curriculum Committee

What is Significant or Rewarding about Loyola

Loyola's culture and core values encouraging critical thinking, academic freedom, and diversity has always been very significan and rewarding for me. I have been fortuante to have excellent colleagues who support these ideals and students of a variety of interests, strengths, and expectations, from whom I have learned a great dea.

Inas Hassan, Ph.D.

Promoted

Teaching Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures

Research Interests

• Advanced Arabic Curriculum
• Classical Arabic Linguistics and Modern Linguistics Theories
• Bilingualism
• Applied Linguistics
• Anthropological Linguistics
• Teaching with Technology

Favorite Courses Taught at Loyola

• AB 101
• AB 102
• AB 103
• AB 104
• AB 201

Recent/Noteworthy Publications or Presentations

• From Ibn Sina to Sindbad: A Guided Reader to Classics of Arabic Literature, the American University Cairo Press; 1st edition (Co-Author Dr. DiMeo), 2023
• "The Arabyola Portal: Integrating Trusted Arabic e-Resources into Curriculum," 131-138, in The Arabic Classroom, ed. Mbaye Lo (Routledge, 2019).
• The Travels of Ibn Battuta: A Guided Arabic Reader, the American University Cairo Press; 1st edition (Co-Author Dr. DiMeo), 2016

Most Significant Service to Loyola, Your Professional, and/or Baltimore Community

• A volunteer faculty for the Diversity-Justice course committee (Fall23 - Spring 26)
• Arabic program Coordinator (MLL)
• Faculty member of Interfaith Advisory Board (IAB Advisory Board).
• Faculty Club Moderator (Arabyola)- Arabic Language Club
• Faculty Club Moderator MESA - Middle Eastern and South Asian
• Faculty Club Moderator MSA - Muslim Student Association
• Engaged faculty member (CCSJ)
• Faculty Expert - Arabic Language

Grants/Fellowships Awarded

• Affiliate faculty-teaching award, Center for Humanities, Loyola College - 2016-2017 academic year
• Affiliate Faculty Grant, Center for the Humanities, Loyola to present a paper at NEMLA conference, April 2015
• Pedagogical Development Grant, Center for Humanities, Loyola to develop online website, "Arabyola portal: selected web-resources and apps to enrich Arabic study." May 2014
• "Enriching Classroom Teaching" grant, Center for Humanities, Loyola to present at ACTFL conference, Nov 2013

What is Significant or Rewarding about Loyola

Teaching at Loyola University Maryland is extremely reward and enriching due to the highlighting of ethics, integrity, values, diversity, and global education.

At Loyola, you can easily emphasize the exceptional blend of academic rigor and moral principles in the classroom, promoting a diverse community while connecting faith-based teachings with academic disciplines. 

I always feel that going to Loyola campus is like going to my home and "NO place like HOME"!

Marie Heath, Ed.D.

Tenured and Promoted

Associate Professor of Education Specialties

Research Interests

I orient my scholarship around a guiding commitment that schools are integral to a more robust and multi-racial democracy. My scholarship examines schools and technologies as current sites of encoded oppression, and labors to advance more just technological and education futures.

Favorite Courses Taught at Loyola

• ED 609 Social Justice and Technology
• TE 605 Methods for Teaching Social Studies
• ET 690 Educational Technology Seminar

Recent/Noteworthy Publications or Presentations

• Heath, M.K., Gleason, B.W., Mehta, R., & Hall, T. (2023). More than knowing: Toward collective, critical, and ecological approaches in educational technology research. Educational Technology Research & Development. 1-23.
• Heath, M.K., & Segal, Pl. (2021). What pre-service teacher technology integration conceals and reveals: "Colorblind" technology in schools. Computers and Education. 170(104225). pp. 1-9.
• Heath, M.K., Asim, S., Milman, N., & Henderson, J. (2022). Confronting tools of the oppressor: Exploring Justice in educational technology and teacher education. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education. 22(4).

Most Significant Service to Loyola, Your Professional, and/or Baltimore Community

• Editor, CITE Social Studies Journal
• Founder, Civics of Technology Project
• Member, Faculty Evaluation Committee

Grants/Fellowships Awarded

• Loyola University Summer Research Grant (2019, 2022)
• Center for Equity, Leadership, and Social Justice in Education Summer Research Grant (2023)

What is Significant or Rewarding about Loyola

Loyola's special and particularly Jesuit blend of deep spirituality and practical action for justice resonate with me as a teacher-scholar. The Jesuit mission of justice and a solidarity with the excluded are woven into my scholarship and teaching, shaping me and my professional work. I believe it is because I work at an institution that centers mission, within a community who supports me, that I am able to grow as a professional who emphasizes knowledge and service to the larger world.

Margarita Jácome, Ph.D.

Promoted

Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures

Research Interests

I explore cultural productions on drug trafficking and their local and globalized forms of consumption. I am also interested in fictional and non-fictional representations of the Colombian armed conflict in relation to the violence in the countryside, forced displacement, and disappearance.

Favorite Courses Taught at Loyola

• SN306: Music and Social Movements in Latin America
• ML392D: Intro to Latin American and Latino Studies
• SN360: Latin American Testimony

Recent Noteworthy Publications/Presentations

• Book: La mirada opuesta. Voces de victimarios en la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea. Co-edited with Ana María Mutis. Bonilla Artigas Editores, 2021.
• Invited Lecture: "Conversatorio: la narcocultura se apodera de la academia." Congreso Narcotransmisiones globales. October 5-9, 2020.
• Book chapter: "Narrar la historia: identidades armadas en la narcoliteratura colombiana reciente." Narcodependencia. Escenarios heterogéneos de narración y reflexión. México: humbold Kolleg-Colegio Nacional, 2018. 546-91.

Most Significant Service to Loyola, Your Professional, and/or Baltimore Community

• Director. Latin American and Latino Studies Program.
• Associate Chair for Student Issues. Modern Languages and Literatures.
• Equity and Inclusion Faculty Fellow First Cohort: Having Difficult Conversations.

Grants/Fellowships Awarded

• Summer Research Grant. Loyola University Maryland. 2023.
• Professional Development Grant. Dean of Loyola College for Certificate on Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion. Cornell. 2022.
• Center for the Humanitites Grant. Hanna Geldrich-Leffman Language, Literature, and Society Colloquium. 2021

What is Significant or Rewarding about Loyola

Teaching is the most rewarding experience for me. I like to stimulate students’ desire to learn and their curiosity to explore other peoples and cultures. I believe they can achieve a high level of critical thinking as they make smart contributions to class discussions, especially on sensitive topics such as injustice, discrimination, and privilege. I also enjoy the exchanges I have with them outside the classroom that allow me to know them better. I admire Loyola students for their vivacity and tenacity, and I love how respectful they are. I always leave the classroom feeling invigorated!

Kelly Keane, Ed.D.

Promoted

Associate Teaching Professor of Education Specialties

Research Interests

Dr. Keane's research interests encompass technology integration and student engagement, active learning in the online environment, and University Design for Learning.

Favorite Courses Taught at Loyola

• ED602: Designing Inclusive and Engaging Learning Environments
• ET631: Transformative Online Instruction
• ET690: Critical Perspectives of Technology

Recent/Noteworthy Publications or Presentations

• Keane, K. (2020). From Emergency Learning to Distance Learning: Best Practices for Educators. Presented at the Association for Independent Maryland & DC Schools Technology Conference, Baltimore, MD.
• Keane, K., & Hunter, P. (2019). A Snapshot of Photovoice in Education: Implications for Online Learning. Presented at International Society for Technology in Education Conference, Philadelphia, PA.

Most Significant Service to Loyola, Your Professional, and/or Baltimore Community

• Director of Loyola's Digital Pedagogy Workshop
• Quality Matters Certified Peer Reviewer
• Accessibility & Inclusion Fellow, National Federation of the Blind

Grants/Fellowships Awarded

• MSDE DEI/SES IDEA State Discretionary Grant: Recipient of $146, 000 grant to design, develop, implement, and evaluate six online micro-credential courses addressing best practices for leading Individualized Education Program (IEP) meetings based on IEP Chair Competencies.
• MD Pre-service Computer Science Teacher Education Program Grant: Recipient of $50,000 grant to design, develop, implement, and evaluate five micro-credential courses about computational thinking for K-8 educators. Collaborated with the Maryland Center for Computing Education (MCCE) and local school systems in Baltimore.
• Accessibility and Inclusion Fellow: Collaborated with the National Federation of the Blind to adapt course content and activities to meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and best practices of inclusion. Led in-service teachers and University faculty in professional learning about accessibility and inclusion in K-12 and higher education learning environments.

What is Significant or Rewarding about Loyola

What is most significant about my work at Loyola is the practice of teaching teachers in the Baltimore area and beyond. These teachers rely on effective instruction and mentorship to continuously enhance their teaching abilities and this is what I provide. By equipping my students, who are teachers, with the latest pedagocial knowledge, technologies, and strategies, I empower them to create equitable, inclusive learning environments where all students, regardless of their backgrounds, can thrive. Through this process, Loyola allows me to contribute to breaking down systemic barriers, promoting equal opportunities, and ultimately, paving the way for a more equitable future.

Nicholas Miller, Ph.D.

Promoted

Professor of English

Research Interests

My research is interdisciplinary, and focuses primarily on early animation history and the intersections between time-based media and modernist print and visual cultures. My published scholarship includes work on independent animation, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish and British literature, Irish national cinema, neurological research on memory, comparative aesthetics (literature, visual art, film, animation), and psychoanalytic theory.

Favorite Courses Taught at Loyola

• Imagined Innocents: The Child Narrator in Fiction and Film (English Department Senior Honors Seminar)
• The Art of Reading (Messina First-Year Seminar)
• The Animation Imagination (200-level Core or Upper-Division English Seminar)

Recent Noteworthy Publications/Presentations

• “Farther Figures: Locating the Author Father in Coraline,” Mihaela Mihailova, ed., Coraline: A Closer Look at Studio LAIKA's Stop-Motion Witchcraft, Animation: Key Films/Filmmakers series London: Bloomsbury Press, 2021.

• “‘A Printing Machine for the Memory’: Stillness, Metamorphosis, and the Poiesis of Memory in Ruth Lingford’s Death and the Mother,” Animation and Memory, Maarten van Gageldonk and László Munteán, eds., London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2020.
• “Dreaming while Black”: The Sesame Street Animation of Tee Collins and Jim Simon,” Sesame Street and the Animating Imagination, Society for Animation Studies 34th Annual Conference, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, June 12-16 2023.

Most Significant Service to Loyola, Your Professional, and/or Baltimore Community

• 2023-present: Chair, Department of English, Loyola University Maryland
• 2012-present: Director, Film Studies, Loyola University Maryland
• 2004-10: Director, Honors Program and Chir, Honors Review Committee

Grants/Fellowships Awarded

• 2021-22: Loyola NEH Summer Research Fellowship Matching Grant
• 2017: Loyola University Maryland Faculty Award for Excellence in Transformative Teaching (Inaugural Award)
• 2014: Center for the Humanities Grant Funding, The Baltimore Cinema History Project, an initiative that supported original student-led archival research on Baltimore's neighborhood cinemas, student-hosted screening at the historic Senator Theatre in Belvedere Square, and ultimately, a continuing institutional/community partnership between Loyola and its neighborhood cinema, The Senator.

What is Significant or Rewarding about Loyola

Brandon Parlopiano, Ph.D.

Promoted

Associate Teaching Professor of History

Research Interests

My research focuses on low and jurisprudence in the European Middle Ages, especially ideas, attitudes, and practices related to mental and physical disability.

Favorite Courses Taught at Loyola

• HS 232/309: Law, Lawyers, and Litigants in European History
• HS 419: Medieval Bodies
• HS 100: Encountering the Past

Recent/Noteworthy Publications or Presentations

• 'Insanity, Blame, and "Quidam teologi: in Durham, C. III.1,' Proceeding of the 14th International Congress of Medieval Canon Law (Monumenta Iuris Canonici, Series C-15; Città del Vaticano, 2016) 779-792.
• 'Propter deformitatem: Towards a Concept of Disability in Medieval Canon Law," Canadian Journal of Disability Studies 4.3 (2015) 72-102.
• 'The Burden of Proving Insanity in the Medieval Ius Commune,' The Jurist 72 (2012) 185-213.

Most Significant Service to Loyola, Your Professional, and/or Baltimore Community

• Moderator of the History Club
• Member of the Pre-Law Steering Committee
• Messina Faculty and Advisor

Grants/Fellowships Awarded

• Affiliate Teaching award, Center for the Humanities, Loyola University Maryland; 2021
• Vatican Film Library Mellon Fellowship for study at the Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis University; May 2012
• Grant for Independent Research on Venetian History and Culture from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for work in the Archivio di Stato of Venice; September-December 2011

What is Significant or Rewarding about Loyola

The most rewarding part of being a member of the Loyola community is building relationships with students in the classroom and helping them foster a sense of curiosity about the past and the ways in which it shapes their world. As a medieval historian, most students come into my course with little prior knowledge of the subject. Introducing the medieval world to them and seeing them take to a subject they had not previously considered is a source of immense joy.

Sara Scalenghe, Ph.D.

Promoted

Professor of History

Research Interests

My main research interests are Middle Eastern History, Disability History, and the History of Women and Gender.

Favorite Courses Taught at Loyola

• Women and Gender in the Middle East
• Global Histories of Disability
• Seminar: Migration, Displacement, and Refugees in the Middlle East

Recent Noteworthy Publications/Presentations

• “Disability in the Premodern Arab World.” In The Oxford Handbook of Disability History, edited by Catherine Kudlick, Kim Nielsen, and Michael Rembis, 71-84. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
• “The Body and Revolution in the Middle East.” Co-authored with Sherene Seikaly. In Routledge Handbook on Women in the Middle East, edited by Suad Joseph and Zeina Zaatari, 135-146. New York: Routledge, 2022.
• “Disability Studies in The Middle East and North Africa: A Roundtable.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 51, no. 1 (2019): 109-134.

Most Significant Service to Loyola, Your Professional, and/or Baltimore Community

• Chair, Department of History
• Mentoring students
• Director, Loyola International Nachbahr House, Leuven, Belgium

Grants/Fellowships Awarded

• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) $219,000 grant for "Global Histories of Disability," a Summer Institute for College and University held at Gallaudet University, Washington, DC, June 18 - July 13, 2018.

What is Significant or Rewarding about Loyola

Astrid Schmidt-King, J.D.

Promoted

Associate Teaching Professor of Management and Organizations

Research Interests

Areas of research and interest include international business, immigration law, migration, international relations, globalization, populism, business law, and sustainability management.

Favorite Courses Taught at Loyola

• IB 282 Global Environment of Business
• IB 315 International Management
• LW 305 Legal Environment of Business

Recent/Noteworthy Publications or Presentations

• Author, Academy of International Business Insights, "The Renewed Relevancy of High-Impact Practices (HIP): Doubling Down on our 'HIP' Identity in Support of Responsible IB Education"
• Author of Textbook chapter, "Foreign Law and Policy" in Law and Public Policy (Routledge)
• Presenter, Global Diplomacy Lab, "A Global Aspiration Dependent on National Implementation: Challenges & Opportunities of The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration"

Most Significant Service to Loyola, Your Professional, and/or Baltimore Community

• Faculty Academic Director, Sellinger Scholars Business Honors Program
• Chair, Dean's Steering Committee, Building a Better World Through Business
• Faculty Leader, Kino Border Initiative, U.S. - Mexico border, CCSJ Student Immersion

Grants/Fellowships Awarded

• Selected Fellow, Johns HOpkins American German Institute (AGI), Social Divisions and Questions of Identity in Germany and the U.S. - Comparative fellowship in U.S. and Germany and resulting comparative essay paper on mid-sized post-industrial cities of Dortmund, Germany & Buffalo, NY
• Selected as Emerging and Developing Global Executive Fellow, World Trade Center Institute (2020)
• Recipient of a Fulbright Award-International Education Administrators Program in Germany (Berlin, Dormund, Hamburg and Mainz)-focused on comparative higher education between Germany, the European Union and the U.S.

What is Significant or Rewarding about Loyola

For me, Loyola is more than an institution-it is a mindset and an approach to life, learning, and community. Our core values and Ignatian principles ground and center me; they inspire me to strive for the magis, to "reach beyond where we are now." They challenge me to be my better self and act as guideposts for how I show up in the world. By striving to live out these values through teaching and service, I hope to contribute to a transformative, instead of transactional, community where all students, colleagues, neighbors, and strangers feel seen and cared for in the spirit of cura personalis.

Mary Kate Schneider, Ph.D.

Promoted

Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science

Research Interests

• Motor Speech Disorders
• Childhood Apraxia of Speech

Favorite Courses Taught at Loyola

• Master's Level: Clinical Internship 1 and 2
• Master's Level: Clinical Internship: School Based

Recent/Noteworthy Publications or Presentations

• 2023 Co-Wrote a 15 hour, MSDE course with Kara Vincent, M.S., CCC-SLP, Director Loyola Clinical Centers
• Presented Research at MSHA
• Several teacher trainins at The Loyola School, Calvert School, Kiddie Calvert on Early Language, Articulation, Pre-Literacy and Feeding Development in Children

Most Significant Service to Loyola, Your Professional, and/or Baltimore Community

• Board Member Rendez-Vous Haiti since 2018
• The Loyola School/Loyola Early Learning Center, Parent Trainings yearly on saturdays
• The Retreat: Hippotherapy: Assisted neurodiverse individuals while working/riding horses

Grants/Fellowships Awarded

• Hoffberger Foundation Grant to support clinical training program, Loyola Clinical Center and The Loyola School partnership for speech, language, and pre-literacy assessment and treatment of children ages 2 years - 10 years.
• Wright Foundation Grant to support clinical training program, Loyola Clinical Center and The Loyola School partnership for speech, language, and pre-literacy assessment and treatment of children ages 2 years - 10 years.

What is Significant or Rewarding about Loyola

Loyola University Maryland has been my second home since the Fall of 1993 when I started my undergraduate degree. I went on to earn my B.A. and M.S. in Speech Language Pathology in 1997 and 1999 respectively. I was an externship supervisor for many years and joined the clinical faculty in the SLHS department at the Loyola Clinical Centers in the Fall of 2011, after the birth of my daughter. What has had the most significant impact on me is transitioning from student to teacher and effecting positive change in the students I teach and mentor utilizing the Ignatian philosophy and pedagogy as my guiding touchstone. Ultimately, it is the people at LUMD that have made my career at Loyola the most rewarding!

Qi Shi, Ph.D.

Promoted

Professor of Education Specialties

Research Interests

My research interests include school counselors' role in personal, social, and academic development of underrepresented student populations in K-12 schools, broadening the participation for immigrant youth and English Language Learners in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) majors and careers, and school counseling profession's development in international contexts.

Favorite Courses Taught at Loyola

• Research and Evaluation in Counseling
• Tests and Measurements in Counseling
• Theories of Counseling

Recent Noteworthy Publications/Presentations

• Shi, Q., Phillips, K., & Davis, J. (In Press). Latina English Learners’ sense of belonging in STEM programs: An intersectional view. Manuscript accepted for publication in the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education.
• Shi, Q., Phillips, K., Moody, D., & Cordova, T. (2023). Adapted Strong Kids Curriculum for English Language Learners (ELLs) during COVID-19. Professional School Counseling (PSC), 27(1), 1-11.
• Shi, Q., Cournoyer, C., Randolph, A., Scheffenacker, M., & Brown, J. (2022). Experiential learning of school counselors-in-training to work with English Learners. Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 12(1), 132–147.

Most Significant Service to Loyola, Your Professional, and/or Baltimore Community

• President's Council on Equity & Inclusion (member), Loyola University Maryland, Fall 2022-present
• Associate Editor (2019-present) and Incoming Editor (in 2024), Journal of School-Based Counseling Policy and Evaluation
• Research Board Member and Institutional Lead for the Baltimore Education Research Consortium (BERC).

Grants/Fellowships Awarded

• Principal Investigator, Latinas’ Resistance Behaviors at Predominantly White Institutions and Hispanic Serving Institutions: An Intersectional View. National Science Foundation (granted), $498,270, 2023-2026
• Co-Principal Investigator, Loyola University Maryland Noyce STEM Teacher Education Program (CREST): Recruiting, Preparing and Retaining High-Quality STEM Teachers. National Science Foundation (granted),
  $1,199,042, 2023-2028.
• Principal Investigator, I Am/Was a Latina English Learner in STEM: A Phenomenological Analysis

What is Significant or Rewarding about Loyola

The most significant experience for me at Loyola is my director's role at the Center for Equity, Leadership, and Social Justice in Education (CELSJE) where I am able to embrace my passion and experience in research, evaluation, grants, and community service. Through this work, I could elevate faculty's expertise in research and build mutually beneficial relationships that lead to long-term commitments and jointly developed research agendas in the community. 

The most rewarding experience for me at Loyola is to be able to provide mentorship to graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and junior faculty members and be part of their journeys in becoming the next generation of professionals and academics. 

Kerry Tan, Ph.D.

Promoted

Professor of Economics

Research Interests

My research interests include industrial organization and applied microeconomics with a particular focus on strategic behavior in the U.S. airline industry.

Favorite Courses Taught at Loyola

• EC 102: Microeconomic Principles
• EC 460: Busness and Government
• GB 707: Managerial Economics

Recent Noteworthy Publications/Presentations

• Kim, Donggeun, Myongjin Kim, and Kerry Tan. (2021). "Tacit Collusion and Price Dispersion in the Presence of Southwest Airlines," Southern Economic Journal 88(1), 3-32.
• Rupp, Nicholas and Kerry Tan. (2019). "Mergers and Product Quality: A Silver Lining from De-Hubbing in the U.S. Airline Industry," Contemporary Economic Policy 37(4), 652-672.
• Tan, Kerry M. (2018). "Outsourcing and Price Competition: An Empirical Analysis of the Partnerships between Legacy Carriers and Regional Airlines," Review of Industrial Organization 53(2), 275-294.

Most Significant Service to Loyola, Your Professional, and/or Baltimore Community

• Economics Department: Messina core advisor
• Sellinger School Chair of the Sellinger Faculty Assembly
• Loyola University Maryland: Budget Committee/Loyola Conference

What is Significant or Rewarding about Loyola

I came to Loyola because I wanted to work alongside other active researchers in a student-focused setting. Teaching remains of fundamental importance to me and my identity as a college professor. I am still just as passionate to step into the classroom now as I wass on my first day at Loyola Back in 2012. I strive to have a positive impact on my students both academically and personally. I was especially touched and proud when a former student mentioned how I have made her believe in herself, believe she can handle tough classes, and learn how to learn. 

Michael Tangrea, Ph.D.

Tenured

Professor of Biology

Research Interests

The focus of my research is developing novel technilogies to understand the molecular mechanisms of cancer.

Favorite Courses Taught at Loyola

• BL315 Bench to Bedside: Translating Science to Patient Care
• BA401 New Venture Creation
• BL150 Foundations of Biology I

Recent/Noteworthy Publications or Presentations

• Johann DJ, Shin IK, Roberge A, Laun S, Peterson EA, Liu M, Steliga MA, Muesse J, Emmert-Buck, MR, Tangrea MA. Effect of Antigen Retreival on Genomic DNA From Immunodissected Samples. J Histochem Cytochem. 2022 Sep;70(9).
• Shin, I.J., Tangrea, M., Emmert-Buck, M. and Johann, Jr., D.J. "A microdissection protocol for proteogenomic analysis of histological sections to advance drug development: Protemics for Drug Discovery. Methods Mol Biol 2023, In Press.
• Johann, Jr., D.J., Laun, S., Stephens, O., Weigman, R., Shein, I., Roberge, A., Liu, M., Greisman, V., Steliga, M., Muesse, J., Peterson, E., Emmert-Buck, M.R., and Tangrea, M.A., "Microdissection Methods Utilizing Single-Cell Subtype Analysis and the Impact on Precision Medicine" Methods Mol Biol 2022; 2394: 93-107.

Most Significant Service to Loyola, Your Professional, and/or Baltimore Community

• Simon Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship,
• Strategic Planning Steering Committee
• Biology Department Program Review Committee

Grants/Fellowships Awarded

• Maryland E-Novation Initiative Fund, August 2023, $1,000,000
• NSF Major Research Instrumentation Grant (#2214788), August 2022
  Acquisition of a Flourenscence Activated Cell Sorter for the Establishment of a Flow Cytometry Core Facility at Loyola University Maryland, $412,470

What is Significant or Rewarding about Loyola

I have thoroughly enjoyed being back at my alma mater teaching students and working with colleagues within the Biology Department and across campus. The Loyola education has prepared me well for this unique opportunity. My interactions with the Loyola community (faculty, staff, and students) is what I find most rewarding. It is a welcoming and supportive environment that allows one to grow and explore new ideas.

Thomas Thompson, Ph.D.

Promoted

Clinical Professor of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences

Research Interests

• Cognitive Rehabilitation

Favorite Courses Taught at Loyola

• Cognitive Communication Disorders
• Clinical Internship

Most Significant Service to Loyola, Your Professional, and/or Baltimore Community

• Coordinator of the Acquired Brain Injury Assessment Program
• The Graduate Applications Committee

What is Significant or Rewarding about Loyola

Clinical teaching is the most rewarding aspect of my job at Loyola. I work with first year graduate students in the SLHS department and train and mentor them in preparation of going on to externships in the hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and skilled nursing facilities.

Rebecca Trump, Ph.D.

Promoted

Professor of Marketing

Research Interests

Experimental consumer psychology, particularly focusing on connections between brands and consumers' identities and on consumers' reactions to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and to technology.

Favorite Courses Taught at Loyola

• MK 346D: Consumer Behavior
• MK 448: Socially Responsible Marketing
• GB 741: MBA Consumer Behavior

Recent Noteworthy Publications/Presentations

• Newman, Kevin P., and Rebecca K. Trump (2022), “Addressing the Eco-Gender Gap in Men through Power and Sustainability Self-Efficacy,” Journal of Brand Management. Published online December 31, 2022.
• Trump, Rebecca K., and Kevin P. Newman (2021), “Emotion Regulation in the Marketplace: The Role of Pleasant Brand Personalities,” Marketing Letters, 32 (2), 231-245.
• Newman, Kevin P. and Rebecca K. Trump (2017), “When are Consumers Motivated to Connect with Ethical Brands? The Roles of Guilt and Moral Identity Importance,” Psychology & Marketing, 34 (6), 597-609.

Most Significant Service to Loyola, Your Professional, and/or Baltimore Community

• Advising Students
• Moderator of Student Club Loyola Marketing Ambassadors (LMA)
• Vice Chair of the Faculty Affairs Committee at Loyola

Grants/Fellowships Awarded

• Loyola Summer Research Grant

What is Significant or Rewarding about Loyola

Loyola's Jesuit Mission reflects my personal ideals and I so value being a part of the University that is dedicated to social justice, cura personalis, and Magis. I also appreciate Loyola's commmitment to excellence in teaching alongside supporting and valuing scholarship. Loyola helps me achieve my personal and professional goals and I am proud to contribute to this community.

Jeffrey Witt, Ph.D.

Promoted

Professor of Philosophy

Research Interests

Medieval Philosophy and Digital Humanities.

Favorite Courses Taught at Loyola

• HN202: Medieval World
• PL399: Philosophy of Information and Media
• PL320: Logic

Recent Noteworthy Publications/Presentations

• 2023 Commentarius in libros Sententiarum Liber 1, Lectiones 1-20, edited by Jeffrey C. Witt and John T. Slotemaker, Peer Reviewed by the Medieval Academy of America and the Digital Latin Library, 2023
• 2023 (forthcoming) "Transparency and Discovery: Using a Text-Image Network to Study Manuscripts and Text Transmission", in Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities. On the Way to the Future of Digital Manuscript Studies (special issue), 2023
• 2020 "Peter Plaoul and Intuitive Knowledge", In Philosophical Psychology in Late-Medieval Commentaries on Peter Lombard’s Sentences, edited by Monica Brînzei and Christopher D. Schabel, 21:81–102. Rencontres de Philosophie Médiévale. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RPM-EB.5.119850

Most Significant Service to Loyola, Your Professional, and/or Baltimore Community

• Served as Chair of the Philosophy Department from AY22-24

Grants/Fellowships Awarded

• 2021 Collaborator on "The Digital Auctores Project" Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) $250,000CAD
• 2018 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Fellowship, Fellowship to work at the Digital Humanities Lab at Leipzig University.

What is Significant or Rewarding about Loyola

I've enjoyed the privilege of working closely with students one-on-one: e.g. finding subjects that students are passionate about and then inviting them into active research in those areas of interest. As a researcher, I've also enjoyed the ability to take risks at Loyola and try new things, for example, approaching traditional topics from new angles and/or publishing in new media.

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