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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
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
Dr. Karen Gevirtz
Assistant Professor of English
Dr. Marian Glenn
Acting Director of the University Honors Program
Professor of Biology
Dr. Jürgen Heinrichs
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. Ines Angjeli Murzaku
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Dr. Murzaku specializes in the Ecclesiastical History and Theology. Since 1999, she has been teaching for the University's Honors Program, Medieval and Modern World Colloquia. Dr. Murzaku is also a lecturer at the University of Bologna, Center for East European and Balkan Studies.
Dr. Murzaku's book, Catholicism, Culture and Conversion: The History of the Jesuits in Albania (1841-1946), is published by Orientalia Christiana Analecta (2006). She has published internationally; her articles have appeared in The Journal of Eastern Christian Studies (Belgium); Orientalia Christiana Periodica (Italy); Analysis of Current Events (U.S.A.); East European Quarterly (U.S.A.); Studi sull’Oriente Cristiano (Italy); Diakonia, Journal of Eastern Christian Studies (U.S.A.); Wiener Blätter zur Friedensforschung (Austria); and Pajtimi (Albania). Dr. Murzaku currently serves in the executive board of directors of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), and Christians Associated for Relationships with Eastern Europe (CAREE), as well as in the editorial advisory boards of the Bolletino della Badia Greca di Grottaferrata and Religion in Eastern Europe scholarly journals. She is currently researching the history of the Greek Catholic Abbey of Grottaferrata (Rome) and the Byzantine Catholic Churches in Southern Italy.
Dr. Dermot Quinn
Associate 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.
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.
English Department
My main obsessions are classical and medieval philology and literature. I have taught Latin, Greek, Anglo-Saxon and Middle English, and have been in the current Freshman Honors Program for the last ten years. Avocations are playing loud noisy instruments (tuba, bagpipe) and acting in SHU's Theatre-in-the -Round productions whenever they'll let me. My graduate training was mostly at Georgetown, Loyola (Chicago), and Columbia, with NEH seminars at Princeton and SUNY (StonyBrook). Highest degree is a Licentiate in Philosophy, so I should be addressed as Professor, Jack, "hey you!", or an appropriate epithet, rather than as Doctor.
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 will publish 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 the Director of the University Honors Program as well as an Associate 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.