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Associate Professor of Religous Studies
email: ahrpeter@shu.edu
Let me tell you a little about myself. I am an alumnus of Seton Hall (class of 1962), and I have been a member of the faculty of the Department of Religious Studies since 1964. I served as Dean of Freshman Studies at the University from 1987 to 1996, acting dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in 1997, interim provost of the University in 1997-98, and am now back in full-time teaching, and very much involved in the University's efforts in developing information technology and in developing and implementing our new Core Curriculum.
My roots at Seton Hall go very deep: my father was an alumnus, and so were all my uncles. I have been involved in all sorts of activities at Seton Hall over the years. Beyond teaching a number of courses in Religious Studies, I have taught the IDIS 1501 Peoples and Cultures of America course, several versions of Freshman Seminars, and both the Classical Cultures and Medieval Cultures colloquia in the Honors Program. I have been adviser to several student organizations over the years; at present I am faculty adviser to the New Jersey Phi Beta chapter of Phi Kappa Theta fraternity (since 1973), and to FLASH, the Filipino student organization.
Dr. David Bénéteau
Associate Professor of Italian
Director, Italian Studies Program
Associate Professor of Classical Studies
Chair, Department of Classical Studies
I serve on the Executive Committees of
the American Association for Neo-Latin Studies, and of the New Jersey Classical
Association, as well as on the Board of Directors of the Classical Association
of the Atlantic States.
I wrote and administer the New Jersey Latin Test for
Teacher Certification for the State Department of Education.
Since 1993 I have hosted a Latin and Greek reading group at
my dining room table on Friday afternoons.
Professor of Art
Dr. Petra Chu has the equivalent of a MA degree from the University of Utrecht, Netherlands, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her fields of specialization are French nineteenth-century art, as well as Dutch art of the seventeenth century. She has taught a variety of art history courses at Seton Hall, both on the undergraduate and graduate level.
Her publications include several books, including The Letters of Gustave Courbet (also published in French), French Realism and the Dutch masters, Courbet in Perspective, The Popularization of Images (with Gabriel Weisberg), and The Prints of Dominique Vivant Denon. She also has written numerous articles, chapters in books, as well as essays in exhibition catalogues. Her current projects include a book on Courbet, tentatively entitled The Most Arrogant Man in France, and a textbook in nineteenth-century art. In addition, she is the co-curator of an exhibition of Courbet's work to be shown in 1999 (Dallas and Lausanne, Switzerland).
Dr. Colleen Conway
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Colleen Conway earned her PhD in New Testament Studies from Emory University in Atlanta. Her research interests have focused on the construction of gender in the the New Testament texts, both from a literary perspective and from a socio-historical perspective. Her first book, Men and Women in the Fourth Gospel: Gender and Johannine Characterization (Scholars Press, 1999) explored the role of the female characters in the narrative of the Gospel of John. Her recent book, Behold the Man: Jesus and Greco-Roman Masculinity (Oxford Press, 2008), examines the way the New Testament authors responded to cultural ideals about manliness in their presentations of Jesus. Dr. Conway has also published several articles on the Gospel of John dealing with both literary and historical questions in the Journal of Biblical Literature, Biblical Interpretation, and other volumes. She is currently co-authoring a college textbook titled Introduction to the Bible: Sacred Texts and Imperial Contexts, to be published with Wiley Blackwell Press.
Dr. Karen Gevirtz
Assistant Professor of English
Dr. Gevirtz holds a doctorate in
eighteenth-century British Literature. The literary eighteenth century is the
longest century on record, dating from 1660 to 1798 (the Restoration to the
publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge's
Lyrical Ballads). She teaches in
the English Department and the Honors Program, at the graduate and undergraduate
levels. Prior to Seton Hall, she taught at
Dr. Marian Glenn
Professor of Biology
Dr. Jürgen Heinrichs
Associate Professor of Art History
Jürgen Heinrichs holds advanced degrees in art history and German studies from the Universität Hamburg, Germany, and from Yale University. He has been on Seton Hall's faculty since Fall 1997. Prior to Seton Hall, he taught at Swarthmore College. His doctoral dissertation, "Blackness in Weimar: 1920s German Art Practice and African American Music and Dance," explores the impact of African American culture on German artists during the Weimar era. His research interests focus on modern and contemporary art in Europe and in the United States, African American art, and, more generally, issues of cultural translation. He is also engaged in researching the intersecting discourses of arts and sciences. Having published essays in areas such as African American studies, astronomy in art, etc. Heinrichs is currently revising his doctoral dissertation for book publication.
He has been awarded fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Whiting Foundation, the German Historical Institute, the Mellon Foundation, and the DAAD German Academic Exchange Service. His publications include: "Primal Scenes of Seeing Space," in: The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena: Edition Malta, G.V. Coyne, et.al., eds. Qormi, Malta: Dormax Publishers, forthcoming 2002; "All that Jazz: Repräsentationen von Jazz in der Weimarer Republik," Texte zur Kunst 35 (September 1999), 178-188; "Mapping the German Shores of the Black Atlantic: American Jazz in Weimar Visual Culture," in Mapping African America: History, Narrative Formation, and the Production of Knowledge, M. Diedrich, et.al., eds., (Hamburg: LIT, 1999), 105-118. Conference papers given at College Art Association (CAA), Colloquium for African American Research (CAAR), the Popular Culture Association, INSAP -- The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena, and others. Course offerings include: American Art, Art of the Western World, African American Art, Art Since 1945, Museum Technologies, Anatomy of a Museum, and Berlin: Reinventing the Cultural Capital (in Berlin, Germany).
Dr. James McCartin
Assistant Professor of History
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Dr. Murzaku specializes in
Ecclesiastical History, especially Byzantine and Catholic Church History. At
Her first book,
Catholicism, Culture and Conversion: The History
of the Jesuits in
Dr. Dermot Quinn
Professor of History
Before coming to Seton Hall in 1990 he taught at Amherst College in Massachusetts and at Oxford University. He has degrees from Trinity College, Dublin and Oxford University. His first book, Patronage and Piety: English Roman Catholics and Politics, 1850-1900, was published in 1993 by Stanford University Press. Another book, Understanding Northern Ireland, was published by Baseline Books, also in 1993. Professor Quinn is a native of Derry, Northern Ireland. He has published articles and reviews in Recusant History, The Chesterton Review, The American Historical Review, Labor History, The Review of Politics, The Welsh History Review, and other scholarly journals. Professor Quinn's third book, The Irish in New Jersey: Four Centuries of American Life, was published by Rutgers University Press in 2004, winning New Jersey Author award for scholarly non-fiction in 2005.
Dr. Cherubim Quizon
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Rev. Dr. John Ranieri
Professor of Philosophy
Associate Director of the Honors Program
Professor of Philosophy
I have been teaching at Seton Hall University since 1980 after receiving my Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research in New York City. My scholarly interests include the philosophy of St. Augustine, medieval thought, the works of Hannah Arendt and feminist theories. In 1995 I co-authored Hannah Arendt: Love and Saint Augustine (with Joanna V. Scott) published by the University of Chicago Press.
I am an associate professor in the Philosophy Department. For nine years I was director of the Program overseeing its current expansion to 130 students from Arts & Sciences, Business, Education, and Human Services and the new School of Diplomacy and International Relations. In my spare time, I do sea kayaking and am an avid amateur birder.
I was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. My mother is Puerto Rican, my father is from Arizona, and I did much of my growing up in El Paso, Texas, on the U.S. border of Mexico. My mixed cultural background and travels triggered my interest in religion, and I pursued bachelor's, master's and doctoral work in religion at Temple University in Philadelphia. I study and teach the world's religions, specializing in Islamic theology and mysticism, and have recently completed a book on Muslim women's rights which Syracuse Press published in Fall 1998. I have a special fondness for the mystical prose and poetry across the world's religious traditions, especially those writings that seek to unite the contemplative and social activist dimensions of life. I have been teaching at Seton Hall University since 1989 and am currently Professor of Religious Studies at Seton Hall. I see Seton Hall as a microcosm of the cultural diversity of the 21st century and am committed to efforts in the area of human relations on campus and to a sophisticated understanding among our students of the impact of globalization here and abroad. I love art, music, film, and travel. My husband is an artist and I have two daughters, Danielle and Helena, who are pursuing careers in art and theater.