通识教育委员会 人
Current members for the 2023-2024 academic year
Dr. Felicia Song is a sociologist who studies the social and cultural effects of digital technologies on community and identity in contemporary life. 受过历史训练, 沟通研究, 和社会学, 西北大学和弗吉尼亚大学, she is professor of sociology at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA.
她是一本新书的作者, “不安分的设备:恢复人格”, 存在, Place in the Digital Age" (Intervarsity Press Academic). This book explores how our contemporary digital habits fundamentally form us in ways that shape loves and imaginations of what it means to be human. This book binds sociology and theology together, arguing that both are needed for understanding how to live wisely in a digitally saturated society. Her prior reSearch includes her first book, “虚拟ag娱乐官网:独自打保龄球, Online Together" (2009) which explored the democratic efficacy of online communities, other studies on expectant women's online information-seeking habits and the evolution of "mommy bloggers.“当她不工作的时候, 她喜欢照料花园, 学习烤面包, daydreaming about becoming proficient with the bass guitar. Dr. Song is elected to a term ending in Spring 2025.
Dr. Nazarenko joined Westmont College as Dean of Curriculum and Educational Effectiveness in 2010. She chairs the PRC and works with all academic and co-curriculum departments on issues pertaining to curriculum development, 这类基于结果的学习, 以学生为中心的教学, 和评估. 她还在学术委员会任职, AS检讨委员会, the College's Strategic Planning Committee. 她完成了博士学位。.D. in Comparative Literature and Culture at the University of Alberta, her master's in Educational 领导 and Policy Studies at the University of Washington. Her current reSearch interests include assessing and promoting student success in various educational contexts.
Dr. Jana Mayfield Mullen joined the Westmont faculty in 2001 as an adjunct professor in the history and religious studies departments. She taught Renaissance and Reformation history, 文化地理学, 北美宗教, HIS-010:世界历史, 通用核心课程. Since 2013 she has served as a Westmont librarian, providing information literacy instruction, 研究指导, collection development for several academic departments. In 2020 she became Director of the Voskuyl图书馆. She received a Master of Divinity from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and a PhD with a concentration in 19th-century American religious history from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Her master’s in library and information science was granted by the University of Kentucky in 2012. She has served several terms on the 通用电气委员会 as library representative since 2015.
Dr. Hunter graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and completed a Master of Science and a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Virginia. 自2000年以来,他一直在韦斯特蒙特任教. 他的出版物包括一本书, 离散数学要点,以及许多期刊文章,如 How rare is symmetry in 12-tone musical rows?, Better Estimates from Binned Income Data: Interpolated CDFs and Mean-Matching, New metrics for evaluating 首页 plate umpire consistency and accuracy. He has co-directed Westmont in Mexico and enjoys running Santa Barbara’s trails, 为小熊队加油, 和烹饪.
Dr. 史蒂夫·巴特勒, ASCAP获奖作曲家, 教授音乐理论, 作文, 编制, 形式和分析. He earned his Doctor of Musical Arts in 作文 from the University of South Carolina. Sunhawk集团. in Seattle publishes his works, which have been staged across the United States and in Europe. He has received funding from arts organizations such as the American Composers Forum, 埃斯佩里亚基金会, 圣巴巴拉县艺术委员会, 当代艺术论坛, Richard/Lexington County Arts Council, 以及南卡罗来纳艺术委员会.
Telford Work is a professor of theology at Westmont College. He has taught theology and related disciplines on five continents. 他是 Jesus—The End of the Beginning: Tracing the Christ-Shaped Nature of Everything, Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible: Deuteronomy, Ain’t Too Proud to Beg: Living through the Lord’s Prayer, Living and Active: Scripture in the Economy of Salvation. He is also a contributor and signatory of In One Body through the Cross: the Princeton Proposal for Christian Unity. 他的Ph值.D. in religion (theology and ethics) is from Duke University. 他还拥有硕士学位.A. in theological and biblical studies from Fuller Theological Seminary and a B.A. in political science from Stanford University. Dr. Work is elected to a term ending in Spring 2026.
Tara Sturges joined Westmont in June 2020. 她是第一代大学生
获得硕士学位的毕业生.S. degree in 领导 in Higher Education at Pepperdine University. Tara worked for eight years at Simpson University in northern California, five of those years were spent in the Student Records Office. 在Westmont, Tara manages articulation agreements with numerous community colleges, oversees the evaluation of transfer work for Westmont applicants, works with faculty in advising rising seniors in their finalizing of Application for Degree details, tracks the progress of seniors to verify they are on track for completing their degrees on time, assists with the data side of commencement.