School of Humanities & Social Sciences Faculty
Mark Gedney
Dean, School of Humanities and Social Science
Professor of Philosophy
Gedney has been teaching in the philosophy program at Gordon since 1998, after completing an MLitt at the University of Edinburgh and his PhD in 1995 from Boston University. His most recent work has focused on the central role of recognition in social and political life. In particular, he has examined the power of radical hospitality to open up new pathways to restoring mutual recognition in places burdened by persistent violence. In addition ... more ➔
Jennifer Hevelone-Harper
Chair, Department of History
Professor of History
Teaching Fields:
Late Antiquity, Byzantium, Early Islam, Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Research Fields:
Christian Spirituality in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Byzantine Gaza and Palestine, Development of Christian Thought
Selected Publications:
“Desert Fathers and Desert Literature,” Encyclopedia of Ancient History (Oxford: Blackwell, ... more ➔
Stephen Alter
Professor of History
Research Fields:
19th Century American Social Thought, the Darwinian Revolution, Critical Bible Scholarship in America
Selected Publications:
“William Dwight Whitney and the Social Dimension of Lexical Diffusion,” Historiographia Linguistica 37: 3 (2010): 321-340.
"Separated at Birth: The Interlinked Origins of Darwin's Unconscious Selection Concept and the Application ... more ➔
Abby Baier
Instructor Teaching Professor of Spanish
Abby Baier, Instructor Teaching Professor of Spanish at Gordon College graduated with a BA in English Literature from Gordon College in 2022, then continued to earn an MA degree in Spanish Literature at Baylor University in 2024. She has tutored English essay writing extensively at both universities and taught several lower-level Spanish courses at Baylor as part of the master’s program. She defended her thesis on representations ... more ➔
Graeme Bird
Professor of Linguistics
Professor of Classics
Linguistics Program Director
Dr. Bird is a native of New Zealand and has been teaching full-time at Gordon since 2001. His interests include Greek and Latin language and literature, Indo-European linguistics, and early English literature. He is a participant in the Harvard-affiliated Homer Multi-text Project, with a chapter in a book due out in the fall dealing with a celebrated medieval manuscript of Homer's Iliad. He enjoys exploring the connections between ... more ➔
Susan Bobb
Professor of Psychology
Dr. Bobb joined the Gordon faculty in the fall of 2015, coming from Northwestern University where she had been a Research Associate working on the neural correlates of bilingual language processing and cognitive control. Dr. Bobb’s research program is broadly developmental, using both behavioral methods (e.g., eye-tracking; response times) and neuroscience methods (e.g., EEG) to investigate the process of learning a first or second language ... more ➔
Paul Brink
Professor of Political Science
Director, Center for Faith and Inquiry
Professor Paul Brink (B.C.S. Redeemer University College; M.A. Dalhousie University; Ph.D. University of Notre Dame) has been teaching at Gordon since 2006. His teaching and research interests lie in political philosophy, particularly theories of justice, and faith and politics. A recent publication, “His Law is Love, and his Gospel is Peace” ... more ➔
Denise Campoli
Lecturer of Spanish
Denise M. Campoli joined the Gordon faculty in the spring of 2014 as a Spanish adjunct. She has taught Spanish and French at the middle and high school level, led student and adult trips to Spain, France and England, participated in NEASC (now called NECHE) accreditation teams in New England and internationally, and served as Foreign Language Department Chair in Amesbury, MA. Her classroom provides a setting which includes supportive strategies ... more ➔
Carlot Celestin
Lecturer of French
Dr. Celestin was French educated from PK through college. He previously served as a French educator/tutor to high school students in Haiti and in Spring Valley, NY. While he was a student at Alliance Theological Seminary, he joined the faculty of Nyack College as an Adjunct Professor of Foreign Language. He taught French from 1999 to 2000 while he was the leader of the Christian Education and Youth Ministries at the French Speaking ... more ➔
Ian DeWeese-Boyd
Professor of Philosophy and Education
Ian DeWeese-Boyd majored in philosophy at the University of South Carolina. He next earned a Master of Arts with an emphasis in New Testament exegesis at Covenant Theological Seminary. At Saint Louis University, where he earned his doctorate in 2001, he studied under Eleonore Stump, who directed his dissertation, Self-Deception and Moral Responsibility. Ian joined the philosophy department at Gordon in 1999. His ... more ➔
Damon DiMauro
Professor of French
Languages Program Director
The sitter for this self-portrait has a primary interest in Early Modern French Literature and Reformation Studies, with a secondary interest in Italian Renaissance, while indulging an occasional foray into contemporary literature, genealogy, and horological history. His articles have appeared in Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance, La Nouvelle Revue du Seizième Siècle, Etudes Rabelaisiennes, Renaissance and Reformation, Renaissance-Humanisme-Réforme, Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire du Protestantisme Français, The French Review, French Studies Bulletin, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Romania, The Romanic Review, La Valmasque, Classical and Modern Literature, Iris, The Essex Genealogist, American Ancestors Magazine, National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors Bulletin, The Timepiece Journal, Notes & Queries, The Historical Journal of Massachusetts, ... more ➔
Pamela Figueroa
Lecturer of Spanish
Professor Figueroa is originally from Chile but has lived in the U.S. for over six years. She joined the Gordon faculty in the fall of 2022 as a Spanish adjunct. She became interested in intercultural communication as a child and later on married an American native, Dr. Jeff Stevenson, with whom she's raising three bilingual children. Her academic interests include bilingualism and cross-cultural competence. Professor Figueroa's teaching ... more ➔
Andrea Frankwitz
Associate Professor of English
Professor Frankwitz's teaching interests span from Colonial American Literature through Modern American Literature. Her current areas of research include nineteenth-century American slave narratives and Christological imagery in American poetry. In her free time, Dr. Frankwitz enjoys spending time with family and friends, going to museums and the theatre, and taking groups of students (and others) on cultural tours of Europe.
Ivy George
Professor of Sociology
Professor George is committed to the multi-disciplinary opportunities that sociology offers in her classroom. Her research and teaching since 1983 have focused on gender, religion, race, ethnicity, globalization, and social change. She leads Gordon students in their study abroad program in South Africa, and has recently done research on international adoption. She has contributed to publications on "The Future of Feminism in Christian Higher ... more ➔
David Goss
Professor in the Practice of History
Teaching Fields:
Museum Studies, Public History, Early American Maritime and Intellectual
Research Fields:
Museum Studies, New England Puritanism, American Revolution, New England Maritime
Selected Publications:
The Salem Witch Trials: A Reference Guide. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2008).
Salem: Cornerstones of a Historic City. (Commonwealth ... more ➔
William J. Hanna
Lecturer of Linguistics
Bill Hanna has been adjunct faculty at Gordon since 2020, teaching a course in Sociolinguistics. He lived in Thailand for 36 years where he taught linguistics at two universities. He also worked with teams of pastors who are translating the Bible into their own minority languages. His interests include the syntax and morphology of Southeast Asian languages, and the Tai Lue language.
Selected publications:
Dai Lue-English Dictionary. ... more ➔
Kerilyn Harkaway-Krieger
Associate Professor of English
Professor Harkaway-Krieger teaches early English literature (medieval and Renaissance) in the department. Her training is in both English and Religious Studies, and her research focuses on medieval spirituality, Christian mysticism, and the use of metaphor in our devotional language. She particularly loves talking with students about how it is that we can and do talk about God!
Dr. Harkaway-Krieger also directs The Great Conversation ... more ➔
Amy Brown Hughes
Associate Professor of Theology
Dr. Amy Brown Hughes received her Ph.D. in historical theology with an emphasis in early Christianity from Wheaton College and is the author (with Lynn H. Cohick, Houston Baptist Seminary) of Christian Women in the Patristic World: Their Influence, Authority, and Legacy in the Second Through Fifth Centuries (Baker Academic, 2017). Dr. ... more ➔
Nora Kirkham
Instructor of English
Nora Kirkham is interested in the relationships between place, religious beliefs and creative practice. She is enthusiastic about teaching contemporary literature and nature writing through an interdisciplinary and global lens. She is currently a PhD candidate in English at the University of Aberdeen. Her other research interests include post-secularism in contemporary Irish women's writing, as well as Japanese literature and reading in translation ... more ➔
Megan Hartman Lease
Instructor of English
Director of First-Year Writing
Megan’s research focuses on the intersection of nineteenth-century British literature and religion, with a particular focus on the novel and non-fiction prose. She is especially interested in Victorians’ interpretive practices and discussions about the potentially transformative power of reading literature. She has published book reviews in Religion & Literature and Religion and the Arts. ... more ➔
Mandy Liu
Assistant Professor of Economics
Mandy Liu teaches classes in Macroeconomics, Econometrics, Economic Development, and International Economics. Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of development and health economics with a concentration on human capital, and child and adolescent well-being. Within these areas her research examines the role of environmental shocks, health investments, and school infrastructure in influencing child and adolescent well-being in ... more ➔
Ruth Melkonian-Hoover
Professor of Political Science
Director of Political Science and International Affairs
Professor Melkonian-Hoover is a professor in the Political Science Department (B.A. Biola University; M.A. and Ph.D. Emory University). With Lyman Kellstedt, she recently co-authored Evangelicals and Immigration: Fault Lines Among the Faithful (2019). She has published in Social Science Quarterly, The Review of Faith & International Affairs, Latin American Perspectives, ... more ➔
Alexander Miller
Lecturer of English
Alex Miller is a graduate of Covenant College and the University of Edinburgh whose studies have emphasized Modern and Postmodern poetry, Post-colonialism, and contemporary interactions with the western canon. He is a staff writer for The Curator, where he has published more than twenty pieces of cultural and literary criticism and is also a published poet. His book A Bow From My Shadow (where his poetry interacts ... more ➔
Luke Redington
Assistant Professor of English
Director of the Tupper Writing Center
Professor Redington’s teaching and research interests are motivated by one question: How do arguments work? Although he is interested in the history of how different thinkers in the Western tradition have answered this question, Professor Redington focuses on the current difficulties that arise in arguments between technical experts and those who are not. In his teaching, Professor Redington helps students use writing to navigate a world ... more ➔
Timothy Sherratt
Professor of Political Science
Professor Sherratt teaches American Politics, Constitutional Law and Public Policy. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Oxford University and his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky. He is the author of Power Made Perfect? Is There a Christian Politics for the Twenty-First Century? (Cascade Books, 2016). Professor Sherratt is a fellow of the Center for Public Justice, has written for their "Capital Commentary" series ... more ➔
Chan Woong Shin
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Dr. Shin joined Gordon after teaching at Indiana Wesleyan University for 10 years. He teaches courses in International Relations and American politics. His research areas include religion and international relations, American foreign policy, evangelical Christianity and politics. Firmly committed to the idea and practice of faith integration, Dr. Shin is grateful for the opportunity to continue his vocation of Christian scholarship and teaching ... more ➔
Jeff Stevenson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Spanish
Instructor, Gordon College Graduate Leadership
Professor Stevenson’s teaching and research focuses on the development of linguistic and intercultural proficiency with a special interest in ethnographic interview techniques and in-country project-based research in collaboration with local students and faculty during study abroad. He is also the founder of Proyecto Nehemías, a Spanish-language publishing house which produces content on faith and work, whole-life discipleship, ... more ➔
Mark Stevick
Professor of English
Professor Mark Wacome Stevick, who studied at Boston University with poets Derek Walcott and Robert Pinsky, oversees Gordon’s creative writing program and directs the Princemere Visiting Writers Series. He writes fiction and essays, makes films and documentaries, and has authored a collection of poetry, A Stadium Full of Bears (forthcoming), and a chapbook, “Local Habitations.” His interactive, history-based ... more ➔
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