With a foundation in professional broadcast journalism and a strong academic background from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Toby went on to become an early producer of reality-documentary style television content for various national networks and continues to contribute to this genre as it evolves in a rapidly changing digital media landscape.  She brings to Stockton the marketplace knowledge, systems, and best practices students can expect in professional production.

Toby has nearly 20 years of professional storytelling experience and since 2015 has been developing courses and teaching at Stockton. She has contributed to the reshaping of the Communication Studies mission and future goals, including seeking more student opportunities in our community and strengthening the program’s branding and image.

Her teaching philosophy fuses practical experience, current events, as well as historic and academic context.

Prof. Siecienski is a New Jersey native who attended Georgetown University before obtaining his M. Div/STL from St. Mary’s Seminary and University and then a PhD from Fordham University in New York.  He has taught at Fordham as a post-doctoral fellow, and at Misericordia University in Pennsylvania. In 2008 he returned to New Jersey and began teaching at Stockton, where he teaches courses in philosophy/religion and history. Married with two children, he supports Tottenham Hotspur, Bayern Munich, and Philadelphia Union.

Katherine Panagakos earned her M.A. in Classics from Tulane University and her Ph.D. in Greek and Latin from The Ohio State University. During her graduate work, she was a student at The American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) and was a field walker and camp manager at the Eastern Korinthia Archaeogical Survey (EKAS). Katherine spent three years in a rotating position at schools in the Associated Colleges of the South (Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX; Furman University in Greenville, SC; and Rhodes College in Memphis, TN). 

She began teaching primarily Latin and Classics-related courses at Stockton in January of 2008. Katherine serves as the advisor for the Classics National Honor Society (ΗΣΦ) and OGRE (Order of Greco-Roman Enthusiasts), as well as being an active member of the Interdisciplinary Center of Hellenic Studies (ICHS) and the Friends of Hellenic Studies (FHS). Her research focuses on the ancient Greek and Roman novels. Katherine is currently working on three manuscripts. The first focuses on the role of pirates and robbers in the ancient novels and the other two are in collaboration with former students: one is an intermediate Greek text on Aesop’s Fables; the other is a collection of essays on suicide in the ancient Greco-Roman world.

Dr. Ajani originally hails from a small Ayisyen (Haitian) community in Spring Valley, New York and is 1^st generation of Ayisyen descent living in the United States. Dr. Ajani graduated from SUNY Oswego in the Spring of 2014 with a B.A. in History and a minor in African American studies. He would go on to receive an M.A.  in Africana studies at the University at Albany (SUNY) in 2016 and most recently a Ph.D from the department of Africology & African American studies at Temple University. His dissertation is titled: “An Afrocentric Re-examination of the Historiography around the Afrikan Revolution in Ayiti (Haiti).”

Nathan Long teaches creative writing, with a focus on fiction, as well as literature courses and courses for the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Minor. His interests are in Contemporary American and Global Literature, flash fiction, short story cycles, and QUILTBAG literature and culture. He has published stories and essays in over 100 anthologies and journals including The Sun, Tin House, Glimmer Train, Crab Orchard Review, and Story Quarterly. 

His story “Reception Theory” won the 2017 international OWT Story Prize and “Arctic” won the 2015 international Open Road fiction award.  Seven other stories have been finalists for Glimmer Train short story contests and three have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Long’s essay for NPR’s “This I Believe” series, about losing his dog Gracie, is available on line.

His collection of fifty flash fictions, The Origin of Doubt, was released Feb 2018 by Press 53. His short story collection manuscript, Two Stories, Some Tales, and a Yarn, was a finalist for the Hudson Book Manuscript Prize and a semifinalist for the Iowa Fiction Award.

Long remains active on the editorial boards of Philadelphia Stories and Interalia, and on the executive board of the Southern Humanities Council.

David Reiser’s former students have gone on to be featured in network television series, national commercials, Broadway plays, and Hollywood studio feature films. His David’s Broadway credits include GOOD VIBRATIONS (featured actor), BIG FISH (music team), and the Broadway National Tour of MAMMA MIA! (u/s role of Sky). He has also played lead acting roles at such notable venues as Playwrights Horizons, New York Stage and Film, and around the world in Japan, Lebanon, and at La Scala Opera in Italy. As a producer, David worked as a production scout for Marc Platt Productions (WICKED; LA LA LAND) in Los Angeles and London. As a writer/composer, David’s work has been presented at Lincoln Center, The Public Theatre, 54 Below, Joe’s Pub, CBGB, and more, by artists including Leslie Odom Jr. (HAMILTON), Keala Settle (GREATEST SHOWMAN), Laura Dreyfuss (DEAR EVAN HANSEN), and many more. David holds a MFA from NYU Tisch, an MA from CUNY, and a BFA from The University of Michigan. Thanks to a sabbatical from Stockton University, David’s original musical JONI & THE WHALE was able to be produced in Florida as a full-length feature film musical, starring Matt Gould (Richard Rodgers Award Winner; Jonathan Larson Award Winner), and proudly features many Stockton Theatre alumni in acting roles, on the production team, as designers, and more. David is proud to be in his 8th year on the Stockton University Theatre faculty, and he also is on the Musical Theatre faculty at AMDA Manhattan (American Musical and Dramatic Academy) teaching their senior level audition course, showcasing students to agents, managers, casting directors, and more. Check out DavidReiser.com.

Hannah Ueno has worked as a graphic designer in San Francisco and Tokyo before joining Stockton University. She teaches 3D Computer Modeling and Animation, Digital Imaging and Typography, Web and Interactive Media Design. A fellow member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, she received her MFA in Visual Communications from Washington State University, and B.F.A. from Nihon University-College of Arts in Tokyo, Japan.

Her work is exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries and museums. 

Hannah is a recipient of numerous awards for her work in graphic design, digital art, and photography, including the Design Excellence Award from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Creative Quarterly magazine, and New Jersey Emerging Artist Series. Her prints are included as the permanent collection at Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Arts, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, and Sapporo International Center.

Laura Zucconi is a Professor at Stockton University. Her research interests are the interplay of religion and medicine, Levantine archaeology, digital humanities, and the use of games in education. In addition to her book, Can No Physician be Found: The Influence of Religion on Medical Pluralism in Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Israel (Gorgias 2010), she has published articles on the history of ancient medicine in the edited volume Sacred History, Sacred Literature: Essays on Ancient Israel, the Bible, and Religion, and in the journals, Le Journal des Médecine Cunéiformes and Religion Compass. Currently, she is working on A History of Ancient Medicine (Eerdmans, forthcoming) and the digital role playing game Pox and the City as well as the relationship between Timna of the Biblical genealogies and the copper mining region of the same name.

Vic Conover has over a decade of experience in higher education, specializing in academic scheduling, faculty workload processes, and student support. She works closely with faculty, staff, and students to both ensure smooth academic operations and support student success across the School of Arts and Humanities.

Prior to joining the Dean’s office at Stockton University, Rosa was Director of the Office of Educational Programs at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health.  Before her position at Columbia, she had previously served as Director of the Educational Opportunities Center at Kean University. Rosa was also Executive Assistant to the Dean at the William J. Maxwell College of Arts and Sciences at New Jersey City University.  Early in her career, Rosa was a Career Counselor and EOF Counselor. She has over 15 years of experience working in public and private higher educational settings. Rose specifically appreciates and enjoys working with first-generation undergraduate students.