Faculty by Department

Full-Time Faculty

Explore the biographical pages of our full-time faculty, listed below by academic departments/majors.

Business

Beal, Paige, associate professor of sports, arts and entertainment management
Breslove, William, professor of business management
Bromall, George, professor of business management
Cesario, Amy, lecturer of accounting
Ciletti, Dorene, professor of marketing and sales and director of the marketing and sales program
Clark, Cheryl, professor of accounting and chair of the Department of Business Analytics and Technology
Colaizzi, Melinda, assistant professor of sports, arts and entertainment management
DeFazio, Joseph, senior lecturer of finance
Derda, Robert, associate professor of sports, arts and entertainment management and chair of the Department of Sports, Arts & Entertainment Management
Fyola, Michele, professor of business management
Gilfillan, Margaret, professor emerita of accounting
Isaac, Angela, professor emerita of economics and finance
Knorr, Helena, professor of organizational leadership
Kraniou, Dimitris, professor of international economics and management
Luther, Elaine, professor of business management
Maharaja, Archish, professor of business
Mervosh, Sandra, associate professor of human resources and director of the human resource management program
Mulvihill, Patrick, associate professor of management and chair of the Department of Business Management
Oliveira, Diogo, assistant professor of applied computer science
Olshanski, Jayne, associate professor of accounting
Palacios-Salguero, Luis, associate professor of economics and finance
Perkins, Charles, professor emeritus of business management
Seaman, Jeffrey, associate professor of applied computer science
Skertich Robert, professor of public administration
Starz, R. Hagen, assistant professor of entrepreneurship and business law
Tanzilli, Stephen, dean of the Rowland School of Business
Traversari, Ed, professor of sports, arts and entertainment management
Voortman, Mark, associate professor of applied computer science and director of the applied computer science program
Wachter, Andrea, professor emerita of applied computer science
Wachter, Edward, professor emeritus of business management

Cinema Arts

Halasz, Andrew, chair, professor and interim director of cinema production
Boyd, Laura J., professor of cinema production
Chipman, Nelson, professor of cinema production and screenwriting
D'Haene, Elise, senior teaching artist
Donnellan, Kelly, associate professor of cinema production
Georgiades, Jason, visiting artist in residence of cinema production
Hammond, H Haden, assistant professor of animation
Hawkins, Rick, senior teaching artist and director of screenwriting program
Johnson, Fredrick, professor of cinema arts
Morrison, David, assistant professor of animation
Munn, Geoff, visiting artist in residence of animation
Park, Hanjin, associate professor of directing
Park, Kyu, associate professor of cinematography
Pelfrey, Matt, associate professor
Trueblood, Jonathan, associate professor and director of animation and visual effects program

Communication

Ankney, Bernie, dean
Rolinson, Chris, chair of faculty and professor of digital journalism
Baggerman, Thom, professor of broadcast journalism
Cecala, Robin, professor of broadcast production and interim program coordinator of broadcasting and digital journalism
Dorsten, Aimee-Marie, professor of journalism and mass communication and director of core curriculum
Downing, Camille, lecturer of public relations, advertising and social media, and interim program coordinator of stragetic and sports communication
Dumova, Tatyana, professor of communication
Friges, April, associate professor of photography
Isa, Daud, assistant professor of broadcasting, digital journalism and multimedia
Lo Castro, Jenna, associate professor of public relations, advertising and social media, and graduate program director
Meyers, Robert, associate professor of communication
Schonberger, Ben, senior lecturer and coordinator of media arts

Community Engagement & Leadership

Starr Fiedler, Heather, chair and professor of multimedia
Bhattacharya, Shamayeta, Ph.D., assistant professor of community engagement and director of the Ph.D. in Community Engagement program
Ross, Robert, Ph.D., professor of social justice studies and community engagement
Skertich, Robert, Ph.D., professor of public administration and director of the public administration and organizational leadership programs
Walker, Tahirah, Ph.D., assistant professor of organizational development and innovation

Criminal Justice & Intelligence Studies

Linzer, Richard A., professor of criminal justice
Martin, Sean Elliot, associate professor of criminal justice and intelligence studies and chair of the School of Continuing & Professional Studies
Richards, Andrew, instructor of criminal justice and intelligence studies
Secilia, Christine, lecturer and coordinator of the undergraduate criminal justice program
Strimlan, Edward, professor of forensic science and chair of the Department of Criminal Justice and Intelligence Studies
Wintz, Mark, associate professor of intelligence and national security

Dance

Stowe, Susan, chair, professor of dance, associate artistic director, dance company and director of ballet unit
Lemonius, Garfield, dean and artistic director, Conservatory of Performing Arts and professor of dance
Bautista, Beverly, assistant professor of jazz
De La Cruz III, Norbert, visiting assistant professor
Erickson, Julia, assistant professor of ballet
Factor, Jesse, assistant professor of dance and interim director of modern unit
Frazier, Crystal, associate professor of dance
Hooper, Colleen, associate professor of dance and coordinator of dance education
Joo, Jae Man, assistant professor of dance
Karasik, Daniel, teaching artist
Lalama, Kiesha, managing and artistic director, Pittsburgh Playhouse and professor of dance
Lucas, Kiki, assistant professor of dance and jazz unit director
McDole, Jason, associate professor of dance
Spaulding, Marc, assistant professor of modern

Education

Beverina Moore, Denise, lecturer of education
Chambers, Virginia, associate professor of education and chair of the Department of Teaching and Learning
Denton, Stanley, professor of education
Edmunds, Christal, professor of education
Ehrlich, Elisabeth, senior lecturer of education
Garris, Richard, assistant professor of education
Glunk, Janice, professor of education
Gutkind, Richard, professor of education and director of master's programs in the School of Education
Hippert, Linda, assistant professor of education
Irvin, Marybeth, visiting assistant professor of education
Marnich, Darlene, professor of education and chair of the Department of Leadership and Organizational Administration
McIntyre, Karen S., professor of education
Misutka, Kristen, assistant professor of education
Pascarella, Kelly, assistant professor education
Payne, Shari, dean of the School of Education
Revilla-Beltrán, Vincenne, professor of education
Wheat, Arleen, professor of special education
York, Kamryn, assistant professor of education

Engineering

Garson, Robert, professor of civil engineering
Hoover, Ryan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering
Johnson, Gregg, associate professor of electrical engineering and interim chair of the Department of Natural Sciences and Engineering
Keller, Donald, professor and coordinator of the electrical engineering program
Liu, Yan, associate professor and coordinator of the civil engineering program
Mundru, Raju, associate professor of electrical engineering
Parsa, Aram, associate professor and coordinator of the mechanical engineering program

Literature, Culture, and Society

Bell, Kim, professor emerita of English as a Second Language
Dixon, Marion, associate professor of sociology and coordinator of interdisciplinary studies and international studies
Dwyer, Karen, professor of English and coordinator of the literature and creative writing programs
Firestone, Nathan, professor emeritus of political science
Girman, Chris, associate professor of English
Hanley, Kirstin, associate professor of composition and rhetoric, director of the composition program and chair of the Department of Literature, Culture, and Society
Hines, J. Dwight, professor of literary arts and social justice studies
Ion, Dora, assistant professor of political science
Meena, Edward, professor of history
McCort, Jessica, associate professor of composition and rhetoric
Panzella, Emmett, professor emeritus of history/geography
Ross, Robert, professor of social justice studies and community engagement
Weston, Portia K., professor emerita of composition and literature

Natural Sciences

Frost, Laura, professor of biology and coordinator of the biological sciences and pre-medical programs
Krill, Diane, professor of biology
Long, Kristy, lecturer of natural sciences
Marnich, Mark, professor of mathematics
Murphy, Connor, lecturer of biological sciences
Pascal, Matthew, professor of mathematics and interim dean of the School of Arts & Sciences

Psychology

Avellar, Todd R., visiting assistant professor of psychology and acting director of clinical training
Battaglia, Rachel, visiting assistant professor of psychology
Brinkman, Britney, professor of psychology and director of clinical training

McInerney, Robert, professor of psychology and undergraduate coordinator of the psychology program
Morris, Bethany, associate professor of psychology and director of the M.A. in community psychology program

Northup, Jeremy, assistant professor of psychology
Robbins, Brent, professor of psychology and director of the Psy.D. in clinical psychology program
Schulz, Sarah, associate professor of psychology, undergraduate behavioral sciences coordinator and chair of the Department of Psychology

Theatre

Gregory, Teresa, chair and professor
Ayache, Milia, assistant professor and director of acting
Bollinger, Aaron, professor and director of production
Barzell, Zeva, professor and director of musical theatre
Daras, April, associate professor of theatre and director of theatre arts
Keitel, Richard, professor of theatre
Marquette, Tim, teaching artist
Mayer-Staley, Stephanie, professor of theatre production
McKenna, Sheila, professor of theatre and coordinator of Bridges Theatre Company
Muñoz, Samuel, associate professor of theatre
Ruffer, Colin, assistant professor of musical theatre and coordinator of private voice
Scheier, Jennifer, assistant professor of stage management
Walsh, Robin, professor of theatre
Wilson, Cat, assistant professor
Winters, Phil, professor of theatre