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Dr. Dermot Quinn<\/b><\/span>
\nInterim Director, University Honors Program
\nProfessor of History<\/p>\n

Before coming to Seton Hall in 1990 Dr. Quinn\u00a0taught at Amherst College in Massachusetts and at Oxford University. He has degrees from Trinity College, Dublin and Oxford University. His first book, Patronage and Piety: English Roman Catholics and Politics, 1850-1900, was published in 1993 by Stanford University Press. Another book, Understanding Northern Ireland, was published by Baseline Books, also in 1993. Professor Quinn is a native of Derry, Northern Ireland. He has published articles and reviews in Recusant History, The Chesterton Review, The American Historical Review, Labor History, The Review of Politics, The Welsh History Review, and other scholarly journals. Professor Quinn’s third book, The Irish in New Jersey: Four Centuries of American Life, was published by Rutgers University Press in 2004, winning New Jersey Author award for scholarly non-fiction in 2005.<\/p>\n

Dr. Kathleen Kidder<\/b><\/span>
\nInstructor for Classical Studies, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures<\/p>\n

Dr. Kathleen Kidder specializes in Hellenistic poetry. She received a BA from the University of Texas at Austin (2011) and a PhD from the University of Cincinnati (2018). Before coming to Seton Hall in Fall 2024, she has taught ancient languages and Classical culture courses at the College of William and Mary, the University of Houston, and Wayne State University.<\/p>\n

Her recently published monograph Criteria of Truth: Representations of Truth and Falsehood in Hellenistic Poetry <\/em>(Center for Hellenic Studies 2023) analyzes how five Hellenistic poets (Aratus, Nicander, Callimachus, Apollonius of Rhodes, and Lycophron) represent the processes of assessing truth and falsehood. She has also published articles on the Sirens, Helen of Troy, Demeter, and Proteus. Currently, she is exploring depictions of geographic and architectural space in Lycophron\u2019s Alexandra<\/em>. Dr. Kidder was a 2023 recipient of the Mary White Prize for Best Article and a 2024 recipient of the Fondation Hardt Research Scholarship for Young Researchers.<\/p>\n

Dr. Michael Maloney<\/strong><\/span>
\nAssociate Director, University Honors Program
\nLecturer, Department of Religion<\/p>\n

Michael Maloney is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion. He holds a Ph.D. from Fordham University in Systematic Theology. His research interests are in the area of philosophical theology, specifically conceptions of the God-world relation as these are presented in the pagan, Christian, and Eastern traditions. He is also interested in how different philosophical allegiances shape theological reflection. Within the Catholic intellectual tradition his allegiance, and his training, is in the tradition of Thomism, and more narrowly, in the work of those thinkers who would either be classified as representative of, or sympathetic to, the project of Transcendental Thomism, such as the theologian Karl Rahner and the philosopher Bernard Lonergan.<\/p>\n

Rev. Dr. Douglas J. Milewski
\n<\/strong><\/span>School of Theology
\nAssociate Professor of Theology<\/p>\n

Fr. Milewski earned an S.T.B. in Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, and an S.T.L. and an S.T.D. in Patristic Sciences and Theology from the Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum of the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome. His doctoral dissertation is titled \u201c\u2018Nos Locus Dei Sumus.\u2019 Augustine\u2019s Exegesis and Theology of John 17 in the Light of In Evangelium Ioannis Tractatus CIV-CXI.\u201d Father Milewski\u2019s specializations include the theology, literature and history of early Christianity and the Fathers of the Church, in particular, Saint Augustine. Since joining the faculty in 2001, he has co-authored two Seton Hall University undergraduate degree programs, the B.A. in Catholic Studies (launched Fall 2002) and the B.A. in Catholic Theology (launched Fall 2007). From the inception of the B.A. in Catholic Theology Program in 2007 until December 2014, Father Milewski served as Assistant Dean, and then Associate Dean, for Undergraduate Studies. Father Milewski has created and taught nearly a score of new courses on both the graduate and undergraduate levels for the College of Arts & Sciences and for Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology. He has led study tours of Italy, Poland and Ireland. His publications appear in Augustinian Studies, The American Conservative and The Chesterton Review.<\/p>\n

Dr. Arundhati Sanyal
\n<\/strong><\/span>Department of English
\nSenior Faculty Associate<\/p>\n

Dr. Sanyal holds an Master of Arts in English from the University of Calcutta, a Master of Arts in English Literature of the 19th Century from Rutgers and a PhD (also in English Literature of the 19th Century) from The City University of New York.\u00a0 In addition to teaching in the Honors Program (the 3rd Colloquium on the Early Modern World), Dr. Sanyal teaches Freshman Composition, Journey of Transformation and upper level courses in British and American Literature.\u00a0 She is the Director of the SHU Writing Center.<\/p>\n

Rev. Nicholas Sertich, ’15, S.T.L.
\n<\/strong><\/span>Director of Campus Ministry<\/p>\n

Fr. Nicholas Sertich was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Newark in 2020 and currently serves as the Director of Campus Ministry. In addition to this role, he is also a faculty member in the University Honors Program at Seton Hall.<\/p>\n

Fr. Sertich earned his B.A. in Philosophical Theology and Catholic Studies from Seton Hall University in 2015 and is an alumnus of the University Honors Program. He obtained an S.T.B. from the Pontifical Gregorian University in 2019, followed by an S.T.L. from the Pontifical Lateran University in 2021, specializing in Catholic Moral Theology. His thesis examined the Church\u2019s approach to environmental ethics since Vatican II and investigated the concept of ecological sin in the context of recent papal teachings on social ethics and justice.<\/p>\n

Currently, Fr. Sertich is also a Ph.D. student in Higher Education Leadership, Management, and Policy at Seton Hall University, with an expected completion date of 2027. His research focuses on Catholic Higher Education, particularly its historical development and the contemporary rise of lay leadership.<\/p>\n

Before joining Seton Hall, Fr. Sertich served in the parish communities of St. Peter the Apostle in River Edge and St. Paul in Ramsey. He is also involved in part-time parish ministry at Immaculate Conception in Montclair, St. Agnes in Clark, and St. Helen in Westfield.<\/p>\n

Dr. Peter Shoemaker<\/strong><\/span>
\nAssociate Provost for
\nUndergraduate Education and Assessment<\/p>\n

A scholar of 17th century French literature and culture, Dr. Shoemaker is the author of over 15 peer-reviewed journal articles and two scholarly books. Areas of special interest include rhetoric and literature, the social history of literature, the novel and the Moralists. He received his Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Princeton University in 1997, where he was a Jacob Javitts Fellow and the recipient of a French Government Fellowship (Bourse Chateaubriand) that enabled him to study at the Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure in Paris from 1994 \u2013 1995. He also holds an M.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Princeton and a B.A. in French from the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n

Dr. Todd Stockdale<\/strong><\/span>
\nUniversity Core Curriculum
\nTeaching Fellow<\/p>\n

Dr. Stockdale\u2019s research interests rest within the discipline of practical theology. As a practical theologian, he is drawn to the complexities present in lived Christianity and therefore seeks \u00a0to investigate theological themes through the particularities of concrete situations. This means that much of his work has been cross-disciplinary in nature, drawing upon various qualitative research methodologies from the social sciences-(participant observation, in-depth interviews and focus groups) to explore a range of theological issues.\u00a0 Dr. Stockdale holds a Master of Arts degree from DallasTheological Seminary, a Master of Theology degree from The University of Edignburgh and a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh.\u00a0 Recent scholarly publications include \u201cHearing a Fuller Story: Ethnography, Reflexivity, and Church,\u201d \u201cMaking Connections: Exploring Methodist Deacons\u2019 Perspectives on Contemporary Diaconal Ministry,\u201d and \u201cThe Contemporary Nature of Diaconal Ministry in British Methodism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Professor Chelsea Wegrzyniak<\/strong><\/span>
\nAdjunct Professor<\/p>\n

Professor Wegrzyniak holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Idaho State University. She earned her M.A. in Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee where her culminating exams were in the area of Feminist Ethics. She has taught at Fordham University and most recently at Vanderbilt University. Recent presentations include Character from Commitments: A Project-Based Account of Personal Ethics from Bernard Williams<\/em> (Vanderbilt University); From \u201cthe Feminine\u201d to the Feminist: Finding a Contribution to Feminist Ethics in \u201cTotality and Infinity\u201d<\/em> (Fordham Philosophical Society); Social Contention Through Capability Demonstration: A Pragmatist Answer to Bias in Moral Principle Formation<\/em> (Long Island Philosophical Society).<\/p>\n

Dr. Youssef Yacoubi<\/strong><\/span>
\nDepartment of Languages Literatures and Cultures
\nAssistant Professor & Director, Arabic Studies Program<\/p>\n

Dr. Yacoubi is a comparatist and critical theorist interested in the literary, theological and cultural intersections between Mediterranean, Islamic, Arab, British and North American traditions of thought and critique. He has taught at the Ohio State University as an assistant professor in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and comparative studies where he was a Denman Undergraduate Research Forum Judge, as Faculty Representative\/Examiner, College of Arts and Humanities, and as an advisor for the Undergraduate Fulbright Campus Committee. He has also taught Arabic and Comparative Literature at Bard College and at Hofstra University where he directed the Arabic, and the study abroad programs. He taught in Bard\u2019s First Year Seminar Program and at the Bard College Prison Initiative.<\/p>\n

His teaching interests cover modern and classical Arabic literatures, Arab-American literature, Middle Eastern\/ North African intellectual and political history, Francophone\/British\/Anglophone modern literatures, postcolonial criticism and theory, and philosophy of religion.<\/p>\n

Dr. Yacoubi is the author of The Play of Reasons: the Sacred and the Profane in Salman Rushdie\u2019s Fiction, (Peter Lang, 2012) which argues that Salman Rushdie\u2019s eclectic and hybridized work can be situated within an Islamic genealogy of theological and literary traditions. He has published articles on the works of Salman Rushdie, Taha Hussayn, Edward Said, Iqbal Ahmad and Mohammed Arkoun. His research focuses on the interface between critical theories and Islamic thought; the relationship between literature and theology, faith and reason, and questions of democratization through liberal arts within the contexts of the Arab and Islamic worlds. He is on the editorial board of Ikhtilaf: the Journal of Critical Humanities and Social Studies, (Mohammad 1st University, Oujda, Morocco) and is the editor of The Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World Journal (SCTIW Review).<\/p>\n

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