Faculty
Joel Nathan Rosen | Associate Professor of Sociology and Media Studies; Director, Communications and Media Studies Program
Office location: Reeves Library, Suite 102
Office phone: 610-625-7814
Email: rosenj@moravian.edu
Research interests and expertise
Media in Culture; American Popular Music (especially the blues and its related genres); Sport; Celebrity and Reputation; Moral Panics in the Media; American and African-American Culture; and the American South
Joel Nathan Rosen (Associate Professor of Sociology) is Program Director in Communications and Media Studies at ÐÔÊÀ½ç´«Ã½ in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. His research is premised on the relationship between human activity and human efficacy as portrayed in media and as demonstrated through such cultural idioms as sport, music, comedy, and other areas that intersect celebrity. He is the author of The Erosion of the American Sporting Ethos: Shifting Attitudes toward Competition (McFarland) and From New Lanark to Mound Bayou: Owenism in the Mississippi Delta (Carolina Academic Press), is coeditor of and a contributor to a multi-volume series that explores the relationship between sport and celebrity (University Press of Mississippi), and has been published in such varied journals and anthologies as The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2009-2010, The Sociology of Sport Journal, The Journal of Mundane Behavior, NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, The Journal of Sport History, and Media History Monographs.
Affiliated Faculty
Richard Anderson | Assistant Professor of History
Office location: Comenius Hall 301
Office phone: 610-625-7722
Email: andersonr03@moravian.edu
Education
Ph.D., Princeton University
Research interests and expertise
My scholarly research explores U.S. politics, labor, and cities after World War II. I am currently completing my first book, Machine Politics: How Richard J. Daley and Chicago's Democratic Party Remade American Liberalism.
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Robert Brill | Associate Professor of Psychology
Robert Brill received his PhD in industrial/organizational psychology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and his BA in psychology and management at LaSalle University. He is a member of the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and the Association for Psychological Science (APS), and his expertise and primary teaching interests are in work and sports psychology. Brill serves as ÐÔÊÀ½ç´«Ã½â€™s faculty athletic representative to the NCAA and is the current director of ÐÔÊÀ½ç´«Ã½â€™s RISE Teamwork & Leadership Program.
Brill’s current research interests are in the areas of performance feedback and predictors of and interventions to promote team effectiveness. He has conducted training in the areas of communication, stress management, and employee well-being at a variety of organizations, served as a co-principal investigator on federal and state grants exploring best practices in hiring and retaining persons with disabilities, and workforce development in the financial industry, respectively. As a service-learning project with Community Services for Children, Brill and his students implemented a biannual multi-rater feedback system as the initial component of a two-year leadership development program.
A Lindback Award winner for excellence in teaching, Brill has also been recognized three times with ÐÔÊÀ½ç´«Ã½â€™s Award for Outstanding Service to the College Community. In 2023, he was honored with the President’s Award for his work in developing, implementing, and directing ÐÔÊÀ½ç´«Ã½â€™s RISE Program. Brill has also been recognized by his alma mater with the LaSalle psychology department’s Distinguished Alumni Award.
Gary S. Kaskowitz | Professor of Management
Office location: Benigna 212
Office phone: 610-861-1406
Email: kaskowitzg@moravian.edu
Research interests and expertise: Strategic marketing; interactive marketing; the use of storytelling and archetypes in creating an identity; the morality and ethics of marketing, especially from Judeo-Christian and Western perspectives; service and interdisciplinary learning.
Camille Murphy | Associate Professor of Art
Phone: 610-861-1678
Email: murphyc@moravian.edu
Links:
Teaching:
Introduction to Graphic Design
Typography
Publication Design
Graphic and Interactive Design Practice
Portfolio Seminar
Graphic and Interactive Design Internship
Camille Murphy is a Designer and Design Director with a specialty in branding and marketing. She has over twenty years of experience working in publishing, marketing and entertainment design. Her former client list includes Sony, HBO, Marvel, Nickelodeon, Penguin Books, Upperdeck, New York City Public Schools, and Barnes and Noble. Camille holds a Masters in Communication Design from Pratt Institute. In addition to teaching at ÐÔÊÀ½ç´«Ã½, Camille continues to practice design at her studio, Hammer + Nail in New York City. She has previously taught as a part-time professor at NYU, Pratt and Parsons, The New School for Design.
Debra Wetcher-Hendricks | Professor of Sociology
Office location: PPHAC 314
Office phone: 610-861-1415
Email: wetcher-hendricksd@moravian.edu
Research interests and expertise
Wetcher-Hendricks' primary academic endeavors relate to research methodology, particularly quantitative data analysis. Other areas of interest, based upon her own academic background, include gender studies, interpersonal communication and classroom pedagogy.
Dr. Wetcher-Hendricks received her B.A. from Glassboro State College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Lehigh University. Her main areas of interest are social research, statistical methods, interpersonal and mass communication, and gender relations. Courses that Dr. Wetcher-Hendricks regularly teaches include Basic Research Methods, Advanced Research Methods, Sociology of Gender, and Media Technology and Society. Her areas of interest are: social research and statistical methods, including mathematical modeling, interpersonal and mass communication. She has written a textbook entitled Analyzing Quantitative Data: An Introduction for Social Researchers. She has been listed in various editions of Marquis Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who Among American Women, and Who’s Who in the World since 2008.