Academic Disciplines: Theology, Philosophy, History
Areas of Research: High Medieval Theology, Early Christian Theology
Academic Disciplines: Theology, Philosophy, History
Areas of Research: High Medieval Theology, Early Christian Theology
Dr. Emily Howell is an Assistant Professor of Business at Ave Maria University (AMU) School of Business. She teaches marketing in the areas of market segmentation, branding, consumer behavior, marketing research, retailing and wholesaling, services marketing, advertising, social media and mobile marketing, and public relations.
Dr. Howell founded the University’s American Marketing Association (AMA) Collegiate Chapter and the AMU Marketing Club and proudly serves as the Faculty Advisor. She also serves on the University’s Experiential Career Development Committee and is the Faculty Advisor to the University’s Stella Maris Household. Dr. Howell also serves as a Mentor at The Institute at AMU.
Dr. Howell holds a Doctor of Education in Organizational Change and Leadership from the University of Southern California. She graduated Summa Cum Laude and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa at Florida International University for her undergraduate studies. After completing the Harvard Business School Core Credential, she continued her work full-time implementing marketing models and instructing corporate executives at major corporations while she completed her Doctorate at USC.
Before entering the academic world, she worked for over 13 years as a Chief Marketing Executive and Executive Education Instructor. She has earned the Profesional Marketing Credential (PCM) from the American Marketing Association, a distinction earned by only 7,500 marketers globally since the early 1990s.
Dr Howell’s work as a corporate Chief Marketing Executive and Executive Educator who continues to successfully write marketing campaigns that secure Fortune 500 contracts while implementing executive education into the corporate structure for growth is the real-world experience she brings to the classroom for University students to benefit from.
Dr. Howell and her husband, Glen, are happily married and successful business owners/ partners who have made Ave Maria, FL, their home so they both can dedicate their lives and businesses to the success of AMU. They are the proud parents of eight children and are blessed with nine grandchildren, showcasing her ability to balance professional and personal commitments. Dr. Howell and her husband are long-time entrepreneurial business owners and proud Legatus members.
Dr Howell’s Marketing Plans secured major contracts of $12 Million+ annually:
Board Experience:
Board Chair ( Previous President Marketing/ Executive Education) 2015 – Present
The Veteran Initiative HQ/ Tampa, FL
Director of corporate executive education for a 501c3 operating in all 50 states with accredited university certificate programs for Fortune 100 corporations.
Marketing, planning, developing, and implementing noncredit and university certificate programs for Fortune 500 organizations.
Board Member (Previous Director of Marketing and Training) 2013 – Present
HRGlobal Systems and TechTrueUp Global
Current board member overseeing marketing, training, and development after successfully leading the corporate training effort in all 50 states. Identified and developed training needs and opportunities for HRGlobal System’s mandated certificate programs and internal business and staff needs through both inbound and outbound training activities while preserving and elevating the employee and client experience.
Community Involvement:
Dr. Emily Howell is an Assistant Professor of Business at Ave Maria University (AMU) School of Business. She teaches marketing in the areas of market segmentation, branding, consumer behavior, marketing research, retailing and wholesaling, services marketing, advertising, social media and mobile marketing, and public relations.
Dr. Howell founded the University’s American Marketing Association (AMA) Collegiate Chapter and the AMU Marketing Club and proudly serves as the Faculty Advisor. She also serves on the University’s Experiential Career Development Committee and is the Faculty Advisor to the University’s Stella Maris Household. Dr. Howell also serves as a Mentor at The Institute at AMU.
Dr. Howell holds a Doctorate of Organizational Change and Leadership from the University of Southern California, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa at Florida International University for her undergraduate studies. After completing the Harvard Business School Core Credential, she continued to work full-time implementing marketing models and instructing corporate executives at major corporations while she completed her Doctorate at USC.
Before entering the academic world, she worked for over 13 years as a Chief Marketing Executive and Executive Education Instructor. She has earned the Profesional Marketing Credential (PCM) from the American Marketing Association, a distinction earned by only 7,500 marketers globally since the early 1990s.
Dr Howell’s work as a corporate Chief Marketing Executive and Executive Educator who continues to successfully write marketing campaigns that secure Fortune 500 contracts while implementing executive education into the corporate structure for growth is the real-world experience she brings to the classroom for University students to benefit from.
Dr. Howell and her husband, Glen, are happily married and successful business owners/ partners who have made Ave Maria, FL, their home so they both can dedicate their lives and businesses to the success of AMU. They are the proud parents of eight children and are blessed with nine grandchildren, showcasing her ability to balance professional and personal commitments. Dr. Howell and her husband are long-time entrepreneurial business owners and proud Legatus members.
Dr Howell’s Marketing Plans secured major contracts of $12 Million+ annually:
Board Experience:
Board Chair ( Previous President Marketing/ Executive Education) 2015 – Present
The Veteran Initiative HQ/ Tampa, FL
Director of corporate executive education for a 501c3 operating in all 50 states with accredited university certificate programs for Fortune 100 corporations.
Marketing, planning, developing, and implementing noncredit and university certificate programs for Fortune 500 organizations.
Board Member (Previous Director of Marketing and Training) 2013 – Present
HRGlobal Systems and TechTrueUp Global
Current board member overseeing marketing, training, and development after successfully leading the corporate training effort in all 50 states. Identified and developed training needs and opportunities for HRGlobal System’s mandated certificate programs and internal business and staff needs through both inbound and outbound training activities while preserving and elevating the employee and client experience.
Community Involvement:
I am economist with interests in numerical methods applied to macroeconomic questions, such as growth, inequality and monetary policy. Before doing my PhD, I worked at the Banco de Mexico as a researcher.
Fr. David Mariano Vidal is the Pastor of Ave Maria Parish and a priest of the Diocese of Venice in Florida.
In 1993, he began studies for the priesthood and was ordained in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, on August 9, 2001. After some years of missionary work in the United States, Fr. Vidal entered the graduate program in the School of Philosophy of The Catholic University of America in Fall 2009. He received the Licentiate degree in Philosophy in 2012, with a Thesis on “Nature and Suppositum in the Metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas” under the direction of Msgr. John F. Wippel. He received the Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2020, with a dissertation on “Res as Transcendental in the Metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas” under the guidance of Dr. Gregory T. Doolan.
Fr. Vidal lectured at Saint John Vianney College Seminary, in Miami from 2018 to 2022. He has been an adjunct professor at AMU's Department of Philosophy since 2023. In the Diocese of Venice, Father Vidal was assigned as Parochial Vicar of Ave Maria Parish, Ave Maria, in August 2017, Administrator of Our Lady Queen of Heaven Parish, LaBelle, in May 2018, and Pastor of Ave Maria Parish since February 2021.
Fr. Vidal comes from a large family of seven siblings. Two of his brothers are missionary priests, and three of his sisters are nuns.
Dr. Snyder is entering his 23rd year as an educator and 9th year as a school principal. He is a founding faculty member and administrator of Donahue Academy, was the founding Upper School principal of a Catholic classical school in Madrid, Spain, and the founding Head of School of True North Classical Academy, a classical charter school located in Miami, Florida. Under his leadership, he helped grow True North from a single school with 180 students to a network of five schools with over 1,700 students scoring in the top1% on Florida statewide assessments. He returned to Donahue Academy in 2022 as vice principal and just finished his first year as principal. He is proven leader in Catholic classical education, especially in the areas of school startup, operations, virtue education, school growth and development, and systems leadership.
Dr. Baillargeon is a dedicated and devoted Catholic school leader committed to advancing the evangelizing mission of the Catholic Church through research as well as in the field. He has more than 20 years teaching and administrative experience in elementary, junior high, high schools, and higher education. He has more than a decade of experience as a Catholic school principal and is the former Superintendent of Catholic Schools for the Diocese of Springfield, MA. As President and Founder of “Mission Driven Catholic,” he consults professionally with dioceses around the country sharing his expertise in enrollment management, effective marketing, budgeting, professional development, accreditation, integration of Catholic identity, mission creation, curriculum development, strategic planning, and catechesis in Catholic settings.
He currently teaches: EDUC 508 Staff, Academic, and Program Evaluation
Dr. Graham has more than 25 years experience teaching, with the last 15 years in Catholic education as teacher and academic dean in a thriving classical Catholic school. A master teacher, especially in the seminar format, he has taught all levels of high school theology, history, literature and math in a Catholic liberal arts context. He has combined his love and knowledge of teaching and his love and knowledge of theology to specialize in the topic of teaching in the Catholic school. With a focus on Luigi Giussani and René Girard, Dr. Graham explores the function of the Catholic educator as role model and mentor and how to create dynamic and truly Catholic educational communities.
He currently teaches: EDUC 506 Catholic Culture,Community, and Catechetics; and EDUC 511 Classical Liberal Arts Education Methods and Practice in the Modern Context
Dr. Donohue is an experienced Catholic educator who is a thought leader in faithful Catholic education. She has spent the last 30 years in Catholic education. For the last decade she has worked full-time for the Cardinal Newman Society, which promotes and defends faithful Catholic education. Through them she speaks and writes nationally on items of importance to Catholic educators, especially at the diocesan level. Through her evaluation of Newman Guide schools, colleges, and graduate programs, her development of multiple state-of-the-art Catholic Identity evaluation tools, and her sought after consulting, she is widely networked with Catholic education leaders across the country. She helped develop both the Catholic Curriculum Standards as well as the Standards for Christian Anthropology. She is a board member of the National Association of Private Catholic and Independent Schools. Her Catholic school experiences include work as a religion teacher, religious education coordinator, vice-principal, university assistant professor, founding principal of an independent Catholic school, and board member at the local and diocesan levels.
She currently teaches EDUC 503 Curriculum Leadership, Development & Catholic Integration
Dr. Jessica Schnepp is Assistant Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University. She is also the faculty advisor for the Art Club and Flannery O’Connor Literature Club and Senior Nonfiction Editor for Magnify, Ave Maria’s journal for student creative arts. Dr. Schnepp holds a Ph.D. in English and Certificate in Rhetoric and Writing from the Catholic University of America, an M.A. in English from SUNY Stony Brook, and a B.A. in English from the University of Dallas. Before coming to Ave, Dr. Schnepp served as Visiting Faculty in the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of St. Thomas, Houston. She has also worked for the National Endowment for the Humanities, in Catholic classical K-12 education, and in poetry and nonfiction editing.
Dr. Schnepp’s research is focused on theological aesthetics, narratology, and twentieth-century American and British fiction, especially by Catholic writers such as Flannery O’Connor and Evelyn Waugh. Her work has been published in English Studies and she regularly presents her research at scholarly conferences, including the American Literature Association, the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (ALSCW), the De Nicola Conference on Ethics and Culture, and the International Flannery O’Connor Conference. Her creative work and writing for the general public has been published or is forthcoming in America, Literary Matters, Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, and the St. Austin Review.
Dr. Schnepp enjoys teaching a wide variety of literature and writing courses at Ave, from the Rhetoric and Poetics freshman sequence to upper-level electives in creative writing and the modern Catholic novel. She also leads online seminars for the general public. These include free online seminars on Great Books through the Catherine Project and on literature, popular culture, and the Catholic imagination through Loyola Chicago’s Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage.
Dr. Sandra Tirado was born and raised in Colombia. She is passionate about helping students across America; she has brought students from Latin America to North American universities, including Canada and the U.S.A, with proposals submitted to the Colombian science foundation – Colciencias-. Her awarded grants helped develop a technological and scientific alliance between Latin American and North American Universities and brought more than a dozen underprivileged students to North America.
Dr. Tirado is a Visiting Associate Professor of Biology at Ave Maria University and an Environmental Sciences and Microbiology adjunct at Florida Southwestern State College. She hopes to continue working collaboratively with faculty and students across countries to develop research and alliances to help improve the understanding of our environment and the gifts of Nature.
Before joining AMU, Dr. Tirado was a full-time Professor at Florida Southwestern State College, working with outreach programs at Moore Haven, LaBelle, and Clewiston in FL. She focuses on helping students construct knowledge through projects, hands-on activities, and lots of academic debate and discussion that allows vest dedicated students success. She believes that teachers are not primarily in charge of dispensing information but rather serve to monitor a structure where students can develop critical thinking skills to access, apply, and investigate relevant topics. Approximately 35% of her FSW student body qualified for free or reduced lunch.
Dr. Tirado obtained her B.S. in Microbiology from Pontifical Javeriana University in Colombia in 2003, her M.Sc. in Biological Engineering from The Ohio State University, and her PhD. in Environmental Sciences from the University of Guelph in Canada. After completing her graduate degrees, she served as a professor in Florida and has a bast teaching experience in higher education. Dr. Tirado taught in a variety of synchronous and asynchronous environments. She is familiar with teaching online, traditional, live online, and flex. She has served the student community by designing and implementing learning management systems in her classes. She has served as a science fair judge in Lee and Charlotte counties and has been an honorary guest speaker in Colombia, Canada, and Ohio.
Dr. Sandra Tirado's research experience includes working with microorganisms in water, soil, plants, and food. She completed her BSc in the Microbiology unit at Pontifical Javeriana University in Colombia, working with biofilms of Listeria monocytogenes and Pseudomonas sp in packages for the food industry. After her BSc, she earned a scholarship as a visiting scientist at Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center – OARDC – at The Ohio State University in Wooster- OH. During this period, she worked evaluating compostability and microbial communities of polymer-coated paperboard packing materials. While in Wooster, the Food Agricultural and Biological Engineering department recruited her to complete her M.Sc, working collaboratively with Colombian universities. At OARDC, she worked on the effects of turning frequency, pile size, and season on physical, chemical, and microbiological properties during dairy manure/sawdust composting and its impact on plant growth.
After her time in Ohio, she moved to Guelph. She worked conjunctly with the governmental institution of Environment in Canada and the Ontario Agricultural College at the University of Guelph to assess the energy regime impacts on pathogen-particle interaction linking water quality to ecosystems and public health completing her Ph.D. dissertation.
Dr. Tirado pursues completing research at AMU to cover areas such as the succession of native plants and invasive species, accumulation of various contaminants in native plants growing in polluted soils; economics of native plants in residential landscape designs; and plant, soil, and microbial interactions in residual leachate, among other topics.
Neil has over 15 years of experience leading teams and projects at businesses ranging from micro-boutique firms to Fortune Global 500 firms.
Neil has held roles at or consulted for companies such as:
In addition to his work for the above, Neil frequently serves as advisor and subject-matter expert to individual project teams at (among others):
Neil holds a BS in entrepreneurship and an MS in Business Analysis. He also is a Business Relationship Management Professional (BRMP) through the BRM Institute.
Dr. William Gonch is Assistant Professor of Literature and Director of the Literature program at Ave Maria University. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Magnify, the journal for student creative arts at Ave Maria. Dr. Gonch received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. Before that, he completed a M.A. in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Temple University and a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a visiting scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary and was the inaugural Cornerstone Fellow in English at the Catholic University of America.
Dr. Gonch’s research explores the religious imagination in 20th century American literature. His work has appeared in Christianity and Literature and Authorship, and he has presented at numerous scholarly conferences, including the American Literature Association, the Society for the Study of Southern Literature, the De Nicola Conference on Ethics and Culture, and the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. In 2023, he participated in “Reconsidering Flannery O’Connor,” a scholarly institute supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. His writing for the public has appeared in several publications, including Public Discourse, The Hedgehog Review, and The Claremont Review of Books.
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Thomas Maurer is an Assistant Professor of History at Ave Maria University. He also serves as the Director of the Medieval Studies Minor.
Dr. Maurer’s research focuses on apocalyptic cultures in thirteenth century Italy, in particular the pseudo works attributed to the theologian Abbot Joachim of Fiore (d. 1202). His first book project examines pseudo-prophecies about thirteenth-century Italian cities, arguing these prophecies presented Italian cities as biblical like entities.
In addition to teaching the HIST 101/102 core sequence at AMU, Dr. Maurer teaches courses on medieval Italy, the history of the Catholic Church, and apocalyptic theories and theologies in the pre-modern world.
Dr. Fabii is has more than 22 years in education, with the last six being a school counsellor in a faithful Catholic K-12 school. She holds certificates and licenses as a national certified counselor, master career counselor, guidance and counseling, and as a special needs teacher. Most importantly she brings her gentleness and Catholic faith to her various counseling roles, including continuing a private practice. She is well-beloved and sought after by students of all ages, parents and staff as she helps them find their way through the challenges and opportunities life throws their way be they of an academic, social, or spiritual nature.
She currently teaches: EDUC 502 Formation, Counseling, and Communication
Dr. Guernsey has more than 35 years experience in Catholic education. 16 of them as a Catholic school principal. For the last 24 years he has worked in various educational capacities with the Ave Maria programs founded by Tom Monaghan in Michigan and Florida. These include founding and running a highly successful Catholic classical K-12 school, serving as a college instructor, department chair, dean and president, and founding both undergraduate and graduate programs in education at Ave Maria University. For more than a decade Dr. Guernsey has also served as a senior fellow at the Cardinal Newman Society, which promotes and defends faithful Catholic education. He helped develop both the CatholicCurriculum Standards (currently used by 1,235 schools and 36 dioceses) andCatholic identity evaluation protocols and systems for Catholic schools. He is board member of the National Association of Private Catholic and IndependentSchools. He is broadly networked nationally among organizations and leaders seeking to advance faithful Catholic education.
He currently teaches: EDUC501 Catholic Education, History, Philosophy, and Mission; EDUC 507 Catholic Leadership and Organizational Management; and EDUC 510 Internship
Lidiya Zubytska specializes in comparative politics of Eastern European states and foreign policy analysis, including domestic factors shaping foreign policy choices in states undergoing political transition. Her current research projects examine new Ukrainian approaches to diplomacy during wartime and the presidentialization of politics in Eastern Europe. Dr. Zubytska has held fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington D.C. and the Institute on Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University (Sweden); as well as teaching positions at the Ukrainian Catholic University, Randolph-Macon College, Loyola University Maryland and the University of Mary Washington. Prior to her academic path, Lidiya Zubytska worked on civil service reform in the post-Orange revolution Ukraine. Dr. Zubytska is an Eastern Catholic, belonging to the Byzantine rite of the Ukrainian Catholic Church which is led in the US by his Excellency Archbishop Borys Gudziak.
Dr Samuel Shephard is a fisheries ecologist with research interests in sustainable social-ecological systems and the overarching issue of environmental stewardship. Dr Shephard started his career as a commercial fisherman on the west coast of Ireland, and subsequently joined a state agency where he helped test environmentally sensitive fishing gears. He then conducted PhD research on the landscape ecology of exploited catfishes at Mississippi State University.
For the last 20 years, Dr Shephard has established a research programme that has generated more than 70 international peer-reviewed publications on diverse topics including river hydromorphology, ecological indicators and data-limited stock assessment, as well as interweaving local ecological knowledge. Recent work includes collaborations on artisanal systems in South America and South-east Asia. In addition, he is currently in the process of publishing 'Person, Place and Catholic Environmental Stewardship' in 2025. This work is a collaboration with Adam van Wart (AMU Theology) and is under contract with Eerdmans. Dr Shephard is committed to Catholic environmental stewardship and the bold integration of faith and reason.
Sam has recently joined Ave Maria University, where he serves as an Associate Professor and teaches courses in Marine Biology, Ecology and Environmental Science. He is married to Anna, and they have seven children.
Professional Webpage: Samuel Shephard | samuelshephard.com
Academic Webpage: Samuel Shephard | Researchgate.net
Podcast: Interview Dr. Shephard did on Catholic Environmental Stewardship and Climate Change on September 15, 2023 on The Drew Mariani Show, which airs on Catholic Perspective on the Environment - Relevant Radio.
Dr. Valdebenito was born and raised in Chile, and earned a B.S. in Mathematical Engineering, and a diploma in Mathematical Engineering, from the University of Chile. Afterwards, he earned a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Minnesota. After postdoctoral work at McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) and the University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN, U.S.A.), he joined Ave Maria University as an assistant professor of mathematics.
In addition to his research experience, Dr. Valdebenito has taught mathematics at a college level for over 15 years, in a variety of educational settings (large and small classes, in person and online, in Spanish and English...), and strives to serve both the mathematical community (via peer-reviews, authoring reports for Mathematical Reviews) and the community at large.
Beyond mathematics, Dr. Valdebenito studied music for many years, plays the piano and has some basic singing skills. Dr. Valdebenito was a member of the tenor section of the Twin Cities Catholic Chorale, as well as of the schola at the Church of St. Agnes (St. Paul, MN), and the schola at Holy Ghost Church (Knoxville, TN). Beyond any formal studies, Dr. Valdebenito is interested in opera, the arts, history, planes, trains, and automobiles.
Dr. Perugini is featured in The Pursuit of Wisdom, a series of short courses presented by the faculty of Ave Maria University.
Perugini, S. (2023). Programming languages: Concepts and implementation. Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett.
Saverio Perugini was a (tenured, full) Professor of Computer Science at the University of Dayton, where he served as a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science for 18 years (2004-22). In Fall 2022, Dr. Perugini joined Ave Maria University to start and direct the computer science program, where he is a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science in the Department of Mathematics. At the University of Dayton, Perugini taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in computer science, including programming languages, operating systems and human-computer interaction, and served as the undergraduate program director (2013-17). Perugini has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech (2004). In 2023, Dr. Perugini published a textbook on programming languages titled Programming Languages: Concepts and Implementation with Jones & Bartlett Learning. He is currently working on two book manuscripts with the tentative titles Linux Programming with Go and The Little Book of Contemporary Concurrency Models: Lua, Go, Elixir, and Julia. Perugini is a senior member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society.
Finance academic, executive, entrepreneur. 16 years consultant for E&Y: Finance, strategy, risk management, project management. 8 years entrepreneur. Experienced in substantially all financial, operational, and technical processes.
Dr. Crawford is the Assistant Dean of Student Success and an Instructor of History. He completed his BA in history (2013) at Ave Maria University and an MLitt in Medieval & Early Modern Studies (2014) and PhD in History (2019) at the University of Aberdeen. His teaching interests include Medieval Warfare, Medieval Court and Culture, Medievalism, and the influence of medieval art and mythology on the works of JRR Tolkien.
Dr. Crawford’s research examines the Scottish comital milieux at the royal court, considering the ways in which elite power was incorporated into the institutional government of the Scottish kingdom from the reign of David I to Alexander II (1124 to 1249). He is completing a monograph, which examines the earls’ governmental and legal capacities both within the provinces of their earldoms and at the Scottish royal court during this period. He is a member of the Society of Scottish Medievalists and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Academic Profile: https://avemaria.academia.edu/AlexanderCrawford
Dr. Whalen studies the intersection of marketing entrepreneurship. His research focuses on Service Dominant Logic, Co-creation & Effectuation. He specializes in helping people start new ventures.
Dr. Whalen has been married to his wife of 25 years, Beth Anne. Together, they have three children. Wyatt (19) is a sophomore at Bryant University in Rhode Island where he studies supply chain and plays Division 1 football. Lydia (18) is a freshman at Providence College and plans on attending medical school when she graduated. Camille (12) is stuck at home with mom and dad.
Dr. Whalen is an avid golfer and a lifelong Florida State Seminole fan.
Presently, Dr. Van Wart is Associate Professor of Theology & Director of Undergraduate Studies in Theology at Ave Maria University.
When it comes to the classroom, Dr. Van Wart enjoys teaching graduate and undergraduate courses across a broad spectrum of theological topics, always with the aim of helping to habituate students into a deeper understanding & appreciation of the grammar of Catholic faith in all its holistic beauty.
In terms of theological research, Dr. Van Wart works primarily in the fields of systematic/constructive & philosophical/fundamental theology. His most current academic research explores how theology might transfigure and deploy philosophical quietism for the sake of dissolving recurrent confusions regarding the relationship between first & second order intentionality with respect to the Church’s speech & knowledge of God. His research interests also include Christology, the development of doctrine, “mystery” as a theological category, theological appropriations of analytic philosophy, ecumenism, & late medieval scholastic theology.
Regarding academic honors, Dr. Van Wart was the Academy of Catholic Theology's very first recipient of the Fr. Joseph Koterski, S.J. Research Fellowship for Philosophy in Theology.
He is also, by God’s inestimable grace, a native Texan.
Dr. Joseph Trabbic is Associate Professor of Philosophy and chair of the Philosophy Department at Ave Maria University. In systematic areas his interests are in metaphysics, philosophical theology, and political philosophy. In historical areas his interests are in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas and his commentators (especially Cajetan, Bañez, and John of St. Thomas) and continental philosophy (especially Martin Heidegger and Jean-Luc Marion). He has published in these areas in various academic and popular journals.
Like many Catholic philosophers, Dr. Trabbic’s work sometimes crosses over into theology. A lot of his recent research and writing have been on the relationship between the Catholic Church and the state. In 2023 he published a chapter on this in the Palgrave Handbook of Religion and State, vol. I: Theoretical Perspectives. A short piece on the same topic that he wrote for Public Discourse in 2018 sparked a lively discussion online and in print.
Dr. Trabbic has been invited to do several interviews over the years. He has shared his thoughts about St. Thomas's arguments for God's existence with Matt Fradd on Pints with Aquinas and with Michael Dauphinais on The Catholic Theology Show. And he has spoken with John DeRosa about the philosophical use of analogy on the Classical Theism podcast and with Deal Hudson on Heidegger and Catholicism on Church and Culture.
He is also an Italian translator. Besides a number of articles, he has translated two books. In 2012 Ignatius Press published his translation of Nicola Bux's La riforma di Benedetto XVI (Benedict XVI's Reform: The Liturgy between Innovation and Tradition) and in 2016 The Catholic University of America Press published his and Roger Nutt’s translation of Pasquale Porro’s Tommaso d'Aquino: Un profilo storico-filosofico (Thomas Aquinas: A Historical and Philosophical Profile).
As a member of the Thomistic Institute's speakers bureau since 2019, Dr. Trabbic has traveled to colleges and universities around the country to give talks on arguments for God's existence, postmodernism and religion, the problem of evil, and human rights.
Dr. Trabbic and his wife Rose have five children.
You can find his Academia.edu page here.
Dr. Stephen Thong is the Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Physics. He has over 25 years of applied chemistry experience in product development research. As a chemist, he has led global innovation for corporations including Gillette (P&G), Ranir Global (Perrigo) and Church & Dwight. In these roles, he was responsible for innovation of many personal care products ranging from medical devices (oral care) to shaving formulations and personal care products. He has been responsible for global research working on many familiar global consumer product brands while working closely with marketing.
He is involved with mentoring students to prepare for corporate careers in industrial chemistry including technology management. He is widely travelled having led research and innovation centers in the US, China, and Europe.
Dr. Thong’s current research interests are in the area of Applied Chemistry in the area of interfacial and formulation chemistry. Dr. T (as students refer to him) has expertise in oral care and skin care product development with publications and over 20 patents in these areas.
Dr. Seana McGuire holds the Ambassador Michael Novak Chair of Politics at Ave Maria University, where she has previously served as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty. Before arriving at Ave Maria University in 2004, she served as Associate Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. In 2024, she co-founded the Center for Catholic Citizenship within the Politics Department at Ave Maria University. She has taught constitutional law and civil liberties for more than 20 years. She also teaches at Ave Maria School of Law and serves as the prelaw advisor for students at Ave Maria University. Her writings are in the fields of rights in the Catholic tradition, separation of powers, religious liberty, civil society and marriage, as well as civil disobedience. She has mentored a generation of Ave students in discerning their careers in law and public service.
Dr. Daniel Sadasivan’s education as an undergraduate at Ave Maria University prepared him well for graduate studies in physics at the George Washington University. During the completion of his PhD, he received the Parke Prize for excellence in theoretical physics as well as the SCGSR award which funded research at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. His dissertation, Unitary Bethe-Salpeter Methods in Two- and Three-Body Systems is available through the Department of Energy.
Dr. Sadasivan joined the faculty at Ave Maria University in 2020 and has continued to be actively involved in research. In addition to his peer-reviewed publications, and academic presentations, he has served as a grant reviewer for the Department of Energy, and a peer reviewer for multiple academic journals. In addition to his interest in science, he is also interested in philosophy, literature, and mathematics, and has given several interdisciplinary talks, participated in panels discussions, and published articles on these subjects. Most of all, he is excited to be a part of the vibrantly Catholic environment at Ave Maria University.
I work in the areas of race, religion, American political development, and American political thought. He has published academic articles on the use of Nehemiah in nineteenth century American political rhetoric, the Christian political theology of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the development of American Catholic republicanism, and articles on the political thought of Ven. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. My first book, Religion in the Public Square: Sheen, King, Falwell, was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2019, and I am currently co-authoring book on postliberalism with Thomas Howes for the Acton Institute (to be published in 2025). I am also preparing an edited volume of Sheen's hard-to-find political writing.
Dr. Miravalle holds the Constance Schifflin-Blum Chair of Mariology at Ave Maria University.
Dr. Miravalle has addressed several episcopal conferences, including those of South India, Nigeria, Venezuela, and Costa Rica. He has also assisted bishops with preliminary investigations into reported apparitions.
Dr. Miravalle has spoken at numerous international conferences and has appeared on EWTN, National Public Radio, BBC, and Fox News.
Thirty years of progressively responsible managerial experience in abroad spectrum of areas. Demonstrated the ability to plan, organize, lead and control multiple activities and programs. Broad based managerial credentials and experience as President & CEO in both profit and nonprofit operations. A leader of senior management developing strategies, human relations policies, management action plans, and budgets.
12/1999 -7/1/2010 SEBASTICOOK VALLEY HOSPITAL Pittsfield, Me.
President & CEO of Sebasticook Valley Hospital responsible for leadership related to the clarification and promotion of SVH's mission, vision, values, and strategic priorities, provide leadership regarding physician/medical staff, ensure financial viability while continuing to improve quality and organization effectiveness.Serve as leader of the administrative team, support ongoing Board development, and serve as primary representative of SVH within the local community.
CENTRAL MAINE MEDICAL CENTER, Lewiston, Maine7/1993 - 12/1999: Vice President, Clinical Services
3/1992 - 07/1993: Vice President, Administrative Services9/1989 -3/1992: Vice President, Support Services
1986- 9/1989: Director of Materials Management
Analyzed the core business functions of our forty-five-member physician managed practice. Reduced loss by more than one million dollars through increased productivity, contracting, coding and cost reductions.
Developed the most comprehensive breast care center program in the state of Maine. Involved in developing an advisory committee, community council and a multidisciplinary physician team for disease management.
Developed outsourcing program for three regional hospital network, which covered the following: support services, plant engineering, environmental services, laundry and food services. 1bishad major cost savings for our regional network.
Instrumental in repositioning our OR by increasing our share of the market in Orthopedics, Thoracic, andOphthalmic specialties.
Developed two new businesses: a for-profit pharmacy and expanded outpatient services for the laboratory and radiology.
CURRIER FURNITURE, INC., CARIBOU, ME
1971-1986: President of family owned retail business. Responsible for planning, organizing, and controlling all aspects of business.
DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY, INDIANAPOLIS, IN
1968-1971: Manager -responsible for production planning and inventory control for pharmaceuticaloperations in Zionsville Plant. Coordinated the production of animal pharmaceuticals pending the sale ofthe product line to Johnson & Johnson. Received company recognition award for exemplary service.
Dr. Long received his B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Toledo, his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Catholic University of America and is an Ordinarius at the Pontifical Academy of St.Thomas Aquinas (at the Vatican). He is a theologian and philosopher who has been teaching with distinction at Ave Maria University for over 18 years. He is an authority on the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas. He studies fundamental and systematic theology, metaphysics, natural law and ethics. He is particularly interested in the theology of grace, freedom, and law, and the historico-doctrinal disputes about this within Catholic theology and philosophy; natural law and moral theology, where he has defended classical Thomistic natural law; and metaphysics. He is an internationally honored author who has published three major theological and philosophic books (and co-edited two other works) that have been acclaimed by scholars around the world, and over 60 peer-reviewed scholarly essays.
Prof. Long forms PhD students, teaching them in seminar, and directs major dissertation works in theology. He is invited constantly around the world and in the United States to speak, publishes widely, and has a very full teaching schedule of undergraduate, Masters level students, and PhD students. He attracts students from all around the world to study at Ave Maria University. Because of the extent of his work, he has not been able to turn to further major book projects, which he hopes he may yet turn to while he retains the energy to work on them for the common good of the Catholic tradition. He is an ardent devotee of the Dominican and Thomistic maxim to “contemplate and share the fruits of contemplation.”
Dr. Lendman's licentiate thesis and doctoral dissertation were in the areas of theological anthropology. As a disciple of Thomas Aquinas, his research focuses on Thomas Aquinas and Scripture, particularly the New Testament, and Thomas Aquinas and the Fathers.
Dr. Lendman is currently an assistant professor of theology, and serves as the director of the Thomas S. Monaghan Founder's Scholarship Program. He is also a founder and board member of the Sacra Doctrina Project, and Co-Editor of Lux Veritatis: A Journal of Speculative Theology (https://www.luxveritatisjournal.com/).
He is happily married and is the proud father of at least seven children.
Seunghee Lee is an Associate Professor of Music at Ave Maria University, where she teaches courses in music theory, class piano, music composition, and advanced music theory courses. Since joining the faculty in 2015, she has established a music composition track at the university. Her compositions have received acclaim, being described as "intriguing" and "enjoyable" (NACWPI Journal) and as "evoking mysterious lushness" (New York Concert Review Inc.).
In addition to her academic and compositional work, Lee is a concert-grade pianist who regularly performs as both a soloist and an accompanist. She has served as a staff accompanist at Boston Conservatory and as a pianist for the Brandeis University Chorus. Lee has also held positions as a staff pianist and piano lab instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. John J. Jasso is an Associate Professor of Communications, director of the communications program, and director of the Rhetoric and Poetics core sequence in the Department of Communications and Literature at Ave Maria University. His research focuses on the confluence of rhetoric, philosophy, and theology from antiquity to the Middle Ages and the resonance of that confluence in contemporary culture. He is especially interested in the Platonic view of rhetoric as a type of “soul-leading” through words, the evolution of that view in the Catholic intellectual tradition, and the implications of that view for modern communication practices in media, politics, literature, and popular culture in general. Consequently, he is involved in constructing “neo” Platonic and “neo” medieval theories of communication for the purpose of contemporary cultural engagement and criticism.
Dr. Jasso received an M.A. in Philosophy and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Communication from the University of Pittsburgh. He then taught interdisciplinary rhetoric in the Department of English at The Pennsylvania State University before taking the opportunity to develop the Communications Program, and then the newly formed Communications and Literature Department, at Ave Maria University as the founding chair.
Dr. Jasso was named a Catholic Media Studies Fellow by the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame in 2019 and his work has been recognized with top paper awards from the Media Ecology Association and American Society for the History of Rhetoric. His articles on rhetoric and media have appeared in Listening, Explorations in Media Ecology, Advances in the History of Rhetoric, Rhetorica, and Philosophy & Rhetoric. Dr. Jasso regularly teaches courses in the history of rhetoric, the influence of the Catholic imagination in popular literature and media (often with Dr. Hurley), dialogue and dialectic, public speaking, and Modern Fantasy.
Mary Hunt is Assistant Professor of Business & Psychology at Ave Maria University completing her PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. She currently serves as the Business Department Internship Coordinator, as a faculty mentor for students in the process of securing business-related internships both for credit. She has previously served as Director and Chair of the Business Department. Her research and consulting focus on performance management, career and leadership development, management strategy, entrepreneurship and the work-family interface. Her current research explores entrepreneurs’ social, psychological and human capital needs for supporting the work-family experience.
Mary is the creator and leader of the Ave Maria Center for Home & Family Life, an applied educational initiative fostering support for student, alumni and community for motherhood and family life designed to encourage women’s choices for prioritizing family life. She is co-founder of HomeAdvantage Plus offering education for creating a home that enhances work-life integration and family well-being. As a consultant she is recognized as a deep listener, with strategic insight who understands a client’s language and culture, effectively communicating with individuals across organizational levels.
Mary began her career in academia as a business professor at Lexington College in Chicago where, with the support of grant funding from Coleman Foundation, she created the College’s entrepreneurship program. She served as the College’s Academic Dean, directing all academic functions including faculty hiring, curriculum expansion and leading the academic re-accreditation process with the Higher Learning Commission. Mary was President of Lexington College, a small entrepreneurial hospitality management college where she was responsible for all general management, strategic planning and growth, as well as fund-raising and advancement initiatives.
Mary entered academia after more than a decade in corporate roles as a private banker, a product manager at Citicorp Mortgage, an organizational development manager in a large healthcare system and as an external consultant for service, governmental, nonprofit and manufacturing organizations such as Chubb Insurance, Edelman Public Relations, Motorola, Price water house Coopers and the U.S. Department of Labor. She is a member of the Work & Family Researchers Network, the Academy of Management and the Society of Industrial/Organizational Psychology, and formerly served on the board of directors of the Virtuous Leadership Institute. She holds an Online Teaching Certification from the Online Learning Consortium (2019).
Dr. Hurley is an Associate Professor of Communication & Literature. He also directs the Writing Program.
He teaches the following courses: Rhetoric & Poetics I, Rhetoric & Poetics II, Business Communication, Writing for Journalism, Writing & Dialogue: Plato to Podcasts, Travel Writing, and Honors 101. He occasionally co-teaches "Popular Catholicism" courses (such as "The Spiritual Thriller" or "Detective Fiction and Film") with Dr. Jasso for the Communication & Literature Department. He teaches communication courses for the MBA graduate program, as well.
Over the years, he has published across a variety of scholarly and journalistic venues--and continues to do so.
His personal website can be found at gavinfhurley.com.
Keith A. Houde, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at Ave Maria University in Florida. He served as founding chair of the Department of Psychology at Ave Maria from 2011 to 2021. He has developed and taught numerous course offerings within the psychology curriculum, which have most frequently included Foundations of Psychology, Psychopathology, Health Psychology, Sport Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and History and Systems of Psychology. He has served as internship coordinator for the Psychology Department and as faculty advisor for the Wojtyła Society (Psychology Club). Dr. Houde has also held an affiliation as Visiting Professor of Psychology at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków, Poland, where he has taught summer study abroad courses on the personalist psychology of John Paul II and the history of faith and culture in Poland.
Dr. Houde previously trained and worked (1982-1985) conducting psychological assessments within the special education department of a K-12 public school system. He had the privilege to serve for over twenty years (1990-2011) as a Clinical Psychologist within a Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Maine in the areas of post-traumatic stress disorder and health psychology. Within this role, he also provided clinical education as Psychology Training Director (1998-2011) for an accredited predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship program.
With an academic background in psychology and theology, his primary scholarly interests are theological anthropology, philosophical psychology, and the history of psychology, with an emphasis on the psychological thought of John Paul II. He is co-author (with James F. Brennan) of History and Systems of Psychology from Cambridge University Press (7th ed., 2018; 8th ed., 2023). He has also written on Christian personality theory, Christian anthropology in the Catholic undergraduate psychology curriculum, the personalist psychology of John Paul II, and the contributions of John Paul II to faith and culture. He has been an active member of the Catholic Psychotherapy Association (CPA) and the Christian Association for Psychological Studies (CAPS). He serves as an Associate Editor of Integratus, the journal of the Catholic Psychotherapy Association, and on the Editorial Board of the Annals of Cultural Studies, affiliated with the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. He has served as a reviewer for Integratus, Studia Gilsoniana, the Journal of Positive Psychology, and the Journal of Psychology and Christianity.
He has been honored with an Advisor of the Year award from Ave Maria University, a Distinguished Member Award from the Christian Association for Psychological Studies, and an alumni award in recognition of a distinguished career in psychology from Franciscan University.
Professor Houde has traced his ancestry through twelve previous generations of Franco-American, Roman Catholic forebears. He and his wife have been abundantly blessed as parents of five adult children and as grandparents of five.
Professional Experience
Dr. Hillesheim is an associate professor of chemistry at Ave Maria University, where he brings his extensive background in research and education to the forefront of student learning and academic development. Before joining Ave Maria University, Dr. Hillesheim held academic positions at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Mississippi State University. During his tenure at these institutions, he served as the Director of Undergraduate Laboratories, a role that allowed him to cultivate a deep passion for experiential learning through hands-on undergraduate research. His leadership in this area has significantly impacted the way undergraduate laboratories are conducted, emphasizing the importance of research experience in a student's academic journey.
Dr. Hillesheim's research has been recognized and supported by prestigious funding bodies. He is the recipient of an American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund grant (66195-UNI10), which supports his work on the development of novel ionic liquids with extended π systems. This research has led to the publication of over ten papers, contributing valuable insights to the field and providing undergraduate students opportunities to publish papers and perform cutting edge research. Additionally, Dr. Hillesheim collaborates on a National Institutes of Health R15 grant focused on developing ionic liquids to stabilize vaccines, a project that has critical implications for public health and medicine.
Dr. Hillesheim's dedication to both teaching and research ensures that his students not only receive a robust education in chemistry but also gain practical experience in cutting-edge scientific research.
Personal Background
Dr. Hillesheim, the youngest of two children in a family of Brazilian immigrants, grew up on the scenic coast of North Carolina. His early years were marked by a deep connection to the ocean and the outdoors, fostering a love for fishing and nature that continues to this day. This passion for the outdoors culminated in his earning an Eagle Scout award during his youth.
Initially setting out to pursue a degree in engineering, Dr. Hillesheim attended North Carolina State University. However, it was there that he discovered his true passion for chemistry, leading him to change his academic focus. Over the course of his career, Dr. Hillesheim has gained extensive experience working in polymer, materials, inorganic, and organometallic research labs. This diverse background allows him to bring a wide range of ideas and expertise to the students in his lab.
Dr. Heatherly is an Assistant Professor of Exercise Physiology at Ave Maria University and was born in raised in north Alabama. He is also a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association. His favorite classes to teach are Exer 490 - Exercise Testing and Exer 430 - Cardiometabolic Disease Prevention. Dr. Heatherly is well known among his students for his strong southern accent and interests in video games and science fiction. Dr. Heatherly feels blessed to be at Ave Maria University where the culture is authentically Catholic and access to the sacraments is easily available. In his spare time, Dr. Heatherly can be found lifting weights on campus, playing video games at home, or praying the rosary with friends.
Brice Gerlach, a native of San Diego, California, received his Bachelor and Master degrees in Organ Performance from Eastman School of Music and Indiana University, respectively. Gerlach was also awarded the Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. He completed his doctorate in Choral Conducting from Indiana University. His organ teachers include L. Robert Slusser, Russell Saunders and Larry Smith. His choral professors include Robert Porco, Jan Harrington and Thomas Dunn.
Brice has been Director of Music at First Presbyterian Church of Naples since 2001. At First Presbyterian, Brice conducts the Chancel Choir, plays the mighty Ruffatti organ for all services, manages the concert series, and handles all things related to music in worship. In addition to his duties at First Presbyterian, he is Artist in Residence at Ave Maria University and is Adjunct Professor in organ and conducting and conducts the Chamber Choir.
Brice was the Assistant Director and Accompanist for the Naples Philharmonic Chorus and Naples Philharmonic Youth Chorus at Artis—Naples. In 2020, he retired from Artis—Naples after 25 years of devoted service to many adult, youth, and children teaching the art of choral music.
Dr. Gerlach is a frequent performer of organ and collaborative piano recitals. He often performs with his wife, soprano, Michele Byrd, and son, violinist, Colin Gerlach. Colin is a mechanical engineering major and a music minor at the University of Miami. Their family is completed by their ever faithful German shepherd, Maisy.
Dr. Freeze is an analytical chemist and credits his undergraduate chemistry teaching degree as a critical part of his training that helped him understand how to relate to people effectively and become an impactful leader in business. Ron has over 25 years of experience in industry spanning biologics, pharmaceuticals, devices, and diagnostics. A highlight of his time in the R&D labs was developing a new formulation for ritonavir, a drug that is a cornerstone in the global fight against AIDS. When reports of a solid being seen in ritonavir liquid started coming in from around the world, it was determined that a new crystal form that was more stable and much less soluble had emerged, making the formulation useless for patients and interrupting the global supply of AIDS treatments. At the time this had the biggest impact on African nations that were being ravaged by AIDS, had limited treatment options and underdeveloped healthcare systems. Ron and his team were the central R&D lab charged with developing a new formula in record time to minimize the impact of this new crystal form.
Dr. Freeze continued his role in healthcare in regulatory, having the opportunity to lead global teams and working with authorities around the world to develop regulatory frameworks that focused on patient health. He was especially busy during the COVID outbreak, working with companies and the FDA to develop new diagnostic tools to effectively detect the spread of the virus. He has continued working in the consulting space focused on the quickly advancing MedTech area that is pairing AI with devices to reduce errors and further expand the options for patients.
Roger W. Nutt, S.T.L., S.T.D., is the Provost of Ave Maria University, where he also serves as a Professor of Theology. He co-directs the Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal. He is a member of the Academy of Catholic Theology.
His research focuses on Christology and Sacramental Theology, and especially the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas. These interests are reflected in the three books that he authored: Thomas Aquinas’ ‘De Unione Verbi Incarnati’ (Peeters Publishers, 2015); General Principles of Sacramental Theology (The Catholic University of America Press, 2017); and To Die is Gain: A Theological (re-)Introduction to the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick for Clergy, Laity, Caregivers, and Everyone Else (Emmaus Academic, 2022).
He has translated several works, including (with Dr. Joseph G. Trabbic) Thomas Aquinas: A Historical and Philosophical Profile (The Catholic University of America Press, 2016) by Pasquale Porro. His articles and book chapters have appeared in many publications such as Nova et Vetera, Gregorianum, Louvain Studies, The Thomist, Harvard Theological Review, Angelicum, Antiphon: A Journal of Liturgical Renewal, and the Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas.
Dr. Nutt is the editor-in-chief of Sapientia Press, and is co-editor of numerous volumes, including: Hope and Death: Christian Responses (Emmaus Academic, 2022); Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology (Sapientia Press of Ave Maria University, 2021); Aquinas the Biblical Theologian (Emmaus Academic, 2021); Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers (Sapientia Press of Ave Maria University, 2019); and Thomism and Predestination: Principles and Disputations (Sapientia Press of Ave Maria University, 2016).
Dr. Nutt's page at academia.edu: (99+) Roger Nutt | Ave Maria University - Academia.edu
Mr. Munin J.D., is an experienced lawyer who has six years in providing legal, financial and administrative guidance for Catholic educational organizations. After earning his undergraduate degree at the University of Illinois and law degree at the DePaul University College of Law, he worked as a criminal prosecutor and then as an insurance defense litigator before accepting various legal and financial positions with the City of Chicago. In 2018 he joined Ave Maria to serve as general legal counsel and Vice President of Finance and Administration.
He currently teaches: EDUC 504 Law, Governance, and Ethics
Professor Feger has been an Instructor of Biology at Ave Maria University since 2014. He came to AMU with extensive experience in fisheries biology. His main teaching focus is AMU's environmental science sequence and zoology. Prof. Feger worked as a fisheries biologist in private, academic, and public sectors. While in undergrad and graduate school, Prof. Feger held fisheries internships with multiple agencies in Illinois. After graduate school, Prof. Feger worked in private consulting where he helped clients in MS, AR, and LA maximize the fishing potential of their ponds and lakes. At FIU, he conducted Everglades research focusing on the effects of hydrology on fish movement and habitat use along with non-native species detection.
In the public sector, Prof. Feger performed research with the Ohio Division of Wildlife's Inland Fisheries Research Unit (IFRE) sampling fish populations on the Ohio River and in many lakes and streams. Prof. Feger's teaching and research interests lie at the intersection of science, philosophy, and theology. In the classroom, he teaches students from an Aristotelian-Thomistic framework to promote the beauty of the created order and the call of stewardship given to us by God. Prof. Feger also engages questions on evolution. His goal is for his students to think rightly about the question of evolution, especially as it pertains to Adam and Eve and the human person.
In addition to his academic pursuits, Prof. Feger serves as AMU’s Faculty Athletic Representative. As a former collegiate student-athlete, he understands the demands of academic and athletic life. As such, he successfully serves as an advocate for both AMU student-athletes and his fellow faculty. Prof. Feger is also passionate about human formation outside the classroom. He teaches RCIA for Ave Maria Parish and, he and his wife, Elizabeth (’12 alumna), mentor engaged student couples for AMU’s Campus Ministry. Prof. Feger and his wife live in Ave with their four children.
DiAnn Ecret is the Chair of the Nursing Department, an Associate Professor of Nursing at Ave Maria University (AMU), and a part time Catholic Ethicist at the National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC).
She has over 30 years of combined clinical experience in neonatal, pediatric, and adult critical care nursing; while also teaching in graduate, undergraduate, and accelerated bachelor’s in science of nursing (BSN) programs over the past 15 years.
Dr. Ecret’s research and scholarship includes work in the care of patients, families and communities who experience complex bioethical decision making issues across the lifespan.
She serves as a volunteer ethics consultant for Be Not Afraid and Naples Community Pregnancy Clinic.
She is married to her husband Mike Ecret for 37 years. They have 4 adult children and 4 grandchildren.
Richard Dittus graduated from Ave Maria University in 2008 as one of the first students to earn a Bachelor of Arts in Music, with a concentration in Sacred Music. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Choral Conducting from the University of North Florida. As a composer, Richard has had two songs published by ILP Publications: “Be Still My Soul” and “Draw Near.” Additionally, he contributed to the composition of music for the pro-life, computer-animated film Skiff and AJ’s Fantastic Voyage, which is available to watch on Formed. Richard was recently commissioned by St. William's Catholic Church in Naples to compose an original hymn to celebrate the church's 50th Anniversary. With over 15 years of experience, Richard currently serves as the music director at St. Peter the Apostle in Naples. At Ave Maria University, he conducts the Men’s and Women’s Schola Gregoriana. Richard and his wife Maria have six children, three goats, and a flock of chickens.
Richard J. Dittus serves as the Chair of the Mathematics Department and Instructor of Mathematics. During his 22 years at Ave Maria University, Dr. Dittus has also served as the Director of Admissions, Director of the Student Success Program, and as the Director of the Sophomore Success QEP. He has been teaching mathematics courses at Ave Maria University since 2004.
After completing his bachelor’s degree at Fordham University, Dr. Dittus taught high school mathematics and coached tennis at St. Francis Preparatory School in Fresh Meadows, New York for five years. He developed a senior-year elective mathematics course in Probability and Statistics in which students received four college credits.
Dr. Dittus spent 17 years in the financial services industry where he was able to gain experience while acquiring insights on how mathematics, statistics, and information systems are used in business-related applications. He was a presenter at several PriceWaterhouseCoopers Summit-D International Client Conferences and became a Leadership Strategies Certified Facilitator. Some business career highlights include:
In 1999, Dr. Dittus transitioned back to teaching high school mathematics and coaching tennis for three years, including being among the founding faculty members of Blessed Trinity Catholic High School in Roswell, Georgia. Dr. Dittus joined Ave Maria College as the Director of Admissions at the Ypsilanti, Michigan campus in 2002 and was among the first employees to transition to the Naples campus. From 2006 through 2010, Dr. Dittus developed and led the High School Summer Program for prospective college students. In 2007, Dr. Dittus developed and directed the Student Success Program which provided academic advising and support particularly for students who were on academic, financial aid, or scholarship probation or who were considered at-risk academically. In 2013, Dr. Dittus instituted the College Algebra Club and the Fun with Functions learning communities to help students develop their math skills outside the classroom as well as provide first-year students with support in their college transition.
Dr. Dittus’ doctoral studies focused on Higher Education Leadership. His dissertation examined the impact of mentoring and developmental advising on the academic progress and retention of at-risk sophomore college students. Dr. Dittus was involved with the Sophomore Success QEP and continues to lead the Sophomore Success Program.
Sophomore Success provides students with the opportunity to grow in self-knowledge combined with a proactive approach to career development. Dr. Dittus enjoys getting to personally know his students by providing a strengths-based mentoring program using the CliftonStrengths for Students assessment to identify their top five themes of talent and working on developing these talents into strengths. He encourages students to confirm their academic direction and to seek internships to explore their career interests. Dr. Dittus also supports students through the First-Year Experience Program and the Founders Scholarship Program.
Dr. Dittus was a presenter and group facilitator at the National Small College Enrollment Conference. Presentation topics include:
Dr. Dittus has been married to his wife Kathy for over 45 years. They have six children, who attended and graduated from Ave Maria University, as well as ten grandchildren.
Neo-Latin in the United States
Liturgical Latin
Scholastic Latin
Greek and Latin Patristics
Latin Church Fathers
Virgil's Aeneid
Scholastic Latin
Homer
Committee for the Cause of the Beatification of the Martyrs of La Florida
Historical Commission, Cause for the Beatification of the Martyrs of La Florida
Architectural Committee, Shrine of Our Lady, Queen of the Martyrs (Tallahassee)
Dr. Davy is the Dean of Faculty at Ave Maria University, where he also serves as an Associate Professor of History.
His historical research focuses on the American West and the British Empire, particularly the intersecting histories of migration, culture, and gender. His recent book, Gold Rush Societies and Migrant Networks in the Tasman World is published by Edinburgh University Press.
Dr. Davy's current projects include a study of mental illness in late Victorian Britain and a multivolume Western Civilization reader intended for high school students.
His favorite courses to teach are Victorian Society and Culture, History and Film, and the freshman history sequence, Western Civilization I and II.
Dr. Michael A. Dauphinais serves as the Fr. Matthew Lamb professor of Catholic theology and the co-director of the Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal at Ave Maria University. With degrees from Duke University and the University of Notre Dame, he has written and edited numerous scholarly articles and books on Thomas Aquinas, the Bible, and Catholic theology. He recently co-authored “Wisdom of the Word: Biblical Answers to Ten Questions about Catholicism.” Apart from teaching, he frequently speaks and hosts “The Catholic Theology Show” podcast. Married to his wife, Nancy, for nearly 30 years, he is a grateful revert to the Catholic Church.
Travis Curtright, PhD, is Chair of the Humanities and Liberal Studies department at Ave Maria University, where he also serves as Professor of Humanities and Literature, and director of Shakespeare in Performance, a troupe of actors and minor of studies. Professor Curtright completed his education at the University of Dallas, earning his doctorate in Literature. He also has professional acting training from the American Shakespeare Center and studied improv at The Second City in Chicago. He founded Shakespeare in Performance in 2012 and instructs students in voice, movement upon a thrust stage, and especially in Shakespeare’s uses of language and rhetoric. Actors rehearse in a black box theater that was specially designed for their productions, and in an environment that encourages both individual growth and ensemble work.
An accomplished scholar in both Shakespeare and More studies, Dr. Curtright has written The Controversial Thomas More: Politics, Polemics, and Prison Writings (forthcoming from the University of Notre Dame Press), Shakespeare’s Dramatic Persons (2017), and The One Thomas More (2012). He is editor of Thomas More: Why Patron of Statesmen? (2015) and, with Stephen Smith, Shakespeare’s Last Plays: Essays in Literature and Politics (2012). Since 2017, he has served as editor-in-chief of Moreana: Thomas More and Renaissance Studies, published by Edinburgh University Press. To learn more, please visit this link.
Jamon Copeland is the Head Men's Basketball Coach, Assistant Sports Performance Coach, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Exercise Physiology at Ave Maria University. He is also a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association. Jamon has 19 years of experience coaching at the collegiate level. He lives in Ave Maria with his wife, Jessica Copeland, and their five children. Jamon feels blessed to work at a university whose mission is to form future saints.
Professor of Politics specializing in political philosophy.
Director, Ave Maria Honors Program.
Dr. Janice Tzuling Chik is Visiting Professor of Humanities at the University of Florida. She is also Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ave Maria University, Member of the Aquinas Institute at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, and Senior Affiliate of the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society at the University of Pennsylvania. She was previously a Barry Foundation Fellow and Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania (2019-20), and a Visiting Research Scholar (2017 and 2019) at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. She holds degrees in philosophy, public policy, and music performance from Princeton University, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of St Andrews, UK. Her research spans the philosophy of action, metaphysics, and human rights, and has been published by Routledge, The University of Cambridge Press, The Review of Metaphysics, and New Blackfriars. She has delivered academic papers at Edinburgh, University of Pennsylvania, the Fashion Institute of Technology, KU Leuven, Notre Dame, Oxford, Princeton, and St Andrews.
Dr. Janice Chik Breidenbach is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ave Maria University. She holds research affiliations at Oxford as Member of the Aquinas Institute, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, where she was also a Visiting Research Scholar (in 2017 and 2019), and as Senior Affiliate of the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society at the University of Pennsylvania. Formerly, she was Visiting Professor of Humanities at the University of Florida’s Hamilton Center (2023), as well as the Barry Research Fellow and Lecturer in Philosophy at University of Pennsylvania (2019-20).
Her research focuses on contemporary Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophy of action, metaphysics and science, and political philosophy. Her work has been published in Synthese, the Review of Metaphysics, Routledge, New Blackfriars, University of Cambridge Press, T&T Clark Edinburgh, and other venues, while being supported by research grants from the Royal Institute of Philosophy, the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University, the Philosophical Quarterly Research Fund, and the Foundation for Excellence in Higher Education. She has given scholarly talks at universities in the US and abroad, including: Edinburgh, Oxford, Sharif University of Technology (Iran), the Fashion Institute of Technology, Holy Cross, Saint Louis University, Princeton, Cambridge, KU Leuven, University of Pennsylvania, Notre Dame, and the University of St Andrews. She teaches with a historical approach: her courses have included philosophy of science, logic, metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, philosophy of action and mind, and philosophy of nature.
Beyond philosophy, she is classically trained in violin, piano, and voice. She has performed in several orchestras, both collegiate and professional, including the Princeton University Orchestra as Principal Chair and Associate Concertmaster, the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Delaware Valley Philharmonic Orchestra. During her musical career she performed public masterclasses with Andrew Manze, the Tackas Quartet, and the Brentano Quartet. She was the winner of the 14th annual Tampa Bay Symphony Young Artist's Competition, the Orlando Music Society Piano Competition, and was twice awarded first prize in the FSMTA State Concerto Competition. She sang in the Schola Cantorum Princetoniensis at Princeton University, and is currently the faculty advisor of the St Cecilia Chamber Music Society at Ave Maria University which promotes live instrumental performance in the field.
She is married to the intellectual historian Dr. Michael Breidenbach, with whom she has a son, Paul Thomas.
Please visit www.janicechik.com.
Alexandra Carlson has performed solo and chamber works throughout Europe, Russia, and the USA. She won prizes at the London International Piano Competition, the Valentino Bucci International Competition, the Maria Yudina International Piano Competition, and the Hopes, Talents, Master Competition. The New Horizons Project awarded her a fellowship with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Carlson’s festival performances include the Atlantic Music Festival, the US-Russia Education Bridge Project Festival, and the Baltic International Piano Duo Festival. As a soloist, she has performed with the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra, the Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, the 5th Avenue Chamber Orchestra and the Junger Künstler Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. Dr. Carlson earned her Master of Piano Performance, and Doctorate of Musical Arts, cum laude, from the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory. Recently, she made her conducting debut with Classic Chamber Concerts. An adjunct professor of music at Ave Maria University, Dr. Carlson lives in Naples, FL. For more information please visit www.AlexandraCarlson.org
Dr. Mary Blanchard is an Assistant Professor of History and currently serves as department chair at Ave Maria University. She has been a fellow in the Lindsay Young Visiting Regional Faculty program at the Marco Institute at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville and the Wallace Johnson First Book Program through Western Michigan University. In 2023, Dr. Blanchard received grants from the Haskins Society, the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Durham University, UK, and the Laurel Family Fund to organize a three day conference held at Durham University in July of that year. During 2024, she became a Councilor at Large of the Haskins Society Council and joined the Editorial Board of Connections and Communities in the Middle Ages: The Haskins Society Studies in Medieval History, a new series at Boydell & Brewer. Dr. Blanchard is a social historian who specializes in the early medieval period.
She mainly focuses on the secular and religious leaders of tenth- and eleventh-century England. Her research examines the aristocracy, their family connections, and the extent nepotism actually had a role in the appointment of certain royal officials. Her first article in 2019 focused on these family connections (prosopography) and won the Paul E. Szarmach First Article award from the Richard Rawlinson Center at Western Michigan University. Other publications have explored what surviving charters reveal about the family dynamics of two English queens, and the activities of ealdormen as regional leaders. Currently, she is working on two book projects: her first monograph which offers a reassessment of the English aristocracy between 900 and 1070; and an edited volume exploring the theme of status, rank, or office in medieval England, 900-1200.
Beyond her research, Dr. Blanchard is a proud AMU alumna, who loves teaching classes on Medieval Europe, Vikings (complete with classroom raids), and medieval saints' lives. She is married to fellow alumni, Professor Jacob Blanchard in the Biology department -- proof that science and humanities can get along! The Blanchards love to travel to old and new places with their daughter.
Rodney Burton got his BS and PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign on the biophysical internal mechanisms of electron transport proteins. He then went on to do two Postdoctoral fellowships at Michigan State University, Lansing, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has also done research on the mechanisms of phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase enzyme from the bacteria causing tuberculosis and leprosy. Other disease-focused research includes viruses, immune system receptors, and malaria.
He lives in Ave Maria as a proud husband and father of four. Scholarship and Research: Worshiping God through excellence in science, integrity, and teamwork is our mission as we investigate the assembly and bioengineering of the vault shell protein complex. This large hollow complex is found in almost all eukaryotic cells, however still has no known function after decades of study, however its presence is elevated in cancer cells. We are developing methods for improved growth and assembly of the vault proteins and proteins that associate with them, in the hopes of bioengineering better solutions for drug delivery and cancer treatment.
However, our primary goal in lab is developing students as disciples of Christ with habits of treating lab members with dignity and respect, being good stewards of the lab space, and of reporting the truth with clarity.
Prof. Michael Breidenbach is an historian of American politics, religion, law, and culture. He is an Associate Professor of History at Ave Maria University and a Senior Affiliate for Legal Humanities at the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society at the University of Pennsylvania.
He is the author of Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America (Harvard University Press, 2021), which was runner-up for the Journal of the American Revolution Book of the Year Award. He is co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to the First Amendment and Religious Liberty (Cambridge University Press, 2020), which has been cited in Supreme Court amicus briefs. His next two projects are on the politics of naming in Revolutionary America and on nineteenth–century American Catholicism. His writing has also appeared in The Atlantic, Washington Post, and First Things.
Dr. Breidenbach was elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2022. He has held research positions at Princeton University; St. John's College, Oxford; Corpus Christi College, Oxford; Rothermere American Institute, Oxford; Wolfson College, Cambridge; McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania; University of Florida; Villanova University; and Collegium Institute. He has also appeared on national television and radio programs.
He obtained his Ph.D. in History from King’s College, Cambridge, where he was a Cambridge Overseas Trust Scholar. He was a visiting graduate student in History at the Sorbonne in Paris and earned his M.Phil. with Distinction in Political Thought and Intellectual History at Cambridge. He graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and with departmental honors from Northwestern University with a B.A. in History and American Studies. He also received a Level 3 Award with Merit in Wines from the London-based Wine & Spirit Education Trust.
He lives in Southwest Florida with his wife, Janice Chik Breidenbach, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ave Maria University, and their son.
Prof. Michael Breidenbach is an historian of American politics, religion, law, and culture. He is an Associate Professor of History at Ave Maria University and a Senior Affiliate for Legal Humanities at the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society at the University of Pennsylvania.
He is the author of Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America (Harvard University Press, 2021), which was runner-up for the Journal of the American Revolution Book of the Year Award. He is co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to the First Amendment and Religious Liberty (Cambridge University Press, 2020), which has been cited in Supreme Court amicus briefs. His next two projects are on the politics of naming in Revolutionary America and on nineteenth–century American Catholicism. His writing has also appeared in The Atlantic, Washington Post, and First Things.
Dr. Breidenbach was elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2022. He has held research positions at Princeton University; St. John's College, Oxford; Corpus Christi College, Oxford; Rothermere American Institute, Oxford; Wolfson College, Cambridge; McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania; University of Florida; Villanova University; and Collegium Institute. He has also appeared on national television and radio programs.
He lives in Southwest Florida with his wife, Janice Chik Breidenbach, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ave Maria University, and their son.
Justin Bonanno, PhD is currently the Chair of the Department of Communications and Literature at Ave Maria University. Prior to joining AMU, Dr. Bonanno worked in digital advertising, marketing, and strategic communication. He recently published a book on the philosophy of communication entitled Walker Percy and the Crisis of Meaning (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). His work has appeared in PR Review, The Journal of Dialogic Ethics, The Imaginative Conservative, St. Austin Review, and Listening/Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture. Dr. Bonanno also serves as the Communications Internship Coordinator and A/V Studio Director.
Gerald P. Boersma is Professor of Theology at Ave Maria University and Humboldt Fellow at the University of Tübingen. Boersma is a Catholic systematic theologian whose writings focus especially on the thought of Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. He is author of Augustine’s Early Theology of Image (Oxford, 2016) and numerous essays as journal articles and book chapters devoted to theology, philosophy, and literary criticism. Prior to coming to Ave Maria University, he taught for five years at St. Bonaventure University. He has held fellowships at the Villanova University and the University of Tübingen.
Mr. Blanchard is an alumnus of Ave Maria University (2006) and has been an Instructor of Biology at his alma mater since 2014. His graduate research investigated protein structure and function through the use of site-directed mutagenesis, protein expression, and characterization studies. Teaching is Mr. Blanchard's primary passion and he enjoys touring the beauty and complexity of biological systems with his students.
In addition, Mr. Blanchard also serves as the Nursing and Pre-Nursing Faculty Advisor. In this role, he assists students interested in applying to AMU's Nursing Program through the process and provides guidance in course selection to meet all prerequisites to apply to the Nursing Program.
Paul Baxa is a cultural historian of Twentieth-Century Europe. He specializes in Italian Fascism with interests in Motorsports, History, and Italian-Canadian History. He is Professor of History at Ave Maria University and has taught at AMU since 2006. He is the author of Motorsport and Fascism: Living Dangerously (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) and Roads and Ruins: The Symbolic Landscape of Fascist Rome (University of Toronto Press, 2010).
Dr. Tony Barbosa is an Associate Professor of Chemistry and past Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Physics at Ave Maria University. At AMU, in addition to teaching chemistry/biochemistry courses, he works collaboratively with fellow faculty and students to design new treatments for Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Barbosa also holds a position outside the university as the Vice President of Research for Allosite Therapeutics where he oversees discovery efforts to develop breakthrough medicines, both small molecule and biologics, to treat solid tumors, lupus/lupus nephritis, kidney disease, muscular dystrophy, and inflammatory bowel diseases.
Dr. Barbosa has greater than twenty-five years of experience in drug discovery and development. He is the recipient of three NIH SBIR grants: 1R43AI179510 (2023) Integrin-Targeted Novel Oral Therapeutics for Lupus Nephritis - Co-Investigator ($306,500), 1R43AI100499 (2013) - Medicinal Chemistry Based Optimization of Lead Compounds Against Multiple Sclerosis ($600,000), and NIH Niche Assessment Program NIH1063TN (2014) for 1R43AI100499 (~$150,000). He is also the recipient of a Florida Cancer Innovation Fund grant to study the development of Myeloid-Targeted Immunotherapy to Treat Breast Cancer ($750,000, 2024) an Ed and Ethel Moore Alzheimer's Disease Research Program grant through the Florida State Department of Health 8AZ01 ($100,000). His focus has been in the fields of oncology and immunology & inflammation targeting diseases such as lupus/lupus nephritis, kidney disease, Alzheimer’s disease, pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis and Crohn’s disease.
Prior to his time at Allosite Therapeutics, Dr. Barbosa was Director of Chemistry at Adhaere Pharmaceuticals where he led efforts which moved their immuno-oncology lead CD11b/CD18 (Mac-1) agonist up to clinical trials for solid tumors. (http://bit.ly/cancerclinicaltrial) Adhaere Pharmaceuticals was then purchased by Gossamer Bio, Inc. which took the drug into clinical trials for pancreatic, esophageal, gastric, triple negative breast, castration-resistant prostate, and microsatellite stable colorectal cancers. Dr. Barbosa has extensive experience with medicinal chemistry efforts to balance optimization of efficacy, pharmacokinetics (PK) and ADME-T (adsorption, dissolution, metabolism, excretion and toxicity) properties.
Before working at Adhaere Pharma, Dr. Barbosa worked at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals on several classes of protein targets such as cell surface adhesion molecules (integrins), GPCRs and kinases where he is responsible for a SoPD (start of pre-development) for the integrin CD11a/CD18 (LFA-1) project. Dr. Barbosa then moved to a small pharmaceutical company, CGI Pharmaceuticals, where in addition to his in-house medicinal chemistry efforts, he was also responsible for designing scientific work for and communicating with outsourced partners internationally.
Dr. Barbosa works closely with students to help prepare them for their lives post-graduation. He has committed significant effort to organizing a web site, DrBarbosa.com, to guide students through their plans to apply for summer internships, enter graduate school, and attend medical school or other health related fields.
Dr. Barbosa has been married for greater than 26 years to his wife, Valerie. He is also a proud father of four children. His oldest son, Antonio, is an assistant editor at EWTN in Alabama. His daughter, Grace Angel, is a graduate of AMU with a double major in Music and Accounting. He also has two teen age sons, Maximilian and John, with whom he spends time enjoying the outdoors.
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Isabelle Aubin brings more than 25 years of professional experience playing for singers, choruses and chamber music in Europe, Canada, and United States. She has worked in Italy for Centro Studi Italiano, Festival di musica da camera, the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, the Chœur Symphonique de Saguenay Lac St Jean, Camp Musical du lac St Jean and the College d’Alma, in Canada.
Before relocating to South West Florida from Rochester NY, Isabelle held positions as Principal Coach with Rochester Lyric Opera (NY); Collaborative Pianist, Vocal Coach and Instrumental Coach at Buffalo State College (NY); Collaborative Pianist at Nazareth College of Rochester (NY) where she has also taught French Lyric Diction.
Isabelle is also part of the faculty at Ave Maria University where she is Collaborative Pianist/Vocal Coach, Choir Accompanist and teaches Music History and Lyric Diction. At Florida Gulf Coast University, Isabelle Aubin teaches Diction and Vocal Literature
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