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Dan Brooks, Ph.D.
Phone: (616) 632-2068
E-mail: brookdan@aquinas.edu |
| Dr. Brooks is currently
Director of the Humanities Program and Professor of English
at Aquinas College. In addition to Humanities, he has
taught in the freshman year Inquiry and Expression program
and a variety of English courses, including 20th century
British, Irish, and American literature, the Grammar of
Modern English, and several introductory survey and genre
courses. Brooks earned his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature
from Binghamton University (N.Y.) in 1988 and joined the
faculty at Aquinas in 1989. His most recent publications
are concerned with globalizing the study of culture. He
is also the faculty advisor for The Saint. |
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Morgan Crabb, M.A.
E-mail: mjc002@aquinas.edu |
| Morgan Crabb earned his B.A. in Sociology/Pre-Law from the University of Arizona, and his M.A. in Humanities from Central Michigan University. Morgan’s interdisciplinary focus affords him a diverse knowledge of the major theories and practices within the disciplines of the Humanities; including English Language and Literature, Broadcast and Cinematic Arts, History, Popular Culture and Sociology. Scholarly and research interests in the evolving role of the Heroic Tradition in historical and contemporary cultures with particular emphasis on the Myth of Prometheus, Cold War History and Culture, and Theory and Criticism across the disciplines of the Humanities. A singer, songwriter, and live performance solo artist, Morgan is currently working on the completion and independent publishing of a book of original poetry. He currently resides in Canadian Lakes, Michigan, with his wife Shasta. |
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Sarah Cox
Phone: (616) 632-2166
E-mail: coxsar@aquinas.edu |
| Sarah Cox is the Director of Academic & Learning Services at Aquinas College. In the United States, she has taught both online and face-to-face undergraduate courses in Liberal Studies and graduate courses in Special Education. Prior to coming to the U.S., Sarah was the Curriculum Manager for Widening Participation and Inclusion at Coleg Glan Hafren in Cardiff, Wales. In addition to her teaching load, she oversaw the department of Special Education and was a college leader in e-learning and technology integration. |
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Jennifer Dawson, Ph.D.
Phone: (616) 632-2828
E-mail: dawsojen@aquinas.edu |
Jennifer Dawson, Associate Professor of English, earned her B.A. in English from the University of Michigan, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Michigan State University with an emphasis on Early American Literature and Victorian Studies. She taught at Michigan State University and Grand Valley State University before joining Aquinas College's faculty in 2001. While her main area of scholarly interest is American Literature and culture before 1900, her academic passions include studying women writers, conduct manuals, periodical literature, captivity narratives, letter writing and all aspects of cultural history. In 2008, she applied her background in Irish Literature and History to co-directing the AQ Ireland program where she hopes to return with future groups. When she is not teaching or writing, Dawson stays busy playing with her children, and digging in her garden. |
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Michael Dodge, M.A.
E-mail: michael.dodge@aquinas.edu
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| Michael Dodge enters his second year of teaching Humanities at Aquinas. He earned an A.B. from Oberlin College and the M.A. in Divinity from the University of Chicago. He has also completed extensive course work in the history and religions of Western culture. When not in the classroom at Aquinas he teaches at other area colleges, spends time with his pediatrician wife, Nancy, and enjoys theater (both as actor and audience member), biking, reading, and following the exploits of Katie and Philip, his two college-age children. |
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Gary Eberle,
M.A.
Phone: (616) 632-2829
E-mail: eberlgar@aquinas.edu |
| Gary Eberle, M.A., professor
of English and chairman of the English department, is
the author of several books, including The Geography
of Nowhere: Finding One's Self in the Postmodern World
(Sheed & Ward, 1994); Angel Strings, a
novel (Coffee House, 1995); a City Full of Rain,
short stories (Xlibris 2001), and Sacred Time and
the Search for Meaning (Shambhala, 2003). In the
past ten years, Eberle has twice been selected
by the Student Senate as Outstanding faculty member of
the year, and in 1994 he received an award from the Aquinas
College faculty for outstanding scholarship. He developed
the Insignis Program for Honors Students in 1985 and directed
it for 12 years. His journalism and fiction have won awards
locally and nationally, and his novel Angel Strings
was named a "best book" by the New York Public Library
in 1997. Active professionally, he has been president
of the Mid-East Honors Association, the Michigan Honors
Association, and is currently an officer of the Michigan
Associated Departments of English. A more extensive biography
and critical notes may be found in the on-line version
of Contemporary Authors. |
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Kristin Graef, M.A.
E-mail: graefkri@aquinas.edu |
Kristin Graef, M.A., is an adjunct assistant professor at Aquinas, and has taught I & E and Humanities since 2004. She earned her M.A. at Ball State University in Indiana, and her B.A. at Wittenberg University in Ohio. Her interests include Romantic and Victorian literature, and art and music history. Kristin has enjoyed lifetime European travel, and hopes to return one day with her two sons, Eliot and Jay. Her poetry has been published in The Wittenberg Review, America Sings, and Wordriver, and has won national poetry contests. |
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Jack Kilcrease, Ph.D.
E-mail: jdk002@aquinas.edu |
| Jack Kilcrease grew up in Salem and Portland, Oregon. He attended Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, where he graduated with a B.A. in History and Religion in 2001. He later attended Luther Seminary in St. Paul, MN, where he received an M.A. in Systematic Theology in 2003. He briefly lived in Dresden, Germany where he studied German at the Goethe Institute. In 2009, he received his Ph.D in Systematic Theology from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wis. |
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Vicki McMillan
Phone: (616) 632-2832
E-mail: mcmilvic@aquinas.edu |
| Vicki McMillan is an Assistant Professor In-The-College at Aquinas. She received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing, as well as her M.A. in English, from Western Michigan University. Her creative work has appeared in Sky, Controlled Burn, Voices, The Kalamazoo Reader, and Grand Rapids Cosmopolitan Home. She lives in the city of Grand Rapids with her husband Duncan and their son Chase. |
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Sr. Rosemary
O'Donnell, M.A.
Phone: (616) 632-2496
E-mail: odonnros@aquinas.edu |
| Sister O'Donnell received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Aquinas College and her Master of Arts degree in Speech and Drama from Marquette University. She has taught a variety of subjects in secondary school and presently is a member of the Communication Department at Aquinas. Courses she has taught at Aquinas in addition to Humanities include Introduction to Communication, Public Speaking, Intercultural Communication, Nonverbal Communication and Communication Ethics. She is also a member of the Grand Rapids Dominicans, the founders of Aquinas College. |
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Miriam Pederson,
M.F.A.
Phone: (616) 632-2831
E-mail: pedermir@aquinas.edu |
Miriam Pederson, M.F.A.,is an Associate Professor of English and teaches courses in creative writing and literature while also teaching in the Humanities and I&E programs. After receiving her Master of Fine Arts degree, Ms. Pederson has, for the past 25 years, taught in the Aquinas College English Department. She serves as advisor to Lambda Iota Tau, and as co-manager of the student literary and art magazine, Sampler. Ms. Pederson presents poetry workshops in area elementary schools and teaches writing courses for the Oscher Life Long Learning Institute. Her own poetry has been published in many journals and anthologies, and in collaboration with her husband, Ron, her poems are exhibited in area galleries. Her chapbook of poems, This Brief Light, was published in 2003. She has served as faculty for the semester-in-Ireland Program five times. |
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Caroyln Reese
E-mail: reesecar@aquinas.edu |
| Carolyn Reese earned her B.A. in English, with a minor in social studies, from the University of Michigan, and her M.A. in Liberal Studies, with an emphasis in Victorian literature, also from the University of Michigan. She has taught literature, writing, mythology, and humanities, and especially enjoys classical studies. Carolyn lives in Grand Rapids with her husband, Greg, and two children, Kate and John. |
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Philip Skaggs
E-mail: skaggphi@aquinas.edu |
| Philip Skaggs earned his B.A. and M.A. in Russian studies and history and is currently completing his doctoral dissertation on socialist party activists in the Russian Revolution of 1917, all at the University of Michigan. His research and scholarly interests include Revolutionary Russia, Stalin's Soviet Union, LaborHistory, Peasant Studies, Utopian thought, Fascism, the Holocaust, and historical theory. After teaching at Grand Valley State University and Goucher College, he joined Aquinas College in 2003 as an instructor teaching Humanities courses as well as European and East Asian history. He lives in Grand Rapids with his wife Beth and their two daughters Elaine and Julia. |
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Ralph Vunderink, Ph.D.
E-mail: vunderal@aquinas.edu |
| Ralph Vunderink received his education partly in the Netherlands, where he was introduced to the classical languages of Greek and Latin and the modern languages of French, German and English. In the U.S. he completed his Ph.D. program in the interdisciplinary subject of theology-philosophy at the University of Chicago. He started out his career as a philosophy teacher at Lakeland College (Wis.) and the University of Detroit. He decided to switch to theology at Hope College and Winebrenner Seminary (OH). Since 1994 he has been associated with Aquinas College as an adjunct professor in philosophy, and since 1999 in the Department of Humanities. Having published in the fields of both philosophy and religion, he is presently working on content dealing with three underlying themes in Western culture as they express themselves in philosophy, religion, art, and literature. |
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Pamela Dail Whiting,
M.A.
Phone: (616) 632-2827
E-mail: waterpam@aquinas.edu |
| Pamela Dail Whiting, M.A.
in English from Michigan State University, teaches Humanities,
writing and literature courses for preservice English
teachers, and writing courses for continuing education
students. She began teaching at Aquinas in 1989 and taught
cross-listed English and Education courses as well as
Creative Writing at the Emeritus Center. Before teaching
at Aquinas, she taught as an adjunct for Michigan State
University and Grand Valley State University and as a
high school English teacher in Michigan and Massachusetts.
Her areas of interests include writing and English courses
for prospective teachers. As College Chair for Michigan
Council of Teachers of English, she is actively involved
in professional development programs for English teachers.
Her writing has been published in the Language Arts
Journal of Michigan, and she is currently working
on a children's literature textbook, An Invitation:
Children's Literature. |
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Mike Williams, Ph.D.
E-mail: willimic@aquinas.edu |
| Mike Williams retired from full-time faculty status as Professor-in-the-College in 2006 after 32 years at Aquinas. He taught in several departments and programs and was Dean of the School of Education from 2004-2006. He has graduate degrees in Urban Education, Mechanical Engineering, and Philosophy, and has published four books in the social sciences. He is now an adjunct in the Humanities Program. |
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