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.

Gorica Majstorovic earned a Ph.D. in Spanish and Latin American literature at New York University, a M.A. at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and a B.A. at the University of Belgrade, Serbia (former Yugoslavia). Dr. Majstorovic joined the Stockton Faculty in 2002 following her appointment as an Andrew Mellon Fellow in Humanities at Northwestern University. A scholar of Latin American literature, Professor Majstorovic has published extensively and presented at national and international conferences. She works in various linguistic contexts and contributes to the rapidly emerging field of Cosmopolitanism Studies.

Professor Majstorovic directs Latin American plays at Stockton and is the faculty advisor to the Spanish Club. Dr. Majstorovic served as the Languages and Culture Studies Program Coordinator, and has led Spain Study Tour and other Internationalizing the Curriculum efforts. Currently, she is the Coordinator of Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

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).”

Adalaine Holton teaches courses on 19th and 20th-century multiethnic US literature and culture, and her research interests include comparative US ethnic studies, African diaspora literature and culture, and archive studies. Her articles appear in MELUS, Arizona Quarterly, and Journal of African American History. Her current book project, Counter-Archives: The Politics of Knowledge Production in the Black Atlantic, is a study of the production, use, and dissemination of archives and archival materials in black political activism in the U.S. She also directs Stockton’s Why the Humanities Matters Institute for Teachers, a collaborative, interdisciplinary professional development program for South Jersey English/language Arts and social studies teachers.

Dr. Holton was the Literature Program Coordinator for the 2016-2018 term, and she is the current director of the Master of Arts in American Studies Program.

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.

Kameika Murphy is a historian with expertise in the Black Atlantic. Her work centers on Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean perspectives of the Atlantic World. Dr. Murphy's research interests include connections between people of African descent in North America and the Greater Caribbean; transoceanic migrant communities; gender and asylum in the Afro-diasporic experience; power sharing in port cities; the Atlantic revolutions; and African American military experiences. Dr. Murphy's most recent work focuses on Black Loyalist refugees and their contributions to Afro-Caribbean civil society in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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.